Since I bought my Korg Karma back in August 2006, I became a synth addict ! More than I know about sound synthesis, I want more synths to complete my sonic arsenal.
Being a member of a band and a contributor to the composition process, I think of many ideas I could do but then I am faced with the limitations of my Korg Karma. For instance, I would like to add some vocal samples or extra samples, like Money(Pink Floyd) intro samples, but I can’t because my Karma doesn’t have a sampler. Also having a virtual analog or real analog synth to have nice fat, punchy sounds to do leads, bass and pads, which my Karma can do, but the tweaking isn’t as fun with a lot of dedicaded knobs. I am still not veryWenn Sie Black Jack poker und es auch mehr Karten mit dem Wert 10 als mit irgend einem anderen Wert im Spiel gibt, so liegt doch der Prozentsatz dieser Spielkarten immer noch unterhalb von 50, also sollte man logischerweise einen anderen Wert als 10 annehmen. familiar with the old-fashion video poquer webwww casino comcasino online conjugar al instante lineagrand virtual casino,casino virtual,juegos de casino virtualruleta rusa gratisjuegos interactivos portalesapuesta dinero lineacasinos internacionales portal internetroulette portalesmaquina tragaperrasmaquinas tragaperras portales internettragaperra pagina webmaquina tragaperras paginas internet,maquinas tragaperras,maquinas tragaperras paginas internetcasinos espana onlineblack and jackjogar video poquerjuego instantaneo portal webdownloads free,download,free downloadsruleta paginas internetjuegos casino portalesganancia casino paginas webmaquinas tragaperras paginas internetjuegos segurosjuegos casino portales webjugar gratis lineaganar dinero verdadero portal internetganar dinero en la ruletadescargar juego de la ruletajuegos seguros portales webcasinos descargas pagina webcasinos pagina webslots en lineaapuesta onlineplay baccarat onlinecasinos portaljugar seguro pagina webganar dinero real portales webjuego instantaneo paginas webjugar al instante onlinejuego seguro paginas internetjugar casino online,casino online,mejor casino onlinejuego tragaperrasjugar gratis pagina webpremio webapuesta internetjugar interactivo onlineplay baccaratgambling casinoscasino online slots way of design sounds. I would like also to develop my own organ tone, but I can’t manipulate each inividual drawbar. Also, I would like to EQ each sound in a COMBI without using the limited IFX slots.
One instrument that can do it all is the Korg OASYS, but it way too much expensive for a student. And 3 years from now, Korg should certaintly come withTramite gioco di blackjack potete realizzare i vostri sogni nel casino online online e vincere tanto tramite i giochi diversi. the successor of the OASYS that would kick ass and which I will save money to buy after my studies.
Today, I read about the Prophet ‘08 and it looks very interessing, including the fact it’s only about $2000US and it’s a real analog synth with patches.
For my wish list of gear go as:
-Korg OASYS with EXi LAC-1, MOD-7 and EXs3 Brass and Woodwinds
-Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ‘08 (Analog goodness)
-A good mixer to input all my synths into (haven’t lookeded into the market yet)
-Studio monitors (haven’t looked either)
-Live Stereo Keyboard amp
With the Korg OASYS, the Korg Karma and the Prophet ‘08, I would get the complete sonic arsernal I need. Then it’s just a dream for me, because I can’t affort any new synth currently to pay my studies 
Voici un petit poème que j’ai écrit il y a un moment pour un petit défi qu’une de
mes amies m’a lancé, lorsqu’on parlait de français et donc de poésie.
Mon but était d’exprimer mes sensations/émotions/les affaires du dedans/whatever, mais aussi mettre en
pratique les éléments littéraires des poèmes que j’ai appris en Littérature Québecoise(Français 3).
Je vous laisse faire votre propre interprétation et essayez de trouver
les influences.
Valse
Lueur d’espoir
Lueur de déspoir
Lueur d’angoisse
Ma vie est une valse
Seul sur le seuil de ma souffrance
Étouffés par le cri strident de ma conscience
Mon âme est ma prison
Ma vie est une valse
Un mouvement de bonheur…Hop! Voici le bonheur
Un mouvement de tristesse…Hop! Voici l’angoisse
En parfaite harmonie, la musique démarre
Mouvement majeur; Mouvement mineur
Et la musique continue
continue
continue
sans s’arrêter
Ma vie est une valse
Mon âme est ma prison
P.S: Le titre est une référence à la phrase “And Now For Something Completely Different” des Monty Python
The title said it all, I think I want to work on too much things at the same time.
