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40 minutes ago, KuruPrionz said:
Thanks, I don't doubt the progress made by Zoom compared to previous attempts to prevent clipping.
I also don't doubt that other major players will dive in and the world of home studio recording will never be the same again.
For now, I'll keep using my SSL 2+ and wait for this concept to be more fully developed and competition to arrive. 🙂
Like everything in audio there will be controversies along the way and I don't think that this a one-way path beyond 24 bit. In the video he documents a notable dip in the response that is at an impossibly low level. Somebody will figure out what that sounds like. The application of this 32 bit tech though is valuable for the film and video people who don't get a callback if there is an unfixable problem with the audio. I see it as being valuable, but the value is more apparent to markets other than the home studio. Our duty is to please our ears and not to explain to dozens of people that they can't go home yet because the sound guy needs another take. Or the video and streaming audio that was live-mixed with fubared channels and can't be cleaned up for broadcast or upload.
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13 hours ago, KuruPrionz said:
Tascam DR 40 can do that too. 4 channels so 2 stereo tracks with one -6db to the other one, up to 24 bit 96 khz.
I never used it but it's a good trick. So obviously, Zoom isn't quite the first to come up with something along these lines.
And, isn't it 32 bit, not 32 gb?
Yes, agreed 32 bit, but it is more ambitious and more powerful than the "one up - one down" approach of earlier field recorders. Julian Krause did a video 3 years ago on another Zoom 32 bit no-levels device. https://youtu.be/NTuJ1fk3PsY that he refers to but did not link.
In the new video he is just speculating from the topology that the 4 channel DACs are mediated by an ARM controller chip and splitting high level signal and low level signal. That's a lot more powerful than the safety recording approach, even though the metaphor is similar. Here's the bit at (03:14).
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I did not realize that the Ableton Link support had grown to this level.
https://www.ableton.com/en/link/products/
Even the Sonic Pi that Craig was pointing to here:
can share the Link metronome.
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Ableton introduced their iOS Note app without midi input. It seemed nearly useless. Except maybe as a conversation starter at train stops. "Yes, I'm a producer..."
Now they have added midi input. People will be happiest with it if they are into Bluetooth LE MIDI or Ableton Link. So update.
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6 hours ago, Threadslayer said:
Funny, I was just thinking about NRBQ on the way into work this morning. I have to say though that they are the last band I would associate with this tune.
I don't disagree, but they had a long reach. Something about it reminded me of "Red's Piano".
He seems to remember the bends and slides as kind of a signature too. Moving on. TV seems more likely.
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There are some ancient Windows and Dos utilities mounted on this page. So you will need an old computer and probably and old computer wizard to make this work.
https://kurzweil.com/mark_10-110-150/
see the area for:
‘EXPORT’ SMF Conversion Utility
(Converts .SNG song files into the .MID SMF format)The SMF is a standard midi file.
They also have manuals for your keyboard series on that page.
Sweetwater also has this brief note that led me to the Kurzweil page.
https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/load-mark-6-8-10-110-songs-another-sequencer/
good luck!
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Have you gone through NRBQ catalog for the period that you are thinking of? (This probably only applies if you were in a college radio market. NRBQ catalog is mostly worth a sidetrip.)
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I think there is a ruthless math to all trade shows regardless of industry. The calculation weights the number of doors that address the consumer, the innovation still to be discovered in the product and the profitability left in the sales channel. When any one of those elements is up there is more trade show spending and engagement.
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7 hours ago, zeronyne said:
Has anyone divided up their music production workflow to separate, dedicated-function computers?
I divide them by my temporary enthusiasms. Your project sounds similar to thoughts that I have had but that I have not yet put in place. I keep a Zoom H2N pretty handy. I don't have the Akai and the Eurorack, but I have been assembling a more software-centric group of tools for stretching, repitching, warping, and granular fun.
I have been assuming that I would mount these samples on disks attached to a single-board computer like a Raspberry Pi (they've been scarce lately but I have an RPi 4 with 8GB). The commitment is a microSD card that can be swapped out when I want to do something else with the box. Jürgen Moßgraber's sample conversion utilties are updated and expanded on a regular basis. There is Linux support with that.
https://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/ConvertWithMoss/ConvertWithMoss.html
I'm not entirely sure that I want to head down the SFZ rabbit hole with all of this but it is pretty mature. And again there is Linux support on many of the projects.
https://sfzformat.com/software/tools/
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I found this very candid conversation regarding his film work.
https://www.thefader.com/2015/12/04/ryuichi-sakamoto-interview-the-revenant
But what I was really looking for was a statement of his philosophy on repetition. He uses it like breathing. It's the same but it's not quite the same.
I kept going back to this one over the last year.
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This is a 4 screenshot illustration of the Android Phone Bing app. If you read the screens on this one it turns out pretty well. It's helpful and brief and it is mostly correct.
Notably the app does not use the Tabs feature of the desktop. So the punchline is the last exchange - 'How do I save this chat?' That's why we have the screenshots.
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12 minutes ago, Anderton said:
I wonder if we're approaching Bing from the same angle. With the Edge browser, I made Bing search the default search engine.
Correct, I was using the Bing app on Pixel Android, not the desktop.
My Google searches were in Chrome. I have one desktop machine with Edge only. I will try the Bing features there. I was beta on Google too. I just got the invite to Bard.
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I'm pretty sure that Metheny synth patch started as a Toots Thielemans tribute. I think he liked the reedy, inhaling, exhaling endless quality of the line. It makes sense to me based on the length of his melodies so I am willing to cut him some slack.
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Okay, I opened the app again this AM. You do have to set the level of precision by engaging with the "Let's chat" invitation. I had a query and a followup. The restatement of my query in their format is the best part of their tech. You know if and how they understood the query. The "pretty printing" with footnotes pretends to be a little smarter than it is. (I mean, footnotes, only smart people know footnote rules. My first instinct is to judge the quality of their sources and I was not overly impressed.)
