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this isn't really a direct answer to your question, but this sort of thing would probably be easier as a web app.. like something in PHP or javascript or somethin. you could just have a text file as a "database" and parse it as a space delimited text array, and the browser would take care of displaying the characters

which is more important.. well that obviously DEPENDS.. depends on the person and the type of music but if you wanted to phrase the argument in more concrete terms.. what would i rather listen to.. 100% technical / 0 % soul.. or 100% soul / 0% technical... i'd probably pick the 100% technical

i'd suspect that your soundcard sucks and causes distortion when driven too hard. my built-in mobo soundcard does this... so the solution is to lower the volume in the sound properties and up the volume on your speakers

this "original feel" stuff is a really graaay area. you could argue that anything short of the actual original doesn't have the original feel. if someone arranged a track to have the original feel, then what's the point? why not just listen to the original. and feel is totally subjective anyways, since everybody feels somethin different when listening to music

thats some old skool disco funk (Lupin III).. nice

you shouldn't be plugging the guitar directly into the soundcard because it isn't line level (the level at which most audio components work at) you would need a preamp to get it to line level, otherwise you're losing a lot of resolution by recording at low volume then amplifying it digitally

the time it takes also depends on the type of music you're doing. stuff that relies heavily on live instruments could be done in a matter of hours, while electronica with a million different samples and textures and having to do some tedious editing could take a looong time of course for recording, the thing that's left out of the equation is the thousands of hours spent practicing your instrument(s). and if you're proficient at keyboard, then that could make you blazing fast since you can record a bunch of MIDI parts with just keyboard (like virt and joshua morse)

actually that distinction belongs to Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet's company. the stock has never split http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BRKA&d=t

aww too bad i missed you. maybe next time... btw Mustin made it back to arkansas just fine

just downloaded Chrome and have been using it for a little while now. so far it's everything they said it would be.. it's really fast and responsive, javascript slowing down one tab doesn't affect other tabs if only they had this for linux...

looks very promising.. and should be great IF it works like they say it does. but i probably won't switch unless it supports firefox extensions, or already has built in features like the ones i use (tabmix, easygestures, etc)

PAX pics http://picasaweb.google.com/wushuplaya/PAX2008 it's pretty much all OneUps pics.. didn't see any of you OCR peeps (anybody stop by the OneUps booth?)

HARDCORE what kind of monitor stands are those? or are those keyboard stands...

it's easy to assume cuz we can deduce what your criteria are for judging arrangements based on the many many judges decisions you've made over the past few years. even someone like me who rarely reads the judges decisions knows that you all reject arrangements that are too conservative (covers) and too liberal (not enough of the source material! NO)

actually i agree that they are a bit inhuman sounding... in the sense that the engineering sounds too perfect to the point that it sounds like samples and not live instruments. but it's a minor issue and i think the whole album sounds great

i can recommend restaurants here in Berkeley if you would be willing to go somewhere outside SF. someone mentioned Chez Panisse... I think you need reservation well in advance to eat there.. and of course it's really expensive

i plan on going. i also need a place to stay since all the hotels seem to be booked. so if anybody has space... let me know

i was actually planning on doing that for the track that i'm working on now.. doing a "making of" vid. it turned out to be really difficult to get the camerawork that i wanted though. instead of just doing vidcaps of my screen i wanted to actually film me working at the computer, so i could do some sort of vlog and also for when i record instruments it was hard to find a good angle though.. one that would show me as well as get the content on my screen. so in the end i abandoned the idea.... for now. i still wanna find a way to do it tho

it doesn't work for any words that end with periods, like any abbreviations. like dr. or ave. or bros. ... pretty lame

me and djp actually share the same birthday.. HAPPY BURFDAY DJP

yea, i "see" music that way too. but that's just the way it sounds to my ear spatially, not really how my brain "sees" the music in a more general sense, i "see" music as MOVEMENT. chord progressions really PROGRESS.. they go somewhere and then come back. melodic lines go up, down, out, back in... it's like a roller coaster ride

double dragon 2 for NES i must have beaten that game over 100 times.. takes me about 20 min 1 player. i'm thinkin about recording a speed run.. since there don't seem to be any out there. but the game is never the same each time.. the AI is really randomized and i guess thats part of what makes it so fun to beat

i don't have much to say about gear.. just get something and play. gear talk is fun but really doesn't amount to much i would recommend playing along with songs, any song with a reasonably simple bass line. even if you aren't good at reading music or tab or hearing the notes, once you hear what you're playing you'll be able to put it all together and figure it out. also playing along with something will develop your rhythm, which is the most important aspect of bass playing

you might be able to find a phone shop that will activate it for you? or there might be ways to hack it yourself i've bought a phone off ebay.. but i'm not using verizon and with GSM you can just buy any unlocked phone and stick in your SIM card. i don't know how verizon's thing would work, but it's probably just punching in certain codes into the phone, which you might be able to find online

back from work now so i can click on the link i think 690 is the definite standout of those pics.. great shot. the posing on 522 is kinda awkward. she looks like a corpse or something.. but maybe that was what you were going for