I have the projects that I am working on, the projects I would like to work on and the projects I would
like to see coming.
Projects that I am working on
Just on Kopete related
Telepathy plugin
I’m blogged about it recently. Also for this plugin I am contributing to QtTapioca and soon Decibel.
libpapillon (and Messenger plugin)
This project is currently halted because because I tried to hack on kwsdl_compiler and I
lost motivation because it would have required too much work that I didn’t want to do. So one day I decided
to plug a C++ generator to a Ruby tool, which lead to my next point
SOAP4QT
Ruby tool to generate Qt C++ WSDL bindings (based on SOAP4R, hence the name). I prefered to hack on this instead of kwsdl_compiler. Ruby is really productive and I love it. Also I am just doing the thing I need to get my WSDL bindings for libpapillon. I do not intend to maintain it after.
and this does not count the hack on libkopete and kopete GUI.
Gamefu
Yes my own gaming ROM collection manager and frontend. I am not really active on that project. I think I should give away maintainership to another person (anyone interresed ? 
)
Projects that I would like to work on
Plasma
Yes Plasma need to be a concrete thing So it need developers. Maybe this winter I’ll try to find some time to help Aaron.
LegacySPC
This is planned project on mine. This will be a C++ portable Sony SPC700+DSP emulator, to help
audio player to integrate SPC playing in their application(Amarok for instance :)). I also want to work on
this project alone to learn stuff about CPU emulation, digital signal processing and audio synthesis.
Ideas of cool projects that I would like to see(and I can’t work because of the projects above)
Qt bindings for D language
D language looks a really promising evolution of C++. Qt bindings would be nice
A KDE music education program
Well a music education program to learn music theory. Also to be able to load midi files and listen to MIDI input from a keyboard, so the program will help to learn a song on keyboard.
I’m proud to announce that the Kopete Telepathy (testbed) plugin is now usable for a text conversation.
Now the obvious screenshot:
As you can see, Kopete KDE4 chat window is a bit broken. You can’t see what you are typing, nice accessibility feature isn’t it 
I used telepathy-gabble connection manager with my local Jabber server for the tests.
Some people may wonder what Telepathy is all about. Telepathy is a D-BUS interface specification managed by Freedesktop.org and mostly developed by Collabora Limited. It allow a program to communicate via D-BUS to a connection manager that support a defined set of protocols. This is similar to a local client/server architecture for IM, Voice and Video over IP on the desktop.
For developing the Telepathy plugin, I used Tapioca libraries. Tapioca is a set of convience libraries that implement Telepathy specification. Currently, it have bindings for C#, Glib and Qt. Obviously I used Qt bindings developed maintly by INdT folks.
Some may wonder why I’m doing this plugin. During the Akademy 2006 conference, the Kopete team discussed with members of Telepathy and Decibel projects. The result from these discussions was the plan for the future of IM in KDE desktop. We decided to go the Telepathy/Tapioca/Decibel way for managing our protocols. Before migrating to full Telepathy, we decided to make us familiar with Telepathy work and create a proof-of-concept plugin.
Decibel is the KDE integration of real-time communication. Decibel will come with Houston, a daemon which will manage preferences and connection managers. Tobias Hunger is busy working on Houston daemon and D-BUS interface in KDE svn. Currently Kopete doesn’t use Decibel.
Time will tell when Kopete will begin migrate to Telepathy and Decibel. Some feature are still missing in related projects so I can’t guarantee that Kopete 1.0(coming with KDE 4.0) will come with native Telepathy support. If not, it will ship with the Telepathy plugin
Also I would like to thanks Telepathy and Tapioca people for their quick response to my bug reports, patches and questions.
I promised I would blog during Akademy(for some people it’s my trip to Ireland), but I had found no time and motivation to do so. Sorry, shit happens and better late than never. So I’ll try do a quick resume of each day at Akademy, loaded with KDE, peoples, Guiness, etc…
I arrived in Dublin the 22th September at 12h00 GMT after about 14 hours of traveling. At Airport I have met George Staikos, Jeff Tranter(Xandros) and his wife. We have take the cab together and I discovered the hostel. At the hostel I’ve met with some German KDE people and Ollivier Goffart, my Belgium colleague on Kopete. We went to the Trinity College to check our registration, discover the PC huts and eat. At the night, we went to the Kennedy’s Bar with KDE people when Johann payed me my first Guinness, and I was addicted ever since.
