Is there a way to move the mouse without playing a key? I am using a touchpad, so maybe it can't be done without an actual mouse.
Music Mouse
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#52No matter where I move my cursor, it ends up sounding like an opening theme for a light-hearted anime series. Impressed at how melodic it sounds even though I don't know what I'm doing.
Also please fix the mouse jacking. I was only able to regain control of my mouse after exiting the tab :(
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#53Incredible - loved it! This is what a modern digital music instrument should be like :)
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#54No matter where I move my cursor, it ends up sounding like an opening theme for a light-hearted anime series. Impressed at how melodic it sounds even though I don't know what I'm doing. Also please fix the mouse jacking. I was only able to regain control of my mouse after exiting the tab :(
Esc worked for me!
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#55By total chance, this revealed a flaw with my mouse that's been haunting me for months. My right mouse button intermittently doesn't bring up context menus, which I seemingly confirmed by recording the screen and visualizing click events in a presentation mode. It would show what looked like one right click, but no context menu, or a context menu that appeared and was immediately dismissed. But this revealed that it'…
I've had this problem on so many mice over the years, going back to the Amiga days. Often it can be fixed by opening the mouse and gluing a tiny bit of thin card to the nub which presses on the microswitch. (Usually the problem is just that the plastic has worn down over the years and no longer pushes the button quite far enough to make a clean contact.)
I've fixed some of mine by opening the switches themselves and bending the metal spring a bit. Of course that only lasts for so long before you need to re-do the fix.
The middle mouse button seems to be the one to fail the most - I guess manufacturers cheap out on it even more than others since it isn't used by normal people that don't use X11 (middle click paste for selections) or know that it opens links in new tabs (in FF at least).
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Laurie Spiegel is a Bell Labs alum. Bell Labs is the nexus for so many remarkable people. A bit off-topic, but does anyone know of a book that touches on how Bell Labs managed to recruit and foster so many great minds?
It's somewhat covered in John Gartner's "The Idea Factory: A History of Bell Labs"
Key takeaways from that book are mostly about money:
1) science is expensive
2) having a gigantic hose of money helps
3) scientists should not be the same people acquiring and managing money and programs
Very disappointing that our current academic science system operates with almost an identically opposite model to Bell labs.
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#57Wow, this is probably the most intuitively enjoyable music tool I've ever used. I'm not a musician and I know very little about what makes music good, but playing with this tool felt like I was hearing a better version of my own imagination. Like those scenes in movies where people can suddenly play music and have no idea how they're doing it.
It's rare to have an instrument where anything you do sounds good!
Western music has certain "rules" that our ears are used to. If the computer limits variation/random-ness to stay within those rules, it will sound at least "pleasant", as the bot won't let you drive outside the lines. However, the real artistry is knowing when and where to break the rules. A tune that sticks to all the rules risks sounding stale or ordinary. You gotta know where to spice and spike it to move to the next level.
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#58Is there a way to move the mouse without playing a key? I am using a touchpad, so maybe it can't be done without an actual mouse.
With a mouse pressing and holding left/center/right mouse buttons and moving the mouse result in no sound until the left/center/right button is released. Not knowing about touchpads, do they not have buttons for left/center/right? If they do maybe those will work as they do on a mouse?