Back To Work Open Thread...

Adam is back from the exotic orient, so we’re about to get back to slogging away at Discord 3. As usual, doing an update of this magnitude is almost more difficult than just making a new plug-in entire, especially when we’re shoehorning in major engine changes. But that said, once Adam gets over his jetlag (which, historically, takes about 11 months) we’ve got a fairly short path to completion on this one.

Also too (God, I love that phrase), I’m only a couple mixes away from being done on the Micronaut EP; naturally, I’ll have full information on that when it is completed.

And finally, I made fairly good progress on DronestationX over the weekend, so the three AI readers that have iPads will have something new to play with pretty shortly. I’m doing the UI entirely procedurally; it is a PNG-free zone (except for the little icon thing, which necessarily has to be a PNG, according to Apple Canon.) This is kind of interesting, but let me state for the record that giving things rounded corners increases the difficulty of making a procedural UI by an order of magnitude. I’ll have a screenshot soon; my major goal with this was not to shoehorn a picture of an analog instrument on to the iPad, but rather to revel in the paradigm of the device. I’m writing this synth specifically for that paradigm, in order to take advantage of the form-factor, rather than trying to work around it.

(And that will streamline the fuck out of your workflow.)

Anyhow, this is an open thread. The subject, if I may be so bold, is blatant self-promotion. We haven’t done this in a while. This is the opportunity to promote your music, or that of someone you respect that others might not know about. The only rule is that you can’t just throw a link. Sell that shit!