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Thinking about DAW plugin ui again

published Thu Jun 19 2025 03:33:15 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

ok so

for the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new framework for writing daw plugins. you know, VSTs. audio units

well actually, this framework targets the relatively new CLAP standard and takes advantage of existing wrappers to turn that into VST/AU, but same diff :) here it is!

A small OS window with a few sliders stacked on top of each other. no explanations of the sliders are provided, they're just labeled things like "rise", "fall", and "portamento"

yeah. that’s default imgui. that’s not quite how i want my plugins to look.

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#synth diy #KitsBlips

how to trick people into thinking you're good at cooking

published Thu Mar 27 2025 23:48:15 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

write down the recipes you like and regularly use!

a list of recipes with tags describing them. eg "Greek chicken salad. meal, easy." "NY Cheesecake, sweet little treat"

yep. that simple and stupid. but it's helped a lot in the very very common situation of "well what do i want to eat"

when i need to go grocery shopping this list is usually all i need to pick what to buy: pick a meal (or a few meals that share ingredients) from the list, and that'll form the basis I build around. all you really need is that initial push

If it's a recipe I found online, I'll usually include links to it, largely because the process of "picking" a recipe from google search results has gotten harder and harder over time. but some of these are literally just the name of the food, no contents. I know what goes in a hamburger, yeah? i just need reminding to make one on occasion.

also maintaining the list myself means I can put the ingredients first and not the massive intro nearly every online recipe has :p

The particular note-taking software this is in is called Notion, I can't fully recommend it but for structured, spreadsheet data like this that i want to filter and reorganize regularly, I haven't found a replacement. Obsidian is close, and there's nothing wrong with using a normal google spreadsheet. but really it doesn't matter, so long as you're curating your own personal list.

#irl #small posts #i wrote this because it's late out and i felt bad about not blogging more

KB01 - KitsMix

published Fri Jan 31 2025 03:00:52 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

A eurorack module, titled simply "Prototype". It has 5 staggered rows of three knobs, and a bunch of jacks at the very top.

Hiiii it's my first module! or at least, my first PCB module that I designed myself. As the name implies, it's a mixer! It's designed as an end-of-chain mixer, so it's got 5 mono input channels, 1 stereo out channel (or two mono out channels, i guess), and one aux channel. It's DC-coupled and non-inverting, so you can use it for CV signals if you want.

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#modular synth #synth diy #KitsBlips

Pitch detection!

published Tue Dec 10 2024 00:46:12 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

auuugh im very tired! but I'm definitely going to forget all this stuff I just learned unless i write it down somewhere. I might take this down and make a more "polished" version later. but. tldr:

I've ported the YIN pitch detection algorithm to my DSP library! I've only minimally unit tested it but it should be usable any place you have access to C++11, including but not limited to daisy microcontrollers and vcv rack. this is off the back of a looot of googling and learning new things about pitch detection, which is really hard it turns out :v

anyways. This is my first pass, maybe one of the many many other approaches I'll like better. so I figured I'd write down what they are and my initial impressions.

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new rss feed; art/sonaposting

published Tue Nov 26 2024 07:49:33 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

jerma, doing the 'LOOK AT ME' gesture. what gesture is that? impossible to say

you can look at me over here now

This is mostly going to be comm work of my sonas! but if I ever write something or make something myself that I think is related i think it'll go there instead of here, too.

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