ricardocabellov5.5

Status:
6 days left until Inspire08
Base code

hebereke

Status:
7 days left until Inspire08
Base code and Uh!!

Neither I had any real progress yesterday :( And I only have one more week. I hope this 3-day weekend ends up like one of those super productive ones. Still have to sort out the timer I'm afraid. I could do without it, maybe, but that won't go well with the tune.

On top of that, I also remembered that as we used to have with bcnparty, this year D/// is also supposed to follow a theme. Will be hard to include that on the demo/tune too.

Uhmm....

We implemented a bit of a automation over xplsv.tv some weeks ago. Until then I was daily picking the video of the day. Now I "map" the month with a selection (still handpicked) of the videos, and then our php system does all the mailings at 00:00 every day. You wouldn't believe what a relief it was after doing the hand picking of a video every day during 4 years :S!

When we were thinking about how to implement the feature we considered setting up a Cron on the hosting, however, we quickly guessed that if the site had about 207,045 hits per day (207,045/24/60/60 = 2.39), so 2 hits per second, these are enough visits as to make the user launch these actions indirectly when visiting the site I would say ;)

The funny thing is that after checking the logs, most of the times the user agent of who launched the action happens to be a bot. So, who needs a Cron when we have Google bot? ;)

Status:
8 days left until Inspire08
Base code

Still no progress. Is not looking very well... I'm stuck with the sync/timer code. I'm trying to find the proper way to get the elapsed time of the tune in milliseconds with jorbis.

By now I'm reading the basics of Ogg so I know a bit more of what's going on, and also following some tutorials for introduction. I'm starting to get used to reading Java, so maybe I'll sort this bit soon and start having fun coding some effects :S

Status:
9 days left until Inspire08
Music "done", time to code now

So, Bath was good, too good that I did nothing apart from walk and relax :P I managed to reach to an acceptable level with the tune today tho.

inspire08_03_07.ogg

The end is pretty dull, but sounds good enough to me. So I'll leave that part for now and concentrate on coding. I still haven't find the way for getting a timer from the music :/

Status:
12 days left until Inspire08
Still with the music

Well, the music is really consuming a lot of time already. But I think I'm getting somewhere near to satisfaction.

inspire08_03_05.ogg

Gargaj suggested some drum tweaks that I gotta try, but overall the music seems to be well received.

I'm going to be away for 3 days tho, I'll try to work a bit on the coding side with the iBook, I hope I can make it compile there without much trouble. A shame that I would be using MacOS during these days, but I'm not really up for installing Ubuntu on a PPC, neither on the MacBookPro right now.

Status:
13 days left until Inspire08
Music

OPS! Was that a day?! I guess that's what happens on 25 :P

1. Go to the Synaptic Package Manager, search for "m-audio", you'll find midisport-firmware. Install.

I think that after installing midisport-firmware Ubuntu should already detect the devices and remap them, but as seem that it's not doing it, then:

2. Open a Terminal, and type "lsusb". If the device is connected you should find something like Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0763:1014 Midiman

3. Type this (but with your bus/device): sudo fxload -D /dev/bus/usb/005/005 -s /usr/share/usb/maudio/MidiSportLoader.ihx -I /usr/share/usb/maudio/MidiSportKS.ihx

It should be similar for other M-Audio devices. Now I can use my old Oxygen 8 keyboard with Aldrin :D

WOAHHHH!!!

Status:
14 days left until Inspire08
Music

Ok, I did some more progress with the tune. It's still not done but it has more parts and melodies, need to fix how some parts go in and out, improve the mixing, and even reconsider if I'm really putting that much melody or not. We'll see...

inspire08_03_03.ogg

At this point I've also came up with an idea that could work based on the resources I have at the moment, I just need to put texture to a triangle and do some more tests... Tomorrow will be another day.