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North

Feb 19, 2019 23:48

North

Feb 9, 2019 22:41

Sharpsharp

Nick Alexeev

Feb 7, 2019 19:30

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Q: Why does musical synthesizer built from chain of astable multivibrator circuits get "out-of-tune" after a few hours?

I built a prototype keyboard/sound synthesizer using a chain of 13 astable multivibrator circuits whose outputs are connector to an audio amplifier chip (LM386) and speaker, all powered off a 9V DC battery. Each individual circuit gets tuned to one of the 13 frequencies in a musical octave (C5, ...

B.M.

Feb 5, 2019 15:39

it is saddening because it lost its initial human touch

Dan Hulme

Feb 2, 2019 09:15

@luserdroog what do you tune your concert A to?

Erik

Jan 26, 2019 14:03

Hi all, a bit unsual question perhaps, but: Could someone recommend me composers that are primarily interested in the form of the compositions, before harmony?

Dan Hulme

Jan 21, 2019 18:12

I wasn't sure what kinds of effects would work well, and I don't need the "authentic analogue sound", so a digital multi-fx seemed like the right choice for me

Rory Alsop

Mar 20, 2015 10:42

This one and security are my easiest - communities that are very committed to the topic, and where there is disagreement it's not fighting, it's debate and discussion

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Rockin Cowboy

Feb 14, 2015 01:58

I was going to post a question but it might be off topic as asking about a chord progression but if maybe someone can help me answer it myself by telling me if I can use an A7 (dominant 7th) as part of chord progression if I am in key of G major.

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Patrx2

Feb 12, 2015 21:10

It's why I keep pointing to Boing Boing's forum. It's Jeff Atwood's baby, so it's not like no one here in SE has any experience with it. The natural indexing here is to tie discussion threads to questions - gets the discussion off the public-facing page, but creates a viable topic thread for it that can make for better questions and answers.

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Rockin Cowboy

Feb 12, 2015 00:22

@Dom What Johnny has done is open a dialog on exploring new features to make allow for established members of the community to help new members better understand how to ask questions that fit.

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Meaningful Username

Jan 10, 2015 10:50

@NoviceInDisguise: Here's one article: soundonsound.com/sos/jan08/articles/pianorecording_0108.htm

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Dom

Dec 15, 2014 00:15

Hats are here!

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Stack Exchange

Dec 15, 2014 00:06

Blog - Stack Exchange: Winter Bash 2014

Jon Ericson on December 14, 2014

There is no better antidote, at least for the worst hours and eclipses of the soul, than to conjure up … serious frivolity.—Friedrich Nietzsche

No, it’s not a new flavor of Unix shell. Rather, Winter Bash is an ancient tradition of Stack Exchange. (2011 is ancient according to Internet time.) Here’s how it works:

Starting right now, when you complete one of 30-odd challenges while logged on a participating site, you will be awarded the associated hat. To notify you, an icon will light up on the top bar. In addition, admire your hat collection on the Winter Bash 2014 site …

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luser droog

Nov 4, 2018 10:04

I also forgot to mention that I got a noise gate to go after the compressor so I can turn the sustain all the way up.

Matthew Read

Nov 18, 2014 19:16

Time for the 3rd annual Hat Dash! We've done it the last two years, so we will likely opt in again. Any major opposition?

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Dom

Oct 3, 2014 23:58

I think we can call the site name change now. Music: Theory & Practice almost has triple the score of the next highest name (Musicians).

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ogerard

May 16, 2011 16:30

@Tom: If I understand well, cooking recipes are now on-topic?

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luser droog

Sep 20, 2018 02:14

But before that, my other theatre is having me play bass in Evil Dead. And that will be cool because there's no bass part. There's clearly one in the cast recording (even credited), but no sheet music. So I'll have a lot of freedom in interpreting the chords from the conductor's chart. Should be lots of fun.

cjfaure

Aug 10, 2014 20:31

thank you, chopin, for reminding me how impossibly small black keys are when you want to press them and how impossibly large they are when you want to press between them.

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Dom

Jul 29, 2014 23:11

The commitment phase has started for Music Fan SE!!! area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/61574/…

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Dom

May 27, 2018 22:44

io9.gizmodo.com/…

Avantgarde

May 21, 2018 23:52

@topomorto Yeah, this is better! Funkdoobiest is kinda what I might like.

Avantgarde

Apr 15, 2018 16:31

Mike Patton's projects are weird, and very good.

