Evaluating Blockhead DAW I have been following and supporting this project on Patreon for a little while now. I just downloaded v0.42.2 and I’m playing around with it. I think it’s been half a year since I looked at this last. https://www.patreon.com/c/colugomusic/posts I followed the development on Youtube here Vj3wRS0sM&list=PLH9iPQ3SdYDKcFBd52FGC3rbSwRuPyHGn">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVj3wRS0sM&list=PLH9iPQ3SdYDKcFBd52FGC3rbSwRuPyHGn I think this is the overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5fWPBOdrY8 Something about this…

Performance mixers I’ve been doing live PA electronic music sets for a while now. It seems like I pull together a pretty random collection of gear every time. One thing that you always need is a mixer though. Requirements vary. Sometimes I need a mic input, sometimes phantom power. Sometimes a bunch of mono inputs from synths. Sometimes effects. Sometimes…

Revisiting favorite VSTs I’m digging back through my archive of old stuff and looking to see what I used to use in my tracks. One thing I found was Audiodamage Axon drum VST. This is a peculiar plugin. I used the original version I think. Or maybe version 2. Looks like there is a new version 3 out now. I’m…

Reaktor 6 I’m getting back into Reaktor again and I realized I forgot how great the Factory Library synths are. There are some super weird soundscape patches too that are new. Reaktor is one of the best ways to do granular synthesis that I know of. There are some pretty leftfield drum beatbox kind of patches too. I also realized…

More Live coding stuff I’m checking out Mumux which I found via toplap. https://unlessgames.gitlab.io/mumux/mixer.html There is a live demo which looks super cool. Also via TopLap which I need to spend some more time on: https://forum.toplap.org/t/mumux-livecoding-vj-tool/2400

More Pure Data There is a plugin called Camomile that I have been meaning to try out. What better time than now? https://forum.puredata.info/topic/9884/camomile-an-audio-plugin-that-loads-pure-data-patches The zip distribution contains .vst3 plugins so I just dragged them into my VST3 folder. So it didn’t work for me in Ableton. In FL Studio only the FX plugin was scanned but doesn’t seem to work…

Live Coding I’m writing this post to try to make sense of all of the live coding environments that I’ve come across in the last few years. Some I have tried out and some I haven’t. I ran across https://glicol.org which runs in the browser. Haven’t gotten to do much with it yet.

More Pure Data I’m looking into the PD ecosystem more. I remembered Purr Data being an alternative implementation or at least an alternative UI. https://www.purrdata.net Hey it works and it looks cool too. I’ll have to mess with this some more but it looks promising.

Pure data in Ableton I’m messing around with PD again after what feels like years. I have PlugData installed and I’m messing around with it. I tried adding a noise generator like this: Note that the volume is turned down by default. In order to hear anything I had to turn up the volume slider. DSP was turn on when…

Reaktor drum programming I was digging through some old files and I found a NI Reaktor patch that I was working on. I was on a kick doing some Reaktor stuff way back in Reaktor 3 or 4 where I was trying to emulate the Access Virus synth. I couldn’t afford a Virus back then and I had a copy…