It's a common joke in the community that I compile a fresh kernel before every livestream (not true!), and that people take bets on what's gonna crash first (I haven't seen proof yet!), but this time the livestream really did start with an emergency system reboot. Things went more or less smoothly from then on :)
Maybe except for that one...
This one took a massive amount of work and time.
Huge thanks to the generous viewer who's donation enabled me to purchase the hardware for testing!
This was supposed to be a simple video to make.
I've prepared a VirtualBox installation and downloaded the latest AV Linux ISO I found. It was an MX variant.
Unfortunately it seemed I was unable to get some plug-ins to be detected there. So I had to stop and prepare a different approach.
Here's the raw footage of the faile...
Qarterly Release Pact has brought us some exciting software releases!
I am also answering questions and demonstating stuff live :)
This was something different.
As always - I'm uploading the final piece of music made and the source Ardour 6 session.
The downloads are licensed under CC0. Enjoy!
I've also extended, polished and published the track on Audius - it's going to surprise you ;)
2022-01-03 15:15:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey! It's almost 2022. I'm doing a monthly livestream on 2nd of January, in 3 days.
It's the perfect time to discover that a well-respected synthesizer plug-in has become free software!
So enjoy!
Here's some thoughts.
Do you agree?
Do you disagree?
I'd love to know your take on this.
For now this new video is on PeerTube only, because YouTube can't transcode it properly...
Enjoy the freedom :)
EDIT:
PeerTube link: https://peertube.kx.studio/w/mgx62b5JgjuQcNLGj1szSm?s=1
Odysee link:
2021-12-19 00:33:07 +0000 UTC
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Nothing crashed. Even the beta software I was stress-testing for 90 minutes! We've learned some things about the upcoming Surge XT release. Lots of new things, many awesome sonds. I've discovered how MATH can lead to interesting music, and how Surge XT makes that easy and fun!
I attach the presets I made during and in pre...
This is a mostly talking head video.
I talk about my experiences with PipeWire for audio production. How does it work with Ardour, Carla etc...
If you've watched my 3 recent livestreams you probably know what that was like.
Enjoy!
The video above is a teaser for this longer video showing the entire process of making the new monster growl:
https://youtu.be/Czp2gm0Vx_g
Enjoy :)
The last week was far from the best time of my life.
2021-11-18 02:26:05 +0000 UTC View Post![When things don't go according to plan... [EXPLICIT]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/8/dp/fg/4e9b88-019e73e3-05fc-7cdd-acad-1ac1bb33775a.jpg)
Here's a quick cut of a video I was recording yesterday.
Only thanks to your continued support, I can deal with this kind of crap :D
Warning: harsh language!
I've since figured out the issue and fixed it. I also switched back to JACK from PipeWire, because Ardour is much more stable with that (I have a lot o...
I've recorded this video a few weeks back when I was still quite sick.
Yet - it should be a useful tutorial! Many people asked about this.
Enjoy this SICK tutorial :)
This time I've spend about 30 minutes in the beginning answering questions and just talking about technical stuff. This left us less time to make music, so the piece in the end wasn't as developed, though it seems to have been a good idea.
This makes me think that maybe I should extend the length of the streams by another hour to have mor...
Here's some thoughts about audio dynamic range nad music loudness.
I'm touching upon many topics like LUFS, loudness wars, loudness normalisation, limiting etc. I talk about how I determine the loudness of my albums and music releases and why and what hurst me about how music publishers insist on the music to be devoid of any dynamics at ...
The results are in! I've ordered the hardware and aI am preparing to make the videos tesing the top interfaces!
2021-10-05 13:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the first part seemed to get a rather warm response, I've decided to take the time to make Part 2.
And here it is!
Will there ever be Part 3?
It entrely depends on how you'll like this one :)
Enjoy!
There's been some technical problems at teh start, but these were quickly sorted out!
BespokeSynth is amazing and I think I'll work on creating a live performance with it sometime.
Enjoy!
2021-10-04 09:39:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This video's main point is to demistyfy the dreaded Routing Grid.
Thre's still a bit more like Pin Connections, but that's a topic for another video (I've covered it already in videos like the one about Sidehain Compression in Ardour).
Enjoy!
Check out the survey!
Check the LinuxMusicans.com thread!
Also - you can watch on PeerTube!
2021-09-24 22:42:55 +0000 UTC
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You can also watch on PeerTube (assuming the instance is still up when you're reding this - they tend to go down without warning): https://share.tube/w/rCjZV7z3eFdQkSmzgqJZ5T
It seems there's a lot of confusion about Vital[ium] so I've recorded this video t...
2021-09-24 17:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a silly song about PipeWire. Enjoy!
You can also listen and download on Audius.
And here's my post submitting to the challenge on Linux Musicians forum<...
Let's find out!
Also available on PeerTube thanks to falkTX:
https://peertube.kx.studio/videos/watch/f6d0452a-0ded-4578-8f0e-3d580f60b751
This time it's a talking head video (with a practical demo as well, but it's not the main point).
Enjoy!
Despite all the technical challenges, we've made a beautiful piece of music!
And the music submissions were great too!
As usual, I attach the full Ardour session of the created project.
You'll need
Geonkick (LV2), Vitalium (VST3), Aether (LV2), Wolf-Shaper (LV2), ToTape5 (VST2), x42-dpl and maybe some other open-source plug-i...
Get the plug-in here:
https://github.com/jpcima/DelayArchitect
Here's a super lazy video. My TODO list is getting longer and longer, so I think I'll start doing more of these unedited ones to catch up.
What do you think? Is that ok?
Here's a video that'll hopefully be first in a series. But that depends on the response from viewers, like you :)
I've recorded this 10 months ago back when I was doing SFX for a game made by GDQuest.
He's agreed for me to record the whole process, publish the sounds and sources under CC-0 and show the entire process for the community ...
As a follow up to the x42-dpl video, I've decided to test a bunch of limiter plug-ins to find out how they stack up against each other.
I make some interesting discoveries along the way...
Last month I had to cancel the livestream at the last minute.
Since then I've wrapped up my home studio makeover, replaced PSU, Mobo and CPU in my PC, and spent a lot of time preparing to this stream - and we've beat records this time!
There were 160 people watching at once, and then even at the very end 100 people were still watching....