Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
Think about the way you think. Think about that thought, and this one. Did you think using words? Did you see the words? Sound them out mentally? If someone asked you describe yourself, you would probably think of a series of adjectives (at least if you’re an English speaker). We think via language, spoken or [...]
Be Careful With your Redis BitSets and Java
Fast, easy, realtime metrics using Redis Bitmaps A while back a popular article hit Hacker News. Written by the guys over at Spool, it contained a slick methodology for storing metrics such as user logins per day, song plays by user, etc using using Redis BitSets. How about a basic example. When a user logs [...]
GOLSequencer, HarmonicTable, and MidiReference on GitHub
With just a little trepidation I have checked in the code for all of my free software goodies into GitHub. I was getting several requests to provide access to the source for several of my old projects, so rather than emailing code around on a case by case basis, I have simply checked everything in [...]
RWMidi and Pitch Bend: Another Adventure in Social Coding
In my previous post, I discovered that the RWMidi library was available via GitHub, leaving it open to the possibility of forking and making my sync and pulse resolution changes public. Proving that Jung and Sting were on to something, while making these changes I received an e-mail from a user struggling with RWMidi: I’m [...]
RWMidi, GMS, and GOL Sequencer: Adventures in Social Coding
Many moons ago, I created a little tool called the GOL Sequencer Bank. You can read more about it here, and here. In order to create the tool, I used RWMidi, a Java/Processing library created by Manuel Odendahl of Ruin&Wesen. While creating the sequencer bank, I discovered that the RWMidi library had no support for [...]
Harmonic Table 0.5: Midi Input & Lit Keys
While I thought the GOL Sequencer Bank would get the bulk of my attention this Winter, it turns out I’m getting far more requests to update to the Harmonic Table controller. Among them were Midi Input capabilities, buttons lighting up, and some bug fixes here and there. All that completed, I give you Harmonic Table [...]
Converting 24PPQ Midi Sync in Java/Processing
I would be the first person to say that for the most part, MIDI is perfectly acceptable as an interface between musical devices, and has survived for as long as it has because of how dead simple it is. MIDI is still plenty fast, and in terms of interoperability, has yet to be bested. However [...]
HarmonicTable 0.3
Bit slow these days with work and other stuff to get around to some of the changes I’m been meaning to make to these projects, but here is a quick 0.3 stab. I had more changes planned for this release, along with some stuff for playing back patterns and keyboard playback support, but for now [...]
Game of Life Sequencer Bank Beta
I finished up a bunch of changes to the Game of Life Sequencer Bank. Here is a brief overview: UI Overhaul – Rather than trying to stuff all the sequencers into 1 window, I gave them each their own tab. So now you have 6 tabs across the top with an independent screen for each [...]
Java MidiReference 1.0
Several months ago I started working on a series of classes to make my life easier when programming for music. I’d started several projects and realized that trying to refer back and forth between MIDI Numbers and Notation by hand was tedious, so I created a library of functions to do it all for me. [...]
