if you're into cutting-edge stuff, i really like the new Roy Hargrove album called "Hardgroove". the CD is listed sometimes as being by "The RH Factor". lots of cool guest artists, some freestyle rap, and just good groovy stuff. anything by Christian McBride is great too, as well as Charlie Hunter. most of this stuff can be found on the apple music store if you're on that bus, or previews can be heard on amazon.
yeah, but authorizing for another computer is only necessary if you bought the AAC files from the Apple Music Store.:) just copy 'em.
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what does "faster chip architecture" mean ? did you know you can't compare MHz between different CPUs as any reasonable measure of speed?
the computer you are using was introduced in 1997. that system isn't even a G3.... i can't say how that compares to a 486/66, but i can say that the other day i copied about 20 gigs from one drive to another across IDE busses and it was done in 15 minutes. that's fast enough for me. sounds like you're running OS 8, too.
i think the author is a bit misinformed -- yes, recording to a PDA is a good idea, and it's got definite possibilities -- but how can you say a DAT has poor sound quality? you can get textbook-sized battery powered DAT machines that have mic preamps in them already that record to 24-bit 48khz. that's a pretty darn good format.
if you care enough about the sound quality of your recordings, you'll have the best equipment for what you're doing. DAT is still a viable medium for stereo recording. i'd be surprised if a PDA could record more than 2 channels at a better quality than a DAT machine. DAT machines have SPDIF too, that's a consumer format. But, the best stuff goes over AES/EBU lines, or if you're a hardcore audio person, you've got tube preamps and you know how to use the analog realm to the highest level of effectiveness.
bootleggers and tapers are one thing -- but in my experience as an assistant engineer -- great recording engineers are WAY behind the technology curve. a good engineer with 10-year old tube equipment still beats the pants off of a bad pop musician in his dorm room with a Boss BR-8.
i definetly agree -- we had an accountant do our partnership taxes, but since we are a partnership we are responsible for the tax burden of the business income. turbotax on the web will let you enter in a Schedule K-1 for yourself, which if you are the only owner of the small business, you can use to list additional income (even if it's zero).
so, if you are the company, and just you, you put your small biz stuff on your 1040. if they're zeroes, you don't have much to worry about.
thank you for saying this! you studied with Carter?! that's awesome... he's a god. i was only lucky enough to study with someone who studied with Milhaud...
and you're right -- Machover is quite a press junkie. there is much more important work being done by real composers who are interested in making good music rather than nifty noisemaking gadgets. like the people at SEAMUS.
Do you think that the common audience between Lain and Slashdot is equal to or greater than the audience Moby (Radiohead, Sneaker Pimps, Korn, Talking Heads, Debussy, whatever) and Slashdot share? perhaps. then, why do we never see any articles about music? Because it's not primarily a technological field. If we begin to accept articles about anime, why can't we accept articles about a new release by Pantera, or even perhaps the launch of a new digital mixing board from Yamaha? i've never seen anything like that on slashdot before, and i don't expect to. IMHO entirely too many things get flushed from the submission queue simply because the people who run slashdot don't think it's cool enough. that is just how it works i guess, but it's a shame.
-matt
Anyone think perhaps CmdrTaco is just earning his paycheck by posting stories that benefit VA Linux and/or Andover? Perhaps this LAME anime shit has something to do with that. Maybe the same reason why copyleft isn't linked anymore. "Clothe yourself in commercialism".
first of all, let me just say that i don't like metallica, i've never liked their music, and i think lars is a simpleton for calling what they do "art" because, let's face it -- the only reason bands whose names you know are in the music industry in the first place is to make money. there are many great musicians with record contracts, but nobody knows who they are because they don't play loud enough or have explicit lyrics stickers on their CDs.
our culture today is centered around money... the GPL and OSS as a whole is slightly counter to that, but let us not forget how many people have become millionaries in the last few months on account of Linux and similarly licensed software... aside from money, we like shock value (which is all heavy metal is), and we like things that sound 'pleasant' like boy bands and britney spears. is this truly art though? maybe in the most primitive sense of the word. art is supposed to illicit a reaction from you... IMHO metallica's music illicits one of two reactions:
"Dude, that ROCKS! YEAH!" or "Ugh, turn that shit off!"
