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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoMemes@sopuli.xyzYes please
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    22 hours ago

    Completely unrelated story: I bought a red cabbage last week and was so glad to have found a relatively small one in the shop.

    …I have been eating red cabbage for the past three days and still have enough left for another two days. Just why is it so damn compressed? I can cut off the tiniest slice from that cabbage and it still fills a whole plate.





  • Fading out? With my wind band, we’ve never done it.
    You can have everyone play pianissimo and also reduce how many players play each voice, but unlike a digital fade, this does change the way it sounds.
    It’s also difficult to stay in tune when playing at a low volume with a wind instrument, so it starts to sound horrible before it becomes inaudible.

    @[email protected] mentioned mic+soundboard, but for a windband, the band itself would need to be out of earshot, which is rarely possible.

    So, yeah, if we ever need/want to cut a song short, we make use of a marching band signal.
    Basically, the person on bass drum does two double-hits, which are out of rhythm so you can hear them, and then another hit on the first beat of the next measure, which is when everyone stops playing.
    That does not always sound great either, but better than nosediving the whole orchestra. 🙃


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoMemes@sopuli.xyzAaaand fade out...
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    3 days ago

    I always hated that. It always felt like they just admitted defeat. They could have made an excellent song, but settled for disappointment.

    Now I’m doing music myself, and goddamn, I get it. You can have a cool song going, and then you try to end it and it just sounds like disappointment every time.




  • I actually even made my own bullshit-Spotify. As in, I’ve got a server running on a single-board computer which reads my music folder and serves a small music player as a webpage.

    I didn’t want to install a music player client on my work laptop, but still wanted to listen to my own songs there.










  • I imagine, you guys might be measuring with two different scales. Early Windows versions were fine, but even back then, a switch to Linux would give you so much more customizability to actually make it yours.

    This is a dumb anecdote, but I switched to Linux from Windows 8, and pretty much the first thing I did, was to figure out how to hide the window titlebars. Mostly because I realized, I could, but they also just took screen space away on my laptop.