May 2010
1 post
32/64 bit hell on osx
By default gcc on mac builds 64bit binaries. My app depends on Urbi and Player/Stage. Urbi depends on Boost, Player depends on Boost, Stage depends on Player and on FLTK. FLTK is 32 bit only!
Spent all the day trying to get all this shit to work.
April 2010
4 posts
What's new in SoundGrid 3 - part 2
In the first part we talked about new features accessible from main application screen, so now I’ll tell you what’s new in the menu and about Web Console.
Actually besides the new design there are not so many changes. One of them is possibility to export recorded tracks in uncompressed WAV format (previously only AAC compressed files could be exported).
List of additional...
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What's new in SoundGrid 3 - part 1
While SoundGrid 3 is being reviewed by Apple it’s time to tell you what’s new in this version.
First of all it has greatly optimized sound engine for even better sound quality and lower latency. And of course many bugfixes and other improvements.
But sound engine is inside. What’s most of all visible for users is surely completely redesigned UI. It now has landscape orientation...
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Web Console in SoundGrid 3
…allows to quickly add your own samples to the app (and download recorded tracks too).
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Live Play mode in SoundGrid 3
New Live Play mode in SoundGrid 3 shows overview of all layers and patterns on one screen. It allows to quickly switch pattern for any layer and (new!) to select next pattern that will be automatically activated after the current one. This will make SoundGrid better suited for live performance/recording.
March 2010
3 posts
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HP printer & Windows
I have HP F2180 printer with color cartridge only installed without black cartridge. Right now tried to print simple Word document from Windows. And what? Printer doesn’t print black text at all, only colored text is printed! Obviously it tries to print black text using black cartridge which is absent.
After that I connected the printer to Mac and of course everything printed as expected...
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SoundGrid 3 screenshots
As I promised on Twitter, here are screenshots of upcoming SoundGrid 3. No comments at this moment, only pictures. And some things still need to be done, mostly related to web-based management console. Planning to finish and release next week.
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iPhone VFP and memory performance
I have array of floats for output buffer and array of shorts for input. I need to add values from input buffer to values in output buffer. Using VFP unit the code looks as follows:
int temp[8];
while (numVectors--)
{
temp[0] = bin[0];
temp[1] = bin[1];
temp[2] = bin[2];
temp[3] = bin[3];
temp[4] = bin[4];
temp[5] = bin[5];
temp[6] = bin[6];
temp[7] = bin[7];
bin+=8;
...
January 2010
5 posts
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WikiPlaces 2.0 sent for approval
Final list of changes:
* Search * Bookmarks * Support for multiple Wikimapia languages * New redesigned sleek UI * Faster downloading because of direct access to DB * New modern overlay visual style * Better place details display - just text, no ads and so on. * Advanced settings * UI translations: English, Russian, French, German * Many more improvements and fixes
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“все-таки программист должен писать программы. когда программисту приходится...”
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WikiPlaces 2.0 will get bookmarks and classic/modern switchable visual styles.
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WikiPlaces 2.0 is coming soon!
Redesigned UI, Search, Multiple languages and much more. Stay tuned!
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New SoundBank: Dubh Drums
Jonny McEwen contributed great soundbank for SoundGrid - Dubh Drums. To install it go to Get More Sound Banks in Community menu, then select Official Server and find this soundbank.
Thank you, Jonny!
And by the way, here is his music: http://dubh.bandcamp.com/
December 2009
2 posts
Inotia 2 - Waste of money
Boring. Stupid. Pointless.
Very nice graphics, though.
PicasaWeb image quality is awful
Had an idea to use PicasaWeb instead of MobileMe Gallery because it’s faster and several other reasons. But quality of ‘web-optimized’ images it generates and shows is really awful and unacceptable.
PicasaWeb on the left and MobileMe Gallery on the right, notice JPEG compression artifacts.
October 2009
1 post
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Explanation of the idea with SoundFonts
You know I’m going to add exporting to MIDI files in on of next versions. This will allow users to import SoundGrid Grids into any other DAW and each layer will become MIDI track. But this will not give you the same sound output without samples from soundbanks that were used in original Grid.
So I’m going to create SoundFont files matching all my soundbanks. Then you can assign...
September 2009
4 posts
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SoundGrid 2.0: Creating and installing your own...
This instruction is out of date, SoundGrid 3.0 includes Web Console for easier creation of new Instruments with your samples.
Many users asked me how to create sound banks and add them to SoundGrid after version 2.0 became available. And it’s actually my fault that I didn’t provide appropriate documentation in time. In this post I’ll describe anatomy of sound banks, how to...
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SoundGrid 2.0 released!
It’s been a long time since last version and now the wait is over. We have many great new features in 2.0:
Redesigned UI and visual effects To keep UI simple, elegant and attractive for novice users. If you have difficulties placing notes on the grid now you can enable assistance lines to make life easier.
Song Mode Few people use all eight available patterns because it may be hard to...
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I hate C++
Brain-fucking language inspiring to write such constructions should not live.
namespace boost { namespace fusion {
struct random_access_traversal_tag;
namespace result_of
{
template <typename Sequence, typename State, typename F>
struct fold
: fusion::detail::choose_fold<
Sequence, State, F
,...
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Almost ready!
Done:
* ‘Song mode’ * Recording and export to SoundCloud and via email * Downloading additional Sound Banks * Redesigned visual fx * Much more * Ratings for shared grids
To do:
* Switchable scales for Sound Banks * Export to MIDI file * Update help/tutorial (oh!)
* Wrap everything up and release