I am building a new "SessionMixer" application for my Linux audio setup. The goal is to provide configurable, ergonomic controls over both the audio hardware mixing (onboard in my Focusrite Scarlett, for now) and also software-layer mixing (PipeWire) under one roof.

It's early days, but a lot of the hard problems are already cracked.

Will be released as open source. Hoping it might be useful to extend for other audio hardware.

#linux #audio #linuxaudio #studio #music #production #software

A better look at SessionMixer, the desktop cue mixing application I posted about earlier.

github.com/michaelquigley/sess…

Work in progress.

#linux #audio #linuxaudio #golang #ui

#Noisevember! I revisited the Littlewood polynomial sound from day 2 of Noisevember. I thought to investigate a different sort of polynomial. Here, instead of polynomials with coefficients all ±1, the polynomials have coefficient ±1/(n+1) on the x^n term. As before, all roots of all such 15th degree polynomials are considered. (I really should create a gallery of these root plots so we can easily compare them.) Along the way, I realized I was making an error with the way I created "random" stereo that introduced a bunch of unneeded noise. So that's something! I'll have to go back and replace the Littlewood polynomial sound. soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conro…

Here's a plot of the roots (essentially the spectrogram of the sound).

#noise #sound #audio #math #maths #mathematics #polynomials #roots

A new track for #Noisevember. This one turned out really well, if I may say so. I used a piece of a field recording I did that includes a trombone and an escalator. This track is entirely in the spirit of tape music: though done digitally, it could, theoretically be done entirely with tape (with many, many, many splices). I hope you enjoy it!

soundcloud.com/matthew-m-conro…

#trombone #electroacoustic #sound #audio

trombonscalator

Made using short piece of a short field recording of an elevator and a trombone in a parking garage.

^SoundCloud