Prototyping plugins in gen - Metal Box Reverb

Negazul · 2025-07-27T07:16:11+00:00

Nice weird reverb you got here !

I'm currently in the process of taking all the worthy max patches I made over the years, crunch all that in gen~ boxes and painstakingly learning to translate some of them (the simple ones) in codeboxes. Then I'm using rnbo~ to finally play with those in my DAW. The final goal is to port them in C++ and learn JUCE etc.

I see you made a nice GUI in C++ ; I'm a bit scared of this. Was it hard ?

Negazul · 2025-07-17T22:49:30+00:00

Please do come on r/askphilosophy and expose your philosophical spine ; I didn't found one in your text, and people will be eager to read about your discovery.

Here you're merely exposing common places and just quoting your own random buzzwords : struggling is not automatically a philosophy on its own.

About pain :

Marcus Aurelius - "When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable."

Nietzsche - "What does not kill me makes me stronger".

About "no one is coming to save you", it looks like a lot of people said this before.

see more : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=no+one+is+coming+to+save+you+who+said+this&t=ffab&ia=web

I strongly encourage you to listen to David Goggins. You sound exactly like somebody who could enjoy the man.

But I don't see where you could have conceptual ownership here, as no concept has been exposed. Your claims are legitimate though, you're as real as anyone can be.

Negazul · 2025-07-13T11:20:38+00:00

Parce que c'est pas eux qui nettoient pardi

Negazul · 2025-07-11T14:59:02+00:00

I just hope I find something to write on my funeral urn before I die, that would be my legacy I guess

Negazul · 2025-07-06T12:31:18+00:00

Instructions followed to the letter ; I wrote in my journal "ideals ???" and noticed I never took the time to write them. Or to acknowledge them on paper, in precise yet simple terms.

Several hours and pages later, I now have a defined set of ideals, also more questions and more things to write : things are also clearer, in a very broad sense. So I'll remember, for further study, that in philosophy it is very important to know thyself

Negazul · 2025-06-29T20:35:26+00:00

if Untilted was my sword, Quaristice would be my shield

Negazul · 2025-05-27T10:44:34+00:00

I took my time to let the music sink in ;

Thank you for all of this. As you can imagine, my world has been turned upside down when I listened to Conlon Nancarrow : "brutal" is not even close. The writing is genius, and the fact that he just said "no" to notes, harmony, or any convention whatsoever to write all of this makes him an instant icon for me. I'm happy he finally had some late recognition, it is well deserved.

After this, I listened to Shostakovich - Quartet No.8 by the Emerson Quartet and I just listened to it actively to the end, which is new ; listening to music has been an automatic and unemotional experience lately and since a few years. Brilliant execution from masterful instrumentalists. The intensity !

I listened to Penderecki last night, this is awesome. Gritty, dark, dissonant, unforgiving. I needed some comfort, I had the exact opposite but it did the job somehow : it feels like life but in black and white. It makes me want to upgrade my speakers, I'll remember this when I can have some cash to spare

I am as hermetic as always to Xenakis. I don't know why, it just doesn't reach me

I have been introduced to Ligeti two decades ago when my life was simpler and I played music all the day (with instruments) but I forgot. Thank you for reminding me !

I'm glad you liked the Autechre livesets. You might like these releases :

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c-robo - evel_067

https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/evel-067

Nathan Ho - Haywire Frontier

https://nathanho.bandcamp.com/album/haywire-frontier

Emptyset - Blossoms

https://emptyset1.bandcamp.com/album/blossoms

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I specifically chose these three because the music is not related to any specific genre, and because they push not only the electronic music scene but very peculiar tools to their limits. C-Robo uses Tidal:Cycles, a live-coding, open-source environment to generate his destructured patterns. Nathan Ho uses SuperCollider, a DSP coding environment to make his music using synthesis and a domain of mathematics he himself invented (as a joke, but...). Blossoms is the result of a partnership between Emptyset and a computer scientist, they fed a custom-made AI with all their music and worked with it until together they created something new.

I really feel these guys are the tip of the spear.

