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Jacob Vosmaer's blog

blog.jacobvosmaer.nl

A blog about technology and music

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75 from 5 Dec 2019 to 29 Oct 2026
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monthly (12 in the last year)
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2026 9

  1. Adding swing to my Yocto sequencer
  2. Using REAPER with ALSA, ignoring Pipewire
  3. Getting MIDI sync working
  4. Writing my own sequencer for the Yocto drum machine
  5. Invention 2 by J. S. Bach
  6. Improving MSQ-700 clock stability
  7. Interviews with Francis Bacon
  8. Casio FZ-1 interpolation and aliasing
  9. Lessons from Delphium and Ptolemy

2025 30

  1. Lessons from Ageispolis
  2. Solving two RX5 mysteries
  3. Making my own software for the RX5USB
  4. A MIDI velocity mapping gadget
  5. Simulating the Casio VZ-1 in Pure Data
  6. Looking back at Building Blocks
  7. Samplers and audio editing
  8. Portfolio websites
  9. AdventureKid Waveforms for the Casio FZ-1
  10. Casio FZ-1 disk images
  11. Audible Genius Building Blocks
  12. The DWVW audio compression format
  13. Video notes: VZ-1 "phase" mode is wavefolding
  14. Forth progress report
  15. The TX16W is alright
  16. Video content: May 2025
  17. Yamaha FM pitch ratios
  18. Revisiting Forth
  19. Creating video content
  20. Why I write blog posts
  21. How this blog is built (April 2025)
  22. Unintended MKS-80 power supply adventure
  23. Music notes: Using the TX16W AKWF samples, and more thoughts about presets
  24. Hacking the Nava drum machine to work with d-mux
  25. Converting the AdventureKid waveforms to Yamaha TX16W format
  26. Music process (February 2025)
  27. Syntorial: done
  28. ADS sample lengths
  29. Adding d-mux support to the Yocto
  30. The RE-303 and more Syntorial praise

2024 20

  1. My favourite computer ergonomics hack
  2. Revisiting the ADS disk images, and a review of Syntorial
  3. Fixing my Nord Rack 2
  4. Synth Notes: DX11, DX7II and TX802
  5. Dynacord ADS Disk Images
  6. Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD
  7. Music and Synth notes: MKS-50, K2000R, DaisyX7
  8. Casio VZ-1 algorithms
  9. The mysterious Casio VZ-1
  10. Synthesizer Notes: R-8M, TX81Z, VZ-1
  11. Updates on my creative work
  12. How I make music
  13. Books about creativity
  14. My time at the Recurse Center
  15. Ray Tracing in One Weekend in C
  16. Recurse Center project overview
  17. Taking on the One Billion Row Challenge in C
  18. Recurse Center projects, part 2
  19. A small MIDI parser
  20. Adding a table of contents to a PDF

2023 7

  1. Adding a ROM switcher to the HR-16
  2. Hacking the CrowBX envelope generators
  3. The Yocto drum machine
  4. 0013 sineko
  5. Recurse Center projects
  6. The CrowBX
  7. Adding 31-tet tuning to the DX7 and the CrowBX

2020 4

  1. Development setup, February 2022
  2. Booting Acme on macOS
  3. Using xhyve for development on macOS
  4. Reflections on using Acme

2019 5

  1. Foreshadowings of the Go programming langauge
  2. Interacting with the Ruby scheduler
  3. Meta: yet another static website
  4. Thread.pass in Ruby
  5. Ruby mutexes