On 2013-12-14 11:28, Iain Buclaw wrote:

> And as well as a drum kit, we could have people on specific percussive
> instruments - djembe, anyone?  :)

I always liked the guy playing percussion in the back of many concerts with Eric Clapton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpxgxThG7s - 2:50, 5:44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O6R-ZOuMjY - 5:32

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 14/12/13 14:23, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-12-14 11:28, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
>> And as well as a drum kit, we could have people on specific percussive
>> instruments - djembe, anyone?  :)
>
> I always liked the guy playing percussion in the back of many concerts with Eric
> Clapton.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpxgxThG7s - 2:50, 5:44
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O6R-ZOuMjY - 5:32

Ray Cooper.  Who has played with just about everybody, on everything ... :-)

On 2013-12-14 13:54, Marco Leise wrote:

> Read about Valve's port of Left 4 Dead 2 here:
> http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
>
> They say their Linux port ran at 6 FPS before they started
> optimizing. But it was also in part due to a bad OpenGL
> implementation. (I remember even Doom 3 running at 2 FPS on my
> previous PC until the drivers were updated. -.-)

Yeah, I've heard of that. Unfortunately that's Linux and not Mac OS X. Hopefully the games will get better on Mac OS X as well.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 2013-12-14 15:07, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

> Ray Cooper.  Who has played with just about everybody, on everything ...
> :-)

Yeah, I looked him up at Wikipedia.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 12/14/13 4:43 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-12-13 22:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNn3pJKaV2s
>
> Hehe, nice. Although I can basically only hear the drums.

Yah, it's on my wife's cell phone... it was an adaptation of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire". It's a good piece for the drums. http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimi-hendrix-fire-song-premiere/

Andrei

Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> writes:

> On 13 December 2013 19:31, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've experienced the same slowing effect I mentioned before in this context
> too.
> Have you ever trying playing with a delay AND an uncomfortably high latency?
> Since you're playing with a delay, you're effectively playing against yourself
> from a couple 100ms ago. If you play when you hear yourself, but there's an
> effective latency on that note trigger, it will compound that latency, and
> you'll drift towards a slower tempo as you play.
> It's so weird when I feel myself do it, but it's awfully hard to control (I
> don't have mates to play music with... I play a lot with a delay/looper).

One of the worst examples of this I've heard of was pipe organs in a very large church.  The organist console sits at the opposite end of the church from the pipes, perhaps 100 feet away from some pipes, leading to extremely large delays.  I read one account where low notes had a 300ms delay from pressing the pedal.

Jerry

"Jerry" <jlquinn@optonline.net> wrote in message news:87r49bzawu.fsf@optonline.net...
> Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 13 December 2013 19:31, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've experienced the same slowing effect I mentioned before in this context
>> too.
>> Have you ever trying playing with a delay AND an uncomfortably high latency?
>> Since you're playing with a delay, you're effectively playing against yourself
>> from a couple 100ms ago. If you play when you hear yourself, but there's an
>> effective latency on that note trigger, it will compound that latency, and
>> you'll drift towards a slower tempo as you play.
>> It's so weird when I feel myself do it, but it's awfully hard to control (I
>> don't have mates to play music with... I play a lot with a delay/looper).
>
> One of the worst examples of this I've heard of was pipe organs in a
> very large church.  The organist console sits at the opposite end of the
> church from the pipes, perhaps 100 feet away from some pipes, leading to
> extremely large delays.  I read one account where low notes had a 300ms
> delay from pressing the pedal.
>
> Jerry

Yeh - I had a friend who restored and played theatre organs. He said you had to play to the sheet music and completely ignore the sound.

-=mike=- 

On 12/12/2013 12:40, Manu wrote:
> I was involved in a similar project called StepMania back when, which
> solved the same problem with Dance Dance Revolution. Guitar Hero/Rock
> Band needs the same treatment.

You worked on StepMania? Nice! I used that program (game?) a lot when playing DDR, back in the time where I was living in a place with a DDR mat. It's even more fun when you can get songs and tracks you like in DDR, which you cant with arcade machines, one is stuck with their selection..

On 13/12/2013 21:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/13/13 12:17 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-12-13 21:03, Marco Leise wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, I keep drumming on everything I find. Tables, stools and
>>> especially my cheap keyboard. That keyboard has a certain
>>> crunch to it. I'm worried about my notebook though. I hope the
>>> hard disk can handle the shocks. :) I just can't keep calm to a
>>> good rock song.
>>> But whenever a real drummer sees me drumming on a bar table,
>>> they gotta show me that there is more to it and I wonder how
>>> one can ever learn to coordinate two hands and the feet to play
>>> different rhythms and above that hit the correct drum.
>>
>> I've been drumming so much on my desk that the finish (or what it's
>> called) has been wear done.
>
> I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNn3pJKaV2s
>
> Andrei
>

Daaaammn! Seriously impressed, awesome stuff! :)