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Blokdust – build synths, manipulate samples and create sound environments

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71 pointsm3Lith14 comments

Easily the coolest thing I've seen today(and I just finished doing some Quickbooks integration work so the bar is real high* )

I can picture this as a physical building block type toy where you plug the pieces in to a powered base and the results pump to speakers(or an audio out).

Would be great for annoying parents, and the spinning lasers would be awesome for optometrists!

* That was sarcasm, but the "coolest thing" statement was 100% honest

It's open source too :) https://github.com/BlokDust/BlokDust

Synth signal chains and CAD seem to share the same code flow as an abstract syntax tree iiuc. The elegance with which this is put together could be applied to all three of these problem domains...

Examples for anyone looking for them are here: https://guide.blokdust.com/example-saves/

Beautiful website, pity sound doesn't work on Firefox @ GNU/Linux.

Holy crap, this is cool.

That's really cute.

Kinda cool. I'll stick to my tracker for now, though. MilkyTracker, if you're curious. OpenMPT isn't on Linux, Renoise is expensive and weird, and SchismTracker is... SchismTracker. I could never get used to it.

Sunvox is where it's at.

Sunvox is great! The generator window is sort of like this, but a lot more features. Have you played with his other creations Virtual ANS, or Nature Oscillator [1]? Trippy stuff.

I see this being more like Pure Data, or Max/MSP, but they have a lot going on with video, audio, OSC, lots of stuff [2].

[1] http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/

[2] https://puredata.info/

Sunvox is awesome, highly recommend Caustic for another great on-the-go DAW.

If you can afford the implicit ~$40-$60 pricetag, (20 for the hardware, and $20 for a cart, and $40 for a flasher (semi-optional), and $0.01 for the software itself) than lsdj is excellent, provided it's what you want. If it isn't, than go for something else.

Sunvox isn't really my thing: LSDJ is pretty awesome, though.

speaking of, thank you for reminding me. i bought it ages ago and still haven't really used it

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