Shark is a pretty badass profiler. I don't know much about the mach internals that let it do it's thing, but it's pretty sweet.I've been trying to get a handle on the performance of my python-based scripting engine in the audio thread, and have found setting sign posts extremely useful for a system trace. A [...]
It recently struck me how definite the line between musical phrases and structures that are machine-like and which ones are human-like, and how important it is that music includes the human structures. For example, imagine a robot voice telling poetry. That's sort of what electro-techno can be like.I write this because I am a computer [...]
Not the first time for this topic. Not at all..You ever look around on the internets and see some projects that speak to you a little? Like you see "Download in FLAC, MP3, OGG." And then you think, "FLAC? really? for an album? dang. ...I like writing headers for audio formats."That was random, huh? But [...]
