One of the things that’s been driving me crazy with respect to the Maker Faire this weekend is audio configuration. I have an M-Audio FastTrack Pro, which is a midrange audio interface – not suited for an ideal recording environment, but certainly good enough for the stuff I do, which doesn’t require much real-world ambient [...]
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One of the challenges for the Alcyone is how to connect to it for control and configuration. Today I implemented a wireless access point on the Raspberry Pi, such that the Alcyone’s networking needs are addressable. It already has a predefined output – the MIDI data – and a predefined input, the physical pedals themselves. [...]
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I decided late last week that seeing four-digit numbers in my unread email was a little too much. So I did the unthinkable, went through every freaking one of them and deleted not only the unread emails I didn’t need to worry about, but a ton of read mail that I didn’t need to keep, [...]
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I realized during tests of the Alcyone Beta yesterday that I really have been coding in Java too long, in a lot of ways. My C++ might look okay for the casual reader, but I’m having to remember and test things about which I really shouldn’t have to think. I have wanted to use “zeitgeist” [...]
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