449 Reply by an0va

(102 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Haha yes!!! You always pull through man!

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450 Reply by an0va

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thebitman wrote:

because most jazz ensembles don't use tubas


a jazz tuba solo is one of the funniest pictures i can imagine right now for some reason

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451 Reply by an0va

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ant1 wrote:

i don't think this is an interesting thread at all

what do you get out of knowing whether people you kind of know from a forum are able to read music or not


sorry an0va


Hahahaha it's k, I guess I wanted to see the spread going on in here and we don't have any polls sad

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452 Reply by an0va

(18 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

maplins!

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453 Reply by an0va

(29 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Disasterpeace because holy fuck guys

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454 Reply by an0va

(21 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

Hm, that's the thing. I'm trying to bypass DeskMate on startup, but it gets disc read errors 99% of the time I put in the startup disc with the option to change that. Wonder if the disc drive is damaged.

Either way, it's cool to learn a little more about this machine. Don't think I'm missing too much that can't be done on a good DOSclone.

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455 Reply by an0va

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ant1 wrote:

massive resource for tandy 1000 series stuff here  http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/documents.html       : - D   god i love docummmments


Brilliant, I think I found a lead through that:

III.F.2. What are the options to the system setup command?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It depends on the system; all of them are undocumented. On the 1000TL, there are
three. Entering, say SETUPTL without options will give you access to only one
screen of setup options - only "safe" things. SETUPTL /A will give access to
several additional screenfuls of setup. /A is mainly useful for controlling the
amount of video RAM (see section II.A.2.). SETUPTL /B will display the actual
binary EEPROM contents and allow you to change individual bits. It is not much
use since nobody has mapped the EEPROM. Beware of /A and /B: it is possible to
mess up the EEPROM so as to make the system unbootable. Finally, SETUPTL /F will
reset the EEPROM to the factory defaults; this option is sometimes useful if
you've messed up the setup so that there isn't any screen output. It is also
useful if your DeskMate DeskTop is messed up and you can't fix it from inside
DeskMate (you should also delete DESKTOP.CFG, and you will have to rebuild your
DeskTop).

trying now, brb

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456 Reply by an0va

(21 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

Awesome I was hoping you would, thanks dude! smile I'll check out monotone.


This is actually my parents' old unit. I remember writing endless nonsensical melodies with the Music program and driving them freaking mad with 64th note barrages

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457 Topic by an0va

(21 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

Tandy 1000 TL/3. Turning it on produces an error message:

FILE NOT FOUND

Please insert disc with DESKTOP.CFG

I have a stack of DeskMate discs too, but every one bring about that same error. Choosing cancel brings me to that DeskMate screen shown in the pic, but no options are really available except pressing Esc and being able to enter commands. Any way to fix this or is this pretty much done?

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458 Reply by an0va

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Fearofdark wrote:

In piano exams, sight reading tests for me were a bit of a nightmare as I've never been fully comfortable with reading both treble and bass clef at once. I can read single lines on a first go easily though (providing they're not ludicrously difficult).

I've always thought that was crazy how pianists can sightread dual clef action. I imagine one clef being okay, because one note has one location on the piano (middle C is...middle C). But on a six string guitar that same middle C can be found on five different strings in five different positions and all are fair game to play from. yikes

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459 Topic by an0va

(102 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I can read but it takes me a while to decipher the actual notes. I can tackle rhythms like no other, though. I've been practicing sightreading a ton lately on guitar and though it's really challenging, I think it's starting to pay off. Guitar is only treble clef, but it's notoriously difficult because on the guitar there are endless different ways to play the same thing and notation gives you no hint of fingerings or position shifts (unless you have a very courteous transcriber). To make matters worse, many jazz chord charts are very ambigious leaving you to come up with specific voicings all on your own. Definitely difficult, but the end result is really really fun.

but BEFORE YOU EVEN START: This is not a debate on whether or not you think knowing music theory or taking lessons makes you a better musician. That is a completely different topic and it's stupid to get on that debate here.


SO, can you read?

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460 Reply by an0va

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MegaMantra wrote:

in this case even if you begin with basic chiptune hardware, the sound you end up with will be what defines the music.



edit: also you guys is crazee-I hear chip as early as 1:38 in the first song, and that's even just a mini-climax of already built up chip percussion by that point. sure it's not as prominent as in other songs, but it's def there-i kinda like the subtlety of it in here. it certainly isn't a straight "chip" release as ant1 suggests, but that's also probably why I'm also so intrigued by it too.

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461 Reply by an0va

(8 replies, posted in Releases)

Fucking love B&W. One of the best acts I've seen at 8static. Cant wait to check this out when I get home.

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462 Reply by an0va

(34 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

myriad violets wrote:

I kind of bought the software and then secluded myself from the world, sampling different instruments and what-have-you in the depths of my room, leading to odd sample-only tracks, such as this: http://soundcloud.com/myriadviolets/adv … -mountains


Wow, that's really freaking cool. Great work!

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463 Reply by an0va

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ant1 wrote:

can you hand draw a waveform in renoise? or load a sample and chop it so it's only 64 bytes long? people have been making chip music in trackers without vsts since more than twenty years now, and most of it sounds A LOT better than today's VST craps.

Yep, sure can. Though I will say, Chipsounds is a beast.

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464 Reply by an0va

(34 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

Renoise + Chipsounds really is the ultimate modern chip composing solution, IMO

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