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freeform jam with brenchr

bider - 1 -- [60:56]
bider - 2 -- [9:41]

freeform jam with brenchr

freeform jam with brenkev

tangoofballs-work

brenchrnewt - 1 -- [53:10]
brenchrnewt - 2 -- [43:32]

freeform jam with bidercraigstewart

freeform jam with brenchr

So we had an apparent power outage where this box is the other night, and since then shit's been wonky.. either someone is DoSing us, or something about the first reboot in 4 months seems to have made this box lose network connectivity. ugh. Either way, it's completely balls.

So tired of coming in to restart it...

:wq

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freeform jam with bidernewtchrcole

oopssupermonkeyball

chrnewt - 1 -- [28:27]
chrnewt - 2 -- [63:51]

freeform jam with brennewt

brenchr - 1 -- [3:20]
brenchr - 2 -- [85:24]

brenchr - 1 -- [74:51]
brenchr - 2 -- [31:34]

foolingaround
sadsong

freeform jam with brenchrconcertforparents

I guess I let a month go by without updating. I've just been having a good time, what with all of the typing.. I'm still excited about REAPER, so shit's good.

I've been writing FX plug-ins for REAPER lately, too.. ReaGate is nearly done, ReaComp is almost working, ReaFir (FFT EQ) is nearly done, and ReaVerb is underway. ReaVerb will be a convolution based reverb, and will offer support for loading of impulses from files, as well as generating impulses from parameters, and combining and modifying any of those impulses.. I'm thinking of it like an AVS for convolution..

We (Christophe and I) decided that our goal for 1.0 release is sometime in August, which shouldn't be too hard to hit-- lots of work, but relatively straightforward. There are a few things that need to be done that I'm not quite sure how they will get done, but I'm confident enough that we'll figure it out...

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freeform jam with brenchrjonnewtbidermikewen

freeform jam with brenchr

bditty

freeform jam with brenewtchr

freeform jam with brenchr
freeform jam with brenchrfrancisjosh

freeform jam with brenchr

biderman - 1 -- [37:29]
biderman - 2 -- [24:39]

brennewtkevcole - 1 -- [11:00]
brennewtkevcole - 2 -- [73:43]
freeform jam with newtonkevin

Can I just reiterate (really quick before I go to bed) how terrible the DXi and VSTi SDKs are? They make it impossible for people to write solid hosts, and make for tons of lousy plugins that don't handle any host that isn't PERFECT. All they need is better documentation and developer discussion (so developers of hosts can know what plug-ins use to do things, and developers of plug-ins can know what hosts are doing). For example, after one email from the developer of jamstix, I got it working in REAPER. If only the FL Studio devs would mail me (who am I kidding, but I'd love to be proven wrong)...

Since we're still waiting to hear back from Propellerheads on the Rewire SDK, we may just have to do something of our own to add rewire-like functionality. Perhaps we can call it ReaRoute, and perhaps it will work with tons of other software, without them having to do a thing. Mmmmm. Lots of code to write.

It just pisses me off to no end how all of these audio software companies don't care about their users. They care about them, but keeping them just happy enough to get some of their money. Fuck that.

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freeform jam with chr

pointlesspooonyourhands

freeform jam with brenbidercraig

...that the rain stopped.

I think I need a few more days of not coding. Must... regenerate.. brain...

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freeform jam with brenewtbider
cheapodrumditty

brenchr - 1 -- [64:10]
brenchr - 2 -- [60:07]
brenchr - 3 -- [25:23]

freeform jam with biderkevin
odetomack

freeform jam with brenchr
newdoodie

...where to begin. Tom got married last weekend. Was one hell of a fun weekend. I was a bit worried it would be too uncomfortable, out among the orange trees, but the weather turned out great, Brennan and Isabelle brought an RV, and we all had a good time (and punched oranges).

Got to fly the little RC heli out there too, which was fun.. so when I got back I finally installed the upgraded symmetrical rotors, new motor and heatsinks, and LiPO battery and voltage alarm. Flew it inside today, though didnt do anything fancy since I'm not that good yet.

I heard back from Mackie, with a response that stupified and angered me. They only license documentation for the MCU under NDA to select companies (as in, not us). They don't seem to care about their customers, just their own (less than obvious to me) interests. I can only hope I don't get the same nonsense from Propellerheads, because I think people using REAPER will want Rewire more than full MCU support anyway (REAPER already supports the MCU somewhat, but without doing a lot more research it can't do all the fancy things that the MCU is capable of). Sigh. The pain of trying to enter a market that is very established and saturated. But I'm only mildly deterred. If Propellerheads *does* dick me around, I will do one of two things-- either go to Stockholm and try to convince them with beer (though don't get any ideas, guys), or just do what I've been meaning to for a while, and port JACK to Windows.

