The iPad hasn't been charged in well over six months so I was thinking it might be running for Congress but I charged it and now it works again, thus excluding it forever from political office.
What's the first thing a computer does when it comes up after having been down for a while. Yah, that's right ... update every damn bit of software on it. But how can I complain when it does it by itself. The young 'uns don't remember when you actually had to be able to read to use a computer.
My impression is the iPad is online all the time even when it's 'sleeping' but how can I know any more than I can find out if the refrigerator light really, really does go out when I shut the fridge door.
The only reason this is of any interest at all is the iPad can easily make me look like a social butterfly even though I am likely far from the computer and I never take the iPad anywhere.
So, if it looks like I'm online and I'm not responding, it's likely the iPad you see. I'm probably playing the guitar and not thinking much about computers at all.
In fact, moving the back tracks off the computer was the last stage of devolution from a massively-complex musical computer system based on Opcode's Vision. Now I only expect the computer to act like no more than a simple radio repeater (i.e. take the signal and re-transmit. Try not to fuck it up.)
That spins off into a discussion of the role of computers in music and that would be a good one for sitting about with Voodoo, knocking back Guinness, reefers, or whatever else may be of fancy, while talking about it. That would be interesting. In print, it would be like reading differentials on prices for house paint.
Chicagosax is also heavily-electronicized as a MIDI saxophone is one hellaciously-complex instrument to program. Don't get too geeky with it or you'll go insane like the other engineers but consider the number of parameters needed to define what a guitar string is doing. Most likely the majority of the determination of the MIDI note is based purely on the perception of the wave form ... BUT ... a true wind instrument is analyzing the breathing of the player and the sophistication of that measure is where you can get as geeky as you like ... and completely insane.
But they did it and the instrument is beautiful. Computers are inside the instrument and the synthesizer to which it is connected but this isn't Apple or Windows computing, rather it's the type you will find in your car. It does whatever it is supposed to do without the genuflection required by other operating systems or you pay the mechanic thousand bucks for another one as brain boxes for cars always cost at least a thousand dollars.
However!
Voodoo plays some gorgeous saxophone also but he does it with a keyboard playing via computer. The difference between his approach and that of Chicagosax is very significant musically but will easily break through the geek sound barrier for anyone else. The synthesis of the saxophone sound is taking place on-board to Voodoo's computer(s) whereas the synthesis for Chicagosax is taking place in an external hardware synthesizer. Musicians can talk about this stuff all night and this is one of the major reasons if you're not listening to them play or having sex with them, they're really kind of useless.
What's the first thing a computer does when it comes up after having been down for a while. Yah, that's right ... update every damn bit of software on it. But how can I complain when it does it by itself. The young 'uns don't remember when you actually had to be able to read to use a computer.
My impression is the iPad is online all the time even when it's 'sleeping' but how can I know any more than I can find out if the refrigerator light really, really does go out when I shut the fridge door.
The only reason this is of any interest at all is the iPad can easily make me look like a social butterfly even though I am likely far from the computer and I never take the iPad anywhere.
So, if it looks like I'm online and I'm not responding, it's likely the iPad you see. I'm probably playing the guitar and not thinking much about computers at all.
In fact, moving the back tracks off the computer was the last stage of devolution from a massively-complex musical computer system based on Opcode's Vision. Now I only expect the computer to act like no more than a simple radio repeater (i.e. take the signal and re-transmit. Try not to fuck it up.)
That spins off into a discussion of the role of computers in music and that would be a good one for sitting about with Voodoo, knocking back Guinness, reefers, or whatever else may be of fancy, while talking about it. That would be interesting. In print, it would be like reading differentials on prices for house paint.
Chicagosax is also heavily-electronicized as a MIDI saxophone is one hellaciously-complex instrument to program. Don't get too geeky with it or you'll go insane like the other engineers but consider the number of parameters needed to define what a guitar string is doing. Most likely the majority of the determination of the MIDI note is based purely on the perception of the wave form ... BUT ... a true wind instrument is analyzing the breathing of the player and the sophistication of that measure is where you can get as geeky as you like ... and completely insane.
But they did it and the instrument is beautiful. Computers are inside the instrument and the synthesizer to which it is connected but this isn't Apple or Windows computing, rather it's the type you will find in your car. It does whatever it is supposed to do without the genuflection required by other operating systems or you pay the mechanic thousand bucks for another one as brain boxes for cars always cost at least a thousand dollars.
However!
Voodoo plays some gorgeous saxophone also but he does it with a keyboard playing via computer. The difference between his approach and that of Chicagosax is very significant musically but will easily break through the geek sound barrier for anyone else. The synthesis of the saxophone sound is taking place on-board to Voodoo's computer(s) whereas the synthesis for Chicagosax is taking place in an external hardware synthesizer. Musicians can talk about this stuff all night and this is one of the major reasons if you're not listening to them play or having sex with them, they're really kind of useless.
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