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Signals hacker and programmer Oona Räisänen walks through the steps she took to create a a digital music box. The steps include sampling and recording, adding errors, and even adding synthetic artifacts from the teeth and other mechanical components.
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A little music project I was writing required a melody be played on a music box. However, the paper-programmable music box I had (pictured) could only play notes on the C major scale. I couldn't easily find a realistic-sounding synthesizer version either. They all seemed to be missing something. Maybe they were too perfectly tuned? I wasn't sure.
Perhaps, if I digitized the sound myself, I could build a flexible virtual instrument to generate just the perfect sample for the piece!
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(Score: 2) by WillR on Thursday July 20 2017, @02:51PM (1 child)
I bought an external DAC and a semi-decent DIY speaker kit to replace a pair of dying Logitech PC speakers plugged into the Intel HDA analog output. Now all the 128kbit mp3 music that I've been moving from computer to computer since college sounds like total rubbish. I'm going to have to rip/buy/pirate it all again.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Friday July 21 2017, @04:33AM
I just want my music not to suck--Honest!
I was lucky--Someone with whom I was going to school convinced me to rip lossless from the beginning, so I haven't had to re-rip except in a couple cases of file corruption.
Of late, though, I've found myself buying different masters of certain albums for comparison purposes, so I guess I've already started down the path...