speak_on

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by speak_on 3mo ago
Just to wrap this up. Is your professional opinion that techniques like antialiasing/oversampling/etc and any sample rate above 44.1 kHz are essentially an industry-wide scam and the perceived benefits are not true ? And since th
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by speak_on 3mo ago
This is a more philosophical take… And I totally agree with you. I mix at 16/44.1 just for the record. I do not buy into the idea of gold plated connectors or 96 kHz mixing. My point was never about quality - I can hear the difference
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Hm, no. The discussion was never about analog artifacts vs AD conversion artifacts. Both are present. And not sure why you use "artifacts", do you not believe the artifacts are real? How can the lowpass filter not introduce artifa
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Ha! OK I take that back. Firstly, it's an amazing experience to randomly interact with people like you - I love and use your software. Hats off and thanks for what you offered to the industry! But secondly, your statement makes even
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by speak_on 3mo ago
I don't. Do you? I am not a researcher. Saying that, do you have a double-blind study handy on MP3 256 vs 320 actual audible differences? If not, can you yourself hear the difference? If you can - it might be an illusion.
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Other than the top engineers in the industry. This is a discussion that always ends up in the "double-blind study" vs actual real engineers working in the industry.
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Got it. Grammy voters love Collier's mixes. What about Tony Maserati? He can clearly tell the difference between 44.1 and 88.2. If your argument is that these engineers can't hear the difference - you are going to be disappointed.
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Ok dude, you obviously never recorded anything. Twelve mics on a drum kit, 60 tracks of rhythm guitars, several bass guitar layers, vocals, backing vocals, electric organ, percussions, saxophone solo. Do you think recording them at 44.1 som
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by speak_on 3mo ago
The central point is that AD conversion can and will introduce artifacts. DA process wil intrduce more artifacts. The "imperfect" is a huge range and AD/DA converters play a role in that. We are not talking about "golden
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Genereally very low for a single track? What about 200 tracks? Badly written synthesis, or badly recorded live instruments, or bounced and re-bounced dozens of times... we are not talking about the quality-defining aspect here. You can prod
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Mixing process often involves hundreds of tracks, and if each introduces aliasing, this can become a problem. Some engineers do swear by "the final mix is 16/44.1 so why mix at a different resolution?" mantra - that's fi
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by speak_on 3mo ago
OK, so we are entering the stage of "can you provide a double-blind study link". I can look it up, I am not a researcher. Here is one: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/13
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Absolutely! All these examples have imperfect audio paths - that is the point.
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by speak_on 3mo ago
If you are looking for studies, this one comes to mind: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289039184_The_audib... A quick search returned this PDF with a nice diagram of what aliasing looks like: https:/&#x
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by speak_on 3mo ago
Would you agree that a trained human could identify artifacts produced by an imperect conversion process? If you lean "yes", then that's your answer: AD/DA is not a Rust function perfectly implementing the Nyquist theore
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by speak_on 3mo ago
The artifacts produced by pure 44.1 kHz convertion are aliased back down to lower frequencies. It's not about a theoretical human ear, it's about the actual physics of AD/DA conversion.
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by speak_on 3mo ago
(I commented on this topic above/below in more detail.) Even with not-so-great hearing you would still be able to identify the difference (ie artifacts are pushed down, not up). Look up articles on the practical limitations of AD/
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by speak_on 3mo ago
As I responded below, you are confusing math with physical reality. A true 44.1 kHz converter can't realistically capture frequencies ~18-20 kHz due to the limitations of filters used in the process. A perfect lowpass brick-wall filter
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by speak_on 3mo ago
44.1 is "enough" only in theory. This assumes a physically impossible steep filter. Realistically, frequencies around 20 kHz will create audible artifacts (aliasing). So yes, a trained ear can tell the diffrenece between 44.1 and
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by speak_on 3mo ago
The most impactful for noticing the difference? Again, I would argue it's the trained ear. If you have plenty of mixing experience then all these details add up, and a treated room becomes the most critical - agree with that.
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by speak_on 3mo ago
At a minimum, anything above 16/44.1 requires far more than just files: monitors, a treated room, listening position, DAC, etc... but most importantly - a trained ear. That last one is the most uncomfortable truth.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
Yes, it would flag an outbound connection from the Python process.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
Worth mentioning the "supercollider-vscode" extension - makes Supercollider dev experience much smoother than it was a decade or so ago.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
OF will be replaced before all the other jobs in this list. OF's main "product" is fantasies. A fast, local, uncensored, tunable video model will end it.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
In my teens I was really into '60s and '70s counterculture and spent most of my nights looking up music from that era. Among all the lesser-known gems with surprising longevity (e.g. Tractor), there were hundreds - if not thousand
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by speak_on 5mo ago
Oh wow, Crickets is an incredible track. Never heard of her before.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
Fascinating! Did her music feel different from other musicians at the time? Listening to some of her songs now, it's hard not to feel like she was way ahead of her time. Though that could just be hindsight talking.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
The parts where responses have schema-consistent types (OpenApi) and the same types can be used on the client without extra work (RPC) are outside of Zod.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
Second this. Workers being non zone-based makes them less useful to me.
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by speak_on 5mo ago
Looking at the first example - it's far less verbose. Although, seems to be suspiciously minimal, so I can't even tell from a single .tsp route definition what response content type to expect (application/json is the default

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