All he's doing is reading sheet music and translating it into keypresses...
Listen to the same piece as played by a MIDI synth, even a very realistic sounding one (heck, hook it up to a real piano), then listen to it played by a human being. The human performance will sound *human*, with dynamics and phrasing that no computer could ever even hope to try and emulate. There's another thing, I would love to see a DJ try and put that kind of dynamics and phrasing into a song. Ever listen to a rap/electronic "song" and compare it to a well-performed classical piece? The disparity in musicality is amazing.
Your ability to miss the point astounds me. I said if you can't fit the orchestra you need in the pit, pick a musical that doesn't need as big of an orchestra.
I love the part where you said "The emotional impact only a machine like this can give."
Reading a book on a low contrast palm pilot won't match up to being able to read a book printed on paper with a much higher contrast ratio and much more intuitive interface, not to mention being able to fit more on a page at once.
It's the same words, different experience. Just like synth music. Same notes, different experience.
I call DJs musicians like I call drummers musicians. And I am a drummer. It takes skill, but what is produced is pure accompaniment, and will not stand up on its own as actual music. Sure a DJ can mix together some tracks and make a "song," but it's all stuff that other people, ACTUAL musicians created and put on a record for him to mix together. Sit a drummer down at an unfamiliar kit and he can jam along with whatever group he's with. I'd love to see a DJ sit in on someone else's equipment and unfamiliar records and jam with a rap/hiphop group.
A good musician doesn't make mistakes. That's why he was hired to do big broadway productions. Even if he does make a mistake, he can cover it up. That's what being a musician is all about, mastering your instrument.
I know it's a joke, but as a drummer I'd like to let people know that there's more to drumming than it looks. A group of the best musicians on the planet will sound horrible if the drummer sucks. I've seen it myself, a church worship band with a high school drummer one week would suck, then the same group with me in the hot seat a week later would absolutely rock. This isn't ego, I've shown both recordings to people without telling them which one's which.
Anyway, there's a lot of subtle issues like placing the notes slightly ahead of or behind the beat and altering the dynamics of different hits across various limbs, all while listening to the band to figure out what the best thing to play for the situation would be and, of course, the obvious trying to play 4 different rhythms at the same time.
I want to see the code for "play this passage more agressively," or "jazz it up." You're talking about extremely subtle changes in note placement, duration and dynamics. I'd also like to see a keyboard, which is percussive by nature, replace a violin, which is just about the closest anyone's ever come to putting the expressiveness of the human voice into an instrument.
IMHO, if you can't afford the orchestra, pick a production that'll sound good with a smaller orchestra. The Fantasticks is a great show with just a piano and a harp.
I'm part of a group of musicians who do a lot of pit orchestras in community theater around town. We don't get money, but it's a fun thing to do on weekends. I've lost count of how many musicals we've done.
As a musician in general, I'm violently opposed to synthesized music. NOTHING can replace a human player playing his instrument with feel and expertise. A synth only gets it half right, it can play a specific note at a specific time at a specific dynamic. A true musician can shift these around in ways it would be extremely difficult to program a computer to do. Even the timing of the notes, a drummer can shift them slightly ahead or behind the beat to change the feel, a musician can play a note slightly sharp or flat to change the feel. In fact, a long time ago, pianos were tuned intentionally with certain notes sharp or flat of the even temperment system we use today!
In my experience flying orbiter, the Lagrange points are a real pain in the butt to get to. Not that it wouldn't be worth it, but still something to consider.
The idea of the 30 seconds and 32 kbps thing was to show that, just like HD manufacturers fudged HD sizes for marketing purposes (The stupid Giga/Gibabyte thing), MP3 player makers could fudge song sizes for marketing purposes.
Both articles are underrepresenting its true capacity of 163,840 songs.*
* Songs are 30 seconds each at 32 kbps
Point is, the song is COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS as a unit of measure, since songs can be different lengths and encoded at different bitrates. It hold 20 gigabytes of music, 'nuff said. Or perhaps I should say "Gibabytes" (God that sounds so stupid) to appease SI whiners.
Bush elected (I can't say "re-elected" as he didn't get elected in the first place)
I am sick and tired of this. Unless the entire constitution is invalid, Bush was legally elected by the methods set forth by the constitution. To insist he wasn't elected simply because of the popular vote is completely ignoring the fact that elections AREN'T CARRIED OUT BY POPULAR VOTE. You can complain all you want, but nothing will ever change unless an amendment is passed to the constitution. End of story.
P.S. Three other presidents than Bush have lost the popular vote, those being Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harris, and John Q. Adams. And additional 16 were put into office with less than 50% of the popular vote but the majority of the electoral college, including John F. Kennedy (49.7%), Bill Clinton (43.2% his first time, 49.3% the second), and Abraham Lincoln (39.8%).
But do we REALLY need another OS? I mean, it's hard enough getting Linux on the desktop, what about something even less known than that? Especially one that seems to be designed specifically to run only on the x86 architecture.
Let me tell you... Watching this sort of thing on a 5 story screen just messes with your head... Going from the superclusters of superclusters of galaxies down to quarks, wow, it's undescribable.
The part that really gets you is looking at the sheer size of the universe and realizing how much of it we truly know.
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All he's doing is reading sheet music and translating it into keypresses... Listen to the same piece as played by a MIDI synth, even a very realistic sounding one (heck, hook it up to a real piano), then listen to it played by a human being. The human performance will sound *human*, with dynamics and phrasing that no computer could ever even hope to try and emulate. There's another thing, I would love to see a DJ try and put that kind of dynamics and phrasing into a song. Ever listen to a rap/electronic "song" and compare it to a well-performed classical piece? The disparity in musicality is amazing.
