When I worked on the show, there was a lot of effort put into producing a show that represented actual choices by listeners.
There is a surprising amount of variety between the top 15 ClearChannel pop stations. On an average day, 25-40 songs might be represented. In addition, many of those might be remixes unique to a particular region of the country.
The stations submit their lists at night, and the show is compiled the next morning, which usually gives the editing crews enough time to scrounge up the appropriate tunes.
In the case of the Michael Jackson song, one station had gotten hold of a pre-release version, and caught Premiere Radio by surprise.
until their tastes mature and discover tasty indie rock
Earnest 8-track garage rock is not everyone's favorite.
Sometimes I like to hear music that has been made with the help of song writers, arrangers, studio musicians and producers.
Sorry to sound pessimistic. I don't mean that it will take OSS five years to catch up, just that the current capabilities are similar to what I could do with pro apps five years ago.
Ardour is promising, but is currently just a recorder. It needs MIDI, video support, automation, and envelopes, which have been available in other apps for years.
For synthesis you say that Linux lacks only graphically driven tools -- for a musician, the interface is crucial. Imagine trying to convince a pianist to play a piano with no keys. Sure -- the strings are all there, and can be plucked or hammered. But it's not an experience your average pianist will be interested in. The best instruments have the best interfaces, or at least interfaces that the musicians are used to.
I'm a composer and sound designer with four Windows PCs and a Mac. I would love to switch to open source, but the features needed for professional audio work just don't exist yet, or if they do, they are 5+ years behind their Mac and Windows counterparts.
Here's what is missing:
1. A comprehensive MIDI/Audio/Video authoring app, the equivalent of SONAR, Cubase, Nuendo or Logic. It must support industry file standards, such as OMF and BWF, so that a user can interface with Avid, ProTools, etc.
2. A plugin standard like DirectX, MAS or VST. LADSPA is a start, but there are very few plugins available.
3. Robust software sampling/synthesis apps like Gigastudio, or anything from Native Instruments.
Until these tools are available in Linux, the grass is greener on the Windows side of the fence.
Large mammals in Asia and Africa evolved alongside humans as we gradually developed weapons and hunting skills.
Everywhere else we've gone in the last 100,000 years, we've wiped out 90%+ of the large animal species. This is true in the Americas, Australia, Europe, and many of the large islands.
The sabertooth tigers, woolly mammoths, giant sloths, hyenas, etc., had survived for millions of years in the Americas, and then all suddenly died out within a few hundred years of the arrival of humans. Coincidence?
Why are people intolerable pussies these days?
Things like dentistry, cable TV and skepticism about the afterlife make us a bit less likely to "climb on top of a fucking rocket and light it."
Slashdot Mirror
Well sure. Eliminate food and I don't need to sh1t.
But until all resources are infinite, there will be people in positions of power, and others who will try to bribe them.
The eMac is designed for the education market (hence the e). Most schools I've been to this year are still running OS9.
When I worked on the show, there was a lot of effort put into producing a show that represented actual choices by listeners.
There is a surprising amount of variety between the top 15 ClearChannel pop stations. On an average day, 25-40 songs might be represented. In addition, many of those might be remixes unique to a particular region of the country.
The stations submit their lists at night, and the show is compiled the next morning, which usually gives the editing crews enough time to scrounge up the appropriate tunes.
In the case of the Michael Jackson song, one station had gotten hold of a pre-release version, and caught Premiere Radio by surprise.
Unless you have personal access to Carson Daly, you wouldn't be able to create a database of pristine Carson phrases.
If you listen to the show, you'll notice that you never ever hear Carson without a music bed. That's for two reasons:
1. To cover up small differences in voice tone and room ambience between the different clips
2. To stop you from making your parody
Interesting. At what point did you start using the name MAS in public?
There is already a MAS associated with audio -- MOTU Audio System plugins.l obal/index .html)
(http://www.motu.com/english/software/g
Perhaps they should have done a bit of name research.
Or musician, or film maker, or sound designer, or graphic designer, or 3D animator...
It can probably be applied to tapes, CDs, hard drives, or anywhere else audio is stored, and however it may be encoded.
Earnest 8-track garage rock is not everyone's favorite. Sometimes I like to hear music that has been made with the help of song writers, arrangers, studio musicians and producers.
Yeah. The legal drugs are the ones corporations have figured out how to turn into profits.
My RCA TV and DVD player have been working fine for years.
A gun owner has a much greater responsibility to public safety than the owner of a pool.
You would not say "Squaren't," would you?
Musicians and producers agonize over crap songs, rewriting lyrics, trying different effects, trying to make them less crappy.
In comparison, hit songs record themselves.
What is your estimate for when Ardour will be polished and feature-filled enough to compete with the SONARs of the world?
Ardour is promising, but is currently just a recorder. It needs MIDI, video support, automation, and envelopes, which have been available in other apps for years.
For synthesis you say that Linux lacks only graphically driven tools -- for a musician, the interface is crucial. Imagine trying to convince a pianist to play a piano with no keys. Sure -- the strings are all there, and can be plucked or hammered. But it's not an experience your average pianist will be interested in. The best instruments have the best interfaces, or at least interfaces that the musicians are used to.
I'm a composer and sound designer with four Windows PCs and a Mac. I would love to switch to open source, but the features needed for professional audio work just don't exist yet, or if they do, they are 5+ years behind their Mac and Windows counterparts. Here's what is missing: 1. A comprehensive MIDI/Audio/Video authoring app, the equivalent of SONAR, Cubase, Nuendo or Logic. It must support industry file standards, such as OMF and BWF, so that a user can interface with Avid, ProTools, etc. 2. A plugin standard like DirectX, MAS or VST. LADSPA is a start, but there are very few plugins available. 3. Robust software sampling/synthesis apps like Gigastudio, or anything from Native Instruments. Until these tools are available in Linux, the grass is greener on the Windows side of the fence.
Lift with your legs, not with your back.
Large mammals in Asia and Africa evolved alongside humans as we gradually developed weapons and hunting skills. Everywhere else we've gone in the last 100,000 years, we've wiped out 90%+ of the large animal species. This is true in the Americas, Australia, Europe, and many of the large islands. The sabertooth tigers, woolly mammoths, giant sloths, hyenas, etc., had survived for millions of years in the Americas, and then all suddenly died out within a few hundred years of the arrival of humans. Coincidence?
Why are people intolerable pussies these days? Things like dentistry, cable TV and skepticism about the afterlife make us a bit less likely to "climb on top of a fucking rocket and light it."
If you use audio software, the CPU is definitely still the bottleneck.