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Post by cynical1 on Mar 27, 2023 15:53:53 GMT -5
I may be that last one still doing this, but I want to wish a Happy Birthday to JohnH. I owe him a few beers for all the nonsense he helped me out of. And he's got nice looking horses, too.
So, hip hip hooray three times and enjoy the Fairy bread.
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 27, 2023 15:49:00 GMT -5
I will sing their praises on seven continents. I like Tuxguitar a bit more than Power Tab in Linux. I can get Rosegarden to talk to Hydrogen. The MIDI export isn't bad for either of them. I can take that track and stuff it into Ardour...and it only take 5 times as long as Windows did 20 years ago... I'm working with Yabridge to get the .vst's and .vsti's to work...but it's tedious as Hell. So put me down for a Continent and a half, please... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 26, 2023 12:27:39 GMT -5
Do you have a diagram of what you have wired up?
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 26, 2023 5:57:47 GMT -5
Mannnn, am I glad to be out of that madhouse ( not even a NutzHouse ) Yeah, the industry suffers from many ills, but from my observations, most of them started once IT became it's own autonomous non-revenue generating department...much like accounting, but without the years of learning\pain on how to justify staff, explain redundant processes...or just plain navigate in a corporate world. Then they let the MBA's in to manage it...lions led by donkeys... My wife works for the State of Illinois. Their IT department is a defacto example of this in action. It's the same old story...when you find yourself up to your @ss in alligators, it can be hard to recall that it was your job to drain the swamp... IT, AMF HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 25, 2023 8:02:38 GMT -5
Hip replacement is supposed to be less painful than knee replacement and take less time to get through rehab. Two weeks sounds a bit optimistic, though. I had a knee replacement last February and it was last April before the insurance company cut me loose declaring I was now "healed". 8+ weeks of therapy, with the first week in Skilled Nursing.
Wish your guy good luck for me.
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 25, 2023 7:47:13 GMT -5
Can you spell 'security nightmare', boys and girls? I can see the meeting at corporate now. Sure, let's use this to gather our metrics data on employee performance...and the best part is we never have to tell them, since it's now an Enterprise app...we'll keep in on the Intranet...we can control it...what could go wrong? Is it me, or does this remind anyone else of Max Headroom a bit... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 24, 2023 17:38:09 GMT -5
OK, enough ChatGPT. I've been playing with Google's Bard the last few days. Here's an exchange I had to share What is the airspeed of an unladen ground swallow?
The average airspeed velocity of an unladen ground swallow is 20.1 mph (32.4 kph) or 29.5 feet per second (9 meters per second). However, some have been clocked at 46 mph (74 kph) in the past! But, the guards admit that an African swallow could manage the feat. It gave me poems for Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Oscar Wilde. It refused to give me one for Hitler...so apparently it does have a line it won't cross. It's not very good with jokes, though... Tell me a joke, please
Sure. Here is a joke:
What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh! Suddenly Skynet seems a bit less intimidating... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 24, 2023 10:44:10 GMT -5
This was as close as I could find on Fishman's website for 1 pickup per output wiring: Remove the pots and it looks like everything goes straight to the switch, isolated star ground and output jack. 3 jacks, 3 switches...and 3 nine volt power sources required. sumgai and I talked about this on an idea I had when I still had hair...It involved a sustainer and MIDI out, along with passive pickups. The original thread was Bypassing Fernandes Sustainer It wanders a lot, but it follows a similar theme. The power supply was external with a pretty good size transformer, which I still have in a box...then a simple circuit out for each required power tap. For the life of me I don't remember how it went together, but it's a similar concept to a pedal board power box. You just need to calc the power requirements per device. Yeah, this is doable. HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 24, 2023 8:29:21 GMT -5
I don't know anything about the Keith Murrow pickup set. They're active, right? Seems like picking up a Fishman Fluence single coil pickup is the easy route for the "middle". I like the idea of separate outputs. Especially if you're just recording. As far as grounds go... I know shared grounds are a bad idea in passive wiring schemes with separate outputs for each pickup. Essentially, each pickup and output are it's own circuit. Sharing of grounds is not recommended. I have no idea on active guitar pickups. Someone with a clue should be by soon to elaborate. There has been discussions here regarding phantom power to onboard guitar components. It's been 10+ years ago at least, so my immediate recall is cloudy, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. I had a few onboard devices, but I believe I used DIN connector arrangement. I don't recall how many conductors, but there are options. I would recommend dropping the coin on the industrial type...you know, the ones that don't break when set the guitar on the floor reaching for a cigarette... I understand dropping the tone knob, but I have to wonder about dropping the volume control. If this is a studio instrument, I would think you would want to preserve as many tonal options as possible. You can always toss in a blower switch... Switches...sure, love 'em... Happy Trails - Cynical1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 23, 2023 9:49:40 GMT -5
Nuno is still amazing. I would recommend checking out Population1. It's a departure, to an extent, of what you expect from Extreme. For the most part it's songs, not just shredding. Population1 evolved into Drama Gods and got heavier, but this is a different insight into his talent and songwriting. The entire album is over here. It's certainly worth a listen. It also has the best birthday song... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 23, 2023 9:00:10 GMT -5
It is so human to take drum, put a string on it...and a few thousand years later we have digitally controlled instruments. Progress demands complexity...and additional syllables...
