You can neutralize it by adding Baking Soda. Works for both acids and bases. Fizzes up pretty good with acids... ever add baking soda to vinegar as a kid?
Oh man... I've seen it... last weekend. A group called Logic Bomb was rocking out a whole crowd of people. Everyone stomping around to vicious psy-trance... when everything stops... then the music comes back on again... stomping continues... then about 2 minutes later, the music stops, the screen on their setup goes black... then blue screen. I laughed uncontrollably for about 5 minutes after that. Luckily for them... I think they were following their live set with a backup copy of something similar on CD: UPS stylee.
While I totally 100% agree with your last sentence... I'm troubled at the content in your middle paragraph.
What you're talking about is commonly referred to as "latency". Really cool audio cards and hardware, plus great improvements in audio drivers and what-not have mostly made this disappear. I won't say that it's been made a "non-issue"... because there are still people with bad audio cards or bad configurations... but latency of under 10ms is very, very common out there. Personally, I have 10ms latency and I don't even notice. Physical knob turns correspond instantly with on-screen knob turns.
As a funny side note, I recently read a letter in Computer Music where a guy wanted to know how to get higher latency... because his computer was giving him less latency than on his real-life piano. This can also be a drums issue as well.
The computer is now being used to create all new types of genres. Like ones that didn't exist before. Additionally, stuff that was incredibly time consuming before is now a lot easier.
Like lots of old "experimental" music... which involved physically making collages of various tape recordings. While I admire the the patience and vision of the artists that used to do that stuff, I realize that they probably really would have liked digital sampling capabilities.
http://www.steinberg.net - Steinberg, makers of "Cubase"... a software sequencer, music work environment and more.
http://www.emagic.de - Makers of "Logic". A lot like Cubase. Sequencer holy warrior fanatics will track me down and rip me apart for mentioning Cubase first.
http://www.cycling74.com/ - Makers of sound programming thingies Max/MSP and Pluggo. Pretty complicated, but reportedly worthwhile.
http://microsound.org/ - Home of arguably the most snobbiest "experimental music" and computer music mailing list on the net. Plenty of interesting stuff here too. Prepare to listen to various 30 minute plus "masterpieces" of quiet shuffling sounds, only.
http://www.refx.net - Maker of interesting VST plugins, notably "QuadraSID" which is a sound plugin based on the Commodore 64's famous, classic "SID" chip.
I'm sure I left plenty of stuff out... so put up your own links!:)
BTW, If you want to hear the rest of the Generic songs... they're not up because they're looking for webspace. Hint hint, nudge nudge.
Saw it in action at Earthcore 2000 NYE
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I looked at this page in awe a few years ago at work in Los Angeles... and I was so excited to actually see it in person on my Australia trip... at the best party I'd ever been to, no less!!
Earthcore NYE 2000 was a weeklong techno-marathon... the sliiiiiiinky was there on a hill very similar to the one in the "space cadets" photos. It moved so gracefully on the elastic strings it's suspended by. A slight movement on one end creates a lovely fluid ripple along the length of the whole object. People creating ripples on both ends make waves that gently join each other. Very peaceful to look at.
Both Earthcore and the Sliiiiiiinky are not to be missed if one's in the Melbourne area!
-Christian
p.s. Robin Whittle... creator of this sliiiinky, is also the creator of the world-famous Roland TB-303 Devilfish mod:
http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/
p.p.s. A great picture from that party... it was the DJ booth.
24bit/96khz is going to rule. Virtually all recording equipment is at that level already... and big analog/vinyl junkies are stating that 24/96 audio quality suits them just fine. Woo hooo!
As for mixing with CDs... no problem. So many of my friends do it well with no real issues. I really enjoy it, too... modifying a song or getting strange samples and sound effects, burning them to a CD and playing them out the same night.
As for hip hop mixing with CDJs... check out this video... the new Pioneer CDJ-1000s are VERY impressive:
I feel that if open source drivers were more common, then this sort of thing would be way more widespread.
