MutedTrampet

@MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space

Love modules, MIDI files, especially those made for the Roland SC-88Pro and later, ringtones and obscure music and music formats in general, old technology, and many other things. Also blind.

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MutedTrampet, to random

Found a 35 minute lecture by Bathsheba Malsheen from Centigram Communications, the makers of the old TruVoice synthesizer, on several topics related to TTS, and an email parser Centigram was working on that was suppose to be able to handle the various typos and punctuation choices in emails and try to naturally read them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPKvhiBnTY0

MutedTrampet, to random

I wonder what's with some news reports and other videos being panned all the way in one particular direction.

MutedTrampet, to random

Apparently the reason some instruments such as the bell tree alias in Sound Canvas VA is because of a bad upsampler. Setting the sample rate to 32 kHz, the internal sample rate of the synth, fixes it. Not noticeable most of the time, but still interesting.

datajake1999, to random

A fun way to stress-test an old computer is to have it attempt to play intensive module files.

MutedTrampet,

@datajake1999 That Pentium II is probably still trying to heal.

MutedTrampet, to random

Today's weather radio glitch. According to the local weather radio station in my area, "winds from the calm" are being recorded from the Toledo Light webcam at the moment.

MutedTrampet, to random

A period of time implies the existence of a comma, question mark, exclamation point or semicolon of time..

MutedTrampet, to random

Support for RCP files, a format produced by a Japanese authoring tool called Recomposer, just landed in foo_midi 2.11.0.0-alpha1. I'm currently stress testing the support with various files. Didn't know so much of the stuff I had converted with rcpconv originally had loop points LOL

evilcookies98, to random
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Me, learned how to use NVDA on a laptop. Also, me, continues to use NVDA in laptop mode even with a fancy desktop computer.

MutedTrampet,

@evilcookies98 Heh, you're not the only one. I've used laptop mode for so long I've just never changed it.

MutedTrampet, to random

I all but gave up on online voice chatting about a year ago, except in a few trusted communities. Sometimes I consider coming back, and then I remember all the stress and awkwardness I felt and push the thought away.

MutedTrampet,

@TheQuinbox Yeah, same. I had felt it wasn't working for me for a while, and that feeling kept getting stronger and stronger, until finally I just completely stopped. I feel somewhat more comfortable being myself over social media, probably because everyone who follows me on here chooses to, and I feel less of a need to fall back on my usual defenses.

MutedTrampet,

@TheQuinbox My list isn't all that much longer haha

MutedTrampet, to random

I love MIDI and tracker music and all, but I'm glad that I'm experiencing that stuff today. I'm glad that tracker music formats are more understood, players are better quality, CPUs are more powerful so I don't have to worry about whether or not a really intensive module will stutter or slow down my computer, and that versions of the MIDI synths I'm interested in exist in software.

MutedTrampet, to random

I love when media players and radios get demonstrated on podcasts. It always ends up being a time capsule.

MutedTrampet, to random

LGR buys a 25-year-old printer. I don't think I've ever seen him actively swear until this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aoBK-K_K-Y

simon, (edited ) to random

I recently discovered an obnoxious quirk of Eloquence that I haven't heard anyone mention yet. If you write "128Kbps" (note the lower-case b), it translates to "one hundred twenty-eight kilobytes per second". Same with any number followed by bps, kbps, or mbps. (for some reason it doesn't go higher.) For those paying attention, this is completely wrong. The lower-case b typically indicates bits, not bytes. So now I have to go create a dictionary entry for this, because I just read about a phone plan that throttles to "128 kilobytes per second", and only noticed the synthesizer mistake when I went over it by character. Even more strangely, if you capitalize the B, it just doesn't expand at all. So the only case where Eloquence will say bytes is when it should be saying bits.
Edit: The lack of translation of upper-case KB is probably NVDA's fault, as it would use case splitting to separate "K" and "Bps".

MutedTrampet,

@simon Yeah, there's a hardcoded rule that forces abbreviations to be expanded if a number without a space before it precedes the abbreviation. This applies even if the abbreviation dictionary is turned off. I wonder if anything higher than Mbps existed in 2002?

MutedTrampet,

@simon The Mbps, Kbps and bps abbreviations date back to 1999. IBM fixed the abbreviations in May 2002, but broke the singular case, so if you typed 1 Mbps it would say 1 megabits per second. I wonder if ETI actually got it wrong or if bytes was more popular at some point.

MutedTrampet, to random

Sometimes I wonder if someone still has the instruments used for making 90s Roland and Yamaha sounds.

ppatel, to random
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Using IBMTTS's 6.6 driver to get the best 22K performance also means that you get some of the absolute worst pronunciations for commonly used words as "composable," "unread," etc. Apple must be using this version since they had to create new pronunciation rules.

MutedTrampet,

@ppatel Nah, they're not. It's Eloquence 6.1. The janky pronunciations in IBMTTS are the result of some bad attempts at fixing Latin phrases that were made around 2003 in version 6.7. Hilariously they still persist in Watson today.

MutedTrampet,

@ppatel It's possible to downgrade to IBMTTS 6.6, which will give you most of the proper noun fixes without the Latin strangeness. My dictionary set also contains enumain and enuroot files that are specifically optimized for IBMTTS and fix those pronunciations.

MutedTrampet, to random

Was looking through my old text files and found a list of filters I had added to my Twitter client when I was on there. I'd forgotten how much thank you for following me and added to Spotify and I just scored 294.65 points in [game name] tweets I had to filter out for a pleasant experience LOL

MutedTrampet, to random

My hard drive of four years failed a few days ago, so I got an external SSD. Wasn't expecting it to be so tiny LOL

MutedTrampet,

@TheQuinbox 2 tb. Unfortunately there was a lot of valuable stuff on it, especially some scrapes of dead websites. Might try seeing if it can be recovered but not sure if it'll work.

MutedTrampet, to random

Quick tip for anyone using Nuked SC-55 with LoopMIDI and QWS. If LoopMIDI complains about feedback when you play a file, make sure that the LoopMIDI input and output ports aren't enabled at the same time. You can check this by going into ports settings.

MutedTrampet, to random

Me while typing a direct message to someone: spells username character by character, terrified that I'll make a typo and send it to the wrong or a non-existent person

MutedTrampet, to random

Heading down to the MIDI room to pull another file off the shelves. Today's file: Farolillo. A Spanish style guitar piece, occasionally with some input from Castanets. Composer unknown. Played with S-YXG50. From the Yamaha XG MIDI Library, in the Latin section. Composed in 1996. MIDI: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1srX9tAkx-zqACHzWxPGLX4cQQdE5B2Jq

MutedTrampet,

Just for fun, I tried rendering Farolillo with the unofficial XG support in Sound Canvas VA. It comes out pretty well, and even sounds sort of better than S-YXG50 in some ways in my opinion. I especially like the sound of the guitar notes on the right from D#3 to A#3.

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