Airwindows

Covered an area of wall with records in a sort of shrine or vision board. They are all real records of significance with the vinyl in 'em but which I have replaced with undamaged ones to measure. Since I cannot part with the ones I had all my life, I'll look at 'em, knowing I have also got nicer :)

K, so I can't find a second copy of Fragile, though I'd swear I got one at some point. So, I believe I found the Blues For Allah I had as a kid, and put that up instead. Now THOSE are some memories, and more personal than the ZZ Top would be. Done <3 now time for dinner. Tomorrow, pluginstream :)

Covered an area of wall with records in a sort of shrine or vision board. They are all real records of significance with the vinyl in 'em but which I have replaced with undamaged ones to measure. Since I cannot part with the ones I had all my life, I'll look at 'em, knowing I have also got nicer :)

Then, one of the 'cannot give up' discs, my copy of Larks' Tongues In Aspic'. I found a copy that was quieter and has a funny misprint, but my old copy represented THE most astonishing music it was possible to make. (should put up a Fragile in place of the ZZ Top really: Bill Bruford means so much)

Covered an area of wall with records in a sort of shrine or vision board. They are all real records of significance with the vinyl in 'em but which I have replaced with undamaged ones to measure. Since I cannot part with the ones I had all my life, I'll look at 'em, knowing I have also got nicer :)

After that, I stuck a spare copy of Tres Hombres, just because Waitin/Jesus and La Grange are so cool. Also because literally all the old London copies are so DARK and yet that is completely fine. Just because it's dark doesn't make it a bad mix.

Covered an area of wall with records in a sort of shrine or vision board. They are all real records of significance with the vinyl in 'em but which I have replaced with undamaged ones to measure. Since I cannot part with the ones I had all my life, I'll look at 'em, knowing I have also got nicer :)

The next row (they're two wide) is a spare copy of the first Led Zeppelin. Represents inventing a whole, huge-scale sound with that instrumentation, there is so much to be learned from the production of old Zeppelin. Not as much personal value there, but a spare legit 1969 record.

Covered an area of wall with records in a sort of shrine or vision board. They are all real records of significance with the vinyl in 'em but which I have replaced with undamaged ones to measure. Since I cannot part with the ones I had all my life, I'll look at 'em, knowing I have also got nicer :)

I have them in order of release (roughly) so they're also a history. First one: Disraeli Gears. I've just got a NICE replacement with incredibly unfaded cover and it's insane, but I've had an old worn copy forever. Represents guitar music beginning to step out post-skiffle and post-blues.

One of those deathmarch unreasonably tough days. You're getting Echojam if it kills me, because it is AWESOME. Four hours of trying to demonstrate that with a live guitar plugged into my video-making setup failed utterly AND I found a bug in Echojam, patch 5 of 17, on top of the video disasters.

Couple hours later, I'm finishing up all the plugin distribution parts, leaving the video making for last. If the video is all derped up that's fine, but I'd like to have the actual plugins be fully functioning and without problems, and it looks like I got there <3

One of those deathmarch unreasonably tough days. You're getting Echojam if it kills me, because it is AWESOME. Four hours of trying to demonstrate that with a live guitar plugged into my video-making setup failed utterly AND I found a bug in Echojam, patch 5 of 17, on top of the video disasters.

And then while the Linux and Pi versions are busy compiling, I will edit the final video, where I just tracked the guitar to a file and then used THAT in the usual configuration to demo Echojam. ALL the cool stuff I was doing was lost. All the jamming into odd settings, highlighting stuff…

One of those deathmarch unreasonably tough days. You're getting Echojam if it kills me, because it is AWESOME. Four hours of trying to demonstrate that with a live guitar plugged into my video-making setup failed utterly AND I found a bug in Echojam, patch 5 of 17, on top of the video disasters.

Really making a hell of a lot of progress on Meter for those who are watching. There'll be a new video by the end of the month, as there's lots to explain. In the newest release I wrote out in detail exactly what's happening, and I'm enthralled by how it's doing a better and better job as Meter.

Probably no point mentioning it to those who know me but… it's not good CODE per se. Absolutely no AI 'helping' this. What I'm doing isn't in the AI weights. It's outside the edges of common knowledge and I'm chasing reality not represented in common knowledge: when it works, it really works.

Capturing records I've had cleaned. Traffic, 'John Barleycorn Must Die', still crackly but an amazing old old pressing that feels so alive. I've been experimenting with bass DI techniques to try and get into this zone. So far a simple Rolls transformer DI is doing best, which kind of figures…

Got followed by a notable Godot dev. If you wonder why I'm so interested in a game engine when I'm in the music business: the program I wrote to pursue genetic algorithm reverb design and just updated literally yesterday, that I've been improving for years, is a Godot program. Combined GDScript/C#.

I absolutely love the freedom to just explore ideas that don't exist yet, in a framework that can act like all kinds of things, and with patience I may well be able to contribute what I've learned back to the engine. Not alone, because the engine dev is beyond me… but audio environments are NOT :D

Nice upgrade to Meter today on stream. I invented a lead vocal line for the hit record meter! It shows how well the lead vocal's working and how intensely it's coming across, from 'chill' to 'Helter Skelter' :) github.com/airwindows/M...

Yo, Bushy, you have to link to the gofundme page! :D this is an old friend of mine who does a lot of physical media old school art. Signal boosted and I'll pitch in a bit when ya post the damn link :D

actually she'd linked it in another post. This is her: gofund.me/fa63d1b79

RIP Proteus/1 Orchestral. A real bummer, I was getting into making horn patches that used poly aftertouch to lean notes a bit sharp. It started crapping out (repetitive powercycling), I tried reflowing solder joints in the power supply that looked sketchy, but then it was just done.

Argh, tough going. I'm scrambling to get the reverb thing working better and implement a new idea. While also getting the 'measure with meter' list up to a cool 1,800 tracks to do, of which I've done three. Idea for THAT which I don't think I can implement. Then discover that I've had a thing in…

that I'd better nap, meaning that I was literally asleep at the time that a cool person in game dev sat there expecting me to show up and dropped me a note 20 minutes in, giving up on me. I'm better than this, usually. When I'm not pushing so hard. This is my fault.

Argh, tough going. I'm scrambling to get the reverb thing working better and implement a new idea. While also getting the 'measure with meter' list up to a cool 1,800 tracks to do, of which I've done three. Idea for THAT which I don't think I can implement. Then discover that I've had a thing in…