I wonder if a future game could somehow verify whether or not a player was using a "legal" or "game legal" or "original" or "approved" driver... like with a checksum that it compares to a database or something?
is the business venture of somebody involved with our company. Definitely has security in mind (I believe he's worked with an English police agency... don't remember) in addition to many other innovative applications. Tell him Christian from WNRG sent you:)
Recently he set up a camera at the top of our office building that he would call up with his cell phone connected to his PDA (a casseopoeia or something, i forget) and he'd get pretty decent video on the PDA. I believe he said it worked much better in other countries (with better mobiles or something).
Anyway... one day a bunch of Secret Service looking dudes came into our office asking to speak with someone in charge. Actually, they were the anti-espionage agents from Boeing... which happens to be the ENORMOUS building across the street. They were concerned about a big obvious camera pointing at their parking lot day and night. LOL's all around. They asked my friend: "So... what is it that you're trying to *DO* with that camera" suggesting with his tone that if it indeed was espionage, it was certainly the most feeble attempt that they had ever witnessed.
Reading the eetimes article I saw that they got the processor running at like 18Mhz or something.
How fast do you people think that this processor could run... like in the future once it gets developed further? How would it measure up to, say a Pentium III or a SPARC or whatever.
Open Source processors sound like a pretty cool idea and I hope it gets popular, but for now (or maybe 5 years from now), it seems like they'd fall way behind (speed-wise)traditional ones... but that's speaking from a consumer angle. My understanding is that this would be a universal platform for the research and [aero]space community... where shared development and not necessarily processor speed is the main issue.
I worked for a company called Full Moon Interactive Group and I remember that before I started working there, they were hired to do a bunch of fake websites for Sega. This was stated openly on the old fmig.com portfolio pages (anyone with archive.org access find their old pages?), but they don't seem to be up any more. This was around early '98 or so. Could've been Saturn fan sites or something... I can't remember exactly and I apologize for that.
Cool... before you'd start rocketing around, you'd have to make 'the appropriate calculations', like in Star Wars, so that you wouldn't hit any asteroids, planets, or whales or anything.
whoa there... settle down... your uptight sounding post is exactly one of the things he's talking about.
people like to talk shit about us all the time... lots of the time, it's with good reason, because it's stuff we make fun of, too. other times, they fail to see how lame their own situation might seem from the outside, or how universal fucked up governments/mass stupidity can be for citizens.
I think it would be interesting to pollute the programs of people the "the good guys" (TGG) are spying on.
Let's say "the bad guys" (TBG) want to get PGP or the GNU one or whatever. They could somehow search and replace certain links that TBG click on with their own ones.
Ugh, so hard to explain. Let's say TGG are monitoring all internet traffic coming out of a country that TBG do their planning in. Let's say TBG download a PGP binary... well, TGG would have already replaced that binary with a backdoor installed version... not to the whole world, but just to the country being spied on (and having their traffic monitored)... hell, they could also replace those MD5 checksum files, too. Let's say that TBG are smart enough to compile their own GPG program from source code so that they could look at the source code for threats and backdoors. Well, TGG could replace the normal source code with a copy that has very obfuscated secret backdoors in it.
Something like that. You figure out who "TBG" and "TGG" are and who's really badder or gooder or what.
I can't believe how many spelling errors the staff makes on a regular basis!!! Many times they don't even correct them.
If you higher-ups are reading this, PLEASE run a spell checker with a spell checker program on the front page. I've counted at least three errors today. You should all be ashamed of yourselves! How are people supposed to take the information on this site seriously? Believe it or not, proper spelling and grammar matters!!!
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Too bad nuclear power plants are also used to create nuclear weapons!
You can neutralize it by adding Baking Soda. Works for both acids and bases. Fizzes up pretty good with acids ... ever add baking soda to vinegar as a kid?
Oh man ... I've seen it ... last weekend. A group called Logic Bomb was rocking out a whole crowd of people. Everyone stomping around to vicious psy-trance ... when everything stops ... then the music comes back on again ... stomping continues ... then about 2 minutes later, the music stops, the screen on their setup goes black ... then blue screen. I laughed uncontrollably for about 5 minutes after that. Luckily for them ... I think they were following their live set with a backup copy of something similar on CD: UPS stylee.
