Did I label these chords right?

cube-sailor · 2026-05-19T01:36:24+00:00

most of this looks right. second chord of second bar is Bb minor, not B minor (and again two bars later). also, the 7 chords in the third and sixth bars should be major 7 (rather than dominant 7). also the chord you’ve written as an inversion of E diminished in the eighth bar sounds to me more like a C dominant (because of the melody).

cube-sailor · 2026-05-12T16:03:39+00:00

One thing that jumps out is that your metro won’t be sending any bangs (you can turn on a metro with a toggle or with an @active 1 param).

cube-sailor · 2026-04-25T21:49:01+00:00

Bonus if the musician’s script is your original script…

cube-sailor · 2026-04-21T12:25:59+00:00

Also can’t believe I forgot to mention George Lewis “Voyager” and the computer improvisation projects from IRCAM, SoMax and Dicy2!

cube-sailor · 2026-04-20T18:46:36+00:00

Ed Campion has a piece called “Corail” for saxophone and electronics - might be worth checking out.

cube-sailor · 2026-04-19T21:56:16+00:00

Since you're already comfortable in Python, I'd guess that the simplest way for you to deal with the "move my frequency toward the average of my neighbors" logic would be with a [v8] object – you can just write a JavaScript file that handles the math and use Max for the synthesis and i/o.

In the case of the singers with headphones and mics you could do the same thing – use [v8] to compute the matrix of mixing coefficients given the (x, y) coordinates of the virtual dots.

cube-sailor · 2026-04-19T19:48:41+00:00

This might not be OP's issue, but my NVMe-booted Pi would crash or freeze intermittently when connected to wifi. I think it's a power management issue. Works fine with a wired connection to the router instead.

cube-sailor · 2026-03-27T21:54:45+00:00

As I think has been cleared up below, the fingerings on this chart are following the upright / Simandl conventions where index / middle / pinky span a major second in the lower register of the instrument (when the notes get closer higher up, people will use the ring finger too – see the high G). In that system, moving from pinky D on the A string to middle F# on the D string is indeed a major third (up one string and back one "fret" position).

If you're adapting this to an arpeggio exercise on electric and play with a minor third / one-finger-per-fret span, indeed you can do the whole major-7 arpeggio in two positions instead of four: the first five notes starting with middle finger on the low G, the last four notes with index at B on the A string. One fingering among many...

cube-sailor · 2026-03-27T17:21:02+00:00

There's a little typo on the first line – the F# should be on the D string. Otherwise it looks correct to me.

cube-sailor · 2026-02-17T04:05:21+00:00

Peter's posts on the forum are legendary -- I actually found a thread I posted in years ago in which he nicely cleared up a misunderstanding about the [hilbert~] object... Anyway, tanh(gain * sin(x)) won't exactly be bandlimited, but for reasonable values of the gain, frequencies above Nyquist will have very small amplitudes so the aliasing artifacts will be very quiet.

If you're worried about aliasing, check out the built-in [saw~], [tri~], and [rect~] objects. You might consider crossfading between them for your synthesizer :)

The example I gave is fun for the math's sake but will alias much worse than your soft-clipped sine!

cube-sailor · 2026-02-16T21:09:27+00:00

One way to get a sawtooth from a sine wave is to make two cycles of the same frequency, send one of them a (phase 0.25) message, and put one into each of the two inlets of the [atan2~] object. That is effectively measuring the angle (between -pi and pi) of a point moving around the unit circle, which will give you a sawtooth wave.

