IAmPym

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by IAmPym 4y ago
"Synth mastery" is not just mathematical or psychoacoustics... let's add some things: Dave was routinely pushing the envelope when it came to these boundaries but many times it was too ahead of its time. The ARTISTS never rea
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by IAmPym 4y ago
It depends on the team and the way things are organized I guess. I've only worked at a small company where we are all obsessed and I couldn't imagine anyone coming onto the team without a similar level of enthusiasm and excitement
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by IAmPym 4y ago
It isn't easy carrying the torch of a legend but standing on the shoulders of giants is how we move things forward as a species. I'm confident I can speak for the company when I say we are doing our best to keep his legacy going.
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by IAmPym 4y ago
It's a REALLY hard business. Roger Linn repeatedly tells people that the easiest way to lose money is to build a synthesizer and he's certainly right. Then again, I ignored that advice. I think we're all just a bit crazy and
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by IAmPym 4y ago
The difference is people in our industry are typically already taking a huge pay cut. People shuffle in and out but usually they end up back in the audio industry because... well... it's freaking awesome. How many other places can you
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Context: I work at Sequential Running a business is not easy. Weathering a storm like this is not easy. Synth company or not, we're in difficult times. A lot of businesses will close but the people who are patient and can manage to wai
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by IAmPym 4y ago
If you give someone a take home 4 hour assignment you better be paying contracting rates. I have been in situations where someone gives an assignment of a problem they are actively working on. I'm not working for free.
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by IAmPym 4y ago
I’m sorry don’t have the emotional energy to comment in depth or correct some of the misconceptions about analog synths or the electronic music world or any of that right now. Tried for a bit but having trouble focusing If HN is interested
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Apparently I can't edit this now and correct my grammar mistake... this is going to haunt me.
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Good example we can explore! So in this case there are a lot of differences: Comparing TE with Yamaha is a pretty massive difference in size of engineering teams and overall engineering knowledge. In the 80s the products, while definitely c
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Good to be here occasionally, considering writing up some blog posts I figured this community might find interesting. Seems like we are well liked enough that it might be fun
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by IAmPym 4y ago
As above, not only do I do this for a living but in the specific sub-industry this product is made for, which means in this particular case I know quite a bit. Very seldom do I think I know better but in this case I have industry specific k
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Your making the assumption that one can buy 1000 of any part, which is likely incorrect These ain’t normal times
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Component cost increases due to the pandemic and supply chain issues easily increased the price by 25-30% in our industry due to several factors outside of the norm, like some single source parts most companies relied on with factory proble
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Technically they could and that as well was something we looked into. Honestly it was the most complicated thing I've ever done. Would love to give it another shot some day!
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by IAmPym 4y ago
I'm just trying to give you perspective Nearly every complex instrument still has critical bugs after 10 years because development moves on after 4-5 years. Hardware bugs are != software bugs in terms of complexity because the debuggin
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Chip/hardware complexity. We actually put some serious resources into trying to get this to work, wish we could have made it a reality And no, open sourcing would be incredibly difficult to do with hardware that has multiple chips and
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Small sample size bias Small companies don't have the same QC that a large corporation does, you'll never get the same consistency across products at the early stages of a company. Unfair to compare against that. You should defini
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by IAmPym 4y ago
I have used TE products on occasion and looked into them deeply from a bunch of engineering perspectives. Compared to other products in a similar price point and form factor the likelihood of a problem is far lower. When you reduce the size
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by IAmPym 4y ago
"Why is it so expensive?" - commentary from someone who does this for a living at Sequential Small Volume - each unit is more expensive than a large volume product, you don't get price breaks on any components or tooling cost
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by IAmPym 4y ago
As someone who literally does this for a living at Sequential, you couldn't be more wrong
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by IAmPym 5y ago
Pop music isn't meant to withstand the test of time. Stop treating it as such. Enjoy what does. Lots of stuff from this decade will. If you can't find the stuff you enjoy why bother with modern pop at all?
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by IAmPym 5y ago
How about “what I am doing isn’t what I believe the world needs right now”
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by IAmPym 5y ago
Maybe because the average user sees something special about them and wants to learn more. Maybe taking a mindset of curiosity and learning will lead to more understanding than criticism
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by IAmPym 5y ago
Companies need to acknowledge the flow of information is limited. We are in a period of humanity where people CANNOT know all the little details. You don't get to create a system and not take responsibility for the problems it causes u
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by IAmPym 5y ago
Life doesn’t exist in clear boundaries. You don’t move on from anything, you are a new you. It took me 12 years to recover from a close loved one taking her life and I got every piece of awful advice you can possibly get. Every piece well m
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by IAmPym 6y ago
And it absolutely still happens at Sequential (where I work), speaking as an engineer who is also a musician and works very closely with artists to hear what they want and build tools that they get super inspired by. I couldn't imagine
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by IAmPym 6y ago
Exceed expectations. Take this to an extreme. If they expect you to write a program, do it a little cleaner than they expect. Figure out what metrics matter to your team beyond getting the product out and show you can bring value beyond you