Links to maxforlive.com and Gumroad where I've made available some Max for Live devices to be used with Ableton Live.

An interactive map of Normanby Park harnessing GIS and GPS for mobile, desktop and the web. Features informative content about some of park's notable trees, with contributions from arboriculturist Brad Canfield.

Trees of Normanby is an independent, third party app created in collaboration with park staff and is not currently supported by, or represent Normanby Hall Country Park or North Lincolnshire Council.

An additive synthesizer that allows you to define the frequencies of all 128 MIDI notes and define harmonic ratios with precision as decimals or fractions. A work in progress, written with Cmajor.

Features per harmonic amplitude modulation, playable tables to visualize note mappings, customizable value bank and explorer inspired by the Colundi value hunter allows you to build custom tunings, harmonics table shows frequency of each harmonic in every note. On screen grid note controller, optional commands to program sounds.

Gallery video player is an Android app designed to be used in public spaces, it restricts access to the device so the audience are able to play and pause the video only and not navigate away. An optional title screen image can be set, features an auto reset option that rests to the title screen or first frame of the video if paused for a specified amount of time.

The app was made for the North Lincolnshire Council Museum team and used in the "Stubbs In The Stables" display at Normanby Hall Country Park, part of "George Stubbs and the Anatomy of the Horse", celebrating the 300th birthday of anatomist and painter George Stubbs. The app was used to host a video for Gillian Higgins from Horses Inside Out and her making of the life size model on display.

Some tools I've made to extend the functionality of Renoise. Includes a preset handler, instrument creator, scale creator and more.

Examples of some music I made that's on the web.

Ultradian7 is an independent creator with roots in music. The name Ultradian refers to an ultradian rhythm which "is a recurrent period or cycle repeated throughout a 24-hour day."

The number 7 is the number of days in a week or cycles of a "circadian" rhythm within which ultradian cycles recur, is often associated with luck, completeness and creativity, connected to the seven wonders of the ancient world, the 7 colours of the rainbow as divided by Isaac Newton. The magic number 7 holds reference to the human brain tending to remember about 7 items in short-term memory.

Adds support in Renoise for Sample Modulation Device presets. As Renoise only supports saving modulation devices in entire Modulation Sets .xrmo files, this tool extends functionality for users to save and load presets for individual devices, device chains or complete filter sections in new file types .xrmd, .xrmc or .xrmf, integrated to work consistently with native Renoise presets.

An on screen button controller for Renoise, ideally used with a touchscreen but can be used universally. Optional note layouts inspired by ancient mathematical magic squares, including more recent discoveries by the brilliant Jain108.

A Renoise tool that allows you to create or modify scales and tunings, supports import and export for Scala .scl files. Resulting scale is given as interval (decimal), ratio (fraction), cents, distance and frequency. You can view a full MIDI note frequency dump for a scale and given base frequency. Development stopped when I discovered Sevish's Scale Workshop, far superior software for producing scales!

Builds instruments by generating single cycle waveforms, user defines custom note frequencies for each sample and can generate and layer harmonics defined as decimal or fraction ratio. Supports importing Scala .scl files to insert octaves of frequencies with base note settings. It can auto generate phrases with pattern options, generate random set of frequencies from your pre set value bank. Settings for default sample options, automatically insert modulation devices.

A calculator for nine types of frequency related calculations. Results can be used can be used to automatically set Renoise sample options and device parameters.

Some music I've made has been shared here, many tracks have been made private or removed, if you're looking for a track that was previously available you can contact me. Here's another page I created to upload old music from when I first started doing electronic music.

My track appears on Dopodomani, a compilation of electronic music curated by David Galea (umbromaniii). Released by Jake Fields (Dr. Doctor) and the E.L.M. Collective.

"Dopodomani is released in the spirit of friendship, generosity, and charity. The charity that we selected was Hunger Relief International, because feeding the poor around the world is so important. www.hungerreliefinternational.org"

Krys has used my audio in some of his movies.

My track appears on Nature of Chaos Vol. II, an E.L.M.C. compilation mastered by Jake Fields (Dr. Doctor) featuring artwork by Ian Anderson (Designers Republic).

"We present to you 31 tracks from 31 different artists all over the world. All proceeds from this album will be donated to the WHO COVID-19 Response fund."

