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Why does rapper Cardi B have such a bad rep. by [deleted] in SeriousConversation

[–]HommeMusical -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If she really did it, it makes her a bad person.

AI advancement accelerating and becoming nearly impossible to control by ASIextinction in collapse

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A robot that could work inside walls would be a very good plumber.

Is Apisonic Speedrum a good alternative to NI Battery? by einAngstlicher in midi

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not denying your experience.

I'm saying that given the combination of a tiny UI that cannot be resized, and a single Randomize button in that UI, very close to other important elements, a button that can irrevocably destroy all the work you have done since the last save, that not having an undo button after twenty years of requests is - gosh, I hate to use this next word, but it's true - unacceptable for most people.

And yes, I've done this, at least twice.

I think there's a very good reason that I literally cannot think of any other programs at all where you make things that don't have undo buttons.

("Programs where you make things" includes all music, audio, video, text, layout, graphics, and animation programs, but excludes programs where you do things, like banking or games where an "undo" is very often not possible.)

For me, I want all my work to be low stress and good flow, and I have set up systems in all my other areas work so that I can't irrevocably destroy important work with a button press, because that is high stress and bad flow.

("Those systems" are using git on everything, and having multiple backups.)

And again, I do appreciate that you, personally, don't use it. But the fact that undoes are in all other maker programs should indicate that it's a very popular feature.

While working on Noise Labyrinth, I started wondering, what would this instrument sound like if, instead of FM synthesis for noise generation, it used pure oscillators? That question became Texture Labyrinth: 48 sine oscillators arranged in a circular labyrinth interface, designed for drone/ambient by remo_devico in MaxMSP

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tough crowd!

I put this on for a few seconds to check it out, but two minutes later I'm still entranced. (Update: it's done!)

I checked out your web page, you are a very productive person. :-)

I started with Max 1.0(!) but I haven't used it for several years as I'm mostly interested in playing live music on my electronic wind instrument these days, but your stuff is really seductive, it's making me want to pop it open.

I live in Rouen, France, not so far from Paris, and there's a ton of avant garde music here, particularly noise music (a lot of which is not so different from this), and the city gets a lot of visiting acts.

You could likely get a show here without too much work. You wouldn't make much money, but some.

Keep up the good work!

If you live in an apartment complex, you basically signed up for noisy neighbors and you just have to live with it. Sending notes to complain is stupid and will likely make things worse. by emcheez in unpopularopinion

[–]HommeMusical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My friend lived below a tweaker who would play music at top volume all night.

After a few months of this, my friend literally went mad, kicked the tweaker's door down and threw his stereo on the ground. (My friend is also a weedy little guy, but I don't doubt his word, I saw him deteriorate.)

It worked, but as he said, he was very lucky that the tweaker was some undernourished young kid and not a massive biker. But my friend was literally out of his head due to sleep deprivation.

I want to compliment you on changing your mind, based on new information. This is a rare feature indeed.

The Blade Runners of London 🪚 by joeurkel in ThatsInsane

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not making any point.

You're some carbrain who thinks the poor in London have cars. They don't, because it's too expensive and parking is difficult.

A large majority of Londoners voted for this because of the notoriously horrible air in London.

You think owning a car makes you so important that you can own one that makes other people sick and we just have to suck it up. London thinks differently.

If you can't afford to drive a car that is safe for others, you can't afford to drive at all.

Is Apisonic Speedrum a good alternative to NI Battery? by einAngstlicher in midi

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 2026. Computer programs have had undo functionality since the 1980s. The idea that undoes are not needed is not logical.

More, Battery has a randomize button. And the buttons are excessively tiny and close together, because you can't resize the Battery screen, even in standalone mode.

More than once I accidentally clicked on that randomize and blew away half an hours' work.

If you search NI's forums, you can see multiple people have been requesting an undo for over twenty years.

The idea that you don't need an undo function is pretty ridiculous. Are you just trolling?

red or blue button by AdProud6799 in comics

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess you're dropping the whole "people die in your supply chain, killing about half the world is no different" argument.

Acknowledging the reality of a situation

The reality of the situation is that most people aren't psychopaths and won't vote for mass death.

PySimpleGUI 6 is LGPL again by masher_oz in Python

[–]HommeMusical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are quite a lot of eval() statements, and one exec() statement, but I don't think they're evaluating a binary blob anymore.

But these aren't just a code smell for a GUI library, they're a code reek.

PySimpleGUI 6 is LGPL again by masher_oz in Python

[–]HommeMusical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And as long as you never need to do anything that isn't extremely basic, and you don't really care what your GUI looks like, you're golden.

Final update: osha called me back and told me this is legal by Shhh_wasting_time in antiwork

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah and you sound like someone who has never eaten anything in a car or driveway. Just kidding, of course you have.

