Author Archives: xenakios

I haven’t been working on HourGlass much for the past weeks as I got distracted by another thing that hopefully makes a public appeareance soon. I certainly haven’t forgotten HourGlass, but this new project has given me some nice change … Continue reading →

I am planning to release the next HourGlass version within the next couple of weeks. I have been a bit sidetracked by another project, which will affect HourGlass at some point. As a teaser (but this won’t be part of … Continue reading →

Before I started working on HourGlass in “real C++” and using the Qt framework, there was this app, “Texturizer”, written in Microsoft’s “managed C++” and the .NET framework : I unearthed the sources and made the app run and play … Continue reading →

Not sure why it took me so long to work on this, I basically got it working in 15 minutes or something…(Besides the probabilities, the send volume levels are also automatable now.) Regarding the next public build, have some patience, … Continue reading →

This build hopefully fixes the issue with the offline chain processor GUIs not being available after loading a HourGlass workspace file. Windows : www.xenakios.liitin.net/public_html/HourGlass_1.3.0.zip OS-X 10.6/10.7/10.8 (Beta, requires Intel 64 bit processor) : www.xenakios.liitin.net/public_html/HourGlass_1.3.0beta2.dmg By the way, this release doesn’t of course … Continue reading →

In-development feature which allows setting up many effects in parallel chains and crossfading between them. (The chain volume envelopes are fully editable to any shape, I just didn’t show that in this video.) This is still missing some stuff like … Continue reading →

It’s been requested a few times that HourGlass could do plain old resampling based pitch bending/varispeeding, and I’ve sometimes wanted that myself too, so today I worked on that…This is now a process in the offline processing chain, instead of … Continue reading →

Currently it works like this :                               So, each undo history step stores each envelope regardless of the envelope containing the same data or not…Hopefully I … Continue reading →

Finally it’s here! There may be rough edges but as usual if you find bugs or quirks, let me know. edit : I was in such a hurry to get this released I completely forgot there’s a feature that’s in … Continue reading →

I recently watched an amazing talk by Sean Parent on C++ at : It’s rather technical (apart from the Photoshop demo around the 54 minute mark) and unfortunately with very bad audio quality. The rather ironic thing is that some … Continue reading →