We now accept Paypal2009-01-05 15:52:00 UTC
Art and Music
The Electrotap Shop now accepts Paypal for orders of Sensors, Teabox, Hemispheres, Tap.Tools, etc. We still will process orders directly as we always have, but the Paypal option is now in place. This has been an often-requested feature for our site, so we’re pleased to usher in the new year with it! |
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Command-line SVN 1.5 on the Mac2008-12-29 13:15:00 UTC
Development Activities After having quite few troubles with SVN 1.5 on the Mac when using the command line, the following link has proven to be quite useful: http://www.glenscott.co.uk/2008/12/17/installing-subversion-15-on-mac-os-x/ |
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Tap.Tools 3.0 Released2008-12-17 02:46:00 UTC
TapTools
After almost 8 months of beta, we’ve now released Tap.Tools 3.0 for Max 5. In addition to supporting Max 5, there a bunch of nice new features and updates. All of the info can be found on the website. We greatly underestimated the amount of effort that was going to be required when set out to make a major upgrade of Tap.Tools, and it’s very gratifying to now see it released. If you order before December 31, you can enter the discount code 2008ELECTROTAPCHRISTMAS on the checkout page you will receive 5% off of your order. Merry Christmas! |
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TTBlue 0.5.4 Released2008-12-13 16:16:00 UTC
Development Activities
TTBlue 0.5.4 has been released. A lot of significant changes have been taking place in TTBlue over the last few months. This is the version that is being used to build Tap.Tools 3.0. TTBlue is the DSP library used in the Jamoma Modular Framework, Jamoma Multicore Audio Graph Library, and Tap.Tools. To reflect the integral nature and relationship of TTBlue to the other Jamoma projects, we are now beginning to refer to it as the “Jamoma DSP Library”. A sneak preview of the new icon is shown above. |
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Electrotap Articles2008-12-12 12:48:00 UTC
Misc One of the last bits of work for our now-completed site transition was moving over article content. These are included in the blog section of our site now, but with an “Article” tag.
The old articles written about Jade, Jade Modules (now Jamoma), and Tap.Tools from CreativeSynth.com appear to be no-longer available online. Assuming this to be the case we may try to re-release them here. Some additional content may also be coming in the future. |
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Against Slot-Loading Optical Drives2008-12-11 12:23:00 UTC
Misc I’ve not previously had much of an opinion on optical media drives in computers: tray-loading, slot-loading, is there really a difference? The answer turns out to be yes. Here is why (the following is a transcript of a conversation between myself and my two-and-a-half year old daughter):
Fortunately the genius at the Apple store had a tool for just this occasion so we could get the coins out and the computer is unharmed. But I’m not such a fan of these slot-loading drives any more! |
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Max/MSP and Multitouch Displays2008-12-09 20:33:00 UTC
Misc Mathieu Chamagne, a fellow Jamoma contributor and one of the minds behind maxobjects.com, has posted a video on YouTube showing some recent work with the new Stantum multitouch displays. As you can see in the video, he is able to manipulate Max patchers for performing. Most impressive to me is how multiple fingers can be controlling different parts of the same object at the same time, such as multislider or waveform~. Truly amazing! |
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Inexpensive Multitouch Controller2008-12-08 19:06:00 UTC
Misc Randy Jones has made his thesis work available online, which includes the actual thesis and also a video showing his multitouch controller.
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Site Launch2008-12-07 15:34:00 UTC
News If you are a regular visitor to this site, then you have probably noticed quite a few changes – Electrotap has been re-tooling its web resources. If you are just reading the blog via RSS, then you may not have seen the changes – and it might be worth paying a visit :-). First off, the web experience is much more integrated. Things are split between two subdomains:
Secondly, we’ve updated not only how the site interaction looks and works, but we’ve updated quite a bit of the content:
One really nice aspect of the new site is the downloadable orders and registration numbers are delivered instantly. Finally, we now have the ability to offer discount codes. To celebrate, you can enter the 2008ELECTROTAPCHRISTMAS discount code when checking-out @ http://shop.electrotap.com and you will receive 5% off of your order. This code is good through December 31. |
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New Server...2008-11-27 07:12:00 UTC
Misc This probably isn’t very interesting for most people, but we have moved electrotap.net to another server with different versions of almost everything. If you notice a problem with blog, faq, etc. please let us know. Thanks! |
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