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Huge wait for Huge Progress.

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It's Alive!      I would like to officially announce the project has hit 1.0!  I started a git repo, which can be found here .  It has a readme with a less detailed project description and a WIP debugging guide to help you get it working on your machine. 1.0 features 1.0 has 1 predifined mode, chordo, and 5 button functionalities. How to use:      use miniAudicle's window -> device browser to look at which devices are on which channels.  Make sure mout is opening your launchpad's MIDIOUT2, min is opening your launchpad's MIDIIN2, and malt is opening an internal midi channel.  If you don't have one, I recommend LoopBe, which is what I use on my machine.  I think this may require a restart.      BEFORE YOU RUN THE PROGRAM, set your launchpad to programming mode.  You can do this by holding the session button for 2 seconds and pressing the orange button.  Double tap the session button to cancel the animation...

Reaped

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SideQuest: configure any DAW so you can compose music online      I have a lot of things to work on as a college student.  Aside from developing this project, I am also programming for a math class, writing for an art class, and composing for my games class.  I have been quite thoroughly sidetracked by that composition.     Here's what I learned from setting up Reaper, my second digital audio workstation.  DAWs are a hub, but they need instruments to work.  These instruments come in the form of plugins.  Normally, you just download the plugins, which put their "handles" in the right place, and your DAW automatically finds them.  If  that doesn't work, you can add a new folder to the paths your DAW and rescan.      This took me 3 hours to figure out. How hard it should have been How hard it was     Quest Rewards:  I will readily admit this was a huge time sync with the single benefit of getting some...