Re: Powerful SURGE synth for Mac and Windows is now free

Walmik — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:15:10 -0000

For Mac users, I m sharing the VST3 and the AU component that I built by following the steps on the Github page. Since it s built for my machine, it may not work for others, but if you still wanna try it, I m sharing it here. Try pasting in your Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/(choose either Component or VST folder).

AU: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r...
VST3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r...

If that doesnt work out then these are the steps I followed (simplified for folks not into programming). Happy new year!

1. Download xcode from the App store - it s free and it s pretty huge so you wanna start it and go back to tweaking your kick drum sound or work on your snare's EQ :P

2. Make sure you have CommandLineTools, to do that, open up your terminal and run this command blindly:
xcode-select --install
(it will install to /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/)

3. At this point you will have "git" installed because of step 2. Confirm executing this command in your terminal:
git --version
If git is installed then you ll see some version like this
git version 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)
If not, then it ll ask you if it should install git (obviously allow it)

4. Download "premake version 5" from here: https://premake.github.io/d.... Download it to your Downloads folder.
It s a compressed file called premake-5.0.0-alpha13-macosx.tar.gz Mac OS knows how to unpack it.. Just double click it. It will unpack to a file called "premake5" (it will have a terminal icon)

5. Copy the "premake" file from step 4 to usr/local/bin. To do that, go to your Downloads folder in the terminal by typing
cd ~/Downloads/
Now run the copy (cp) command like this
cp premake5 /usr/local/bin

6. Now we need to get the surge folder from github.com In your terminal run this command:
git clone https://github.com/kurasu/s...
This will fetch the files and place them in a folder called "surge". Enter that folder (in the terminal) by typing:
cd surge
Then type this:
./build-osx.sh
Let it finish it s process.

7. Assuming everything went alright, open xcode on your computer. On the bottom right corner of xcode you will see the option for opening a project. Use that to navigate to the "surge" folder (acquired in step 6) and open it.
Xcode will do it's own indexing / processing, which will take a while. (you can see it s indexing in the top area of the window)
You will see 2 yellow error icons. Yellow means a harmless error ;) After the indexing is completed, click on them one by one and thet will tell you to "Update to recommended settings". Click the perform changes button for both yellow errors.

8. Now the VST3 and AU will be available inside a folder called products which is inside the surge folder
Copy them over to Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/(choose either Component or VST folder)

Hope this helps someone!

Re: Testing async calls with Jasmine and async/await

Walmik — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:31:03 -0000

This is great.. very few resources out there outline this so clearly.

I realized we dont even need a function to be defined for simple use cases such as just waiting for a second.. I can just do `setTimeout(done, 1000)` at the end of my `beforeEach`. And then whatever's in my `it` call, will execute after a second.

Re: Mini Code Adventure: Generating Music in JavaScript

Walmik — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 18:32:00 -0000

That sounds awesome.. looking forward to it!

Re: Mini Code Adventure: Generating Music in JavaScript

Walmik — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 18:08:13 -0000

Finally got some time to look into this with focus. I just love this idea of combining Tracery with Scribbletune! Tried the sample code and loved the results. I m gonna work on this and (hopefully) come up with something interesting. It's almost exactly what I wanted, thank you for taking the time to put this together!

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