Got side tracked (again) looking at sequencer designs, when I realized, I hate sequencers. That's why I made keep in the first place. Here, with marvelous. Autosequencing at it's finest. #poetastersTonetoys #mutableInstruments #OSS
I was, innocently, building a new portable test lab, and accidentally built a torture rack to trap my machines in ... Peaches On the Rack ..... MI grids patterns running a Frame Drum into an Octaver + the MI braids running on peaches from wgd modular .... #PoetastersTonetoys #MutableInstruments #DIY #modular
Mmm, mmm. A day spent tuning laaazers. I am not satisfied. Still, made a tune. Frame drum, TheRack, MI SixOp FM and spires ... #poetastersTonetoys #MutableInstruments
Ok. It's not all rock 'n' roll. I've posted some examples at https://poetaster.org/marvelous/intro/ In the main, I wanted to play 'air harp' with MI's rings modulated and sympathetic strings ... #MutableInstruments #poetastersTonetoys

Ah, the temptation to go all 'air guitar' ... ok, spires time of flight sensor driving the marvelous MI Plaits engine #MutableInstruments #PoetastersTonetoys

It's more or less finished. I'm so tired. Air harp hand waving is a surprisingly good workout ....

Although I'm just a bit exhausted of #mutableInstruments code and need to go play durms, it really is inspiring that my old FOSS bones and stubborn belief things should be made accessible actually bears fruit. Rich Heslip, who inspired me to build drum machines recently started using the plaits 1.2 https://github.com/rheslip/2HPico-Eurorack-Module-Hardware with the intention of going ALL FM (sixop engine). Which of course was eased by Vadims help on that version of Plaits. He's been working on https://github.com/ledlaux/duna-pico2-drumsynth very cool.
I suppose there is a very real danger of going mad? Create it, the loop. Keep synth driving marvelous MI. From #tonetoys #mutableInstruments
you know you're having a good c++ day when you accomplish much by removing much. maybe, c-- ? Progress on #tonetoys #poetastersTonetoys #MutableInstruments #modular
Long day in the C++ salt mines. Also, some nice news about other's using my ported MI code. To get a bearing, I wrote a bit ... about synths, envelopes and progress .... https://poetaster.org/news/2026-02-04/ #tonetoys #MutableInstruments
A wave by any other name ....!

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