mdsp @ smartelectronix

Livecut 1.0 is on its way

2007-04-03T18:50:00.000+02:00

I'm working on the next version of livecut. It will have a brand new interface and the most important, it will have a timeline display of what's actually happening inside the beast.

EM: Livecut is download of the month

2007-03-01T18:37:00.000+01:00

The mars 2007 issue of Electronic Musician features Livecut as download of the month

http://emusician.com/web_clips/web_clips_0307/

Livecut/Fire preset bug fixed

2006-12-12T12:01:00.000+01:00

I think I've found one reason that could explain why presets are not recalled correctly in the current version of Fire and Livecut.

There's a very silly bug in program export but not in bank export.

It produces something like that:

[preset]name="your preset name here"

instead of:
[preset]
name="your preset name here"

you can download the new version from theirs respective page, I've kept the same download name.

AudioUnit users, If you have some aupresets made with the previous Livecut 0.9 version, the better is to delete them from your preset folder.

From the tests I've made so far, preset/banks load/save correctly on PC and Mac, VST and AU. And saving/restoring with the host song too.

Have fun!

KVR Developper challenge: I'm 3rd!!!

2006-11-01T10:37:00.000+01:00

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the kvraudio developper challenge, ended yesterday evening and the results are now public.

I got the 3rd place!!

thanks to everyone that voted for me. and to all the other developpers.
Please have a look at all the entries, many are really worth it. and they're all free.

LiveCut and Fire now works as AU on MacIntel

2006-10-26T12:19:00.000+02:00

LiveCut 0.9 VST/AU macosx UniversalBinary
Fire VST/AU macosx UniversalBinary

The AudioUnit versions now works on MacIntel.

AU bug on MacIntel finally found

2006-10-25T18:58:00.000+02:00

hi,

I've finally found the bug that made the AudioUnit version of Livecut and Fire crash on MacIntel.

I'll make a release as soon as I have some extra time to compile, test, package and upload these to the web site.

Fire (kvr developer challenge)

2006-10-02T19:14:00.001+02:00

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hi,

I've entered the kvr developer challenge my entry is called Fire.
And I winned the 3rd place.

It's a sort of multitap delay with panning and controllable morphing between settings.
Instead of controlling each echo separately, there's a bunch of parametrized functions that you can use to generate various kinds of effects from weird reverb to bouncing delays to sonic textures.

downloads
Fire VST win32
Fire VST/AU macosx UniversalBinary

Away from the computer

2006-07-13T19:20:00.000+02:00

I'll be away until the 1st of September.
So be patient if you emailed me or made a donation and still have no response.
I'll probably be somewhere taking a bath between Barcelona and south-west of France.

LiveCut 0.9 is there

2006-07-10T11:53:00.000+02:00

direct route to the download page

new features:

Universal Binary
AudioUnit
VST 2.4
Fadein/Fadeout for declicking
Cut-aware BitCrusher
Cut-aware CombFilter

bugs:

panning fixed

Presets are not backward compatible
your settings made with LiveCut 0.8 won't be imported properly in the new version.

new layout

2006-05-12T09:52:00.000+02:00

I just changed the site layout. Let me know if you like it.
If you have suggestions about improvements I can do to make it easier to navigate, don't hesitate to leave a comment.

Mdspedia

2006-03-08T23:21:00.000+01:00

Due to the lack of documentation for my plugins, I've decided to launch a documentation wiki.

And guess what? I've called it mdspedia...
Not a wonderful name, I agree, but you go the idea.

Classic tools update: GUI + MacOSX port

2005-12-29T12:21:00.000+01:00

All the classic tools are now available for both windows and macosx.
with a dedicated GUI.
And there's a new plugin: DuckVerb, similar as DuckDelay but with a reverb.

MdspDuckVerb
MdspFlanger
MdspDuckDelay
MdspCompressor

AnalogDelay 1.0.1

2005-12-27T18:57:00.000+01:00

Finally there is an update for AnalogDelay which is now donationware.
It's still free and fully functionnal, but there is a nag screen on the GUI.
if you make a donation for it I'll send you a version without the nag screen.

now every parameter is properly recalled when opening the GUI
knob mode is relative linear (no more annoyings jumps when editing the GUI)
sync button changes now properly updates the other value display and knob positions
changing the max delay now doesn't changes the delay unless the delay is higher than max delay
midi notes input no more changes the parameters

more infos ...

