Neglecting the Internet
by Jeremy on December 23rd, 2009
I have been neglecting the internet lately. Poor, lonely internet. I’m sorry.
I’ve been asked: Am I ok? What have I been up to?
I’m awesome, of course.
My friends Phil and Stephen taught me to fly this summer. Here’s a sweet video of my first solo flight that James shot in August. And here’s a helmet cam video of my relaxing seventh flight from late September. Awesome.
I’ve also been making music. As usual, I have dozens of of bad ideas. Here are a few sketches: blues in a dance suckers3 (with darkmatter) hating your job heavy shit now we are getting somewhere one solo too long
I played bass for Elephant Train at a super fun show last weekend. Jessi Nicholson played a sweet set, too. So good. Looking forward to more rock and roll mayhem, that is for sure. Elephant Train has more shows in January and March.
Booby Trap and the Tiger-Skin Thursdays, are you ready?
Sunday is My Birthday and I don’t want to spend it in a mental hospital
by Jeremy on August 6th, 2009
It’s been 11 years since Big Brother released the notorious Blank Years. The band went into live performance mode- went international, imploded into a costumed fireball of booze, drugs, tight pants, loose women and parking tickets. Several of the members quit smoking cigarettes. Others started. Most of them were kicked out of other bands. I hope someone has some video.
Throughout that reckless frenzy Big Brother was working on what is easily their best record to date. Recorded over a decade in Caledonia, Chicago, Hamilton, and Turkey Point, it’s a beautiful cross-section of crap.
Listen to Sunday is My Birthday and I don’t want to spend it in a mental hospital on the internet, for free, right now.
And thanks for all the birthday wishes.
Atlantis Skins
by Jeremy on July 30th, 2009
Ahh summer. I’ve put a beer holder on the front of my bike, and a rack for my sonofhibachi on the back. It’s been hot, and I’ve been in the ocean a lot. I’ve now been kicked out of 4 bodies of water in this town for inflatables- but last night security was unable to detect the water wings on my ankles.
Limeflavour made some sweet skins for Atlantis. I’ve added them to my skin pack, which you can download here.
You also want to get Altantis 0.9p again, as I fixed a tiny little PNG render bug. You can get it here.
Enjoy!
Atlantis VSTi Beta 0.9p
by Jeremy on July 12th, 2009
While I was out of town, Ronnie van Wijgerden, J G Tatton, Kaspar Torn and Gard Paulsen donated a SunVox license, a vegetarian pizza with peperoni, a coffee press and an Ohsweken Speedway hat. That was awesome of them.
SunVox is rad, the best portable tracker I know of.
So, hat on, fueled up, tuned out- and we have a new Atlantis build for you.
Here’s what’s new:
- PNG support
You can download Atlantis 0.9p here. And you should read the documents, even if they are a little outdated.
Atlantis VSTi Beta 0.9o
by Jeremy on June 21st, 2009
Rich Orth is the new Time Pilot champion. He got 531500 while drunk a week ago. I have not been able to get my crown back yet, but I will. Just you wait, Rich.
I haven’t got any more donations in a while, so I sponsored a new build of Atlantis myself. It’s serious sunset season at my beach, so I bought a cheap radical flyer to throw around with my friends. On top of that, I have joined a fierce bicycle gang. Summer rules.
Here’s what you get in Atlantis 0.9o:
- mousewheel support is back in
- delay module display is back to the old box style. flashing made people twitch. you may need to tweak your skins.
You can download it here. Enjoy!
Atlantis VSTi Beta 0.9n
by Jeremy on June 10th, 2009
It’s been exciting times. Beach season is in full swing. Regardless, Pendle Poucher donated a really nice sandwich so here’s a new build.
Before I get to what is new, I need to mention an old feature that lots of people ask about. On any selection button (waveform, modulator, algorithm, file, program, etc.), you can right click to bring up a context menu. If you right drag vertically, you can scrub settings. This is much nicer than the prev/next buttons a lot of people ask for. Try it.
This build is all about bugfixes. Seems like 0.9l and 0.9m had some serious issues.
- fixed sample-and-hold mode for noise lfo
- fixed old presets loading with wrong shapers
- fixed number of voices selection
- fixed polyphony cut-out bug
- potential fix for keyjazz mode in buze, although it damages mousewheel support
- now double-buffering all renders
Special thanks to the hard working testers, especially Joseph Drushal who really gives a shit about having his old presets work correctly, and Hiroto Sakahara who wants the number of voices specified correctly.
So, go download Atlantis 0.9n. And read the documentation here. Check out Limeflavour’s skin, too.
Modnation Racers
by Jeremy on June 6th, 2009
Will and James did a sweet job of presenting our game on Sony’s stage at e3 earlier this week. Here’s a video of their presentation. Awesome!
Atlantis VSTi Beta 0.9m
by Jeremy on June 2nd, 2009
Holy Crap! 坂原 洋人, Tomasz Wąsik and Steve Faulkner pitched in enough for the company to purchase 2 pairs of red & blue 3d glasses, a Time Pilot flyer and an IBM t-shirt from ebay, increasing my nerd score by over 200 points. On top of Oliver Thomas’s 6 pack of Blue Buck, it was enough to motivate me to give you guys my favorite iteration of the synth yet.
So, here’s what’s new in Atlantis 0.9m:
- fixed repeatverb limiter distortion
- added phase offset slider
- works great with saw lfo
- updated file format
- waveforms now store path
- made ui skinnable
- and improved every module
- updated button mouse controls
- power: left click entire area
- context menu: right click
- selection: right drag or mousewheel
- wave window phase: left drag
- extened delay length 4x
- rescaled global volume
- fxp & fxb support
- single preset files (ass, asf)
- improved stability on startup (constructor race conditions and buffers)
- better anti-denormal code for phaser, filters, octaver, chorus and flanger.
- new FM preset waveforms with less harmonic content
- preset browsing
- mousewheel support for
- sliders
- selection buttons
- delay input
- help link button
- a way to name programs!
- left click for a dialog with patch name and comments
- added author and category fields to programs.
You can download Atlantis 0.9m here and an example skin here. Extract skins.zip into a your Data Folder/skins. Eg: My Documents\Atlantis\skins .
Time Pilot is the best single-player arcade game ever. My personal best is 386600 on the cocktail machine at work. I’ve seen Will Ho score 329000 and Rich Orth get over 263000. And that thing only has a 4-way stick.
Atlantis Financials
by Jeremy on May 6th, 2009
In the last year, 4 people have tried to donate money to encourage Atlantis development.
Brian Velenchenko, 坂原 洋人,and Steve Faulkner have all tried to give me money, but due to my own internet incompetence, the transactions were incomplete. I do appreciate the gesture- until this morning I thought no one had bothered to press that little yellow button. You guys rock.
So that makes Oliver Thomas the first official Atlantis donor. I’ve spent his money on beer, which will help fuel the finishing touches on some long overdue GUI refactoring.
The next release is looking awesome. I don’t want to spoil it, but I think you are going to like it.
And thanks to my friend Nigel for that sweet photo of me popping an egyptian tindie up at Seymour last month. Rad times.
Fatass z80 sourcecode
by Jeremy on April 24th, 2009
I stumbed upon the old Fatass z80 sourcecode. If any gameboy color hackers out there want to play with it, here it is. Good luck.
Fatass is a music tracker I wrote for the gameboy color in 2000. It’s been used to author music for games, and it’s audio engine has been published in several games. It is very powerful and awesome.
You can find more information, and the compiled binary on the Downloads page.
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