ThisCow Posts

April 8, 2019 / Gears

Following the article on the 1-bit engine, this one will describe the workflow to compose, convert and play a file from the garvuino SD card using the AY-3-8910 emulation. This…

December 29, 2018 / Gears

Garvuino is a neat PCB board for creating musics, sounds and chiptunes, either through programmation, soundtracker or live recording (midi). It’s open-source hardware, so you can modify, hack, have fun…

November 25, 2018 / Videos

Le biniou is a really cool software that generates live visuals. Music can be used to interact with it ! The whole stuff (Audio & video) has been done on…

November 23, 2018 / Gears

I have bought an Arturia Microbrute ! An affordable little analog synth. But… the people from Arturia are not really nice with Linux as they are not providing a software…

November 14, 2018 / Music

Recently, I have bought an Arturia Microbrute. My 2 daughters (4 and 7) were really happy to play with it. As they were nagging me while I was discovering my…

November 11, 2018 / Videos

10 years ago, I was working quite a lot with puredata. Especially, for real time videos and veejaying. I have just released the patch I was using : bastardvj !…

October 28, 2018 / Music

In this track, I have used 2 VSTs (DR-910 & FB-3300), a Korg Kaossilator, a Yamaha Pacifica and Guitarix, Helm, Zynaddsubfx and, of course, Ardour and some plugins. I’m not showing…

July 21, 2018 / Music

I had fun playing with some famous Duke Nukem quotes. This musical hack was created on Linux with Adljack (an OPL3/OPN2 synthesizer) and Festival (for the speech synthesis). Using RaySession (a manager for…

May 19, 2018 / Gears

I have acquired this synth more than 15 years ago but until now I was mostly it as a MIDI master keyboard (yeah…). The main reason for that is that…

April 1, 2018 / Events

The SynthFest is a great event that occurs every year in Nantes (France). The  program is huge (demonstrations, concerts and workshops). You can meet a incredible amount of great people…