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First major relapse of my RSI condition
This is a follow-up to my first article on RSI, where I describe how I got wrist pain after using computers for a long time, and how I recovered. It helps to have read that to understand the context. Late … Continue reading
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Jack2 and asynchronous mode
Recently I became aware that the Jack Audio Connection Kit‘s second version, called Jack2, has a mode called “asynchronous mode“, which is different from Jack1’s mode of operation, now referred to as “synchronous mode”.
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Matrix-convolver
A common tool in any digital musician’s toolbox, particularly guitarists, is impulse responses. They capture a snapshot of the sonic characteristics of a speaker cabinet, which can then be replicated digitally. This makes it much easier to work in a … Continue reading
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Zynthian and Yoshimi
I recently decided to purchase a Zynthian device, which is a Raspberry Pi based hardware device which hosts Linux plugins to produce or process sound. You can for instance run a synthesizer on it like ZynAddSubFX (which I believe is where they got their name “Zynthian”, although I’m not sure about that), and play it using a connected keyboard. Or piano. Or organ. Or any other of a load of plugins and effects that come with it. You can also install your own, as long as it’s in the LV2 plugin format. All in a compact package that is rugged and easy to take on the road. Continue reading
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Getting good performance with Windows VSTs in Linux
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!
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
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
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
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
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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