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by sramsay 6y ago
This is very, very cool. My problem with most music programming environments (in my humble, but very informed opinion) is that . . . they don't sound very good. That is, the oscillators, filters, envelopes, etc. don't sound anywh
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by sramsay 6y ago
Yeah, and my snarky tone is probably not quite fair given that fact. Some of the "very influential companies" we're talking about are in aerospace, the automotive industry . . . the LoC numbers are truly immense, the standard
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by sramsay 6y ago
If I'm following the author's argument correctly, the very influential companies who maintain very large, very old C code bases don't like what you just described -- new warning messages in code that used to not have any. Th
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by sramsay 6y ago
Wow, this is really cool. I wonder how far the author plans to go with this? DSP gets pretty complex pretty quickly . . .
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by sramsay 6y ago
No kidding! I'm always worried they've forgotten about it entirely.
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by sramsay 6y ago
I've long been a fan of PreSonus's Notion (and I say that as someone who has a lot of experience with Sibelius, Finale, and Dorico). It's one of the few products out there that pays attention to the "parts of a DAW that
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by sramsay 6y ago
Wow. That's awesome. I've always heard that people like you really became "tape whisperers," with a lot of knowledge passed down and tons of self-teaching. You're part of a very elite group, honestly.
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by sramsay 6y ago
I think when people think of "reel-to-reel" tape, they're probably imagining the sort of upright desktop models that were extremely popular among hobbyists in the 50s and 60s. But studio-grade tape machines were absolute engi
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by sramsay 6y ago
Man, these old machines. Tape speed, tape formula, the humidity, you name it. Not to mention the skill of the "tape whisperer" that knows how to calibrate the machine properly.
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by sramsay 6y ago
I do a lot of stuff with audio, and I can definitely hear the difference. And while I am absolutely crazy about the sound of analog tape, at the same time, I can think of brutally clean, digital recordings that just completely blow my mind
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by sramsay 6y ago
Tape fanatic here. Lovin' it. Can I get the details? What kind of machines are you using? Is the whole toolchain analogue?
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by sramsay 6y ago
I'm an English professor and I get email from predatory journals all the time. They often have weird, incredibly expansive titles (The International Journal of Business, Science, and Human Culture -- something like that). I don&#x
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by sramsay 6y ago
Just what I needed! (I read French, but not science ;) Thank you so much.
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by sramsay 6y ago
Forgive me, I am having trouble understanding what is being argued in this paper. Could someone do a quick ELI5?
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by sramsay 6y ago
Another twenty-year professor here. I would just like to point out that this article is articulating -- with absolutely accuracy and lucidity -- every college administrator's worst nightmare. They've all been discussing the poss
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by sramsay 6y ago
Thanks to one and all for this AMA! The massive number of comments testifies to the continuing interest in C, and I think we're all grateful to all of you for your expertise, your patience, and your even-handed responses.
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by sramsay 6y ago
Autocompletion probably has to be part of the solution. In some ways, I feel like we want CLIs to get smarter in the way that compilers have gotten smarter. "Did you mean?" is another really nice UI hack. What frustrates me is t
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by sramsay 6y ago
strdup seems like a perfect example of "standardizing existing practice." And it has never struck me as running against the spirit of C.
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by sramsay 6y ago
I'm pretty happy with C as it is, but I will admit to being surprised that a "minimalistic Rust" hasn't risen to prominence. I guess what I mean by that is a language that has Rust's hyperactive, strongly opinionate
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by sramsay 6y ago
There's tons of legacy C around, we have to maintain it, it's not ideal unless you're on some niche platform, lots of stuff should probably be written in a better language . . . I sincerely hope this is not the general attitu
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by sramsay 6y ago
I think it's a really great piece, and there's probably a lot more to say here. I have also been living on the command line since the 90s, and I mainly write command-line systems (in C, but sometimes in bash). The biggest takeaway
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by sramsay 7y ago
So no configuration files at all?
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by sramsay 7y ago
Could you say more about how you work? I know C (very well) and the principles of synthesis (very well), but I'm trying to get my head around the idea that you find it easier to . . . implement your own DSP algorithms from the groun
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by sramsay 7y ago
> There's a significant difference in sophistication between the crude algos in Csound and the algos in successful commercial VSTs like Serum, Uhe's synths, the Roland Cloud collection, SoftTube, UAD, and FabFilter mixing tools
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by sramsay 7y ago
My users consistently forget a comma in a JSON config file, and then open an issue because "the program doesn't work." This is indeed a problem, but something tells me the solution isn't "have them use Python."
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ANSI Makes Some ISO Standards Relevant to Covid-19 Freely Available(ansi.org)
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by sramsay 7y ago
Came here to say: That is complete and total bullshit.
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by sramsay 7y ago
Your problem is that you're not a Thought Leader whose Insights are being brokered by a Community Engagement Specialist. And let me explain. This guy has been "at a startup" and "at a Golang Meetup." If that isn&#
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by sramsay 7y ago
What is going on with the sudden profusion of books on C? 21st century C, Modern C, Understanding and Using C Pointers? Okay, I realize "profusion" might seem a bit overblown, but honestly, in C world (and in comparison to other
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by sramsay 7y ago
Yes, it is a bit ironic ;) You're a genius! I love "nowa." (though "OutdoorTemperatureAndHumidityDisplayManagerFactoryInterface" is tempting).

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