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Trying #ProjectM again. Which basically is the good old #Winamp #MusicVisualizer.

Is anybody using this live on stage with #Linux?

There used to be a decent GUI frontend to it, but it went down some open source drain. I even had used that live and via screen capture, some minor snippets had ended up in a film that was shown in a movie theater. But that GUI has gone nowadays.

So I have #projectMSDL now, but I don't know how to access a preset directly. I could copy a selection to a different folder and then step through. There's nothing too practical… there's hundreds of presets, some are astounding, most are annoying. There isn't even a command line option to open one specific preset file only.

Since ProjectM is open source, there are many projects using it, such as #VLC, there even is a module for the #vcvRack #synthesizer, yet this also doesn't win a prize in preset selection and it can't show a full screen window.

There’s this amazing #TipTop #Buchla #Eurorack panel that has just come out. It’s the #248 #MARF. It’s ridiculously cool, powerful and expensive.

Now that I know I can make controls in #BitwigStudio I am looking forward to developing a #performative #ElectronicMusic setup that is based on #SuzanneCiani’s #BuchlaCookbook following the most excellent #Pyer #VCVRack emulation.

https://youtu.be/ZOhJ3aRXJOg

https://www.europesays.com/ie/466632/ Link Audio, now in Max, Pd, VCV Rack, TouchDesigner, oF, and plug-ins, free #AbletonLink #AbletonLinkAudio #APIs #code #Coding #CreativeCoding #developers #Éire #IE #Ireland #Jitter #LinkAudio #Linux #mac #MacOS #Max #Max/MSP #openframeworks #Patching #Pd #PureData #Software #Sync #Technology #touchdesigner #VCVRack #visuals #Windows

It went well! Friday night on Thames:

My live improv set was on a boat as part of NAUS #2, an intimate live electronics night curated by Stephen Shiell as part of his residency on board. Two others on the bill amazed me: Tom Hirst playing his self-built synth modules very smoothly! and Mohammed Rowe with feedbacky textures and transients using Max!

I was the final one. A classic: Mid-set my GameBoy running LSDJ tracker ran out of battery! But I spontaneously switched to SameBoy LSDJ emulator alongside my Cardinal patch and it was OK to keep improvising. Some of the audience sat around on the floor to see things happen up close, which I liked. I definitely was not sending emails from the stage :D

A proper reflective writing with full sounds and credits is on its way on my new blog elifyalvac.com/blog

But for now, two mini excerpts merged in this clip: Cardinal and LSDJ.

Thank you @dreamer and @falktx - Cardinal live first time on a boat on the Thames worked out! And thanks again @mosgaard for recommendations!

film credits: my lovely partner jordan muscatello

#experimentalmusic #lsdj #liveelectronics #chiptune #modularsynths #Cardinal #vcvrack #experimentalmusic #london #gameboy #modular #improvisation

At least I found the time for a little #Rocket science today, before I now have to prepare for tonight's money making monkey business. 🤪

I used a #sequencer in #vcvRack to control this #WaldorfRocket. The tiny #MIDI keyboard in the back plays #DecentSampler in #Carla on #UbuntuStudio #Linux.

The #piano is a #Schiedmayer from the 1940ties which I promised myself to play much more, it's such an incredibly nice instrument. (I sold my digital piano, and didn't continue using PianoTeq… forget about it.)

@waldorfmusic #synthesizer #waldorf

There's a new #VCVRack paid module set from #Venom and there's this new #Benjolin module closely modelled after the #AfterLater module. I've made a nice rig in #BitwigStudio where I can perform it from my MIDI fader controller and using an FX Grid patch for signal processing of MIDI it is all very smooth and lovely to work with.

I also discovered that presently only the #VST2 plugin for #VCVRack works as expected from session to session (Clap and VST3 do some very weird and unwanted things).

So here is a 5 minute ramble into the void from this morning.

I made a little video on how to contol VCV Rack (and other softwares) with Tidal, thanks to @yaxu for actually showing me how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a8tO5O7tec

#vcvrack #tidal #osc #tixl #livecoding

Working on a VCV module that opens Pd patches via libo and will load ELSE externals :) damn excited. Please support me on www.patreon.com/porres

#modularsynth #vcvrack #vcv #puredata #liveelectronics #computermusic #creativecoding #opensource #generativemusic #algorithmicmusic

Working on a VCV module that opens Pd patches via libo and will load ELSE externals :) damn excited. Please support me on www.patreon.com/porres

#modularsynth #vcvrack #vcv #puredata #liveelectronics #computermusic #creativecoding #opensource #generativemusic #algorithmicmusic

My Musical Crystal Cave interactive music & light art installed at Future Lab(s) Gallery in North Adams, MA as a part of their annual Glow Show collaborative tapestry.

