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Lists ;combi actual speed
serial ata; ssd
beagle, ethernet board
s90 repair
twin tower cooler, almost fanless (and fanless) supply
broken TI serial interface
computer-synthesizer idea
Agilent webcast, flyers, why lte and only that in a machine
C to Vhdl
Missisipi John Hurt, Leadbelly, Willy Nelson, Frank Sinatra, Doctor
John!
Techno, by John Scofield (see here a youtube
version). I played this in the Jazz combo of Delft University years
ago, great song.
I compiled LinuxSampler which can read GigaSampler files.
wav
piano new SF in QSynth (fluidsynth), guitar Gigassampler played
combined as (Usb) midi layer
mp3
Another One Bites the Dust
rendered with a S90, digitized with a Lexicon Omaga 24 bit AD
converter, based on a internet found MIDI file of the song, played over
Usb-midi from a fast notebook running Fedora 8 (dual core) with
Rosegarden as sequencer and 32 bit floating point audio recorder and (5
stereo track in this case) mixer and Ladspa effect plugin provider. I
sang a voice track with a AT2020 microphone preamped by the lexicon and
processed by equalizer, compressor and 2 reverb plugins, and I made a
submaster compress the combined synthesizer sounds, which themselves
were compressed and processed with the excellen S90 effects, and the
voice result, and I mixed an extra channel of bass sound bypassing all
effects. To finish the sound I added another effect on the voice chain
which is the Jamin multiband compressor/32 band equalizer of which I
mixed varying amounts on the submaster with the processed singing. All
that was done in a couple of hours, including setting some of the
machines/software up, and mixed mainly on my large system, so it
primarily was a mix to sound good at some volume and with powerfull
transparency being availble and loads of unhyped bass-end, but I also
listened via the medium sized biamped monitors, even smaller speakers,
and even on a mobile phone, and it all sounds great. I made a version
postprocessed by Jamin to do some sublow filtering for the poor smaller
hifis and multi-band compression to try out making the intelligibility
better, even though I don't like a major FFT on over the whole signal,
but anyhow I tried and here it all is:
wav file (CD quality,
31 MB) main version
wav file (CD
quality, 30 MB) mix + yamin overall multicompression/some sublow
filtered out
mp3 (320kb/s, 7MB)
main version
mp3 (320kb/s,
7MB) extra jamin version
mp3
(48kb/s , 1 MB) main version
mp3
(48kb/s , 1 MB) extra jamin version
As usual the small mpegs are fairly worthless, but these can be
listened to, even immedeately on a 56k6 modem, the 320s are bearable,
but the 16 bits 44.1 stereos are cool.
A pro like rendering of Funky Town,
all sound coming from the S90, which however has been quite differently
programmed with sounds and effects than the original midi file from the
internet. I don't know if those files are all legal, let's hope so and
that the original karaoke and such don't suffer more income than
already with all that new age pooh being mistaken for music. No extra
effects in the computer, only the Lexicon AD converted S90 output,
straight:
wav file (CD
quality, 57MB)
mp3 (320kb/s, 13MB)
main version
mp3 (128kb/s,
5MB) extra jamin version
The above is a screendump from maybe a year ago, it is probably from
a HD video (more like film) quality assesment/improvement session.
Normally one would look for high fidelity for instance on some monitor
screen, but as os clearly visible, high fidelity isn´t really the
thing with the controls so far of as is visible from the sliders. If I
recall correctly the scene was also highly artificial, the lighting
improvised and certainly not to look natural. Maybe some is lost from
because of the jpeg, but also with HD footage: what isn´t in the
recording cannot be processed in unless one lies or simply paints a
picture, which is not a practice I engage in. Posing (as it is) is fine
of course, it´s drawing and distorting the image I´m
talking about.
I´ve understood, for instance from the (***) open source film
that drawing in film frames in spite even of good quality 3D graphics
is probably quite often done, which I don´t agree with much or
ever take part in: my movies are filmed or 3D generated, and processed
with algorithmic means, but never drawn in, IIRC never even, maybe not
counting one time when I was trying out a tablet I can use, which was
fun, but more a drawing, not a film although it technically was. Oh,
and it was fun that that was done one the beamer, not a screen. Judging
from the size of the above screen dump (1200x1920 pixels) this was done
on a machine where the HD could be blown up to actual pixel per pixel
screen coverage of the full HD frames, which is cool.
