I achieved my vision for controlling audio in remote workshops. Here's the MIDI controller in action.

This week I've been on holiday at home, building a deck to (almost) finish off our garden. As always this is a good exercise in project management, but also an exercise in materials and details which I rarely get into at work. It's also been super interesting to think about how the needs of our kids, who are 5 and 3 now, are going to change as they get older and to try to accommodate for that in the design. Alex Komoroske's 'Platforms as Gardens' metaphor really comes into it's own here.

My vision for audio in remote workshops got some interest last week. This spurred me on to solve it and I ended up exploring the route I'd previously written off as too CPU intensive: routing audio through a DAW. This actually works really well. I managed to pick up an old Behringer BCF2000 for £50 on Facebook marketplace and, after a long evening and taking the thing apart, got it all hooked into Reaper so I can fade Spotify in and out during workshops. It's the little things, eh?