Category Archives: Applications

ardour3

i wrote an ebuild for ardour 3 and added it to my overlay. it’s a live ebuild for the latest SVN, so there are a few warnings: 1. ardour3 is is still in alpha status. things may not work. 2. … Continue reading

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nano basket

i added an ebuild for nano basket to my overlay. nano basket lets you change the MIDI data sent by the korg nanokontrol. this makes it easy to create templates/presets that can be dumped to the nanokontrol. which, in turn, … Continue reading

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HowTo: use FingerPlay MIDI with Renoise, on Linux

FingerPlay MIDI is a MIDI and OSC controller for Android. It presents a series of customizable virtual control surfaces, allowing you to map them to MIDI controls in your other music applications. This gets you off the mouse and computer … Continue reading

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HowTo: run Flickering Lights on Linux

For today’s creative thing, I figured out how to get Flickering Lights working with the MIDI ports on my Echo AudioFire2 sound card. Flickering Lights is a cross-platform Java-based monome application, inspired by Tonematrix and the Tenori-on. As the app … Continue reading

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HowTo: Microkorg XL Sound Editor on Linux

Despite Wine bug #17608, you really can use Korg’s editor to adjust the deepest levels of your Microkorg XL on-the-fly, with instant playback results! Seems I’m not the only one to do this, in fact. I did run into one … Continue reading

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