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by mjr00 4y ago
I didn't mean to sound so negative on Vocaloid. For what it's worth, I'm a producer who used to make songs with Vocaloid (Gumi English) and switched to SynthV this year, so I'm speaking mainly from that perspective. Voca
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by mjr00 4y ago
Exactly this, I'm in Canada and can transfer money to anyone in Canada (and maybe worldwide, never tried it though) for free, instantly. That's how most people pay rent up here. Most of the problems people perceive with the bankin
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by mjr00 4y ago
If you're seriously interested in this topic, you should look into some vocal processing courses or videos on YouTube, because you are quite misinformed on some of this stuff. > Compression is a uniformly applied filter. It's l
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by mjr00 4y ago
Wow, nice, thanks, I hadn't seen that yet. The DPM demo sounds awesome. I absolutely love that Synth V is still pushing things forward, despite already being so significantly ahead of the competition.
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by mjr00 4y ago
This doesn't make any sense. Vocal compression alters the source signal significantly more than pitch correction, generally. Like getting -10, even -20dB of compression across multiple compressors (some of which are "character&q
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by mjr00 4y ago
This comment section is about as well-informed as sound engineers on gearspace talking about why VSTs written in Javascript have more analogue warmth than ones written in C++. Some people commenting clearly have no idea how music is made.
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Is Bob Dylan a big name? Tom Waits? Coldplay? Tom Waits and Coldplay (or specifically, their mixing engineers) have gone on the record saying they use Melodyne in their marketing brochures. Again, it is literally impossible for a human
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by mjr00 4y ago
> The kind of artists worth listening to wouldn't touch autotune with a 1000ft pole. They're less popular to begin with - but can still have tens of millions of fans globally (say, someone like Tom Waits). Whoops, bad news! Tom
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by mjr00 4y ago
I guarantee that the music you're listening to that has "real vocals" has used Melodyne, you just don't notice it. Even if the artist themselves thinks they didn't use it, if they worked with a professional mixing&#
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by mjr00 4y ago
Agreed. I wonder how much of it is intentional; one of the common complaints I see from Synth V users is that none of the voice banks, except maybe Eleanor Forte, have that synthetic, "vocaloid-y" sound. Maybe they know they can&#
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I will throw serious money at the first streaming service that implements an 'autotuned' tag, and lets me filter anything tagged with it out of my stream. Well, I hope you don't like listening to any music made after ~2
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by mjr00 4y ago
Vocaloid has the name brand from being old, and Hatsune Miku, but at this point Synthesizer V has completely blown it out of the water. SOLARIA[0] in particular came out in January and, to my ears, sounds significantly better than any of th
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by mjr00 4y ago
To the best of my understanding, - starting state had FTX as insolvent, but had enough money to cover the withdrawals of their token (FTT) - Binance CEO announces that they're going to dump all of their FTT because they don't trus
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by mjr00 4y ago
So after SBF came out yesterday and said FTX was totally fine.. it turns out they were insolvent and needed to get bailed out to cover withdrawals? Never a dull moment in the world of crypto.
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by mjr00 4y ago
Alright. That doesn't answer my question though -- why should anyone with a verified profile be allowed to change their name, which could mislead people of their identity, while maintaining their verification status?
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by mjr00 4y ago
My barometer for this stuff is the UFC, which is the perfect platform to market to this crowd. They're already very loudly sponsored by vechain and crypto.com, plus a ton of crypto gambling sites that have come and gone. Last year ther
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by mjr00 4y ago
The obvious question is, "Why are verified profiles allowed to change their account display name in the first place?" Which seems to be getting addressed[0]. [0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/158940
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by mjr00 4y ago
I agree that his approach is odd, to say the least. But Elon is clearly marketing himself as part of a counter-culture movement that's opposed to the current dominant neoliberal/corporate zeitgeist (but isn't quite alt-righ
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by mjr00 4y ago
It's absolutely a part of his job, though. One of the most valuable parts of Musk is his personal brand. He can raise money and hire talent in large part because he's a household name. Everything he does, from naming his child X
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by mjr00 4y ago
I'm former AWS. Yes, it's true. You'd be surprised how much human intervention is needed for large-scale SaaS/cloud stuff. A lot of it's just scale and probability. If an IT problem has a 0.0001% chance of happening
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by mjr00 4y ago
> But, what is gone? Twitter was a unique spot where journalists, celebrities, titans of industries, your family, friends and co-workers, would join a daily mosh pit filled with a mix of truly important cultural moments and the most inan
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by mjr00 4y ago
> There are always comments about "why do they need X,000 people" every time a company's staffing gets talked about. I guess we are finally getting an answer. Yes, this is what people really need to be worried about. Not
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by mjr00 4y ago
This is what people should really be scared of. It's one thing to point at Musk and say he's crazy and ruining Twitter. But if Musk fires 50% of the workforce, removes full-time WFH as an option, removes mental health days, etc.
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by mjr00 4y ago
This is exactly what I mean when I say "nobody can define exactly what [the metaverse] is." The metaverse is simultaneously VR-based business collaboration software, but also decade-old sandbox video games. Web3 and NFTs often pop
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by mjr00 4y ago
Interesting article. People really want Meta to fail because the "metaverse" is one of the dumbest pivots of an established company of all time. Since the pivot and rename happened a year ago, the metaverse has probably bombed --
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Elon's talking about taking an axe to the things that keep the lights on at Twitter: effective content moderation and talent. I don't think it's clear this is the case. It's just the network effect that keeps it in
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by mjr00 4y ago
"With real names" is not the same as "in the real world." There is a massive difference between me seeing a stranger's real name next to a Facebook post about how abortion is evil, and me having a conversation wit
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by mjr00 4y ago
Yes, this is how social interaction in the real world, or even smaller online communities, has worked for ages. It's only on pseudonymous mega-sites like Twitter, Reddit and HN where jumping down people's throats for having an opp
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I personally don't see the justice in letting people who want to cause material harm to others - people who'd put me in a camp if they had their way - like that have a platform Should Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumm
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by mjr00 4y ago
From the software engineering side, it's still an opportunity to work on one of the highest traffic web sites on the internet. There's not a massive number of opportunities to do that.

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