If Musk did start building guitars, I see a world where they'd all play "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"...then likely burst into flames...
One thing I have noticed about the guitar buying public over almost 50 years is that they're not an adventurous bunch, by and large. Most guitars sold today still cling to a model from the last century...amps, too... Listen to interviews with Nuno Bettencourt. He can play the Hell out of a guitar, but he only seems to carry a rudimentary knowledge of his instrument's inner working.
Granted, most of us here long term buck this trend, but we are the minority of the industry's customer base. I wish SD luck on this...but the "GeeWhiz" syndrome has a shelf life...remember self tuning guitars...
Have you had a chance to play with this thing yourself yet?
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 22, 2023 16:01:51 GMT -5
Yeah, $149.00 for a bluetooth enabled switch sounds like a solution in search of a problem...
I have to wonder about how easy would it be to hack the switch at a venue...not so much the audience...but another guy in the band...not that I'd know anything about stuff like that...
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 22, 2023 10:49:12 GMT -5
Funny, I was playing Extreme all day yesterday. Nuno is one of those guitarists that never ceases to amaze me. He's as quick as any of them, but he's rhythmic. He certainly fits firmly into the list of underappreciated guitarists.
He has been with Extreme since the late 80's, but he has a solo album, and has played with Mourning Widows, Population 1, DramaGods, Satellite Party. He's guested with people like Dweezil Zappa, Steve Hackett, John Paul Jones, Steve Vai...you get the idea. He played bass on a few track of the Baby Animals 1993 album Shaved and Dangerous. (You Aussie's should remember that one) I met his ex-wife, Suze DeMarchi when the album came out...but I digress...
I can't think of a favorite...too many...so here's this from the "Generation Axe" Tour from a few years ago...
Then this with Extreme
okay..one more..
Muito Obrigado, Portugal
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 21, 2023 10:44:47 GMT -5
I'm waiting for someone to come up with some simpler 'it just works' system than blinkin' JACK "blinkin'" would not be the first word that comes to mind... JACK is better than it was...but it was just a short walk. MIDI was always a "pay attention" type of setup in Windows with Cubase or Cakewalk. Linux leaves me with the impression that most developers are clinically deaf, so audio output was never an issue for them... I can get Hydrogen (the Linux shadow of EZ or Superior Drummer) to work with RoseGarden. It even preserves MIDI drum mapping. But, I can't mix that with live tracks...I need Ardour to accept the outputted "audio" file from RoseGarden first... This was drag and drop in Windows right around the turn of the century... I miss being able to use .vst and .vsti... HTC1 PS: I just got on the waiting list for BARD. I'll ask it...but if that breaks it...I was never there... EDIT: OK, I got my turn at BARD. Here's what it said: Is there a gui to configure JACK in linux?Yes, there is a GUI to configure JACK in Linux. It is called QjackCtl and it is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control the status of the audio server daemon.
To install QjackCtl, you can use the following command:
sudo apt install qjackctl Once QjackCtl is installed, you can start it by typing the following command:
qjackctl The QjackCtl GUI will open and you will be able to configure the JACK sound server daemon.
Sources - Learn more www.linuxrouen.fr/wp/projets/simple-midi-sequencer-sms-v-0-2-5-with-audio-capability-26712/ qjackctl.sourceforge.io/ While this is true, it's not exactly virgin territory. This app is better than the terminal window. Herpes is also better than bone cancer...
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 20, 2023 16:53:07 GMT -5
Anyone want to take bets on how many of our members know what that machine is/does? This was how they tracked our attendance in high school. Everyone had a card and if you were MIA, your card went in a pouch on the door...where a clever bastard with a pocket knife might carefully cut an extra hole in the card, throwing it out of range...and making you oddly present for class... I also took an RPGII programming class. HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 20, 2023 12:49:39 GMT -5
Actually, the more I think about it, most pop music could be replaced by an artificial intelligence of this order: HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 20, 2023 4:16:10 GMT -5
This just popped up on my radar..... Wait until they give one of these a Grammy...
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 19, 2023 19:20:06 GMT -5
No lie, there is pain for anyone going from Windows to Linux. The power and quality of most offerings in Linux do pale by comparison to their Windows counterparts.
Pitivi is not a bad video editing piece of software. Nothing like Adobe Premiere, but it's free. This is the fatal flaw in open source software...you need to wait until some programmer has the same interest or problem you do to get anything new. I'm still waiting for someone that can code to write something that will allow me to drag and drop MIDI files...
I haven't messing with CAD in a while. I'd love to have CNC capabilities, but I think my cardiologist would advise against me trying that in Linux...
Linux Mint is significantly better that it used to be. I've been pushing off the upgrade to v.21.1, since 20.3 is still working fine. That's a holdover from Microsoft...just when you think things are running just fine, they push an update...