Participants interact with the two levers on the wall which lets them "DJ" the artwork, independently controlling the generative rhythm and melody. Music is generated in real time with VCV Rack and animated as lights with TouchDesigner.

Video with music: https://youtu.be/dP8L1xdPFFI

#music #vcvrack #touchdesigner #lightart

Good afternoon. Happy belated New Year.

So, it's 2026 and I got some more noisy cybergrind stuff here to make up for the sudden radio silence.

Love y'all.

#cybergrind #NewYear2026 #noisegrind #noisecore #grindcore #noiserock #noisemusic #vcvrack

Also available on @Ampwall <3
https://npchelsea96.ampwall.com/album/jazz-funk-shit

#noisecore #noisegrind #cybergrind #noisemusic #noiserock #freejazz #improv #modularsynth #vcvrack #grindcore

I promised an album and here it is. Enjoy.
https://noisegrindprincesschelsea.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-funk-shit

#noisecore #noisegrind #vcvrack #grindcore #noiserock #freejazz #improv #modularsynth #noisemusic #noise

Don't believe me? Here's a track I already made with some of the material I recorded today!

#noisecore #modularsynth #vcvrack #noise #noisemusic #noisegrind #grindcore #cybergrind

I think I'm gonna make an entire album using sessions recorded from this patch. >:3c

#vcvrack #noisecore #modularsynth

Happy #BandcampFriday y'all !!!
Surprise EP now available on Bandcamp
https://noisegrindprincesschelsea.bandcamp.com/album/journey-into-noize

Thanks for the support.

#breakcore #breakbeat #noisecore #bandcamp #vcvrack #modularsynth #modularsynthesis #digitalhardcore

To celebrate my return to Mastodon, here's a free tune.

#vcvrack #modular #breakcore #breakbeat #jungle #noisecore #noise

[Edited - final mix version] Pre-dawn #FrenchHorn #Tuba (#SWAM #VSTs ) & #Synth #Nocturne with #VCVRack #BlippoBox and environment textures. #Dark and #Cinematic with a touch #Bombastic - probably #NotBonkWave but is certainly #HonkWave - here is something new from me. #ElectronicMusic made with #BitwigStudio in my bedroom studio.

[Track redacted for reasons.]

My #Linux journey continues. A couple of hours of noodling has #LinuxMint looking and feeling very comfortable. Installing #VCVRack required a little bit of 'sudo fu' and some permissions fun so that the #VST showed up in #BitwigStudio - I will need to figure out how to make an executable script to launch VCV Rack in standalone rather than using the command prompt, but that should not prove to be too daunting #LinuxAudio - and so I am ready to start digging into some #ElectronicMusicProduction

Just discovered #cardinal https://cardinal.kx.studio/ by KXStudio: a virtual modular #synthetizer based on #VCVrack (which I already knew).
#kxstudio is really an awesome repository of computer #music software (applications and plugins), easily installable on #debian and #ubuntu
#MAO #linux #synth

It's #BandcampFriday so 100% of the sales goes to the artist. This release is #PayWhatYouWant so as we used to say, knock yours elf out.
https://chaircrusher.bandcamp.com/album/live-studies-2

#Ambient #Electronic #LiveLooping #VCVRack #Elfs

An Open Hardware Eurorack Compatible Audio FPGA Front End - [Sebastian Holzapfel] has designed an audio frontend (eurorack-pmod) for FPGA-base... - https://hackaday.com/2023/02/13/an-open-hardware-eurorack-compatible-audio-fpga-front-end/ #musicalhacks #synthesiser #eurorack #ak4619n #vcvrack #verilog #audio #fpga #pmod #dsp

Remoticon Video: Intro to Modern Synthesis Using VCV Rack - Modular synthesizers, with their profusion of knobs and switches and their seemingly insatiable ap... - https://hackaday.com/2020/12/15/remoticon-video-intro-to-modern-synthesis-using-vcv-rack/ #hackadaycolumns #2020remoticon #musicalhacks #gatedreverb #synthesizer #envelope #eurorack #modular #vcvrack #cons #adsr #vca #vcf #vco