What you're talking about is commonly referred to as "latency". Really cool audio cards and hardware, plus great improvements in audio drivers and what-not have mostly made this disappear. I won't say that it's been made a "non-issue" ... because there are still people with bad audio cards or bad configurations ... but latency of under 10ms is very, very common out there. Personally, I have 10ms latency and I don't even notice. Physical knob turns correspond instantly with on-screen knob turns.
As a funny side note, I recently read a letter in Computer Music where a guy wanted to know how to get higher latency ... because his computer was giving him less latency than on his real-life piano. This can also be a drums issue as well.
The computer is now being used to create all new types of genres. Like ones that didn't exist before. Additionally, stuff that was incredibly time consuming before is now a lot easier. Like lots of old "experimental" music ... which involved physically making collages of various tape recordings. While I admire the the patience and vision of the artists that used to do that stuff, I realize that they probably really would have liked digital sampling capabilities.
- http://www.kvr-vst.com - My favorite VST (softsynth and effect plugin) news and discussion site.
- http://www.em411.com - Another computer music news site.
- http://www.computermusic.co.uk/ - Lovely Computer Music magazine
- http://www.steinberg.net - Steinberg, makers of "Cubase"
... a software sequencer, music work environment and more.
- http://www.emagic.de - Makers of "Logic". A lot like Cubase. Sequencer holy warrior fanatics will track me down and rip me apart for mentioning Cubase first.
- http://www.cycling74.com/ - Makers of sound programming thingies Max/MSP and Pluggo. Pretty complicated, but reportedly worthwhile.
- http://microsound.org/ - Home of arguably the most snobbiest "experimental music" and computer music mailing list on the net. Plenty of interesting stuff here too. Prepare to listen to various 30 minute plus "masterpieces" of quiet shuffling sounds, only.
- http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?home_us - (English Link) Stylish softsynth and plugin rockstar company. They make some incredible products. Geeks will have hard-ons for Reaktor.
- http://www.refx.net - Maker of interesting VST plugins, notably "QuadraSID" which is a sound plugin based on the Commodore 64's famous, classic "SID" chip.
I'm sure I left plenty of stuff outhttp://www.headmap.com
I found out about this page while reading one of their awesome little magazines (I think they call them books) at some hippy's house party.
Great stuff ... worth a read
Generic:
http://www.2xtreme.net/zero-g/generic/sound.htm
The Minibosses:
http://www.minibosses.com/
Guitar Tabs courtesy of Generic:
http://www.2xtreme.net/zero-g/generictabs/
BTW, If you want to hear the rest of the Generic songs ... they're not up because they're looking for webspace. Hint hint, nudge nudge.
Earthcore NYE 2000 was a weeklong techno-marathon ... the sliiiiiiinky was there on a hill very similar to the one in the "space cadets" photos. It moved so gracefully on the elastic strings it's suspended by. A slight movement on one end creates a lovely fluid ripple along the length of the whole object. People creating ripples on both ends make waves that gently join each other. Very peaceful to look at.
Both Earthcore and the Sliiiiiiinky are not to be missed if one's in the Melbourne area!
-Christian
p.s. Robin Whittle ... creator of this sliiiinky, is also the creator of the world-famous Roland TB-303 Devilfish mod:
http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/
p.p.s. A great picture from that party ... it was the DJ booth.
Sounds like the puff-piece headline I read in Vancouver while visiting: "Canada Takes in More Immigrants per Capita Than USA"
Woo hoo ... go Canada.
Limo party! Woo hoo!
As for mixing with CDs ... no problem. So many of my friends do it well with no real issues. I really enjoy it, too ... modifying a song or getting strange samples and sound effects, burning them to a CD and playing them out the same night.
