CLAMP: project last words

It is with great sadness that I post my last entry regarding CLAMP. It has been a terrific few months, and I have learned so much in such a small amount of time. But all good things must end sometime, right?

At this point in time, I am done with all academic requirements. I have written my paper, finished all my music, and have presented my project to a panel judges.

All that is left for me to do is organizing and improving my project. I want to finish up my CASE pages, adding more screenshots and stuff. I still need to add descriptions to the later Demos. I also may add some additional things like an offline copy of this blog.

After all this is done, my entire project file will be put in a zip file and then posted online somehow for download. My hope is that I will be able to use archive.org for my project needs. Then, I will go to work on developing a general portfolio website for myself, which will include CLAMP.

Thank you to all who supported and helped to contribute to CLAMP. A special shoutout to Mr.Chinosi, Brendan Hathaway, and Mr.Carpenter. Without them, my project would not have existed.

Long Live Linux,

Paul Batchelor (aka Ralph Bluecoat)

CLAMP: completion of software evals, and beyond

I just finished writing a software evaluation for Reaper running under Wine, which marks the last review I shall be writing for CLAMP.

With this last eval done, I have to start thinking about my final stages of this project.

This includes:

1. Finishing my research paper on Linux Music
2. Completing software evals, adding scores and screenshots to make them true CASEs
3. Compiling a presentation on CLAMP
4. Getting my project organized for opensource public distribution
5. working on ExCLAMP: The Extended Concise Linux Audio Music Project. More to come on this later.

It feels great seeing the end of the tunnel, and I hope to see you all there when I make it!

Paul

CLAMP: wrapping up demos

There has been a huge amount of progress since my last post. Actually, I was quite disappointed with myself when my last post was only the news of "demo 6"

Yesterday, I was working on Demo 9, and it should be done in a few days.

Yup. Demo 9. That means there was a 7 and 8 preceding it. They have been made, but I still have to write a description of them still.

Demo 9 will mark the end of the end of the musical demos created. When Demo 9 is finnished, I will have researched 26 pieces of software and used 23 of them. This number is not including the 4 pieces of software that I abandoned early on.

I am truly excited to be seeing an end to this wonderful project and seeing things wrapped up.

But it's not over until its over. I still have a paper to finish up, CASEs to write, and oh so little time.

Demo 6

Demo 6 just finnished rendering to an mp3.

It'll be up in a while on the demo page.

Its here:

http://c-l-a-m-p.wikispaces.com/demos

I've decided to hold back on the written evaluations, and finish up my demos. I've used most of the software, and you can see my status with my checklist I made in googledocs.

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcbdsd28_199gq8jv4d8

Basically, its a list of all the software I plan to use (much different than the rough draft list I put up, with a coded status for each one.

Demo 5

Demo 5 produced.

check it out on my webpage:

c-l-a-m-p.wikispaces.org

CLAMP: audio interface up and running

Hello all!

Its been a few weeks since my last post, and I apologize for my lag. Fieldwork has left me with not a lot of time for little updates like these. Its been alot of experimenting, outlining, screenshotting, praying, and writing on my part. But its (mostly) been a blast to do!

In under 36 hours I have to finish a rough draft of my research paper, so things can be a little crunched for time. It looks like a majority will be CLAMP condensed into one paper, but we'll see what happens.

I write this post to praise my reader, Mr. Adam Carpenter, who shares my love of making music and seems to genuinely support my efforts for this project. He has lent me his Tascam US-122 firmware audio/midi interface. You may be saying "Paul, you have the US-144 audio interface, why would you want something below?" In a word: compatibility. Linux drivers don't support the US-144 well enough yet, and they support the US-122 beautifully. Today I got it hooked up and running in under half an hour. The US-122 will make it possible for me to hook up things like quality microphones and ukuleles and basses to my computer. This is a very exciting moment for me, and its all possible thanks to my man Mr.Carpenter!

Don't worry Mr.C, I'll be taking good care of it.

-Paul

PS: here is the article I used to get the interface working:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TASCAM_US-122

CLAMP: working rubric

Tonight I worked on around 7 CASEs, or CLAMP Audio Software Evaluation's. These basically consist of a rubric and a written review of each one.

I posted this for two reasons:

1. To exclaim that my rubric is done! and that the guidelines (WIP) can be viewed here

2. To post a sample, which is here

Reviews definitely will take longer to do, and will give the audience a much better sense of what the software is about. I will work on those in the weeks to come.

peace out!