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  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    naney said:

    what is FM synthesis, really

    I've always wondered

    it's modulating the frequency of a wave with another wave

    math is involved
    Here is the math for anyone interested (well, a paper on the subject [the original paper on the subject, to be exact]).

    http://www-reynal.ensea.fr/IMG/pdf/Article_Chowning_Synthese_FM.pdf
    So it is exactly what I thought it was, except I explained it not very well and probably got some of the basic mechanics of how the frequency is modulated wrong...
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I dig this, especially the second half.
  • naney said:

    what is FM synthesis, really

    I've always wondered

    it's modulating the frequency of a wave with another wave

    math is involved
    Here is the math for anyone interested (well, a paper on the subject [the original paper on the subject, to be exact]).

    http://www-reynal.ensea.fr/IMG/pdf/Article_Chowning_Synthese_FM.pdf
    So it is exactly what I thought it was, except I explained it not very well and probably got some of the basic mechanics of how the frequency is modulated wrong...
    To be fair, I've read the paper several times and I still can't explain it that well.
  • I love my cats, but it's so hard to get a good photograph of them sometimes. ET is easy becuase her fur is primarily white, but all my other cats are completely black, which mean it's impossible to get photo of them that isn't just a giant shadowy black mass on my crappy phone camera with a) them being outside, which is a no go, since they're all indoor cats or b) using the flash on the phone, which causes them to close their eyes because of the light and thus I don't get the facial expressions I want to capture.
  • you need a special cat camera
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    image This thread sure is busy tonight
  • image This thread sure is busy tonight

    all of those posts are by me and one of them features HOT SHOTA YIFF can you find it in time or will the insidious corruption consume the forum tune in next week
  • naney said:

    im bored

    Read Fuan no Tane or Little Forest.
  • If Mo ever does any house, I may make a guest appearance since that's kinda in my wheelhouse. :D

    I'm still figuring out how to apply the same concepts (wave shapes, overlapping oscillators, et al.) to Audiotool's synths since they only really give you two. The analog one is decent (most of my work has made heavy use of it) but the digital one is both A) more powerful and B) a shitload harder to actually use because of how different it makes everything look even though the functionality is relatively similar.
  • kill living beings
    hello
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    So it is exactly what I thought it was, except I explained it not very well and probably got some of the basic mechanics of how the frequency is modulated wrong...

    To be fair, I've read the paper several times and I still can't explain it that well.
    It happens.

    ...OK, I'll give it another shot.

    A timbre developed by pure FM synthesis involves taking a pitch at a given frequency and modulating it by another frequency, thus creating a partial series based on how the interference changes the waveform - again, not unlike the squaring off of a waveform when a speaker overloads. This same process can be applied to complex waveforms instead of simple sine waves and betimes strange sounds emerge.
  • edited 2014-09-10 02:05:04
    kill living beings
    image
  • kill living beings
    lol the paper is bessel functions

    leave it to mathematicians to use a hundred symbols when one gif would do
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    when one gif would do

    That paper is probably twice as old as you are.
  • edited 2014-09-10 02:12:43

    spacetwinks was talking about this yesterday and i forgot to jump
    into it bc i was too busy stuffing my face with nachos or smth but i
    watched rock-a-doodle for the first time ever several months ago and had
    the hardest goddamn time trying to figure out how much time had passed
    because the moment kept switching back and forth between the scenes in
    the city, where like a goddamn year went by or something and the “real
    world” where like 30 seconds had passed, maybe.

    time to write a quantum physics paper about time travel and manipulation in a film about furry transformation

    at least several months pass in “the city” because chanticleer goes
    from farmer nobody to megahit rockstar who also becomes an actor? during
    this time, only hours at most pass back on the farm, which seems to
    posit that the city moves at an incredibly accelerated speed that is
    impossible to notice unless you’re outside of it and even then

  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    naney said:

    spacetwinks was talking about this yesterday and i forgot to jump
    into it bc i was too busy stuffing my face with nachos or smth but i
    watched rock-a-doodle for the first time ever several months ago and had
    the hardest goddamn time trying to figure out how much time had passed
    because the moment kept switching back and forth between the scenes in
    the city, where like a goddamn year went by or something and the “real
    world” where like 30 seconds had passed, maybe.

    time to write a quantum physics paper about time travel and manipulation in a film about furry transformation

    at least several months pass in “the city” because chanticleer goes
    from farmer nobody to megahit rockstar who also becomes an actor? during
    this time, only hours at most pass back on the farm, which seems to
    posit that the city moves at an incredibly accelerated speed that is
    impossible to notice unless you’re outside of it and even then

    So it's kind of like Lovecraft's story "Celephaïs", but with a singing rooster named after the one from the Reynard cycle.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I think I need to watch this.

