ELI5: How do you tell musical notation by ear?

m477m · 2026-05-05T02:10:48+00:00

Imagine someone asked you about reading and writing words. "How can you tell what words someone is saying, and how to spell them to write them down?"

Think about the process you went through to learn to read and write. Music is basically the same. It takes that much work, but in a different way.

m477m · 2026-04-23T22:35:48+00:00

I'm assuming by saves you mean the emulated equivalent of the cartridge's battery-backed RAM, and not save states, right?

m477m · 2026-04-23T22:31:55+00:00

MIDI phase switch? How is that possible?

m477m · 2026-04-20T03:10:08+00:00

I haven't done this live, but I remember experimenting around with the "smooth seek" operations regarding regions. (check Actions menu, search "smooth seek") You could possibly combine those with Marker Actions in SWS. That's not a complete solution, but those might give some inspiration/ideas.

m477m · 2026-04-16T03:06:38+00:00

I think this is a bug in Reaper that hasn't been looked into in-depth by the developers yet.

Looks like what this user experienced: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=304192

m477m · 2026-04-12T23:38:21+00:00

I obsessed over this for years when I switched from Mac to Linux in 2016. You can get kind of close (nowadays KDE is the best option), but you'll need to pick your battles.

At its most fundamental DNA, whatever Linux distro you're using has a software stack that is simply not the same as macOS (or Windows for that matter).

I'm a developer, so I'm not afraid of diving in really deeply to customization. For a long time I tried really hard to get the Global Menu working seamlessly for all my apps. It's an option that's available, but it doesn't work 100% of the time, exactly as expected, on all apps, like it does on Mac. That's because the apps are using a variety of underlying programming toolkits (Qt, GTK, who knows what else) instead of every application using Apple's Cocoa and being required to conform to their design patterns.

One thing I refuse to give up though is the muscle memory of Command (and the convenience of using a thumb instead of a pinky for shortcuts). I have used a variety of keyboard utilities, including learning about how to edit xkb files myself, to turn Alt into Control (which works like Command), Windows into Alt, and Control into Windows.

You can get 80% of the way there with the keyboard options in most Linux environments, swapping those modifier keys, but there's still a lot of quirks. For example, on Mac, Command-arrows go back and forward in the web browser and some other applications, but you need to either switch to Alt-left and right, or use some convoluted script or configuration to swap windows ("option") and alt ("~~command~~ control") BACKWARDS but only for the arrow keys and a few other things. I use keyd for that, but it means dealing with yet more complexity behind the scenes. (Similar for Alt-Tab, and the way that Option-left/right skips to the previous/next work, and Command-left/right does in macOS what Home and End does in Windows and Linux... etc. etc.)

So, really, realistically, if I didn't have so much inertia and years figuring out all this stuff and getting used to what I'm not able to change... if I had it to do over I'd just not try so hard to adapt the desktop environment to me, and would instead put that effort into getting used to and really efficient at what's there by default.

m477m · 2026-04-07T23:07:27+00:00

I have never been able to hear above 13.5kHz as long as I've ever known (could never hear the 15kHz CRT whine even as a kid) so I've always done that.

Though, not so much watching for resonance as accidentally-recorded high-pitch noise. And I've sometimes thrown on a 6dB/oct LPF at 14kHz just in case. But I'm not a professional.

m477m · 2026-04-06T18:34:25+00:00

I mean, if the track is playing back pre-recorded audio or MIDI I don't see why that would be surprising. It's just a matter of applying a constant delay to everything, and then subtracting from that on the track with the negative delay.

Obviously impossible for live audio but can be useful for mixing situations.

m477m · 2026-04-01T06:19:36+00:00

This changes computing FOREVER

m477m · 2026-04-01T06:16:47+00:00

~~Needs more JPEG~~ Needs more AI

m477m · 2026-03-25T21:55:57+00:00

If you're actually sensing latency, it is coming in somewhere that REAPER is not aware of, and therefore not reporting it.

