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This is a refresh of my personal site. Currently, it only has a “Best Of” from my old personal site, stay tuned for more to come. Staque
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SEAR-RL-4
So big SEAR-RL new update. After a long time I have it running with ARKit. Video below of the highlights. But for those of you which are TL/DW here are the highlights: Running on iPad Pro 2020 with the LiDAR sensor. Entirely ARKit based. Core SEAR-RL uses a brand new AudioUnit based synthesis engine of … Read More “BIG SEAR-RL Update.” »
Accessibility, Audio-Programming, AudioKit, MISC, SynthOne
I helped out the AudioKit guys make their SynthOne project accessible so it plays well with Apple’s VoiceOver. The version with the new accessibility features went live today. I am really of proud of this one because music software is not exactly known for being super accessible, and I finally got to work on a … Read More “SynthOne now with Accessibility!” »
Accessibility, Audio-Programming, AudioKit, SynthOne
Staque’s ‘Non-impaired guide to setting up an iPad for Accessibility Testing’ Now for people who do not have to use VoiceOver regularity on an iPad, getting it going can be intimidating. However, there is a really simple thing a non-impaired person can do to allow you to experiment and test VoiceOver and without it becoming … Read More “How to Set Up Voice-Over on iPad for AudioKit SynthOne Testing” »
CS-585-Final-Reflections
I first that to say this has been the most interesting part of this project. My initial thoughts and inspiration for this project was to use the OS X Start Up Chime as a sampled instrument for the bass line. This idea came from an old article Tim Whitwell posted on his informative, no longer … Read More “The Mystery of the Mac Start Up Chime.” »
CS-585-Final-Reflections
The Intel Bong. Sorry about the delay, end of the semester and projects are adding up. Ok originally, I wanted to write about the Mac Start Up sound first, but that has turned into an interesting journey unto itself. So I am going to hold off telling about that and start with the Intel Bong … Read More “The Intel Bong” »
CS-585-Final-Reflections
Thoughts on I-V-iv-V One reason I wanted to use Pachelbel’s Canon, is because it has a very well known chord progression. The chord progression for Pachelbel’s Canon is I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V. As noted by comedian Rob Paravonian, it could be considered the first pop song. There is some truth to that, because a shortening Pachelbel’s Canon chord … Read More “Thoughts on Pachabel’s Canon” »
CS-585-Final-Reflections
So the first thing I needed to do for this project was to get the music for Pachelbel’s Canon. Now, the initial thought was I could get a copy of the sheet music and enter the music myself. However, in the modern age we have the great invention of MIDI so I wondered if there … Read More “The MIDI File” »
CS-585-Final-Reflections
CS-585 Final Running Blog This is just to introduce, to anyone interested, this is a reflection blog I will be keeping in part of the requirements for my CS 585 final project. The formal title for the class is “Science Fiction and Computer Ethics”. The class covers a variety of computer ethics issue using science … Read More “Introduction to CS-585 Final Project.” »