what is left at the end

Another fairly idiosyncratic VST plugin this month. I've been making music more lately, and have found myself missing a lot of the synthesizers and effects that I've coded for my game engine, so I thought I might start converting some of them to VSTs.

This month I converted my vinyl-esque noise generator to VST format, and added a few more parameters. Tbh, I find UI programming so painful though that I don't know how many of these I'm going to do.

Download what is left at the end

Controls: triggered via MIDI notes

The Rules:

• The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (1/2/25).
• 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

I read Len Howard's Birds as Individuals this month, which was a revelation. One of those books which quietly expands your understanding of the world, and beautifully written:

"The bond between music and flight is strong. Both are arts belonging to the freedom of air and space, both have movement formed into rhythm by balance of time."

A.R. Moxon: Peaceful Solutions:

"We could be talking about any number of things that clearly demonstrate the core traditional spiritual belief of the United States that life must be earned, and making money is how you earn it, that clearly demonstrate the dominant belief that if you haven't earned life, then you are a question to which violence is often the answer."

One Year Ago, Isreal Buried Me Alive. I'm Still Clawing My Way Out (CW: well, the title says it all)

Sarah McCarry writing about The Neverending Story:

"to recognize that our lives are bound together and our wellbeing is collective, is the ultimate work of liberation; to live as though the world we inhabit is already the world we want it to become, a world with room enough for all of us, a world in which freedom is not a privilege but a component of the air we breathe."

I stumbled across this incredibly stylish Doom mod by msx this month. I've not finished it yet, but this is something pretty special imo.

Erin Kissane: Against the dark forest::

"Keeping these basic facts in mind is oddly difficult, because there’s so much money involved, and money is a spell for blurring the truth."

LLM training bots are DDoS-ing the internet.

Via andi mcclure, the most beautiful music made by a man in a basement surrounded by odd bits of equipment and musical instruments.

That strange, quiet music feels like a good place to end this month's newsletter, so I hope you're finding space for your own strange, quiet music as we head into another year. Speak soon.