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If y'all don't stop bugging me, it'll end with the protagonist just going back to the office.  Case closed.

Does begging count as bugging?

hey, you could probably do some interesting drum-computing with that new nintendo Wii wand thingy.

though on the other hand, you don't need immersion VR, you can just use an electronic drumkit. works very nice, you are actually drumming but on some pressure sensitive sensor plates instead. you get different sounds depending on where you hit, how hard you hit etc.
since output is digital, recording will be clean.

physical models aren't that hard to build. i implemented myself a variation Karplus-Strong guitar snare algo, some friends got a pretty good hoeboe (sp?) going [it helped that one of them was a fanatic hoeboe player].
except for the Chinese gong. some guy wrote a masters thesis about that, it's pretty much impossible to model such a huge metal (nonlinear) plate efficiently.

but why settle for existing elements? you could emulate instruments that would be physically unplayable (for ex, you'd need three arms, one of which would have to be two meters long, stuff like that).

ahh back in the days when i programmed that stuff. i couldn't and still can't write any decent tune/melody, but i coded some small bits that created some kickass bleeps/bass/weirdness.

I got a roland guitar synth a while back. Was awesome playing everything from keyboards to flutes to drums on guitar. Sequencing part totally killed it for me tho. Slows the whole creative process down to a slog.

So if you were aware that every word you say had a certain impact on who you said it to on the internet, you'd behave differently, uncontrollably, without knowing it.  And that, to me, sets a metatextual reference that truly devalues alot of the worth of this sort of exchange between people.

This is why Bella doesn't talk about magic on the internets anymore.  She knows what kind of people are listening.

Kind of sad, in a way.

Sounds interesting. Expand pls

Acoustic modelling will catch up eventually. I already got a cab simulator on my fx box but you're right - things like drumkits and the like are going to have to wait for immersion vr - still a long way off.

so what, you cannot make smooth sounding cleanroom recorded whatever guitar rock music without a million dollar budget? well that sucks, but as soon as anything becomes significantly larger than a small group of people can produce, you will have a Machine to deal with.

A little lightbulb just went off in my fucking stupid head!!!!

I just started reading this, LMNO.  It's good.

Good luck finding out how it ends 

I'm tripping balls right now

Is that one of those native american names?

If so I'm dances with chillum

Bump! What's taking you so long?

One word - "Emotion".

Troof.  Music has to reach your gut to be good.  Otherwise, it's just kinda noisy.

It was the -just kinda noisy - type of music I was trying to defend with this. I'm thinking the sex pistols. Not a bunch of motzarts by any stretch but they were angry enough to get a whole room full of people jumping up and down.

My music taste is varied and random. I can't get in any kind of music discussion because my taste seems arbitrary. Words generally take the importance though.

Heh - my opinion on it is that music can stand on its own without words, but if it's got words, then those are what will receive my attention. There are parts of Les Miserables that irk the snot out of me *kleenex* 'cause it's two song lines going at the same time on top of each other, and I can't follow them both.

Odd thing with my brain...if I want to engage my brain without distracting it (like, totally background music), it HAS to be instrumental. Otherwise I want to listen to the words instead of focusing on whatever else. I have to turn down the radio in my truck if I want to have a serious conversation with someone, too.

I'm somewhat like that, but I find that if the music is truly shitty and I can't understand the words, then fuck that and I don't want to ever listen to it.

Afghan music ftl.

One word - "Emotion".

Any culture does that.




Go up to somebody on the street and reference the Barstool Experiment.


They won't know what you're talking about, but we will.

Difference is if you're as big a culture as america you get to be surprised when they don't

Mother's maiden name?
He asks me, I repeat
a bus ticket please

NT: if planet earth were shaped like a platypus's head

It's a popular iconic theme in American gestalt, really. Like the Disney of families, I guess.

I get a lot of these but when I don't I usually end up reading posts over and over for clues.

Americans do make rather a lot about their icons, don't we? I think that's a particular barstool dilemma that won't be conquered...we'll probably just get bloody heads.

I wouldn't say any more than UK. We got our fair share of icons over here.

Please to be naming a few.  For you UK'ers rarely drop them as often as we do in our writing.

Thing is we get most of your tv shows over here anyroad but you only get a small percentage of ours so most of us don't expect you to get a line from one of ours. Nobody watches sitcoms anymore but theres loads of one liners and soap opera character refs that are pretty much UK universal. If I was to say some lady looked like Dot Cotton it'd be a small percentage that didn't know who I meant. If we're just talking about Scotland then I could say "Gonny no dae that" or "his dad's Rab C" (prolly wouln't even need the Nesbit part for Davedim to get me)

It's a popular iconic theme in American gestalt, really. Like the Disney of families, I guess.

I get a lot of these but when I don't I usually end up reading posts over and over for clues.

Americans do make rather a lot about their icons, don't we?  I think that's a particular barstool dilemma that won't be conquered...we'll probably just get bloody heads.

I wouldn't say any more than UK. We got our fair share of icons over here.

It's a popular iconic theme in American gestalt, really.  Like the Disney of families, I guess.

I get a lot of these but when I don't I usually end up reading posts over and over for clues.