Holy shit - would you believe it?!

I am a capitalist! I am trying to sell you stuff! Phase one of my 'make it as a musician' is now fully engaged. There is something to purchase. Yeah so it's just a badge, but it's a pretty weird badge. Go to the shop!

A salute to Why

Website improvements

Denial.mp3

The music is the result of a tune I had in my head when I am being insomniac. Wanted to knock something up quickly with Dewex in mind, and I think you’ll agree the track benefits magnificently from his august presence.

I won’t lie to you: this one’s a bit weird..

Prototyping

From mf.grimaceworks.com I spent a couple of days prototyping this hardware controller for my glitch machine. Got it sort of working but really I just wanted to chuck this video online to prove I've been working. The amusing numbers creeping in from the left are because I was scanning through in imovie. This really wasn't intended to be a high production value job

Prototyping

From http://mf.grimaceworks.com

I spent a couple of days prototyping this hardware controller for my glitch machine. Got it sort of working but really I just wanted to chuck this video online to prove I've been working.

The amusing numbers creeping in from the left are because I was scanning through in iMovie. This really wasn't intended to be a high production value job :)

I learned a new word today

Aphorism #8: Fear

Daunting task

One step at a time: I have lots and lots of bits and pieces of tracks kicking about. I have been struggling to work out where to start with it all so I bounced down snippets of everything I wanted to work on, put them in a folder, and here they are for you to hear all the little bits. Perhaps the world at large has some preference about where I should exert my efforts.

Daunting task

One step at a time:

I have lots and lots of bits and pieces of tracks kicking about. I have been struggling to work out where to start with it all so I bounced down snippets of everything I wanted to work on, put them in a folder, and here they are for you to hear all the little bits. Perhaps the world at large has some preference about where I should exert my efforts.

GW Glitch work in progress again

More experiments: http://grimaceworks.com/mf/lab I got tired of using Windows to make music. So I had to get a Mac. But my favourite VST Plugin 'dblue glitch' does not work on the Mac. So I decided if I was going to get a Mac I'd learn how to program an effects unit to do the job that the ol' dblue used to do. A week of struggling later and here is how far I've got. I've gone deep into the dark world of C++, deep into weird things to do with how XCode works, encountered strange examples of how to do things, become enraged at the poor coding standards that the API seemed to be promoting, and eventually came up with a framework that allowed me to create a plugin that did things the way I want. The idea is you trigger the different effects using a MIDI controller. The parameter set is deliberately limited (though I have put in the ones that are most fun). This is to make it easy to wire up to a controller in Ableton Live. Note that this is very much a work in progress. The Cocoa UI won't work in Ableton (Logic, Garageband etc... only) but I will be making something nice and slick that does. There are still plenty of issues with this but I was just so excited I had to show you.

GW Glitch work in progress again

More experiments: http://grimaceworks.com/mf/lab

I got tired of using Windows to make music. So I had to get a Mac. But my favourite VST Plugin 'dblue glitch' does not work on the Mac. So I decided if I was going to get a Mac I'd learn how to program an effects unit to do the job that the ol' dblue used to do. A week of struggling later and here is how far I've got. I've gone deep into the dark world of C++, deep into weird things to do with how XCode works, encountered strange examples of how to do things, become enraged at the poor coding standards that the API seemed to be promoting, and eventually came up with a framework that allowed me to create a plugin that did things the way I want.

The idea is you trigger the different effects using a MIDI controller. The parameter set is deliberately limited (though I have put in the ones that are most fun). This is to make it easy to wire up to a controller in Ableton Live.

Note that this is very much a work in progress. The Cocoa UI won't work in Ableton (Logic, Garageband etc... only) but I will be making something nice and slick that does. There are still plenty of issues with this but I was just so excited I had to show you.

GW Glitch work in progress

More experiments: http://grimaceworks.com/mf/lab I've been learning all about DSP and how to program OS X using C++ and Objective-C just so I can start work on something to substitute the dblue glitch. My plugin is structured very differently to the dblue one though - I'm not putting in a sequencer - it's more geared around being able to 'play' the effects with a midi controller. So each button will trigger a different effect. I'm happy enough with the code structure of the core now and fiddling with the DSP side of things. Note that this Cocoa interface is very much a temporary thing!

GW Glitch work in progress

More experiments: http://grimaceworks.com/mf/lab

I've been learning all about DSP and how to program OS X using C++ and Objective-C just so I can start work on something to substitute the dblue glitch.

My plugin is structured very differently to the dblue one though - I'm not putting in a sequencer - it's more geared around being able to 'play' the effects with a midi controller. So each button will trigger a different effect. I'm happy enough with the code structure of the core now and fiddling with the DSP side of things. Note that this Cocoa interface is very much a temporary thing!

Work ethic