perhaps i am generalizing, but that's about all i've seen. it has to do with the way the sound is constructed in heavy metal... it forces you to feel something. IMHO again, true art will succeed in eliciting emotions from you without forcing them out...
and if you notice, everything that Lars said and Metallica's stance on this whole thing in general is exactly the same way: people either say "Dude, that sucks" or they say "YEAH METALLICA! Be fucking selfish! You deserve it COS YOU ROCK!" or something like that.
real artists are not selfish. they don't keep their paintings in their house -- they have a desire to share them. as a composer, i WANT my pieces to be played, and if they are recorded and distributed, so be it. exposure is key if art is going to reach people. being greedy and "gimme-gimme" as metallica is doing does nothing for the music industry (which is already corrupt and producing generally crap across the board) or music as an art form.
so, if music plays and nobody is there to hear it, it's not really music. boycott these motherfuckers who shelter their music like an open wound. art is communication, and we're already paying too much for recordings. do you see any symphonies getting pissed that people are trading mp3s of concerts? no... because classical music doesn't make money for record companies. people who listen to it still like to go to concerts, and it's a thriving culture in the concert hall still... maybe metallica should take a hint from the more educated musical establishment. recordings are deceptive: play live.
i'll quit now.../me puts on his asbestos longjohns... --matt
As a student of music, I probably wouldn't know anything about linux or computers at all if i hadn't stayed inside all summer about 10 years ago learning everything I possibly could have, but -- being who I am now, a geek, a student, and a musician, I think as with any learning process it will take time for things to catch on.
Yes, audio software in Linux is lacking... but, think about what people were using to master CD's about 10 years ago. I could be wrong, but DigiDesign didn't exist then. People used outboard gear to master the first CDs... I still know people who do it this way, who don't care about Dithering, Noise Shaping, artifacts, etc.
I would love to use linux to generate sounds for my computer music compositions... as i said in the previous discussion, i used phazor a few times. Just because linux doesn't handle live processing that well doesn't mean it can't act as a synthesis tool... synthesis algorithms are going to be the same no matter what OS you use...
Here in our department at U of Richmond we've gotten a grant ( we got the grant!! ) to develop a Granular Synthesis app under linux this summer -- i would like to see a system that generated Granulated Sounds in real time -- now that would be impressive!
Overall, it's a start, right? we have to get someplace. I've heard the U. of Virginia has a number of linux boxes (probably running Csound) in their computer music department... anybody know anything about this ? We are in the infant stages, GLAME looks cool, and various people have started writing things... we should stop reaming out what's availible and HELP THEM!:)
For me, a good place to start would be standalone synthesis tools that output aiffs or wavs. That's how I compose anyway, and I sequence in ProTools or Studio Vision.
i tried out this program, and it looks really nice, but most of the functionality pictured on the screen simply doesn't work... the sound was crackly and there seemed to be zippering all over the place... a good effort i think, and a good start, but i wasn't impressed with the quality. no offense to david@ultramaster... perhaps MIDI support in Juno-6 would attract more users, that would make it much more usable for live sound applications. -m
Watch the vocabulary guys: 'techno' or 'electronica' (stupid name?) is generally made with computers, but it is not "Computer Music" so to speak. Go check out some Iannis Xenakis, now that's old-school computer music. Techno is a pop art form, it's not intended to be 'artsy' (well, maybe sometimes... ). the propellerheads use real bass and real drums as well as computers and drum machines,etc. live. tell you what: i'll post an mp3 of my latest computer music composition on my web site later this afternoon... euphoria.richmond.edu
to start: electronic music is not 'experimental', it has been around for 30+ years in some form or another and is an established medium of composition that gets far too little attention in mainstream culture... that being said...:) i wrote a piece for tape using my linux box and a program called 'phazor' which uses FFTs in interesting ways.. not very flexible, but cool. the rest i did with the macs in our Music Tech Lab. however -- two of us who work in the lab at UR have applied for university money to write a Granular Synthesis application this summer in C++ developing under linux. anyone who has any suggestions, code, or would be interested in helping (we're in Richmond, VA) please email me! cybin@whid.net. --matt
in the tradition of linus... for a smooth, fill-ya-up website stench experience... it's hops, it's barley, it's protien... the only website i'd want to smell would be. Guinness. and on tap at that -- in ireland. -cyb
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if you're into cutting-edge stuff, i really like the new Roy Hargrove album called "Hardgroove". the CD is listed sometimes as being by "The RH Factor". lots of cool guest artists, some freestyle rap, and just good groovy stuff. anything by Christian McBride is great too, as well as Charlie Hunter. most of this stuff can be found on the apple music store if you're on that bus, or previews can be heard on amazon.