First day(Saturday 23 September) was the first day of the conference, the first keynote was done by Aaron Seigo about the KDE identity. See his slides to find out. I attended mostly all KDE4 tracks(so Plasma, Solid, Phonon, Akonadi, Decibel) and also Keith Packard from X.org demo’ed us the new hot plugging feature for upcoming Xorg 7.2 (it was about time !!). At night, we got a shitload of pizza and free Guinness from Nokia, one of the sponsors. We had a box of pizza per person.
Second day(Sunday 24 September) was the last day of the conference, I attended the KDE4 Dev Setup HOWTO and my life was changed. ZSH rocks, expect for non support for UTF-8. Download the David Faure and your developer life will be changed. The CMake, KJSEmbed(now called Jasmin according to the rumours) and Kross(which I want to be in kdelibs) talks were interesting. At the night,we went once again to the Kennedy’s Bar for the end conference supper. There I met the Telepathy guys, very nice guys. I hanged out with David Faure where he was doing the new KDirModel for kdelibs and a user pointed us a bug in Kopete and David helped me try to find out the source of the bug. The source is the f**** QObject timers that the smooth scrolling is using. To see, run Kopete with strace. This was really great experience, I think this is what they call the “Akademy effect”.
Third day(Monday 25 September) was a travel day for me and Johann and the KDE e.V meeting, well for the members of KDE e.V :P. We went into the city and we came back just in time for the group photo as seen of KDE Dot News. We were not aware of the group photo so we were very lucky. At the night, we were invited on a party to Google Ireland HQ. Free food and beer once again. We met a Kopete small contributor here working at Google. After we went to a bar with Telepathy guys and Robert bought me once again beer. But the moment of the evening was an anonymous young coder who got really drunk. He danced, singed, lunch up his laptop under GNOME(he’s a KDE guy) and started wrote a “patch” from GNOME.
Four day(Tuesday 26 September), first hacking session. I setuped my new KDE4 development environment using David Faure’s way. Icecream rocks, it compiled damn fast. We spoke about Kopete implication into Telepathy. I decided to do a testbed protocol that use Telepathy and QtTapioca to test if Telepathy is the way to go. That night, we went a couple of people to a Japanese restaurant, it was really nice. After we have done a Kopete IRC meeting to define the plan for the future. Some people asked if we were going to make available some of our widgets and about a frontend/backend split and about Telepathy. The plan is to have first a testbed Telepathy protocol and then try to make our protocol plugins available as Telepathy connection manager. This was also the last day for the Telepathy guys and time to say good bye. I’ve taken a picture of Rob while going crazy on git.
Fifth day(Wednesday 27 September), Duncan came in The Kopete team at Dublin was complete. I started doing the CMake files and the protocol stub for Telepathy. Johann did for me a temporary icon, which cause me some trouble after. I misnamed some icons(ie svn delete then svn add) so I’ve got problems when trying to commit. So trying to fix it, I reverted the stub I just have done. So at the Chinese restaurant, I rewrote fast that stub. Phew, that was close. Also at the hostel we met two pretty girls
Sixth day(Thursday 28 September), still a productive hacking day. I started the Edit account UI for the Telepathy protocol. At night me and Johann went to the Kennedy’s bar for supper because it was close to not loose time. I also assisted the first round of Lightening Talks where people presented their stuff in a 5-10 minutes presentation. Marble, Kerry and KFormula SoC(and others) were presented. Also the presentation of KLDraw by Korean dude Junkyu Park(aka segfault) amazed the audience and that same audience say the same thing I told him some day earlier, to release his software
Seventh day(Friday 29 September, on the hacking side, I finally read and write the settings for the Telepathy account. Another round of Lightening Talks. Albert and Pino presented the state of okular. Friedrich Kossebau presented his contacts applet framework. And 5 minutes before the talks(it wasn’t planned that I present Gamefu), I started setting up emulators and ROMs on my laptop to demonstrate Gamefu to the audience. It was well received and I’ve got some questions about Gamefu the next days :). At night we went to a “Korean” restaurant which was in fact a Chinese restaurant. Cho and Park(the two Korean guys at Akademy) were with us so they could confirm that this restaurant wasn’t a real Korean one. After the restaurant, we found a real Korean restaurant nearby. It was funny.
