I saw demos of continuator at CSL Paris and a concert of Bernard Lubat (excellent french jazzman/improviser) *and* Continuator (operated by its creator, Francois Pachet) at the IRCAM last year.
The concert was very good, very similar to a dialog between like-minded musicians in fact. And the word dialog was carefully chosen here, as it was really a musical exchange between the human and the program. If people like Lubat (and other excellent jazzmen etc.) say that this application can create good music, I tend to trust them (and my ears/eyes) more than you, sorry.
And this program was not developed to "create new musicians", but rather to *play with* other musicians. The first sentence of the continuator's user manual is : "The Continuator is a system which learns musical styles, and with which you can play interactively."
I think you (and others) took this for what it is not...
It's a great piece of software made by musicians (i.e. people who love music) for other musicians, not for greedy corporate bastards:)
Playing through ethernet, even perfectly done, will induce some latency. This latency can be very small (similar to the one existing when you play with someone in the same room), but would likely be bigger (we're talking in ms here, not seconds, but a lof of ms *are* noticeable) if the data has to transit through lots of little wires everywhere.
This has to be taken into account if you plan to jam with someone located at thousands of km of you...
I've got a treo 90, i.e. the same PDA without the phone functions.
You can easily configure any of the 4 buttons at the bottom of the treo to start any program, including the launcher of your choice. No need to install any hack or anything else, it's one of the basic options in the preferences.
This was one of the first thing I did when I bought mine...
There are in fact ways to have a sort of 3D perception of sound using only 2 speakers.
The room acoustics research teamat the IRCAM works on this. Their spatialisateur application allows you to use many different speakers configurations to enhance the spatial perception of a given piece, and using 2 speakers is an option. This is based on lots of psycho-acoustic research etc., and it works.
It's more intended for concerts and things like that rather than mp3 players, but the technolgy exists.
Sound & sound perception are far more complicated and full of surprises than one may think first...
And btw, 16/24 and 24/92 refer to the bitrate and samplerate (in khz) of recorded audio, a completely different subject.
Linux doesn't *need* VST/ASIO support for "professional" use.
LADSPA, ALSA, JACK etc. do similar things and in the case of Jack are even more advanced as far as features goes.
If there isn't one yet (I haven't researched this), a VST to LADSPA converter could certainly easily be implemented. And anyway, VST support is easy to add to an application, even though Steinberg hasn't yet released a vst host SDK.
ASIO is linked to the apps you use. And it's a protocol designed by Steinberg for windows iirc. If someone codes an audio application for linux there's no need for asio as something similar exists (and anyway, lower latencies *will* be achieved;).
The work of IRCAM/Tempo Reale/etc. (DeMuDi and RehMuDi, i.e. debian and redhat music distributions) and of a few similar groups of people on linux audio is not finished but it progresses. There are also quite a number of audio geeks/developpers who use applications like Pure Data of jMax that make everything go forward.
Still, and people working on these apps/distributions agree on this, there's some work to do to make all of this usable by an average (i.e. not complete geek) musician...
Well, it looks like Alan Moore's comics start (after more than 20 years) gaining attention. I'd like to know his degree of involvement in this btw, as he usually lives like an ermit and I'd be surprised if he had his word to say for anything in the movie.
But more importantly, as long as nobody tries to butcher "V for vendetta" (one of the best piece of graphic literature ever written imo), we should be ok...
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I saw demos of continuator at CSL Paris and a concert of Bernard Lubat (excellent french jazzman/improviser) *and* Continuator (operated by its creator, Francois Pachet) at the IRCAM last year.
:)
The concert was very good, very similar to a dialog between like-minded musicians in fact. And the word dialog was carefully chosen here, as it was really a musical exchange between the human and the program. If people like Lubat (and other excellent jazzmen etc.) say that this application can create good music, I tend to trust them (and my ears/eyes) more than you, sorry.
And this program was not developed to "create new musicians", but rather to *play with* other musicians. The first sentence of the continuator's user manual is : "The Continuator is a system which learns musical styles, and with which you can play interactively."
I think you (and others) took this for what it is not...
It's a great piece of software made by musicians (i.e. people who love music) for other musicians, not for greedy corporate bastards
Well, the speed of light is the limit there.
Playing through ethernet, even perfectly done, will induce some latency. This latency can be very small (similar to the one existing when you play with someone in the same room), but would likely be bigger (we're talking in ms here, not seconds, but a lof of ms *are* noticeable) if the data has to transit through lots of little wires everywhere.
This has to be taken into account if you plan to jam with someone located at thousands of km of you...
I've got a treo 90, i.e. the same PDA without the phone functions.
You can easily configure any of the 4 buttons at the bottom of the treo to start any program, including the launcher of your choice. No need to install any hack or anything else, it's one of the basic options in the preferences.
This was one of the first thing I did when I bought mine...
What's your opinion on the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (anti-censorhip organisation of comics writers & of people working in this field) ?
Furthermore, do you think that clear and direct political content can be present and "efficient" (i.e. thought provoking) in *mainstream* comics ?
There are in fact ways to have a sort of 3D perception of sound using only 2 speakers.
The room acoustics research teamat the IRCAM works on this. Their spatialisateur application allows you to use many different speakers configurations to enhance the spatial perception of a given piece, and using 2 speakers is an option. This is based on lots of psycho-acoustic research etc., and it works.
It's more intended for concerts and things like that rather than mp3 players, but the technolgy exists.
Sound & sound perception are far more complicated and full of surprises than one may think first...
And btw, 16/24 and 24/92 refer to the bitrate and samplerate (in khz) of recorded audio, a completely different subject.
In the source the email was "hidden" : a ;r etc.
Linux doesn't *need* VST/ASIO support for "professional" use.
;).
LADSPA, ALSA, JACK etc. do similar things and in the case of Jack are even more advanced as far as features goes.
If there isn't one yet (I haven't researched this), a VST to LADSPA converter could certainly easily be implemented. And anyway, VST support is easy to add to an application, even though Steinberg hasn't yet released a vst host SDK.
ASIO is linked to the apps you use. And it's a protocol designed by Steinberg for windows iirc. If someone codes an audio application for linux there's no need for asio as something similar exists (and anyway, lower latencies *will* be achieved
The work of IRCAM/Tempo Reale/etc. (DeMuDi and RehMuDi, i.e. debian and redhat music distributions) and of a few similar groups of people on linux audio is not finished but it progresses. There are also quite a number of audio geeks/developpers who use applications like Pure Data of jMax that make everything go forward.
Still, and people working on these apps/distributions agree on this, there's some work to do to make all of this usable by an average (i.e. not complete geek) musician...
Well, it looks like Alan Moore's comics start (after more than 20 years) gaining attention. I'd like to know his degree of involvement in this btw, as he usually lives like an ermit and I'd be surprised if he had his word to say for anything in the movie.
But more importantly, as long as nobody tries to butcher "V for vendetta" (one of the best piece of graphic literature ever written imo), we should be ok...