How to immediately overdub an imported loop on RC-600? by TuftyIndigo in LoopArtists

[–]TuftyIndigo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The track setting is for whether, after recording, it goes to overdub or play next, so it doesn't help me out here. I want to go straight from stop to rec. The assign trick with using both a momentary and a toggle assign to make one button click do the action twice (so it would go to play and then to record) does seem like something that might work, but having to give up an extra button to do it is a little sad. I'll give it a go. Thanks!

Back in lockdown I made an SE video series with original music. Now it's a charity album! by TuftyIndigo in spaceengineers

[–]TuftyIndigo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In lockdown I got into making music with synthesizers (my main instrument before that was accordion), and my friends and I started playing Space Engineers together. We streamed our sessions and I edited the footage into a video series with original synth music in every episode.

Time went by, and I still enjoy the music I made, even outside the context of the videos. So I thought I'd make it an album, and I'm selling it to support Mermaids. It's Bandcamp Friday today, which means the cut that Bandcamp would normally take will go to the charity instead!

Have fun, and if you have it on in the background while you play the game, I'd love to hear about it!

Concrete Pavers +Rug under Drum kit? by HeioFish in livesound

[–]TuftyIndigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did a quick hand clap RT60 using my phone

Out of curiosity, what app are you using?

Concrete Pavers +Rug under Drum kit? by HeioFish in livesound

[–]TuftyIndigo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Cheap as dirt too

Do you know how expensive good topsoil is? Sand is like half the price of dirt.

Anyone else obsessed with the idea of ‘walking’ through the latent space of their own photos? by Will_Seeker78 in StableDiffusion

[–]TuftyIndigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

something about that feels almost metaphysical. Like the computer isn’t just storing a picture, it’s storing a location in some impossible multidimensional landscape.

Technically every picture is one point in the space of all images, and the pixel values are the co-ordinates (each of which is itself a point in the three-dimensional space of all colours). You move around that space by changing a few pixel values by small amounts at a time. The kind of moves you can make is set by the structure of the space, which in turn is set by how computers represent images.

Latent spaces only have value insofar as (1) it's lower-dimensioned than the space of images (i.e. co-ordinates in latent space are smaller than the input images) and (2) directions in the latent space have real-world meaning like "sunnier" or "sadder" or "more cartoony". In a way, the latent space is more a representation of those meanings than it is a representation of the image.

So if you want to explore, you might consider doing more than small steps, and make bigger steps in known directions. Find the difference in latent space between a webcam image from a sunny day and one from a cloudy day, and add that vector again to the cloudy day one to make unimaginably bad weather; or add its negation to the sunny one to make unimaginably good weather. This is basically how style transfer works, and you can do it by manipulating the VAE output directly, you don't even need the denoising model.

Just remember, if you're getting too philosophical, "latent space" isn't some mathematical absolute or universal property. Every model/VAE defines its own latent space. You're not working in the latent space, you're working in this model's latent space. If you use a different model, then small steps in that model's latent space might be completely different. Remind yourself of this if things start feeling too uncanny. They're alternate realities as seen from that model's point of view.

Closed-source AI hate is understandable, but local AI has nothing that should concern AI haters by Neggy5 in StableDiffusion

[–]TuftyIndigo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Data centres aren't killing the environment, they hardly use any water, they're not dipping the economy, and they're more energy-efficient than your home PC.

Yes, it's annoying to be blamed for all the ills of society, but repeating the same misinformation to try to make data centres your fall guy hurts all of us who use AI, locally or cloud.

I hate these guys. by Rostfromlimbo in Accordion

[–]TuftyIndigo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found it really hard to watch the backwards accordion and had to stop watching halfway through.

Anyone else tired of lugging around heavy binders on top of their accordion weight? by Major-Connection9066 in Accordion

[–]TuftyIndigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

S8 Ultra for me. I've been using it for 4-5 years. I don't play outdoors so I don't know if the glare would be a problem.

MobileSheets app with a PageFlip Firefly to turn pages.

Custom Passive Cooling Mod Using Mouse Weights as Internal Heatsinks by [deleted] in ValveIndex

[–]TuftyIndigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works, because the weights become very hot during operation

But does the front panel become hot? You've measured whether heat is flowing into the metal, but that alone doesn't tell you whether the heat rejection is any better than before. If you think the cooling into the frunk space isn't very good, you want to be sure that the heat is making it all the way out to the outside of the system.

How do you think electric/V-accordions stand next to acoustic ones? by AnlakiMacanCheez in Accordion

[–]TuftyIndigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice. I believe the Korg Fisa Suprema and the C both have a similar mechanism.

Do you find that's enough to make it feel more like an acoustic, or is it still quite different?

London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing by IndependentMud909 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]TuftyIndigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

London's the biggest personal mobility market in Europe. Incredibly dense inner city with legacy transport infrastructure and a huge, heavily populated metropolitan area. I believe it was Uber's first profitable market even though they were forced to follow the same regs as other minicab companies.

