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Various, and also Sundry...

From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.

Coupla things:

1. Plogue has just released sforzando, a free .SFZ format sample player available for all the usual plug-in platforms, plus stand-alone. Why do I care? Well, Plogue are cool, for starters. Also, they released a bunch of free SFZ format packages pre-built, and one of them is the CR-909 sample set. You can find the samples here. David broke all the samples down so you it actually ends up with the same controls as a normal 909. Very handy.

2. Bitcom is getting close to being something approaching done. Only a couple little features left, then the inevitable fixes once Jeff Laity starts breaking the OS X version (something he has a truly irritating knack for), then out the door. Probably not by Christmas, but soon thereafter.

3. My on-going experiments On The Side might perhaps bear fruit here in the next day or two. Another interminable process video will be forthcoming shortly.

4. I’m planning an update to Phaedra; I’m moving the sequencing engine to the built-in MIDI sequencer that comes with iOS now; it didn’t exist when I initially made the app. If anyone has feature requests, now’s the time to tell me. I definitely plan to add a note randomizer (per key/mode/scale/whatever) so you don’t need to ask for that.

So, how’s your day going?

20 comments

  1. joeflyer59

    4. Loves me some phaedra. Since you asked, I'd love to be able to to have the option to change/personalize the led 'button' color scheme. (Say white or blue). Non-essential, but nice for those of us who love aesthetics.

  2. inteliko

    SFZ, I grabbed Highlife by Disco DSP when they offered it as a freebie. Never used it, just learned the other day it works miracles with SFZ. Took CR's sample set of the CMU-800R, popped it in Highlife and with some boring tweaks now I can make Alchemy sound like 1982.

  3. rexlapin

    Thanks for the heads up on sforzando. I really dig

    chipsounds and lately I have been trying to find

    time to get better acquainted with bidule.

    All the best to you and yours!

  4. jwcase

    Any shot of getting phaedra to launch on an iPhone 5 given developments on the Apple end? I'm using Little MIDI Machine to sequence the tiny Moog app, but it's not fun to use . It spits out useful sounds, but I rarely use it because the interface is unattractive.

  5. Jason Duerr

    Thanks for asking. Orders are way up, and I have new audio hardware clients in the works, some very exciting work which will certainly be all over the interwebs in March. Life is good.

  6. mush

    Merry Holiday season. I feel tired as most Scandinavians do this time of the year... I am trying to make a promise to myself that during the next year I will spend more time making actual music than checking out, researching and buying new gear...

    Any other good suggestions for new year's resolutions?

  7. bongo_x

    >I am trying to make a promise to myself that during the next year I will spend more time making actual music than checking out, researching and buying new gear...<

    ...and eat right and exercise, blah blah blah. We can dream, can't we?

    Seriously, I am doing those things.

    bb

  8. Chris Randall

    I've been eating right and exercising for the last two months. I was in pretty fair condition to begin with, but I took it around the bend a little bit. Going to Hawaii in March, and I didn't want to look like Louis CK.

    -CR

  9. krylenko

    I'm sure everyone watches and/or is sick of Portlandia, but this is cringe-inducingly close to life:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW92t264eBM&feature=youtu.be

    A bit broad, but not really very much...

  10. dBlicious

    Any chance of giving Phaedra the ability to select which MIDI network session(s) it connects to?

  11. kslight

    Have fun in Hawaii, took my wife there for our anniversary over Halloween in 2011. The big island is beautiful. Oahu is kind of a bit too much Las Vegas for me though.

  12. Chris Randall

    We're going to Kauai, as it happens. Rented a cabana on the North shore, in what is theoretically a tourist-free zone. I was born in Honolulu, fwiw. (I often joke that now that we have a left-handed dude from a single mother born in the 60s in Hawaii as President, my demographic is well represented.)

    -CR

  13. bongo_x

    I'm completely fascinated that some people know what they will be doing months from now.

    bb

  14. kslight

    Ah I am rusty on my CR trivia, as it seems. The more tourists you can avoid the better. I was maybe a bit surprised by the overwhelming amount of Japanese tourists there...though it makes sense in hindsight, wasn't expecting it. Also lots of Germans.

  15. boobs

    tangent:

    i just did this survey from Don't Crack where i bitched a while in the feedback section about iLoks and also complained about their dumb 2 part music piracy question and linked to your "it's not a memo" pdf for their benefit.

    http://www.imsta.org/imsta_survey.php

    /tangent

  16. boobs

    oh, and bitcom sounds really cool. looking forward to that one.

  17. Chris Randall

    Wow. If you ever needed an example of how confirmation bias can ruin a survey, that'd serve remarkably well.

    -CR

  18. boobs

    i wrote a book in the feedback section.

  19. obscurerobot

    I failed to write in the feedback section that I only buy Audio Damage plugins because Audio Damage is the only music software company that doesn't hand out NFRs like candy.

    Why pirate when you have a stack of NFRs?

  20. fussylizard

    Thx for the survey link. Just filled it out. Hope it does some good.

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