If you have any problems using this website or with the content, I would very much like to hear from you. You can email me at < peter !AT! drealm.info >. Please make it clear from the subject line what you're posting about, to avoid my spam filter.
For questions regarding sfz, the best place to post is the rgc:audio support forum on KVRaudio. I check in there several times a day, as do other users of sfz who might be able to help. (That's also where René, the creator of sfz and sfz format, is most easily contacted.)
For questions regarding ns_kit, including my mappings, the best place to post is the naturalstudio forums. I check in there several times a day, as do other users of ns_kit who might be able to help. (That's also where Douglas, the creator/curator of ns_kit, is most easily contacted.)
For questions about the other sfz format mappings I've got here or about any of the scripts - or even about Steve Holt's sfZed, the best place to post is probably the KVRaudio Samples forum. I check in there several times a day, as do other people who might be able to help.
Muzys and Computer Muzys are now legacy
products: the author is no longer able to support them.
The most appropriate places to raise questions or ask for help are
the KVRaudio Hosts forum or
the Computer Music CM Studio forum
(although the latter should really only be used for Computer Muzys questions).
I check in KVRaudio several times a day, as do other people who might be able to help.
Oh, and if you liked Muzys, get on board with MuTools LUNA.
I'm out of touch with SynthEdit -- I'd suggest starting with
the KVRaudio Modular Synthesis forum.
The DSP and Plug-in Development
forum covers raw coding
.
For questions about drealmBBS, please use the Yahoo! group.
I'm Peter Jones (one of many).
I've been doing this internet thing for quite a long time.
My first post
on Usenet was 10 February 1990 (proving how dangerous Google can be...).
I'd been using computers since 1981, though (ZX81 - but BBC Micros and an Acorn Archimedes by that time).
I work in IT, having moved from testing mainframe applications, through writing them, designing them, into team leading and management and now into IT architecture.
In addition to working and playing with computers, I spend a little time trying to coax music out of them. I'm easily sidetracked into technical stuff (like writing PERL scripts to create sfz format mappings!), though. As I prefer drumming to most other forms of music creation, I guess some would say that's not such a bad thing...
As a drum kit is a rather large and noisy contraption - and doesn't have a MIDI plug, either - I bought myself an Alternate Mode TrapKAT in April 2007. This is great fun to beat with sticks. Even more fun is doing in on Ninjam or Ninbot and wait to see who turns up to jam.
Since 1990, I've been living with my (now) wife, Inge.
I still have the beard and some hair.
drealm
As the above post shows, I'm a bit of a geek.
I was running a Viewdata Bulletin Board System called The Dwarfen Realm
for what,
when I was in my early twenties, felt like a long time. It seems a much longer time ago.
drealm
came about when I started using my Archimedes for email in an attempt to
connect the BBS to the outside world -- UUCP over dial up.
In those dim and distant days, email addresses were like {...}!mcsun!ukc!cix!thanatos
.
Each bit between !
s being a hostname, the last part being the destination mailbox.
And host names could only be short, lowercase, with no spaces.
Hence The Dwarfen Realm
became drealm
.
Shortly after that, my (now) wife and I started developing a scrolling-text bulletin board system under *nix (initially and very, very briefly, BSD4.3 on the Archimedes; for a longer period, on System V Release 3.2 on a CT S/80 machine (with real dumb terminals!); then onto an intel 80486 machine running System V Release 4.0, then 4.2, then Linux). The system was called drealmBBS and you can get the source from the link on the front page. Last time I checked, it still compiled (with the dlm21a patch).
The BBS closed, eventually, when the internet became more accessible to more people. We realised
it was time to move on. Somehow, I've not managed to let go of the name (although one of our callers
now holds the original drealm.org
domain, after we let it lapse).
Last updated: 24 August 2007
Updated Muzys contacts and ref'd LUNA. Added purchase of TrapKAT, Ninjam.
26 February 2005: Page created.