Last day(Saturday 30 September), last day of Akademy. This experience of my life was awesome. Except for the hostel, I liked every moment of it. So I still hacked on the Telepathy protocol and just before the close of the PC Huts, I got the protocol plugin to work and commited right after. Gof left in the day and it was the last night with Johann and Duncan. The night was awful, but awful. Me and Johann tried to sleep, but with the heat, the noise of the bars nearby, the clicktety of 2 laptops in the room, it was near impossible and we wanted to woke early in the morning. This pissed us and we cursed about the hostel.
First return day(Sunday 1 October), so we finally woke up, still cursing about the hostel. We got our cab to the airport. There I found out that my flight was delayed. Great I said goodbye to Johann and I went to my gate. My fight was supposed to depart at 11h30 but actually we left the airport near 13h00. And we needed to disembark at Shannon, Ireland, another little delay. I was afraid that I could miss my correspondence at Toronto airport. At Toronto airport I needed to take my luggage to pass the customs. I ran to my departure gate and arrived just in time for the begin of the boarding. Phew that was close ! Between Toronto and Montreal, my eardrums started to hurt so in Montreal so I started to have a weird effect when hearing. In Montreal I meet up with a friend I haven’t seen in a long time that live in Montreal, it was really nice After a week in a cheap hostel, the night at the 4 star hotel was awesome. I got an overjoy
Back home(Monday 2 October), I’m finally home. Went to the Cegep to meet friends there and try to be ready for the next day of school Man this is really heard going back to school after a KDE conference.
I would like to say hi to all people I met in Dublin. This was really nice and I’m looking forward to speak to you next time. Maybe not next year though :(. People I remember: Kopete Team(Duncan, Will, Olivier, Johann), Kevin Krammer, David Faure, Tobias Hunger, Gavin Paterson, Tobias Köning, Friedrich Kossebau, Aaron Seigo, Adriaan de Groot, Rainer Endres, Sebastian Kügler, Richardo Iaconelli, Lubos Lunak, Junkyu Park, Reinhold Kainhofer, Hubert Figuière, Josef Spillner, Kévin Ottens, Martijn Klingens, Jos van dan Oever, Dirk Müller, Pino Toscano, Adam Treat, Sebastian Sauer, Matthias Kretz, David Vignoli, Robert McQueen, Rob Taylor, Olaf Jan Schmidt, Cho Sung-Jae, Knut Yarvin(Trolltech Community Manager), Richard Dale, Johnathan Riddel, Bartosz Fabianowski, Thomas Zander, Waldo Bastian, George Staikos, Jeff Tranter, Jakob Petsovits and much other people. If you remember me(and mostly if you are not on this list), please me say hi on IRC(nickname: DarkShock)
Some photos of the first day at Akademy 2006
In a few hours I’ll take my first plane of my about 14 hours trip to Dublin.
I’ll leave Sept-Iles around 14h and I will arrive in Dublin the next day at 10:30 local hour. I also stop at Montreal and Toronto.
In Toronto I suppose to meet George Staikos and Jeff Tranter, hopefully I’ll able to find them there, and in Dublin I’m suppose to meet with Olivier Goffart.
This is a big trip for a first one, so I’m nervous since it all a first time for me.
Wish me a nice trip
Man been a while since I’m blogged. Don’t worry I’ll blog more often during Akademy 2006, which I will leave in 12 days !
In preparing for Akademy I bought a new laptop for my school, hacking and travel needs. It is a HP Pavilion dv5230 (Specs),
a nice 15″ Widescreen Intel Centrino Core Duo Laptop with a Intel GMA950. Everything worked out of the box except getting the correct
resolution.
If you the have the same laptop, you sure have problems setting the correct resolution. I found a solution 3 weeks after I bought the laptop ! You just need the 915resolution software. Here the guide to install it on K/Ubuntu Dapper:
sudo apt-get install 915resolution
Open the following file: /etc/default/915resolution and add these following to this file:
MODE=AUTO
XRESO=1280
YRESO=800
BIT=24
Restart and voilà, you get the correct display on reboot
In other news I’m not motivated enough to code on these days, so my commit statistics are really really low Hope that I will get motivation soon. Also I bought a nice professional 61-key synthesizer that I’ll talk about in another blog post.
