Benjamin Caccia

Tag: linux

  • Raspberry Pi 4 Music Cyberdeck

    Raspberry Pi 4 Music Cyberdeck

    Why? There were a couple of motivations and use cases for putting this together. Needed a better way of triggering backing track playback when performing with my band Big Time Kill Wanted a compact but powerful synth that could be used for performances or jamming Stand alone guitar pedal board/amp modeling Something that felt like…

  • [Sunvox + MODEP + Raspberry Pi 4] – Dream in a Dream, jam over the WIP

    [Sunvox + MODEP + Raspberry Pi 4] – Dream in a Dream, jam over the WIP

    Jamming over a WIP song using my Raspberry Pi 4 music box. SunVox is running on the small 7in box and is what I sequenced all the synths/samples on for the backing track. MODEP is also running on this device. On my left monitor I’ve accessed the MODEP UI on the Pi via the network…

  • Configure KDE to function like a tiling WM

    Configure KDE to function like a tiling WM

    KDE Plasma is a very flexible desktop environment. In the video below, I’ll outline the steps needed to alter the appearance and functionality of KDE Plasma to mimic that of a tiling window manager (i3, dwm, etc)

  • Formatting a thumb drive from the command line in Linux

    Formatting a thumb drive from the command line in Linux

    There are many ways of formatting a thumb drive in Linux. This tutorial will outline the primary method I use. Identify the disk Without the disk plugged in, run sudo lsblk -f and observe the output. Plug in the disk. Run sudo lsblk -f again. This time you should see a new entry or entries.…

  • [GNU Stow] – Dotfile management

    [GNU Stow] – Dotfile management

  • [bmon] – Terminal bandwidth monitor

    [bmon] – Terminal bandwidth monitor

  • [fff] – Terminal file manager written in bash

    [fff] – Terminal file manager written in bash

    Get fff from Github.

  • Linux Beat Mastering

    Linux Beat Mastering

    This is the process I use when mastering beats for a platform such as Airbit. I’m running Kubuntu 18.04. All sequencing/recording/arrangement is done in Reaper. Mastering is done in Ardour using the Calf Audio plugins.

  • Use aliases for faster BASH shell navigation

    Use aliases for faster BASH shell navigation

    The BASH shell is very powerful and allows an experienced user to get things done quickly. One area that new users find frustrating is directory navigation. Coming from a GUI environment, it would appear that one is able to navigate around a file system much more quickly in their GUI file browser. As an example,…

  • How to change urxvt terminal emulator colors

    How to change urxvt terminal emulator colors

    urxvt is a fast, lightweight terminal emulator that supports unicode. It is also very customizable. In this walkthrough, you’ll learn how to customize the color scheme of urxvt. Installation To install in Ubuntu use: sudo apt install rxvt-unicode Setup Configuration for urxvt is done in the ~/.Xresources file. If you don’t have one, you can…

  • [Reaper] – Using Linux Native VST’s

    [Reaper] – Using Linux Native VST’s

    Cockos has recently started making experimental builds of Reaper available for download on their website. Despite the experimental tag, I’ve found it to be astoundingly stable over the past several months of use for both video and audio editing. One downside, however, is that it does not yet support native Linux plugin formats such as…

  • Personal wiki using Vimwiki

    Personal wiki using Vimwiki

    I’ve dabbled in many different productivity systems over the years in an effort to organize my personal/work tasks/notes/writing. These include using methods and services such as: Disparate plain text files Simplenote Wunderlist Catch Microsoft To-Do Evernote Trello Wekan Each of the above listed services addresses one, but not all of the items that I need…