falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
Just wrote up a little summary on my current (work-related) situation, which I can finally talk about after MOD has made its situation public.
Details at https://www.patreon.com/posts/70766698
Tough times and terrible timing too.
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Sonoj Convention 2022 has been cancelled, but there's a bright lookout into the future!
Sonoj Convention was created as an annual event to bring together the open-source music-making community and facilitate meeting in person, getting to know each other.
Sonoj now has it's community chat: https://chat.sonoj.org (based on Matrix).
Hopefully we can bring this event back in 2023!
Here's an interview I did with Nils, the event creator in 2019:
https://youtu.be/GvMhRnVn_e8
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Can someone recommend a #peertube instance?
I want to publish videos about #sustainability #climate #environment #veganism #greenenergy #solarpunk but can't find an instance which goes into this direction.
Thanks a lot for your help 😊
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LWN's Fosstodon account was created because we had requests for a feed here. Now somebody has reported us as a spam account and we are getting warnings from the moderators. Evidently we aren't interacting enough. So it may be that this stream is about to go away, our apologies.
VST3 plugin support is reaching stable status.
Finally got most things implemented, in a way that is similar to what is present for VST2.
The entire DPF-Plugins collection (besides 1 plugin) is now loadable in hosts like Ableton Live. The only exception I see are plugins that have optional buses (like sidechain) or types that Live cannot cope with (like pure generators without audio or MIDI input)
Should be time to make a new release then...
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Everybody knows Audacity, but are there more audio editors on Linux? After so many years the answer is still... "Kinda!" :)
Here is my review of 8 audio editors for Linux that are not Audacity or one of its pride forks.
This is also where I have to say that the Qt6 port of ReZound largely works.
https://librearts.org/2022/08/audio-editors-for-linux-that-are-not-audacity/
Light mode saga continues...
Now instead of color inversion and trickery for making panels dark, we do the contrary and make some dark panels white. :D
@wrl this looks good now?
Will need to have a few authors about this, as sadly not all artwork is liberally licensed, some needs explicit permission for usage and distribution.. Hopefully they can be convinced.
Yay for color/theme consistency!
Just did a "mini" build version of Cardinal on the web, see https://minicardinal.kx.studio/
Only contains core and fundamental modules, extras like carla/ildaeil are also not in there.
The intention is to have something that is quick to load, so I can more easily show it to people, and also place it in a "software portfolio" I am working on.
The mini version assets have a combined 15Mb size. It is small enough that Firefox is happy to cache the page, so that's nice :)
Feel free to use and share!
Not everyone is happy with Cardinal pushing dark colors everywhere.
A little bit of white then.
Feels very weird after being used to dark mode.
Still WIP, will finish up the details for this later on, but shows promise.
Can likely be an official feature in 22.08.
The cool part is that it changes during runtime!
And now it is time for Carla.
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=carla-244-and-250-released
It is 2 releases at once, wow!
JSFX plugin support and SDL engine driver are highlights, and some little extras to keep everything updated.
Not an exciting release perhaps, but a necessary one.
It is release day! and night, because I am always late for these things.
Anyhow, first of the set is here, and it is Cardinal 22.07 🐦
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=cardinal-2207-released
Mostly bugfixes this time, hoping keyboard input is more reliable now.
I see signs of great design.
3 of the plugins listed (with names visible) are VST3 and 2 are VST2. Can you tell which is which?
PS: The order is not consistent, VST3 is first for one, VST3 is last for the other. 🤦♂️
Trying a bunch of daws for helping debug plugin related issues, I am seriously impressed how bad Steinberg makes everything.
Want to download a trial? Here, please write your email so we can send a link. Oh and please subscribe to our newsletter before continuing, and no, you cannot install a demo without subscribing.
What's that, you want to use the app now? Oh silly, you need to download a manager, to then a licenser, to download the app.
Why???
err I will need a clean OS install after this
Hi folks, if you use Cardinal please help a bit with testing for the keyboard input issue.
Way too many reports of things that work or dont work, it is a mess..
I have made a ticket to track down exactly where things are working, and where they are not.
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/304
If you'd be so kind, please start your daw, run through the test criteria, and write results at the end.
Thanks!
btw, the "Cardinal WebApp" (is that what we should call it?) now features audio input, MIDI and dynamic buffer size changes, all accessible in the engine menu.
Almost viable as a production tool.
With touch events this might get even more useful, need to try to set that up next...
This web stuff testing is sorta addicting.
More like, cannot stop until investigating and checking everything that is possible.
Right now it is LV2 plugins.
Got artyfx, die-plugins (from ardour) fomp and mda.
https://falktx.com/data/wasm/Ildaeil-FX.html 👀
It just works for some reason... 🤷
Is your PC powerful enough to run this Cardinal patch?
https://cardinal.kx.studio/?patchstorage=wasm-house-loop
(after loading the page click on the "run" button on the top-left-most plugin, named clocked)
This was shared to me by someone else, my PC is unable to render it without glitches 😂
What about yours, can your PC handle it?
For those following the cardinal web saga, I deleted the old files on my personal domain.
Instead you can now use https://cardinal.kx.studio/ for Cardinal in the web shenanigans.
All 922 modules are in! 🚀 🚀 🚀
I keep writing about it, not sure if annoying or cool...
Anyhow, file dialogs for importing and exporting patches, samples etc works on the the Cardinal web thingy now.
Can upload mp3 files and play them. Previously loaded files are kept in memory, so they appear on the list.
Neat 📸
Cardinal weby web thing now better, loads modules without tripping. 🚀
https://falktx.com/data/wasm/CardinalSynth.html
Added the missing ValleyAudio and ChowDSP that failed to build before.
And there is file open and save, though you need to save first before you can open. Dont ask...
Maybe later with WebMIDI this can be even more useful. Maybe touch events too, why not.
For now I am happy with the results. Great progress in just a few days, something that was mostly for trying out and testing. But works so well!
