The Fedivision Song Contest was a popular event among amateur musicians on the Fediverse. It ran from 2021 to 2024, with musicians from all over the Fediverse writing songs to compete for the glory of winning a contest no one else has ever heard of. These notes are for posterity, and a cautionary tale for anyone else thinking of running a similar contest.
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Deploying the Takahē Fediverse server on Debian 11
I have a Mastodon server, but I’m always on the lookout for more lightweight Fediverse software. Recently I was made aware of Takahē, a Django Fediverse server application written in Python.
The official installation instructions are high-level and require a fair bit of understanding of Linux system administration. In this article I show the individual commands I used to set up my Takahē instance, cockatoot.city.
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Resonator: a Karplus-Strong synth unit for Korg drumlogue
Korg’s drumlogue hybrid drum machine (
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Rompler Cosplay: a multisample patch pack for Korg modwave
Korg’s modwave (2021) is marketed as a wavetable synthesizer, but it’s more than that. As well as being shipped with hundreds of wavetables, it contains thousands of multisamples in its flash storage. Yet in the factory patches the multisamples are seldom used. It feels like they are present in the modwave mainly because they were in the wavestate (2020) already and it wasn’t worth the effort of taking them out.
These multisamples are pretty good and they cover a wide range of sounds. So what’s stopping you using the modwave as a straight sample synth?
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Peer Gynt quilt, Part 4
Number four! The home straight. While I was working on the first three Peer Gynt quilts, I was contemplating and tweaking the quilt design for the fourth movement of the Peer Gynt Suite 1, In the Hall of the Mountain King. This movement is one of the most well-known pieces of classical music and easily evokes a mental image. This is mine.
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Peer Gynt quilt, Part 3
Of the four movements in Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite 1, three have titles which immediately put an image in the mind. The second movement, Åse’s Death, was the most problematic to express as a quilt.
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Korg opsix 2.0 effect in focus: Comb filter
The third of the Korg opsix firmware 2.0 effect operators that I’m covering in this series is the Comb filter effect operator. Related to the Short delay operator, the Comb filter is well suited to physical modelling of sounds.
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Korg opsix 2.0 effect in focus: Short delay
One of the ten new effect operators in the Korg opsix 2.0 firmware is Short delay. This effect, while technically correctly named, has many more uses than its name suggests, including some in physical modelling.
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