IAmPym

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by IAmPym 2y ago
No. Definitely not. I was very surprised after doing some mixdowns on the onboard laptop soundcard on my Macbook pro that it sounded AWFUL when pushed to real speakers. Tried it on two other laptops. Will never use a laptop sound card for r
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by IAmPym 2y ago
My good friend Dylan runs https://producerdojo.com and I design music instruments for a living. One of the most underrated reasons to go to that site is the solid and extremely supportive community. You can start with any piece
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by IAmPym 2y ago
If a prospective employee told me a story about how they used a note-taking app like this to optimize their school grade output I would be extremely worried for a lot of reasons and consider it a major red flag. What would be encouraging is
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by IAmPym 2y ago
It's not called the Kawii?
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by IAmPym 2y ago
There's a fine line between eustress (positive stress) and distress (negative stress) The magazine has a narrative it is trying to push. Anyone running a business sees this type of thing quite differently. You have to keep people motiv
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by IAmPym 2y ago
I quit a relatively high paying job at Yahoo doing system administration to follow a passion in audio Now I design synthesizers for a living. Way happier!
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by IAmPym 2y ago
That may just be his process. He explains things to help himself understand it better. I would be THRILLED to have someone who wanted to explain things like I was 5, lots of people don't
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by IAmPym 2y ago
At some point I need to write an article about this topic. I disagree with a lot of the conclusions about that article. You aren't making a lathe for someone with no experience. Anyone who is a potential customer for a lathe has SOME e
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by IAmPym 3y ago
When you take audio out of the equation you don't need a lot of things: What makes the sound? Not needed anymore. So any ADC/DACs, DSP code, analog voice hardware, etc is not needed. The DSP in particular is fairly complex and can
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by IAmPym 3y ago
You are about to bite off a lot. I do this for a living. You have some software experience, this is good. Assuming you have embedded software experience (which is essential for what you are doing and not at all like web programming) you hav
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by IAmPym 3y ago
This is absolutely not true for one simple reason: Subscriptions increase valuation of companies
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by IAmPym 3y ago
I can't see this changing much if they water it down to a point where liability isn't an issue. If a company is weighing whether to put resources into a security update vs. roll the dice on whether they are used as an attack vecto
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by IAmPym 3y ago
This is one of my favorite things to do, it reveals a lot about fundamental skills I never really actively think about... If I'm below average at walking, what would it look like to be above the curve? ... at reading? ... at eating? ..
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by IAmPym 3y ago
I don't think automakers ever thought drivers LIKED touch screens, it was just so much cheaper that someone saw the margins and decided to go for it. When we design synthesizers, the MAJORITY of the cost is in the UI. People need the U
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by IAmPym 4y ago
The mental model I’ve found most useful in guessing how this will affect us is the migration from assembly to a more human readable C compiler Nowadays assembly is almost never used because it has been abstracted (yes I use it sometimes for
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by IAmPym 4y ago
I definitely have given out the sysex info to people. Post on the forum and see if someone has it accessible, if not I’ll look through my emails to find it when I have a moment
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Sadly no, for a number of reasons not least of which is multiple CPUs and too much necessary documenting to do that and even if… I don’t think Focusrite would be too keen on it
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by IAmPym 4y ago
If I was going to give people a trail of breadcrumbs I'd do it in a coded kazoo message
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by IAmPym 4y ago
If some users don't get angry then it isn't innovative enough. Innovation naturally leads to people forced to learn things out of their comfort zone and everybody responds to that differently. The best I can do is guide them throu
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Roger made sure it sounded 'right' but beyond that I had a lot of control over the specifics. I shot for a much higher degree of precision than other instruments (even lots of digital) and more or less hit the target I was going f
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by IAmPym 4y ago
I spent a majority of my life during that time doing everything I could to update it on a regular basis and burnt out. Sometimes you just have to let it go.
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by IAmPym 4y ago
I did the whole thing from scratch. I was not trying to emulate anything in particular, I was working with what we had in the hardware to optimize. We basically pushed the chip to its limits without going heavily into assembly, although if
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by IAmPym 4y ago
I wrote the DSI Tempest OS (including sequencer and swing) Feel free to ask questions!
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by IAmPym 4y ago
How do we get in touch? That is exactly what I'm looking for, I'm sure I can contribute a lot as well as I have been in the space for quite a while. My email is pymento+HN at protonmail dot com
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Some odd associations here... whimsy gives back, among other things: maggot I have never seen a whimsical maggot, nor do I think I want to
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Right, I'm saying that is incorrect. Very incorrect. Some people do buy synths as sort of an art piece but they are rare Hardware synths absolutely still do have sonic capabilities that are difficult to emulate in software (we're
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Well if it helps: I was a sys admin before I quit in a huff and decided to never work again unless I was in the audio industry. Doing that was the single defining moment of my life and the one I am most proud of. Took a MASSIVE pay cut in f
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Before you commit to buying something: Vital ( https://vital.audio/ ) and Surge ( https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ ) are both absolutely outstanding. Highly recommend you check them out!!
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by IAmPym 4y ago
You just presented a fact: these companies are still in business And a hypothesis: this should not be because analog/digital modeling is very close in double blind tests However your hypothesis is already false because the fact exists.
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by IAmPym 4y ago
Glad you are enjoying it! I have become much more interested in the business and entrepreneur side of things lately... take that as you will ;)

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