A sleepless night. I feel tired and achy, perhaps my daily exercises are too much for me, slight though they are.
When working on the Unknown Sounds tune I found the need a few times for a start-offset parameter for the Zeitraum engines. These play a sample with independent pitch and speed, but they are more like a sample version of 'oscillator synchronisation'. They have a robotic and tinny sound which works well for some applications.
So today, I added that Start parameter, and a Wait parameter too, to delay playback. These now match the parameters of normal sample playback, which is useful because Zeitraum is often layered with normal samples. I corrected one little error, which reset the playback to be a few samples late; so now it lines up exactly, and optimised several aspects of the code too. None of this was urgent, but it is one of those time consuming jobs that can be done 'when I have the time', and today I did.
My brother and his partner are visiting for a birthday celebration, so this little disruption to routine stops me from some jobs, so this was a useful one. Tomorrow I'll re-list a few more albums. I aspire today to prepare some papers for underdrawings.
