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Sorting through old videos and just remembered that the tidy little sub-patch I opened by accident was actually how all of this started, December 2024 ...so guess this marks a year of writing music exclusively in Metasounds... huh. Maybe time to start tidying up again.

The first review of #Arrhenius is in! The critics are unanimous.

jesseharlin.itch.io/arrhenius

Close brush with 2 hot stars millions of years ago left a mark just beyond our solar system Roughly 4.5 million years ago, two stars known as Epsilon and Beta Canis Majoris flew past Earth's sun at a distance of about 30 to 35 light-years. In the

Two dog stars run past the sun, splashing some mud along the way: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1...

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Similar for me but with sampled noise and variable probability for looping the register or randomization (which created natural, incremented evolution).

YouTube video by John L Rice Another brief taste of The Matrix Algorithmic Composer

Here's a modern implementation of the Triadex Muse: www.youtube.com/shorts/n2YIG...

Triadex Muse - Wikipedia

Another really cool implementation is a Triadex Muse:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triadex...

Which allows the musician to map the register to a musical interval and traverse a scale to generate a procedural sequence.

In @skeurid.bsky.social's implementation, all the registers are exposed, so you get a polyphonic cycle.

YouTube video by Sound + Voltage Turing 201: Turing Machine Explained! (More than you ever needed to know...)

Shift registers are really great for creating procedural sequences. We didn't end up making an official node because random streams and some of the regular nodes can get you very similar results.

Music Thing Modular's 'Turing Machine' is a popular implementation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=va2X...

I captured some nice recordings on the peninsula of wave breaks standing on one of those rock formations as the tide came in; along with some nice details from the splash getting caught in little tide pools and draining back out into the ocean.

The sound of the wash rinsing through the pebbles is cool!

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio Tech Audio Chat Ep25 We Have Punctured Through the CPU Barrier

This MetaSound escaped reality on tonight's Tech Audio Chat featuring impressive MetaSound graphs by @skeurid.bsky.social!

youtube.com/shorts/HjXGw...

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio Tech Audio Chat Episode 25: Modularity

Hey folks, join us live in a couple hours with another music focused Tech Audio Chat featuring @ebuch.bsky.social @skeurid.bsky.social @tapes.club and maybe even @minuskelvin.bsky.social!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E29i...

This seems obvious but don't use GenAI for any task in which you wish to retain or gain proficiency.

That friction you feel when you do the work is you maintaining or improving your ability to do that work.

Without that exercise you will atrophy.

Young creators should steer clear.

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It is in fact 299 pieces.

A science-fiction novel with a surprising number of turn-of-the-21-st-century cultural references.

Another cool album by @skeurid.bsky.social! Second album produced entirely in Unreal!

Cover art. Nine images of busy metasound audio graphs, each representing a procedurally generated audio track in an album.

New album of #MetaSounds dropping soon…

Diagram showing the UE Audio source render gain staging withe the Post-Effect Send before the Distance Attenuation stage rather than after it as was previously described.

Hey folks, attached is a corrected diagram of the UE Audio source render gain staging. The correction will more accurately show the Post-Effect Bus Send as preceding the Attenuation process rather than afterward.

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio Tech Audio Chat Episode 24: Thinking About Music

Hey fam,

Tomorrow we'll be hanging out with David Weaver and Brian Michael Fuller! Join us as we hang out and chat about music system design!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxEW...

#UE5 #Audio

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"Grassroots" is pretty solid, though.

Thanks for checking it out, I hope it’s useful!

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio Unreal Audio Essentials (Abridged)

Hey folks,

I rerecorded my 2024 GameSoundCon talk "Unreal Audio Essentials (Abridged)" as a 2hr off-the-cuff version.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=swS6...

#UnrealAudio #Essentials #Keyword

😅 I could barely do one week of Noisevember!

ARRHENIUS | An Icecore Roleplaying Game by Dungeonteller A Far-Future Ice Age TTRPG Set in the Year 100,000

I'm certainly not complaining, but somehow #Arrhenius ended up on the "Popular" page for physical games on itch. For the last few months, I've been lucky if I get 4 or 5 views a day.

Today there have been over 60. !!! So, I dunno whom to thank, but "Thanks, whomever"

jesseharlin.itch.io/arrhenius