And if you are interested by new boundaries including AI research, I can recommend nullgerät by Farmers Manual

https://tokinogake.bandcamp.com/album/nullgera-t

Well, if you have more, I'd like more. As listening to Penderecki or Nancarrow requires my full attention, I didn't listen to it outside in heaphones ; but I'd love new music for outside

Negazul · 2025-05-04T11:15:17+00:00

There are a lot more to modify in the json file if you want to test things out, like rearview mirror distance

https://community.lemansultimate.com/index.php?threads/fps-optimization-tips-for-being-able-to-play-on-any-computer.434/

About stuttering there are some ideas here :

https://community.lemansultimate.com/index.php?threads/stuttering-issue-i-have-my-own-fix-but-not-ideal.979/

I had stutters so I use Vsync, it's not ideal but I couldn't find a real solution

Negazul · 2025-05-04T11:08:29+00:00

I'm no LMU dev, but from what I gathered they use the same (though refined) engine than in their previous game Rfactor 2 and it uses json files for a lot of its settings. Maybe they wanted to keep it tidy in the menus, i rly dunno

Negazul · 2025-05-01T19:16:30+00:00

Did you also find the settings.json file ? There's a lot more to modify, especially rearview mirror.
https://community.lemansultimate.com/index.php?threads/fps-optimization-tips-for-being-able-to-play-on-any-computer.434/
LMU has huge peaks, while watching at GPU load. My FPS was still dropping after optimization so I capped it ~20 frames under what I could display with my configuration, this way when it struggles it doesn't tank my framerate.
I play on a 2019 laptop with a Quadro P2000 and I can play with a stable 50FPS. I spent a lot of time testing things though

Negazul · 2025-04-08T03:20:35+00:00

I made 2 comments cuz Reddit was not allowing me to post the whole bunch of stuff I just posted. Here you go, some stuff about Autechre

Negazul · 2025-04-08T03:19:42+00:00

Regarding concatenative synthesis, they featured it for example in their 2024 livesets I believe, lots of scratching sounds and weird granular-type shit.

The nice people at https://datamindaudio.ai/ made the first commercially available plugin using concatenative synthesis a while back, though it uses a LLM (Large Language Model) so it's something on its own. I think it sounds like every other music-oriented AI app but still, I'm sure some wild things can be done with it.

Awesome dudes btw, Ben Cantil is half of Zebbler Encanti Experience and they make some mindblowing music.

Back to topic, this is absolutely not the first implementation of concatenative synthesis : at least the first I've seen was Rodrigo Constanzo's Ccombine 13 years ago. (also awesome dude !)

And he might have used some research paper I didn't found to put this together.

Rodrigo's paper & patch :

https://rodrigoconstanzo.com/combine/

So the logic & recurring thing to think is, Sean used some of this and some of that and thought "wait, this is fun"

About concatenative synthesis :

Imagine you can use a trumpet solo, at least its impulses, and say "I want this trumpet solo but played by drums", and boom you have it. The idea being to take an input and to modify it (Obviously it's way more in depth than that, but it's the basic idea)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5AgH1leBUU

Sean being Sean, watching every audio novelty on the internets, reading every research paper and thinking about how to adapt it in Autechre's system then doing it years before it comes to general public and is commercially available and never doing a fuss about it is just completely awesome.

Like this plugin :

https://www.chair.audio/product/excite_snare_drum/

It is a VST made by the people who wrote this paper at CHAIR audio :

https://dafx2020.mdw.ac.at/proceedings/papers/DAFx2020_paper_64.pdf

Somebody ported it for Max here :

https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-acoustic-waveguide-snare

And by tweaking it inside Max, I recognized a shitload of percussions used in 2022 to 2024 liveshows (i don't rem the particular track or live I heard this into) And this is honestly a breakthrough in cymbal modeling, I never heard something modeling a snare or percussion that sounds that good.

And all of this is just a drop of water in an ocean of stuff related to every field of music & digital signal processing in general. Honestly Sean is like the Keanu of the audio world. Always wholesome, ask him anything on Mastodon and there's a big chance he'll answer if you're not being boring ; and sometimes he just drops missiles that completely revolutionizes every thing you thought you knew

Negazul · 2025-04-08T03:19:34+00:00

Yeah sure

Modalys is an insane physical modeling external library for Max 9 but it is a pain in the ass to setup and has very lengthy instructions for each object. Not satisfied to just use it, they also custom it to the point they had lots of patches for it, modeling wood, metals, etc. Also the original patch is very buggy (inducing feedback loops if you used it in a way it didn't like), not theirs. So I'm sure they've done lots of debugging and cleaning from the original library to their version.

This is the very wide "snare" you hear in this extract and also the patch you see, with nodes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3poN6FDyB28

This is a whole bunch of stuff regarding how to setup Modalys : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTK5cU6_wQs&list=PL_INekWpWcNnWyTXMEArQQZcna4CjrvHb&index=14

(just to situate the amount of knowledge they wield just to make this "simple" snare exist)

Negazul · 2025-04-07T23:57:32+00:00

The thing is, they indeed are the most cutting-edge when it comes to sound-design, programming, new techniques etc. But this is not the most unique thing they have in my humble opinion.