I got an answer to my query in three tries with the Goog by using their Tools menu to limit responses to the last 24 hours. When I reopened the Bing app on my phone my two previous queries were not waiting for me. They had junked up the feed with News and Trending and more noise. So I am a knowledgeable user of one kind of search and a beginning user of another. But one kind of search tells me that I am smart and the other tries to convince me that they are smart.
It's kind of a ragged interaction so far, like finding the sales rep at retail who knows more about the service plan than the product.
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I put the Bing app on my phone and I just checked. The app is now full of generic retirement-aged actors and cable news features.
Google news will always try to find some way to hand me a "Warren Buffett thinks" story or a Forbes-slanted political piece. I know when I'm being trolled.
Bing-style just trowels on mid-brow shiny cable newsy items. I forget what I was going to search for and flee. It is not working for me yet and I registered with an email address that they have interacted with for 17 years.
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It's funny how deeply this record got into my head at the time and it stayed there. Leon Russell, Jimmie Haskell string arrangements, Joe Walsh and Carole King as side players. Odd, but not wrong.
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So for recording DSD - RME added this pricey audiophile series, ADI-2/4 Pro SE and ADI-2 Pro FS R Black.
I've got the Tascam DA-3000 which is discontinued (AKM).
The Korg series devices are more available in Japan than here these days.
Mytek has had some in the audiophile market.
(Edit. much later...A couple of Antelope interfaces.)
Am I missing anything? Are any of these passing through PCM first?
I did not know that Cakewalk could load DSD (since 2015 😲, I've been sleeping on that). Good tip!
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1 hour ago, Anderton said:
I know some people who talk a good game about how they love tape, how it's so much better than digital, etc. etc. So I offered to give them my 2-track mastering recorder for free because I sure as hell don't use it. When push came to shove, they said "uhh...thanks, but no thanks."
If you still have it, the world has changed.
Including the work of a Nashville neighbor. https://maramachines.com/
It's an audiophile thing now. Unlike a lot of audiophile things, it is a pretty defensible project.
The university and library archival sector is another area of interest.
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21 hours ago, KenElevenShadows said:
Yes! Or to at least offer a few suggestions for why something is not working. Signal flow, whatever. Why is something ghosted? Why did something crash?
This resonates. I think that helpful assistive technology would allow you to pause and assess assumptions. "I see signal on these inputs... should I add tracks / channels for these?"
Offer to add from a palette of patches or instruments. Offer to slip a bar for an introduction. Offer to audition your playing and appraise your tempo setting and gracefully allow you to change it. Suggest the chords, keys, meters of samples that you pull in to a project, hand it off to Melodyne or whatever. The guiding principle is somewhere between collaborative and 'am I getting this right?.'
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He played stringed instruments and amps with equal enthusiasm. RIP
He did a lot for the Weissenborn, too. Unforgettable.
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13 hours ago, Al Coda said:
Any more info on this ?
Is there still a market ? Any links ?
I stll own 2 ATARI 1040STe, one of these upgraded w/ the max of RAM possible,- and it ran Cubase ATARI latest version together w/ Midex+ in the past....
This is not the only answer, but there is a growing interest in "vintage computing." It is more apparent if you are around a big city where there may be a seasonal enthusiast show. This is the site of the last one in the western suburbs of Chicago: https://vcfmw.org/ This is an upcoming east coast event: https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/
YouTube is crawling with people who acquire gear or work on gear and attempt to show off their finds and projects in between these exhibitor events. You will see people listing vintage items on Craigslist and FB Marketplace. The prices are often fanciful. Ebay has a vintage computing section example 1040.
In the last few months I sold two old NuBus digidesign cards on ebay, one domestically and one overseas. I am getting rid of redundant stuff but I would still like to be able to open old projects and files.
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14 hours ago, RABid said:
And does anyone remember when Apple decided to get rid of "Save As"? There were ways to still do it but it took a lot of extra steps.
This was a dividing line and an assault. I still think it was wrong. I wonder what those meetings were like. The idea people vs. the lots of ideas people.
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Film actors traditionally have had to commit to availability for ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement or Additional Dialog Recording). This was frequently contentious because the process called people back from their next project to revoice pieces of dialog needed to finish and release their previous project. So plenty of actors and their managment will accept this new arrangement. Can't stop technology, man (or the agent's 20%). Time's money. Ship it.
1 hour ago, Anderton said:I have to say I'd love a program that would reproduce my voice by just typing in words, it would save me untold hours when doing narration.
Some of these projects actually started with the development of open source programs in Speech to Text Technology (STT) and Text to Speech (TTS). They involve the same modeling that was used to transcribe live audio. One that I have been following is from https://coqui.ai/. Their github is over here https://github.com/coqui-ai
If cloning does come to the music space it will be brought in by the kind of end-to-end merchandise and media and touring and personal managment with all your rights sold away from jump.
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The German version oddly has less pleather. I think it's cut better too.
Funny: from IMDB
"The promotional video was shot in a Dutch military training camp, the band performing the song on a stage in front of a backdrop of fires and explosions provided by the Dutch army. Towards the end of the video, the band are seen taking cover and abandoning the stage which was unplanned and genuine since they believed the explosive blasts were getting out of control."
Original title: Nena: 99 Luftballons Music Video 1983
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Korg MW 0804 and 1204 analogue mixers
in The Keyboard Corner
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I think that the messaging on these mixers is slightly sideways.
I think that if you squint you can see an SD card logo and a DSD logo.
Analog? The model number seems to follow the Korg / Greg Mackie / Peter Watts colab ID.