https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/16/jon_kern/

With the overhauling modulation capabilities in #Bitwig, there's still need for manual curves, so I've taken this somewhat fixed strategy in order to not get confused about all options:

1. At most one manual curve per track and I always record it to mod-wheel. That way it translates from hardware to every plugin and have different meanings.
2. Rest of the automation and "wiggling" with modulation capabilities
3. Proactively (mis)using MPE parameters (pressure timbre etc) exactly to sequence automation. It feels pretty natural as it is like note effects in trackers. Like in a bass I might map pressure to subtone, so that it can be taken away while harmonics are kept in same voulme.

Sometimes modulation crap becomes too convoluted. In those situations I make a new track and record the curve there as. #MIDI CC 1 (modwheel).

Have been a bit with confused for couple of years how and when, when there is lot of options, but this is now what I'm converged into.

#MusicProduction

Took me two years to pay attention this setting for filters in the Poly and FX Grid devices of #Bitwig.

I've been wondering why they just don't feel or sound right but could not have pointed my finger. So I just put this it to +12 dB. and problem fixed.

With stock devices (not necessarily with some analog emulated plugins) sound does not destroy. If you add let's 20 dB gain boost and bring it down the same amount it should be perfectly recovered (assuming that signal path is "stock-only").

#MusicProduction

I started my own fork of #isync (or #mbsync)

https://codeberg.org/jarkko/isync

It has now couple of commits:

❯ git log --oneline -2
8ea62c9 (HEAD -> main, origin/main) fix: compile with -fno-lto
f5782aa refactor: open code FORCEASYNC far and near parameters

The first is the fix for crash in #Fedora. The second open codes FORCEASYNC:

diff --git a/src/common.h b/src/common.h
index 940e74d..22bd827 100644
--- a/src/common.hb
+++ b/src/common.h
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ BIT_ENUM(
        ZERODELAY,
        KEEPJOURNAL,
        FORCEJOURNAL,
-       FORCEASYNC(2),
+       FORCEASYNC_F,
+       FORCEASYNC_N,
        FAKEEXPUNGE,
        FAKEDUMBSTORE,
 )

I plan to do this for all of those, as it allows to cut some slack out from bit_enum_get.pl. That will lead to a roadmap where eventually the whole ugly script can be rendered out replaced with BIT_UL macro from kernel (msync is GPL 2.0 licensed).

There is also a #zig branch but before build can be defined properly the C codebase first needs to be made sound in terms of the build. Then it is relatively easy task to repeal and replace main.c with main.zig.

#email

The only #Rust tutorial you ever need is:

cargo doc --open -p <crate>

This opens documentation in the web browser for any crate that a project might be using.

Example would end up opening documentation for env_logger:

cargo add env_logger
cargo doc --open -p env_logger

#rustlang

#audija #kickdrum is really a game changer plugin. E.g. can resize the window freely. There is also 2.0 upcoming.

And despite being simple it has added value to using stock plugins of a #DAW, given that EQ curve is calculated and thus does not cause phasing issues.

#musicproduction

Love this #YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@ConsoleCowboys. So much useful and applicable content. Whoever #ConsoleCowboys is, I'm your fan.

I still hate reading GAS syntax after all these years. I learned assembly with Turbo Assembler and Intel syntax, which I still think is so much more readable.

Just so that you know llvm-ir is the language tag for #LLVM #IR when formatting it for #Markdown. I did not know this but found it by trial and error.

https://bsky.app/profile/spavel.bsky.social/post/3kywk2uf3uk2g #chatgpt

What does this mean?

```
install transitive failure
└─ install main transitive failure
└─ zig build-exe main Debug native 1 errors
```

I tried --verbose-cc and --verbose-link but neither made this more verbose.

#zig

I've been using #Storj as my only cloud storage since March, except 50GB iCloud for being "L2 cache" for photos, which go to my NAS.

Just S3 without extra clutter is just soo convenient, and there is #CyberDuck, #s3fs and #rclone to make using it super smooth.

this is really super smooth workflow-wise kick: https://audija.com/kickdrum

Ignoring that it so much cleaner (except colors suck) than #KICK2, it is has one benefit over: the EQ multiplies the source signal with the EQ curve like per Fourier coefficient (i.e. like local EQ in #Harmor and the EQ in Phase Plant's wave editor). This cancels any possible phasing errors.

You cannot really have that otherwise, except other kick drum generators with similar built-in EQ (of which I'm not aware of).

#audija #MusicProduction

supernatural marathon with my girlfriend made me do it released some day i future (once finished) #bitwig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2PNLsvDxqw

I say this out loud: I love MS-DOS. I've written some protected mode extender stuff to run in #86box and it is incredibly fun environment to play. Maybe some day put something out but I want to fix my MZ EXE compilation pipeline first ;-)

I got this idea already in 2012 that it would be fun to do DOS stuff when I worked on arch/x86/realmode blob. With those learnings I have now a working .COM pipeline.

#dos #msdos #programming

Might sound contradicting but both best use of Rust I've seen and worth of investment to use its complex type system is stuff that processes fuzzy or somehow stochastic data.

There you want to hit all inconsistencies and corner cases. Scripting languages allow to easily quickly address such data but it leaks ;-) Strong typing system and refining that more robust over time is a better long-term investment.

#rust #rustlang

More that I #cook and #bake myself, a better #programmer I also feel ;-) Somehow it puts your mind into the right place.

Has anyone in #Mastodon took away knobs (not the plastic hats) from #1010music #Bluebox?

I took away the back cover and plastic hats but I have no idea how to take away the knobs so that I could take away also the front cover.

The goal here is to switch a replacement display panel.

https://1010music.com/product/bluebox

I like a lot #BabyAudio's BA-1 and also the effect rack version. Superb sound.