No. Definitely not. I was very surprised after doing some mixdowns on the onboard laptop soundcard on my Macbook pro that it sounded AWFUL when pushed to real speakers. Tried it on two other laptops. Will never use a…
If a prospective employee told me a story about how they used a note-taking app like this to optimize their school grade output I would be extremely worried for a lot of reasons and consider it a major red flag. What…
It's not called the Kawii?
I quit a relatively high paying job at Yahoo doing system administration to follow a passion in audio Now I design synthesizers for a living. Way happier!
That may just be his process. He explains things to help himself understand it better. I would be THRILLED to have someone who wanted to explain things like I was 5, lots of people don't
When you take audio out of the equation you don't need a lot of things: What makes the sound? Not needed anymore. So any ADC/DACs, DSP code, analog voice hardware, etc is not needed. The DSP in particular is fairly…
You are about to bite off a lot. I do this for a living. You have some software experience, this is good. Assuming you have embedded software experience (which is essential for what you are doing and not at all like web…
This is absolutely not true for one simple reason: Subscriptions increase valuation of companies
The mental model I’ve found most useful in guessing how this will affect us is the migration from assembly to a more human readable C compiler Nowadays assembly is almost never used because it has been abstracted (yes I…
I did the whole thing from scratch. I was not trying to emulate anything in particular, I was working with what we had in the hardware to optimize. We basically pushed the chip to its limits without going heavily into…
I wrote the DSI Tempest OS (including sequencer and swing) Feel free to ask questions!
Some odd associations here... whimsy gives back, among other things: maggot I have never seen a whimsical maggot, nor do I think I want to
Right, I'm saying that is incorrect. Very incorrect. Some people do buy synths as sort of an art piece but they are rare Hardware synths absolutely still do have sonic capabilities that are difficult to emulate in…
Well if it helps: I was a sys admin before I quit in a huff and decided to never work again unless I was in the audio industry. Doing that was the single defining moment of my life and the one I am most proud of. Took a…
You just presented a fact: these companies are still in business And a hypothesis: this should not be because analog/digital modeling is very close in double blind tests However your hypothesis is already false because…
It isn't easy carrying the torch of a legend but standing on the shoulders of giants is how we move things forward as a species. I'm confident I can speak for the company when I say we are doing our best to keep his…
It's a REALLY hard business. Roger Linn repeatedly tells people that the easiest way to lose money is to build a synthesizer and he's certainly right. Then again, I ignored that advice. I think we're all just a bit…
Context: I work at Sequential Running a business is not easy. Weathering a storm like this is not easy. Synth company or not, we're in difficult times. A lot of businesses will close but the people who are patient and…
If you give someone a take home 4 hour assignment you better be paying contracting rates. I have been in situations where someone gives an assignment of a problem they are actively working on. I'm not working for free.
I’m sorry don’t have the emotional energy to comment in depth or correct some of the misconceptions about analog synths or the electronic music world or any of that right now. Tried for a bit but having trouble focusing…
Apparently I can't edit this now and correct my grammar mistake... this is going to haunt me.
Good to be here occasionally, considering writing up some blog posts I figured this community might find interesting. Seems like we are well liked enough that it might be fun
Your making the assumption that one can buy 1000 of any part, which is likely incorrect These ain’t normal times
Component cost increases due to the pandemic and supply chain issues easily increased the price by 25-30% in our industry due to several factors outside of the norm, like some single source parts most companies relied…
Technically they could and that as well was something we looked into. Honestly it was the most complicated thing I've ever done. Would love to give it another shot some day!
No. Definitely not. I was very surprised after doing some mixdowns on the onboard laptop soundcard on my Macbook pro that it sounded AWFUL when pushed to real speakers. Tried it on two other laptops. Will never use a…
If a prospective employee told me a story about how they used a note-taking app like this to optimize their school grade output I would be extremely worried for a lot of reasons and consider it a major red flag. What…
It's not called the Kawii?
I quit a relatively high paying job at Yahoo doing system administration to follow a passion in audio Now I design synthesizers for a living. Way happier!
That may just be his process. He explains things to help himself understand it better. I would be THRILLED to have someone who wanted to explain things like I was 5, lots of people don't
When you take audio out of the equation you don't need a lot of things: What makes the sound? Not needed anymore. So any ADC/DACs, DSP code, analog voice hardware, etc is not needed. The DSP in particular is fairly…
You are about to bite off a lot. I do this for a living. You have some software experience, this is good. Assuming you have embedded software experience (which is essential for what you are doing and not at all like web…
This is absolutely not true for one simple reason: Subscriptions increase valuation of companies
The mental model I’ve found most useful in guessing how this will affect us is the migration from assembly to a more human readable C compiler Nowadays assembly is almost never used because it has been abstracted (yes I…
I did the whole thing from scratch. I was not trying to emulate anything in particular, I was working with what we had in the hardware to optimize. We basically pushed the chip to its limits without going heavily into…
I wrote the DSI Tempest OS (including sequencer and swing) Feel free to ask questions!
Some odd associations here... whimsy gives back, among other things: maggot I have never seen a whimsical maggot, nor do I think I want to
Right, I'm saying that is incorrect. Very incorrect. Some people do buy synths as sort of an art piece but they are rare Hardware synths absolutely still do have sonic capabilities that are difficult to emulate in…
Well if it helps: I was a sys admin before I quit in a huff and decided to never work again unless I was in the audio industry. Doing that was the single defining moment of my life and the one I am most proud of. Took a…
You just presented a fact: these companies are still in business And a hypothesis: this should not be because analog/digital modeling is very close in double blind tests However your hypothesis is already false because…
It isn't easy carrying the torch of a legend but standing on the shoulders of giants is how we move things forward as a species. I'm confident I can speak for the company when I say we are doing our best to keep his…
It's a REALLY hard business. Roger Linn repeatedly tells people that the easiest way to lose money is to build a synthesizer and he's certainly right. Then again, I ignored that advice. I think we're all just a bit…
Context: I work at Sequential Running a business is not easy. Weathering a storm like this is not easy. Synth company or not, we're in difficult times. A lot of businesses will close but the people who are patient and…
If you give someone a take home 4 hour assignment you better be paying contracting rates. I have been in situations where someone gives an assignment of a problem they are actively working on. I'm not working for free.
I’m sorry don’t have the emotional energy to comment in depth or correct some of the misconceptions about analog synths or the electronic music world or any of that right now. Tried for a bit but having trouble focusing…
Apparently I can't edit this now and correct my grammar mistake... this is going to haunt me.
Good to be here occasionally, considering writing up some blog posts I figured this community might find interesting. Seems like we are well liked enough that it might be fun
Your making the assumption that one can buy 1000 of any part, which is likely incorrect These ain’t normal times
Component cost increases due to the pandemic and supply chain issues easily increased the price by 25-30% in our industry due to several factors outside of the norm, like some single source parts most companies relied…
Technically they could and that as well was something we looked into. Honestly it was the most complicated thing I've ever done. Would love to give it another shot some day!