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    the hafler trio

    in Music Discussion

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    Last Sunday (hello topic bump, how you doing ?!) I was feeling really hungover so put on the Exactly As I Say, Do, Am trilogy on my laptop and drifted back off to sleep again. I woke up halfway through Exactly As I Do feeling a lot better and turned the volume up pretty loud and realised that behind all the drones was like a really ambient equivalent of VHS Head type music, like 100s of mini 1980s tracks all chopped up and reverbed into a lovely spectral mush - It was the most amazingly detailed thing I'd ever heard. Then I woke up properly and found out that it was all a dream and it was just the PaulStretch type drones that I heard all along, and I'd temporarily lost most of my eyesight from waking up with a migraine :facepalm:

    Need good Android apps!

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Occasionally mine does that too, I just hit the menu button a couple of times and that seems to fix itself. Although saying that I don't normally have the sound switched on and play it whilst listening to music on the phone so not emulating sound probably seriously reduces CPU load.

    Need good Android apps!

    in General Banter

    Posted

    If you have the HTC Sync software installed on your pc then the driver for ADB is installed. Then you also have to make sure that your phone has the debug switch set to enabled. it's in settings->application settings->development -- 'USB Debugging' needs to be ticked on. you don't need to put your phone in htc sync mode as far as I know - you can just set it to charge. Keep your usb cable connected and try the unrevoked package over here: http://unrevoked.com

    Aye done that (several times, and on different 'puters as apparently some USB cards get a bit funny with the HTC for some reason). Always the same, phone reboots or Unrevoked just shows 'Waiting for device' forever. I've gone on about a million (er, maybe) Android forums trying every suggestion going and nothing ..... thanks for the help anyways man.

    Need good Android apps!

    in General Banter

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    Do you have a HTC Desire? I have, and I didn't need the HTC Sync software, just the driver that came with it so the phone can talk to the computer. Maybe you need the android sdk installed or something, I don't remember.

    Yeah I've got a Desire, the problem is not the software side of things but the phone itself. You know when you plug in the phone using the USB cable it brings up that menu asking you to charge only, be a USB storage device, use as a modem, or put it in HTC Sync mode (the last being the one you need to put it on to do ADB stuff or root it etc.) and you choose that final option the phone will either: do nothing and no computer can see it (using the official sync software or unrevoked or the android SDK), or the phone will just reboot. Someone had the same thing on another forum and they got a new Desire and all was well, so I guess some of them just have this issue...

    Need good Android apps!

    in General Banter

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    I have a fault on my phone, the fault being that it's unrootable (and it's not just me being stupid, I took the phone to a friend who's rooted many an android). Basically there's something wrong with the USB data connection which makes it completely unconnectable (the phone goes into a reboot loop) if you put it into HTC Sync mode i.e. what you use in order to use Unrevoked and that

     

    I can probably do the update.zip method by making a gold card thing but I don't want to lose all the stuff I've got on here, plus I'm not that bothered in trying custom roms really ...

    Need good Android apps!

    in General Banter

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    Where's My Droid?- If you lose it a lot, just download this and have someone text 'where's my droid' to your phone and no matter what volume it's on, it will ring at max volume.

    Oooh I forgot one of those - I use Lookout Mobile Security ( http://www.mylookout.com/ ) because as well as doing the above, you can also hunt for your phone via GPS on any computer/phone that has internet access. It also works as a resident malware shield for your phone as well.

    Need good Android apps!

    in General Banter

    Posted

    5 of my favourites -

     

    1. Unified Remote (Remote control for your PC)

    2. Solipskier (Awesome flash game ported to Android that I was utterly addicted to last year)

    3. Snesoid (SNES emulator - get yourself a copy of Final Fantasy VI, Crono Trigger & Earthbound and you'll be busy for months !)

    4. Nanoloop - (Mini tracker on your phone)

    5. Magic Doodle (Cos drawing stuff in meetings is always fun)

     

    Plus there's Google Maps which always gets me out of trouble as I have no sense of direction. And if you're looking for a replacement keyboard I personally recommend the underrated Swiftkey, I much prefer it to Swype.

    The Audiophile Challenge

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=55342&view=findpost&p=500888

    Lossy codecs don't have a fixed internal bitdepth - the effective bitdepth changes dynamically.

     

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=69200&view=findpost&p=613217

    Lossy formats doesn't have bit depth

    So do they have a variable bit depth, or no bit depth at all - the two quotes appear rather contradictory ...

     

    But yeah looking deeper to the way mp3s (for example) compresses audio information is an intriguing one, I hadn't really thought about it before ...

    Plastikman - Arkives

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    Sounds good, I'll grab Transitions and Concept 1. I find Decks, EFX & 909 highly repetitive. And not in the good sense.

    I'd definitely recommend DE9:Closer To The Edit as well, it's my personal favourite of the Richie Hawtin mixes - It reminds me of the progression of music you get in Rez.

    VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    I think that if a DAW adds so much to the production that you can undeniably identify which one is being used then it had failed as a DAW. The software should be a completely transparent tool for getting your ideas down, as soon as it starts influencing your ideas I would see that as a problematic thing....

    Ive used renoise, Ableton and reason. I cant say that any of them didnt effect they way I produced. I think such a DAW doesnt exist. Some come close, but they just do change the way you make tracks, consciously or unconsciously.

    Hmmm I probably didn't word it too clearly - what I meant was, if a DAW adds so much to the sound of the production that it's obvious what software you used (eg. sneaksta303 saying it's obvious he used Ableton - though I'd like to think he was joking) that's when I think it becomes a problem.

    Studio Pics

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    Studio chez cubus: Note the cheap Logitech speakers, Rubik's cube used as baffle and a rather bent out of shape keyboard from when it was dropped - all of which are essential ingredients to our sound (erm, maybe....)

     

    cubus-1.jpg

    VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    Haven't folks been listening to shit like Druqks and Confield since 2001?

    Well yes I have, but I'd say the tracks on this album are equally as densely packed as that of your two mentioned albums. The approach and production maybe vastly different (I'd say Ae and AFX on those two albums deal a lot with the context of sound in space, and the VHS album is more the content of sound in time - or some bollocks like that !) but to say Confield and Drukqs is 'superior' to this I disagree with.

     

    I dunno, one's only been out a few months and the other two for a decade so I think it's difficult to ascertain the longevity of this album this soon.

    VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold

    in New & Upcoming Releases

    Posted

    I know, the constant BoC speculation thing is balls (especially as it's even properly credited on the album who it is). Just to add a spanner to the rumour mill though, do you think Adrian Blacow was in anyway involved in Gescom's latest EP - only reason being I had a playlist on my phone going from Trademark Ribbons straight into A1-D1 and I'd never noticed how similar sounding they are, especially something like B1 which is full of crazy cut ups and film samples. I know Gescom is a bit of a free-for-all Skam love in so was am just speculating....

     

    Probably not though :lol:

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