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You can use taskset to set process CPU affinity (ie. assign cores to tasks)... I believe this can be a very important part of a realtime or low-latency setup.

Hm the Esperanto parallel is a bit of a flawed allegory. Esperanto has kinda grown into a subculture as opposed to a genuine lingua franca it set out to become. You learn Esperanto to read Esperantist literature, and to talk to other Esperantist. You learn it to become part of this international mul...

It definitely did develop into an interesting discourse here. :) Personally, even though I initiated the discussion and panned traditional notation quite prolifically, I am ultimately a fan and follower of it. It's a semantic description of music. It emphasizes some things, and de-emphasizes others,...

Hm that's an interesting point you make about broken tabulatures... I'm not a guitarist so I don't really know how prevalent the use of tabulature is to begin with. I'd think an intermediately experienced guitarist would probably be able to "instinctively" voicelead based on how their hand...

... I don't see why drum notation would require automated translation. Honestly, I don't think it's a very good idea to overly rely on computers. I don't want a way so I wouldn't have to read classical notation - I'm hoping for a system that could be simpler to capture ideas in.

Dude. Chill out...

You do you, whatever makes you happy. Nothing is mandatory.

This dicussion made me think... Where does music even come from in the first place. ;) About five minutes of contemplation gave me the following idea: there are two "sources" or "inspirations" for creating music. The internal musical quality of human life, and the external musica...

I think it counts, if it's what you're most comfortable with. I prefer a representation that tries to capture the "soul" of the music for general use, but I do see the point of tabs. It's quick and dirty for both notating and playing by sight.

Thanks for the demo, I agree with your conclusion. ;) I love the circle of fifths, how the more you look at it, the more realizations hit you. It's to western music what a circular slide rule is to arithmetics. Btw I think the Ionian mode wasn't even accepted in Gregorian music well until the XVI. c...

Okay, now you are just resorting to, how to say it, "zee picking of zee nits". :P Of course you'll disagree if you use an unusably restrictive definition. Do you really see no difference between Ligeti (or Chick Corea) and, dunno, Britney Spears? :lol: It's not about if all the rules are s...

I use Mac quite a bit. My current audio machine is an older Macbook Pro. Honestly, I'll admit that I like it. I love the form factor, the OS design, the tools... You can run into problems with a Mac (especially when you want to hack around), but your normal experience will be smooth sailing. I use w...

Above you stated that solfege programs your brain to associate 'do' with the tonic. That's not happening with your blues scale example. Also how do you do the harmonic and melodic minors? What I said was that the tonic is "do" in major, and "la" in minor. Essentially you're lear...

We could make our own, I guess. A little rebellion of artists against major labels. Now there's something about this though.. How would DRM-free status be marketable in a streaming service? In an online store like Bandcamp or iTunes Store, it makes sense that you want music to be DRM-free, as you bo...

Blues scale isn't really chromatic, it's "just" a minor pentatonic scale with a blue note...
and solfege has accidental notes, so "la, do, re, me, mi, so, la".

What I find the main advantage of alternative systems is isomorphism: that the same interval always looks the same. And it's not even the reading part that I'm particularly interested in, but rather the writing part: being able to notate music without losing too much focus to the technicalities of t...