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Re: Apple’s latest Macs have a serious audio glitching bug

stretta — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:00:21 -0000

Finally, people are talking about this.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the threading issues described here are related to Ableton Link dropping under MacOS ("oh, IOAudioEngine::pauseAudioEngine() is being called in the kernel? I’m out.")

I'd also like to report that there is another MacOS audio bug on T2 laptops that appears even if you're using the built-in audio. The glitch sounds like a buffer underflow and can appear even if you're simply viewing video in Safari. The workaround is to make sure you're running at 48 or 96k in AudioMIDI Setup.

Re: Roger Moore: Best James Bond moments

stretta — Tue, 23 May 2017 12:21:17 -0000

CGI is a pretty specific acronym. It stands for Computer Generated Imagery. It doesn't mean 'standing in front of a projected image' It doesn't mean any sort of effects shot. It doesn't mean any sort of compositing, analog or digital. There is no CGI in the Spy Who Loved Me.

Re: http://c74starpeople.tumblr.com/post/23298462623

stretta — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:17:03 -0000

The surrealism of the underlying metaphor.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: Practical Max 2

stretta — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:08:56 -0000

More or less.

Re: Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It

stretta — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:29:38 -0000

The statement "there is no such thing as a lossless compression format" is false.

A zip archive is a lossless format. It has to be. You can zip and unzip something, diff it and it will be zero differences. This is lossless. No data was lost. JPEG is a lossy format. Zip a tiff, unzip it and it is identical to the original.

Apple Lossless and FLAC are basically zipped audio files. When you make a zip archive, you expect a good compression ratio, like 10:1 depending on the data. Well, audio doesn't compress very well, which is why lossy formats like MP3 became popular. You could get 10:1 compression, at the expense of lossy compression. The best you can hope for with a zip is 2:1, and, guess what, that's Lossless. So, you can store a CD in 300MB instead of 600MB. That isn't great compression, but it IS lossless.

Again, don't take my word for it. Anyone can do this test with a simple audio editor. Take an audio file. Compress it with apple lossless or flac. Decompress it back to wav. Invert the phase of one of the files. Sum it with the original. You'll see total cancelation. No data loss. I apologize if this isn't clear.

Re: Why Neil Young Hates MP3 — And What You Can Do About It

stretta — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:16:15 -0000

There is no difference between Apple Lossless, FLAC and WAV uncompressed. FLAC and Apple Lossless are lossless compression formats. You can transcode either format, invert the phase, sum it with the original WAV file and see everything cancel out.

Those 'purists' who prefer WAV over Apple Lossless or FLAC are misinformed.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: morphing control voltage snapshots

stretta — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:55:39 -0000

It wouldn't work as a maxforlive device due to the number of outputs it requires. I suppose you could do one or two channels, but in that case, you're better off with vcvi.

Re: How would you change Amazon's Kindle (2011)?

stretta — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:00:26 -0000

I had a kindle 2, it broke, and now I have the new, cheapest model. I like the more compact size, but it isn't nearly as comfortable to hold.

99% of what you do with an ereader is hold it and turn pages. I don't care for the buttons. The new kindle is more comfortable to hold at 90-degree rotation, but then the page buttons are even more awkward. It wouldn't have taken much thought to design the unit so the buttons are comfortably accessible regardless of orientation.

ereaders don't need touch screens. you want the most minimal of gestures to turn pages; something that doesn't involve putting your hands over where you're reading.

I wouldn't mind a slide out bezel that makes the unit more comfortable to hold, yet maintains the compact size.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: moving

stretta — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:51:31 -0000

feed://plusfeed.appspot.com...

Re: The Stretta Procedure: Lego Nyan Cat

stretta — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:34:46 -0000

The link works for me.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: vcvi maxforlive

stretta — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:52:40 -0000

Monosynths may be tricky to calibrate due to their integrated nature. If you can bypass the VCA and filter and produce a steady sine wave out the main output, you may be able to calibrate to that.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: plane m | vi | cv released

stretta — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:35:41 -0000

No, I have to do some serious work to get plane to work in m4l

Re: The Stretta Procedure: plane m | vi | cv released

stretta — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:38:48 -0000

Keep in mind an arc is not required. You can scroll with mouse or keyboard (which also opens up options like using the powermate)

