The Washington Post is reporting that the NSA was involved in Vista's security development. Microsoft claims that the agency was involved in testing and the creation of an admin-oriented security guide. I'm not buying it.

The United Kingdom Office of Science and Innovation is predicting a sovereign state for independent autonomous robots.  James Cameron and the Wachowski brothers have yet to comment.

Percussa is developing a tangible music UI based on custom hardware. The technical details on their site are sketchy, but they have some good demo videos up.

Word on the street: Availability starting at Winter NAMM

After years of neglect, I've rebuilt roblogic.net from the ground up. Stronger. Faster. Better. I'm sure my 12 monthly visitors will appreciate it.

Happy new year!

Pirate Cat Radio in California is using some of G-Dub's recent legislation to legally operate a low-power community station in the commercial FM band.

They seem to have a pretty diverse program schedule, running the gamut from Indie rock to radio dramas to an occult talk show.

Take back the airwaves!

Thank you James.

Beat juggling (literally) with reacTIVision:



I could amuse myself with this for days.

Here's an article about the setup

This week I started experimenting with reacTIVision, part of the reacTable* project. ReacTIVision is the object tracking engine, the synthesis and visual feedback portions of reacTable are not open source. The new version of reacTIVision, 1.3, contains a MIDI server with a very flexible configuration scheme. This allows easy mapping of controllers in applications like Ableton Live that don't support OSC, the protocol that reacTIVision has traditionally served.

Here's a quick demo video of reacTIVision controlling Live 6. It's not much of a performance, but you can see the potentential.

I've made some changes to the MIDI server to allow smooth CC interpolation, variable CC quantization, and some statefulness to stop redundant CC messages. This has made the MIDI functionality a bit more music-friendly and reduced the MIDI traffic significantly. Martin's reacTIVision code is very elegant - I'm a novice C++ programmer, but was able to dive right in and start working.

I'm hoping to develop an configurable visual feedback engine along the lines of reacTable that is geared toward controlling applications like Live, Traktor, Reaktor, etc.