YawHawHawn

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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
Isn't General MIDI simply the mapping of certain instruments to certain numeric IDs? It doesn't dictate the actual sounds or samples that are used, does it? Given that, why would it sound worse than any other means of triggering t
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
I like that your go-to for prog rock is "Eye in the Sky." I really can't fault it; my first thought was that technically Yes is more iconic of the genre, but it's probably less-known by younger people; if only for the Bu
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
Is... WHAT?
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
To be fair, if they said "ya" they're probably in Scandanavia...
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
It's not free. They didn't have a business model for most of their existence. Google, famously shitty at branding (and that's being kind), paid an obscene $1.6B for YouTube because "Google Video" was a monumental fa
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
The thing does seem awesome, except I don't see any mention of: 1. Hardware sprites (except in Wikipedia in regard to one TI chipset) 2. Redefinable character sets 3. Fine scrolling 4. Mixed graphics modes These are what made the Atari
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
To be fair, development continued into the mid-2000s.
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
It was also fun. The "Reveal" icon is a guy who opens his trenchcoat when you roll over it. Missing the late Peter Warner, designer. Fun historical note: When Steve Jobs flew the Shake team up to Cupertino, he came to lunch for a
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
I think Steve Jobs was always kind of pissed that he couldn't get away with dumbing-down Shake. But when your clients are Peter Jackson's WETA, and ILM, you're not going to be able to put Lord of the Rings and King Kong on yo
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by YawHawHawn 2y ago
No. Some of the retiming stuff that was added to Shake later was also added to Motion/FCP. But the whole point of Motion was to leverage GPU power to produce swoopy, polished-looking motion graphics with minimal keyframing and renderin