Your ability to miss the point astounds me. I said if you can't fit the orchestra you need in the pit, pick a musical that doesn't need as big of an orchestra.
I love the part where you said "The emotional impact only a machine like this can give."
Your amazing ability to miss my point astounds me. My point was that a drummer can improvise and jam with people. That's music.
Reading a book on a low contrast palm pilot won't match up to being able to read a book printed on paper with a much higher contrast ratio and much more intuitive interface, not to mention being able to fit more on a page at once.
It's the same words, different experience. Just like synth music. Same notes, different experience.
I call DJs musicians like I call drummers musicians. And I am a drummer. It takes skill, but what is produced is pure accompaniment, and will not stand up on its own as actual music. Sure a DJ can mix together some tracks and make a "song," but it's all stuff that other people, ACTUAL musicians created and put on a record for him to mix together. Sit a drummer down at an unfamiliar kit and he can jam along with whatever group he's with. I'd love to see a DJ sit in on someone else's equipment and unfamiliar records and jam with a rap/hiphop group.
Yeah, I know exactly how hard it is to make beats for songs. I play drums, actual live drums played by an actual human being with feel and dynamics.
A good musician doesn't make mistakes. That's why he was hired to do big broadway productions. Even if he does make a mistake, he can cover it up. That's what being a musician is all about, mastering your instrument.
I know it's a joke, but as a drummer I'd like to let people know that there's more to drumming than it looks. A group of the best musicians on the planet will sound horrible if the drummer sucks. I've seen it myself, a church worship band with a high school drummer one week would suck, then the same group with me in the hot seat a week later would absolutely rock. This isn't ego, I've shown both recordings to people without telling them which one's which.
Anyway, there's a lot of subtle issues like placing the notes slightly ahead of or behind the beat and altering the dynamics of different hits across various limbs, all while listening to the band to figure out what the best thing to play for the situation would be and, of course, the obvious trying to play 4 different rhythms at the same time.
I want to see the code for "play this passage more agressively," or "jazz it up." You're talking about extremely subtle changes in note placement, duration and dynamics. I'd also like to see a keyboard, which is percussive by nature, replace a violin, which is just about the closest anyone's ever come to putting the expressiveness of the human voice into an instrument. IMHO, if you can't afford the orchestra, pick a production that'll sound good with a smaller orchestra. The Fantasticks is a great show with just a piano and a harp.
I'm part of a group of musicians who do a lot of pit orchestras in community theater around town. We don't get money, but it's a fun thing to do on weekends. I've lost count of how many musicals we've done.
As a musician in general, I'm violently opposed to synthesized music. NOTHING can replace a human player playing his instrument with feel and expertise. A synth only gets it half right, it can play a specific note at a specific time at a specific dynamic. A true musician can shift these around in ways it would be extremely difficult to program a computer to do. Even the timing of the notes, a drummer can shift them slightly ahead or behind the beat to change the feel, a musician can play a note slightly sharp or flat to change the feel. In fact, a long time ago, pianos were tuned intentionally with certain notes sharp or flat of the even temperment system we use today!
In my experience flying orbiter, the Lagrange points are a real pain in the butt to get to. Not that it wouldn't be worth it, but still something to consider.
I like this one better: "In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded." Terry Pratchett.
Heck, transferring fuel on the GROUND is dangerous. I suppose we shouldn't drive our cars, it's too dangerous!
The idea of the 30 seconds and 32 kbps thing was to show that, just like HD manufacturers fudged HD sizes for marketing purposes (The stupid Giga/Gibabyte thing), MP3 player makers could fudge song sizes for marketing purposes.
Both articles are underrepresenting its true capacity of 163,840 songs.*
* Songs are 30 seconds each at 32 kbps
Point is, the song is COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS as a unit of measure, since songs can be different lengths and encoded at different bitrates. It hold 20 gigabytes of music, 'nuff said. Or perhaps I should say "Gibabytes" (God that sounds so stupid) to appease SI whiners.
Bush elected (I can't say "re-elected" as he didn't get elected in the first place) I am sick and tired of this. Unless the entire constitution is invalid, Bush was legally elected by the methods set forth by the constitution. To insist he wasn't elected simply because of the popular vote is completely ignoring the fact that elections AREN'T CARRIED OUT BY POPULAR VOTE. You can complain all you want, but nothing will ever change unless an amendment is passed to the constitution. End of story. P.S. Three other presidents than Bush have lost the popular vote, those being Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harris, and John Q. Adams. And additional 16 were put into office with less than 50% of the popular vote but the majority of the electoral college, including John F. Kennedy (49.7%), Bill Clinton (43.2% his first time, 49.3% the second), and Abraham Lincoln (39.8%).
There's a memorial at Cape Canaveral with the names of ALL of the people who have died in our pursuit of outer space.
So they'll spend most of their time buying the latest fashions in military fatigues and mini-games like playing with hover-tanks?
You can use a parachute to land a craft on Venus, which is much easier and less demanding of the hardware than bouncing it to a stop.
But do we REALLY need another OS? I mean, it's hard enough getting Linux on the desktop, what about something even less known than that? Especially one that seems to be designed specifically to run only on the x86 architecture.
My sister and her friend were synced up with the full moon. I, of course, made the obligatory wereworlf jokes.
...as long as you choose Microsoft.
Everyone knows what IANA means... So make it IANA Rocket Scientist.
So it's basically a device that shows the universe in its mind-boggling hugeness with an infinitely small dot-on-a-dot labelled "You Are Here"?
(The wording isn't exact, but I hope I got the gist of it)
Let me tell you... Watching this sort of thing on a 5 story screen just messes with your head... Going from the superclusters of superclusters of galaxies down to quarks, wow, it's undescribable.
The part that really gets you is looking at the sheer size of the universe and realizing how much of it we truly know.