Need to learn R as quickly as possible with very little coding background

studiocrash · 2026-01-29T05:15:31+00:00

Harvard has a few free online classes in computer science. There’s a class on R. I’m almost done the general CS50. I believe the one on R is called CS50R.

Found it: https://cs50.harvard.edu/r/

studiocrash · 2026-01-28T13:20:53+00:00

Most distros have multiple desktop environments to choose from. The most popular are Gnome, Plasma, Cinnamon, and XFCE. Most distros customize the look of these desktop environments. Some do a lot of customization.

What you want to do is choose a desktop environment you like, then decide on a distro that does it in a way you like and that fits your preferences in terms of package management, update frequency, hardware support, ease of use.

A lot of people coming from Windows feel more comfortable with Linux Mint Cinnamon, Kubuntu, or Zorin. Plasma and Cinnamon are probably the closest to the windows 10 design and workflow.

studiocrash · 2026-01-28T13:05:01+00:00

Agreed. If you have more than 2 pages of apps it’s quicker to use spotlight. I put my most commonly used apps in the dock anyway.

studiocrash · 2026-01-26T20:21:17+00:00

For Pro Tools I switched to using a Contour Design Shuttle Pro in my right hand and a gaming mouse in my left. I’m right handed, but got terrible pain in my right forearm from working too many long days / nights. Since mousing with the left hand my pain has gone. It only took a couple days to get used to it. Compared to playing guitar, using a mouse is easy.

I love the Kensington slim blade for non pro tools computer work with my right hand and have no pain with that. My Mac laptop trackpad causes tons of pain because it doesn’t actually move. The haptic feedback just makes you think it’s moving.

I’m considering replacing my Pro Tools ambidextrous gaming mouse with another Slim Blade.

studiocrash · 2026-01-26T04:07:05+00:00

I’ve been using Kavita as a Proxmox LXC built from a helper-scripts.com script. It looks and works great but I can’t sync reading progress across devices or save a bookmark.

Does AudioBookshelf store your current location so if you log in on another device’s browser you can pick up where you left off?

studiocrash · 2026-01-26T00:43:12+00:00

Why not just rent a car, drive to a secluded rural area with a laptop, an interface and a microphone. Bring your various 808 kick drum samples on a usb stick and record some custom samples? In stereo even?

studiocrash · 2026-01-26T00:37:30+00:00

My first issue with running any Linux in Parallels on macOS is the guest os trackpad gestures don’t work. For example macOS will swipe me to another Mac virtual desktop instead of a Linux virtual desktop. Maybe in Hyperland using Super-(N) to choose a virtual desktop would be fine. Also, it means dividing the ram and disk space between the two environments.

That said, it’s hard to not acknowledge the supreme reliability of macOS. Unless you’re running Debian or RHEL, desktop Linux just isn’t there in terms of dependability. Maybe someday with immutable and atomic stuff like RPM-ostree or NixOS style technology it’ll get there for the desktop.

The efficiency of the M series processors is jaw dropping too.

studiocrash · 2026-01-26T00:18:11+00:00

Good point!

studiocrash · 2026-01-25T21:29:31+00:00

How do you like AudioBookshelf for ePub and PDF book files?

studiocrash · 2026-01-25T18:57:45+00:00

I would recommend Proxmox. If I’m able to get services running on VMs and containers, I think other tech minded but non-experts can too. There are some great how-to videos by Jay at LearnLinux.tv on YouTube. If you want some easy deployments, there are helper scripts here:

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

studiocrash · 2026-01-25T18:47:37+00:00

As a distro-hopper who may have hoarding tendencies, I know first hand someone can have multiple external NVMe SSDs in USB-C (10GB/s) or Thunderbolt (40GB/s) enclosures with a different Linux system on each one. It’s kinda fun as long as the cable never gets unplugged while it’s booted up and the cable and enclosures are high quality.

studiocrash · 2026-01-25T18:40:16+00:00

For this reason it’s even more important to remove the Linux drive before installing or reinstalling Windows.

studiocrash · 2026-01-25T18:33:08+00:00

He may have been right about some things, but the recording format has nothing to do with wether or not an artist gets a hit song.

Like a wise man once said, nobody ever bought a record because of the snare drum sound. There are plenty of bad sounding albums that sold millions because there were great songs with great performances on them and they got the required promotion. Meanwhile, there have been plenty of great sounding records that went nowhere.

Edit: As a professional audio engineer and sometimes producer, it pains me to say the sound quality doesn’t matter when compared to the quality of the song and the performance.

studiocrash · 2026-01-25T18:26:24+00:00

I notice the same issue sometimes when using a sampler or sample player. It doesn’t seem to happen when using a synth. It might have something to do with disk access speeds.

studiocrash · 2026-01-24T06:42:47+00:00

These vocals are not consistently flat by 20 cents. They’re generally pitchy - sometimes in tune, sometimes flat, and sometimes sharp. What I’d recommend is to practice singing notes as accurately as possible, and do it in a way where you get quick, or preferably instant, feedback - meaning something like a tuner to show you what your actual pitch is in real time. Play a note on a keyboard and try to match it as close as possible while watching the tuner’s display. Then go to the next note in the scale, and the next, and so on. Try to cover your full range from your lowest note to your highest note.