HAH! I got falalalalalalala.la before joo did. :)
seriously.
tiz the season to be jolly.
yeah, but authorizing for another computer is only necessary if you bought the AAC files from the Apple Music Store. :) just copy 'em.
what does "faster chip architecture" mean ? did you know you can't compare MHz between different CPUs as any reasonable measure of speed?
the computer you are using was introduced in 1997. that system isn't even a G3.... i can't say how that compares to a 486/66, but i can say that the other day i copied about 20 gigs from one drive to another across IDE busses and it was done in 15 minutes. that's fast enough for me. sounds like you're running OS 8, too.
i think the author is a bit misinformed -- yes, recording to a PDA is a good idea, and it's got definite possibilities -- but how can you say a DAT has poor sound quality? you can get textbook-sized battery powered DAT machines that have mic preamps in them already that record to 24-bit 48khz. that's a pretty darn good format.
if you care enough about the sound quality of your recordings, you'll have the best equipment for what you're doing. DAT is still a viable medium for stereo recording. i'd be surprised if a PDA could record more than 2 channels at a better quality than a DAT machine. DAT machines have SPDIF too, that's a consumer format. But, the best stuff goes over AES/EBU lines, or if you're a hardcore audio person, you've got tube preamps and you know how to use the analog realm to the highest level of effectiveness.
bootleggers and tapers are one thing -- but in my experience as an assistant engineer -- great recording engineers are WAY behind the technology curve. a good engineer with 10-year old tube equipment still beats the pants off of a bad pop musician in his dorm room with a Boss BR-8.
i definetly agree -- we had an accountant do our partnership taxes, but since we are a partnership we are responsible for the tax burden of the business income. turbotax on the web will let you enter in a Schedule K-1 for yourself, which if you are the only owner of the small business, you can use to list additional income (even if it's zero).
so, if you are the company, and just you, you put your small biz stuff on your 1040. if they're zeroes, you don't have much to worry about.
thank you for saying this! you studied with Carter?! that's awesome... he's a god. i was only lucky enough to study with someone who studied with Milhaud...
and you're right -- Machover is quite a press junkie. there is much more important work being done by real composers who are interested in making good music rather than nifty noisemaking gadgets. like the people at SEAMUS.
Do you think that the common audience between Lain and Slashdot is equal to or greater than the audience Moby (Radiohead, Sneaker Pimps, Korn, Talking Heads, Debussy, whatever) and Slashdot share? perhaps. then, why do we never see any articles about music? Because it's not primarily a technological field. If we begin to accept articles about anime, why can't we accept articles about a new release by Pantera, or even perhaps the launch of a new digital mixing board from Yamaha? i've never seen anything like that on slashdot before, and i don't expect to. IMHO entirely too many things get flushed from the submission queue simply because the people who run slashdot don't think it's cool enough. that is just how it works i guess, but it's a shame. -matt
Anyone think perhaps CmdrTaco is just earning his paycheck by posting stories that benefit VA Linux and/or Andover? Perhaps this LAME anime shit has something to do with that. Maybe the same reason why copyleft isn't linked anymore. "Clothe yourself in commercialism".
first of all, let me just say that i don't like metallica, i've never liked their music, and i think lars is a simpleton for calling what they do "art" because, let's face it -- the only reason bands whose names you know are in the music industry in the first place is to make money. there are many great musicians with record contracts, but nobody knows who they are because they don't play loud enough or have explicit lyrics stickers on their CDs.
