Sorry for being away a little longer than planned. Vacations tend to get in the way of these things. So, now we come to Interfaces, Converters, and DAWs. These can be very contentious topics that don’t really need to be. We have more, higher-quality choices than ever, regardless of the platform you want to use.…
In the previous post, I talked a lot about how to think about building your studio and how gear makes its way into your workflow. Now we’ll start talking about the decisions and how they affect each other. Stereo or Surround, ain’t that the eternal question? Before getting into the next bits, we need to…
This series of posts is a bunch of slightly cohesive thoughts I had while rebuilding my project studio/workspace in Stockholm. I wanted to capture this information, as I’ve been somewhat less than satisfied with the information on the web. These posts are more about how you should think when building your project studio and less…
Sorry for not posting in a while. I’ve been acquiring more modules and making a little noise. Check it out…I was working on some incidental (background) music, and came up with this little ditty: Not much to it, but I like it. Anyway, on to today’s topic… Filters (also known as VCFs) If you read…
I mentioned last time that I’d be covering filters and envelopes in this post, but after receiving the rest of my components and working with them this week, I began to feel like I should, perhaps, change that to amplification and envelopes, as amplification is an even more basic piece of the puzzle. Not to…
Now that I have all the basic, and some not-so-basic, pieces ordered, I’ll take a look at the modules I’ve bought and explain why I bought these, specifically. The Challenge The biggest challenge in putting one of these things together is that shops that sell modular synth bits are few and far between. There’s nowhere…
The process that I’m following to put my modular together is similar to the process I recommend to folks new to buying motorcycles. For your first one, get a good, simple synth that covers all the basic functionality. There’s a good chance that you’ll eventually grow out of it or want to change it. You…
Sorry for the looooong break between posts. Since posting last, I’ve found a home in San Francisco, found a kick-ass job as a Technology Evangelist at ngmoco:) / DeNA, and decided that I need yet another time-intensive, expensive hobby. So, I’ve had a love affair with analog synthesizers and analog processing ever since I bought…
So far, I’ve gotten more questions about getting Cocoa Views to work in Audio Units than other requests, so here we go. Since I’ve been on a lengthy vacation, I didn’t think too much about it until I tried using the built-in template for Audio Unit Effects in Xcode 4.x. It doesn’t make it at…
Setting expectations Just to set expectations, I have never developed Audio Units before, so this is a first time thing for me. All I’m trying to do is share my experiences as an enthusiastic, though not formally trained, developer. Also, while the information that Apple provides for Audio Unit development is excellent, it is a…
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