Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Friday, December 26, 2025
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
making sunvox like octamed or renoise on an ipad
Im' using a logitech k480
hosting bs-16i in aum as an inter app audio insturment instead of auv3 because the auv3 version isn't multitimberal. I have drums, bass, jazz gt, and piano set to trigger on midi channels 1 through 4.
- space = stop
- enter = play pattern
- shift enter = play song
- shift space = play from line
- cyclic shifting up/down = shift alt cmd up/down
- esc = edit mode
- ctrl left / right = select patterns
- alt up/down = page up/down
- ctrl 9/0 = mark block
shift pgup/pg down is kind of broken you need to shift arrow down 1 line before doing pgup/down or home/end making it awkward.
phrase editor
You can get similar behavior to Renoises phrase editor by using a metamodule that contains a pattern with a multisynth in it that receives the midi input. For the multisynth you set the options to 7F Arpeggiator (base note c5). Make sure to correctly set the input module and play mode to loop. If it double triggers you need to probably change the input module one higher. The benefit of nesting your drum patterns in metamodules is you can sequence drums in double time while keeping your main sequences at a more manageable scolling speed by simply halving the TPL. you can quickly fill sequences by using ctrl p to place evenly after ctrl t to select the columns.
Sunday, December 21, 2025
bash script to make .desktop launchers
cool to be able to launch everything in rofi with its own icon. wine apps, app images,
#!/usr/bin/env bash
[[ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" != "$0" ]] && return
APP_DIR="$HOME/.local/share/applications"
mkdir -p "$APP_DIR"
# Minimal prompts
read -rp "App name: " APP_NAME
read -rp "Path to executable: " EXEC_PATH
read -rp "Path to icon: " ICON_PATH
# Sanitize filename
FILE_NAME=$(echo "$APP_NAME" | tr ' ' '-' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
DESKTOP_FILE="$APP_DIR/$FILE_NAME.desktop"
# Create .desktop file
cat <<EOF > "$DESKTOP_FILE"
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=$APP_NAME
Exec=$EXEC_PATH
Icon=$ICON_PATH
Terminal=false
Categories=Utility;
EOF
chmod +x "$DESKTOP_FILE"
echo "✔ Created $DESKTOP_FILE"
Saturday, December 20, 2025
the nee chopper in koala is so good
this is such a good tip on how to use midi out to make multi sampled snapshots of synths in koala similar to renoises vst sampling or fls using directwave
Friday, December 19, 2025
Jdrummer - Open source Alternative to EZ drummer?
cool thing is it has patterns and works with soundfonts
Friday, December 12, 2025
Thursday, December 11, 2025
raspberry pi 3 cli recording
line in and out using a 2$ interface from ali express.
add this to .bashrc
#record and playback
alias record="arecord -D plughw:2,0 -f s16_LE -c 1 -r 44100 -V mono test.wav"
#top right usb port if it matters
alias playback="aplay -D plughw:2,0 test.wav"
using iphone lightning to headphone adapter to plug in the aux. Input and output can't record at the same time but it shows a VU meter in the terminal so you can see if you're getting levels.
ztracker - like schism tracker but with better midi
schismtrackers midi clock is all wonky. This 32 bit tracker from 2002 is amazing for midi.
oh wait actually just found theres a newer version from 2025!
ztrackerprime
what a cool name
Monday, December 8, 2025
making your own sp-1200
This is the coolest project. Im really happy with espi already though on ios. building your own sp1200
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
FB-02, Diopser, Spectral
Fb-02
Spectral Compressor
diposer is like disperser, fb-02 is my new fav free 4-op fm dexed is crisper though this sounds a bit softer. Spectral Compressor is like soothe