I'd imagine something like granular synthesis and/or
resynthesis could come up with something like this...
Are you familiar with Reaktor by Native Instruments? It has lots of cool stuff in this direction, like a granular synth module with a wicked 'freeze' button which just keeps the sound playing, without advancing the sample (if that makes any sense). Results from the said module sound really cool, sometimes without the artifacts (chopping/flanging) caused by normal stretching. But then, it's not really timestretching anymore, but who really cares about technicalities?
Timestretching has been featured exclusively on electronic music tracks for quite a while now...
Just think those drum'n'bass records with the words 'selekta' etc.
Apparently Aphex Twin once was supposed to remix a track, so he timestretched it to a couple of milliseconds and used it as a snare drum, and when the bloke came back to get the ready remix, he just grabbed a random DAT-tape and gave it back to him...
One Nine inch nails strack features the words ' erase your head' stretched to the duration of the track (ummh, 5 minutes or so), so you can hear the words if you fast forward the track.
And this is not even mentioning Autechre (and many others) which these days just live on the digital artifacts caused by timestretching.
But, still, it's cool to find use for this sort of thing... i wonder what they used to create the 24-h stretch
How about this: Everytime there's a new project about mp3/ogg-playlist-management in sourceforge, take a shot.
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How about this:
1. Port Linux to toaster.
2. Port Apache to toaster.
3. Network the toaster
4. Announce on Slashdot that you've ported Linux to a toaster, and it's serving pages right now.
5. Enjoy your toast within minutes. Make more while the toaster lasts.
Good luck, Internet v2.0, because Internet v1.0 sure has turned into a pile of crap (and by crap, I mean DeCSS linking being illegal, anything to do with RIAA, and PopUp adds).
...and what makes you think those won't affect Internet v2? I'm sure it's under the same vein legislation-wise
But, yeah, you're right, let's use for something useful this time...
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If i had a toilet like that, i'd never leave the bathroom!
But really,
see
this for more about washing toilets
I agree with out somewhow, but what would you suggest instead? I don't think normal GUIs stretch to
real time synthesizer usage that well. That's why we use midi fader boxes and midi keyboards instead to get a proper interface to audio software.
That being said, some software has nice ideas in the GUI, for example Muon Software's Electron VST softsynth.
See the
screenshots for the X-Y pad, which i think is a pretty nice idea, not a gimmick.
Any else good interface ideas for this kind of thing?
Ok, you have an extremely good point there. I _don't_ think that people should just accept vulnerabilities, altough in most cases you can accomodate, shut down non-critical services etc.
But really, if you happen to be vendor-dependent, then there's not much you can do. Of course you could build it yourself,replace the binaries and fix the packaging system used later (when it arrives). I did this last time openssh had issues. But with openssl i don't think you can get away that easily.
Well, most of us shouldn't have to download the patches. Instead, we wait for our favourite distribution to come up with rebuilt packages and then install. At least in redhat, debian and mandrake. Probably others.
But... i agree with you, sort of. I understand that something of this scale is newsworthy, but still most of us don't need the source and/or patches directly. That's what rh's errata (and similar) are for. So, the actual announcement could have been slightly more subtle, or something...
But people shouldn't "want" security updates, people _need_ security updates, so i guess that's the reasoning behind this news story.
First of all, I'm not an american, so you decide my bias...
...but, if they want to secure computers, why (oh why) don't they promote strong crypto for all?
This may sound whiny and naive, but, really, when you
think about, this would help a lot. At least that's the way I see it. Cryptographic signing, secure communications, the whole lot.
Looks like they just want access to the US citizens' computers, even if the intentions seem good on the surface.
KDE has a quite nice 'first-run' dialog, which explains and configures the basics of KDE (ie. theme, mouse behavior, visual effects etc.).
I've seen newcomers pick KDE up quite easily and make it 'their own' because of that small customization wizard. I wish more software had these 'wizards', no matter how hard you hate the term. And yes, i wish gnome 2 had that too... it took me a while to get my desktop going.
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You're correct, it is called 'Eraser (Denial, realization)'
And the poster above is correct, the words are 'erase me', and not stretched for the entire duration of the track, only for 30secs...
Sorry 'bout that.
ummh, considering we're talking about timestretching, a technology which wasn't available in the 50's, no.
(yeah, i know, the first timestreching machine was done in the 80's using two tape decks, if i remember correctly, but still...)
Well, that's pretty much how it comes out when you timestretch a word like 'selekta' ;)
But, really, i've got no idea what they're saying, 'selector', 'selekta' or 'skeletor', but you know those D'n'B guys...
Case in point: Robert Rich's Somnium, a DVD (a video disc no less, but with no video, how zen) filled with 7 hours (count 'em!) of ambient music.
Totally listenable, and not at all boring.
The name comes from the idea of a record 'tuned' for sleeping, but it's nice background (and sometimes foreground music) as well.
Comes highly recommended, and i'd imagine, judging from this story, that there's more releases like this coming up...
I'd imagine something like granular synthesis and/or resynthesis could come up with something like this...
Are you familiar with Reaktor by Native Instruments? It has lots of cool stuff in this direction, like a granular synth module with a wicked 'freeze' button which just keeps the sound playing, without advancing the sample (if that makes any sense). Results from the said module sound really cool, sometimes without the artifacts (chopping/flanging) caused by normal stretching. But then, it's not really timestretching anymore, but who really cares about technicalities?
