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…
Neglecting
by Jeremy on December 23rd, 2009
I have been neglecting the internet lately. Poor, lonely internet. I’m sorry.
I’ve been asked: Am I ok? What have I been up to?
I’m awesome, of course.
My friends Phil and Stephen taught me to fly this summer. Here’s a sweet video of my first solo flight that James shot in August. And here’s a helmet cam video of my relaxing seventh flight from late September. Awesome.
I’ve also been making music. As usual, I have dozens of of bad ideas. Here are a few sketches: blues in a dance suckers3 (with darkmatter) hating your job heavy shit now we are getting somewhere one solo too long
I played bass for Elephant Train at a super fun show last weekend. Jessi Nicholson played a sweet set, too. So good. Looking forward to more rock and roll mayhem, that is for sure. Elephant Train has more shows in January and March.
Booby Trap and the Tiger-Skin Thursdays, are you ready?
Sunday
by Jeremy on August 6th, 2009
It’s been 11 years since Big Brother released the notorious Blank Years. The band went into live performance mode- went international, imploded into a costumed fireball of booze, drugs, tight pants, loose women and parking tickets. Several of the members quit smoking cigarettes. Others started. Most of them were kicked out of other bands. I hope someone has some video.
Throughout that reckless frenzy Big Brother was working on what is easily their best record to date. Recorded over a decade in Caledonia, Chicago, Hamilton, and Turkey Point, it’s a beautiful cross-section of crap.
Listen to Sunday is My Birthday and I don’t want to spend it in a mental hospital on the internet, for free, right now.
And thanks for all the birthday wishes.
Modnation
by Jeremy on June 6th, 2009
Will and James did a sweet job of presenting our game on Sony’s stage at e3 earlier this week. Here’s a video of their presentation. Awesome!
resume
by Jeremy on July 3rd, 2008
My new resume is online. You can find links and screenshots in my portfolio as well.
Atlantis
by Jeremy on June 24th, 2008
I have a signifigant Atlantis audio quality update for you today.
Hani didn’t like the clicking sound the routing engine was making in filters-per-voice mode. So, I fixed it. Now filters in filters-per-voice mode are always running, just like the global filter. You may notice a slightly different decay sound- this is the filter running. Before it would stop running when the envelope decayed, and any resonance would be cut (click) and continue on the next note (click).
This will consume more CPU power in polyphonic mode, so be sure to turn the number of voices down to the lowest useable level that you can get away with, or disable filters-per-voice mode entirely. You can adjust these settings in the config dialog.
I also optimized the monophonic and arpeggio modes, so they will recieve a performance upgrade in this release.
You can download Atlantis 0.9i here and read the manual at http://jeremyevers.com/atlantis
Atlantis
by Jeremy on June 1st, 2008
Guess what? I’ve got a new build of Atlantis. It’s got some new features, and maybe even some new bugs for you guys to find.
Here’s a list of what’s new:
- Repeatverb and Destroyverb shapers
Pan shaper- Browse button for Data Folder in config dialog
- Fixes for waveform save bugs in some hosts (Cubase 3.1.1, Phrazor)
- Manual updates
The Repeatverb and Destroyverb are nasty little reverberation algorithms that are based on something I wrote for Jim Redfern to use in one of those demo competitions where you make your program crazy small. Use them to add some wet depth and weirdness.
They do use a fair amount of CPU, so I suggest turning Filters-Per-Voice mode off in Atlantis if you are using it with the synthesizer. I also suggest sticking a lowpass filter behind them.
The Pan module is something that Yann suggested and is everything you would expect from a serious panning algorithm. It uses a sine-law, if you care.
Thanks to Rajko and Hani for reporting and testing the waveform save bugs.
You can download Atlantis 0.9g here and read the manual at http://jeremyevers.com/atlantis
Winamp
by Jeremy on March 10th, 2008
Not sure why I never mentioned this here before. Ages ago, I made the File Deleter v2 plugin for Winamp. I still get emails from excited users on a regular basis. Most requested feature: hotkeys. I have not worked on this in years, but it’s great to hear from people that enjoy it.
Buggun
by Jeremy on May 7th, 2007
I was tracking down material for my portfolio, and came across the Buggun design.
Buggun is a playable demo of the main mechanic for a puzzle game concept I had one day in my hammock.
You can download it here and see the design documents at http://jeremyevers.com/buggun
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