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- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog (or in my comments if you don’t have one) along with these instructions.
- Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest
In order to see how we can optimize an orchestra’s performance, it is useful to know it will be rendered by the Csound program. In Csound, the orchestra is executed in a loop-like fashion. Every line of the orchestra that is part of an active instrument is being executed repeatedly so that it continues to generate new samples.The Csound Book: Chapter 4 – Optimizing Your Instruments, by Paris Smaragdis
Wow. I really am a big fuckin nerd. Awesome.
March 8th, 2005 at 10:41 am
Thank you, Arthur. Today’s e-fad has reminded me that there is no longer any reason to keep the fourth edition of Mac Secrets on my bookshelf. In fact, I’m kind of wondering how that sucker has followed me through every apartment I’ve ever rented.
March 8th, 2005 at 10:53 am
But Ken, what if someone asks you a question about System 7.1 that you can’t answer?
Eep!
March 9th, 2005 at 9:22 pm
Dude, some woman was asking me a question about Final Cut Pro HD today that I couldn’t answer. And I didn’t care. You know why? Because I’m not ashamed to admit that I haven’t memorized the location and content of every single menu command in that program.
Sheesh.