Oh, Everything Is a Sequence!

The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) was “founded in 1964 by N. J. A. Sloane”, which is a rather startling claim to make about a website, but in 1964 it wasn’t “Online”. Anyway, it’s an initially file cards, later punched cards, later published books, and now online database of sequences of integers, 345,080 of […]

Im in ur MIDI snoopin ur messages

I’m looking into building a MIDI to CV module — because everything I know of that’s commercially available fails to meet my needs one way or another — and decided I wanted to take a look at what my various MIDI controllers are actually sending. So I breadboarded a MIDI snooper. Initially it was just […]

USB Midi keyboard, MuseScore, and Linux

Just because this stuff isn’t obvious: I have my M-Audio KeyStudio 25 keyboard working as an input device for MuseScore under Ubuntu 16.04. Steps I used: Plugged in the keyboard. Started MuseScore. I had version 2.0.2 installed because that’s what Ubuntu Software Center finds and installs. Edit > Preferences > I/O. Checked PortAudio. Nothing obvious […]

MIDI smash

I’ve been looking into why Melody Assistant and GarageBand seem to have trouble communicating on the subject of pitch bend. Turns out, Melody Assistant puts a pitch bend range of +-24 semitones in the MIDI files it writes. GarageBand, on the other hand, apparently ignores this and assumes +-2 semitones. Thus all pitch bends are […]