Thursday, December 18, 2014

JACK Midi Control from your Android Phone over WiFi

Since my fundraising for my plugin GUIs is more or less bust, I've been thinking more about making music. I can't really stop developing, cause I'm fairly addicted, but I'm trying to ween myself back to just making whatever I want, rather than trying to develop stuff that will change the world. The world doesn't care that much. Anyhow, this blog is no place for bitterness.

But I have been playing with synths a bit more lately and still am really missing my expression controls. Now I could try to use the old touchmidi app I developed, but it only works with my laptop, and I now have a dedicated desktop in the studio to host my synths so I don't have a touchpad to use. I do have several android devices though. They should be great input interfaces. They can display whatever they like on the screen and have a touch interface so you can have arbitrary configurations of buttons, sliders, knobs, whatever. So I decided to figure out how.

Monday, December 8, 2014

Easy(ish) Triple Boot on 2014 Macbook Pro

UPDATE* Feel free to read, but I've since renounced this process and made a new one here.
Nothing is easy. Or perhaps everything is. Regardless, here is how I did it, but first a little backstory:

I got a macbook pro 11,3 from work. I wanted a lenovo, but the boss wants me to do some iOS stuff eventually. Thats fine, cause I can install linux just as easily on whatever. Oh wait.. There are some caveats. Boot Camp seems to be a little picky. Just as well. MIS clowns set up boot camp so I had windows 7 and Yosemite working, but they told me I'm on my own for linux. It seems from the posts I've read about triple booting is that you have to plan it out from the get-go of partitioning, not just add it in as an afterthought. But I also found suggestions about wubi.