This is my self promotional alt, to share my programming projects and some stuff I like that are uncontroversial.

https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid : Microtonal music grid, a 16 step sequencer. Give it a go!

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  • I’ve worked in software development professionally and I am working on some personal projects that I am going eventually share and try to get known.

    Soft launch is when you make something available, but either allow something to just be encounterable, either through the system you are working in , or through search engines and whatnot. The main motive of this is when you have reached a state where it can be used, but you do not want it to be under scrutiny, and to get some feedback from initial users, and to see if it will work as expected in a live environment.

    A “Hard” launch is when you work on publicity, announcements, buy advertising, and generally try to get people to all come and see/use the thing you have completed. There is a release date and you are actively trying to attract people to the thing.

    For example, I’m slowly working my way up the release state for the microtonal grid.

    The first stage of soft launch was just uploading it to Itch.io , without it being listed properly or on the recommendation engine listings. Then I enabled it to be seen through those categories. Then I started posting about it on lemmy. I still need to work on trying to reach out to Xenharmonic wiki to list it on their pages of tools or some kind of use through there. I want to start documenting my projects I am working on in videos and upload them to a schedule.

    The things I need to will keep making the release “harder”.







  • There’s a few scattered vocals throughout the album, especially track 4 , Valisystem A. The vocals there take inspiration from the beach boys, as one of the creative leads for this album is a HUGE fan of BB/Brian Wilson.

    Estradasphere also worked like that, most of the songs were instrumental, but there were some with vocals.

    I wholeheartedly recommend both the whole album and the entire Estradasphere catalog.

    I’m glad you liked the song :)




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    Debian, not a bad idea but where I live I have shared wireless only, so I’d have to install the wireless drivers manually using my phone to search for advice. Not even sure how that’d go. Easier if I had ethernet.

    I installed through wireless. you just set it up as part of the installation process.










  • Plugging something I did : I implemented this on a 16*16 step sequencer. Click the “Conway’s game of life” button to turn on the game of life rules, and whatever you drew on the sequencer will apply the simulation rules and change the music being played.

    https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid

    I do post a bit from this account, but I have another account I make more contributions from. Please let me know if this is bothersome.

    I want to do a bit more before I do a proper launch and try to bring people’s attention to it, but I felt like it would fit this submission.


  • This really sucks. I’ve had a very slow development on personal projects I wanted to do due to shitloads of management of personal issues and I am getting to the point where I can actually do some development during very specific hours.

    My first project is nearing completion, and I wanted to move onto android for the next one as I want to use an arbitary tesselation as a music keyboard, so I basically need a tablet. I don’t want to use mac/ipad because they demand a pile of BS, and it looks like android/google are now doing the same fucking nonsense.

    I feel trapped on android and phones in general because I need them for 2 factor authentication for work/banks/govt id , so this is really awful.