KDE Connect -- for connecting phones to computers.
Live Professor -- for live performance of VSTi's and such.
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| Although I didn't know it at the time, this was my last night working for The Beaks, a rock and roll band in Upstate New York. |
De-Feedback apparently actually works.
Audiofusion IEM system
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| I used to sleep here. |
Dave Campfield on indy producing
Creation of Two Collaborative Music Compositions -- Alan E. Williams, PhD, MusM, BMus (Hons.)
Miller is a double-reed instrument seller in PA
Shutter Encoder is an alternative to Handbrake for re-compressing video files.
Here is a script to Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Trace-Book has field traces of live sound speakers for sound-design use.
Remember the Not Jam font pack of retro green-type fonts because you are cool.
For some reason I saved a link to Cormorant Rift by Lilith Saintcrow. I haven't read it. I don't know anything about it or why I have (had) a tab for it.
One of the only examples of so-called "AI" actually working is this ASU Image Accessibility Creator LLM image description generator for alt-text of images.
Precedence effect or "Haas effect." It's that thing where you auditorily "locate" sounds based on which part of it hits you first.
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Trace-book is a bunch of real-world measured speaker data but I don't actually know how to use this data yet.
Classical music tools for Reaper.
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| My YouTube feed amuses me. |
Patch My Gear is a fun web editor for patching audio stuff.
SpiderCapo seems kinda cool.
Connect an SQ to a QU https://support.allen-heath.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4403618840849-General-How-to-connect-Qu-SQ
This weekend we had two screenings and a talkback of Red Flag of the Future at the International Puppet Fringe Festival NYC.
[Editor's note: I'm just stealing other people's content for my own. Check out my new podcast. Yes, I call it "mine."]
Greetings, all ...
Hope your location is neither dry nor dusty as August arrives!
Our gratitude that you were such an essential part of making Congressman Davy happen is immense. We have been out on the trail and we’re busy getting the word out. So we would like to give you a quick update ... and ask for a tiny bit of help.
A few days ago, we released the entire record to Americana and NPR/non-commercial stations. We also have a nifty tracking map for radio play:
In conjunction with our radio push, we are also going to do a day of broad promotion across social media tomorrow (Friday July 31).
If you see us drift by downriver on your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or Bluesky in the next day or so, we’d be obliged if you “liked” or reposted us. Or even let people know that you are part of Team Davy. The more is not only the merrier when it comes to these things. The harsh algorithms that rule our discourse make it a must!
The goal here is not so much to sell records or downloads or get more ears on the free online radio play version. That’s great, sure, but ... The real goal is to attract a bit more attention to the terrific work we have done.
Sadly, this is especially true in the DMV, where we have not gotten much of a hearing yet for a musical set in the city in the 1830s – nor for the terrific online radio play that you played such an extraordinary part in making happen.
Thank you so much! Those of us who’ve lent us some time and attention think what we accomplished together is special. And we could not have done it without you
Links to everything follow! Richard and Deano
Hey, check it out. Estrogenius is now expanded into Collective Genius.
Estrogenius was started by Fiona Jones at Manhattan Theatresource and it's very cool that it is the legacy of Theatresource more than a quarter century ago (!).
I'm on a journey to make my computing life simpler.
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First up, trying Krokiet, which is an update of Czkawka, to find duplicate files. It's open-source. I have a lot of terabytes. So it'll take a while.
KDE Connect is a bunch of programs that let phones connect with computers. Very multi-platform. Open-source.
Rufus is a bootable-drive maker thingy. I had some success and some trouble with Etcher.
John Philip Sousa and “The Menace of Mechanical Music”
Here (pasted below) is a right-wing take on how the United States has adopted the basics of "communism" by now-banned Reddit account transcendReality:
The Congressman Davy podcast is live. It's a 90-minute podcast of the Congressman Davy musical. I think I might be credited as the "director" of the podcast.
The story of Davy Crockett's political rise and fall performed as a radio play in two acts.
Book & Lyrics by Richard Byrne. Music by Dean Schlabowske.
A Who’s Who of prominent Americana and rock luminaries sing the songs from the musical. And a bevy of DC performers and storytellers bring the text of Congressman Davy to life.
Speechifying, hijinks, chicanery and bamboozlement! (Whiskey not included.)
I would love to move to Linux. Right now the only thing stopping me is the fact I'm a Samplitude user and I want VST's to work. I've abandoned Adobe, so that isn't a problem. I don't need Microsoft Office anymore (unless I get a job in academia which requires it and... I might.) Video stuff is all DaVinci Resolve, Blender, and suchwise. So I'm very, very close. It's just VST and Samplitude keeping me in.
VST3 is now open-source, so there are plugins which Linux is supporting. But as far as I know, Samplitude needs Wine.
Oh, and drivers for interfaces. That's a problem with/for Linux.
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ZL Equalizer is a free and open-source EQ plugin. It's sort of a Fabfilter Pro-Q-type thing. I haven't played with it yet.
I made a very smol videogame in Godot. It's called Hoppr.
I wanted to hand-code a game. So I did.
How'd you make it?
A whole lot of tutorials.
Is this programmed in C#?
No. It's Godot's own scripting language. My understanding is that it's similar to C#. But I did have to learn (and then immediately forget) the difference between classes, functions, and variables.
Does this mean you can program a game?
LOL. No. I am a dope.
But you made this game.
Yes, but it's an incredibly perishable skill.
Did you use AI?
I'd like to just say "no." But it's more complicated than that. I mean, "AI" doesn't exist. It's basically advanced auto-correct. And Godot will make predictive text which really works well. Speling is vital in code, and the scripting tool in Godot works really well as far as I can tell by giving you the exact spelling and syntax and things you put into quotes and such.
So wait. You clearly have no idea what you're doing.
That's correct.
Tell me about Summer Engine.
So I read a thing about how Summer Engine is sposed to be really great and you can vibe-code your way to success.
Can you?
No, of course not.
Does it work at all?
At all? Yes. I managed to get it to do one and a half things.
I'll bite. What's the one thing?
I was irked at how the impact sound was only happening on the floor. I wanted it to happen on all collision objects. So I asked it to do that, and WOO! It did that. It made them all work.
And the half thing?
Well, I felt the sound was coming a bit late, so Summer Engine suggested making the collision shapes a bit bigger such that the sound is triggered a tad early. That was a pretty good idea actually and I ended up replicating it by hand.
Why not let Summer Engine do it?
Well. I tried to do a couple different things with the engine. I managed to crash and destroy the entire project such that the Godot project simply didn't work anymore.
So just undo.
I tried that. Summer basically said "Hmm... let me think about how to do that." And proceeded to trash everything.
This is why we use Git, isn't it?
Yes, absolutely. I managed to go backward a version and then I abandoned using Summer Engine.
How did the art come about?
The extreme high-quality of the illustration is due to my art skills which are amongst the greatest of Academy artists and... oh, I mean I drew them in Krita.
What's up with the sound?
I was amused by the idea of making all custom sound effects. So I did.
Will you make more levels?
Does anyone want that?
Theatremix seems kinda cool for building playlists for cues for shows. Except. Do we really need to do VCA/DCA mixing now with fancypants digital consoles? Having the actual channel in your hands rather than a DCA seems better to me just because I want to be able to grab EQ's and such. It doesn't seem to let you swap channels around but it does pretty much every other thing you'd likely want for live, repeatable work with multiple actors.
VioletAudio makes a couple things including the dMiX 128. It's a sort of stagebox/cloud-mixing box.
Filmbox is a film emulation software. Chance seems to like it. It does look cool.
