God damn, this is fun.
This is the case of an #ObliquePalette, a hardware interface to #plugdata, with the intention of building a cyberdeck for making computer art in the broadest sense of the word.
It has eight outputs along the top that can output a control voltage of 0 to 5 volts as well as pulse width modulated signal to control servos.
The bottom row of inputs can be manual control or voltage control meaning you can improvise all sorts of input devices.
#westernmasselectronics is back after being slushed out last month!
Third Entity is great. Groovebox jam full of samples and insightful parody.
I'll be playing, too, probably workshopping my current instrument, a #plugdata patch controlled by an #ObliquePalette to control overlapping samples, building extremely complex timbres that encourage auditory hallucination.
You should come! March 29 at The Quarters in Hadley, MA!
@GabeMoralesVR
We got a C64 in 1985? And then Mac Plus in 1987, which introduced me to HyperCard. My dad could see there was something good through that little window but couldn’t figure out how to get at it. But he admired that I could.
Got to college and my computer science/AI prof loved it as much as I. Taught a course in it.
These days I grudgingly use C but scratch my HC itch with #plugdata and write C for microcontrollers that it talks with. Dad remains boggled but supportive.
Knocked an item off the #ObliquePalette to do list: auto polling to figure out where it is on the USB bus!
Now, weirdly, it finds it, then SOMETIMES connects, and SOMETIMES drops from its usual sample rate of ~700Hz down to ~3Hz.
I'm pretty confident that I put some sort of "check to see if I'm already connected" logic into the #plugdata patch in the wrong place, but there's nothing as frustrating as an intermittent error, so right now it's working great because I'm trying to find the bug.
I’m so happy about the enthusiasm people have for #plugdata . Version 0.9.3 was just released, and it is getting TIGHT.
https://cdm.link/plugdata-cyclone-get-major-updates-free-stuff-for-patchers-and-end-users/
Recent updates for the visual programming environment plugdata (a wrapped for Pure Data) and the powerful object library cyclone are keeping the goodness going. Whether you're looking to do patching and development in a graphical tool or just enjoy the free stuff people are making with Pd, that's great news.
Hey, wanna hear a piece of mine on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio, remastered and DJed by @jrp ?
Great news! You can!
https://www.mixcloud.com/CashmereRadio/biesentales-102-small-fires-nourish-the-soil-04022026/
#modularsynth #plugdata #ObliquePalette
#westernmasselectronics
#eurorack
Hosted by jayrope, providing a podium again for some exceptional international Fediverse music artists, from realms of (future) pop, downbeat, live electronics, ambient and jazz. None of these words actually explains much with such original music. It's a contrasting multi-style set.Find the more driving part earlier, later on then it'll get more soundscape-ish, or even soundtrack-ish. A spare dime for a drink would love to be used instead for the artists played here, on Faircamp, Mirlo, Bandcamp or otherwise directly. Commercial streaming sites kill artists. Meet Biesentales on the Fediverse via https://hub.kliklak.net/@biesentales This show originally aired on Cashmere Radio. For more info, the tracklist or other episodes visit the show's archive at https://cashmereradio.com/shows/biesentales
Just made a recording I’m really proud of. I’m really enjoying being able to explore the analog inputs that the #ObliquePalette gives me in #plugdata .
I haven’t hooked them up to external modular gear yet. That’s next.
Still gotta optimize for sample rate, but it’s already fun to play with!
Shown: me playing it with #westernmasselectronics last week! Recording is coming, but the track I just did is basically the same as my set that night, but 3x the length and with a few refinements.
Today, I got past the mysterious technical problem I’ve been having with the #ObliquePalette and I’m back to building a creative technology out of and for the propagation of hope.
The Oblique Palette asserts that computers are for you to explore new regions of human creativity.
Livepatch in #plugdata. Control with weird controllers or
#eurorack modules.
Send out sound or CV from your patch to other modules and your mad science electronics.
Make it dance with the servo outputs.
Joshua A.C. Newman
staxl
Mads Kjeldgaard