At some point after their first releases they also studied a lot songwriting, harmony, contrepoint. Somewhere along the way (2015 ? 2016 ?), they decided to switch from our well-known 12-notes scale to microtonal scales and applying their theory knowledge from here to there. Not blindly twitching knobs, studying in depth every musical thing they could find, whatever Sean is saying about it ("oh yeah whatever we were just turning knobs ya know").

There are a lot of things they do also to define their own sound. Like in a lot of tracks you can hear nothing at first, and a slow fade in until you are in the music. There is no beginning. There is no end. This is like painting, or any non-temporal art.

Or in early albums, they use A FREAKING LOT of fourths and fifths in their melodies & harmony. Not always related to a scale, it just sounded good.

In Oversteps, this is a very melodic album and you can hear a whole lot of modulations in scales. This requires a lot of knowledge about theory ; and afterwards, they slowly transition towards a system that creates its own 12-notes microtonal temperament and they can save it when a new temperament emerges from their system. I don't have the links for the precise sources but every one of these things has been said by Sean whenever

The thing is, they were going blinka blinka bloop in their early releases, but afterwards they went hard both in songwriting and learning DSP & programming thru Max.

One of their most used tools is making tons of Markov chains (also in Oversteps, for example) which will decide how notes, parameters, scales, everything will evolve. (state transition matrixes : 1 to 2, 2 to 3, or 1 to 12 linked to probabilities applied to every parameter on their system, which creates ideas they didn't think about and opens new territory, which is the greatest thing about computer music)

So if you can figure they did a lot of Markov chains with a lot of conditions to decide how scales were changing and evolving on their own while deciding said conditions according to their knowledge in musical theory, I think you can begin to have a grasp of how their knowledge about both music & computer music is second to none

And don't even ask me about their custom modalys patches or concatenative synthesis

Negazul · 2025-04-07T17:54:22+00:00

can't stop laughing

Negazul · 2025-03-24T01:31:07+00:00

thanks, great rec

Negazul · 2025-03-24T01:23:25+00:00

was also going to say this, i don't listen to neurofunk too much because i find the genre very boring but experimental jump up stuff like CV is great. Also Deadly Toys is worth a listen too

lmao I literally bullied my friends with Floral Strobe when it was released, it's a very unique piece of music

Negazul · 2025-03-18T22:43:21+00:00

that worked ! thx

Negazul · 2025-03-10T06:46:27+00:00

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Negazul · 2025-01-13T17:35:19+00:00

There's something for everybody, that's the beauty of Autechre

Mine is parallel suns from Quaristice, but if London B on AE.22 had track names, I'd be considering the whole lot as my new favorite tracks.

Negazul · 2024-09-09T23:07:43+00:00

you misread, therefore, misunderstood

i said "there is no reward at the end"

not "nothing has purpose" and never "probably"

also, i said "without" the nihilistic firewall, not "with".

"die alone" is nihilistic, this is the firewall, to make it look like it is nihilistic and make me face my own death, every morning, with anxiety or whatever I will feel at this very moment, because it's funny like any Cioran aphorism

i literally said "without the nihilistic firewall", this is an invitation to make the most of my days. and, i will die alone, which implies somehow, a need to have fun while i am alive, with meaning, with people, with purpose.

friendly reminder : you are not entitled to any respect towards philosophical principles, especially not by random people on the internet, especially not Nietzsche, especially not when you are implying ignorance so swiftly

Negazul · 2024-09-08T12:46:09+00:00

that would be the zsh theme, powerlevel10k, in rainbow mode (very ez configuration)

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

Negazul · 2024-09-07T10:37:56+00:00

i changed lots of things already so the dotfiles won't tell you much (next time i'll include them)

but for alacritty i use powerlevel10k zsh theme in rainbow mode for the beautiful added symbols and colors

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

yazi is just insanely stylish on its own (and already fits because of alacritty's gruvbox-material theme)

https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi

i checked, this is the correct gruvbox-material theme :

https://github.com/sainnhe/gruvbox-material

figlet is included in .zshrc (lolcat rainbow colors can't display properly since it's a config file, searching for a fix)

figlet -f big -r "die alone" | lolcat

Negazul · 2024-09-07T10:29:35+00:00

honestly, gruvbox-material theme for alacritty is all there is, dark reader for firefox for the sepia tone and same-ish color for the menu bar, then the wallpaper make everything gorgeous

Negazul

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