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 17, 2023 8:53:57 GMT -5
Although, I venture there's still a fair bit of human intervention with this example... By choosing what the AI used as a basis qualifies. I doubt they let it listen to much Varèse...or Yoko... Typically, machines just took over mundane, repetitive tasks. Now it's venturing into that side of behavior that makes us human. To me, this is one of the more unsettling parts of AI...or the promise of the aforementioned... During his lifetime, somewhere between 1671 and 1751, Tomaso Albinoni wrote a certain piece of music, That score was eventually housed in the Dresden Library in Germany by 1945...coincidentally, the exact time that Dresden was bombed to ashes. Jump ahead into the 1950's and an Italian, Remo Giazotto, discovers fragments of this score in said library. While most of it was lost in the fires, this little surviving fragment inspires him to finish the piece...which we know as the Adagio in G. I would love to see what the AI does with that same little fragment. HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 17, 2023 7:59:14 GMT -5
I mean, doesn't it get to a point where it's a harp? I believe this is more in zither territory... It's like the 5 neck guitar Rick Nielsen used to play... Just because you can... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 16, 2023 12:03:48 GMT -5
17 string bass...yeah, that's not unwieldy... At least there's no fur on it...
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 16, 2023 4:55:47 GMT -5
I retired a year ago. I have no use for dates anymore...or watches...or bank accounts...
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 15, 2023 12:54:18 GMT -5
But what I wanna know is, does Gateway Computer (now owned by Acer) know that their trademarked color scheme has been appropriated? That is an old POVRay image...from the last century... Gateway beat the Hell out of Packard Bell. I used to work on both...that makes me feel old in some way...probably because I am old...but not quite judgmental...yet... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 15, 2023 5:09:25 GMT -5
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 14, 2023 13:24:26 GMT -5
There is a Linux version of Brave. It passes the vigilink redirect without an issue. You just have to turn off all the Brave Rewards stuff so it behaves. I believe ProBards is gaining some financial benefit from their relationship with vigilink. According to Wikipedia: VigLink is a San Francisco-based, outbound-traffic monetization service for publishers, forums, and bloggers. VigLink specializes in in-text advertising and marketing.[1][2][3][4] VigLink CEO Oliver Roup founded the company in March 2009.[5][6][7]
In 2012, Oliver Roup reported VigLink was working on 5 billion pages per month.[8]
As of November 2014, VigLink has raised $27.34 million and is working with 63,000 online retailers including EBay, Target, Amazon.com, and Wal-Mart.[9][10][11][12]
Service VigLink's content monetization solution connects potential consumers to products by hyperlinking particular keywords in a website's content.[1][3][7][9]
The company's technology, VigLink Insert, scans a page for words that could be potentially profitable to the publisher of the page, and connects the keyword with a product from an affiliate program.[3][4] The publisher is paid when a reader clicks a link contained in the content to buy or learn more about a service or product.[3][7][12]
VigLink also offers an outbound analytics service for clients to understand where readers go when they leave their site.[8][13][14] Ya' gotta keep the lights on... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 14, 2023 10:22:17 GMT -5
It looks healthy enough. When you get it all put together, feel free to come back and tell us what you think. I notice he carries a lot of parts on his Reverb page. Seems pretty straight up. Yeah, it's just another passive way for bloggers and forums to monetize their site content. Firefox and Chrome hate it...but you can strip the vigilink prefix from the right click copied link and all should work fine. This has to be a Proboards thing...as we never see a check coming this way... Sign of the times...if you're not the paying customer, then you must be the product... HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 13, 2023 12:17:37 GMT -5
The holes in the back contain the intonation adjustment grub screws, making it much easier to accurately set the intonation without requiring external tools (rather than just having the intonation locking screws à la Floyd's). It's an arrangement I mostly associate with the Wilkinson VS100 / HT100 bridges. It is much more clear to see what's going on with the black version of the ABM bridge: Well, that explains it... So, does the saddle lock also act as a string lock when top loading? BTW, as thick as the Schaller bridge is for the weight, it's probably Aluminum. The baseplate on two of them are brass for sure. The other three, and the saddles, I have no idea. The plating hadn't been compromised on those. HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 12, 2023 14:46:46 GMT -5
I'm just trying to figure out how the strings get through the back hole without touching the screws in the tail-stop configuration. Also feels like the ball-ends would be hanging off the bottom, which is an odd choice. I wonder if string-through compatible means only string-through compatible? I couldn't find one picture of this bridge in a top load configuration. It seems like you would have to route the strings through the holes in the saddles. What purpose would those holes serve otherwise? It seems string-through is how it works best. HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 12, 2023 12:01:11 GMT -5
the ABM 3256c looks like it can work as a tailstop or a string-through bridge According to their site: The bridge is "String Thru" compatible.
String spacing: 54mm, Intonation range max. 11,5mm, Height-Adjustment max.12,5mm, string-thru body action So, yeah, it does both. HTC1
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Post by cynical1 on Mar 12, 2023 8:59:20 GMT -5
It reminds me a little of the Kahler 2440 bass bridge... ...without the ability to move the saddles horizontally. ABM makes good stuff. I have a project awaiting completion that uses an ABM bass bridge. It's a quality piece of hardware. HTC1
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