MIDI Looper?

I’m starting to think I’d like a MIDI sequencer that behaves somewhat like a looper, doing the following: Capture a short sample of a MIDI performance, including key velocity data. Quantize to a tempo set by a “tap tempo” pedal continually and dynamically throughout the capture, rather than to an LED or click track. Loop and play back, [...] [...]

Repairing a Patch Cord

Recently a couple of pieces of audio processing equipment I’ve bought used have had bad left channels. After recognizing the pattern, I finally thought to swap out the patch cord I had left plugged into the “test” channel on my keyboard mixer, and voila! Left channels fixed. I’ve always been curious about the construction [...] [...]

WTPA2 Initial Hardware Release Announced! With a Pretty Case, too.

First beta WTPA 2 release date got announced on the Narrat1ve Forum today. I promise to have pictures of a more-or-less-working printed circuit board HERE by July 1st. I’ve already got a rep at Future who I think can save me some dough in parts sourcing, which is good, and I’ve got initial hardware specs [...] [...]

DiscussIT

In this wide-ranging discussion, Joe Grand reminisces about the L0pht, and moves on to more recent interests, including his fascination with hardware security. [...]

Arduino interface to SD Card

Finally managed to interface to a SDcard to the Arduino. There are several “tutorials” and even libraries written for the Arduino, but my objective was not to use any Arduino library or specific feature (like the integrated SPI port), otherwise porting… [...]