jamesjolliffe

I thought their competitor was M8 tracker, so nice to hear about Synthstrom, thanks! Glad we have a growing space for making things that make music!

Very smart move. Open-source your project. Get more nerds invested in your gear and its legacy, and crowd-source feature development.

Well done, Polyend! Godspeed, and looking forward to seeing how this develops.

My apologies, I was skimming initially and, from just the headings it appeared to fit that pattern I've seen everywhere lately.

I agree with you that upon closer reading, this hypothetical JVN isn't arguing for a ban, but you could certainly read

> He goes on to say that a ban would have to be worldwide to work

> What safeguard remains? Apparently only day-to-day — or perhaps year-to-year — opportunistic measures, a long sequence of small, correct decisions. [...]

and

> The only safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment.

as an argument for regulation.

And it does feel like a doomer narrative.

> For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration.

Also, while we glorify JVN's intellect, let's not forget that all his reasoning resulted in him publicly arguing for the nuclear annihilation of a vast country of people.

Article spends the first 95% establishing JVN as a mythologically intelligent person. Then the last paragraph suggesting he would want to ban AI.

So much content out there atm nudging very hard for AI regulation.

Does anyone else find these photos really relaxing to look at?

Also, by god, the step numbers are hard to read if you want to mess around with sequencing your own patterns.

I'm assuming that's just authentic to the UX of the original unit, but since this is such a cool tool to play around with, it might be nice to have the option of a "digital" or "high contrast" theme which optimized UX color choices for legibility.

Also, the synth/emulation sounds great (on my laptop speakers, at least).

Dude. No way.

Way cool. Yes!

But genuinely, thank you!

I don't know if I fully agree with this analysis, but I really appreciate the argument for emphasizing these values.

Is this the perfect clickbait title for nerd sniping?

One of the best I can recall.

Lol, I'm not sure the author expected to set off an army of nerds arguing how difficult it is to cook a proper steak.

God I, totally unironically, love HN.

This is so weird. I love it. Thanks for sharing!

Good point - again for this, filter cutoff knob position or MIDI CC value percentage of 0/max value # would be mapped to cutoff frequency Hz #.

And yes, envelope times have different transition formulas between points, like linear vs logarithmic, as you stated. But again, having a direct map for of just A,D,S,R ms times would give you a rough approximation of amp env, save you a ton of time, and honestly, just serve as a sanity check sometimes, when trying to recreate similar "classic" subtractive patches between synths.

OK, call me too synth nerdy, but have you guys ever longed for a project that allowed you too match stuff like envelope times and between synths?

E.g. (totally made up values in this example) if you want to approximate the amplitude envelope from SH-101 to Bass Station 2, if the attack knob is at 5/10 position on 101, that's 500ms, which means you need to set attack knob to 6/10 on Bass Station 2 to get same attack time?

I hope this gets made one day, but I'm too poor and stupid to make it.

Anyways, this sort of system would make it much easier to create "universal" patches that would work between synths.

Rewatched this movie last week. Best movie I've seen in at least a year. Robert Altman is immortal.