As for hip hop mixing with CDJs ... check out this video ... the new Pioneer CDJ-1000s are VERY impressive:
http://www.rhythmatik.com/cdj-1000.rm
-Christian
The descriptions of Cyc's capabilities and intentions remind me a whole lot of Hiro's "Librarian" that he gets all the Sumerian info from.
Good work Mr. Stephenson!
-Christian
I wonder if a future game could somehow verify whether or not a player was using a "legal" or "game legal" or "original" or "approved" driver ... like with a checksum that it compares to a database or something?
-Christian
www.pedagog.com
is the business venture of somebody involved with our company. Definitely has security in mind (I believe he's worked with an English police agency ... don't remember) in addition to many other innovative applications. Tell him Christian from WNRG sent you :)
Recently he set up a camera at the top of our office building that he would call up with his cell phone connected to his PDA (a casseopoeia or something, i forget) and he'd get pretty decent video on the PDA. I believe he said it worked much better in other countries (with better mobiles or something).
Anyway ... one day a bunch of Secret Service looking dudes came into our office asking to speak with someone in charge. Actually, they were the anti-espionage agents from Boeing ... which happens to be the ENORMOUS building across the street. They were concerned about a big obvious camera pointing at their parking lot day and night. LOL's all around. They asked my friend: "So ... what is it that you're trying to *DO* with that camera" suggesting with his tone that if it indeed was espionage, it was certainly the most feeble attempt that they had ever witnessed.
-Christian
-Christian
Only if they're landing in the water. On land it might be a black, grey, yellow, green, or white screen.
Don't forget red (rookery of penguins or herd of cows).
Yucky
-Christian
How fast do you people think that this processor could run ... like in the future once it gets developed further? How would it measure up to, say a Pentium III or a SPARC or whatever.
Open Source processors sound like a pretty cool idea and I hope it gets popular, but for now (or maybe 5 years from now), it seems like they'd fall way behind (speed-wise)traditional ones ... but that's speaking from a consumer angle. My understanding is that this would be a universal platform for the research and [aero]space community ... where shared development and not necessarily processor speed is the main issue.
-Christian
I worked for a company called Full Moon Interactive Group and I remember that before I started working there, they were hired to do a bunch of fake websites for Sega. This was stated openly on the old fmig.com portfolio pages (anyone with archive.org access find their old pages?), but they don't seem to be up any more. This was around early '98 or so. Could've been Saturn fan sites or something ... I can't remember exactly and I apologize for that.
Wired News did an article on this a while back.
-Christian
Cool ... before you'd start rocketing around, you'd have to make 'the appropriate calculations', like in Star Wars, so that you wouldn't hit any asteroids, planets, or whales or anything.
-Christian
-Christian
whoa there ... settle down ... your uptight sounding post is exactly one of the things he's talking about.
people like to talk shit about us all the time ... lots of the time, it's with good reason, because it's stuff we make fun of, too. other times, they fail to see how lame their own situation might seem from the outside, or how universal fucked up governments/mass stupidity can be for citizens.
-Christian
Let's say "the bad guys" (TBG) want to get PGP or the GNU one or whatever. They could somehow search and replace certain links that TBG click on with their own ones.
Ugh, so hard to explain. Let's say TGG are monitoring all internet traffic coming out of a country that TBG do their planning in. Let's say TBG download a PGP binary ... well, TGG would have already replaced that binary with a backdoor installed version ... not to the whole world, but just to the country being spied on (and having their traffic monitored) ... hell, they could also replace those MD5 checksum files, too. Let's say that TBG are smart enough to compile their own GPG program from source code so that they could look at the source code for threats and backdoors. Well, TGG could replace the normal source code with a copy that has very obfuscated secret backdoors in it.
Something like that. You figure out who "TBG" and "TGG" are and who's really badder or gooder or what.
-Christian
If you higher-ups are reading this, PLEASE run a spell checker with a spell checker program on the front page. I've counted at least three errors today. You should all be ashamed of yourselves! How are people supposed to take the information on this site seriously? Believe it or not, proper spelling and grammar matters!!!
-Christian