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by xavriley 5y ago
Harmonic intervals are interesting but they are also misunderstood. Humans are able to distinguish out of tune notes down to a value of about 1%. To get more accurate tuning we tend to listen for beating (a kind of amplitude modulation) ins
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by xavriley 5y ago
I found my cooking improved massively when I focussed on more scientific methods. For me personally The Food Lab and Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat were both great. Reducing the variables to a couple of axes made it much easier to decide what to add
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by xavriley 5y ago
This is just my two cents, but if you break it down into two components - frequency response and latency - then it's easier to imagine. With the latest modelling techniques (neural nets etc) it's possible for solid state amps to g
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by xavriley 5y ago
One reason is issues with property ownership. In the U.K. a company could do this but if the original customers were to see the house, they’d have no legal means of compelling the new owners to take up the arrangement. At least that’s what
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by xavriley 5y ago
That’s true but in those cases they are passing tones. For examples in a bebop scale you don’t tend to arpeggiate using both the consecutive tones.
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by xavriley 5y ago
Coincidentally there are no commonly used scales or modes with two consecutive semitones. The semitone gaps are always spaced out. With 11 notes (excluding the octave), that only leaves 4 possibilities for a 7 note scale if you remove rotat
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by xavriley 5y ago
It will work in Sonic Pi, but I’m looking at ways to make the voice leading of chords more intelligent. At the moment it will voice chords in root position unless you specify otherwise. I’m also looking at writing a parser so the chord symb
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by xavriley 6y ago
Being able to “hear” a fundamental when it’s not there in a spectrogram but the upper harmonics are is known as the missing fundamental and has been known and studied for over 100 years. It seems likely that the auditory system is not only
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by xavriley 6y ago
Well, I for one enjoyed it. This problem has a name actually - there’s a solution called Bjorklund’s algorithm which was originally used in physics. It was picked up by a music researcher (Godfried Toussaint) who noticed that it generates s
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by xavriley 6y ago
Sound travels at ~1ft per ms in air so 10ms equivalent to being 10ft away. Sure, you notice the lag at that distance but it’s still possible. 30ms (or 30ft) is the point at which I would give up on trying to play rhythmic music well. That s
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by xavriley 6y ago
In network science, it’s fairly common to take a graph of something and be able to apply techniques like neighbourhood analysis or clustering which then reveal something about the data. This comes up in all kinds of real world examples from
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The All Seeing Eye – Web metrics in the 21st century(kyan.com)
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