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Kris k wrote:is littlefm pretty stable these days? i had it totally mess up one of my saves a while back and i'd rather not go through that again...
Did you report this when it happened? I'm always looking to improve the program.
herr_prof wrote:My gripe with little fm is that it default boots into the little FM menu, is there a way around that? Because yea otherwise its perfect.
Same with this, why didn't you do a feature request to the dork who made it?
Sure. Send it to my username @gmail.com. Or PM if you have a link ready.
Drill a small hole in the guide column for the button and light it from the side using one or more SMD LEDs maybe?
Well, I disagree. In my opinion such titles are earned, based on the person's skill. Some may be natural talents at doing something, and others may have practiced for decades. But to claim that someone who sings for the first time holds the same right to the title as someone who has proven skill, not only possibly, but necessarily, is to me absurd.
n00bstar wrote:I'm fairly certain anyone who sings is a singer, even if only momentarily.
If joe schmoe does his own electrical wiring in his house, is he (momentarily) an electrician?
pselodux wrote:3.5mm plug -> link cable plug. Send a sync pulse from Renoise or any DAW, it shouldn't be too difficult (or expensive) to get it going. Also the official nanoloop USB MIDI adaptor thing is pretty cheap..
Not sure the pulse would be strong enough to trigger the link port. Also, the nanoloop adpter is often (and atm) out of stock.
Honestly, I think "Many chipmusicians have become conceited in their old age?" is almost the definition of pernicious.
JaffaCakeMexica wrote:Well, if you cant say from the bottom of your heart that its absolutely worth $75, then if you had paid $102 for it you might think it was a bit steep.
I'm not even saying that as an indicator of the quality of the instrument! It's a highly personal preference that I can make the sounds I want in other ways, be it by composing in LSDj, writing my own Gameboy code, building something in Reaktor or something else. Each to their own needs.
JaffaCakeMexica wrote:@sweden: Good to get a heads up that its actually useful and worth the price...might get it in a couple of months. Maybe I'll try super PSG first tho...cos its sega master system...sega was always better.
It depends on what you're looking for, again. I didn't pay for my license, so I can't say from the bottom of my heart that it's absolutely worth $75. (And no, I didn't pirate it. I got my license for free since I was a beta tester. 
) It does what it says on the box, which may or may not be what you want.
JaffaCakeMexica wrote:But I would like to add that regarding the pricing of VSTi, sometimes it not what a VSTi is worth that matters but rather how the developer can move the most units (make the most sales) in the fastest possible time (during the hype phase) in order to maximise profit
That's an interesting economic point. It might be possible that they would get more than double the number of users if they halved the price (say) but it may have unintended consequences. The lower you set the price, the more likely you are to attract bottom-feeders who are not really interested in the software. And all of a sudden you have a bunch of silly support questions. I only wanted to make this one SID sound. How do I make this sound? This program is too complex. Can't you make it simpler? Why is the sound so clicky? On second thought, I want something that sounds GOOD not something that sounds realistic. Can I have my money back, please? And so on. A high price can actually be a benefit because it makes the demand for the program self-limiting to those who are genuinely interested in what it has to offer. The high volume proposition works very well for someone making plastic doodads to be sold in supermarkets, but not for every product.
You're missing the point of it. What you're paying for is all the research it takes to rather precisely replicate the sound of various consoles. It's for the purists. If this is not important for you, you could use the squarewave oscillator of any free VST for instant chiptune.
JaffaCakeMexica wrote:It looks awesome for an entirely gameboy based setup, but it will be frame rate based speed instead of BPM so difficult to use in terms of sampling patterns out into a DAW
Couldn't you use MIDI sync for that purpose?
I'm hosting various websites, including my blog and my Gameboy development site on a LAMP stack. It's atm very low usage. I'm nowhere near 100% usage of bandwidth or CPU. I'm on the $10/month package. (30 GB storage, 1 GB RAM). I chose this over the lowest tier because I ideally needed more than 20 GB disk space and 512 MB RAM seemed a bit low. (I didn't want RAM swapping to become a bottleneck under increased load.) I'm using an Ubuntu server. They do also offer one-click apps as they call it, which may be useful but I haven't tried that. So far I have no complaints about the service.
I migrated away from a managed web host about 6 months ago. I first tried Linode. On paper, they have a slightly better service than DO in terms of manageability. However, a friend recommended me to choose Linode instead due to the rumors that someone had gained access to a VM and was able to steal a large amount of bitcoin, either by a vulnerability in the system or with the help of an employee. In either case, that was enough for me to avoid Linode altogether on principle, even if the risk of me in particular getting affected was low. It's also for the same reason I would never touch Godaddy, as they have a reputation of having frequent vulnerabilities in their hosting environment.
The truth about .com domains is that you won't get them for under $10/year long term. Every claim of $0.99 domains is one time coupons, typically when buying other services. With that in mind, pay the $11-$12 and look for a quality provider instead of hunting for the cheapest. Dynadot and Google Domains as mentioned above are both respectable choices.
As for hosting, I too use Digital Ocean. But keep in mind that what they offer is a VPS service, so you have to set up and manage the server yourself. This is fine for me, but might not be for everyone.
I see. I didn't mean to imply you didn't know, and I didn't know about the medical implications of it, but it's the kind of thing that it seems like a good idea to warn about too many times rather than too few times.
I wrote a blog post about his chiptune thievery in 2009. Later when he started to compose music on his own, he convinced me to delete the post. With this mess in mind I've decided to republish it for posterity. My initial impression of him as a complete douchebag turned out to be correct.
http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2009/09/19 … hief-ever/
Also with the risk of being the bearer of bad news... I got an e-mail from one of his victims in 2014, mentioning he also had a hep c infection. For anyone who had sex with him seeing this, who thought it was just the HIV, you may want to get screened for hep c as well.
http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2009/12/06 … backlight/
Here's one I did a few years back from materials scavenged from a broken monitor, a couple of random 45 degree angle LEDs and som PCB material. The sandwich turned out slightly too thick but might be good for inspiration.
Don't know if the extra money would be worth it for you, but maybe you can ask if any of the regular sellers can send something through a delivery company such as UPS, DHL, FedEx etc. Also, are you sure that insured mail isn't more reliable than regular mail?
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