More so.

I hear that one of the guys at Bethesda has some sort of stupid personal problem porting to Mac so that version will apparently never see the light of day.

You mean Here's My Card Records from Toronto, fronted by DJ Skeeter. Good people.

Personally, I think that smoking weed is so last year. Now I only hoop or shoot it.

Which FFF is this, goddamnit? The breakcore guy or who????

I'm close to Laurier, but I hardly know ye.

Solid gold.

I was crossing my fingers that someone had found another white dookie.

I seriously want to dry hump Sarah Silverman while sniffing white dog poo and laughing so hard that the milk I'm drinking squirts out of my nose, but I'll have just done so much cocaine that I'll already have white crust around my face and the milk and cocaine and perhaps blood from all the cocaine I've been doing will fly out of my nose and land on Sarah's bosom and she'll puke up the clam chowder and vanilla ice cream she was eating and it would be like a White Christmas and oh yeah we'd be wearing KKK outfits because after all she's Jewish and that's so clever to wear the KKK outfit if you're a heeb and yeah maybe if I'm lucky I would have eaten way too much calcium and even my poo would be white. Wow. This is damn fine coffee.

Canada, as part of NORAD/NATO, has a few too many things going on in remote places that we shouldn't be peeking at and I doubt that they want to show them off.

Hey how close is Fairbanks to Russia?

Rorschach.

wut?

Ok so what, this guy's Pierroxia and now he's on medication. Next freak please.

snop dog doggy had sum uv da bestest hitz evar

Wow, that's a great way to prepare a baby for the table. Tenderize the beef with a few limbering exercises then pop it right in the oven. Three hours later, tender and moist baby loins.

Yeah, Bliss, if you want to raid or troll, find a site where we're not all way better at it than you.

Oh no you've just unleashed hipster hell upon ye unlistened [ rave.ca ] networks! Bangkok Impact and Safety Scissors? That's like, the two biggest picks for scarf wearing hightop kicking mustache riders from 2005. Kinda burning out the oldies eh? Plus the Plump DJs? Wow, go selector.

They tried to make her go to rehab, she said, no, no, no.

Now she's in the hospital with some kind of major chest infection.

[ all2c.tv ]

Also seasons 2 and 3 of Metalocalypse are on Demonoid.

i.o.w. fuck television. And new episodes of Prison Break.

Dexter's on Megavideo, which you can get to via alluc

Here goes!

OIC the kid was... his girlfriend...

Hey Neko, it's not about that, about who's right and who's wrong, this is actually a fascinating and educational thread (OMG and it is too). I don't think Fred meant any harm, you're just afraid he's not going to like you dumping your encyclopedic knowledge on us. In fact it looks like the people discussing this are enthralled, take nothing personally.

We had these premade sensors and strips that were probably initially component parts of a power glove or otherwise in the labs for IMCA. The students didn't think I was nuts, everyone was playing with them. We had a big box at the front of the class, everyone grabbed a midi box, a cv to MIDI box, and whatever sensors they wanted to use. Then we tried to make sense of all the data flying into Max and eventually selected ranges of incoming values that would trigger specific variables, ie we calibrated them.

The finger sensors consisted of two thin strips filled with conductive ink that were placed flat against each other. Because the ink wasn't in a tube, but rather in small pockets, pressure change in each of the individual joints would indicate greater tension in the clenching of the hand. This pumped out a positive integer, then we would decide what these integers would be converted into. Nobody in the class really knew how to make the things yet, and I tried a few times to do my own contact mic or electrode work and broke expensive equipment being a noob at welding.

From the programming end, which is all I really understood, I had a range of values from 0 to 32678 or whatever come in, and I would do some quick math to figure out what to do to make this a logarithmic scale from 0 to 127 (you guessed it, simple velocity), then stick a bunch of function boxes on the virtual circuit to do the conversion. But Max is so user-friendly you find out in no time there's an even easier way to do it, etc.

I won't make any pretensions that I ever had a precise electrode-controlled beatbox techno machine, I didn't. I made a sequencer and a synthesizer, but without any funky external controls. I just wanted two good homemade VSTs before moving on to Squarepusher-level performace-based programming. Because you have to consider your own dexterity with such machines, and figure out how to use your own personal frame of reference for ease of use to get it to work. A lot more tinkering than the average Uni student wants to go through if a program that responds to red objects will already get you the A+.

I love these things but I still prefer just running a patch cable from a guitar or bass and calibrating the pitch, volume, and frequency content, as well as any sort of timbral changes (way harder) to a synth and wavetable, then going nuts on the thing. Squarepusher style. But not as well played.

Hahaha delicious OMG

This year's zombie walk has gotten off to a good start, spokeswoman shown here commenting on the upcoming "invasion".

Wait for it...

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!!

There's a moral to that story somewhere. I shed a small tear.

Hey everyone, I'm positive this is no first, possibly even a repost, but I just wanted to post one of my favourite bits from Planet Earth.



Somewhere out there are fungi who desperately want to burst out of our skulls.

I can see your code, newb.

Ok that's sort of not so good, I like the darkie with the suit.

Fix'd

Yawn.

I love the toaster guy. Such an epic fail.

I concede there are cheaper approaches, I gave the one I'm familiar with. I've tested it and everything. Can't remember the PD code or the names of the objects in Max, but the setup is easy. I had the privelege of having the box with cv adaptors, this is probably shit easy to hack together. You can very easily just run voltage into any sort of input box, and I'm sure there are tons of cost-efficient approaches that don't involve MIDI. But I personally have tried something like this with sensor strips that react to how much your finger bends, which run via a cable to the CV to MIDI adaptor, then you just have to plug together a few easy boxes and you have a system you can set up with anything, video effects, your wavetable, a sine wave generator, the FM PW sync of a rather complicated synth (in this case you could even use a Nord G2) which would create hoovers... etc. Neko, I'm enthralled, please tell me more about how I could avoid having to pay my $50 CDA fee to get access to labs and just do this at home. The only part I really need clarification on is the nature of the sensors and how exactly they work.

Still going...

I love how they all scatter in totally random directions and the cop is just like "hey stop"/

You need:

-Max/MSP
-iCube or eCube MIDI box with CV inputs
-piezoelectric microphones or CV motion sensors (it's likely he has something that sends electricity and receives it as well, and I would assume that the sensors are easily found after some research and consultation with your local IMCA-dept at your local University - you probably want to be a member of the CDA)
-tape
-patience and a good sense of which signals you need to filter and focus on

You start up a bunch of Max/MSP input machines to read the voltage changes and calibrate them until they are in an appropriate range. Velocity is likely what you want to map this to, then you want to install filter machines that interpret this into a certain range on your wavetable. The most important thing is what sort of sensors you have and what ranges of frequency give you the most response. If you do it with contact mics you would be able to calibrate for velocity and frequency separately. It's a lot easier than it looks but you need to find the gear first, which is expensive unless you are enrolled in University in an appropriate multi- or inter-media program.

This just in: we are posting in an EPIC THREAD

no, i don't work, my mom does, she pays for shit for me

nope, doesn't work.