About Me

Hi! I am Isaac Henry, but go by the name of Zak. I am a 21 year old student, studying at Auckland University of Technology, working towards a Bachelor of Creative Technologies. I also work at a biotechnology research company as web application developer

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It is a well known fact that electrical devices work because of the smoke inside the case. They cease to function if you let the smoke out

6 days ago

Just bought 10,000km of RUC. ouch

6 days ago

That moment when you discover a function that completely revolutionises your method of handling data. #ihasit

1 week ago

I have been having really fun dreams lately. Thanks Valve

1 week ago

Yum, this is like a Viennetta on a stick. Gamble paid off well http://t.co/yfZAB7B6

1 week ago

At last I have a useful application to release for my OP-1 midi library. This is a sequencer which works by sending notes around a hexagonal grid, with the notes being triggered when going through activated hexagons.

OP-1 Sequencer Concept

All the controls are colour coded as per the OP-1's rotary encoders. Blue controls the selected hexagon, and pressing the blue encoder toggles the hex trigger status. Green controls the main turret, which defines where the note will go next. White controls the secondary turret which, if active, will control where the note will go next. When two turrets are active the incoming notes alternate which turret's direction to take....

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6 months ago | Comment! | Permalink

My first public application! OP-1 MIDI Mate is a simple graphical display of the OP-1 MIDI IO.

Download it here

Please note this is an Alpha release, meaning that is is probably non-functional on a few computers. It should work on OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and later. I haven't yet tested for Lion though. I tested it on a mac pro running 10.5 server, and it crashed instantly as expected. If you are 10.5 or below, sorry.

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I received my OP1 last Tuesday and after playing around with it for a few days getting familiar with the controls I got stuck into developing the Openframeworks addon I have been planning to do.

Github repo at http://github.com/xiphiaz/ofxOP1

7 months ago | Comment! | Permalink