Re: The Stretta Procedure: plane m | vi | cv released

stretta — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:36:43 -0000

For polyphony, check out plane -p

A max for live version of plane is something on my to do list.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: plane -p

stretta — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:57:08 -0000

Yeah, not surprised. ledcol is a message where the heavy lifting is optimized in the monome firmware. Even if it worked at all through emulation, I don't think it would have the kind of performance a real monome would have.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: plane -p

stretta — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:07:31 -0000

Plane can be used with any size monome down to the 64. The optimizations rely heavily on the ledcol message which I strongly suspect won't pass efficiently (or at all) thru a monome emulation layer. You're free to give it a shot, though.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: monome tuner display

stretta — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:13:20 -0000

yup. plane is designed to work with any size monome grid

Re: The Stretta Procedure: plane -p

stretta — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:07:32 -0000

Yup. working up to it. The maxforlive CV suite is released and now plane -p. It is really a matter of cleaning up the interface a bit.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: vcvi maxforlive

stretta — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:36:13 -0000

There is this thread at muffwiggler:
http://muffwiggler.com/foru...

Most MOTU stuff works. I use an 828mk3

Re: The Stretta Procedure: Awareness & Persistence

stretta — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:58:26 -0000

I'm pretty snobby about a number of things, but with tea I'm fairly unabashed about it. Tea drinkers in the US are there by choice, instead of growing up in a culture itself seeped in tea, so, as group, we sort of have a chip on our shoulders. Which is particularly amusing because the act of drinking tea is a contemplative, inwardly focused one. Speaking of snobbiness, I would be remiss as a true tea snob to fail to point out that Rooibos, while it is an infused beverage, doesn't actually have any tea in it. Tea comes exclusively from the Camellia sinensis plant.
Anyway, that is how it starts, you find a tea that you're enthralled with and you start exploring. My fascination started with semi-blacks, primarily oolongs, then drifted over to greens and then exclusively Japanese greens. My advice is to forget books and experience tea. Go back to that shop in Kalamazoo and start trying different things until you find something you really like, then start sourcing your own. When you place an order, order one of what you like and one of something else to try. Sometimes it can take a while to 'understand' how to brew a particular tea, so give it some time. Many times I have not really liked something at first, but by the end of the bag, I'm full of sadness. Often tea retailers (if they like repeat business), will provide small samples of other products gratis.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: Awareness & Persistence

stretta — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:47:02 -0000

Temperature depends on the tea. gyokuros are very delicate and respond well to 140 degrees, but they're on the bottom end of the scale. If you have a fine gyokuro that isn't brewing right at 140, then my instinct would be too little tea leaf. Normal senchas require a bit more coaxing anywhere from 145 up to 160. Anything much above that will right fark up a sencha. When I used a hot pot (again with two settings like you describe), I'd use the hotter setting, stage the water in the cups to warm them up and cool off the water a bit. When the water feels right, then pour into the pot to brew. Years ago I used to use a thermometer, but eventually cultivated an instinct for how hot the water should be by touch.

muffwiggler did a myers brings survey recently and INTPs (2% of the population) accounted for 20% of the respondents with other closely related personality types clustering around. I think the major reason INTPs are not that prevalent is an introverted type immediately cuts down 75% of the population while modular synth users are dominated by introverts.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: Awareness & Persistence

stretta — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:36:21 -0000

o-cha.com specializes in international clientele and ships direct from japan

Re: The Stretta Procedure: plane - m | vi | cv

stretta — Sat, 07 May 2011 21:21:32 -0000

Plane directly generates pitch CV. This version of plane has a diatonic layout and the modal scale quantizer is 'baked right in'

The miniwave, as an 8-bit device, doesn't have enough resolution to do anything smaller than quarter tones. I'm also interested in microtonality and plan to look into producing alternate scales now that I have a calibrated CV output routine working.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: What is the role of synthesis?

stretta — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:16:30 -0000

With a computer, you have an open system that runs whatever software you want, a nice big display and a refined user interface. Who in their right mind would spend $4000 on a closed piece of hardware with no physical synthesis controls that you have to manipulate though a 320x240 panel? Makes no sense at all. I haven't heard anything that couldn't be matched or bettered by Omnisphere at 1/10th the price.

Digital workstations, I understand.
Digital stage pianos, I understand.
Digital synthesizers with compelling physical UIs, I understand.

It isn't 1988 anymore.

Re: The Stretta Procedure: Jupiter-80 speculation

stretta — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:08:53 -0000

Interestingly, Getter, Djdjsjsjd, Hehehe and Getter all hail from the same IP address. Just something to keep in mind when reading these comments.