Chris McCormick @chris@mccormick.cx

Worklog: itwriter.js hacking continues. Last night I got multiple samples working + stereo samples. Today I am tidying up for a proper release.

Worklog: continued hacking on itwriter.js - an Impulse Tracker binary file writer for JavaScript. Got patterns serializing properly today. \o/

Will be using this in dopeloop.ai apps as an export format, and also for some #algorave experiments.

https://github.com/chr15m/itwriter

🎉 Transcript Generator is live on Product Hunt today.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/transcript-generator

Worklog: hacking on https://transcriptgenerator.com today. Getting ready for a product hunt launch tomorrow.

@mathr found it on the facebook page - 7pm!

@mathr Hi Claude, do you know start time it starts?

@ho not sure who it was but I read about a hiphop producer who had a technique for "fresh ears". They had a loop that went like this:
- listen to the track and take notes
- work on the changes they wrote down without listening to the full track
- stand up and walk away for a long time, do something else, go for a walk, etc.
- repeat
The key being you always hear the track as fresh as possible for that first task of taking notes.

A couple of different specifications of the Impulse Tracker module binary file format (to help future searchers):

https://github.com/apollolux/lux-impulse-phoenix/blob/master/ITTECH.TXT

https://fileformats.fandom.com/wiki/Impulse_tracker

Worklog: having fun hacking on this impulse tracker module file writer in JavaScript.

🎛️ https://github.com/chr15m/itwriter

Worklog: laptop crashes aside (it's working again) I spent the last couple of days hacking on a small JavaScript library for writing impulse tracker module files. It's fairly minimal - just enough for sequencing of one-shot samples. Will be used in dopeloop.ai Beat Maker as an export format.

Related: why is there no open standard for sequenced audio samples? Something like MIDI + samples and/or embedded sound fonts. Would be a great way to interchange musical phrases between applications.

Managed to boot the device again. Making sure my backups are fresh now. I don't like the drive errors I saw before it died so I'll plan for a failing drive.

@nebogeo sounds really cool, will investigate. Thank you!

@luisfcorreia ha ha wow 🍷

@luisfcorreia wow, great. So there is hope. 🙏

@luisfcorreia I was planning to keep the same machine and upgrade memory + disk. Maybe it's still possible. 🤔

@nebogeo good idea, will check it again, thanks! Have you used one?

@luisfcorreia yes will go to the shop tomorrow! I'm not optimistic. 😅

🍵 Catastrophic peppermint tea related hard drive failure.
💻 What's the best GNU/Linux laptop in 2024? Dell XPS 13 served me well.

mud on my shoes
#lifebox