I just now belatedly learned that frequent VCV contributor (and Linux audio guru) Dave Phillips passed away Nov 12, 2023.
Based on what I have read, he was a huge influence for a great many people.
I am getting ready to release my first album, and one of the pieces uses a VCV patch that was derived from a beautiful Dave Phillips 2019 creation called “A Machine Dream”
Here is my modified version from 2021.
So I am very sad that Dave is no longer with us.
Really sad, RIP Dave.
I didn’t know that. He contributed so much to linuxmusicians and linux audio in general.
Awful. Rest in sound, Dave. Thanks @DaveVenom for the heads up.
I didn’t interact with Dave much, but he was one of the first users of VCV Teletype – I think the very first, actually? He built my dev branch and started submitting bug reports before I had told anyone it was working, and once I got over the surprise, his enthusiasm and smart feedback was very welcome and appreciated. Thanks for everything, Dave.
I did a lot of work with him in the 80’s I think… Known him a long time.
R.I.P. Dave!
Rest in peace Dave. We had conversations on and off up to a couple of months before his passing, which I didn’t know of either. I knew of his health troubles and he would disappear and then bounce back. He was a kind and generous man, very technologically capable and curious, and his experiments with Rack music making always inspired me. I turned him on to an Apple M1 computer late in life which he was grateful for, and he really liked it. I remembered him from earlier years because he contributed Linux audio articles to lwn.net, which I was a reader of, and it seems he really helped advance the course of audio on Linux. Someone to admire that left a mark - hat tip to you Dave!
What a sad news… 7 years ago, Marc and I were secretly working on the first Geodesics modules, Dave found the Github, built the WIP plugin and posted a video… the disappointment of the project leaking quickly let room for another feeling: for the first time I heard a creative musician using a musical tool we made, bringing it in new places. This was the best feeling of my musical life, it made me change a lot of things in my life and it is the reason why I do what I do now. Thank you, Dave, I keep this feeling with me.
Wonderful anecdote and nice tribute!
I love hearing that Dave surprising developers by building their WIP code was a thing he did to multiple people.