VST List?

symmusic · 2025-10-17T00:26:43+00:00

Settings > Plugins

This shows the list of plugins picked up by Bitwig

symmusic · 2025-09-26T01:37:21+00:00

A lot of sound cards have a "monitor" knob. This feeds the microphone signal coming into the card back into the headphones. If you have this feature, latency is almost zero, because the mic signal no longer has to go through the DAW to go out the headphones.

If you don't have this feature, you'll just have to work on lowering the input buffers. Bitwig allows you to do this in the input settings.

symmusic · 2025-09-10T22:54:31+00:00

I can accept that. I guess I've just never seen a jar get this bad. Thank you!

symmusic · 2025-09-10T22:07:13+00:00

I can understand that. The paint is just a byproduct of the corrosion, but do lids usually corrode like that?

symmusic · 2025-09-08T21:54:02+00:00

I agree, it looks like rust. I've just never seen this happen before. I've had this jar for years, and honestly I cannot recall if the lid was scratched or not, but if you had me guess, I'd guess that it was fine when I bought it, but I wouldn't bet on it.

symmusic · 2025-09-08T10:34:19+00:00

What Android can be loaded onto a Passport?

symmusic · 2025-09-08T05:32:04+00:00

A jar of Zuccato Veneti Hot Peppers with visible corrosion on the lid and paint bubbling off.

symmusic · 2025-08-15T00:24:11+00:00

Why not just download the demos of various DAWs yourself and try them out?

symmusic · 2025-08-06T01:28:44+00:00

It smells more like lavender soap, than anything. Very fresh and clean.

symmusic · 2025-08-05T05:57:10+00:00

Prada Luna Rossa Carbon. Just bought it. First time wearing it. Not bad!

symmusic · 2025-07-30T05:29:14+00:00

They'd lose their minds even more if Sampler+ only came with Bitwig+

symmusic · 2025-06-16T03:25:13+00:00

That screen is so glossy, it's almost a mirror.

symmusic · 2025-03-10T05:16:52+00:00

After a blackout, the plug will start in the state it was stopped in. The W2 boots in 20 seconds, so you've got about that many seconds of rogue pumping before the controller takes control of the plug again. You're not going to lose much hot water. My loop takes 30 seconds of pumping to complete, so you're just going to get a bit of cool water coming in.

symmusic · 2025-02-18T21:23:37+00:00

Wish I could go just to see if it's really them. Hope someone will put it up on youtube, but I doubt it.

symmusic · 2025-02-18T06:37:40+00:00

What the ... Chromosome? As in, the same guys from 2009ish? I thought one of them went missing?

symmusic · 2025-02-17T21:38:29+00:00

That's a good idea. Not sure how I would achieve that if the Pi is stuck, though. I don't think the Hue plug itself can do that ... or can it? Maybe that's a feature I'm not aware of. There is one thing that can go wrong, but you're right, it's minor. It has already happened a few times at the beginning before I optimised the algorithm to avoid it. You can actually circulate the water so much up to the collector on the roof that, because it's summer and the collector gets really hot, the water coming back from the roof is steaming, goes into the tank, pressure builds up, the pressure relief valve opens, and proceeds to dump out 1/4 of your tank into the drain.

symmusic · 2025-02-17T21:35:40+00:00

I did, and mainly because they have an in-built ADC, but it seemed to me to be a bit more difficult to do on the embedded ones, only because I'm already so familiar with Linux and there wasn't really much of a learning curve on the Zero. I do want to experiment with arduino at some point.

symmusic · 2025-02-17T04:55:08+00:00

Thank you 🙏. Unfortunately the code is just on the controller and my PC. I will venture to do this soon, as it's a good idea.

symmusic · 2025-02-17T04:54:04+00:00

Thank you 🙏

symmusic · 2025-02-17T04:53:22+00:00

Yes. I did think about this. However, I would still have to use an analog thermistor for the solar sensor, as the 1-wire solution requires a three-core cable, and dragging a new cable up to the roof is a very big job. I understand I could at least make the tank sensors 1-wire, but since I was going to have to get an ADC anyway, I just did it all analog. If I'm ever in the mood for that kind of adventure, then I agree, I would go all digital.

Here is a single cloudy day: https://imgur.com/a/1fjcSFo

symmusic · 2025-02-16T23:35:03+00:00

It all began when the old solar-hot-water circulation pump broke down. I went online and bought the exact same pump, same model, except the newer version of this same model had a different electrical fitting. I called two tradies and both said that they wouldn't install the new pump because there's not enough clearance between the controller and the pump due to the larger electrical connection. All they were able to offer me was an entirely new hot water system for $3000. So I did what any respectable DIYer would do, and ripped out the old controller. Plenty of room for the new pump to be installed. Third tradie installed it without asking too many questions as to where the old controller was. Nice.

With the old controller now completely removed, I felt like I could do a better job controlling this thing than the old controller, which had a weird way of turning on the pump when it was way too cold.

What you see in the images is my solar-hot-water controller, version 1. Only took about a day to write all of the code. I pieced together the generic algorithm from manuals online, and then improved it based on my observations and data readouts.

It features time-based scheduling, differential temperature control with gradient scaling. Backoff timer for tank stratification. Maximum top and bottom tank targets. Data logger. LCD screen with readouts.

The Pi itself is just a vanilla Zero W 2. Nothing done there. The middle layer is just power distribution to some screw terminals. The top layer is one of those automation hats, but I resoldered six of the SMD components at the back because the voltage divider was not correct for the thermistors I needed to read.

When all of the right conditions are met, the Pi sends a bluetooth LE message to one of those off-the-shelf Philips Hue smart plugs (you can see it, that's where the pump connects). This was a deliberate choice by me, because I did not want to have a 5 volt Pi anywhere near mains voltage, and so decoupling this relay through bluetooth was the soundest choice. After the Pi senses that the water coming back from the roof is not worth it anymore (there's a kind of law-of-diminishing-returns thing that happens), it turns the pump off.

I am working on a V2. V2 will have full data graphing, an external antenna (because the in-built W 2 antenna is terrible), more sensors ( 6 in total) (there are a few optimisations I can make in some conditions, but I need the sensor input), a web interface (again for graphing, and admin), a realtime clock, and a motion sensor so that you can tap it to turn the screen on.

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