My *Soundcard* MIDI Synth Dream

[Wes]

You do know that you are having a discussion with the Raja of this group,
don't you?

Wes Taggart
Analogics
http://www.analogics.org/

 

[Bob Myers]

64 bit-resolution give 384 dB of dynamic range and
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible levels of loudness.

You've shown you can operate a calculator. Now answer
the question that was asked. (Hint: Let's assume we're talking
about using such a system to encode an audio signal with a
peak amplitude of 1 volt.)

Bob M.

 

[Bob Myers]

It was soon pointed out that if a system of this nature was adjusted
so that the amplitude of the least-significant bit was set just at (or
even somewhat below) the quietest sound that the human ear could hear
against a background of silence in a perfectly noise-free room, then a
full-amplitude signal would instantly release enough energy to blow
the entire neighborhood (and perhaps the continent) into a ball of
incandescent plasma.

The general consensus was that such a system had only a very limited
commercial appeal.

Sure, but just imaging the advertising possibilities....

Bob M.

 

[Bob Myers]

Not so, he's been posting the same insanity for years.

Very true, but it almost always starts out with something that sort
of LOOKS legit before it veers off into the Twilight Zone...

Bob M.

 

[Guest]

You know, I don't agree. I have noticed some forward progress with him.

Perhaps with an electron microscope you could see this.

Normally, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly, but Radium seems to actually
want to know things, and the responses it (not sure of gender) makes
indicate that it is really interested in this topic, just highly confused
and not firing on all cylinders.

**** him. He can read an actual book and actually build actual stuff
instead of word-wanking on various newsgroups. And if this dipshit isn't
a troll, why does it crosspost this drivel across half of Usenet?

Radium would best serve humanity by sucking off a shotgun until it
has a 12-gauge orgasm in his skull.


Francois.

 

[Radium]

But back to your earlier question about the OPL3 and
phase cancellation: You wonder what is happening in the
OPL3 that causes the results you get when you run it
through a "vocal cancellation" process. But why should
you think this has anything at all to do with the OPL3,
instead of the vocal cancellation circuit? I don't know
anything about the particular device you are using,
but it's common to allow some phase adjustment in
case the vocalist isn't dead-center. You may be
hearing the results of cancelling more low-frequency
sounds than high-frequency due to this.

The sound seems to be almost equally loud and equal-pitched whether I
use the voice-cancellor or not. Its just that the waveshaped are
different.

For example, when I play the polysynth pads and I use the voice-
cancellor I notice a more psychedelic, fresh, rejuvenating tone.
Without the the voice-cancellor, it sounds more like a little kid
whining from not getting what he wants.

Whether I use the voice-cancellor or not, I still think Creative Music
Synth beats all other *Soundcard-based* MIDI synths.

 

[Radium]

(Hardware intensive, as well as computation
intensive, in a time when you couldn't digitally create things in the chip
realm like we can now)

Which one are you describing above, additive or FM synthesis?

 

[[email protected]]

You do know that you are having a discussion with the Raja of this group,
don't you?

Absolutement! Il est le dum-dum ici...

 

[HellPopeHuey]

You know, I don't agree. I have noticed some forward progress with him.
Normally, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly, but Radium seems to actually
want to know things, and the responses it (not sure of gender) makes
indicate that it is really interested in this topic, just highly confused
and not firing on all cylinders. If we can make it see that it's coming off
as a whackjob on this, and get it to actually learn a bit what it's talking
about, which it has already shown some progress in, then there will be a net
sum gain in humanity.

I'll at least give you the nod in referring to it AS "it." People who
troll on Usenet are lower life forms. No one would tolerate such crap in
person without breaking a nose after a while. While I won't make any
lofty claims about my own so-called sanity, anyone who can't basically
converse as we do is a stinging pod. I can roll with most anything but
arrogance and pointless rudeness; this pod exudes both too often.
Alt.flame and alt.drunken.bastards are for trolls; these groups are
for the rest of us.