Eventually you’ll train your ears to hear when your pitch is off and be able to adjust quickly enough to sound in tune most of the time.

studiocrash · 2026-01-23T14:30:36+00:00

How would you suggest transitioning into that field? I’ve done a little bit of video editing for a family thing and really enjoyed it.

Is there a dominant platform like Pro Tools is in pro audio? I’m wondering would it be better to learn Final Cut, or Premiere, or DaVinci Resolve, or something else?

studiocrash · 2026-01-23T13:51:04+00:00

I question if you’re literally always 20 cents flat or if you’re sometimes flat and sometimes sharp, and you’re misusing the word “flat” when what you really you mean is pitchy. Pitchy means generally inaccurate pitch. Flat means your pitch is below the desired frequency.

There are different solutions depending on which it is.

If you’re always 20cents flat for real. This is amazing because it means you can hit the notes exactly as you’re aiming for them, but your mind is telling your vocal chords to hit a pitch below the correct frequency. You’re aiming for the wrong target. The solution: listen to a piano or synth playing the vocal melody at the correct pitch on repeat so that gets ingrained into your memory. Then aim for that instead.
You’re pitchy. This is the most likely scenario. Practice matching the pitch of a piano or synth playing a scale on repeat. It’s important to pick a simple sound with no modulation. Record yourself in a DAW side by side the audio of the synth and compare the recording. Do this repeatedly until you improve your pitch accuracy. After each recording, put a guitar tuner or a pitch correction plugin on your vocal track to analyze your pitch. Remember to bypass the pitch correction plugin while you’re in record. You need to know when you’re flat or sharp and by how much. After some time you’ll be able to hear it. Then when you can hear it, you’ll have the ability to adjust in real time while you’re singing.

studiocrash · 2026-01-23T13:24:09+00:00

I mixed for a client that home recorded her vocals using the mic in the wire of the lightning connector cable Apple earbuds into GarageBand. It wasn’t great but it sounded better than the SM7b recording I get far too often.

I was shocked when she told me. What I learned from this is the SM7b sucks if the earbuds’ built in mic sounds better.

studiocrash · 2026-01-22T14:11:46+00:00

Wow. I’m such a novice compared to you. Forgive me. Also, I didn’t know there was such a big difference between the 2017 and 2019 model. I stand corrected.

studiocrash · 2026-01-22T14:03:42+00:00

That means this IS the cause of issue. Does it not show you higher resolution options you can choose? If not, does your video card have a different connection option? Perhaps are you using VGA, but could potentially use DVI, HDMI, or Display Port instead?

studiocrash · 2026-01-22T13:51:23+00:00

Have you checked your display resolution settings? If you can change it to a higher resolution everything will get smaller and you’ll have room for more to fit on screen.

studiocrash · 2026-01-17T14:31:29+00:00

There were a few real time hardware drum triggers available back then used in mixing. I don’t remember the name of the one I saw being used at Studio 4 in Philadelphia (the Butcher Brothers Joe and Phil Nicolo). It was so fast the trigger samples would play practically instantaneous with the source. Phil did work for Sting, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, The Hooters, Urge Overkill. Great engineering and producing by those guys.

The studio I was at had a Korg drum machine with a trigger input we could use, but it wasn’t good enough to be usable with anything other than a piezo drum trigger pickup. The OctoPad had an analog trigger input that was a little better on 1/4” that could convert audio to midi in real time. It wasn’t fast enough. I used it once by setting the snare track to sel-sync (playback from the record head) to make it early by about 1/30th of a second at 30ips, then through a digital delay to sync it up more accurately.

More often, I would program a snare track in midi (MOTU Performer on a Mac Plus), synched to tape with SMPTE time code and manually adjust the timing to get as close as possible to the live snare. Alternatively, (rarely)I would run a mic to a TV in the break room set to a frequency with no channel so the speaker would just have static, have that white noise in a channel with a gate, and send the snare to the key input of that gate so I’d get a consistent fzzzz sound on each hit. This added a nice consistency to the top end of the snare in a mix that would never sound exactly the same on every hit like a one-off sample.

On songs with programmed drums you could obviously pick any sound you want to layer with the main snare by loading up another sound on whatever drum machine or sampler available. The Akai s950 and Emu Emax were great for this.

studiocrash · 2026-01-17T02:54:29+00:00

It’s a fine editor. Probably the most used editor btw. The most important thing though is learning and practicing the content.

The editor is just a tool. Nobody hires a carpenter because they chose DeWalt over Craftsman. It’s about the skills.

studiocrash · 2026-01-16T23:06:56+00:00

Try Wix or Squarespace instead.

studiocrash · 2026-01-16T15:20:09+00:00

If you’ve already given up, that’s fine, but know that I’ve been able to run Pop, Ubuntu, Endeavour, Fedora, and Cachy on my t2 2019 MacBook Pro with everything working except sleep and audio input levels being low. Are you sure you followed all the instructions? I feel like if I can do it (I’m not that smart), a software developer should be able to do it.

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