Hey, so I’ve been super busy with lots of cool stuff. I’m working on the Beatseqr project, and I’m also putting that to work with my band Haptic Synapses. And along with those projects, I’ve been building some interesting tools with Max/MSP. Here’s one that I’m calling “sCCweet!” and in this particular instance, I’ve tuned it to work on Reason’s Malström synth. (You can either say that as “skweet” or “schweet” depending on which kind of person you are.)
So… why? Well, a lot of modern soft synths have a randomizer function, but Propellerhead doesn’t follow market trends. They try to influence them.. sometimes to a good affect, and sometimes to the effect of going in the wrong direction of the rest of us. Reason has some really awesome sounding synths, it’s just kind of… funky… about a lot of stuff. So you can either choose to accept the Reason reality as a foregone conclusion, or make your own reality. I prefer to make my own. Anyone interested in getting a copy of the max patch that does this? It’s not limited to working with Reason, it can work with anything that uses midi CC messages. Leave a comment!
I’m beginning to formulate how I would implement a data logger for airlock bubbling activity in a primary fermentation vessel. I’m not exactly sure how I will take a sensor reading from an airlock yet. In a 1 piece double chamber airlock, I could try putting a photo interrupt sensor where the carbon dioxide blows into the second chamber… not sure if that’ll work at all. In a 3-piece airlock, I could try to record up and down movement of the internal piece by bouncing a light beam or something off the top? I dunno exactly what to do. Something tells me I may end up fabricating something else. Simpler is better, so I’ll have to think long and hard about it. In the meantime, I think this is the workflow of data capture and reporting, using an Async Labs WiShield:
I just went to reorder sliders I had *very* expensively and carefully vetted out of a small crowd of contenders only to discover that mouser.com had run out of their on-hand stock of over 1200 pieces. I think it would be totally insane to try to keep vetting new hardware and redesigning my circuit boards based around an inconsistent supply of components. So, I’m thinking about moving to a modular “sled” kind of design for sliders so that I can keep my circuit board in a static configuration and be able to plug and play whatever sliders I’m able to get my hands on when I need to replicate my project. Here’s a preliminary sketch:
While making my Beatseqr project, I’ve been trying to find a reliable source for some faders / sliders / slide pots / slide action potentiometers, and I’ve been having a challenging time finding exactly what I want. So I thought I’d share what I’ve learned. Click on through to get a crazy large dose of science. Continue reading ‘HOWTO find and buy faders / sliders / slide pots / slide potentiometers’ »
Vibeke B has a great solution to multicasting OSC from external data sources to multiple OSC receivers inside QC:
Sending OSC to multiple OSC receivers on the same port
Yea thanx for helping me. I think it solved my problem actually. I don’t think I can send OSC messages from another app (modul8) to QC on ip 0.0.0.0. It might intentionally only be working inside the QC environment. At least I could not get that working.
But I found a way around it like this:
I send a msg from Modul8:
Modul8 ip 127.0.0.1 port 9000 -> QC OSC receiver on port 9000 (one comp receives this)
This message is only received by one OSC receiver even if the receiver is in every one of my QC comps (as we found out earlier). I then put a small osc rerouter in every comp. Whenever a message is received on 127.0.0.1 i put it into a sender that resends it on ip 0.0.0.
QC 0.0.0.0.0 port 9001 -> QC receiver on port 9001 (all comps receive this)
Then because the message is sent from within QC on ip 0.0.0.0 I get the desired result: All active QC comps receive the message.
Just too good not to repost… such an important piece of information if you’re doing anything with OSC inside quartz composer.
Congrats to Sonya Paz on being named the artist of the year for the 11th Senate District of California! I used to work with Sonya at Adobe way back in the day, and have enjoyed seeing her bring her whole game to my hometown of Campbell. I couldn’t imagine it happening to a nicer person, yay!
Check out her website at http://www.sonyapaz.com/…
Hey me and my group are playing a live electronic improvised jam session. Two shows, actually. Tonight at Works/San Jose and then next friday night at South First Billiards on the same street as Works… Check out the details here:
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Your use of gowalla and 4sq makes me want to call the Police. http://bit.ly/ddWoVI
Anyone interested in getting a copy of the max patch that does this? It’s not limited to working with Reason, it can work with anything that uses midi CC messages. Leave a comment!