Dom

Apr 12, 2018 14:38

There are people out there that are so use to one they can't use the other.

topo morto

Apr 12, 2018 07:15

@Tama as a musician your ear should be the one thing you use when writing music, not the "rules" - I'd like to think that musicians are allowed to use anything they want. It could be one set of rules, it could be another set of rules, it could be their ears, or it could be a mixture. I imagine that musicians usually do use their ears to assess what they've made, of course!

Tama

Apr 12, 2018 01:24

I like western music theory and notation because it's versatile, and having to relearn how to read notes simply to play in one style is more of a hinderence for no real gain.

Dom

Apr 12, 2018 00:41

@Tama I am very much interested in all music especially in atypical contexts like atonal. The problem I see is people pick and choose western theory concepts without looking at it at a whole and it leads to a lot of notation and conceptual problems.

Dom

Apr 10, 2018 03:48

@TheChaz2.0 An interval is two measurements: Distance in letter name and distance in semitones. E to A# is an Augmented 4th since any E to any A is a 4th. A# to E is a diminished 5th since any A to any E is a 5th. Both an augmented 4th and a diminished 5th are both tritones and they are enharmonically equivalent, but they are not the same thing. There's different nuances for how they function in harmony (diminished 5ths resolve inward, augmented 4ths resolve outward).

topo morto

Apr 5, 2018 06:55

Ignoring questions is often a useful strategy. Not every question is going to be of interest to every user...

Dom

Apr 4, 2018 16:01

It seems like everybody just want to make there own notation for music and reinvent the wheel instead of learning currently used systems. Obligatory XKCD:

American Luke

Oct 14, 2013 18:51

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Dave

Feb 21, 2018 02:04

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Q: How many semitones

Guidelines Task Given two notes, inputted as strings or lists/arrays, calculate how many semitones apart they are (inclusive of the notes themselves), outputting as a number. Explanation of a semitone: A semitone is one step up or down the keyboard. An example is C to C#. As you can see below...

code-golf music

luser droog

Oct 8, 2013 06:44

I've heard Ravel's Bolero described as "Concerto for Snare Drum". <smirk>

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Todd Wilcox

Feb 14, 2018 16:00

Just taking something from one genre and casting it in another genre is a great way to come up with ideas. Usually the bigger the change the better. Like if you took the first six notes from some Metallica song and arranged them in backwards order and had a string and wind ensemble play them, it would sound completely new.

Todd Wilcox

Feb 14, 2018 15:53

I suggest watching all of this as a way to get started in composing melody and themes: youtu.be/MB7ZOdp__gQ

Dom

Jan 19, 2018 17:53

Does anyone have a good suggestion for the tag excerpt for learning?

American Luke

Jul 27, 2013 20:41

There should be some mechanism to stop a site's main room from being frozen

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Dom

Nov 7, 2017 19:55

@Nachmen to keep it objective, it might be better to ask what are the key differences between Finale and Dorico that way based on the differences you can form your option of it and see if any of the differences are appealing to switch.

Mithrandir

Jun 26, 2017 20:42

🎵🎵🎵🎵

General Nuisance

Dec 12, 2016 04:35

And today people complain about the legibility of printed sheet music... ks.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/c/c1/…

Rory Alsop

Dec 8, 2016 08:42

@yo' beamer? Here that can only be a BMW...

Rory Alsop

Nov 21, 2016 23:07

@GeneralNuisance I usually do that too for work reasons (well, I play more rock/blues than flamenco/classical so it's fine)

Rory Alsop

Nov 21, 2016 09:05

Violas are pretty cool - I love the sound (despite the fact I'm a guitarist and violinist)

Dan Hulme

Nov 21, 2016 09:01

@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 yeah, but it's made significantly less cool by the fact it contains a viola

Rory Alsop

Sep 15, 2016 11:19

If we want any ads to show in the sidebar, they need 6 upvotes

Matthew Read

May 24, 2011 16:35

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Q: Community Wiki, List / Recommendation Questions, and You

I'd like to clarify some things regarding the Community Wiki Standard and elaborate on what constitutes a good question on Musical Practice & Performance (or Musicians, if you prefer the proposed name). The main part is in the "answer" below. I have recently made some poor questions CW when...

discussion faq scope community-wiki recommendations

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NReilingh

Aug 21, 2016 23:56

facebook.com/BCMANJUNATH/videos/10154022185778922

Rebecca Chernoff

May 19, 2011 22:14

and congrats (:

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Rebecca Chernoff

May 2, 2011 16:24

Things slowed over the weekend. Hopefully the beginning of the week will be strong as we reach day 7 of private beta. (:

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