We’re building a special guitar tuner that indicates in which direction the string has to be tuned via certain patterns. The pitch recognition and pattern generation of the program works now and I’m very proud to having created the patterns with only about 40 lines of code.
Yay for learning!!
Today I was wondering how fast my old MacPro (my main production machine) really is compared to the MacMini that I recently bought. And here are the results:
Now I’m not the biggest hardware geek but I do understand that architectures vary quite a bit and have a substantial influence over computing performance. But a 6 year old machine beating a 2 year old machine by such a big margin may be part of the reason why hardware development feels stalled: We have reached machines that are incredibly powerful.
Granted: for real-time things such as music production we would still like to squeeze every CPU cycle that we can, but hey: at least in my case I still get by with that machine and it doesn’t slow me down too much.
This seems like a great addition to any studio. Seems to make programming rhythms a snap. I think I’ll have to order one.