Speaking of Windows, after BootCamp was released, Steve convinced me to get (at a discount at least) a MacBook Pro. So I did. For running OS X it's pretty good, but as a Windows XP laptop it really kinda sucks. There's a few driver issues that need fixing (no backlit keyboard in windows, sound always goes out speakers, using the built in camera causes BSoD, etc), but the big hardware issue is that the Mac keyboard is lacking keys. Specifically: insert and backspace(delete). I did find some good 3rd party utility that does help a lot allows all sorts of remapping, and enabled the mac's FN key. And finally, the thing gets HOT. I guess that's to be expected with 2x 2ghz cores, but still. I got spoiled by my little Sony's 1ghz P-M that runs nice and cool (and granted, slow).

Oh yes, and southpark this week was SO awesome.

Recordings:

notthefirsttimealone

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freeform jam with robnewton

kevinbrennan - 1 -- [29:59]
kevinbrennan - 2 -- [53:47]

...while the MSO (think LSB/MSB) is out of town. As it has been at least a couple of weeks since an update I suppose I shall give updates.

Umm, lots of work on reaper done, lots more to do. Added pitch shifting/timestretch, using SoundTouch, which makes it very nearly done, on a purely feature-based scale, the main other thing needed being MIDI editing.

I went to LA to meet with one of REAPER's biggest evangelists, where it was used in a relatively well known studio:

(to make music which, while I didn't like, I am secretly hoping for huge commercial success, to give REAPER that extra bit of legitimacy. note: the laptop was just being used as a remote display to a beefy dual opteron on the floor. the reason it is there is that while the speakers in the room were great, the studios, for whatever reasons, like having the computers in places you can't hear the speakers. duh.)

When I added SMP support to REAPER I discovered the the Waves plug-ins (at least version 5) have real issue with running separate instances on multiple processors simultaneously. All of the other plug-ins I've tried work great, but when running with Waves on an SMP system, if two instances end up processing at the same time, BOOM, it crashes. I even narrowed it down to what the code looked like (it was a function that seemed to just convert double to float), and sent them an email asking to see if they had any ideas or if they would fix. That was 10 days ago or so, and they haven't responded. I ended up just detecting "Waves" and doing a critical section around that, as a hack. LAME.

Which brings me to my next bitchpoint. People expect support for software they pay for, yet software people pay thousands of dollars for, they get crappy ass support. WTF?

Spent some time debugging problems relating to some systems (some versions of MSVCRT?) enabling floating point exceptions that are supposed to be off by default. So now I turn a lot of them on when debugging, and off on release builds. Ugh.

Have a request in to Mackie to get the real MCU documentation so I can add full support for it, waiting (though it hasnt been THAT long).

Have a request in to Propellerheads for the Rewire SDK. Been a week or two, still waiting.

anyway, now to go see why SoundTouch has to require MSVCP60.dll, assuming it is STL or something. (update: yep, updated in .931, bla bla bla)

Recordings:

brenbidernewtonmayor - 1 -- [11:55]
brenbidernewtonmayor - 2 -- [113:38]
brenbidernewtonmayor - 3 -- [72:21]

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freeform jam with brenchr

brenchr - 1 -- [6:48]
brenchr - 2 -- [38:21]

mandolinditty

freeform jam with bidercraig

So I managed to hack SMP support into reaper today. Turns out the initial getting-of-it-working was easier than I once feared, since I had a nice track buffering system already built for the send system. Now the tedious part, making everything work as expected, I just know there are going to be tons of very small things off that will make everybody very unhappy at some point or another. I could go off on a rant on how you give people millions of bits, and if only one bit is wrong...

I've been busy as of late, moving my office/workshop to a new place here in SF, but as it settles down I think I'll be getting back into the groove more (though in all honesty I do seem to end up programming way more than is probably good for me).

At this point I'm still excited about reaper, though I am also getting a touch burnt out. We're coming up on 4 months of work! Let's see, aside from fixing tons of crap, the real things left for 1.0 are midi editing and event pitch/stretch. mmmm. How long will it take? Another 3 months? MIDI editing is a problem I've only gotten far enough in thinking about to fear it, since a good MIDI editor is going to be a very extensive bit of design...

Before I go, here's an mp3 that I just rendered, that was me piling on as many effects as possible, to test how great SMP is. What was particularly enjoyable is that I went to render it to disk (which is still single-threaded), and it went at 0.7x realtime. Yay, this makes me REALLY love my Athlon64x2.

Recordings:

freeform jam with brenchr

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freeform jam with brenchr

I don't know what I did to deserve it, but somehow I ended up having an awesome group of friends. Thanks guys for everything. And by everything, I mean the handjobs.

