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Technical notes, musical experiments, and lessons from building the tools in public. 7 articles
From vocal chain to Sparklelizer
How Jazz Calls Home's recurring vocal chain became Sparklelizer, a focused stereo delay plugin with a matching drum and MIDI collection.
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Montreal Music Hackspace: UPES team
UPES (pronounced "oops") is a team of researchers, artists, sound engineers and tech nerds who met at the Montreal Music Hackspace hackathon and built two AI-powered instruments in two days: UpesLoop writes MIDI with MIDI-GPT, UpesBox plays it on sixteen latent-morphing Stable Audio pads. What we built, what broke, and the platform underneath.
How Gamelan models bronze
How the Gamelan preview models struck bronze, flexible tuning, paired beating, and the missing bars in slendro and pelog scales.
Camera modulation with HandMod
How HandMod turns movement into MIDI control, with practical mappings for filters, delay, reverb, and performance.
Seeing intervals with Oscillo
How Oscillo turns tuning ratios into visible figures, and why tempered intervals drift across the scope.
Voicing better chords with Chordex
The voicing, register, and timing rules that help generated chords sit naturally in an arrangement.
How cabinet impulse responses work
A practical guide to recording and using cabinet impulse responses, with Amp Rig as the working example.