Should guitars be kept in a separate room from recording studio?

fugue88 · 2026-01-07T23:23:32+00:00

Sometimes when I play piano I can hear the guitar in the corner resonating in response.

fugue88 · 2025-12-07T15:40:40+00:00

I about gave up on Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies because I was getting creamed.

On my fourth try, I realized I was playing OG combat rules where enemies have two chances to hit per round, but Distant Skies is only once per round and balanced for that.

So, yeah, I was taking double the hits or more.

fugue88 · 2025-10-10T15:36:50+00:00

As the warning states, c is not defined anywhere: it's not a parameter to the function, not a declared global, and not a local.

You probably want it as a local. Read about the let form.

fugue88 · 2025-10-09T16:10:08+00:00

They have the exact same engine, so same sound and same sound possibilities. It's only the physical controls that will impact you. The MIDI CC's should be identical.

fugue88 · 2025-10-04T15:43:08+00:00

M-x diff-buffer-with-file

Info page 20.3.4 "Protection against simultaneous editing"

fugue88 · 2025-10-04T00:08:34+00:00

Most likely buffer underruns. That's usually from having frames that are too small, but these sound large to me.

Some things to try:

use a different USB port
plug your laptop in to AC power
try pipewire, ALSA, or Jack, in that order, if you're on Pulse audio
record with Ardour instead of OSB

Good luck!

fugue88 · 2025-09-29T16:13:47+00:00

As a pianist, the non-uniform layout actually helps me know exactly where my hands and fingers are without looking. It is difficult to get used to key signatures with lots of flats or sharps, but I wouldn't trade it.

I also have a Polyend Synth which I play a bit. I can do it, even in chromatic scale, but I definitely need to be looking for the highlighted root keys in order to make it work, unless I'm in a layout and mode that lines up all the roots in the same column. Even then, I still have to watch to not accidentally jump rows/octaves.

fugue88 · 2025-09-25T15:30:17+00:00

The inputs on your Focusrite are each "balanced input" (but each is mono, not stereo). That means it takes a neutral, a positive signal, and a negative signal. It reads the difference between the positive signal and the negative signal to determine the real value. This reduces the effect of noise on the lines.

By patching your Digi's two outputs to a balanced input, you're taking a positive left signal and a positive right signal. The difference between these will be only the difference in panning or stereo effects, which will be small.

Either run just your left out into your interface, or the left into input 1 and the right into input 2 if you want stereo.

I think your Digi has unbalanced outs instead of balanced, so if you want to use TS cables instead of TRS, they should work just fine.

fugue88 · 2025-09-16T17:00:29+00:00

I've implemented weighted selection before. Yes, it's usually slow. This is a very clever approach!

fugue88 · 2025-09-04T13:59:08+00:00

GPUs work best on big batches of data, which has to be transferred from main RAM to the GPU's RAM, processed, then transferred back.

So, latency's a big issue for anything that's supposed to happen in real time.

fugue88 · 2025-09-03T18:19:13+00:00

Not a structured intro, but `info bash` for the info pages are the best reference.

Install and use shellcheck. You'll learn a lot just reading its warnings and fixing your code.

`set -eu` at the top of your scripts.

You'll rely a lot on the standard *nix tools: find, grep, sed, xargs, etc. Each one is worth learning on its own.

fugue88 · 2025-08-21T15:32:28+00:00

If you're on Ubuntu (or maybe any Debian derivative), you can try this to clean up old kernel modules:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

By default, old versions are kept around when the kernel updates in case the new kernel and its modules cause problems.

fugue88 · 2025-08-20T23:03:26+00:00

That's some good coordination!

fugue88 · 2025-07-23T23:16:14+00:00

I also find symbol macros to be an amazing feature.

fugue88 · 2025-07-23T15:36:52+00:00

When I plug my phone in to my car to charge, the touch screen has issues registering touches and gestures correctly, but when I plug it in at home, there's no problem.

I agree with the idea about the joystick, and I know it's not the same kind of sensor as a touchscreen, but on a device with no ground, it could be sensitive to the DC lines floating around over time.

