Music New acquisition - MPC One In my 40+ years of making music with electronic devices, I find the MPC to be the best workflow, so far. The MPC introduced me to a quick way to lay down my ideas and get the sound I'm looking for without being distracted by email, instant messages, and notifications on my computer.
Music Why I got rid of most of my synth hardware I recently made some silly purchases. I am an amateur musician. I have a rudimentary home studio consisting of a few MIDI controllers, a Native Instruments Maschine Mk2, and a Korg Wavestate. I also use computers to write my music. I kept seeing videos ("not sponsored" (but provided free/loaned
Music Play your Favorite Daw from Within Virtual Reality In this post, I briefly discuss interfacing a VR headset with the Reason Studios Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
Electronics Featured My Obsession with Feedback Continues I have been working diligently at building my own synthesizer using an FPGA. I will be using a breadboard-mounted Cmod A7: Artix-7 FPGA Module.
Music Featured Converting a Haiku into Music using a Context Free Grammar In this post, I will demonstrate how I converted a Haiku into algorithmic music using a context free grammar.
Music Featured Anatomy of a Song: Using Scripture as a Song Grammar I have designed a simple context-free grammar using Psalm 71:22 to drive the creation of a song.
Music Not Giving Up... I recently sold my mac, so I am not longer maintaining my Intentional Music program in Swift. However, I am a .NET developer, so using C# to write a new Intentional Music program was a no-brainer. I started the program on my PC over the weekend and got it caught
Music Not at all what I Intended A few months ago, when I started my Intentional Music project, I wanted a way to create music with computer code by defining my "intents" and then writing an algorithm that would process those intents to generate long-form ambient music.
Music Adding Scales to Intentional Music I spent last few days adding another algorithm to my Intentional Music (algorithmic composition) arsenal. This time, I chose to focus on adding the ability to choose notes from musical scales.
Graphic Design New Artwork for my Music I've been working a lot on the artwork for my music lately. I've created the artwork for a few albums and singles this week. The artwork for the singles displays on the Now Playing screen when you're using the Bandcamp app. Here are just a few of the pieces of art.
Music Featured What makes an Intentional Music Program? I began considering the idea of intentional music back in the early 90's. I was into the Chaos theory and I loved exploring Fractal generation software. I spent a lot of time pondering the beauty of self similarity. One thing that always stood out to me about the Mandelbrot set
Music First Intentional Music Track Complete In my previous post [https://cerkit.com/2021/02/14/programming-intentional-music/], I discussed my idea for creating what I call "Intentional Music Programming". I have managed to finish the first iteration of my intentional music algorithm and I've created my first few tracks. They are available on my bandcamp page
Music Programming Intentional Music I am a programmer at heart. It's what I do for a living and I enjoy it immensely. I also enjoy creating music in my spare time. However, I'm not a classically trained musician, so I struggle with the composition of my music. That's why I've started to work on
Music New Music on Bandcamp I've written some new music and posted it on bandcamp [https://cerkit.bandcamp.com]. I added to some other music that I wrote many years ago to make a new album. Music for coding by cerkit [https://cerkit.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-coding]
Music Why I'm not a classically trained musician I'm not a classically trained musician. I was kicked out of second grade music class because I blew into the practice flute while the instructor was talking. It was something that a kid would do on a dare. It was a tragedy that he was also the band instructor for
Music A New Sound Experience I just received a new shipment from Sweetwater music. I ordered some studio monitors (speakers). I just got them hooked up. I decided to try them out by listening to Metallica's Master of Puppets. Holy #$%@! I knew that Master of Puppets was by far the best Metallica album ever, but
Music New Keyboard Controller - Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S49 I was finally able to save up for something that I've had on my wishlist for over 5 years. In that time, they've improved the product, so I'm a little glad I had to wait. My little helper just dying to explore the box...I got a Native Instruments Komplete
Music Reason won't load my VST plugin (Softube modular) - macos In this post, I discuss how I solved the issue of not being able to load a VST in Reason 10.
Music The New (and arguably improved) Tangerine Dream I've been a Tangerine Dream [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream] fan since 1990. Since that time, when someone asked me who my favorite band was, I instantly answered "Tangerine Dream". I was usually met with blank stares because no one had ever heard of them. I then proudly
Programming Is the feedback loop the key to a learning computer? When I was in my early 20's, I setup my Korg Poly-Six synthesizer so that the audio output fed into a Radio Shack (Realistic) Reverb Machine with the output of that going back into the synthesizer input (a modification that someone had added to the synthesizer before I bought it)
Electronics The Hand-MIDI Interface Project - Adafruit Feather 32u4 with Magnetometer A few months ago, I had an idea to create a new musical instrument that mounted on a glove. I used a cycling glove that I had from that time that I bought the Trek bike and rode it twice (long story). I bought the following parts from Adafruit [http:
Programming Why modular synthesis is like programming I am a professional software developer. Most of my spare time is spent writing code for side projects. When I'm not writing code or hanging out with my wife, I'm creating music. I'm just a music hobbyist, so my toolbox isn't as full as I'd wish for. During my explorations
Music Softube Modular DAW Plugin Review testing.jpg I spent a few hours with the Softube Modular [http://www.softube.com/index.php?id=modular] over the weekend and I am very impressed. If you're unfamiliar with modular synthesis, I highly recommend watching the video below. Also, try searching YouTube for "Modular synthesizer performances" to hear
Electronics Why I really got back into electronics Why I really got back into this hobby### A few weeks ago, I stumbled on a DIY synthesizer community based on synthesizers called "Lunettas" (after Stanley Lunetta, the guy who pioneered the process). I'll let you read about it if you're interested. Intro to Lunetta CMOS Synthesizers [https://docs.google.
