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Video explaining what Blockhead is (Patreon)

Published:
2023-09-23 06:08:26
Imported:
2026-06

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I finally managed to make that video that I have been talking about making for the past two years, which explains what Blockhead is and what makes it different. In the end it is more just an explanation video rather than a tutorial (I will try to make some proper tutorial videos in the future going into proper detail on everything.)

My hope is that this video clears up some confusion about what it is I am working on and hopefully if it gets shared around then I get a bit more Patreon support out of it. The video isn't very good but I got fed up trying and failing to make it properly and just ended up recording myself babbling and then edited it together.

This video is a big mental milestone for me and I feel the need to take this moment to thank everyone who has supported this project over the years. There is still a long road ahead and I have no idea what twists and turns are still to come.

the blockhead video - YouTube

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the blockhead video

Blockhead is a work-in-progress experimental audio production program intended for music making and sound design. I tried my best in this video to explain how Blockhead differs from traditional DAWs. Thanks for watching. Alpha builds of Blockhead are available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Patreon: www.patreon.com/colugomusic

Comments

grimmwerks

If a musical object (sample or synth) has its own drawn pitch line, does a manipulator override those drawn ‘melodies’ or does it act sort of like scaling ?

colugomusic

in the bottom-right of a manipulator, you can switch between 'offset' and 'override' mode. 'offset' usually offsets the data by adding one envelope to the other but plugins can decide how the offset is calculated on a per-parameter basis

Daniel

This is amazing! First time I understand (finally) this software. Congrats! Still thinking about the implications of using a daw like this... Thanks a lot!

RPH

Great to see a longer video about Blockhead, tried a few things and it crashed hard hehe. I find it very promising tho. Cheers!

Adriaan de Roover

this is soooo exciting!! wow, love and appreciation for creating this!!

majkol

I love the why-not design philosophy! Allowing anything except macros inside macros would feel like an artificial limitation (as long as you protect yourself against cyclic inclusion somehow).

colugomusic

i do plan to support cyclic inclusion one day (macros that contain clones of themselves) as it is technically possible to detect and just have some recursion limit when sending the data to the audio engine

majkol

Haha, that's wonderful! Please, please keep this way of thinking, and take the original idea to its extremes (rather than patching it to accommodote stuff that does not naturally fit into the formalism)!