Ken Bogdanowicz

Working on some new tricks for SpaceBlender

It’s that time of year in Vermont where every nice day feels like it could be our last for a while. Also have a DSP algorithmic brain-worm that’s hard to let go of, so trying for multi-objective optimization.

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

Kimmel is up on YouTube

The donut theory of musical design. From the awesome keynote talk by @apmcpherson.bsky.social

Nigella's daily recipe posts are such a sweet relief from watching the decline of western civilization.

Always wondered what life would be like in Russia. Seems like we’re on the road to find out.

I'm booking a trip to the Vineyard just for the pierogi.

YouTube video by Global Water 2020 Seinfeld Handwashing and Pizza Clip

Just finished two amazing slices at this Brooklyn pizza shop and I hear the guy in the kitchen say “my stomach’s not doing too good” and all I could think of was this Seinfeld episode. youtu.be/mU9o4s5nTa0?...

Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️

Doing a little automation stress-testing with 6 SpaceBlenders in EffectRack on my maxed out M3 Max.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Iran Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

Fight for LGBTQIA+ Rights - Soundtoys On June 25 & 26, every purchase is a donation. 100% of all sales on soundtoys.com will be donated to Lambda Legal

I'm grateful to all who help to make these campaigns happen, and I hope that we can help to move the needle towards compassion and justice.
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We've finally decided enough's enough and it's time we continue to stand up for the causes that we believe in and provide, if nothing else, moral support for the most vulnerable parts of our community that are bearing the brunt of the current repressive politics.

These past few years we've see no lack of causes to support. But to be honest, at times the blowback has become daunting, disheartening and demoralizing (see for example, Gaza). Many other companies have similarly dialed back their advocacy in the face of the current climate.

We've since done this many, many times for variety of natural and manmade disasters.

Our conclusion was that the only ethical way to do this was for the giving to be 100%. We didn't make it in time to help for the Haiti disaster, but we managed to pull something together later that year for Deep Water Horizon's ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Way back in 2010 when Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, I wanted to find a way to help. I had some very long and intense conversations with a dear friend about the ethics of corporate fundraising, and how it was often a veneer for just SELLING MORE STUFF.

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

YouTube video by Parks and Recreation Tribute to Jonathan Joss: Our Favourite Moments of Chief Ken Hotate | Parks and Recreation

The “Parks and Recreation” YouTube channel has posted a tribute to Jonathan Joss. youtu.be/NFyYGV3MRoE?...

to go out of sync. And that's what causes the stereo widening effect. Since some people actually enjoy that, I'm thinking we ought to add a switch to optionally force tight phase sync. Anyway, thanks for the reminder about this. I'll make sure it's on our to-do list for a Little AlterBoy update.

Now pitch shifters are always modulating time/phase to make the pitch change magic happen. How the time and phase modulate is very signal dependant and because with some DAWs we're seeing a mono signal as a stereo track with the same signal for L/R, the slightest error can cause the two channels...

It's related to how some (most?) DAWs like Live handle mono signals. Unlike Pro Tools, which has true mono tracks, Live (and others) treat everything as a stereo track, so all the plug-in sees is a pair of audio inputs, which may or may not be identical.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

a little too relatable…

Concentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash Center Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...

Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.

One of the tiny great things about traveling in Europe is that most people know how to say my name. Assuming I’m from Poland is new though…

I understand why it's like this, but I will never forgive the web for shifting to a form where the two paragraphs of information I need only exist as a ten-minute video.

I love the look of this!

This is my new DJ name.