From: Nicholas B. <n.j...@el...> - 2005-06-13 09:07:52
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10 Jun 2005, at 9:00 pm, Silvan wrote: > Thinking more broadly, an SB Live! for $20 in a $50 junk computer=20 > could make a > ripping MIDI workstation in some kind of fiscally challenged=20 > educational > environment too. We buy junk from an outfit down the road called Priceless Computing=20 (opposite PC World, the expensive but incompetent multinational ("Q:=20 What's the difference between a computer salesman and a car salesman?=20 A: The car salesman knows when he's lying to you.")). www.pless.co.uk=20 - -- stereo soundcard for aforementioned junk computer for the purposes=20= of demoing rosegarden and animix (it's on sourceforge now) to grant=20 authorities: UK=A37. New. Really. I bought two in the hope that one = would=20 work, and they both did. Worked out of the box (actually, there was no=20= box! Out of the bag.) with knoppix and ALSA. Probably sonically=20 inferior to the SBLive! but since it's in the same box as a CPU fan=20 which sounds like a cow giving birth, I care not :) Further news: * UI: Dougie has the pitch graph integrated into the score window now,=20= at least as a first shot. Still not clear whether an attempt should be=20= made to put it under the actual notes, as that would make the time axis=20= monotonic but non-linear (4 semiquavers occupy more space than a=20 crotchet, at least sometimes). * Turnkey Ubuntu IBM R50e with Rosegarden currently resident at the=20 Royal College of Music, London. Reliability of pitchtracker greatly=20 increased with Spectral Smothing. I bet Dougie's hacked it with a=20 moving window, but will chastise him until he does something clever=20 with window functions. A moving average is, after all, a convolution!=20 The system has been calibrated against Ingrid Pearson (RCM,=20 Clarinettist) and has found to be at least as accurate as her (which is=20= very accurate). * Rosegarden Publicity: Rosegarden gets an antipodean mention at http://www.ae.unsw.edu.au/programs/lunchHourWorkshops.html no link unfortunately, but all publicity is good publicity! See=20 workshop 5. This popped up as the second hit on Google when I was=20 looking for Ingrid's page! * Human Voice. Soprano Amanda Morrison http://www.scottishvoices.org.uk/amanda.html member of BBC Singers and Scottish Voices tested the pitch tracker=20 which is now as accurate as she is (which is very accurate). Previously=20= it was only tested on the voice by having Graham, Dougie and Me=20 groaning at it. If Graham gives me a copy and I'm allowed to, we'll have to put his "O=20= Venezia" up on our streaming server. Not much to do with the pitch=20 tracker, but it's nice to put audio links in emails rather than html=20 ones when talking about musicians, I always think :) Nick/. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCrUy2Fo+kGmUnzkQRAu2WAJ92tc1/tDueTFfD+EpHF8eCbUmBwwCeOSPv NgAbnuOLCvJqumE1aNwtDmo=3D =3DuCfo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |