Strange Vibrations

I'm organising and performing at a free concert in York. For more details, see the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167434656607933

Through The Looking Glass - Sound Art Radio

My friend played my track Wrong Morning on his radio show for Sound Art Radio.

 Through The Looking Glass 2010-09-09 by Through the looking glass

Kasio phase distortion synthesiser

This is a max patch that I have been working on for a while. There is an ongoing discussion on the C74 forums about the lack of fully featured synth examples, so I thought I would polish this up and put it out there. It's loosely modelled on a Casio CZ101 and uses phase distortion synthesis, which is a kind of FM. The UI is purely functional. It doesn't use any externals.

Free to use in non-commercial projects.

http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/blog/files/kasio_v0-1.zip

Repairing Korg MonoPoly keyboard contacts

Korg MonoPoly keyboard contacts, originally uploaded by olilarkin.

I had some keys not triggering on my Korg MonoPoly - a common problem with this and other synths of the era. I cleaned the contacts as per the old crow tutorial (twice) and still some of them didn't work - I guess the conductive rubber had just worn away. Thanks to some advice from the Analogue Heaven mailing list I applied some conductive paint to the contacts which seems to have done the trick.

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Autotalent vst/au v0-2

I've updated the autotalent vst/au plugin to be in line with Tom's LADSPA version. I didn't test it very thoroughly yet so there might be some issues. There are some cool new features, see http://web.mit.edu/tbaran/www/autotalent-0.2_refcard.pdf

[EDIT 04/04/2010 - new version fixing crash with reaper]

Get it here http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=freeplugins#at

Autotalent vst/au

Lately i have been learning to use IPlug by Cockos which is part of WDL: a fantastic library of handy C++ code, with a very generous license. IPlug allows you to build cross platform VST plugins (and AU on Mac) from the same codebase. It is very simple to use (compared to the standard VST or AU SDKs, and the implementation for a fully working plugin is relatively small. Anyway, one of the first things I have done with it is to port autotalent to VST/AU.

Get it here:

http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=freeplugins#at

ol.kslider

This is a keyboard ui control that is (in my opinion) much nicer than the standard max kslider. It supports MIDI input, which has always been a problem with the normal kslider. Arguments control how many octaves are shown and what pitch to start at.

Free to use in non-commercial projects.

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