Snailbird Lab

Welcome to the Lab! Below you'll find a catalogue of software tools I have made or am developing for electronic musicians.

Snailbird JSFX

I've started a repository of custom JSFX and ReaScripts I use for my live set. The scripts will not likely be useful to anyone else outside of reference, but the JS effects are more generally useful.

You can check out the GitHub repository, or learn more about the available plugins here on Snailbird.

Patch Notes

Patch Notes is a Digital Audio Workstation plugin designed to afford hardware synthesizer players an easier experience managing patch settings between DAW sessions. More than a system for remembering and issuing Program Change messages, Patch Notes aims to cater to analog or other non-MIDI enabled gear, allowing the musician quick access to critical information related to setting up a patch. Patch Notes is currently in design and development, and you can track the progress on github.

The idea for Patch Notes came after some time thinking of solutions for managing the programs and patching for an array of hardware synthesizers and MIDI instruments. Inspired by Nick Batt's use of Yamaha Setlist for iOS, I thought of creating a similar solution to embedding patching notes into a DAW track for reference during a live session.