Rotwang

I stand corrected. Anyway, I've already mentioned it to the admins.

I have a question. Lately I've been attempting to make music using software I wrote. Each channel of a sound is stored as a list of floats representing a waveform, and on demand it will convert such a waveform into a 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV file. Often a waveform will go outside the bounds of what can be stored in 16 bits, i.e. when the wave's displacement (after being converted to an integer) is more than 32767 or less than -32767; in this case the software just truncates the wave (so e.g. a displacement of -40000 is changed to -32767). Obviously this creates distortion, but if a sound is at the right volume in the first place then it doesn't happen much and is barely noticeable. Here's the problem: when creating a whole track out of individual sounds, the waveforms for the different sounds are just added together. Constructive interference means that the resulting waveform needs to be truncated a lot more than the individual sounds need to be. When listening to a track through monitoring headphones it sounds terrible. I can fix this easily enough by just reducing the volume of the whole track, and then it sounds fine - but much quieter than the music on most CD's. So it seems that I either have to have music that's too quiet, or music with too much distortion. Anyone know how to get around this?

I thought approval was automatic - if so then he should have already received an email with a link he needs to click to complete his registration. Anyway, I'll ask the admins.

Welcome to psynews.

Nice.

I absolutely would not go there right now. I don't have any first-hand experience of the situation there, but it seems like there's worrying news every other day at the moment. This is from yesterday, for example.

This is chiptune rather than Goa, but it gives me a Goa-ish vibe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUBHD2g9zq4

Your English is fine as far as I've noticed.

Nice review. But you need to redirect your Beatspace link (to here).

I saw Tom Yum Goong the other day. It blew my balls off.

It's not my kind of music but the beatmatching is good, I think. Some of the transitions are harmonically a bit jarring though - you should try to find tracks in keys that go better together IMO. I'm sure there are people here who can tell you about harmonic mixing.

I'm glad you like it, but I can't take credit - it's a common idiom on Usenet.

OK. So that would involve some editorial decisions about which reviews, label announcements etc. deserve to make it to the FB page, right? I guess that could work if the admins are sufficiently representative of the psynews community (and I think you're pretty representative), though I can also see it leading to accusations of unfair treatment or favouritism. But that's just my $0.02, let's wait and see what the psynews admins think.

I like the idea, though I don't know how much work it would involve to make it worthwhile. If you're offering then it could work, but I'm not sure what kind of content you have in mind for the page. If you intend to make wall posts any time someone posts something in the artist news or review subforums, for example, then that would be a lot of effort and I'm not sure what it would accomplish, since I don't expect anyone would pay attention to the facebook page except people who are already paying attention to the forum. Can you say more specifically what you have in mind? Anyway, I'll draw this thread to the admins' attention in case they haven't seen it.

+1 I can imagine dating a girl with the same name as my sister would be harder, but I think I could do that too.

Very nice.

IIRC, there's a whole series of similar images of different drinks.

Really? Oh. The background certainly has some Buggy trademarks though - maybe it's a composite?

I don't think it's that bad. It looks like it was made by the same guy (Buggy G. Riphead).

Wow.

Cool.

Best prayer ever.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/

Then they don't need to post in this thread. Similarly, people who don't have any interest in destroying metall and stepp crashbarriers and skinny mountains and shiny girls don't need to post in the threads you start.