Wasn't able to go after all and had to go home a day early, but still managed to get just enough footage for a compilation. The weather lately has been insane and highly unusual for the area (last year it didn't snow at all) so no one is prepared, no one has snow tires, and no one knows how to drive in slippery conditions. I saw a municipal snow plow yesterday that looked to be a mid- to late-60's Ford F-500, which goes to show how often they use it if they haven't needed a replacement yet.
I lost count of how many times I pleased you guys to moderate your language. Yes, this is not exactly a forum for children, but c'mon. The swear filter has been just a test, and has been disabled. We would also prefer avoiding such solution. A message/concept/thought can be shared even without using certain words. So please control yourself and think twice before posting. Thank you. (And then people complain how the level of this forum is going down, aimrite?)
I love this song, Part of me wants to hear the song adapted with different instrumentation, for example I would love to hear how a big band would adapt it in order to make it take full advantage of its skill set. Especially the bit at 1:30. Equally I reckon that the main lead at 1:47 could sound awesome if played on an electric guitar most likely with adaptations of course to make it fit that instrument.
It would sound pretty good. with a good compressor, some subtle reverb, and a chorus pedal you could easily get that vibe. the trick for me with playing electronic parts like that on guitar is to use a compressor to kill initial attack of plucking the string. makes it a little less organic and more synth like.
All I know is swearing is common and has a history behind swearing and can be as a cure to I don't know, pain? I guess.PM me so I'll share you a video the fact of swearing if you want.
Yeah, that would certainly do the trick. What I am about to recommend wouldn't suit the above song however, If you want to get into more experimental territories there are synths that will accept an audio input, so playing an electric guitar through one and doing things like modulating the sound could yield interesting results. Probably better suited for achieving more gritty digital sounds as well as retro digital sounds. If using something like a Eurorack synth setup you would probably get some very flexible results (albeit at a very high price cost )
The ZX Spectrum can make some pretty decent music apparently. @vmlinuz's ears hate it, but I like it.
The interesting thing with older hardware like that is that all of the music is written in MIDI and then each unit has a synthesiser built into it. So all of the music is played live on the synthesiser inside your own machine. Which is why the sounds were fairly primitive (however iconic). Whereas these days computers are sample based (sometimes software synthesis is used) which gives greater freedom, meaning there is no hardware audio synthesis in modern computers, everything is either generated or played back by the CPU and fed through an Digital to Analogue converter which gives you audio. Essentially its like a graph, the computer stores and works with a table, the DAC converts the table into a continuous wave form (graph) that your speakers can play. The position of your speakers driver is determined by the y axis of the graph at x time. This extra freedom is creatively both a blessing and a curse. On one hand you essentially get total freedom, on the other hand you loose the iconic and memorable sounds since everyone is able to make more unique sounds, even if they all tend to be fairly similar. The other part of it is that the synthesis chips that they used on the older computer systems were often FM synthesis based (often by Yamaha) sometimes with a few channels for sample clips. FM synthesis is very complex to program (not computer programming, programming synth sounds) and as such subtractive synthesis tends to be more popular these days despite not being able to achieve the FM sounds with it.
Worked for 10 hours straight with 3 other classmates to finish an assembly of our trebuchet. FML It had to fit in a 5*10*30cm box for SLS printing while the arm alone is already 50cm Then it will look like this:
Woah dude, chill with the hate symbols. I just watched A Car's Life: Sparky's Adventure in its entirety. My favorite part was when the villain killed Speedy and tried to kill Sparky, and my least favorite part was when the police officer saved Sparky and it turned out Speedy was still alive.
I believe it was last year that we got that El Nino warm wind current which caused us to have very dry and hot weather in the summer, and then a very mild winter with pretty much zero snow, eh? Well, this year we're having the opposite La Nina cold current, so it's actually snowing for once. Watching people drive in the snow in Fraser Valley can be entertaining, but rather painful too. Especially in Vancouver.
Wel, we didn't have snow a few years too now on the other side of the North sea(Netherlands). I really like snow, but I don't like it when I have to travel by bus and train because I will be stuck then because the public transport just sucks with leaves and totally collapses with snow or ice
I think @Narwhal's recent thread (that vanished without a trace a few minutes ago) might just be the last straw for me on this site. I have great respect for the developers and moderators but I don't think they're going about solving the forums' problems the right way. As someone in the aforementioned thread said, they're fighting fire with fire and it's just making a bigger fire. I don't claim to be qualified to give advice but if you want to hear what I think, it's that you need to either let the fire die out on its own or roll with it; keep it content and it won't get out of hand. Banning and censoring and deleting threads will only stir the coals, giving people a reason to be upset and cause more drama. EDIT: The thread's back? I don't even know at this point.... I guess this post seems a little out of place now. Maybe it should have gone in a different section. I still stand by what I said though, so I'm not going to remove it.