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freeform jam with bangshmang

freeform jam with brenchr

as a followup to my last post, the asynchronous file reading code was working in such a way that it worked, but ended up reading each block approximately 1.5x. Hugely wasteful. Spent all day figuring out why, and it was sooo worth it. yay. That made v0.77, now for a bunch of little tweaks for tomorrows 0.78. I hope my users are patient, but I know having constant updates helps keep people happy. at least the people who like that. I guess some people want to just have one version that works and never have to upgrade. But hell, this is v0.77, I guess that comes later...

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freeform jam with newtbid

must code.

just kidding, it's been long enough. REAPER's been envolving so steadily it amazes me. Gradually mistakes (well, decisions, not really mistakes) I made get massaged out, and replaced by new code that seems to work better. A nice class I wrote that I should have a long time ago is a generic file reader class, that can use win32 overlapped I/O if supported (which seems to be necessary when moving a lot of data from lots of files on disk).. Having that will be useful in the future. But another good time was realizing a good way of doing something like the track reordering, and getting to throw out (comfortably, thank you version control) a bunch of code that was a pain, and replace it with a nice simple bit of code that works much better. anyway.

At my release rate (a version a day or so, I will run out of 0.xx version numbers before 1.0 is really ready. So maybe when I get to 0.9 I will do 0.9.0 and so on. My list of things to do is quite large, but then again I need to realize that 1.0 is just 1.0, and there will always be more to do. But I'm not in a terrible rush, anyway.

...now I'm tempted to write a shoutcast output plug-in for reaper, mmm....

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freeform jam with newtbider

...so there was some down time, mail lost, all that. but it's on a connection an order of magnitude faster, yay.

so tired I am. too much running around with my head cut off.

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I woke up early this morning, after Allison left with her stack of cake, due to the PG&E guy reading the meter. Couldn't fall back asleep, but I didn't try too much. So today will be a long day, of which I suppose I don't have enough.

I did some arrangment/editing of this song last night with REAPER (Dave Wiener sent me those amazing vocals to work with). It really worked well. It's exceeding my expectations as far as what it can do. There's still so much to do, though. So so much. I'd say 1.0 in june would be plenty of time, though. if I don't get too tired.

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freeform jam with brenchr

I've been programming too much, neglecting other things (and a particular person and cat as well), so now that REAPER v0.52 seems stable enough, I'm going to take a few days off to take care of those things as well as think about the best way to do things that need to be done with REAPER. Phew, that was a long sentence. So it's not really taking days off, anyway, it's really just "not programming" for a few. we'll see how long that lasts.

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... but I posted REAPER 0.50, which has some pretty awesome auxiliary send functionality, as well as hardware output support, that I dig. and there's still so much to do! sigh. the todo list grows faster than I can keep up.

It will be interesting to see Acid 6.0. Before I started writing REAPER I wished Acid did multitrack recording well. But now it's too late, I'm committed to this. It's been 9 weeks. I'm so tired. But happy.

I ordered a real Mackie Control Universal, so I can support it. REAPER works great on my BFC2k in MCU mode, but apparently a real MCU doesn't like it. lame.

Everybody who has been sending in suggestions has been so helpful. It's really a lot like the old Winamp days, except people are REALLY passionate about what they want, which is even better. I just have to sort through it and find the best ways of pleasing myself (that sounds naughty) and others equally.

At any rate, REAPER v1.0 seems so far away now, but the prospect of making literally HUNDREDS of dollars, ~$20 at a time, seems so exciting. That's a lot of burritos. Why did I say I'd go to 1.0 before going shareware?

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freeform jam with brenbidercolekevincraigmikecurtis

So the control surface support for the Behringer BCF2000 was easy to do, now I'm doing modes for HUI and Mackie Control (using the BCF2k in emulation modes for it for testing).. if anybody has any documentation for HUI/Mackie MIDI protocols it would be helpful, for now I get to do lots of sniffing of the protocols and whatnot, which is less than ideal...

In general it works really well, and I'm very impressed with the quality of the $200 BCF. If any other manufacturers want to send me units, it would help too, haha.

I'll probably post 0.45 by monday or so which will have support for surfaces.. and maybe a few other things (depending on how much time I make to do them).. ogg (and maybe lame) encoding is a big one I'm planning on doing soon. Does lame_enc.dll support multiple simultaneous encodes yet? last I checked it did internally, though the bladeenc api didn't support it...

The biggest thing I'm planning now, though, and almost have figured out, is the automation recording, so you can use sliders and/or control surfaces to record envelopes. The code for this will be relatively straightforward, the UI for how to present it in a sensible way is the most difficult, I think. That and I gotta do DX/VST/JS parameter envelopes, too.

Anyway. Brennan and I saw that crazy (in an amazingly good way) 11 string bass guy at Guitar Center last night. I am still totally in awe.

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