20100331 Breakpoint demolog, days 56-57: wrapping up

I managed to make a bit of sense out of the little mess my song was initially. It’s still rather unconventional, and it happened to me that the first time you listen to it, it sounds very weird. The second time you begin to like its oddities, the third time you love them. And so [...]

20100330 Breakpoint demolog, days 51-55: fixing framework bugs, and composing a song too

Thanks to a series of very fortunate findings, I happened to fix the two bugs that made my synths sound horrible when running on top of iq’s 64k framework, and even worse, in Release mode. There were two problems, firstly with the noise functions and second with the rounding to integer functions. The framework has [...]

20100325 Breakpoint demolog, days 38-50: change of plans

I’m quite sure most of you might have thought that I had either a) silently abandoned my goal or that b) I was just too busy to post here. I can tell you the answer is b) :-D We went to Spain for a few days (hence the plane meditation title of a previous post) [...]

20100312 Breakpoint demolog, day 37: device automation goodness

Today’s been quite productive and I feel I have implemented the remaining “bare minimum” feature I [realistically] wanted to achieve for this demo: pattern automation! So now I can draw curves for any parameter in my synth, in any pattern, with them associated to an instance of Renoise’s Automation Device, and they will be replayed [...]

20100311 Breakpoint demolog, day 36: plane meditation

I haven’t had much time for coding today, but I have been reconsidering what I started yesterday and noticed there were a couple of errors in my approach. I wrote them down; will work on them tomorrow…