Recently played on the yearly Jingle Jam charity stream, great game!
https://www.jinglejam.co.uk/
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As cool as this is, it seems a bit bare? Titles/descriptions are hidden away at the bottom of each page and all the renders are plain black and white (which makes me ask why pdf anyway?) without detailing purpose or use (where not obvious)
Very cool, I like the old school feel of watching whatever is on. That said I immediately noticed the lack of volume control, which IMO is essential.
Cool article but this first bit threw me off
> The interpunct is still in use today—it’s the official decimal point in British currency (£9·99)
When the linked wiki specifically points out that it isn't:
> In British typography, the space dot was once used as the formal decimal point.
that is very fucking cool. Well done!
Any resources to learn about this stuff? Always been into synths so I'm interested in this
Look Mum No Computer[1] is the most creative and inspirational guy in this space IMO and he goes through much of his projects in further detail on his site.
Just got a PO-33 and very psyched with it, though I've had some thoughts about whether you couldn't leverage the LCD a bit better to shift it from semi-serious to fully serious. E.g. right now in the sequencer it's impossible to know which specific instrument is playing. Anyway, it would have been really cool to have the OS be open and flashable and spend a little bit of time to make little papercuts like that better. I was looking into how hard it would be to put something like csound in a tiny board and make my own, but when I look at how minimal that single header file synth is, I'm left wondering if that's too much.
If you're looking for an open source version of the PO-33 (without the nifty little screen) there's the recently released zeptocore[1].
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ben_ commented on Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators soundry.ai/... · Posted by u/kantthpel
As somebody who embraces technologies with a passion and has made electronic music for over 20 years this may be the worst idea I’ve ever seen. The only possible use I see is people who want generic sounding beats for a YouTube video.
Honestly, the AI start ups YC is funding appear uniformly bad ideas. Weird.
It really takes the soul out of making music. Why would you want a computer to design the sound for you? You don't learn anything, you can't honestly claim you made it or expressed yourself, and it won't truly be novel because the model is spewing out stuff based on what already exists.
What? Do words even have meaning anymore? How is that anything to do with being "woke"?