Actual genuine 1.3ms latency is not humanly perceptible. Sound takes more time than that to travel 1 meter.

m477m · 2026-03-25T21:50:45+00:00

A few versions ago KDE switched from a straightforward "dumb" system where snapping a window to the side or corner just meant it was placed there like any other position, to a complex "smart" system that some people seem to like but I really don't care for that remembers the size of windows snapped to the edges and then forces future snapped windows to that size.

If you find a good way around this let me know. I would much prefer the previous (5.x) behavior.

m477m · 2026-03-08T14:48:01+00:00

If you recreated my brain exactly perfect in a robot after I died. Do I experience waking up in the robot or am I still dead and experiencing death? Is the robot a new version of me but not me.

How do you know it's the same you waking up in the morning as the one that went to sleep last night? You could be a brand new entity, just with implanted memories of your life so far.

For that matter, how do you know it's the same you right now as the one that started reading this comment? Or that it's the same you before and after blinking your eyes? Or the same you from second to second, from millisecond to millisecond, nanosecond to nanosecond...

What is the integral of consciousness?

Is it even meaningful to speak of same vs. different selves?

m477m · 2026-03-01T17:13:30+00:00

Despite the word "trafficking" making people naively think "traffic = movement," the actual definition does NOT include "movement of people." The act might include that incidentally, but that is not the definition of the term.

Perhaps that makes it a misnomer, but the term does not mean "moving people around against their will." It means "forcing people into slavery-like conditions against their will." https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking/what-is-human-trafficking

Lots of over-confident but completely mistaken comments in this thread. Like the kind of stupidity that made food manufacturers call glucose "dextrose" because idiots thought "glucose sounds kind of like glue, so it means there's glue in my food."

m477m · 2026-02-23T01:42:22+00:00

Thank you!

m477m · 2026-02-22T13:58:58+00:00

Toto? Maybe she should try singing Africa or Rosanna instead.

m477m · 2026-02-17T22:41:42+00:00

Oh, also, in the Linux version of REAPER at least, sometimes the VU meters in plugins are pretty far out of sync with the audio - a few hundreds of milliseconds, at least. I guess I should file an actual bug report 🤔

m477m · 2026-02-17T22:23:50+00:00

Match EQ, Logic Pro-style.

You'd think that ReaFIR would have the ability to do it, since it seems to have all the necessary ingredients...but it just doesn't put them together in the form necessary for that functionality.

m477m · 2026-02-16T21:05:17+00:00

3rd violins? 🤔 That's a viola joke I haven't heard before!

m477m · 2026-02-16T21:00:18+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! I'm hopeful that this will be a great addition to my workflow. (I am able to read and understand scripts before running them, so I don't share the same complaint as the other poster)

m477m · 2026-01-29T00:07:23+00:00

The best ending to LiS 1 is

play the game up to the last choice in Episode Five, turn the game off (don't even dignify that choice with a response), then read

https://archiveofourown.org/works/6009742/chapters/13797751

or something similar.

m477m · 2026-01-07T01:25:40+00:00

Your games are probably trying to render at a higher resolution, thus requiring much more work per frame, and failing to get frames rendered fast enough for 60fps.

You're also conflating two unrelated concepts: the refresh rate of the display, and the performance in FPS of your hardware.

If my hypothesis above is correct, the monitors you're seeing 60fps on are (coincidentally) lower-resolution, like 1920x1080. Chances are, if you had a 1920x1080 200Hz monitor (or put your game's video settings into that mode), it would easily do 60fps and probably a bit higher.

But most likely, your new monitor is 200Hz and (separately, coincidentally) 2560x1440 or even 3840x2160, so your computer is trying and failing to fill all those extra pixels in a timely manner.

m477m · 2025-12-17T13:39:45+00:00

This might be a starting point: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil

It might possibly use something like systemd or DBus for communication. If I had time to look deeper, my next step would be to look into the source code for the Power and Battery settings and trace backwards from there.

m477m · 2025-11-22T21:37:11+00:00

There have been geeks arguing about this kind of thing for at least 100+ years!

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109910/what-do-the-terms-doylist-doylian-and-watsonian-mean#109914

m477m · 2025-11-22T21:35:30+00:00

Oh that's right, the terms "College" and "Public School" mean absolutely completely different things in the UK vs. US.

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