echolevel

@echolevel.co.uk

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Brendan O'Callaghan Ratliff - Audio Director/Coder, Sound Designer & Composer at Cardboard Sword Games • Film Sound • BBC radio drama • Irish traditional music • chiptune/demoscene stuff as Syphus^UpRough https://echolevel.co.uk

They turn out to be colour schemes with names such as 'Kind of Blue', 'Funky Fresh' and 'Jazz Club'. Nice...
Slack has found a new way to bother and annoy me, this time with a notification that reads "Miles Davis themes just dropped" with a sunglasses emoji and a trumpet emoji in case I wasn't sure who Miles Davis was
What on closer inspection turned out to be a horse wearing a zebra outfit
Screenshot of Metron Tracker demonstrating the highly flexible layout options facilitated by Dear ImGui's docking branch
A Dirtywave M8 tracker
Screen recording of new features I've added to Metron, my standalone tracker DAW / Unreal Engine middleware system
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Synth UI and tracker DAW screen are displayed while some audio output is demonstrated
Unhelpful c++ comment on an instrument preset undo buffer that reads "TO DO - implement undo system properly. I can't really be arsed. For now, I will simply not make mistakes."
Fader3, a compact, 3-fader USB MIDI controller with three long (120mm) throw faders which transmits 7 and 14-bit MIDI on customisable CC values and ports.
A screenshot of a VST plugin called MetronFX. It's (currently) a distortion and reverb effect, focused on high-gain heavy guitar sounds for as little CPU cost as possible
The cover of a book of Scan Tester's anglo concertina music, compiled and edited by Gary Coover (the author of many such books)
Cover labels for my Death In Space character sheet envelopes, printed onto strips of gummed paper tape
Video footage of Transmission: Shortwave's intro sequence captured on Meta Quest 3, demonstrating how Metron Tracker is used to provide realtime sample and synth music which is beat-synchronised with the game world
C6 document wallets made from card-backed envelopes and dot matrix-printed gummed tape containing 4 part character sheets for the Death In Space TTRPG, the idea being that they keep people’s sheets in one place and also impart a setting-appropriate, vaguely retrofuturistic Alien/Outland/etc vibe
Enormous VR business guy towers over you while delivering the intro VO to our game. An early 90s hatchback sits in the foreground on an infinite floor of neon red grid lines while the backdrop shows a vertically scrolling music tracker display whose note-data and VU meters are driven in realtime by the music.
Footage of me composing using Metron, my custom tracker inside Unreal Engine. The second screen has Reaper, where I’m doing some recording and sample prep, and RME DigiCheck for analysis
Trailer video for The Siege and The Sandfox, a 2D stealth metroidvania featuring lovely pixelart and some rousing music composed and performed by me
A screenshot of my GlueMidi app for Windows
An audio