February 7th 2012
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Loading ...I think I’ve said it already, I have a rock band. Currently, we are recording our first album, and while we used Traktion in the past, I’m considering moving to Sonar (it is continuously updated and has a great reputation, also I’ve played a few time in the past with its ancestor Cakewalk).
So let’s talk about the book’s comprehensive guide.
January 24th 2012
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It’s been a while since I’ve started considering buying a real photo camera. And I’ve decided on a Canon 7D. As usual, the user guide covers the camera, but I thought it would be better to have a more complete guide to the 7D.
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January 17th 2012
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Just after the 0.1 release, I’ve worked to add some few tricks and fix a few bugs (see QtMosaic on Github). The most important change is a better image search.
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December 14th 2011
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...During SuperComputing 2011, I stumbled across a paper on parallel random number generation. And it brought back some memories of a blog post I wanted to do here on oversampling in my Interactive Raytracer.
Random numbers are important in a raytracer because one needs oversampling to have anti-aliasing, and to have a more realistic rendering, we need to add some jitter inside the oversampling. I won’t talk about this here, it is not my point (yet). So I’ve decided to resurrect IRT from the dead, at least long enough to test parallel random number generators. It is now on Github, and I’ve also changed the matrix library to Eigen. Some optimizations later, it is slightly faster than before, although it is still very far from Bikker’s work.
The Python wrappers are still working BTW.
Let’s hope I find some time to finish this before getting back at VSTs 
October 25th 2011
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A colleague of mine give me this book, as I use “third generation” VCSs. I decided to check on the author approach on Version Control and his opinion on the matter. The book explores the different approaches of the latest VCS tools, with their advantages and drawbacks. Also, it delves into some algorithmic designs of Distributed VCSs. I’ve already discussed some of these tools, but the book is not a flame war against one DVCS, but more an explanation of all of them.
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October 19th 2011
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’m pleased to announce the 1.0 version of QtSimpleEQ, a plugin with one low-pass, two peak and one high pass second-order filters. Nothing fancy in the algorithms, it’s mainly another show case for Qt VST plugins.
The code is available under the GPL2 on github and on Sourceforge.
The plugin can be download on the Sourceforge project page.
The plugin was tested with Tracktion 3 (Windows XP).
Snapshot:
QtSimpleEQ UI
October 11th 2011
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Just for fun, I’m pleased to announce a working version of QtMosaic.
It allows to create a mosaics database and then generate a photomosaic from this database.
For instance, here is an original image:
Original photo
Rendered photomosaic
The code is available on GitHub, as usual, and it has been tested on Windows and Linux.
October 4th 2011
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Today, I wanted to announce my new plugin, a 4-bands EQ, but when I started a test with pyVST, I encountered strange things:
I hope to fix these mistakes this month, I really hope I can get QtVST to work again.
September 20th 2011
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It has been a while since my last post here, but I’m back! I had access to the French version of this book, thanks to the publisher.
CUDA is now in the trend, and there are several books, one of them I’ve also reviewed.
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July 5th 2011
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I heard about Sage when I started learning Python, but I never quite gotten in the bandwagon. Now, this Beginner’s Guide seems a good place to start.
