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Lostgallifreyan wrote:
"Bill in Co" wrote in : Fortunately I haven't run into any problems with CPU usage so far. Even on the Win98SE computer, although granted, it doesn't have as much of the later audio restoration stuff. It's relative... Less CPU is always good, I hate waiting for NR to finish before I can do HR. HR? What does that stand for? Just grab a cup of coffee. (Or perhaps tea, over on that side of the pond :-) (how long are you waiting?) It's ok if I know what HR I'll do already, I can just chain them and do something else, but on any new material I never know the HR choice until NR is done. About lots of filters, I think if the calculations get too complex, phase shifts might get confusing. I never grasped the business of filtering very well. I find that a few simple ones usually do ok. Also, I think that while digital methods can do things analog stuff can't, it often makes sense to stay with methods that analog means can do, because otherwise we can end up with un-natural stuff our brains won't interpolate for. (Think of some of those REALLY weird mobile phone artifacts heard on some news reports, and you get the idea..) |
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
: HR? What does that stand for? Harmonic regeneration. It's like Aphex' Aural Exiter but more subtle, it uses even- or all-harmonic distortion to extend HF into the upper range (and it sharpens time domain shapes too), and it's ideal for improving clarity in string sounds, vocals, reverb, all the kinds of stuff that NR tends to damage, which is why the symbiosis of the two is so effective. The combination is a trick I worked out, and as far as I know, I'm the only person to ever do so. I have never seen any description of such a process. I've even considered that it could regerate HR after transmitting HF-reduced, extra-compressed audio signals, and in that context too, I never saw any description of the like. It may exist, but I never found one, and I do look occasionally. Maybe I don't know how to look, but nae matter, I can make the thing happen, so I do ok. |
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
: how long are you waiting? A little too much longer than the proverbial piece of string. |
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"Bill in Co" wrote in
: Lostgallifreyan wrote: "Bill in Co" wrote in news:AZ-dnV3B- : I haven't been using any (of the types I think you're thinking of), so I don't know of any. Ok. If anyone else is following this, and knows of dynamic filter plugins for DirectX, running on W98 and aimed at accurate control rather than special effects or VCO simulation, please post, any useful leads welcome.. Maybe you could give an example of one (or one that might run on some other windows version), so one might get a better idea. I wish I could. That would be my lead to follow. All I have is some notion of how it might work. But filters may be hard enough to code, doing a complex one and dynaically varying it can't be easy, and could be expensive. Basically, some kind of animated parametric EQ might do what I'm after. |
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What exactly is RSS anyways?
I mean, beyond the technical explanation, what exactly is it? What does it do for the end-user that viewing a simple web-page doesn't do? How does it convey information (text, graphics, images, etc) differently vs a web browser? I only opened this thread for grins, because I have never understood what RSS did either. You've essentially answered your own question. There are no "simple" web-pages. An RSS feed reader presents articles in a format which is very similar to that which I consider ideal, namely the plain-text, no frills format that I'm using right now. Contrast this to the bloated, convoluted, ad-infested, Javascript based web forums such as Seagate's, Western Digital's, and Tom's Hardware. For example, to read a Seagate post and reply to it, and then see the updated thread, I have to put up with around 1.5MB of crap. And all this is required just to exchange a couple of paragraphs of plain text. I remember that in the early 1990s I accessed Seagate's Singapore BBS via a 2400bps dialup modem with a 286 PC running MS-DOS. Today I need an octuple core CPU and a 200Mbps broadband connection to achieve the same end. BTW Seagate's reply box requires HTML or "rich text" input. There is no plain text option. Here comes the BIG statement...... Why the **** do these companies have all this **** on their websites anyhow? Why do any of us need all this crap? A website is supposed to provide information, similarly to a newspaper. What do you see on a newspaper? Text and some pictures. Back in the 90's we had geocities sites. They were simply text and pictures. They got the message across. A few had animated gifs and some midi or wav sounds. What more was really needed? I'm running a 56K modem on dialup. Being rural, that is my only choice unless I want to spend close to $100 a month for satellite tv and internet. I rarely even turn on a tv, nor will I pay that kind of money. Why do websites need all that **** on them these days? I have no problem with flash videos like the ones on youtube. Some of them are great to watch, but I can choose to watch them, and that is rare on my dialup connection because they are slow to download. But I have the choice. What annoys the hell out of me are web pages that are actually created out of flash. Try budweiser.com for example. If you dont load their annoying flash page, you cant even get to their site. What's the point? If anything, they are losing customers who dont want to **** around with all their nonsense **** content on their sites. The media sites, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, and all the local tv stations are just as bad. Their pages are filled with flash ads, flash headlines, flash ****, and much of the time they wont even show a simple photo of a car crash anymore, you have to watch a goddamn video. Wasn't the original reasoning for the internet to provide an electronic newspaper/magazine format, along with a means to contact others online (email and usenet)? Somewhere along the line, we've lost the whole purpose of simple communication in favor of all kinds of gizmos, gadgets, jumping, flashing, annoying scrollarounds, popups and other irritating worthless things on our screens. Stop just a minute, and answer this. Do we HAVE to put up with this ****? What if all of us got together and started telling these companies to either provide a simple easy to use website, or we'll hit them in the pocketbook...... If enough people did this, they would listen. One last thing. Why is RSS different from a PDF file? |
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Franc Zabkar wrote in
news I hear you. That's why I use RSS, OffByOne, and Google's text-only cache. Now that's just ruthless. I really need to look into RSS. |
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