Rotwang

No, normally takes about 2 years from the film's release.

I'm waiting till it gets shown on Freeview in the UK.

They can. Unfortunately, they can just as easily distort the truth by what they omit. For example, I recently learnt some of the story behind the other famous Nam photo: Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyễn and his family for the damage it did to his reputation. When General Nguyễn died of cancer in his new home of Virginia, Adams praised him: "The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him.

I haven't seen District 9.

Inception?

Worked fine for me (though I've bought very few new albums last year).

What?

Really? Personally I think that the majority of what I listened to as a teenager was dogshit, it's not until my early 20s that I started forming strong connections with music that are still there today. Actually, scratch that - there's quite a bit of music that I loved before I was a teenager that I still love. My teenage years were just a temporary dip in music taste.

To be fair, he did come eighth in the Best of the Noughties poll.

I agree.

Thanks. I don't know what that means - are you talking about this? I don't have to do it additively with sine waves; I can tell the program to output whatever kind of function I like. The sounds in the WAV I posted above were made by directly adding together two square waves and multiplying the result by an envelope - I tell the program to do that typing this: (square(880, 4, 0.25) + square(880*1.01, 4, 0.25))*(fade(0.01, 0, 1.3, 0.5)**fade(3.99, 1, 0, 4))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc

When I started out I made a conscious decision to learn nothing about how audio software usually works since I figured it would be more fun to try to figure it out by myself. But I guess I'll look into that at some point. That works like a charm, thanks. Here is the result of me trying to reproduce the melody from Eggshell, if you're interested.

It didn't until a few days ago. Richpa started it.

The Psynews Facebook group is jolly modern. You can "podcast" it on your "iPad" while wearing your "bacofoil jumpsuit", if you like that kind of thing.

They can be any size. But I've set it up such that a sine wave with an amplitude of 2.0 is the loudest that can be played with a 16-bit WAV (i.e. a sine wave of floats with amplitude 1.0 will be converted to a sine wave of ints with amplitude 16384 before being turned into a WAV). e: Oh, did you mean how many bits per float? I dunno, whatever Python's default is. [checks] It looks like it varies from implementation to implementation but probably 64 bits. In case you can read computerese, Python says this: sys.floatinfo(max=1.7976931348623157e+308, max_exp=1024, max_10_exp=308, min=2.2250738585072014e-308, min_exp=-1021, min_10_exp=-307, dig=15, mant_dig=53, epsilon=2.2204460492503131e-16, radix=2, rounds=1) OK. I set 2.0 to be the maximum amplitude because I figured that would make 1.0 a sensible maximum amplitude (this corresponds to -6 dBFS). So maybe I should try reducing the volume of all my tracks by a factor of 2 or so. Thanks, I will. I'll need to Google those. Thanks very much (I'll need to Google "formant filter" too). Can you give a quantitative estimate on how much "a fair amount" might be? I already tried adding together some sine waves at frequencies slightly different from harmonics of C but it sounded like shit.

This album is fantastic.

I'll take your word for it. But what I mean is, how does purity vsti (or whatever) create that sound? What kind of waveform or spectrum does it have, and what kind of effects have been applied to it? I'd like to be able to recreate something similar with my own software.

Also, can anyone tell me how to make and/or ?

I stand corrected. Anyway, I've already mentioned it to the admins.

I have a question. Lately I've been attempting to make music using software I wrote. Each channel of a sound is stored as a list of floats representing a waveform, and on demand it will convert such a waveform into a 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV file. Often a waveform will go outside the bounds of what can be stored in 16 bits, i.e. when the wave's displacement (after being converted to an integer) is more than 32767 or less than -32767; in this case the software just truncates the wave (so e.g. a displacement of -40000 is changed to -32767). Obviously this creates distortion, but if a sound is at the right volume in the first place then it doesn't happen much and is barely noticeable. Here's the problem: when creating a whole track out of individual sounds, the waveforms for the different sounds are just added together. Constructive interference means that the resulting waveform needs to be truncated a lot more than the individual sounds need to be. When listening to a track through monitoring headphones it sounds terrible. I can fix this easily enough by just reducing the volume of the whole track, and then it sounds fine - but much quieter than the music on most CD's. So it seems that I either have to have music that's too quiet, or music with too much distortion. Anyone know how to get around this?

I thought approval was automatic - if so then he should have already received an email with a link he needs to click to complete his registration. Anyway, I'll ask the admins.