@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Sandra

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.

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Sandra, to synths

SmplTrek note off timing?

Is there a way to set the default note off timing? (What some other sequencers call Gate Length.) Either as a device-wide setting, or for a project, for a track, for a scene or just for a clip. As it is I can only do it note-by-note.

All notes are half the length I’d want, and I have to go into them manually and crank up each one separately from 50% to 99%. I would love the sequencer if it weren’t for this.

I have a workaround which is to import SMF’s from any other seqencer (such as abc2midi on Linux or Atom 2 on iPad) and that works fine, using the SmplTrek more as an arranger/player than a sequencer, but since the SmplTrek step sequencer is so nice it’d be great to be able to use it directly instead.

(And another workaround is to get good and turn off quantization, that also works.)

Don’t worry, I’m definitively keeping mine (as a drum machine, looper, and global tracks recorder, and as an audio interface) but I’m just a li’l frustrated with this one issue.

I know that I can make notes longer by pressing right arrow or turning the value know; I can make two eight notes followed by a quarter note for example.

But those notes will all be “staccato” since they’ve got a 50% gate length.

That’s not always what I want especially for a midi or organ type track.

Here is an example. One track playing three notes twice, same instrument. Two fourth notes followed by a halfnote (and the halfnote sequenced by using the right arrow while holding the pad).

This is how the track looks

The first three notes are played staccato (e.g. “Note off timing” 50%, a.k.a. gate length as some other synths call it). The last three notes are played more fully, with note off timing manually set to 99% for each of the three notes.

Here is how the track sounds, first the staccato notes followed by the normal notes.

Many other sequencers, to get that staccato sound you’d set grid length to 1/4 but note length to 1/8. But on SmplTrek, it’s one setting, called note length, and setting that to 1/4 as I did here results in notes with a shortened, only 50% duration.

Messing with the envelope release is no good for MIDI tracks.

So far my best workaround is to import SMF files that I’ve made with some other sequencer app and that’s a shame since I’m so much faster and more creative with the SmplTrek’s sequencer, but I just don’t always want that staccato sound.

I don’t wanna make a Facebook account just to post in the SmplTrek group on there. 😰

@synths

Sandra, to random

Sweden wrong-headedly uses a system where the polar opposite busses have the exact same number 🤦🏻‍♀️

https://idiomdrottning.org/bus-trouble

Sandra,

@loke

Har Singapore det som det jag önskar att vi hade (“360 A” vs “360 B”) eller som den vi har (dom polärt motsatta bussarna har samma nummer)?

Sandra,

A commenter on the YouTube page said

Meanwhile the Free and Open Source community have holy wars over text editors.

😭

Is that still going on? I thought Emacs ruled supreme. Every monarchy a conquered sovereignity.

@spaduf @breadtube

Sandra,

CY_Borg by @chrull is great. Feels more polished and playable than Mörk Borg.

Sandra,

It's so weird that they didn't do this when they introduced the Primaris. Perfect in-universe opportunity.

But the Stormcast Eternals fixed it so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sandra, to random

One drawback of POSSE is that you’re bolstering the value of the silos. Instagram grows more powerful with your pictures on it and GitHub thrives on your repos.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Sandra,

This is great, makes me happy to hear!

@flumph @dnd

Sandra, to random

If XHTML is all good and Textile/​RST/​Pandoc is all bad, then YAML is half bad. Like Textile and its ilk, I can’t easily write YAML without tools. But the good thing is that if I am looking at a YAML document, I can more or less understand the gist of what’s there.

https://idiomdrottning.org/yaml

Sandra,

@RogerBW

Note that NO is no longer a boolean literal in YAML 1.2 (which came out in 2009) so Norway hasn’t been a good example for almost 15 years. The two remaining strings to watch out for is true and false. I’m not sure I agree with this decision; since I was resigned to the idea that I can’t eyeball a YAML document’s validity and bug-free-ness, and that’s a pretty huge downside to a document format but the upside is how human-friendly it read.

has-paid: no
delivered: yes

Nice! But no longer possible in the current version.

Sandra,

@RogerBW

I’d get tripped up anyway!

I’m still not at a level where I feel comfortable with the YAML I make without linters or parse dry runs or Emacs modes although I’m getting more and more comfy with it.

But if all strings had to be quoted, it’d lose its human readable appeal. Might as well use JSON at that point (and many do, since JSON is more used than YAML or at least that’d be my guess).

Sandra, to random

A hundred and eighty bugs in one DSA?

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00066.html

What happened?

RogerBW, to boardgames
@RogerBW@emacs.ch avatar

If you are looking for rules rewritten and in something like a logical order, you may find my page https://tekeli.li/rogers-rules/ useful.

