If you ever need to scratch that ASCII art itch: https://asciiarena.se/

I believe this was the case, as there was a lot of 666 going around at the time.

6-7 had yet to be discovered.

I implore you to give CachyOS with Niri a try.

Demoscene music tracker interfaces come to mind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093434

Yes, humans in general. Scientists, perhaps less so.

Is it unreasonable to hold LLMs to a higher standard?

> Scientists, perhaps less so.

I disagree. In fact, I find people who think of themselves as highly rational seem to be particularly prone to rationalization. Because being rational is integral to their whole identity, they are much more eager to accept their own rationalizations as sound and resist admitting that they are guided by instinct.

Loading a module and playing it in a tracker is how I learned to make music. You see what notes and samples are triggered when and whatever effect commands are used to make it sound the way it does.

Besides, once you've memorized screens and hotkeys (which happens pretty fast, because there aren't that many) you don't need it to be intuitive.

A couple of years ago I downloaded SchismTracker. The muscle memory from Scream/Impulse Tracker from 20-25 years prior, coming back in an instant was one of the most wonderful computer interactions of my life. <3

So you basically brute-force your way through?

Like, you load or generate a sine wave as a sample and just keep changing the numbers until you've got a rough idea of what does what?

I guess nowadays it's easier to read the source code of mikmod or milkytracker. But back in the day, heck no. MIDI sorta worked, but not great. My recordings were an awful mess because the timings were always slightly off such that it was impossible to have a bar with normal 1/4 notes.

Being an impatient teenager, I did brute-force the note-key layout, but I didn't have to - each context/screen had it's own help page. You could view all screens (and their respective shortcut) by pressing ESC.

I'd rather label it "experimenting" than "brute-forcing", testing what would happen if I were to put this or that value to this or that effect. Perhaps others would do it differently but I'd go by ear almost all of the time and adjust bit by bit.

Since you could save samples from downloaded modules, you could quickly build a starter library - although "ripping" samples was considered "lame". In lack of (expensive) synthesizers, some musicians would buy Sample CDs.

In my experience (90s Sweden), of those fortunate enough to have a home computer (usually a 486 66 MHz w 8 MB), few also had MIDI. I knew of one person who ran Cubase on Windows 3.11 with hardware samplers etc, which I found immensely exotic!

Where I live, overtaking at a crosswalk is illegal because of that risk.

If every driver abided by traffic laws at all times we would have a lot fewer accidents.

If you’re breaking the law it’s harder to call it an accident.

Yes. It's a bit like we're very capable cells that are coming together to build ourselves a body. Why settle for an amoeba? (Other than as a stop along the way.)

DaC might be more distinguishable from DAC, although the context obviously also helps readers telling them apart.

Yours sincerely, came here for another DAC

Point taken, thanks! Out of curiosity, which DAC did you come here for?

Most probably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter

yup yup I also came here for electronics/digital audio without finishing reading the title. DAC is super standard to read in those spaces.

> Published on Aug 17, 2015 > Last updated on Oct 2, 2024

Why now?

At least some of the links in it don't mention plugins (which luckily some comments here do). Beside tmux-continuum and tmux-sensible, I'd recommend jaclu/tmux-menus.