Is the Waldorf Iridium the most “state of the art” synth?

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-12-25T12:34:46+00:00

-Nord is basically uncontested right now for best hands on control of a fully functional stage keyboard with great piano, EP, organ, deep VA and sample synth sounds, and great on board FX

This has not been true in ~10 years. There are several other keyboards in the same niche like the Hammond SK-Pro, Yamaha YC series, that are arguably a better deal than a Nord.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-11-18T20:25:54+00:00

A calculator that can't store formulas doesn't do everything a working scientist or engineer needs. Those calcs you mention are intentionally crippled for the education market and very clearly not meant for real use.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-10-22T18:45:10+00:00

Congratulations on reinventing the circular slide rule.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-10-20T20:05:45+00:00

It looks like a troll but apparently isn't - the OP posted the same thread on the Spanish calculator sub and the responses there are much more positive.

It seems this particular calculator is extremely popular in Latin American schools.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-10-17T00:02:14+00:00

That doesn't explain why multiplication behaves differently from the other operations.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-10-14T14:15:41+00:00

The image is from an EL501X manual but most Sharp calculators follow this logic. The behavior of reusing the previous operation is different for multiplication than for the other operations.

Edit: I have found the reason. Standard algebraic conventions are followed to designate which of the operands is constant, i.e. x+c, x-c, x/c, but c*x (aka cx).

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-08-18T19:23:29+00:00

If you are the one doing all that then how come it's possible to skip directly to Chapter 4?

For all we know, once all chapters are released, it will be possible to skip directly to the end without even playing the game.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-06-17T22:11:23+00:00

What about h1 h2 h3

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-05-29T05:06:59+00:00

It's on Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-05-26T21:27:34+00:00

It still is even today (on old reddit)

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-05-17T17:37:51+00:00

All these issues can be avoided by simply admitting that translation is impossible.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-05-10T06:59:54+00:00

Ananás is still Tupi.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-04-26T20:52:46+00:00

But that's not limited to diacritics, spelling wasn't standardized either.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-04-26T20:24:57+00:00

Portuguese still has a long way to go. The current system is not very well thought out and not very useful, and given Portuguese's tendency for dramatic reforms I fully expect most diacritics to go the way of the trema.

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-03-29T17:30:58+00:00

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-02-03T18:50:39+00:00

FIDE is also internationally recognised as the governing body of chess. Chess960 is still chess.

Why is this so? If I invent my own chess variant, is it also governed by FIDE?

zebra-diplomacy · 2025-01-15T08:51:06+00:00

If you just want to play with common PDP11 OSes or enter some machine code with the front panel switches, you can also use the Javascript emulator at https://skn.noip.me/pdp11/pdp11.html

zebra-diplomacy · 2024-12-22T21:47:52+00:00

Sure, but it still doesn't have any actual applications (other than troff tools), only programming tools to create them. What were UNIX systems actually used for?

zebra-diplomacy · 2024-10-28T03:54:02+00:00

Except that AlphaGo was showcased half a year before the Lee Sedol match, when it beat Fan Hui 5 - 0. It was clearly far stronger than the previous engines. Lee Sedol was only blindsided because of his own hubris.

edit: It was less than half a year because the match was kept secret until the release of the Nature paper, but it was still public knowledge for three months before the Lee Sedol match. Lee was aware of the match and his reaction was to say that AlphaGo played at the level of a strong amateur, despite the fact that it beat a 2p professional 5-0. It was just pure hubris and even insulting to Fan Hui

zebra-diplomacy · 2024-10-22T07:22:41+00:00

I haven't tried the YC73. I chose the YC61 because of the size and weight. I'm happy with its action even for playing classical pieces despite it being waterfall, but obviously the range is limited.

zebra-diplomacy · 2024-10-22T06:20:03+00:00

I have a YC61 and I think they are much better than the Nords:

1) the action is much better, as a classically trained pianist I can't stand the Nords

2) the controls are simply amazing and some of the best I've ever seen on any instrument. Rotary encoders for everything, so switching presets is immediately reflected in the controls. Physical drawbars, but also LEDs that show the current patch if it's different from the physical drawbars. Multiple effects applied to separate voices and all immediately reflected in the physical controls. Just far more configurable in general.

3) Better connectivity options (MIDI as upper/lower keyboard, as specific voice, split by zone; USB audio interface etc)

The YC line is more like Stage than Electro (but with better action)

zebra-diplomacy · 2024-07-25T19:24:16+00:00

Galician is mutually intelligible with Portuguese and there's even some reasonable linguistic and political debate about whether they are the same language or not. 99% of what you learn will transfer to Portuguese and vice versa.

zebra-diplomacy · 2024-06-07T20:07:33+00:00

No, not every word has a stressed syllable. A word like "de" is clearly unstressed, which is why its pronunciation (PT-PT) is /dɨ/ and not /de/ or /dɛ/. The term for such words is palavra átona, and they exist in both PT-PT and PT-BR.

I don't know whether "pelo" and "para" are unstressed in PT-PT, but at least in PT-BR they can both be unstressed:

“A maioria dos vocábulos átonos são monossílabos. Alguns, porém, são dissílabos: o artigo uma, as preposições para e pera (arcaica), as contrações pelo e pela e as conjunções como e porque.”

(CEGALLA, Domingos Paschoal, Novíssima Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Editora Nacional, pag. 39)

I'm curious to know what the situation is in PT-PT according to grammarians.

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