Author Archives: Kristian Amlie

Getting good performance with Windows VSTs in Linux

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Kristian Amlie

I do all my music making in Linux, but it’s no secret that the number of available plugins is vastly larger for the Windows platform than for Linux. Luckily, Alexandre Bique has made the nifty vst-bridge that enables you to … Continue reading →

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Atlas is released!

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Kristian Amlie

Finally after a long period of hard work, our album Atlas is released! We’ve also launched our own band web site, for this and for future albums. Check out the the album there, or head straight to our Bandcamp site … Continue reading →

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Tracks for Atlas are finished

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Kristian Amlie

The mixing of our eight tracks is now done! We’re now making some nice graphics for the album cover, and we had a local artist make an awesome cover drawing for us, very gritty and moody. Again, with this being … Continue reading →

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Pendelirium soon releasing their first album

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Kristian Amlie

It’s been a long time since there has been any music updates for my band Pendelirium, but that doesn’t mean that things have not happened. In fact, we have been very busy composing, recording and putting together our first album! … Continue reading →

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Eight2Ten no more

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Kristian Amlie

This actually happened a little while ago, but I have left the 70’s rock band I played in, Eight2Ten. I had a great time playing with Eight2Ten; hell, I was in the band for nine years; but Pendelirium has always … Continue reading →

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Lessons learned with Dropbox and UnionFS-FUSE

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Kristian Amlie

I’m an avid user of Dropbox, and also of the fantastic layered filesystem UnionFS-FUSE. However, I found that they don’t work well together. Whenever I tried to mount a unionfs folder somewhere where Dropbox could see it, Dropbox would seemingly … Continue reading →

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Followup to my first RSI article

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Kristian Amlie

I wrote a followup to the first article about my RSI recovery. It looks at some of the things I experienced after my recovery, and where I am at now. Read My RSI recovery eight months later.

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Jack2DSSI version 0.2 is released

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Kristian Amlie

A new version of Jack2DSSI, version 0.2, has been released. For those not in the know, Jack2DSSI is a DSSI plugin that can host Jack audio clients inside it. It adds several fixes and compatibility options to make it even … Continue reading →

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Jacktube bugfix release

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Kristian Amlie

Jacktube v0.31 is out, which is a bugfix release, and it should be much more stable thanks to this. Check it out at the Jacktube homepage.

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Introducing Jack2DSSI

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Kristian Amlie

For a long time it annoyed me that certain Jack applications in Linux did not have a plugin version, so it could not be used inside a DAW without manual port routing and launch scripts, etc. Yoshimi is one example, … Continue reading →

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