ductionist

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by ductionist 5mo ago
I love Fire Fight! I got the demo on a PC Gamer disc when I was a kid and played it forever. And couple of years ago when I built a retro PC, it was one of the first games I loaded up :)
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by ductionist 5mo ago
If you’re curious about synths, I’d actually say it’s better to start with an instrument that’s standalone (that is, doesn’t need a MIDI controller). The HiChord is a good choice. I’ve personally had lots of fun with Orchid by Telepathic In
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by ductionist 5mo ago
Hah! I hope it's worth the expense. Check out the Condukt discord when you get it going, lots happening in there.
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by ductionist 5mo ago
Totally, and I think the need for MIDI Guide - the fact that MIDI CC/NRPN is pretty much a free-for-all - is also why the spec has such staying power. It's so unopinionated that it imposes essentially zero constraints beyond messa
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by ductionist 5mo ago
That's an interesting idea. We've had a couple of requests to expand the format to include a mapping function between the CC/NRPN values and the 'display' values, e.g. [0, 127] -> [-10, 10], for cases where the r
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by ductionist 5mo ago
This is my pet feature :) There are so many cool sequencers and controllers, all with their own idiosyncratic plaintext instrument definition formats. Making little exporters for each of them is fun.
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by ductionist 5mo ago
Hey thanks. I love the MIDI standard for exactly this reason too. Blows my mind that you can hook a forty year old synth up to a computer or iPad without drivers.
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Three hundred synths, 3 hardware projects, and one app(midi.guide)
125 points by ductionist 5mo ago|19 comments
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by ductionist 6mo ago
Thanks! My daughter loved it too. I tried to design the sharing workflow so that kids could send their designs to friends with printers (that's why I stuffed all the state into the query string). I struggled with the name, WordCAD soun
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Show HN: I built a word art generator for 3D printers(wordcad.com)
2 points by ductionist 6mo ago|2 comments
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Show HN: MIDI Database, an open source library of MIDI implementations(github.com)
18 points by ductionist 2y ago|2 comments
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by ductionist 2y ago
Dev here - we already have a developer membership from our other (monetized) apps, so releasing this doesn't cost us any additional money.
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by ductionist 2y ago
That’s right, scans don’t appear in Photos. You can delete pages or scans with the usual iPhone controls (swipe left to show the Delete button, etc.)
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Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone(github.com)
264 points by ductionist 2y ago|81 comments
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Google announces Digital Services Tax surcharge for Canadian advertisers(support.google.com)
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Acquiring an App: Transfer Gotchas(blog.pencilresearch.com)
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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones(techspot.com)
25 points by ductionist 3y ago|11 comments
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by ductionist 3y ago
I have the same problem with my “blinds” - I started calling them “shades” instead (not the usual term, in my vernacular at least) and have had much better luck. YMMV!
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The Worst Linux PC Ever(hackaday.com)
7 points by ductionist 5y ago|2 comments
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Keep Out(developer.apple.com)
4 points by ductionist 6y ago|0 comments
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Apps have turned restaurant work into a gig-economy hustle(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by ductionist 7y ago|0 comments
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Reddit AMA: Since 1983, I’ve lived in an egalitarian commune of 100 in rural VA(reddit.com)
2 points by ductionist 7y ago|0 comments
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Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything(theintercept.com)
266 points by ductionist 7y ago|107 comments
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Manual Babbling(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ductionist 7y ago|0 comments
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History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin(theatlantic.com)
7 points by ductionist 7y ago|0 comments
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Nathan Latka's a bestselling author and tech podcast host. Is he also a con man?(vox.com)
4 points by ductionist 7y ago|0 comments
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Faster way to download and install Xcode(blog.kulman.sk)
1 points by ductionist 7y ago|0 comments
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For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Canadian prison(nationalpost.com)
47 points by ductionist 7y ago|58 comments
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The Rise and Fall of the Cash Railway(atlasobscura.com)
38 points by ductionist 7y ago|15 comments
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The Debate Between Netflix and Big Theater Chains over ‘The Irishman’(nytimes.com)
2 points by ductionist 7y ago|0 comments

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