/me puts on his asbestos longjohns... --matt
our culture today is centered around money... the GPL and OSS as a whole is slightly counter to that, but let us not forget how many people have become millionaries in the last few months on account of Linux and similarly licensed software... aside from money, we like shock value (which is all heavy metal is), and we like things that sound 'pleasant' like boy bands and britney spears. is this truly art though? maybe in the most primitive sense of the word. art is supposed to illicit a reaction from you... IMHO metallica's music illicits one of two reactions:
"Dude, that ROCKS! YEAH!"
or
"Ugh, turn that shit off!"
perhaps i am generalizing, but that's about all i've seen. it has to do with the way the sound is constructed in heavy metal... it forces you to feel something. IMHO again, true art will succeed in eliciting emotions from you without forcing them out...
and if you notice, everything that Lars said and Metallica's stance on this whole thing in general is exactly the same way: people either say "Dude, that sucks" or they say "YEAH METALLICA! Be fucking selfish! You deserve it COS YOU ROCK!" or something like that.
real artists are not selfish. they don't keep their paintings in their house -- they have a desire to share them. as a composer, i WANT my pieces to be played, and if they are recorded and distributed, so be it. exposure is key if art is going to reach people. being greedy and "gimme-gimme" as metallica is doing does nothing for the music industry (which is already corrupt and producing generally crap across the board) or music as an art form.
so, if music plays and nobody is there to hear it, it's not really music. boycott these motherfuckers who shelter their music like an open wound. art is communication, and we're already paying too much for recordings. do you see any symphonies getting pissed that people are trading mp3s of concerts? no... because classical music doesn't make money for record companies. people who listen to it still like to go to concerts, and it's a thriving culture in the concert hall still... maybe metallica should take a hint from the more educated musical establishment. recordings are deceptive: play live.
i'll quit now...
As a student of music, I probably wouldn't know anything about linux or computers at all if i hadn't stayed inside all summer about 10 years ago learning everything I possibly could have, but -- being who I am now, a geek, a student, and a musician, I think as with any learning process it will take time for things to catch on.
:)
:)
Yes, audio software in Linux is lacking... but, think about what people were using to master CD's about 10 years ago. I could be wrong, but DigiDesign didn't exist then. People used outboard gear to master the first CDs... I still know people who do it this way, who don't care about Dithering, Noise Shaping, artifacts, etc.
I would love to use linux to generate sounds for my computer music compositions... as i said in the previous discussion, i used phazor a few times. Just because linux doesn't handle live processing that well doesn't mean it can't act as a synthesis tool... synthesis algorithms are going to be the same no matter what OS you use...
Here in our department at U of Richmond we've gotten a grant ( we got the grant!! ) to develop a Granular Synthesis app under linux this summer -- i would like to see a system that generated Granulated Sounds in real time -- now that would be impressive!
Overall, it's a start, right? we have to get someplace. I've heard the U. of Virginia has a number of linux boxes (probably running Csound) in their computer music department... anybody know anything about this ? We are in the infant stages, GLAME looks cool, and various people have started writing things... we should stop reaming out what's availible and HELP THEM!
For me, a good place to start would be standalone synthesis tools that output aiffs or wavs. That's how I compose anyway, and I sequence in ProTools or Studio Vision.
--matt euphoria
P.S. email me if you know of any availible source for granular synthesis
i tried out this program, and it looks really nice, but most of the functionality pictured on the screen simply doesn't work... the sound was crackly and there seemed to be zippering all over the place... a good effort i think, and a good start, but i wasn't impressed with the quality. no offense to david@ultramaster... perhaps MIDI support in Juno-6 would attract more users, that would make it much more usable for live sound applications. -m
Watch the vocabulary guys: 'techno' or 'electronica' (stupid name?) is generally made with computers, but it is not "Computer Music" so to speak. Go check out some Iannis Xenakis, now that's old-school computer music. Techno is a pop art form, it's not intended to be 'artsy' (well, maybe sometimes... ). the propellerheads use real bass and real drums as well as computers and drum machines,etc. live. tell you what: i'll post an mp3 of my latest computer music composition on my web site later this afternoon... euphoria.richmond.edu
to start: electronic music is not 'experimental', it has been around for 30+ years in some form or another and is an established medium of composition that gets far too little attention in mainstream culture... that being said ... :) i wrote a piece for tape using my linux box and a program called 'phazor' which uses FFTs in interesting ways .. not very flexible, but cool. the rest i did with the macs in our Music Tech Lab. however -- two of us who work in the lab at UR have applied for university money to write a Granular Synthesis application this summer in C++ developing under linux. anyone who has any suggestions, code, or would be interested in helping (we're in Richmond, VA) please email me! cybin@whid.net. --matt
in the tradition of linus... for a smooth, fill-ya-up website stench experience... it's hops, it's barley, it's protien... the only website i'd want to smell would be. Guinness. and on tap at that -- in ireland. -cyb