Everything We Can't Describe in Music

Re:Everything We Can't Describe in Music by Barneyhill on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @05:32PM (#40070275)

I went to a interesting hackathon the other day focused on building tools for exploring timbre in sound https://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/timbre-tools-hackathon/.

Was brilliant, a lot of groups focusing on the use of ML to characterise the "unexplainable" in sound synthesis.

We ended up submitting a tool for interacting directly with Ableton using LLM agents after becoming disenchanted with text2audio models, wrote about it here - https://montyanderson.net/writing/synthesis

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Re:Everything We Can't Describe in Music by butterchaos on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:04PM (#40070541)

Very cool. I will have to join "mod wiggler" lol.

I have been out of it so long muff wiggler is now mod wiggler. Come on, that is absurd. Muff Wiggler was the best name ever.

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Re:Everything We Can't Describe in Music by jrajav on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:35PM (#40071274)

Yeah.... no. Why audio-nerd forums were ever so infantile as to brand themselves with "muff" and "slutz" isn't much of a big mystery, but we haven't lost anything of value by seeing those 'cute' names off. I'd like to chat about synthesizers with fellow nerds without feeling rightfully embarrassed about the name in the header.

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Re:Everything We Can't Describe in Music by amanaplanacanal on Thursday April 18, 2024 @06:30AM (#40074728)

Those cutesy names were also a barrier to getting girls and young women involved in this stuff too. Changing it to modwiggler was absolutely the right thing to do.

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