summer fun
by Jeremy on August 28th, 2010
it’s been a busy summer. I hiked the Juan de Fuca trail with a couple of friends, and got a lot of beach/board/bike/bbq time in. I even showed up to work a few times.
I just got back from a short tour with Elephant Train. It was ridiculous. Joe tied himself up in a tree while wearing a chicken suit, because he thought it would be a good place to sleep. Rope Swings, cliff diving and all manner of swimming. Beer. So many boobs. Skulls. Cigarettes. Booze. Hammocks. Stuff. Cops. Bubbles. Double-decker guitar mayhem. Smells. Oh thank goodness the smells are gone. Thanks to our friends on the road: Ari, Jimmy, Todd and Kim for making it extra awesome.
I gave in and got one of those new-fangled iPhones before the tour. The screen is amazing, and it definitely beats the snot out of the MintPad I was using for mobile doodling and composing. Fuck you, Windows CE. SunVox runs really nice on the iPhone, but the new music hotness is definitely NanoStudio. So rad. I sat in a hammock jamming out space jazz for hours last night. The workflow is definitely a step in the right direction. Two other music must-haves: BeBot - a great little synth, with some smart input design, and Baby Scratch is a great little turntable emulator, which I like scratching on at least as much as it’s fuller-featured big brother, Flare.
I also am infatuated with Brushes for doodling, especially with a stylus. It’s amazing, it’s like the MintPad memo, but much nicer. iThoughts is the best mindmapping tool I have found for planning, and Awesome Note is a great place to dump my thoughts. If only it worked with my google calendar, I would be the most organized man alive.
Anyone want to buy a MintPad?
annoying hackers
by Jeremy on June 28th, 2010
Hey friends. Some annoying hackers hacked my site. I manually removed their stupid trojan links. They changed the titles of all my posts and injected a secret link to some crappy site everywhere. Bastards. It’s better now, but I worry that it will happen again.
I’ve been real busy as usual. We got Mod Nation Racers out the door, and it came out awesome. I’m proud of it.
I went on an amazing trip to Peru and posted a bunch of photographs. It was such a great trip, I loved everything about it.
Been playing lots of live shows with Booby Trap and Elephant Train. Gotta make them asses wiggle…
Atlantis
by Jeremy on June 2nd, 2009
Holy Crap! 坂原 洋人, Tomasz Wąsik and Steve Faulkner pitched in enough for the company to purchase 2 pairs of red & blue 3d glasses, a Time Pilot flyer and an IBM t-shirt from ebay, increasing my nerd score by over 200 points. On top of Oliver Thomas’s 6 pack of Blue Buck, it was enough to motivate me to give you guys my favorite iteration of the synth yet.
So, here’s what’s new in Atlantis 0.9m:
- fixed repeatverb limiter distortion
- added phase offset slider
- works great with saw lfo
- updated file format
- waveforms now store path
- made ui skinnable
- and improved every module
- updated button mouse controls
- power: left click entire area
- context menu: right click
- selection: right drag or mousewheel
- wave window phase: left drag
- extened delay length 4x
- rescaled global volume
- fxp & fxb support
- single preset files (ass, asf)
- improved stability on startup (constructor race conditions and buffers)
- better anti-denormal code for phaser, filters, octaver, chorus and flanger.
- new FM preset waveforms with less harmonic content
- preset browsing
- mousewheel support for
- sliders
- selection buttons
- delay input
- help link button
- a way to name programs!
- left click for a dialog with patch name and comments
- added author and category fields to programs.
You can download Atlantis 0.9m here and an example skin here. Extract skins.zip into a your Data Folder/skins. Eg: My Documents\Atlantis\skins .
Time Pilot is the best single-player arcade game ever. My personal best is 386600 on the cocktail machine at work. I’ve seen Will Ho score 329000 and Rich Orth get over 263000. And that thing only has a 4-way stick.
Atlantis
by Jeremy on May 6th, 2009
In the last year, 4 people have tried to donate money to encourage Atlantis development.
Brian Velenchenko, 坂原 洋人,and Steve Faulkner have all tried to give me money, but due to my own internet incompetence, the transactions were incomplete. I do appreciate the gesture- until this morning I thought no one had bothered to press that little yellow button. You guys rock.
So that makes Oliver Thomas the first official Atlantis donor. I’ve spent his money on beer, which will help fuel the finishing touches on some long overdue GUI refactoring.
The next release is looking awesome. I don’t want to spoil it, but I think you are going to like it.
And thanks to my friend Nigel for that sweet photo of me popping an egyptian tindie up at Seymour last month. Rad times.
Atlantis
by Jeremy on April 24th, 2009
I had a pretty epic skateboard wreck last night, so here I am stuck on the couch dorking out on a beautiful sunny day while I heal up. I mean seriously dorking out, not the normal sickday good times. I set up a new SVN repository, and got the tablet compiling Atlantis. Tyler helped me get my write access back so I could update the site. Thanks Ty!
Last weekend I started cleaning up some GUI code in Atlantis to prepare for the next major upgrades. While I was at it, I made some pretty nice improvements:
- Waveform windows don’t scroll. This makes it much easier to see what is going on.
- Moved the shaper so it is not sandwiched between two filters.
- Made the routing diagrams show how f3 feeds back into the delay.
- Made the envelope rulers look better.
- Added current position needles to the LFOs and envelopes.
- Made everything look a bit nicer.
- Optimized the whole thing so that it updates the graphics much faster.
So now that I can upload things again, I have posted a new Atlantis for you. You can grab it here.
Patch management upgrades are still coming, I promise…