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Stacy is my ongoing attempt at creating a digital audio
workstation (DAW) of a different kind.
It is an interactive Linux application that is controlled exclusively
through a rather minimal user interface: a square grid of back-lit rubber
buttons. There's no screen, no keyboard and no mouse involved.
This application allows its user to manipulate various signals (audio and
other) in real-time through the interactive specification of a program (or
circuit) in a visual
programming language.
You can see Stacy version 0.1 in action in the teaser and the demo videos I posted on
YouTube.
My current hardware setup consists of:
- one Odroid-U2
single-board computer running Debian GNU/Linux,
- two Novation
Launchpad MIDI controllers,
- two USB cables, one audio cable and one power supply.
As a musical instrument, it is thus very simple and portable.
You can download Stacy version
0.1.3 and do what you want with it under the terms of the GNU GPL. It consists of 3000
lines of C code, so it too is very simple and portable ;-)
I have included a 12-minute demo in the source, which is a recording of me
playing some live bytebeat [archive]. You can compile the
source and experience it on your own two Launchpads, but you can also download
the resulting audio file.
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