Timestretching has been featured exclusively on electronic music tracks for quite a while now... Just think those drum'n'bass records with the words 'selekta' etc.
Apparently Aphex Twin once was supposed to remix a track, so he timestretched it to a couple of milliseconds and used it as a snare drum, and when the bloke came back to get the ready remix, he just grabbed a random DAT-tape and gave it back to him...
One Nine inch nails strack features the words ' erase your head' stretched to the duration of the track (ummh, 5 minutes or so), so you can hear the words if you fast forward the track.
And this is not even mentioning Autechre (and many others) which these days just live on the digital artifacts caused by timestretching.
But, still, it's cool to find use for this sort of thing... i wonder what they used to create the 24-h stretch
Nahh, too dry.
How about this: Everytime there's a new project about mp3/ogg-playlist-management in sourceforge, take a shot.
How about this:
1. Port Linux to toaster.
2. Port Apache to toaster.
3. Network the toaster
4. Announce on Slashdot that you've ported Linux to a toaster, and it's serving pages right now.
5. Enjoy your toast within minutes. Make more while the toaster lasts.
Good luck, Internet v2.0, because Internet v1.0 sure has turned into a pile of crap (and by crap, I mean DeCSS linking being illegal, anything to do with RIAA, and PopUp adds).
...and what makes you think those won't affect Internet v2? I'm sure it's under the same vein legislation-wise
But, yeah, you're right, let's use for something useful this time...
If i had a toilet like that, i'd never leave the bathroom!
But really, see this for more about washing toilets
And take part in the bathroom behaviour survey to feel normal again.
I agree with out somewhow, but what would you suggest instead? I don't think normal GUIs stretch to real time synthesizer usage that well. That's why we use midi fader boxes and midi keyboards instead to get a proper interface to audio software.
That being said, some software has nice ideas in the GUI, for example Muon Software's Electron VST softsynth. See the screenshots for the X-Y pad, which i think is a pretty nice idea, not a gimmick.
Any else good interface ideas for this kind of thing?
Dave Phillip's linux audio page should cover most of linux audio software. Check it out.
insotracker aims for IT compatibility, and seems to be there already. Try that one.
Reminds me of Douglas Adams, for a couple of reasons...
1) Hotblack Desiato spending a year dead for tax reasons.
2) Milliways, anyone? (How did it go anyway? Just save one penny... )
Anyone else see these connections?
I could imagine a couple of progressive rock musicians (mainly drummers, for some reason, go figure) who'd probably want one.
Yeah! Gives a new meaning to those 'robot moves'...
Maybe when they can replace my legs as well I can become the king of the dancefloor!
Yes, try Spamassassin for that.
After installing that, i've had maybe 3 spam mails come through, out of, i don't know, trillion maybe?
i propose the following solution:
unix.com goes to the holders of the trademark, and current owners of it get asterisknix.com, since that's what they really mean/want.
everybody happy?
(ok, asterisknix.com doesn't really exist, but it _could_)
Ok, you have an extremely good point there. I _don't_ think that people should just accept vulnerabilities, altough in most cases you can accomodate, shut down non-critical services etc.
But really, if you happen to be vendor-dependent, then there's not much you can do. Of course you could build it yourself,replace the binaries and fix the packaging system used later (when it arrives). I did this last time openssh had issues. But with openssl i don't think you can get away that easily.
Still, oh well, back to slackware, then.
Well, that's always the thing between source and binary distros.
And really, in most cases you don't need to be up-to-date instantly. Think about updating browsers etc.
Plus, if you don't compile it yourself, who knows what extra goodies are being installed that you don't want.
Well, that's a question of trust (and MD5-signatures), but, honestly, how many of us go through the source, line by line?
(but i'm a gentoo user myself, altough i use redhat at work. i don't like to think of myself as biased in any way.)
Well, most of us shouldn't have to download the patches. Instead, we wait for our favourite distribution to come up with rebuilt packages and then install. At least in redhat, debian and mandrake. Probably others.
But... i agree with you, sort of. I understand that something of this scale is newsworthy, but still most of us don't need the source and/or patches directly. That's what rh's errata (and similar) are for. So, the actual announcement could have been slightly more subtle, or something...
But people shouldn't "want" security updates, people _need_ security updates, so i guess that's the reasoning behind this news story.
First of all, I'm not an american, so you decide my bias...
This may sound whiny and naive, but, really, when you think about, this would help a lot. At least that's the way I see it. Cryptographic signing, secure communications, the whole lot.
Looks like they just want access to the US citizens' computers, even if the intentions seem good on the surface.
Well, that's what I think, anyway.
I wonder if their patent covers jpeg-viruses as well.
Obligatory gnome/KDE-comparison follows...
KDE has a quite nice 'first-run' dialog, which explains and configures the basics of KDE (ie. theme, mouse behavior, visual effects etc.).
I've seen newcomers pick KDE up quite easily and make it 'their own' because of that small customization wizard. I wish more software had these 'wizards', no matter how hard you hate the term. And yes, i wish gnome 2 had that too... it took me a while to get my desktop going.
That paper was actually just the kind of explanation i was looking for. Especially the bits about filtered images cleared things up.
Thank you very much for the link!