"The steelworks you are about to see takes from the earth five million tons of stone a year, and makes from it one million four hundred thousand tons of steel"

An ambient track I produced appears on Time Before The Moon, an E.L.M.C. compilation, mastered by Jake Fields (Dr. Doctor) artwork produced by Nicolas Silesi.

I contributed music to Colundi Every0ne (An Enchantment Of Sonic Spells), compiled by Grant Wilson-Claridge. Made up of tracks based on Colundi values, "128 resonant frequencies chosen via experimentation and philosophy, each relating to a specific human bio-resonance, or psychology, traditional mysticism or belief, physics, astronomy, maths, chemistry”.

Head to the projects section to see some of the things we've been working on.

Modulation Device Presets Tool for Renoise:

A Sample Modulation Device preset handler for Renoise. Overview: Modulation Device Presets is a tool for Renoise that adds functionality for to saving and recalling presets for Sample Modulation Devices. Context & Motivation: Renoise is a digital audio workstation, users have access to inbuilt devices such as audio effects and modulation devices that can be loaded into tracks and instruments to effect audio or meta data. Device settings can be saved and loaded as presets per device, except for "Sample Modulation Devices" for which device settings can only be saved in "Modulation Sets". These contain all devices and their settings for the current instrument in a single file. The only way to save and recall any of these Sample Modulation Device settings an entire Modulation Set has to be loaded, replacing any existing devices in the instrument and ALL modulation settings. This can be an issue when you've already begun creating an instrument and configured any modulation settings, then want to insert a single device with specific settings that you saved previously. Renoise features an API for scripting tools using the Lua programming language, allowing users to customise and extend functionality. I searched the official Renoise tool library and the web to see if anyone had created a device that solves the issue we face and didn't find one, so I'll attempt to write one myself and share it in the tool library for other users. Research & Ideation: First off I need to know if and what access the Renoise scripting API has access to Sample Modulation Devices. We require read access to a devices parameters when saving presets and write access to load presets into the device, from looking at the documentation we can access devices within a sample modulation set and their values. renoise.song().instruments[].sample_modulation_sets[].devices[]:parameter(index) -> [renoise.DeviceParameter object] To understand how the native presets are stored, I tried opening a Modulation Set ".xrno" file into a text editor and found they're written in an XML format, so it would make sense for us to use the XML format for our preset files. I identified nodes for each device present in the modulation set, the set name and filter bank settings. The device nodes contain all settings for the devices and a defined target, "Volume", "Panning", "Pitch", "Cutoff", "Resonance" or "Drive". By dividing the file into nodes and we could create a tweaked reconstructed format for our presets. Through reading the documentation I discovered the renoise.Document namespace allows us to create node based documents easily and save them as XML files, so it could be convenient to use in our project. The native presets are saved and recalled using context menus in the device target lane, modulation set pane or browser, and hotkey shortcuts also in the device target lane and mod set pane. We'll want to consider this user interactivity when developing our seamless native user experience with our preset handler. The API has functions for adding menu entries, key bindings and import hooks that we could use for our new filetypes. renoise.tool():add_menu_entry(menu_entry_definition_table) renoise.tool():add_keybinding(keybinding_definition_table) renoise.tool():add_file_import_hook(file_import_hook_definition_table) It would make sense for us to integrate the Renoise user library providing default save and load paths. From my reading of the documentation the API doesn't have access to the User Library location, so we'll implement our own functionality to set the User Library manually and store in a preferences file for persistence. Solution Overview: I'll work with the XML format to keep our presets inline with the native files. By dividing the native file into nodes I could visualise some modularity for creating additional preset formats due to the varying types of nodes and values. I think it would be possible and useful to have multiple types of preset, so I'm going to create three new preset file types; "Device" - Single device for a defined target. "Device Chain" - Chain of devices for a defined target. "Filter" - filter bank settings. I'll add context menu entries, user library and file manager integration in attempting seamless integration based on how native presets are saved and recalled. Tools: Renoise API, editor and terminal. VSCode Challenges & Learnings: The API doesn't give us access to the currently selected modulation device, this is creates an issue by not letting us save presets directly with context menus or hotkeys. To work around this we've created a minimal GUI that allows users to manually save their desired preset. When loading device presets we had to first init a new document, adding in arbitrary values for points for devices that required them. Continuation: Add a feature or new tool that extracts devices or filter settings from mod set files and save as one of our new preset types.