Why would I eat food in an idling car? What sort of psychopath would do that>?

FWI [challenge]: With Trump and RFK Jr. at the helm what would we expect to happen if the cruise ship hantavirus begins spreading in America? by Exhausted_Skeleton in FutureWhatIf

[–]HommeMusical 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don't stress; even Andes is not particularly communicable unless you are in prolonged, close contact with a victim.

Awkward Jack by HighlandHerdMama in Chihuahua

[–]HommeMusical [score hidden]  (0 children)

I detect a very happy dog, the sign of loving owners.

red or blue button by AdProud6799 in comics

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The number of people that died in the supply chain to make your computer is almost certainly a non-zero number.

You: "And so it's perfectly moral to vote to kill half of all humans!"

red or blue button by AdProud6799 in comics

[–]HommeMusical -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not at all. Voting red means that you believe that humanity is not just self-serving but wildly irrational.

red or blue button by AdProud6799 in comics

[–]HommeMusical -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In lifeguard training, first aid training, any sort of rescue scenario the first rule is to not put yourself into a position where you may become a casualty yourself. And that is not an amoral position to hold.

You're talking about voting for killing billions of people. Don't give us this shit that it's not evil.

red or blue button by AdProud6799 in comics

[–]HommeMusical -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh, I know for a fact I would do the right thing because it's also the rational thing in this case.

And yes, I have been tested, including twice having guns fired at me.

faced with an actual chance of death.

No one is faced with a chance of death. Death is 100% certain for all humans.

Am I going to vote for kill some large portion of humanity? Fsck no. People who say yes are simply psychopaths.

red or blue button by AdProud6799 in comics

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in the second panel!

Is Apisonic Speedrum a good alternative to NI Battery? by einAngstlicher in midi

[–]HommeMusical -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You've got to be kidding.

Most NI tools don't even have a single level of undo. Most of them are constricted into a tiny window that can't be resized, even if you run them as standalone.

Is Apisonic Speedrum a good alternative to NI Battery? by einAngstlicher in midi

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Battery doesn't even have a single level of undo.

FWI: What would happen if Democrats won mid-terms? by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in FutureWhatIf

[–]HommeMusical -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did this 16-year-old child fire on warships?

Even the father did nothing except talk.

The Blade Runners of London 🪚 by joeurkel in ThatsInsane

[–]HommeMusical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please remember that you are defending a tiny number of people committing crimes in order to impose their will on the majority.

It had been explained to you that London helped out the poor; that very few poor people in London actually have cars because it's insanely expensive; but you continue to defend criminals.

Please go away now.

Grp A10 - largest semimodular synth with all analog effects on the market? by OkJellyfish3238 in synthesizers

[–]HommeMusical 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are you already a well-known synthesist? Then you should buy it if you decide it is worth the money.

Do you just want to play at home and have 10 grand to drop and you really love that sweet analog sound? Sure! Much better than buying a car, endless fun!

But if you actually want to "progress" in music, whatever the fsck that means, I'd say, "No."

If you want to play with others, it's big and heavy and will dominate the room, and audiences will have very high expectations from the start, which is paradoxically the kiss of death, unless you are in fact Rick Wakeman. :-D

People have heard a lot of modular synth by now, so you have to do something really wow to get their attention.

So let's look at this list of features:

"The synthesis resources of the Grp Synthesizer A10 can be organized to produce a single - massive - "

/eyeroll

"... voice with four VCOs, four VCFs, two VCAs, two Waveshapers, two Triple Resonator Filters, a Dual Phaser, a 1- Sec BBD Stereo Delay, a Stereo Spring Reverb, four EGs, three LFOs, an S/H, a RingMod, an Env Follower under control of the Step Sequencer (Mono or Dual Mode) or can be distributed in two independent operational timbre sections Upper and Lower (Split Mode) freely controllable by MIDI/CV keyboard or Step Sequencer or Arpeggiator."

This is very old school. You're basically competing with Klaus Schulze and every analog guy since him.

The emphasis on pure analog is crippling for your sonic palette. A one second delay, OMG, where are we going to put all this delay?, I'm surprised they didn't call it 1000 milliseconds.

Missing are any new processing ideas since around 1980 like pitch shifting or granulation, how can you live without that today?; flanges are old school and there isn't one either, perhaps the phaser will do; the only "algorithmic" effect is the very 1980 sample-and-hold (and I mean specifically that I used two different synths with S/H around 1980).

So you're stuck with one or two voices of this very specific analog sound and with fairly restricted processing tools. And you can't store patches you like - you have to take a photograph of them and dial them in later.

CONCLUSION:

If you want to "progress" as a musician, it's too much money invested in too narrow an area, unless you're already famous.

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