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Re: Fake Your Own Lord of the Rings with an All-Elven Software Instrument

agargara — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:02:29 -0000

Don't listen to the haters, I found this article amusing!

Re: Pet Peeve: Cardinal Directions on “You Are Here” Maps in Japan

agargara — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:28:49 -0000

This has confused me many times as well! This is just my guess, but I think they do this so the top of the map is the same direction you are facing when you look at the sign.

Re: Tracktion, Elegant, Modern $60 DAW, Now Does Linux, Too

agargara — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:46:41 -0000

Don't forget to add a http:// to that Ubuntu link!

Re: Melodies in Triangles: Christopher Willits on Playing Grids of Push [Tutorial Video]

agargara — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:12:39 -0000

This reminds me of playing with fourths on the monome years ago and discovering various chord shapes. Push seems to make this process easier with the color-coding of the root... Maybe it's time for me to code a monome app like this.

Re: Look, Ma, Hands: iOS Theremin App Draws from Tannerin, Martenot, Trautonium

agargara — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:54:22 -0000

Cool app! I think the y-axis should be mappable to something as well, like in the touch theremin inside of SunVox.

Re: Tools and Music Production, as Explained Unwittingly by Chefs

agargara — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:28:42 -0000

Great article, I love the metaphor. I think a DAW is a lot like a knife - you only need one, but it should be sharp. But no matter how good or shiny your tools are, if you don't have fresh ingredients and technique, your dish won't be tasty.

Re: Renoise 2.8 Gets More Usable, 64-bit; Trackers 4ever

agargara — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:22:46 -0000

The Renoise team always amazes me with how much awesome stuff they cram into each update. +1!!!

After working with 2.8 for a while, I can hardly imagine going back. I make so much use of all the new features already. Compared to when I use Ableton Live 8, I don't feel like I use much more than what came with Live 6.... and Renoise 2.8 is a free update. Hmm...

Re: Beatport Play: Beatport’s Remix Contest Website

agargara — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:15:17 -0000

Stems seem to be mp3 only...where's the lossless? (and no, I'm not going to pay $8 for it...)

Re: stretta

agargara — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:47:52 -0000

Take your time figuring things out. Whatever happens, I have confidence in the eventual return of your music--as you said yourself, it's not a matter of choice for somebody born with the desire to create music! Best of luck.

Re: Minecraft Alpha v1.0.17_03, Finland, and Metagun

agargara — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:09:02 -0000

It took me forever to finish that level too. I got past it by running and jumping at the very last second possible, then shooting down a couple bursts (facing to the right, not left) to get the few pixels more distance needed. It was pretty difficult to pull off.

Re: Super SATA Cables on Sale Soon

agargara — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:07:39 -0000

Wow, that was fast. The article has been taken down because the author was getting tired of the hate mail and death threats. Dang.

Re: Free 2GB modular synth sample library

agargara — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:31:38 -0000

Over the past few months I have used some of these samples in a few sketches. Good luck recognizing them all!

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Re: iDosing and Digital Drugs

agargara — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:21:25 -0000

I dunno, I had a friend who would get his fix by listening to Merzbow or other noise music with his headphones turned up to 11. A frightening testament to the very real and dangerous presence of iDosing. I wouldn't be surprised if he's in rehab now.

Re: 1.0.6_03, level save fix work

agargara — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:23:44 -0000

Awesome -- my broken saves are fixed now. No more Player count climbing. :D

It's not often that you get a developer that releases bugfixes so quickly. Thanks for being awesome, Notch!

Re: Seecret Friday 5! OooooOOOoo!

agargara — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:27:37 -0000

I don't think you can bring up a console in game, but you can see output from the console if you run the downloadable .jar client.

Re: Seecret Friday 5! OooooOOOoo!

agargara — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:19:22 -0000

I am the victim of a terrible bug from this new update! I died underwater, now whenever I respawn the console says:
Reinserting player 0
Player count: 1
Reinserting player 0
Player count: 2
Reinserting player 0
Player count: 3
etc. and the player count rapidly climbs higher and higher. As the player count climbs the framerate drops until moving is impossible, and the worst part is if I save, quit and reload the game, I'm back to being dead again (all changes I had made to the world are lost.) It's an endless cycle of doom! D:

edit: I started a new world and tested this, the same bug occurred when dying. Has anybody else experienced this bug when dying? (test it on a level you don't care about, please!)

Re: And another thing..

agargara — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:40 -0000

Is there a way to run the Windows executable with more memory specified? It crashes after 2 seconds with a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. I suppose for now I'll just run the jar so I can specify a larger heap size.

Re: Seecret Friday update! OooooOOOoo!

agargara — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:06:16 -0000

Awesome! Except I found out the hard way that water destroys your minecart tracks... :(

Re: Versions

agargara — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:52:29 -0000

When I lost my music collection, I ended up illegally downloading most of it instead of ripping it from my CDs, just because it was faster and more convenient that way. Quite illegal, of course, but I felt it was still ethical. As necessary as laws are, they will always have their flaws, sometimes condemning the ethically innocent and sometimes freeing the ethically guilty.

Re: Speaking Piano

agargara — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:24:56 -0000

I saw this a while ago, it's really cool. It should probably be noted that the original kid's voice is mixed in over the piano, it's not just the piano you hear in the video. But it's still awesome.

Re: Calculus

agargara — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:46:43 -0000

First of all, I have to say I love it when artists post about the process. It's very informative.

Although I like the idea of a "slippery pulse", I feel that it's a bit too much. When I've heard ramping BPM in the non-electronic world, as in Balinese Gamelan, it tends to ramp up or down to a point, and then groove there for at least a measure or two before it changes again. When the tempo constantly changes, it sounds indecisive, especially since tempo changes often seem to be present for the purpose of being present, instead of being used to accentuate particular musical events. But perhaps that's something for which you were aiming!

I've listened quite a few times, and I think although it's difficult to find something to hold on to (mostly because of the tempo shifts), it is interesting and stimulating. Like calculus for some people, maybe.

Re: AGARGARA

agargara — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:14:40 -0000

Thanks!
Sample from http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Public relations: compare and contrast

agargara — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:03:48 -0000

The next time somebody is arrested for file sharing, he or she would be ill-advised to get a lawyer pro Bono.

Re: The perfect bell curve of mediocrity

agargara — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:32:20 -0000

You make some interesting points, and I do agree that trying to compare Apple and Google is like comparing apples to googles.

However, I don't buy that Google creates a perfect bell curve of mediocrity, neither in functionality or design. I don't think the former point needs arguing, and as for the latter it really comes down to personal preference. In my opinion form follows function, and Google products tend to appeal to my personal aesthetic of simplicity.

I'm not sure Apple is really too much more visionary than Google. Both companies tend to take existing products and make excellent versions of them, while adding features that you didn't even know you needed.

Re: edison... live at love tech

agargara — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:01:33 -0000

Is that ProteinDS I see there?