spacechild1

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by spacechild1 7y ago
Sibelius - I don't have to manually create individual parts from my orchestra scores or put a page into the trash bin just because I did one mistake. REAPER, Pure Data and other - I don't have to slice and glue magnetic tape to cr
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by spacechild1 7y ago
It was so easy to create GUI apps and small games in VB. It definitely got me into programming!
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by spacechild1 7y ago
This is seriously one of the worst things I've ever read on HN...
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by spacechild1 7y ago
How much of your critique of Max/MSP does apply to Pd? ;-)
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by spacechild1 7y ago
* there are various extensions for embedding python or lua. For the latter, checkout pdlua or ofelia. * yes, they are called abstractions. They also have a nice feature called “graph on parent“, where part of the abstraction's canvas w
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by spacechild1 7y ago
> Some composers came very close to complete atonality, particularly Scriabin and Stravinsky, but Schoenberg was the first to dive into completely atonal music. Atonality can already be found in some late piano pieces of Liszt, e.g. &quo
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by spacechild1 7y ago
It is worth noting that Wassily Kandinsky reached out to Schönberg because he saw parallels in Schönberg's music to his own abstract art. But I think this parallel only exists in terms of breaking with the conventions and traditions of
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by spacechild1 7y ago
While article mentions that the Kinect has been used by engineers, scientists and even the military, it has also been very popular in the arts, e.g. for interactive dance pieces or installations, up to this day!
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by spacechild1 7y ago
This is what I get from Pure Data (a graphical audio programming language). Once things get too unweildly, I write a C/C++ extension or Lua script.
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by spacechild1 7y ago
Thanks for you comment! After all, the concept of "ethnicity" is highly debated and numerous definitions exist (just have a look at the wikipedia article). Many European countries don't even ask for "ethnicity" in t
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by spacechild1 7y ago
> The Germans were the ones who first came up with the idea of a Caucasian race back in the 18th century. Yes, but it has been completely abandoned by the scientific and political mainstream for decades now. Using the word "Caucasia
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by spacechild1 7y ago
In Austria, we have many people called “Fick“, which literally means “Fuck“. BTW, isn't it insulting to those people to suggest that their names are insulting?
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by spacechild1 7y ago
> traditionally Caucasian names like "Cummings" It always amazes me when US Americans talk in terms of human races like it's the most normal thing in the world. And no, “Cummings“ is not a “Caucasian name“ (whatever that i
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by spacechild1 7y ago
He's not only the leader of the company but also the lead programmer (together with a guy called Schwa). It keeps boggling my mind that Reaper is being developed by only 2 people, especially considering the fast release cycle.
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by spacechild1 7y ago
Hey, nice to see you here! Thanks for that link! Today I happen to have a live performance with a player piano ensemble controlled with Pd.
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Pure Data 0.50.2 Released(msp.ucsd.edu)
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by spacechild1 7y ago
AFAIK, non-virtual methods never affect the vtable layout. But when you overload a virtual method with another virtual method, the ordering in the vtable is unspecified! Also, a public COM interface mustn't have a virtual destructor, b
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by spacechild1 7y ago
The new terminals have an option to customize your burger, I guess that's pretty much the same thing. Or did they remove it only recently?
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by spacechild1 7y ago
> It sucks that it’s no longer maintained. huh, why do you think that? https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data Maybe you've been thinking about Pd extended - which is indeed unmaintained. There is a kind of succ