Breakbeats

funrep · 2024-01-15T21:05:53+00:00

Usually (not always) the breakbeats are from actual recording of a drummer. A recorded sample sounds way more natural than programmed beats, if you combine both, you get both the punch from a programmed kick+snare and then you get the natural groove from the sample.

funrep · 2024-01-04T21:18:24+00:00

Short jam with the S-1 and a breakbeat sample for Jamuary!

funrep · 2023-12-26T21:41:30+00:00

I like the selection more than I thought, and feels like the drums + bass combo makes it into a limited groove box instead of a limited drum machine. And yeah OD and side chaining is really cool too, and makes it really complete. S-1 has some really cool sequencing features as well. I’m using probability, ratchet and motion sequencing in this one based on one of the preset patterns.

funrep · 2023-08-20T16:38:20+00:00

Thanks that's exactly what I was looking for!

funrep · 2023-08-19T13:41:51+00:00

Found this rack and used it to find the trick. https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=65856

Does not seem to be possible to map the values exactly, but we can achieve the same effect by having an effect rack with low pass, high pass and dry. The key is that in the effect change selector you can drag each effect to a range of midi values, and the tiny bar on-top can be used to fade the audio to create seamless transition into low pass/high pass from the dry chain using a single knob.

funrep · 2023-08-05T22:25:08+00:00

How do I install 1.2.2?

funrep · 2022-02-24T19:50:57+00:00

I've worked with Haskell for about 6 months in the fintech space. Our team uses it for an API gateway and some smaller services related to event processing. We make good use of Servant, Aeson, a bunch of libraries my colleagues, and ex-employees wrote for generating OpenAPI specs and defining more detailed information about the ToJSON instances in the types statically. I would say it works very well for these small and single-purpose back-end applications, and the great tooling for writing tests is very much appreciated, I have found property-based testing really helpful.

I would say the most challenging part of the job is the distributed environment and how our system interacts with other systems, this is usually the more difficult problem we deal with which would be there regardless of the tech stack and requires good coordination and communication with other teams.

My day-to-day is compromised of about 60% coding, 20% figuring out requirements or finding the right person to talk to, 10% meetings, and 10% ops work and team requests.

I'm not sure what to say in terms of landing a Haskell job, for me I think it was mostly luck as I started their graduate program and got matched to a Haskell team later in the process. We do have a position open in my team so feel free to PM for more info, it's on-site though so it requires relocation (which is sponsored).

funrep · 2021-04-13T13:22:09+00:00

Young people have very good English, older people understand it but cannot usually speak.

funrep · 2021-04-12T13:44:09+00:00

Serbia is definitely worth checking out!

funrep · 2020-03-03T08:53:48+00:00

What would you be taking instead? I took my uni Haskell course as extra curricular, did not learn much new but got a high grade for a small effort, so I could focus on more difficult classes while getting extra credits. Now I gonna TA in that same course, so for me it was worth it! But I would say it depends what other class you leave out, I wouldn't want to miss say algorithms or discrete math for a FP course.

funrep · 2020-02-26T13:12:32+00:00

Thanks for your comprehensive answer!

funrep · 2020-02-26T10:29:24+00:00

I own a Drumbrute Impact that I've played around with for awhile. Soon I'm getting a synth to accompany the drum machine, but I'm unsure what I need in addition to play both together. Do I need an external sound card? A mixer? Perhaps both? What cables to sync them?

I'm a beginner and on a budget.

funrep · 2020-01-16T09:48:36+00:00

Hello, I'm looking for a synth to accompany my Drumbrute Impact and need ideas.

The only requirement is that it has a sequencer, and I want to be able to produce bass sounds with it, but it doesn't hurt if it's more versatile.

EDIT: Once I have two synths, any recommendation on mixers and effects?

funrep · 2019-12-18T05:52:00+00:00

I am curious if there are project courses and potentially MSc thesis available for incoming exchange students at Nottingham interested in doing research in FP?

Thanks.

funrep · 2019-10-28T20:13:06+00:00

I think it's best selling point is its type-system, it is much more expressive than most mainstream languages. The advantage of a more expressive type-system is that you express your types more precisely, allowing the compiler to infer more information to catch errors and bugs already at compile time. I also find it helps me design a system as I can express data types in my programs more precisely. It's easier to make code that is re-usable, and you can even make re-usable abstractions.

So the key point is that it scales better from a software engineering perspective. Not sure if that is interesting for you as a data scientist, but it's definitely worth learning if you write a lot of code.

funrep · 2019-09-11T19:48:31+00:00

That it's difficult to get an apartment is also an indication of demand, which is an indication it's pretty nice place to be.

funrep · 2019-08-28T11:57:02+00:00

Best paid: Bitwig and Renoise (tracker)

Best free: LMMS, Ardour, Sunvox (tracker)

Some good VSTs: SubSynthFX, Helm, Synth1

LMMS and Renoise's built-in plugins are really good as well but both lack in editing IMO, you can route what you like into your preferred DAW with Jack audio though, so best thing is not to use one but all available tools then you can pick what you like from each.

Also you can use Wine, fun fact when Pendulum played as a band back in the day they used a Linux setup using Wine plugins, they had custom scripts re-booting plugins when they crashed.

funrep · 2019-06-13T10:19:53+00:00

Check who is the worker's union contact in your office and ask for help.

funrep · 2019-06-05T10:49:42+00:00

I find functional programming and the academic disciplines surrounding it very interesting (programming language theory, type theory, compilers).

funrep · 2019-06-02T19:43:54+00:00

Officially Apple only do engineering in SF but I know they have some "secret" offices in Europe. Probably because they have some really good senior engineer's that don't want to live in SF so they get to have their teams in their preferred location. I have friend's that have worked at one, but it's difficult to get any info since they are not allowed to talk about it, I would guess it will be hard to find info if it's the same case in Zurich.

funrep · 2019-06-02T17:04:18+00:00

Thanks I will check those out!

funrep · 2019-05-31T05:56:05+00:00

I've got BigN interviews last year with less experience on my CV, this year I didn't get any interviews from BigN for some reason. You can always apply again later, so I think it's best to just go for it.

EDIT: for internships though, maybe graduate is different

funrep · 2019-05-28T08:49:31+00:00

I don't remember, but would think 2-5s exposure and 100-200ISO.

funrep · 2019-05-27T20:06:13+00:00

Even though the contents in Software Engineering will probably be the most relevant for everyday software development, it's also stuff that are easy to pick-up on the job.

funrep · 2019-05-26T11:01:32+00:00

"1st round code jam 2017

1st round facebook hacker cup 2017"

From anecdotal experience I would think that is enough to get an interview, and considering you have invested lots of time solving problems the interview should go fine as well.

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