RLPF.ar

Saturday, the last piece of my workstation arrived -- a 30-watt amplifier to drive my favorite Tannoy near field monitors (which I like so much that I brought them with me from the US). No more headphones for working!

If you look really closely in the middle, you can see SuperCollider running in Ubuntu. I'm starting to like Ubuntu better for SC programming than the Mac, mainly because of the graphic interface. With Emacs as the code editor, the GUI runs as a separate program. On the Mac, I have to switch explicitly between Emacs and the GUI -- lots of command-tabbing -- because the Mac organizes its windows by application. In Linux, windows are just windows, regardless of which process created them. If I open a class browser, it pops to the front immediately -- whereas on the Mac, it appears behind the editor and I have to cmd-tab to see it. Tiresome.

Department of unexpected results: I spent some time looking for Linux drivers for my Novation Remote 25, but couldn't find anything except for some years-old forum posts. Well, no harm in trying -- so I plugged it in and did "lsusb" to see what devices were on the USB tree. To my surprise, Ubuntu identified the Novation right away! OK... but will this carry over to SuperCollider? As a matter of fact, it did; the device reads correctly in the MIDIClient source list. So, now I have full, mouse-free control over mixing, active processes and control parameters, as pain-free as any operating system could get.