This month's piece is super niche, and probably only remotely useful to me personally. It's a MIDI performance tool, to make it easier for me to use my Akai LPD8 controller with PotenzaDSP's Amigo sampler.
It does 2 things:
- Lets you remap up to 8 MIDI notes to different notes (super useful for the specific way I use Amigo)
- And (when your DAW's transport is running) quantises all MIDI input to a specific step size (so I don't have to worry about my timing drifting and can make music by button mashing)
I recorded a short video of the plugin in action here.
Download quantised wanderings
Controls: MIDI notes; best used with a pad controller
The Rules:
- The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (4/1/25).
- All downloads are zipfiles containing a
Windows executable(in this case, a Windows VST3 plugin). - All source code and assets are included, licensed under the GPL.
- As long as you abide by the license, you can do whatever you want with the download.
Further Reading
A gentle story about the Oblivion Vilja mod that Terry Pratchett worked on.
A neo-nazi being run out of rural Maine ✊
Kate Bush coming out with the kind of animation they don't make anymore. CW: war, drones, death
"Refugia, they call them: places of safety where life endures. From the refugia, mice and toads emerged blinking onto the blasted plain. Grasses spread, strawberries sent out runners. From a thousand, ten thousand, maybe countless small places of enduring life, forests and meadows returned to the mountain."
"I think it's now finally possible for people to realize on their own that, you know, it wasn't Musk. If he's why you left, you were pretty far out of the line of fire, and it was a much worse space than you think."
Nice thread about mutual aid in Elite Dangerous.
"I'm the motherfucking lizard king"
The Rules by Leila Chatti
Care Doesn't Scale - I don't agree with everything here ("If your goal is to educate the world, you can look for ways to educate thousands or millions"; oh really?), but the core premise seems right.
Concise though it is, this is my favourite kind of music writing; mapping connections and telling a story that gets at something true both within and without the music.
The next time I write it will be a new year. I hope you are able to spend the final days of 2024 the way that you want, with the people you want, and that you are able to spend at least some time recharging away from the noise of the world. It's very loud out there.