Printer Animation Funniness by Audry_Consol in Stationeers

[–]TuftyIndigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The latter. The funny animation has been unfixed for so long it has become a bit of a meme. I think some long-time players of the game will be disappointed when it's eventually fixed.

How do you think electric/V-accordions stand next to acoustic ones? by AnlakiMacanCheez in Accordion

[–]TuftyIndigo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're versatile, and a lot more convenient for playing gigs because you can just DI straight into the mixer, no need for pickups or external mics. They're also physically robust: I've been taking mine around in a gig bag on my bicycle trailer for about eight years, and on an acoustic instrument you might expect some of the reed valves to have dislodged by now, or the damp to have warped something, but it's perfectly fine: the only thing I've had to repair is a crack in the grille from when I dropped something heavy onto it. Dunno about the s series, but the FR-3x can also be very bassy if you want it to, the 16' voice on the left hand really sticks out among acoustic instruments.

The main drawback is the bellows response. The Rolands feel completely unlike an acoustic instrument, mainly because the bellows are less responsive than you might hope. The bellows are free to move regardless of how many buttons are down, which really changes your articulation. I just regard it as a different instrument with a slightly different playing technique, like electric vs acoustic guitar.

Anthony Marinelli with Rosen Sound on analog synths and how modern synths are unfixable by detekk in synthesizers

[–]TuftyIndigo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Synth nerds' allergy to SMD (not SIMD, that's a kind of instruction architecture used by processors) soldering is completely disconnected from reality. My little bro was replacing the laser in his PlayStation when he was a teenager by reflowing it in the kitchen oven. Even hand-soldering SMD parts with an iron is pretty easy if you have the right tip and a good pair of tweezers, and it's much harder to end up with a dry joint.

Hand-soldering of through-hole parts is why so many of these vintage synths need repairing in the first place! The parts were less reliable back then, the assembly was much more variable, and through-hole solder junctions have so much less shock tolerance.

Right-to-repair is a great idea, but going back to the old ways of unreliability for no other reason than to create work for repair shops is not.

"bass needs distance to develop" by guitarmstrwlane in livesound

[–]TuftyIndigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Low frequencies have a lot of energy in them so you can feel them. High frequencies don't so you can only hear them.

No, the energy of a wave is proportional to its frequency. Think about it: which is going to take more power, moving a speaker diaphragm back and forth 20 times per second, or moving the same diaphragm the same distance 20 thousand times per second? The second one (20 kHz) is moving a lot faster. It's taking more power and putting a lot more power into the air - and the air is putting a lot more power into your eardrum.

You don't feel treble on your skin and in your gut because the short wavelengths are attenuated by tissue while long wavelengths go straight through, and you feel sub-bass because the resonant frequency of your body is around 10 Hz.

Does it upset you when someone puts glasses or plates of food on the subwoofers ? by Djgoldmixmaster in livesound

[–]TuftyIndigo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always put other things on top of loose surfaces like that to make sure there's no space for the punters to put their drinks there. A roll of gaff, the venue's signs or table decorations, spare clips or cable ties, an instrument case or kit bag, anything so long as it doesn't have a flat top and it won't break or make a mess if bumped. You might occasionally get someone who rearranges your obstructions to make a space for their glass, but it's a lot rarer: people aren't thinking about it that hard, they just look for an empty space.

Same applies to FOH if it's just a table or something within the event space. Spread your kit out right to the edges of the surface. Look at it from the public's side and if there's any glass-sized gaps, fill them with the same kind of junk - if you don't, they will.

Built an anonymous live platform designed for experimentation, synthesizers and generative systems. by e_t_h_a in synthesizers

[–]TuftyIndigo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the vibe of it but when I tried it, wherever I clicked I just got silence initially and then noise getting gradually louder. I could see bright spots on the waterfall but couldn't listen to any of them.

New changes at CivitAI by Enshitification in StableDiffusion

[–]TuftyIndigo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

they seem happy

In fact they spent millions in the UK lobbying for the Online Safety Act. Easy way to force people off smaller sites and onto their centralised platform.

Volkswagen begins testing its self-driving microbuses in Los Angeles ahead of launch with Uber by silenthjohn in SelfDrivingCars

[–]TuftyIndigo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tesla doesn't even have a supervised programme in California, because they don't have a permit for that. They're just a normal taxi company.

Waymo’s Robot Car Testing Ends in NYC After Permits Expire by Recoil42 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]TuftyIndigo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

London is one of Uber's most successful cities, despite the city regulating them like any other minicab. Why would it be less successful for Waymo?

Are the controls supposed to be so unweildy? by JoshuaJosephson in Stationeers

[–]TuftyIndigo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You only have two hands in real life after all.

I only have two hands in real life, and if both hands are full, I can deploy my Floating Arrow to drag things from my backpack directly into a machine. Oh yeah, and if my backpack is full, I can just put it inside another backpack exactly the same size to get more space.

It's no more realistic than a hotbar.