--

HellPope Huey
The dividing line between filth and a good laugh
is only as wide
as your misplaced potential for outrage

"I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets.
I don't stand next to the mayor.
Hit your baseball into my yard
and you'll never see it again."
~ Tom Waits

"The fact that the portion of your brain
that governs your sexual drive
is being eaten away by spirochetes
is no basis upon which to begin a relationship."
~ "House"

 

[HellPopeHuey]

Or the military applications. Perhaps someone should build this Radium
Soundcard and use it to take over the planet.

All things considered, I have sometimes wondered why someone didn't
take a cue from the Marvel Comics and rob a bank with a juicy sonic
weapon of some sort. I suppose the generally small take and risks are of
too little interest to someone who could build such a device and a guy
who would rob a bank in a ski mask, or even a Reagan mask, as once
happened, would be unlikely to have the scientific acumen. Of course,
most people who actually call themselves Doctor Doom are in a ward with
a head full of Prolixin, drooling over a pudding cup. Oh well!

--

HellPope Huey
The dividing line between filth and a good laugh
is only as wide
as your misplaced potential for outrage

"I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets.
I don't stand next to the mayor.
Hit your baseball into my yard
and you'll never see it again."
~ Tom Waits

"The fact that the portion of your brain
that governs your sexual drive
is being eaten away by spirochetes
is no basis upon which to begin a relationship."
~ "House"

 

[Mr.T]

I still think Creative Music
Synth beats all other *Soundcard-based* MIDI synths.

What about the old Yamaha cards then. They used the same FM techniques only
better.

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

Very true, but it almost always starts out with something that sort
of LOOKS legit before it veers off into the Twilight Zone...

From what I've seen it usually veers off into the twighlight zone somewhere
in the first sentence!

MrT.

 

[Radium]

What about the old Yamaha cards then. They used the same FM techniques only
better.

I'll first have to listen to them, only then can I compare.

 

[Mr.T]

I'll first have to listen to them, only then can I compare.

So your statement :

"> I still think Creative Music Synth beats all other

*Soundcard-based* MIDI synths."

was simply based on ignorance as usual?
Good of you to admit it anyway.

MrT.

 

[Daniel Mandic]

I'll first have to listen to them, only then can I compare.

Yes yes, calm down a bit.

Nobody said you cannot listen. But there are enough profis here, who
can tell the deeper electronic functions. Yes, they do also listen!
(e.g. Bob MOOG+. He was a double-deep developer, IMO ;-), concerning
audio-electronic knowledge and the capability to listen AND play, 'if
possible')



Best regards,

Daniel Mandic

P.S.: And why in God's name do you crosspost all that stuff around. An
urgent Question I could understand, but your points are well known!

 

[Radium]

why in God's name do you crosspost all that stuff around.

To get a bigger audience

 

[Rick Massey]

Which one are you describing above, additive or FM synthesis?

Additive.

 

[Pastor Kutchie]

You know, I don't agree. I have noticed some forward progress with him.
Normally, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly, but Radium seems to actually
want to know things, and the responses it (not sure of gender) makes
indicate that it is really interested in this topic, just highly confused
and not firing on all cylinders. If we can make it see that it's coming off
as a whackjob on this, and get it to actually learn a bit what it's talking
about, which it has already shown some progress in, then there will be a net
sum gain in humanity.

Try this posting for size:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/2ae078def7a3bd3a

Whatever you do, don't let him inside your head.


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[HellPopeHuey]

Try this posting for size:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/2ae078def7a3bd3a

I REST MY CASE. Gimme Xphraze or gimme death or gimme pie.

--

HellPope Huey
Life is like some crazy biker,
angrily driving his hog through your front door
because some dark deal he made went sour,
but he's dyslexic and inverted the address numbers,
so the guy he wants to kill is 20 blocks away

"It wasn't until I started reading and found books
they wouldn't let me read in school that I discovered
you could be insane and happy and have a good life
without being like everybody else."
~ John Waters

"I could never love you enough."
"You do fine."
~ "Heroes"