falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Don't mind me, just testing how big of an image I can upload here...

Does it get scaled down?

Now that Cardinal runs more or less stable, I started some attempts at creating background soundscapes.

I am not that good at this CV/modular stuff yet, but does not seem too bad either.
The modular part is only doing sequencing for now, creating synths from scratch is something that is going to take quite some days to learn still...

Already happy with the results so far, and that is what counts in the end 😀

Since many modules in Cardinal are CC-NC, let's just go with CC-NC artwork then...

Go Miku for that UwU feeling inside your modular environment 😊

I mean, creators will still be able to see the number of dislikes for their own videos, but the public counter is going away.

> On November 10, YouTube will be making the public dislike count private. Users will still be able to dislike videos, and creators will still have access to the dislike counts for their own videos in YouTube Studio.

Seems like the end of an era, the youtube video dislike counter is going away 😔

JSFX soon coming to your DAW

Keeping you all updated, here comes another monthly report.
Let us not speak of the rack 😂

https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-monthly-report-october-2021

This is quite interesting.
User-id fingerprinting through the wallpaper on Android phones.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/873921/173ef56709ce1723/

Being able to identify users just based on a few colors is quite amazing

When you have not done a cleanup in a while...

```
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-5.11.0-25-generic* linux-headers-5.11.0-27-generic* linux-headers-5.11.0-34-generic* linux-headers-5.4.0-67* linux-headers-5.4.0-67-lowlatency*
...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 63 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5666 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
```

Hell yeah 5.5Gb extra. Let's go! 🚀

mailbox is saying they have receiving DDoS attacks.
"we expect further attacks in the coming days"
https://mailbox.org/en/post/extortionate-ddos-attacks-on-mailbox-org

Remember that post where I mentioned Cardinal (VCV as plugin experiment) exposes room brightness as a parameter?
It was just a way to save the configuration through the host, with this being a plugin and all..

Someone actually placed a light sensor to control it! 😂

> "Sadly, the brightness sensor of my phone is too lazy and updates its value at too low frequency, so I had to add some smoothing to make it look nice."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wu2Gt-tsf4

Something I have been wondering for a while.

If your free and open-source application/tool is good enough that makes people not want to use other non-free tools, are you responsible for a company closing down?
You can argue about business models and ethics, but a few things can really just stop existing because a "free" tool is simply good enough. It is not just software that disappears, it is jobs and careers.

The bar for some open-source tools competition is very high. With real side-effects

S'more news.
The menu bar is now adapted/custom for cardinal.
I tried to do it by keeping the old menu bar from VCV, but there is no way to reach some elements, so the whole thing needs to be overridden.

The file->quit menu is hidden if running as plugin (as otherwise would do nothing) and file->open now uses dpf file browser stuff. So at least this action should not block the even loop (making the plugin unusable).

Automated builds in https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/actions/workflows/build.yml (requires GitHub account)

Experimenting with parameters for Cardinal.
Idea being that the plugin exposes parameters that the host can control and automate, and inside the VCV environment they appear as regular CV sources.
Some little filtering to reduce stepping and it produces nice results.

Here you see Carla converting MIDI notes from a file into parameter changes that automate Cardinal's parameters.
The result is (sorta) playing the chocobo song purely out of plugin parameter automation 🎉 😂 🚀