Simple demixing

2005-11-15T00:14:00.000+01:00

This is a commandline program that lets you decompose a sound into additive components in the spectral domain.

what it does is:
1) generate the sound's spectrogram
2) decompose the spectrogram into N layers
3) resynthesize each layer and the residual to a separate soundfile

usage:
nmfdemix [-m] [-s] [-o long] [-c double] [-i long] [-f long] [--] [-v] [-h] filename #components

where:
-o , --overlap overlap factor (default 4)
-c , --criteria stopping criteria (default 0.001)
-i , --maxiterations max number of iterations (default 1000)
-f , --fftsize fftsize (default 4096)
-m, --matrixout output W and H matrices
-s, --silent don't be verbose

download
nmfdemix for windows XP
nmfdemix for mac OSX

warning:
this tool takes some time to converge to a good solution and can be very heavy on CPU.
I only have tested it with files containing a few bars and less than 10 components/layers.

no updates for some time

2005-09-12T09:35:00.000+02:00

I'm back from vacations, but I have a terribly busy schedule until mid october, so don't expect updates or release until there.

Greeeeeeeeeeeed!

2005-07-29T10:36:00.000+02:00

I wasn't supposed to do that just before taking my vacations, but I couldn't resist writing this thingie.
Question1: What is it and what does it?
hint: here is an audio example
Question2: what is the original sample taken from?

LiveCut

2005-07-24T13:28:00.000+02:00

Livecut is based on BBCut the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider

The BBCut Library began out of work on an algorithm to simulate the automatic cutting of breakbeats in the style of early jungle or drum and bass Nick Collins.

Livecut is only a small subset of what is possible with BBCut, but as it is available as a VST plugin, it is much easier to start experimenting with it.

It is a live beat-slicer but instead of manipulating equal chunks of audio like most beatslicer do, it works on the notion of audio cuts whose length and number of repetition depends on the context and the cutting procedure. cuts are organized in blocks which then form a phrase. see Image below. And each phrase can be ended by a roll or fill.

Downloads:

LiveCut-0.9.dll.zip win32 VST 2.4 Not Backward compatible
LiveCut-0.9.dmg Universal Binary for VST 2.4 and AudioUnit Not Backward compatible. The AudioUnit version now works on MacIntel.

Sounds:

Documentation
Livecut page on the mdspedia wiki documentation

Press

MusicTech magazine april 2006, page 29-30

It seems that LiveCut isn't a very unique name so if you were after live concerts or video editing, maybe you'll find what you were looking for on one of those 2 sites:
http://www.livecut.com/ or http://livecut.sourceforge.net/

LiveCut 0.8 summer beta preview

2005-07-23T15:19:00.000+02:00

win32 LiveCut-0.8-beta-preview.dll.zip
macosx LiveCut-0.8-beta-preview.dmg.zip

due to high user demand I've decided to release a beta preview of Livecut for this summer so that you can glitch when I'll be in vacations :D

There are some change I'd like to make like adding factory presets and working on the GUI, but that will be after the summer.

ScanSynth

2005-07-05T16:38:00.000+02:00

I've found the time to go further with my scanned synthesis algorithm, and it now work as a VSTi with it's OpenGL animation on the GUI and some sliders to tweak the string thanks to Niall Moody's VSTGL and MultiGUI classes.

soon to be released

check this out: Glitch

2005-07-04T15:59:00.000+02:00

check this link http://dblue.illformed.org/?dir=code/glitch.

This is a command line tool called glitch (I didn't knew about until now) doing all kinds of nasty cuts and effects to your loops. A must-have

added WarpCutProc to LiveCut

2005-06-14T21:14:00.000+02:00

I've added a bunch of new parameters and playing mode to BBCut and LiveCut.
and here is another example

BBCut and LiveCut

2005-06-02T18:55:00.000+02:00

I've started making 2 VST plugins dedicated to breakbeat Cutting inspired by Nick Collins library for SuperCollider called BBCut.
thus the name BBCut for the instrument and LiveCut for the effect.
I have finally something roughly working and here is a demo.

BTW it seems that LiveCut isn't a very unique name so if you were after live concerts or video editing, maybe you'll find what you were looking for on one of those 2 sites:
http://www.livecut.com/ or http://livecut.sourceforge.net/

Fre(a)koscope 0.8 public beta

2005-03-25T15:59:00.000+01:00

get it here

the Fre(a)koscope is coming....

2005-03-03T02:05:00.000+01:00

I've slightly modified Bram's S(m)exOscope to display the Spectrum instead of the waveform thus the name Fre(a)koscope.

here are some pictures showing how it will look like:

Modus audio sample

2005-01-07T18:10:00.000+01:00

I've made this little example very quickly playing a midifile of chick corea and then playing with the presets and the parameters
I know it clips from time to time. hear it now.