Welcome to glamocanin.net
Here you will find the "blog" of Slavko Glamocanin. The main purpose of this page is to promote my music, me as a technical person and me as a thinker.
You can find me on facebook for a more personal contact.
Most of the content is in english, but i did not bother to translate from my native slovene language, or setup a dual language page.
Rim? Going the way of Nokia?
02.04.2012Bye Bye BlackBerry. How Long Will Apple Last?
Suure.. ecosystems. But first, hold an iphone in your hand, use it for a couple of minutes. Do the same with a new BB... ITS ABOUT THE PRODUCT ITSELF. If it would work, be smooth even that would be enough to bring users/devs in. RIM have great tech but they arent even using it on phones yet. It's the same delays nokia had and for them we clearly see Meego is an epic WIN and would be a home run if only they could
EXECUTE
Or be run over by others. Nokia soldout to MS and while strategically that is a definite 180 turn, it does seem the execution part of their operation has improved.
I can only speculate that the boardroom shuffle has motivated enough people at RIM to actually execute, wherever their problems currently are.
RIM still has a huge cash flow, they just need to
FOCUS
On their core strenghts. Release the QNX based phone!! Seeing the playbook, it's a beautiful device and is full of potential. Which i hope they will realize on their Colt phone.
Unless MS buys them first and turns them around 180 degrees. MS buying windows relevance where it can is a whole other topic.
I get too emotional with these companies:)
Media publishing. Simple?
22.01.2012I've recently published my first item in the nokia OVI store, an OSC client for the N9! (yay!)
The process was quite straightforward and a nice experience. After that i decided i could try with a ringtone. BUT it seems that you must become a media publisher, which is quite the process. The problematic bit is that you have to have insurance in the minimal amount of $1M?! (pinky to mouth:)
It is rather sad that these IP litigations have forced Nokia to require something like this.
So... here's the ringtone:)
Kinect on Linux
15.12.2011Just a short blurb for the crawlers, the answer was quite tricky to find.
For connecting a Kinect device to a linux box (i'm using gentoo) you have great tutorials online, but for a specific error "Failed to set USB interface!", there is little advice.
The problems occurs after you compile and install everything (oh yeah you have to copy the commonCppMakefile and its friends manually from openNi/platform/.../build/common to /usr/include/ni).
It is caused by having the gspca_kinect kernel driver, which provides a v4l video stream from the kinect, but seems to interfere with other kinnect operations. You must:
- unplug the kinnect
- remove the driver from memory, run (as root):
rmmod gpsca_kinect
- remove the driver file, run:
rm /lib/modules/3.1.0-gentoo/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca_kinect.ko
- plug the kinect back in and ENJOY!
The wonders of reuse
13.11.2011PEW PEW!! Some new sounds from warm booting my studio.
Pppoooollllllyyyyy llllooolliii222-in1-01 by logista
Currently using http://www.renoise.com/ for midi tracking and my gosh what software. They made a lot of design choices just as i would make them and the thing is just superbly great for music. The renoise guys seem to be superb coders as well as having a lot of know how for making such software. Especially for people with tracker based muscle memory;)
I'm deciding if i want to use it full time or use more of my time making my own software, naprava.
There is only so much you can reinvent yourself:)
Other than that my software currently supports multitrack recording, i got the mixer/recorder concept done in my head, just have to code it. I could even use an external sequencer i guess.
There is also a biquad digital filter implementation in it, man these filter are damn easy, its just feedback with specific coefficients that get you a high pass, low pass, band pass, ... filter. It's not analogue modelling but it's sufficient:)
Will be building in spacial control of the samples soon (3d positioning impacts left/right and low pass filter settings)
All in all i'm having great fun developing this thing and even more fun actually doing something with it, like poking around my couple of synths.
Total art platform at MFRU 2011
13.11.2011I will be joining Cirkulacija2 at Total art platform at MFRU 2011!
There will be visual art at various locations around maribor, multiple lasers and projections.
I will be working on a laser tag type thingy. Recording the lasers and projecting their track - a canvas for lasers.
Hope to see you there!
PEW PEW!
(busy news day for my little site - it seems i have a lot of work and am doing anything but:)