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  • Rack

    The virtual Eurorack studio (by VCVRack)

  • I’ll also plug VCV Rack[1], an open source emulator for modular synthesizers. It takes the cost of exploring modular synthesis down from “prohibitive” (thousands of dollars easily) to “zero”. Really cool project that’s come a long way in the last few years.

    [1] https://vcvrack.com/

  • livefader

    WIP: LiveFader is a Max for Live device written in Typescript, implementing a parameter cross-fader in the style of the Elektron Octatrack.

  • Nice work on Scheme for Max!

    Much less impressive, but I spent a bit of time building a simple M4L device a while back using Typescript, and put some effort into figuring out how to make TS play nice(r) with the M4L API (the JS support in Max is pretty basic).

    I never got around to splitting it out into its own reusable module but it might be of interest to anyone interested in playing with scripting Ableton from Max, but not interested in learning Max’s visual programming paradigm: https://github.com/tomduncalf/livefader

    Would be interested to know how Ableton’s scriptability compares to some other DAWs… I know Tracktion and Bitwig have some degree of JS support, and Reaper has its own scripting language. Personally I’d love it Ableton made the Python API etc. a bit more official but I can of course understand why they don’t.

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  • spleeter-web

    Self-hostable web app for isolating the vocal, accompaniment, bass, and drums of any song. Supports Spleeter, D3Net, Demucs, Tasnet, X-UMX. Built with React and Django.

  • There's a webservice to separate a song using Demucs here:

    https://demucs.danielfrg.com/

    And a great Dockerized webapp that lets you choose from several models and parameters here:

    https://github.com/JeffreyCA/spleeter-web

    Otherwise you can just install them locally and run them through the CLI, it's pretty easy (one command)

    https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs#for-musicians

    https://github.com/deezer/spleeter#quick-start

      2. Now you can take the isolated vocals, and build the rest of the song yourself

  • demucs

    Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation, but the goddamm motherfucker doesn't work.

  • There's a webservice to separate a song using Demucs here:

    https://demucs.danielfrg.com/

    And a great Dockerized webapp that lets you choose from several models and parameters here:

    https://github.com/JeffreyCA/spleeter-web

    Otherwise you can just install them locally and run them through the CLI, it's pretty easy (one command)

    https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs#for-musicians

    https://github.com/deezer/spleeter#quick-start

      2. Now you can take the isolated vocals, and build the rest of the song yourself

  • spleeter

    Deezer source separation library including pretrained models.

  • There's a webservice to separate a song using Demucs here:

    https://demucs.danielfrg.com/

    And a great Dockerized webapp that lets you choose from several models and parameters here:

    https://github.com/JeffreyCA/spleeter-web

    Otherwise you can just install them locally and run them through the CLI, it's pretty easy (one command)

    https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs#for-musicians

    https://github.com/deezer/spleeter#quick-start

      2. Now you can take the isolated vocals, and build the rest of the song yourself

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