Say it Simon :D :D Better bad French than senseless French ... I think :rolleyes:Quote:
Did you just put some German words in a more or less random but syntacticly correct order? Not to mention your senseless French.
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Say it Simon :D :D Better bad French than senseless French ... I think :rolleyes:Quote:
Did you just put some German words in a more or less random but syntacticly correct order? Not to mention your senseless French.
Here's a really funny site which does that (but in English): Random sentencesQuote:
Did you just put some German words in a more or less random but syntacticly correct order?
This site makes sense to me.:p
Pick a topic, any topic.
Okay... how bout music?
Does anyone play an instrument?
What about favorite musician/group/style?
Pick me! Pick me!
I play guitar and keyboard. I use to sing for a post-punk/industrial band... My favorite scale used to be the enigmatic scale, but now I think I am falling in love with the pentatonics because I can only get songs from it that sound like its directly out the orient.
What are your favorite composition programs? Mine is Logic Platinum. Its great for remixing and composing!
I've never used any such program, but one day I will write a program where you can play an instrument into the microphone and it will write the music you played, complete with rhythm, pitch, meter, scale, etc. I'll probably be 200 years old when I'm done :).Quote:
Originally posted by galathaea
What are your favorite composition programs? Mine is Logic Platinum. Its great for remixing and composing!
As for me personally, I play the marimba (it's like a xylophone but sounds really nice) and the piano (I love this the most). In the past I have played the violin and guitar, but I really hated the violin :(.
NO!!!!!!! I didn't think he would actually get around to it, but after three and a half weeks... :( Ladies and gentlemen, this is a sad, sad, sad day for the long thread.Quote:
Originally posted by Brad Jones on October 2
By the way, at some point, the threads in this category (General Discussion) will be taken off the top list on the front page of codeguru (www.codeguru.com), so that the more technical threads will appear instead.
Brad!
You have a very big project ahead of you (as I see you know well by your estimate)! Respect. I can't wait till you'r done as I need exactly that for some of my most recent projects. Logic has a cheap little attempt at computing notes from an audio file, but it rarely works right no matter how much I fidget with it. It even sometimes will put three notes when only one is played. I hear MOTU has a product out that does some of these things, but I haven't gotten around to checking it out (I hear thats where they got their name -- Mark Of The Unicorn, referring to the audio spikes when a note envelope sounds), and I am fairly confident it cannot do all of what you want in your program. I could really use something that would try to figure out tempo and time signature through a more intelligent look at the audio, for remixing and dj'ing.Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
I've never used any such program, but one day I will write a program where you can play an instrument into the microphone and it will write the music you played, complete with rhythm, pitch, meter, scale, etc. I'll probably be 200 years old when I'm done :).
As for me personally, I play the marimba (it's like a xylophone but sounds really nice) and the piano (I love this the most). In the past I have played the violin and guitar, but I really hated the violin :(.
So you play piano too? What type do you work on (upright, baby grand, grand, player:)). What brand? I wish I had a yamaha acoustic, but I only have a clavinova and an old upright I got from a university sale(which is actually waiting in my old town -- I haven't moved it to my new place yet).
And what is your favorite scale? Lately, I've been messing around with E minor pentatonic and finding all sorts of wacky oriental and middle eastern harmonies...
It's not something I'm currently working on. I don't know when (or if) I'll get around to it.Quote:
You have a very big project ahead of you (as I see you know well by your estimate)! Respect. I can't wait till you'r done as I need exactly that for some of my most recent projects.
A yamaha upright ;).Quote:
So you play piano too? What type do you work on (upright, baby grand, grand, player:)). What brand?
I would have to say C major is good enough for me :). But seriously, whatever scale gets the job done. I've played a lot of music by Gershwin, and if you know his style, it would be a stretch to say it's even in a scale.Quote:
And what is your favorite scale?
ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!!
For everyone living on mars and related solar satellites: TORI AMOS' NEW ALBUM IS OUT NOW!!!! Its a beautiful representation of the goddess incarnate (in carne?).
Back to the sobering reality of this thread...
About scales: for some reason I am constantly getting into these obsessions with certain scales. Some of the songs I have written include some BASIC scale changes, and I've even tried twelve-tone (but I get lost in the freedom... maybe sometimes I just need to be tied down :eek: ?). Anyway, I do like to mess around with some jazz scales (is that an oxymoron?) sometimes, but I usually find that I will mess around with a 5-7 note scale for a while because each one gives me a new emotional canvas to mess around with.
Off topic:TORI AMOS HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT TODAY!!! IF YOU DO NOT BUY IT, THE GODDESS WILL PUNISH YOU MIGHTILY!!!!
Oh Solarflare: I'll trade you my old upright for your yamaha... even steven... I won't even ask you to pay me the extra!
Did anyone get the notice about Scarlet's Walk? Do a google search...
Hahahaha... If Cradle Of Filth would punish me for not bying their record I would feel some fear, but that red-headed dwarf woman. :DQuote:
Originally posted by galathaea
TORI AMOS HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT TODAY!!! IF YOU DO NOT BUY IT, THE GODDESS WILL PUNISH YOU MIGHTILY!!!!
I've never tried to compose anything serious... I'd rather play music that has stood the test of time, proving it to be worth playing, rather than something that was created out of my own sick mind.Quote:
Originally posted by galathaea
About scales: for some reason I am constantly getting into these obsessions with certain scales. Some of the songs I have written include some BASIC scale changes, and I've even tried twelve-tone (but I get lost in the freedom... maybe sometimes I just need to be tied down :eek: ?). Anyway, I do like to mess around with some jazz scales (is that an oxymoron?) sometimes, but I usually find that I will mess around with a 5-7 note scale for a while because each one gives me a new emotional canvas to mess around with.
I find that playing music can be highly relaxing. Part of that is its predictability. If you know what's coming next, and you hear it, it's very satisfying and relaxing. When you play a song, you know exactly what you expect to hear, and you hear it, but you're also not just sitting down listening. It's more active: you're physically making the music, so it's like you're very much a part of the relaxing aura around you.
So... today's Halloween (except, by the time you read this it will be Nov. 1)! What traditions or customs do you or your country have? And if you could dress up as one line of code, what would it be?
Imported traditions. :mad: Everyone is talking about America invading Iraq, but about the pumpkins everywhere oh no. I feel like smashing them. :D But ebough about bad music. If I could dress up as one line of code, it would be format c:\ :cool: :rolleyes: :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
So... today's Halloween (except, by the time you read this it will be Nov. 1)! What traditions or customs do you or your country have? And if you could dress up as one line of code, what would it be?