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working on a transient shaper that lets you shape transients without shaping transients (you'll see) #plugdata #bitwig

tilde transpass (name not final lol), a bandpass filter that only lets through transients. the big knob crossfades it with the original signal. #plugdata

messing around with transient shaping in #plugdata #puredata

I already had to solder in two jumpers to power the multiplexer. It looks like an automatic cleanup took out those traces and I didn’t notice.

Maybe the multiplexer address traces got lost at the same time?
#ObliquePalette #modularsynth #plugdata #synthdiy #eurorack #experimentalart #robotics

The jumped traces in red, powering the multiplexer that allocates analog input values so they cone through the microcontroller as separate channels, rather than channel 1’s value 8 times, which is happening now.

It’s pretty, and it’s progress, but it ain’t right!

The channels of the #ObliquePalette are allocated wrong. Some of this could be a firmware issue, which is easy enough to address. But it also looks like there might be missing traces on the PCB, which I can test with more jumpers.
#modularsynth #plugdata #synthdiy #eurorack #experimentalart #robotics

The #ObliquePalette 0.5.4 is on my workbench!

Fingers crossed that errors are small and easy to track down!

There looked to be errors in KiCAD that…don’t actually seem to be on the board? I hope that’s true!

Fingers crossed for #modularsynth control of a #plugdata patch and the patch being able to turn that back around to control servos, #synthdiy , #eurorack , or other #experimentalart & #robotics things by the weekend!

“Computers are for fucking around, making art, and falling in love.”

The back of the circuit board, showing its array of digital/analog converters, op amps, multiplexers, resistors, and some big honkin capacitors to keep the servos fed.

A Raspberry Pi Pico2 will go in the bottom left there, communicating signals between the Palette and the plugdata patch running on a computer.

The front of the board, featuring a bitmap portrait of Bill Atkinson, who died last week. He was a huge inspiration to me as a computer artist.

I have to solder in potentiometers for manual control, headers for…whatever, 3.5mm jacks for synth communication, and level LEDs so you know what the channels are doing in the IRL, analog realm.

The discord has a "patching & coding" channel now for anything related to #maxmsp, #puredata, #plugdata, #bitwig s grid and #audiodev: discord.gg/BVQvTcp3

the discords channel list in the sound & music section:
challenges, music production, patching n coding, feedback pls & tutorials n resources

Then I finally tried #PlugData, which reasonably reduced clunkiness and it is transformative. #Eurorack hardware strikes a balance between tactile immediacy and flexibility, there are physical constraints of space and money/time spent on arranging a case. VCV is free from some of these limitations, but has others. PD is the ultimate playground for an engineer. The analogy I make: VCV is premade fixed shape bricks, PD is clay. Work the clay into shapes yourself, but possibilities are limitless!

Haven't posted here for a while, but I haven't been writing music for long time. Until recently, when I rediscovered #PureData and #PlugData specifically. I realize that tools are as interesting as creativity to me, so this could be yet another rabbit hole. But I do have bursts of creative output while falling into these rabbit holes, and I hope this is that moment.

Fascinated with PD for long time, it always seemed too clunky. Hence seminal Farnell's "Designing Sound" seemed unapproachable

I'm giving a alternative version of the ./drum.code workshop, Coded Kitchen Percussion, this saturday at @creativecoding!

Come join if you're interested to learn how to use contact-microphones and #plugdata together with the #drumcode library to create algorithmic music and interactive electronic instruments.

Tickets at: https://ccu.stager.co/web/tickets/111524698

#drumcode #algorithmicmusic #hybridpercussion #electronicmusic #plugdata

The #ObliquePalette analog outputs are working, voltage and servo alike!

Inputs seem to have an electronic error. Trying to figure it out.

Servo current draw might be too high through basic USB even with power capacitors. There’s a connector to add a separate power plug, too, but I’m pretty sure the answer is USB-C PD that will additionally give the voltage range to be fully #Eurorack compatible.

It’s really exciting to see #plugdata outputting position and voltage to the real world!

#ObliquePalette #Eurorack #modularsynth #synthdiy #plugdata
Ask me about it at #Superbooth! Maybe I'll even have one that works!

The #ObliquePalette v0.5.3 is off to manufacture!

It'll fit in a #Eurorack #modularsynth case if you like. And it reads and writes voltage control (only 0:5V currently, but ±5V in the final, we're hoping). You’ll be able to plug your #synthdiy weird things into its eight inputs, which you will then interpret with a #plugdata patch.

And your patch will obey your creative wishes, making sound with your computer audio and sending out 8 channels of CV and servos*!

*We'll see how many we can run!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: #PlugData is so damn nice. Really nice UI. Deffo the nicest and easiest way to get into this sort of stuff in 2025.

#puredata #foss #plugdata #computermusic

https://plugdata.org/

The #ObliquePalette looks to be ready for its next prototype iteration! This is version 0.5.3! I’m hoping to have a couple onhand to share with the #plugdata enthusiasts at #Superbooth!

Soon I’ll be able to use analog signals of whatever sort — from servos to #Arduino to, I dunno, light-dependent resistors to #Eurorack — to control, and be controlled by, plugdata patches!

A circuit board design with eight clearly-marked inputs along the top and eight clearly-marked outputs on the bottom, analog outputs and servos alike.

Pls dnt shr ths t HIM
#puredata #plugdata

BodyX. A Wearable Instrument by WILLPOWER.

After finishing the #eTextile #hardware, these are the very first sounds that emanated from rotating my wrist. The LEDs show the glove's activity.

BodyX multidisciplinary instrument that combines music, animation, light, technology, and the human body to create new forms of artistic expression and interaction.

#wearable #musictech #instrument #willpowerstudios #puredata #plugdata #creativecoding #audiovisual