I'm confused, are we supposed to tell whether it matches any Major/Minor diatonic scale?
This sounds more like a melodic/scale test, not a pitch test, I was excepting it would ask something more like whether the instrument is well-tuned or whether a fretless instrument plays correctly.
For the curious, I've analyzed the first 5 songs with a program I'm developing, using the default C Major scale, here's the result : http://imgur.com/a/yx2H9 (I guess you could do it with something like Melodyne too).
EDIT: nevermind, this is just a cultural/memory test. You are supposed to know the tunes in advance and see if there is any « diff » with what you hear, melody-wise.
EDIT2: 21/26, I only knew more or less half of the songs, and knew well like a third. I Guess I have either poor culture or poor hear (or a little bit of both, we'll never know).
That's neat. I know little about music. Would it be close to correct to say that this program finds the notes (hz, fourier) and checks if they the progression fit some predetermined pattern. eg. B4 must be followed by one of X1,X2,..., osv. ?
> EDIT: nevermind, ...
Does this mean there's songs which the program fails to classify?
It would be interesting to see the output of the program for all the songs.
It does indeed fourier analysis to find the notes. But I'm sorry to disappoint you, it does no progression analysis, so it's useless for this particular exercise (it's only handy to see the notes when you don't have an absolute pitch earing).
Looks very interesting, I might switch from PortAudio to this for my project. But I think I'll wait a bit though, I'm not quite ready to give up on WinXP/Vista support yet.
It relies on WASAPI for Windows, so it should work on Vista which is the first version to introduce that API (unless I missed another requirement).
And as a side note, that is definitely the way to go. WASAPI is a massive improvement over previous windows audio APIs, especially for low latency / pro audio. I'm flabbergasted that some DAWs still don't support it.
I'm confused, does it support Vista?
The PortAudio comparison made me believe it doesn't, as this is written in PortAudio's pros : « Supports older versions of Windows than Windows 7. » [1]
I've only tested on Windows 7, but looking over the API functions I used, I could probably relax the restriction to Vista. I'm not sure I'd be willing to extend testing and support to Vista without getting some funding. It feels harsh to say, but I have ambitious plans which will be stalled if I git bogged down with deprecated and proprietary software.
I've been on a TrulyErgonomic for the past 3 years, and on a TypeMatrix before that (using the Bépo layout, a french dvorak), and while I've been happy with both of them, I would advise to check the ErgoDox, Axios, and Keyboardio nowadays before buying one (they are splitted and have more keys on the thumb).
Interesting.. I mainly use a bicycle for commuting/shopping,
however, the left turns almost always scare me, to the point where I'm thinking of using pedestrian crosswalk instead. Better safe than sorry..
Not everything has to be about ROI, especially when it comes to art, in my opinion. For example, I might want to write a fiction book even though I know I won't sell any, just because it's something that inspires me and want to have done in my life.
You could also mitigate the ROI by learning both the guitar to get your quick ROI boost, while learning the cello when you want to get serious (not that you can't get serious on the guitar, but you might like the cello better and want to get serious on it instead).
1997 but still relevant today, nice! (well, except maybe the very last part about tapes and not being able to adjust tempo).
While this is pretty much a goldmine of information, one thing I would advise of being careful about is about this « My practice hours are divided about equally between works from the standard cello literature and highly focused mechanical exercises ».
While I'm sure it's the the best solution if your only goal is to get better, it is not a format I would suggest for everyone. I for one would have been so bored if I had to to this that I probably would have quit. What I'm doing is about 1/3 practicing scores with sheets, 1/3 mechanical exercises and scales and 1/3 improvisation and just fun (which is very important to me for keeping the motivation to go on, and I guess it could apply to other people). Just for the record, I started playing violin at 24, a bit over one year ago (first instrument), so obviously I can only say that as a total newbie, just keep in mind though (:
Well I can definitely count as being happy as a children, and quite often depressed as an adult. But material deprivation doesn't explain that, at all. As a child/teenager I could be happy just playing around (outside/legos/video games). Now I'm just like "what's the point?" or generally getting bored really fast about pretty much anything and just wondering about the meaninglessness of life.
My view is that kids are exploring and loving the world. Adults are support mechanisms for kids (and elderly). But we have been stripped of community and if you happen to not have kids, you can be even more isolated. Being around (free) kids is a great way to feel meaning in life.
Adults are driven by our evolution to be useful to the community. Games are designed to allow humans (particularly kids) to master skills. Adults ideally should have already mastered much of the needed skills. Hence games cease to be interesting the more one gets older (in general -- there are always plenty of exceptions).
I can definitely imagine that if I had been a farmer in middle-age I could have been happier, because I wouldn't have time to get bored, and I would be doing something useful.
