alex evans

yeah :(

if there was a movement or a sort of 'seal' of continuity' where a game guaruntees to opensource its server components. the tech barrier would be to provide open equivalents to identity, achievements, even dlc ownership. but it could be done, ig

such wise words! i definitely didnt give it enough thought at the time :( i went with the prevailing wind, which was silly. alas. but the community preservation efforts seem pretty cool. i wonder tho, in future...

no :) that would be cool, but no :) that was a vic :) who later worked for many years on 'live for speed', an awesome sim game

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i uncharacteristically took a trip down memory lane for this (very geeky, sorry) interview about little big planet 1 - thanks to Ayee and Pear for pestering me until i gave in, and illustrating the edit so thoughtfully! youtu.be/zQTZDnR9AbQ?...

it's been an absolute joy interacting with him and the other people who have been helping beta test on the plinkysynth discord, and I just wanted to shout my thanks into the internetvoid, it's awesome and reassuring and heartwarming to have such people around. thanks RJ & plinkydiscord!

a person called RJ has shown up recently on the plinky discord and added himself to the growing line of people who have really meaningfully contributed to the instrument. he's been beavering away improving the MIDI implementation, & rewrote chunks of the sequencer to be way less... buggy. thanks RJ

i hadnt thought of going with a kind of draw-bar organ vibe! love it I did try microtonal tuning per note (since num sliders > num keys, LOL) and that was super fun. but the synth i have on here is really really rough (just a single pin PWM output, as I never planned for audio out....)

Nachthorn, by Maxime Denuc 8 track album

love this album - maximedenuc.bandcamp.com/album/nachth... - via @mylarmelodies.bsky.social latest Why we Bleep padcast with @tomwhitwell.bsky.social - in which Maxime plugs crazy max-msp midi patches into... a large organ in Dusseldorf. mesmeric!

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i love everything about this youtube channel. musical, funny, informative, unusual, lofi... incredible gold youtube.com/@laurisdiych...

yeah i just bought a pack of 20, as it happens! :)

(my app was different to yours; so ymmv; i was building 'vj' type stuff. but this was 20 years ago lol, holy crap im old)

:) its a fun space where small tweaks not big ideas made the difference for me. i found myself with these patterns of multiply/add type chains, and just folding into the wire was a huge win. i also added low pass filter on wires, so you can temporally smooth any signal as it flows thru. have fun!

grease pencil for commenting - scribble & diagram all around the nodes, artfully. was massive win, especially with slider nodes and so on.

i think the answer to your og question depends on the type of coding you want to do visually. for me, it was the 'messy, iterate fast, visual tweaks, art not science' so strong typing would have sucked. oh, on surface ui elements (eg sliders, xy pads, color) to allow building custom interactions

audio specific, but i added syntax to read a value (on a port or wire) at any time in the past (buffers allocated on demand). so you can write x@3 to mean 'x 3 quarter notes ago'. domain specific shorthand & millions of tiny ui affordances / viz for quick debugging was the diff between usable & not

ive found joy in making the wires smart. polymorphic ports, plus auto sum if jamming multiple in. allow arbitrary expression *on the wires* with ui for range remapping (in range -> out range) with optional clipping. add lots of viz whats going on, eg at ports.

there is a large not key control plinky in the works fwiw :)

its a fatar tp/9s - i dont think hammer action but it feels nice-for-a-synth i guess! the hardware is very simple but their datasheet is atrocious (lots of omissions). but i muddled through to a conclusion:)

www.instagram.com/reel/DEkPN5S... - quick video. i do love dedicated octave controls

i finished it! had to reprint the case to correct a lack of cable access & a missing lip over the back of the keys but - it all works! 'design for manufacture' is very questionable but hey i know what not to do now :)

yup!

stay tuned! the sliders are on order from @thonksynth.bsky.social and the keybed is stuck in some brexit dhl hell in barcelona, but assuming that sorts itself out... ill be back!

and then today this happened. and it all works (one flipped sot23 bodge later).

the problem with the modern world of 3d printers and cheap assembly services is... this happens (printed in 3 interlocking pieces, held together by the keybed and slider boards)

and so here we are, with a 40 slider mega beast. its just a virtual thing at this point, but just look at it! i want it

but, and bear with me, have you heard of copy paste? its so easy! and hey, the jlcpcb moq is 5.... wait wait ctrl+c vvvv OOPS

however, i started learning fusion to make the case, and... well.... SURELY some sliders would be fun. i love my @tomwhitwell.bsky.social mu8, so i whipped up an 8 fader i2c adc/led driver board . thus, the zacslider was born

happy new year! in between mince pies i decided to make a midi keyboard controller, with a fatar keybed, rp2040, small display and 2 encoders... the project was suggested by my friend zac. this the zacboard was born

its there to mess with you. i swear