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Richard Hamming's "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" is an insider's (Manhattan Project, Bell Labs) view of how computer science as we know it developed.
Nothing to say regarding this release, but thanks so much for creating Tracktion (first DAW I ever used back in 2006) and JUCE (I love and use many audio plugins created with it)! Have a great day!
One thing I loved about WinAmp was its ability to use audio plugins that were if not full VST (a Steinberg-originated format), a very close VST subset. So I could use the same plugins I would in my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for music production to apply custom EQs beyond the built-in graphic EQ, compression/limiting, and lowpass/highpass filtering.
I had a job where I was stuck at a desk 4-6 hours a day and this let me have the best possible sound out of cheapo soundcard and speakers. This made a significant improvement to my work experience and state of mind. Allowing standard plugins to snap-in is a brilliant move, and lets those who have the time/need to do so without the app developer having to spend their energy creating native custom EQ, compressors, etc. This philosophy has carried over to REAPER (Winamp dev Justin Frankel's DAW).
Somewhat surprising there is no mention of basic design principles, or understanding the quirks of human perception. My brother was a production artist for some well-known computer games in the '90s-'00s, and continually complained about programmers and managers with zero visual sense, or curiosity about understanding the artists' side.
Graphics aren't my specialty, but as a musician, sound designer and producer, by far the most effective/influential audio DSP coders I'm aware of understand the basics of music, the physics/acoustics of sounds, and the gotchas at the interface between discrete digital processes and how we perceive and interpret stimuli.
Love it! I have the THR10 non-"C" version of this amp and often wondered if it's hackable.
Also the fact that Ableton has stayed independent (and bought Cycling '74, maker of Max/MSP) is IMO critical to their ongoing success...Compare to how Native Instruments and iZoptope are mere rent-seeking shadows of their founders' visions since PE/VC took over.
One of the features that got me hooked on Ableton Live was how easy it was to do "analog style" audio recording of whatever you're hearing in realtime...not bounce, render, or sample to another device (it can do all of these too). For the master bus - just create an audio track, arm for recording and set input to "Resampling". Can do the same with any number of tracks/groups. This is critical to me for capturing ideas in realtime and continually reprocessing/resampling as I go.
I was astonished when I first started making digital music 20 years ago that this isn't a standard feature in every DAW. Some DAWs (REAPER, Bitwig, AudioMulch) do this as easily, others (Logic, Reason) have workarounds.
FWIW you should be "able to" get 2ndhand Ableton Suite licenses for significantly less...IIRC I paid ~$350 a few years ago.
That is awesome! Back in the '90s I participated in Tuba Christmas in NYC - I played sousaphone. The performance was on the Rockefeller Center ice rink, but the rehearsal was in the sub-sub basement parking garages of 30 Rock (I think).
Imagine hundreds of low brass players activating this enclosed volume of air - I've never experienced anything like it before or since!
My eyes first Spoonerized the title to "Hostporn, selfhosted porn gateway". I didn't get a full night's sleep last night...
I was gonna post the same, as a lifelong cook (and eater!) Samin Nosrat's book/show was essential for giving me the confidence to improvise in the kitchen while retaining authenticity to regional cuisines.
Hopefully this is good news...NI has been pretty moribund as a creative DSP force after the original owners sold...yes there are Massive X and Abysynth 6 but they've all but pulled the plug on Reaktor (modular audio DSP platform which founders used to prototype almost all their products).
TBH if InMusic can't share a clear roadmap for cutting 2+ decades of tech debt and tiny aliased fonts all over the place I don't hold much hope. I've had good luck with lower-end Akai and Numark gear. Recently Reason Studios (originally created by Propellerheads) is on the upswing since being bought by LANDR a few months ago so I am hopeful that iconic music brands can get into the right hands.
Hmm, group mindset...or moop grindset? Either way great work to leave no trace!
I still have the Forrest Mims III Radio Shack "555 Engineer's Mini-Notebook" somewhere in my basement. And rumor has it that Sammy Hagar can't drive 555 because his car just isn't fast enough!
Thanks for "Helping us understand" via Columbo's timeless wisdom. ;-)
I'm in charge of IT for a 120 person org, anything that's a barrier to copying and pasting passwords just encourages simple password re-use, and the dreaded "laptop festooned with password Post-Its".
