Geek Funk Labs

This is a space for news about projects, ideas for future development, information that doesn't fit easily into documentation, and thoughts on technology, music, science, or whatever else I'm thinking about.

• FluidPatcher Custom MIDI Routing

  May 17, 2021, 4:31 p.m.
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  I've been trying to figure out a slick way for FluidPatcher to listen to incoming MIDI messages so I can map things like increment/decrement patch and select-patch controls. The obvious…

• Refining Bank Files

  Feb. 17, 2021, 2:37 p.m.
  fluidpatcher

  I just noticed a sort of conceptual error in the current bank file format. Right now, things like router_rules, cc, and cc_links can be defined either inside an individual patch…

• New Geek Funk Products

  Jan. 2, 2021, 2:55 p.m.
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  I thought it would be fun to add some additional products to the Tindie store, so I fleshed out a couple fun projects I've worked on, collected the code and…

• SquishBox Gets a PCB

  Dec. 9, 2020, 5:58 a.m.
  squishbox store

  I sold out of my first batch of SquishBoxes, which I built by hand using standard perfboard, so I decided it was time to get a little more serious about…

• Introducing FluidPatcher

  May 1, 2020, 9:32 p.m.
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  I've been gradually separating the SquishBox software from the SquishBox hardware, and I've decided to give the software its own name: FluidPatcher. The SquishBox is still the hardware interface, but…

• Refactoring SquishBox Software

  Jan. 19, 2020, 8:51 p.m.
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  As I'm thinking about more features to add to the SquishBox code, I'm realizing it's gotten to the point that I need to refactor in order to keep things sane.…

• Selling First SquishBoxes

  Jan. 16, 2019, 7:10 p.m.
  squishbox store

  The Geek Funk Labs Tindie store is now live! I've built five complete units. I plan to build more, but this first batch will let me gauge the overall interest…

• JamPi Becomes SquishBox

  Oct. 30, 2018, 11:07 a.m.
  squishbox raspberry pi store

  I've been starting to think more about the JamPi as something other people might actually use, rather than a box that exists primarily to amuse me. I've also had requests…

• Making MIDI Do More

  March 24, 2018, 4:03 p.m.
  squishbox raspberry pi

  I've been increasingly dissatisfied with the idea that the MIDI router should only know how to talk to FluidSynth. There's no particular reason a MIDI message should have to end…

• JamPi Rebuild

  Oct. 13, 2017, 9:57 p.m.
  raspberry pi synth

  Using the JamPi as a performance tool for a while got me thinking about ways I could design it better from a hardware perspective. My main thoughts were: Improve sound…