    Also because Don Bluth was generally a really solid animator even when his plots could be a bit... naff.
  • apparently it is fucking atrocious

    like, the plot is gobbledygook, the structuring is ineffective, most of the budget was spent on a few sequences, the narrator talks over the musical sequences
  • naney said:

    apparently it is fucking atrocious

    like, the plot is gobbledygook, the structuring is ineffective, most of the budget was spent on a few sequences, the narrator talks over the musical sequences

    Pretty much. Still, I loved that movie when I was a kid.
  • edited 2014-09-10 02:27:52
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ^^ Which makes it potentially impeccable riff material.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I have it on VHS, as until recently the movie's owners, MGM, wouldn't release it on a format more modern than that

    It's on Netflix now, hopefully cleaned-up
  • gobbledygook/gubbledeguch is like the only Pennsylvania Deustch slang word that's known to the American public at large, right?

    it's weird that it's that one specifically.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Hex is probably the most common Pennsylvania German word, actually.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    yinz
  • Hex is probably the most common Pennsylvania German word, actually.

    Nobody uses it in the traditional sense though.

    yinz

    that's Pittsburgher bullshit.
  • also is hex actually the original spelling? I didn't think German used Xs.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    looking it up on Wikipedia it looks like German uses X almost exclusively in loanwords
  • kill living beings

    That paper is probably twice as old as you are.

    i'm in the middle of calculus on manifolds which is ridiculously symbol heavy and about as old as my parents and therefore i am bitter
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ...man, I had a weird night.

    I dreamed there was a change to "the rules of math" that meant formulas varied depending on where I studied...and this confused me enough that I had to get up and go to the couch before I realized it was a dream.

    Long story short: lol inadequate sleep
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Why do people get angry at sampling.

    Like, by definition it's changing the context and meaning.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Ugh, I'm so sweaty
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Ok, better now

    Don't know what causes this...for a couple months now, at a certain point in the morning, I get unreasonably sweaty regardless of the temperature

    Then once I work through it, everything's back to normal :\
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Google Now evidently tries to remember where you parked your car now

    A nice feature to have, I suppose, but it doesn't quite work for me

    Because I park on the edge of campus then take a bus to class, so it thinks I parked at the bus stop
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Today the philosophy and anthropology deparments are hosting a showing of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing in response to the Ferguson riots.

    I will go, I think.
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
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  • edited 2014-09-10 12:18:45
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    My experiences with internet banking has been nothing but a huge fucking headache. I get why there are so many measures and counter-measures in place, but they all lock together to make me not get what I want. 
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Odradek said:

    Why do people get angry at sampling.


    Like, by definition it's changing the context and meaning.

  • edited 2014-09-10 12:29:53
    THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    As for what kinds of sounds FM is good for, think "DX7" or "Sound Blaster MIDI music"...woodwinds, organs, bells, things like that. You could actually get a decent drawbar organ sound out of the DX7 because it used pure sine waves (just like the Hammond and pretty much every other combo organ did).
  • Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    image

    DON'T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    nice outfits
  • Odradek said:

    Why do people get angry at sampling.


    Like, by definition it's changing the context and meaning.
    Most of the complaints I've seen about sampling are people with a limited definition of a) what constitutes music and b) what constitutes musical ability (i.e. "they can't play "real" instruments").

    So sampling breaks both of their personal definitions and they especially get angry if the song sampled was from a song or band they grew up with and idolized and is as such untouchable.
  • got myself a job interview at banana republic
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    I'm still surprised that they managed to screw it up that badly, that they misread what the players wanted so thoroughly. 
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    also is hex actually the original spelling? I didn't think German used Xs.

    Pennsylvania German uses them more frequently, although the earlier colloquial High German also uses x in the spelling. Additionally, the verb form (which is unchanged) has actually been in English longer than either variation of the noun, although you are correct that the original noun use (a witch or medicine man/woman) is fairly rare outside of Pennsylvania.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Der Hexxenhammer
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Odradek said:

    Der Hexxenhammer

    I find it interesting that the Inquisition actually outright condemned the Malleus Maleficarum for its excessive brutality and misinterpretation of Catholic demonology.
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