Author: KanawhaCountyWX
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MIDI On The BrailleNote MPower Is Something…
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I used to own a beat to hell HumanWare BrailleNote MPower, and this unit had a software MIDI synth that was removed in the Apex, not sure if the Classic or PK had the software MIDI synth. The synth file is "wince_gm.dls" and according to Jake Gross, some samples in this DLS are stored in…
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apco pROJECT 25 aUDIO qUALLITY cONCERN
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So I’ve finally gotten my Uniden Barecat BCD996P2 digital trunking scanner working the way I want it to (I had one setting set wrong and it was decoding everything.) However, I want to gripe about the audio quallity of P25 Phase I. West Virginia uses P25 Phase I and Phase II for a lot of…
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Adventures in Locating a Missing Phone Handset
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Context: the first part of this was a video I filmed on my phone to share with some sighted friends on Discord. I needed to emboss a document on my embosser (circa 1995 Juliet Brailler), and I had to move stuff from atop the lid (small LCD monitor, cordless phone base, stack of paper, spindle…
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SPC2IT, or, A New Way To Corrupt SNES Video Game Music
Warning: technicl nerdyness ahead. Brace yourself… I love music from older video games. I especially love music from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) which used a custom Sony designed sound chip that was really advenced for its day. bASICALLY, YOU CAN DEFINE A SET OF SAMPLES (A NOTE ON A PIANO, A DRUM HIT,…
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Windows 95: It’s Just One Of Those Days
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VMWare + Windows 95 + single-channel soundcard emulation = a very bad time Recorded at some point last year.
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A6 Based Jingle (Yamaha Multitrack Demo)
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I was messing around on the keyboard earlier today and came up with this little jingle based on an A6 chord. Ideally this’d eventually become this ambient synthy thing, but this was just a 5-track MIDI recorder demo on my YPG225 keyboard. Thoughts?
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We’re Sleeping on Jungle Love’s Funky Bassline
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Jungle Love by The Steve Miller Band has a surprisingly good bassline. Extracted using the Moises app on my phone.
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Duran Duran and Streets of Rage
I noticed that the drum track from one of the songs in the Streets of Rage soundtrack lined up perfectly with the Duran Duran song "Come Undone." This is the result.
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Melotron Samples Go A Long Way
So this was the first thing I experamented with using Melotron samples on. For those who don’t know, the Melotron was a 60s era analog tape based sampling device, its the instrument that gave The Beatles’ "Strawberry Fields Forever" that distinct sound. I had also just adjusted my audio interfaces’ latency compensation so there was…
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Linn LM1 Drum Test
I found MIDI soundfont with samples ripped from the Linn LM1, a classic 80s drum machine. So I decided to put it to the test with my synth, and I decided to use some different synth sounds. I’d prefer a Linndrum soundfont since I prefer the sounds of the Linndrum to the LM1, but beggers…