Looking through the GitHub and the AudioScienceReview link - this appears to be specifically about firmware features. You'd need to ensure that hardware inputs on device have input impedance of at least 250Kohms, probably closer to 1Megohm to prevent loading and signal loss if plugging guitar right in. I'd also assume (didn't see confirmation) that I/O is at line level, which is significantly higher than instrument (passive guitar) level, but this device can clearly add/adjust gain along the way. If you use active pickups with a built-in preamp like EMGs, it would probably work just fine.
Makes me think of Enya's Orinoco Flow...Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away!
We have a double-boiler Profitec, but I imagine the Go is just as good for its price point. My wife is an espresso fiend, and with this machine it's the first time in our decades together that we can truly make cafe-quality espresso at home. Probably goes without saying, but: be sure to invest in a high-quality burr grinder, makes as big a diff as the espresso machine itself.
Also - regarding linked article's statement "PowerShell joins MSI files as another type that cannot be run as an administrator" - I have always just started a PowerShell/Terminal app as administrator which has more or less the same effect, though of course everything in that session is run with elevated permissions.
Did he ever book shows as Chris Gaines (his alt-rock alter ego) in that timeframe?
Let's commission Alan Smithee to make the documentary! ;-)
I've definitely noticed a huge increase in tangential slop when I've made the mistake of searching for books on Amazon in the last year.
I experience the same, I feel like it has something to do with the content of a book having a permanent spatial configuration.
Wow, this is very cool, I have been looking for the Phish show at Lounge Ax from November 1990 (opening for Alex Chilton of Big Star) for ages. It was first time I saw them live, and next time they came around they graduated from a 300 person club to a 3000 person ballroom!
Me too, as soon as I saw this I put on my Anker Soundcore noise-cancelling earbuds and fired up my AAS Multiphonics CV-3 software synthesizer. Sweeping a sine oscillator, there was zero difference in perceived volume in the 750-780 Hz range.
Actually appears to be 2 concentric whole-tone rings, not chromatic.
A couple of other user-hostile Adobe practices I've encountered:
- About 5 years ago I pretty much shat a brick as the person in charge of IT at a healthcare org when I discovered that by default Creative Cloud stored copies of any documents edited within an Adobe cloud account - with no opt-in, and the only way to override on Windows was with a registry hack that IIRC we couldn't automate via Group Policy. Basically "HIPAA Breach As A Service"
- If you want to free yourself from the tyranny of Adobe products and subscriptions, good on you, but: be sure (on Windows at least several years ago) to not uninstall from "Windows Add & Remove Programs"...go through the Adobe un/installers...if you don't you can still remove the apps but they phoned home and we got charged until I re-installed the programs and used the Adobe uninstallers.
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This was part of the plot of an Elementary (modern-day Sherlock Holmes in NYC with Jonny Lee Miller & Lucy Liu) episode called Sand Trap.
I will have to check that out! I also recommend reading pretty much anything by Richard Hamming, who worked closely with Shannon at Bell Labs, "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" is especially good.
Agreed regarding the audibility of (data-) compressed audio, just put on some classic jazz with trumpets and lots of cymbals and the artifacts are immediately apparent.
Not going to argue with you regarding dynamic compression, but after backing away from the worst excesses of the volume wars by mastering engineers in the mid '00s, things are sounding better to my ears. Dynamic compression can sound good (even in the extreme) if done for artistic effect. Like here's Beck's Ramona where the drums & cymbals have the tar squashed out of them with serious limiting, which to my ears nicely tames the sonics of Joey Waronker's spirited performance, while fitting well dynamically into the rest of the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3yZ9OVjzbE
That said, maybe the engineers responsible for some of the worst dynamic squashing could be pressed into TV/film audio service where in 2026, there are still extreme volume imbalances between on-screen dialogue and everything else (hint the dialogue isn't loud enough and the everything else, especially crashes and explosions, are wayyy too loud).
FWIW, my experience doing this process for a ~130 person org last year was pretty painless compared to other Domain Claims I've initiated for other SAAS vendors (Docusign in particular), and MDM nightmares (expired JAMF certificates, I'm looking at you).
We had to do it as ppl had made personal Apple accounts using our domain, meaning if they logged in with such an account and left, their iPhone magically transformed into an expensive, elegant paperweight. Due to a setting in our previous MDM we were unable to migrate data cleanly using Apple Biz Manager without committing to use ABM as our MDM (we couldn't) so we told people to "move it yourself following these detailed instructions, otherwise it can't be migrated." Regarding personal data like health on company-managed devices, I certainly don't share that type of info with my employer, and make it clear to staff that it's not our responsibility to migrate such data.