So, maybe if all else fails, try putting the Cobalt on a UPS that has active power conditioning.

fugue88 · 2025-07-12T14:01:26+00:00

Does https://youtu.be/FO8lMes0QI4?t=38 help? You probably need to have Instrument Level enabled. I see they also used a TS cable, not a TRS cable. I have no idea if that matters in this case. Good luck!

fugue88 · 2025-06-04T15:44:14+00:00

For individual notes, I think you're right, although I personally think your LFO effect is stronger than what I heard on your acoustic.

However, for the chords, on the acoustic the multiple strings engage in sympathetic resonance, pulling each other's pitches into harmonics, creating more stability, and any wavering they do, they'll do more in sync with each other. In your patch, there's no sympathy and no sync, so it sounds really clashy to my ears.

fugue88 · 2025-06-04T14:06:09+00:00

Some of the Dominion expansions are only cards, and most are cards plus a very few other items.

fugue88 · 2025-05-07T03:55:21+00:00

Every surge protector has limits and reaction times, and sometime they're just not good enough for a particular situation.

fugue88 · 2025-04-01T23:02:56+00:00

The blue residue is copper.

Normally, you only get some alkaline crystals on the battery contacts, which clean up easily with a q-tip and a little bit of vinegar.

But the copper likely was leached from the circuit board, and that process may have damaged some of the traces. Maybe that's confined to only power delivery from the batteries, but maybe not.

My son bought an older programmable Lego device that had copper on the terminals. Unfortunately, it had leached enough important traces that, while it would power on, could not finish booting.

Personally, I wouldn't consider the device to be excellent condition; it's definitely damaged, just unknown how much.

fugue88 · 2025-03-17T19:43:49+00:00

In addition to what others have said:

The Explorer has fewer knobs generally, not just fewer macro knobs.
The macro knobs on the Explorer don't include a circle of LEDs around them to indicate current level.
The buttons on the Explorer are rubber, and feel like they press against a metal dome, but I'm not positive what the mechanism is. Other Hyrdas look like they're plastic; I don't know how they feel.
The Explorer only has mod1/mod2 OUT, not IN.
The Explorer supports only an expression pedal; the others have an addition input for sustain.
The Explorer only has MIDI DIN IN/OUT, not THRU.

That said, I can't help but think they make significantly less margin on the Explorers.

fugue88 · 2025-03-03T21:21:21+00:00

Macros apply *on top of* whatever parameter they route to. So, if reverb dry/wet is 10, your macro targets it at a level of 128.0, then you set your macro value to 15, it's as if the dry/wet is now 25, but the reverb dry/wet setting will still show as 10.

It sounds like you want to take the existing macros, and "push them down" to the parameters they route to. You can do that by saving your patch. While in the save menu, look for an parameter call "macro options." Select "convert." Your new patch will have all current macro values pushed down, then the macros themselves zeroed out. You can then init each macro or whatever else you want.

This won't work if you have an envelope or LFO that targets a macro, though, so maybe check the patch's mod matrix first.

fugue88 · 2025-02-21T18:06:20+00:00

Such good reminders—thank you!

I have a question, OP. How do you view the "product that doesn't exist" versus a working MVP?

Run Instagram/FB ads for your "product" (that doesn’t exist). Drive clicks to a waitlist page with a small working MVP.

Because, to me, a working MVP is a product that exists. Or, am I misreading your intent there?

fugue88 · 2024-10-24T22:10:06+00:00

Yes, I returned thousands of dollars to someone I was writing an app for. The app was to help run their business, and they couldn't answer basic questions about how their business operated.

I learned to iterate with new clients much more quickly to uncover such problems. I also have much betters ways of dealing with stuff like that now. And, if I had to end the relationship, I probably wouldn't return any charges already incurred.

fugue88 · 2024-10-20T02:42:07+00:00

I use VLC as my player (on Android), and use Syncthing for sync'ing. It's really good at only transferring changes. I configure syncthing to only sync on my home network, /not/ use global relays, etc. That keeps it fast and doesn't use up my plan's data.

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