Noisepages

Long time no blog!  And not much to offer at the moment, but upon checking my linkbacks I noticed someone has been inspired by my 3D Piano Roll animation: “All of Me” MIDI 3D created by Dan Price is a marvel.  They used the code I put up here as a starting point and expanded upon it [...]

analoq wrote a new blog post: Sampler

When I developed my MIDI sequencer I leveraged the default General MIDI synth in order to keep things simple.  Later I began integrating AudioUnits but stopped short and remembered my goals:  To make my own music software, i.e. not rely on 3rd party software where possible.  The synths I’d developed don’t cover all the sounds [...]

  8 months, 2 weeks ago · View

analoq wrote a new blog post: Reverse Engineering Apple Loops

So I’d like to import Apple Loops in a future project.  One problem:  the format specification is undocumented.  It has been reverse engineered before but I haven’t come across anyone’s findings so I figured I’d give it a shot myself…
AIFF Primer
Apple Loops are AIFF sound files with additional data chunks for transients, categorisation, etc.  ”Chunks” [...]

  8 months, 3 weeks ago · View

analoq wrote a new blog post: Not quite Animusic…

… more like Musanim.
When I was talking about tackling overhead I was in the middle of optimising an FM piano synth that I had originally coded several months ago.  I had revisited this instrument to adapt it to a plug-in architecture I’m implementing and thought to find an interesting way to demonstrate it…
The [...]

  10 months, 3 weeks ago · View

analoq wrote a new blog post: Tightening the Screws

I knew it would happen:  The projects I’m working on are reaching a point of capability where they can strain my hardware.  I’m happy to accept this as a gauge of progress but I will miss the innocence of not having to ask myself “What’s the performance overhead of this going to be?” and “What [...]

  11 months ago · View

analoq wrote a new blog post: MIDI sequencer

I mentioned last time that trackers were my introduction to music software.  I also mentioned that I never got the hang of them.  So, what did I get hang of?  That would be MIDI sequencers.
Project V:  analoq.sequencr
Trackers represent music as a matrix where each row is timed to the smallest unit of measurement, usually a 16th [...]

  12 months ago · View

analoq wrote a new blog post: monome drum machine & tracker sequencer

Last time I discussed my first couple attempts at making music software: a step sequencer and a subtractive softsynth.  My next project was the logical combination of these two things…
Project III:  analoq.drumachine
Taking what I learned from my Python step sequencer, I wrote another play routine in C++ to control my simple softsynth in a stand-alone [...]

  1 year ago · View

analoq wrote a new blog post: Making my own Music Software beginnings

I’ve been making music for over 10 years.  I’ve been programming for over 10 years.  In that time those interests never really crossed paths.  I’m not sure why that is but perhaps it was necessary for those skills to mature independently before the synergy could be realised…
Project I:  analoq.oscr
It all started near the beginning of [...]

  1 year ago · View

analoq wrote a new blog post: why am I learning 6502?

I’ve been learning the Commodore 64 architecture and 6502 machine language lately and I’ve been trying to figure out why.  The C64 had previously stayed on my radar through the C64 Remixing scene but my recent stint started when I heard about this C64 Twitter Client.  Unlike most C64 hacks I come across, the twitter client [...]

  1 year, 1 month ago · View