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Re: Guitar Machine

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Post by projectsymphony »

jacknews wrote: post #9

AI augmentation, human-machine symbiosis, etc, are definitely interesting. What's up with vimeo though? Almost 2020 and it still doesn't work properly. I don't think I've ever played a video without constant stutters, buffering, etc. Letting it play all the way through in order to buffer the whole thing, so that you can play it again, this time 'preloaded', results in it starting the download over - arrghh!

do you have `media.mediasource.enabled` set correctly? Normally you cant let the video load all the way through unless it is in progressive mode

Re: Guitar Machine

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Post by gtfratteus »

This reminds me of the powerlifters who wear ridiculous elastic shirts so that they can bench press 50 pounds more. It may make some songs possible to play that weren't before, but it's the polar opposite of cool.

Re: Guitar Machine

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Post by uxp100 »

jacknews wrote: post #9

AI augmentation, human-machine symbiosis, etc, are definitely interesting. What's up with vimeo though? Almost 2020 and it still doesn't work properly. I don't think I've ever played a video without constant stutters, buffering, etc. Letting it play all the way through in order to buffer the whole thing, so that you can play it again, this time 'preloaded', results in it starting the download over - arrghh!

I'm always pleased to see vimeo due to higher quality video, and lack of buffering, unlike youtube, which does buffer for me from time to time. So we definitely have very different experiences.

Re: Guitar Machine

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Post by excalibur »

castratikron wrote: post #17

This guy probably has the best guitar machine I've ever seen. He's also made accordion machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNLXYuqPRSc

Thanks for that link. This is the approach I've been interested in for a long time, it has the ability to play things that a human never could (the size of and number of fingers on the human hand limit the chords you can achieve). But it's pretty decisively the machine playing there. The human participation element in the MIT version is a very interesting addition.

I think a combination of their software and body-side mechanics with the Russian fretboard apparatus could do some really interesting things sonically. But it would still be less fun to play than the MIT guitar in its current form.

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