it’s at that point in putting together a puzzle that there are enough pieces connected that the speed in placing the rest is logarithmically faster. i’ve got LFOs modulating my FM noise and filter resonance overdriving my oscillators.
this pretty toy comes in on thursday.
this is fun. here’s the PCM signal from my computer’s digital output. it’s nice to watch it flowing by, knowing how the signal is decoded. looks nicely non-distorted too, but the scope isn’t high resolution. someone recently told me that, across the sciences, a wave is a wave is a wave. the understanding that i gained of signal distortion and types of data transmission from some semi-advanced wireless networking classes is rolling over to analog and digital audio. next, i’ll compare the signal output from a cheap and expensive DAC.
three times in the past two days i thought of some techie thing i wanted to be able to do and thought of the device that would allow me to do it and then looked around online for the device or DIY instructions to make one …… and then i realized i already had what i was looking for. the last one was a component video to vga converter. maybe i should inventory everything i have and include that list in my google searches.
i’ll be there. the cheap registration ends on March 1st. http://roflcon.org
the pendulum of my attention seems to have swung back to synths for now. i’m focusing on learning FM synthesis now, and i’m thinking about putting together a modular system (although i have no XP with that yet). there are some diy kits for modules, and i am also learning electronics at the same time….. probably a good way to go. the nord stage synth section will do for now along with various VSTs. i have a PC based oscilloscope coming in next week, and that will give me visual and numeric reference to the perty sounds i’m making.
all my building projects and geek hobbies are taking all my time. that’s ok. i’ve had enough social life for uhh… a lifetime. the coming of spring will probably undo all that focus, so i’m just going with it for now.
i’m using my olpc at the frostbite auction. geeks all around me lounging on whatever furniture-ish spot available. we’re maxing out a few access points, all bidding against each other with dunkin “coffee” in hand. one guy is standing with a matrix trenchcoat with a laptop in his backpack, handheld/presentation mouse, and VR goggles. i think he wins. gamache is still building the auction site as we use it. i’m browsing lots and suddenly there’s a search box!
coffee coffee coffee
i grew up in small-town sheridan, oregon and then moved to santa cruz, ca for several years (for school and discovering the real world) before moving here around boston (work and geek/bike life). there’s a little more to it, but i’ll save it for another post.
i end up telling a quick synopsis of my life until now fairly often in conversation. i’m not sure if it’s because the information is pertinent or if i just like to talk about myself or if i want to compare and relate to others and how they have come to be at that place, being who they have come to be. maybe it’s a topic for old men to reminisce over while sitting on a porch watching younger lives run by. it’s certainly not a standard subject in the average, casual party-with-drinks-while-playing-the-social-game situation. i’d like it to be. if i could hear this from new acquaintances, rather than the filtered, narrow projection of the person, i would probably feel a greater commonness with them, and there might be less need for the guarded positioning we usually exhibit within the social game.
heh, maybe soon, with such abundance of personal information available, we’ll walk up to someone, automatically identify them via their RFID, display an expandable point-list of their public info on our HUD and immediately judge their stereotype according to the metadata. i guess we’ve always done that up to a point from their clothes and other affectations.
::notices a stranger across the room::
::thinks “cute” and walks up::
::glances at collected data::
“oh… sorry…. too similar to my ex. nothing personal.”
or another likely common scenerio
::strangers walk within proximity but not directly facing each other while waiting for data on the other to arrive, each is pointedly aware of purposefully indirect focus of the other::
one says, “hi, i’m amy.”
the other, “hold on…. … sorry, i have Sprint…. just a second more….”
 inside my stereobox 2.1 |