Sandra,

@RogerBW

Oh, tekeli.li is you! I didn't realize. World so small

Sandra, to random

There is this whole “deep work” productivity culture obsession with hating on notifications, and when I do hyperfocus I often turn notifications off. That needs to be easy to do, and I do that all the time.

But there is a level of focus just before that depth, and it’s just as valuable, maybe even more valuable since it’s not as obsessive and not as neglectful of my well-being as a whole, and I can’t get there if I’m in check-check-checking hell.

https://idiomdrottning.org/notifications

Sandra,

@RogerBW

May I quote you on my blog? (I already did but I forgot to ask.)

Sandra,

Sweden has these. But I can't speak to how good or bad they are because I've never lived in one for more than a week or so at a time. I grew up out in the boonies.

As for the video, I like that it (unlike way too many of these video essays) doesn't bury the lede; he's up front about his perspective and then spend the rest of the video elaborating and explaining why. That's an oasis in the desert of "mysterious, let me hold you in suspense for the lede" style videos we see too many of. I get really distracted by his music, though. I can't fully listen to what he has to say since I get so into the heartbreakingly depressive synth pads.

@tree @breadtube

Sandra, to random

Not happy with issue trackers that has a ton of required boilerplate just to suggest an issue. Users (“lusers”) who are reporting bugs are helping the project and if it’s easy for them to contribute, more bugs will be found.

Non-mandatory boilerplate prompts (“here’s where you can find the version number”, “here’s where you can find logs”) are great but it should be possible to bypass since it’s stuff that’s not always relevant, like a user finding a bug can’t submit the admin’s logs for example.

I’ve said it before but probably the biggest culture shock when working in the corporate world was that they pay for testers and UI designers while when users give such suggestions for free in the FOSS world, they get kicked in the head.

The flipside to that is when the users are coming across as entitled, that’s not right either. Users, you’re not a paying customer or employee.

Sandra, to random

I don't want mandatory darkmode because I just can't see it very well especially when I'm tired. I can but only if I squint and like super focus, or zoom in. Here is a comparison image (above and below) but to me they're the same picture.

This is for LCD screens. On CRT it's the other way around and there I did use darkmode all the time. I dunno why.

Sandra, to random

We see something messed up and we fix it and we realize that others could benefit from the fix so we share it.

https://idiomdrottning.org/foss-maintenance

Sandra,

I think this is spot on and I overall dislike the game. One thing that I am a li’l bit interested in is the hitpoints system which seems like a good mix of Fate stressboxes with D&D damage.

The amount of incoming damage can go to certain thresholds and that has different consequences (both symbol-layer mechanical and diegetic). I think that’s neat and I’m glad to see that experiment carried further.

How much gold is in that hoard?

Wow, I had missed that. That’s not good. I mean, CR gets criticized for their “shopping episodes” (even though my own group is even more extreme in that regard) so maybe that’s to address that? Diaspora, for example, just has a “recourses” roll instead of detailed accounting of space credits, and it seems to work well in the context of that game.

How far does that bandit run?

I don’t think that’s a fair characterization; range bands is trued and tested tech. Cartesian spatialization is overkill for most game groups.

@Aielman15 @Shyfer

Sandra, to random

ADHD Productivity Fundamentals:

Remember why you are pursuing this.

Good rule when tweaking your system (or when considering whether to even tweaking your system; sometimes don’t mess with a good thing).

https://0xff.nu/adhd-productivity-fundamentals

Sandra,

Kudos to CR for listening to the backlash on this illconsidered project. They must've taken quite a hit 💸 but this was not a good idea. I mean, they have their fair share of bad sponsors like NordVPN or D&D Beyond but this was a li'l too much 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Ultragramps @criticalrole

Sandra,

They've also removed Talks Machina.

@Ultragramps @criticalrole

etherdiver, to synths
@etherdiver@ravenation.club avatar

I would love for the good people of @synths (and anyone else who might see this, of course!) to go to my album Psychedelic Ghost Stories, select a single song based on the title, listen to it (or as much as your patience allows if it's not your bag), then report back if you think the title is a good fit for the music.

A simple "Listened to this song, good fit/bad fit" is fine, but you're very welcome to say more/offer details if you want.

Thanks in advance if you do

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories

Sandra,

@etherdiver

Listened to "The Siren Call of the Benjolin Welcomes Me Home", bad fit. Feels more pushing than pulling, departing than arriving. Good song, good title, just bad fit. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@synths

Sandra,

What I did was use tokens for inspiration and saying "you can have as many as you want and then cash in all of them to get advantage". That worked well.

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