8487. jon rubin (c-67-186-57-40.hsd1.pa.comcast.net) –
27 Apr 2009 18:36:03
[ Waffle Shop report ]
guys,
can you send me the audio file of your performance? Apparently, when we were rushing around redoing all the audio cables we removed the audio input to the video recording deck and thus have a weekend full of silent tapes, including yours. Woops.
Thanks,
Jon Rubin
jonrubin@cmu.edu |
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I strum when it's necessary, of course, but it's much less precise. There are some songs with note rushes (rt2i comes to mind) that need it in T7EShero. I can't even imagine an electric toothbrush poking fast enough. I don't remember if any of the songs I played at Belvedere's were strummy.
Also, there are achievements ("medals") for playing a song with all poking or all plucking in T7EShero, so don't you want extra credit??
Hard to answer the second question. It's usually not the case that I shove into a grid unless I am setting myself to some challenge (Theme from Goog). I usually let the song unfold in a linear way and then adjust the time signature to meet its natural periodicity. But I wouldn't say that I "think up riffs" in that I hum them or something and then put them to piano roll; I really compose in the editor, thinking about the next few notes of the sequence and playing the bits as it goes. In the specific case of Many Happy Returns it was a brush its hair approach for sure. The beginning two bars in "51/16 time" were placed sort of stream-of-consciousnessly, then I made the same tune more rock 'n' roll for the later 42/16 part. (And again, these aren't really measures of 42 beats, it's really some amalgam of shorter measures with changing signatures, sometimes different for different parts, but the periodicity is 42 beats.) |
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Well, if you just poke, you can't do alt-strumming. I guess there's not much tremolo picking in chiptune music, though, so it's not a big loss.
Forgive me if you've talked about this in older posts, but when you write stuff like Many Happy Returns, do you actually think up riffs in 40/16 time in the first place or do you decide the meter first and then shove stuff into it? The former would be pretty impressive. |
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Damn, that sounds great! I want one! |
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Perhaps a future direction in which to take the Laser Suspension Womb:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opf5jIukSBM |
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Sure! Go ahead and use 'em! :) |
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sorry about the multiple posts! jeez you refresh the page and it goes ballistic! lol |
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anyway i could use these songs in my youtube videos if i give credit in the sidebar with a link to the site?! |
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anyway i could use these songs in my youtube videos if i give credit in the sidebar with a link to the site?! |
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anyway i could use these songs in my youtube videos if i give credit in the sidebar with a link to the site?! |
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I am a college student at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. I dropped something in the bathroom and when I went down to pick it up--- Oh, suprise! There were mushrooms growing from the edge of the toilet. There are yellow and "pig-skin" like. Does anyone know what KIND of mushrooms they are? Should we tell someone or just let them grow? |
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You mean flameproof or you mean easy to ignite? |
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maybe a smoke machine in an inflammable backpack would enhance the portable ambiance of the laser suspension womb... |
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Beauteous.
This is certainly the best version of "live electronic music" I have ever seen... |
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I'm guessing you mean the OSX_build sir in subversion? That is just the SDL libraries for Mac. It does make the Mac the easiest platform to compile for, but it's still a bit of an ordeal because you need to install gcc and mlton first. You could try, but I recommend waiting for the binaries unless you like that kind of stuff (I don't!) |
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Now I have a macbook pro and I found your Mac OS X build... but the question is: how do I get that running?
(in the meantime: considering buying a guitarhero controller for this) |
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Thanks guys! The LEDs are these: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8860
They are crazy bright. If you got 10 of them you could definitely beat the bike lamps bigtime, but they are 80mA each so you're going to need a lot of juice. The laser diodes are:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=594
They are great lasers but didn't come out as well on the hat as I thought they would. |
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Awesome! It's come a long way since you showed me. The drums especially seem SUPER fun. And I want to find out what kind of LEDs (or laser diodes?!) you used in the laser suspension womb - I keep losing those fscking bike lights, who wants to pay $15 for an LED in some cheap plastic!? |
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i'm so proud to see your baby finally working |
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It's 'cause you're all downstroke Tom! |
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Vids working again, and I gotta say...
OMG? |
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The ambiguity in matching comes from hammer ons and pull-offs. When you finger a button, it could be because you are hammering on that note (if you are currently in-streak) or it could be because you're preparing to play it with a strum. Similarly for pull-offs. It's noticeable if you don't have support for this and use an eager algorithm or one based solely on time. There's a little bit of subtlety about whether you're on-streak, too.
Yes, the auto score generation does hammer-ons and pull-offs automatically too, though it's just based on their proximity to the previous note, which works pretty well it turns out.
It wouldn't be that hard to extend it to score based on how temporally close you were to the matched note, but I don't like that level of persnicketiness, because I feel like if I'm rocking out I should be given some leeway for "swing".
Adam: That is too bad. Anyway good luck getting USB to work on linux. ;)
Adhesion: In the show I played, right before the last segment, it literally goes "WELCOME TO WARP ZONE". No kidding. What do you mean by my style being awkward? It's a bit unconventional I guess, in that I always poke for maximum accuracy. I can't think of anything else weird about it, except maybe how high I strap the guitar (but that's true with real guitars even). |
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NICE!!
Too bad that unlike Escape, T7ESH probably won't be allowed in Fedora.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-games-list/2008-January/msg00022.html |
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