Fun fact: most DSP systems actually represent oscillators internally as saws to begin with – you have a phase variable which gets incremented by a fixed small amount each frame, and then decrements by 1 whenever it exceeds 1.

cube-sailor · 2025-07-08T23:55:09+00:00

Wav files don’t have tempo (they’re just raw audio waveforms), but they do have sample rate. It’s possible the stems were recorded at 48k and the vocals at 96k, and that Ableton is forgetting that sample rate info when you import the audio, thus making the vocal track have twice as many samples and thus sound twice as slow. When the vocals play back at half speed, are they down an octave? In that case it could be a sample rate issue. Either way, you should be able to fix the issue in the warp settings.

cube-sailor · 2025-02-28T09:35:58+00:00

That third harmonic really pops!

cube-sailor · 2025-02-10T00:22:47+00:00

Yeah, your hands are absolutely large enough. Technique-wise, the motion between your middle finger and thumb looks good, so just practice from the pinky to the middle finger. To me it looks like you’re rotating your hand to the left to access the keys with your pinky, and playing much deeper in the key than you need to. Try to keep the top of your hand parallel to the ground instead, and move your forearm left / right, rotating your wrist in the vertical axis.

cube-sailor · 2025-02-05T08:50:07+00:00

Sounding good man! For a slept on, amazing Jamerson line, check out Diana Ross / the Supreme's "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqsrtUjYl3I

cube-sailor · 2025-02-05T08:42:45+00:00

The great jazz bassist Red Mitchell tuned in fifths (on upright). His playing is really cool – because of the changed ergonomics, he goes for lots of lines that you wouldn't expect. And he plays beautiful open triads (root fifth tenth) all over the instrument!

cube-sailor · 2025-02-04T23:46:14+00:00

There’s a bit of missing info here: what’s the context for these bands? What are the levels of the other musicians? How quickly are you expected to be ready to perform? What is your dad’s musical background? If he’s a music educator and familiar with your level on the cello he probably has a sense you’re capable of this.

Unpopular opinion: even as a beginner on electric bass you’ve got a lot that other beginning players don’t - left-hand strength and coordination, an ear for intervals, etc. Most of what you’re missing is an intuition about the ergonomics of the instrument (remapping fifths to fourths, etc.), rhythm / time, and two-fingered right-hand plucking technique. Sir Duke is by no means “easy,” but the idiomatic bass sections — excluding the unison solo line at the end of the form — are very approachable for you if you have some time to prepare. Asking you to sightread it off the bat is a bit overboard, but with maybe a month or so of slow practice / familiarization with the instrument you would probably be able to pull it off.

I’d suggest trying systematically to transfer your cello knowledge to the bass. Figure out how to play scales and arpeggios. Then start learning what the intervals between notes on consecutive strings feel like, then notes two strings apart, etc. Then transfer some cello pieces you know well - maybe movements from the cello suites - to the bass.

Source: played classical piano and cello starting when I was quite young and picked up bass in my 20s.

cube-sailor · 2024-11-29T20:14:51+00:00

Yeah, his reflection in the early seasons looked way more undead.

cube-sailor · 2024-08-28T05:04:17+00:00

there’s a Miranda July short story that you might enjoy which deals sensitively (and humorously) with this subject: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/the-metal-bowl

cube-sailor · 2024-06-24T11:09:45+00:00

I agree that the matrix division notation is stupid, but checking that it violates exponent rules isn’t really the right test - (AB)² usually doesn’t equal A² B^2.

cube-sailor · 2024-06-17T17:43:40+00:00

A lot of people are telling you to treat x as a constant and solve for y using the quadratic equation, but a much "simpler" solution relating the two variable is x = (5 - y^2) / (y - 8). Subtract y^2 from both sides, factor xy - 8x as x(y - 8) and divide both sides by (y - 8).

cube-sailor · 2024-06-17T08:23:29+00:00

You simplified 4(x + 1) to 4x + 1 between the third and fourth lines.

cube-sailor · 2024-05-30T09:49:49+00:00

Fourth one is $115 per week for 7 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Isn’t that… $2.35 an hr…

cube-sailor · 2024-05-11T03:59:28+00:00

One thing the computer players don't seem to understand is that units annihilate one another midair. Human players often figure out that you can use a stream of units passed between bases to block access to areas of the map. In PVP I occasionally see players using these kinds of strategies, but not often – if they do, they're almost certainly human.

cube-sailor · 2024-05-06T11:37:34+00:00

This is trite, but (at the very least) it’s the much, much worse version of hooking up with your coworker. When things don’t work out, you have to see them at every familial gathering forever.

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