dried @dried@sonomu.club

Anyone have any tips for using USB devices with WINE? I'm trying to update the presets & firmware on my M-Audio Code61, no luck so far (on WINE 6.0).

I wish it was possible to open the full image attached to an audio file. This is the same image, it's a pretty simple puredata patch.

Once every ~3 clicks a new clock interval (5-10 x 30ms) and every ~5 clicks a new scale (4-14 EDO) are generated. The clicks also send the next note in the scale over midi to the synth, using pitch bend for microtones (not super precise since the M32 pitch bend spans a whole octave).

cat woke me up at 4:30 so this is roughly where my head's at today.

so the tones that ring should be related to one or more fundamentals of the physical box, but it's interesting that there's a tendency for higher tones to feed back. There's a low-pass filter in the feedback loop here, and the lower tones don't feed back unless the higher tones are above the cutoff. There's probably some kind of relation to the physical whatever that biases lower partials in the harmonic structure of a complex tone.

I've been really into the sound of resonant filters and pinged filters lately, and realized that since resonance is basically just filtered feedback, you can "ping" anything that feeds back as long as you ride the feedback. Anyway, here's me trying to do that on the Amarula box.

Careful! Sometimes the feedback gets out of hand -- there are some louder moments, esp. near the end.

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more semi-self-modulating feedback on the amarula box. trying to come up with a way for the feedback to self-regulate and produce a constantly slowly shifting surface (the word du jour is "metastable"). not quite there yet, but sounding pretty at least.

both transducer feedback channels have independent banks of 8 bandpasses, each band goes through a self-limiter, and the root, interval, and Q are all slowly changing.

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These are quickly becoming 3+ coffee days but not for the right reasons...

@PatchNotes okay, you get another one for free. Here's the same setup, with a more pluck-like envelope and higher pitch offset. Only knob tweaking done was playing the QuadLfo rates.

@PatchNotes I'm excited to eventually release the arc code. It's really fun to play with.

@PatchNotes another quick m32 + arc + copious reverb recording while I get sidetracked. low and rumbling, possibly whalesongs?

Arc running QuadLfo + triggers and another simple value, all of which are sent via MIDI to the M32. The QuadLfo is modulating filter resonance and frequency (offset from VCO freq), triggers cueing envelope swells, and value is controlling root pitch. Very light knob tweaking here: adjusting root pitch, crossfading VCO and noise, and adjusting QuadLfo rate.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0019.206/--10-propositions-for-research-creation?rgn=main;view=fulltext

"Capitalism is as singularizing as it is subsuming. ... [but] despite this complicity there are emergent forms of life always on the make which might come to assert greater autonomy. The result can be leakage in the system, lines of flight toward a non-capitalist future. ... Emergent life lived less as value-adding than as a value in itself. Research creation: the value produced is the process itself in its very qualitative autonomy." - Erin Manning, 10 Propositions for Research Creation

just a long filtered feedback session for you. upper-midrange and placid, nothing screechy. some nice beating happening here and there.

stereo pair of transducers (in and out) on an empty Amarula box (made of balsa I think). both channels through resonant low-pass filters and then an auto-limiter patch. recording is mix of H4N and line in.

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remember going to live music?

Recently discovered Meng Qi --
https://cloud-chamber.bandcamp.com/album/span
and his instruments are really cool too

Sign of the times that the first result for "cherries" on the Costco site is a casket with a cherry finish and expedited shipping

Relatedly: how do I get my H4N to boot faster? Yikes.

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@PatchNotes some widdle feebback bwips

These are really satisfying to me, just moving around the room and interacting with objects on the table changes how much the transducers feed back.

Patched b/w mixer and mother-32. 2x transducers input > m32 > 1x transducer output. LFO modulating between transducer feedback and self-oscillating filter (by modulating both the mix of those two and the filter resonance).