In our modern world however, really useful stuff is done by robots or a tiny part of the population. Thus you have to find meaning on your own and that can be quite difficult.
In my opinion, there are plenty of useful things to do as a programmer. There are many non-profit organizations doing important work that would love to have a volunteer programmer. You could also teach math or programming to high school kids, etc. Paid programming work can sometimes seem far removed from "useful" work, but I think that's partly because of the complexity of society and all the abstractions that we have built. If you'd like to do something that feels more direct, I would suggest volunteering somewhere. But I do agree with your sentiment that finding meaning on your own can be quite difficult.
I said around children, not having children. The two are completely disjoint. I know lots of people who have children but are not actually around them and are miserable. Conversely, I know people without children who are surrounded by the happy little critters and have a deep sense of fulfillment.
Being around children teaches you a compassion for others and yourself, something your comment points towards a desperate need for.
ummm... you might want to try re-reading your reply and reflect on the OP's observation... your overly sensitive read of their post and vicious reply of your own suggests to me that you are not happy... and thus, presuming you don't have kids, supports OP's point.
If you can find some people to do stuff with that you like, it's quite fun. A lot more fun frankly - as a child, you can only do so much. As an adult with a career in IT, you can do a looooot more. Plus you get to have sex, aw ye!
If you're bored, you haven't found the right people and it likely means you have trouble getting along with them to begin with, so work on that.
Thanks, you might be right. I don't have trouble getting along though, I have trouble approaching and connecting. I can work on the approaching, but the connecting is problematic because of the whole getting bored of anything stuff. Hard to make any meaningful relationships when you don't give a ;;; about pretty much anything.
Approaching what? Oh these pick-up ideas that poison the minds of the young and impressionable!
You can't work on the approaching because that's not the root of the problem.
It's like this - some people form groups based on chit chat and hanging together. It usually involves alcohol and hooking up, that's kinda the point of it all. And what keeps it going is the never-ending gossip surrounding who did what with whom. That's late highshcool, college/uni and a few years afterwards for some folks.
People who are more intellectually inclined tend to not be a part of those groups because they're 'boring' - which's another way of saying you can't relate to them and they can't relate to you. You're not 'connecting'.
Here's the crucial element - smart people relate based on doing things that take skill, average folks relate based on liking same music, same clothes, etc.
Once you're good at something average people want to be good at - they'll put up with your inability to relate to them based on 'boring' things. You'll be this 'Steve Jobs'-like weird-o they'll come to appreciate. In turn, when they like you, you'll get to have sex with them and stuff like that, and YOU will learn that the stuff you couldn't relate to them about, is not so bad after all. It just wasn't intuitive for you. Once you're good at making women (or men if you're a woman) happy, you all of a sudden have this superpower that everybody wants.
So it's this self perpetuating cycle but you gotta get good at something that is going to give you social points, so that you can catch up on what being 'cool' is all about.
Some of those things are being in a good band, dancing, comedy, sports etc. Nobody cares that you know how to install Linux, but if you can get up and sing at Karaoke night and get a standing ovation, all of a sudden you're a little rockstar.
Isn't this (connecting with average people) what adults throughout the world are doing already? The same adults who, according to this report, are unhappy compared to children? What's the solution to all of this if such a popular lifestyle advice fails to deliver the results? Should smart people rinse and repeat the popular advice that is known to fail anyway? Why doesn't anyone question why personal well-being has to be dependent on validation from other souls in the first place?
Try travel, especially weirder types like long distance cycle-touring or sailing. This way you get new society, new people, new environment, and exercise and a sense of adventure to boot... and these often appeal to nerdier types because of the system / self-reliance element and the freedom to escape annoying environments.
Same here, but I'm 25 and the tool guessed 20,21,27,27. I guess the average is correct-ish.
In my case, the old guesses are when there is bright light or when my head is slightly turned. The younger guesses are with regular room brightness 100% front face.
Cool, it reminds me of one of my very old project : http://robhub.github.io/melogen/@auto.swf (sorry, Flash, I know..)
However, it would require tons more work to make something interesting.
This sounds more like a melodic/scale test, not a pitch test, I was excepting it would ask something more like whether the instrument is well-tuned or whether a fretless instrument plays correctly.
For the curious, I've analyzed the first 5 songs with a program I'm developing, using the default C Major scale, here's the result : http://imgur.com/a/yx2H9 (I guess you could do it with something like Melodyne too).
EDIT: nevermind, this is just a cultural/memory test. You are supposed to know the tunes in advance and see if there is any « diff » with what you hear, melody-wise.
EDIT2: 21/26, I only knew more or less half of the songs, and knew well like a third. I Guess I have either poor culture or poor hear (or a little bit of both, we'll never know).