-
5 votes
-
PostgreSQL 13 released
8 votes -
Amazon announces Luna cloud gaming service
6 votes -
Sensory overload and annals of lying
3 votes -
Intuitive music composition software
For a class I have to compose soundtracks and music, and I have no experience whatsoever. Okay, I played classical guitar for a decade but I never was good at music theory and can barely read...
For a class I have to compose soundtracks and music, and I have no experience whatsoever.
Okay, I played classical guitar for a decade but I never was good at music theory and can barely read notes.My issue is that I come up with a tune, and I need to dump that information to a recording medium as soon as possible. Translating that tune into a short term memory and playing it out on my guitar doesn't work, as I'll end up forgetting it nearly instantly. The one instrument that I can play is whistling, but that's kinda hard to do for long.
I'm looking for a more intuitive way to input notes into a computer.
I was thinking of some kind of pitch slider that continuously plays a note (limited to notes, no microtones) that I can control with an external input device like a knob or potmeter / by moving my mouse up and down, and then hit a button to input that sound, moving on to the next note. No delays inbetween, just immediately starts playing a new note.Like the computer whistling a note for me, and me adjusting the pitch and length.
I can move my mouse quite precisely & can adjust pitch pretty easily when whistling, it's just that translating music from head to an instrument will never be as intuitive as something like whistling.
It's not supposed to be perfect, on-point music, just enough to record the vague idea and process it later. It also should be super minimalistic, I'd preferably only have the slider, the play/pause button, the confirm note button and a "save to file" button.
I'm not sure where I can even start finding something remotely related to this. I've looked around and tried a bunch of music software, but it's all either complicated or unintuitive.
Anyone know something like this?
Edit: As this website puts it;
Intuitive music composition requires that you hear the musicality of the music as you are composing it. Which means that you have no choice but to compose by playing.
and
You cannot intuitively compose music by entering note data into a software application.
13 votes -
Is there a website to propose/join open source groups?
I'm interested in working on an open source project from scratch with a group of like minded people and curious how to get something like that started. Does anyone know of any websites that...
I'm interested in working on an open source project from scratch with a group of like minded people and curious how to get something like that started. Does anyone know of any websites that facilitate that kind of thing? Like where people might propose an project and others can tentatively join?
12 votes -
Is the UK moving towards government by decree?
6 votes -
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
13 votes -
Amnesia: The Dark Descent and A Machine for Pigs are now open source
6 votes -
Posters of East Asia
3 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
What the photos of wildfires and smoke don’t show you
12 votes -
Palm oil labor abuses linked to world’s top brands, banks
9 votes -
Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
9 votes -
18th century mac and cheese | Stump Sohla
13 votes -
How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
13 votes -
More than 600 free-to-watch films on YouTube Movies channel
8 votes -
Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country's main international airport – a four-month trial of an alternative testing method
9 votes -
Michael Hogan has been paralyzed on the left side after fall in February
7 votes -
Moxie Marlinspike on decentralization
14 votes -
Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server
12 votes -
Trump campaign is reportedly plotting an election coup to “bypass” a Biden win
28 votes -
Are there any aspects of your mental life that you know/suspect to be idiosyncratic?
As it is only possible to know what it is like to be yourself, it could be that you perceive the world in a completely different way than is typical and have no idea that that is the case. Hence...
As it is only possible to know what it is like to be yourself, it could be that you perceive the world in a completely different way than is typical and have no idea that that is the case. Hence the existence of invisible disabilities such as face blindness or double vision, conditions such as synesthesia and aphantasia, etc. I am curious if anyone here experiences any such mental/perceptual phenomenon that could possibly be unique to you/atypical. Or if you experience one of the above it would be very interesting to hear about as well!
Some examples of what I'm going for:
- a YouTuber/blogger I follow claims their internal monologue takes the form of a humming or buzzing following the cadence and intonation, but not the sounds, of speech.
- my personal inner monologue is usually more of a "dialogue", as in a discussion between me and 1+ imaginary participants (usually someone I know IRL or a character from a book). Although I don't perceive "them" as a separate entity I can't really predict what "they" will say. (feel free to comment if you experience this as well! I only suspect this is weird because mental vocalization is typically referred to as monologue but maybe this is totally normal?)
- I'm pretty sure I experience emotions at a much shallower level than most. When I was very young I actually considered the possibility that I was a robot constructed by my parents, based on some Twilight Zone episode. I would say 95% of the time I don't really feel any emotion and when I do, it feels much less intense than it seems to be for most people judging by their behavior.
- When I'm reading particularly dense text or have spent some time memorizing things, there is sometimes a certain sensation in my head, which, while I wouldn't really call it tiredness or exhaustion, does compel me to stop studying or whatever I'm doing. It's almost analogous to muscle soreness?
22 votes -
Daniel Norgren - Rolling Rolling Rolling (2019)
6 votes -
An explanation of JavaScript modules for grumpy developers from 2005
7 votes -
What is math? A teenager asked that age-old question on TikTok, creating a viral backlash, and then, a thoughtful scientific debate
12 votes -
Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk
8 votes -
President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
8 votes -
How 'Steel Grandpa' Gustaf Håkansson pirated Sweden's toughest bike race
8 votes -
Archie Comics titles to release day-and-date on comiXology Unlimited
4 votes -
Lenovo goes all in with the Linux desktop with over two dozen Ubuntu Linux powered PCs and laptops
20 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
8 votes -
Louisville grand jury indicts one of three officers in fatal Breonna Taylor police shooting
18 votes -
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
5 votes -
What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
8 votes -
Twitter to investigate apparent racial bias in photo previews
8 votes -
Adobe’s "Liquid Mode" uses AI to automatically redesign PDFs for mobile devices
5 votes -
Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide – carbon capture has long been highlighted as a way to reduce CO2 emissions
8 votes -
Mike Morhaime founds new games company, Dreamhaven
7 votes -
Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%
30 votes -
Please don't say just hello in chat
28 votes -
The Digital Antiquarian: X-Com
6 votes -
Nozomi Entertainment
3 votes -
UN weather agency calls a new record low temperature in the Northern Hemisphere – -69.6°C (-93°F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Klinck, Greenland
5 votes -
8K Gaming - Nvidia RTX 3090 on a LG ZX 88" OLED TV
12 votes -
Carole King - It's Too Late (1971)
7 votes -
The largest Star in the Universe – size comparison
5 votes -
The "date-rape drug" narrative has been weaponized against recreational GHB users
6 votes -
Richard Cheese - WAP (lounge version) (2020)
8 votes -
Rediscovering the enormous social and spiritual legacy of Black Jazz Records
7 votes