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I don't know which of us upset him, but he has closed his account.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I don't know which of us upset him, but he has closed his account.
I think I was definitely part of it, although I can't imagine what I said was the only factor. I think he greatly misunderstood our comments on his clue and took them as a personal attack.
It's a shame he deleted his account, but personally I don't have much time for people who can't have a proper conversation when they have a difference of opinion.
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I did send him a clarification that I was not trying to attack him personally. But sadly, some people have such thin skins ...
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Randor wrote: I was planning on using some Ebonics. What would be your opinion be on that?
Use whatever you like.
My final word: I am sorry if you feel personally insulted by any of my comments, that was definitely not my intention.
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Wasn't that the answer to a clue the other day?
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I am genuinely shocked that was 9 days ago, I was convinced it was this week.
This lockdown has really screwed my grasp of time. 
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musefan wrote: This lockdown has really screwed my grasp of time.
Time travel definition is closed and cracked up by Icke and the multiverse. (8,6)
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We had stridulate on her recently - it means the sound crickets make
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes - I posted it! 
Never heard of that being "chipping" though: "chirping", yes.
Just a usage I'm not familiar with, I guess - it happens.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm guessing that's why Randor used it today, especially as people referred to needing a dictionary to find its meaning. He's just unlucky he had a 19th century dictionary that included "chipping" in stridulation's definition. However, out of curiosity, I googled "stridulate chipping" and this is the first suggestion: "Quote: Rate of stridulation expressed as sequences (buzzing + chipping) per minute
so it's not like he's actually wrong, just obscure.
I've been pulled up on an obscure usage in a CCC myself (even though I'm not convinced that "lane" is an obscure synonym for "quiet road"!) but I've survived...
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Reflect duality starting the color (5)
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Hmmm,
I'm going to try to solve this. Here are the 'instruction sets' I have built from your cryptic clue:
[Instruction set 1]
Reflect = Reverse a word (reversal indicator)
duality = possible reversal target
starting the = beginning of a word (subtraction indicator)
color = possible definition
[Instruction set 2]
Reflect duality = possible definition
starting the = beginning of a word (subtraction indicator)
color = possible subtraction target There seems to be an LValue RValue related problem when I try to use Reflect as the definition:
[Instruction set 3]
Reflect = possible definition
duality = possible subtraction target
starting the = beginning of a word (subtraction indicator)
color = possible subtraction target I am having a hard time building a set of instructions when using 'Reflect' as the definition So I will eliminate Reflect as being a definition candidate.
Let's see if I can solve it!
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This isn't exactly programming specific but I want to tap some MIDI tech from within a linux based OS but there are so many audio packages for linux I don't know which one is even the most popular in terms of install base (i'd want to target that one as a priority)
Does anyone here do any messing with MIDI from a linux box? What do you install to do it with?
Any recommendations or packages you know are popular would be helpful, i'm kind of treating this like an informal poll.
The internet is giving me 100 different opinions, but i figure i know where you all hang out so I can hold you to your suggestions
Real programmers use butterflies
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Not that I can help on the Linux front, but I'm not even sure what you're looking for. MIDI IN/OUT for Linux? An audio package for playing with samples?
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audio drivers basically that let you use MIDI ports and the sound devices wavetable synthesizer
Real programmers use butterflies
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Have you looked at ALSA ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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i am now, thanks to another comment. i appreciate it.
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If you are after a software MIDI synth, then you can use Yoshimi. It is installed with Ubuntu Studio (can also be installed separately). I have never used it (Yoshimi, but have used Ubuntu Studio). If you are trying to control events during a recording session, then use Ardour as the DAW and you can use MIDI to control events. If you are trying to use a MIDI keyboard to enter music notation, then I have no recommendations as I have not done it in a very long time. If you are looking for a software MIDI drum machine, then try Hydrogen.
I think the basic MIDI control is in Alsa, but you need a device that is supported by Linux...tricky to figure out, but there are various forums that discuss them (including the Ardour forums). It usually takes awhile for people to write the modules to drive new devices, so community support lags current devices by at least a few months, and often a year or two. Basic MIDI, however, is probably supported for many devices (it's usually the Alsa mixer portion that needs special driver modules).
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Ahhh, brilliant! Your post is actually clarifying something for me. It looks like Alsa might be the way to go for targeting my MIDI code to.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Quote: This is a very command-line-intensive tutorial.
Twenty-five years, and things haven't changed. 
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i appreciate it but I'm trying to narrow my choices down - that has jack and alsa, and i'd like to know which one is better for me to target.
also that article is kind of old. Bookmarking it though
Real programmers use butterflies
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A week or so ago I accidentally impulse-bought a MIDI keyboard, but instead of returning it, I installed Python3 packages and wrote a program to listen to the keyboard and play sounds. It's been fun.
The Python packages contain the fluidsynth.py, mido, and sf2utils modules.
mido reads MIDI notes from MIDI devices. The "o" at the end of the name is not a typo.
fluidsynth plays MIDI audio. I started it with fluidsynth.Synth().start(driver = "pulseaudio") not "alsa". fluidsynth makes sound from instrument recordings contained in "sound font 2" (.sf2) files. fluidsynth, itself, is a separate thing you apt install. The Python script is a wrapper around it. fluidsynth.py is at various places on GitHub. I'm using a very slightly tweaked version of one that has disappeared in the last week, but was a slightly tweaked version of pyfluidsynth/fluidsynth.py at feature/fluidsynth-2 · SpotlightKid/pyfluidsynth · GitHub[^] which is a modified version of the original somewhere else on GitHub.
sf2utils.sf2parse lets me read .sf2 files and list the instruments in them.
I found nice .sf2 files through a couple of URLs:
Soundfonts 4U[^]
SoundFonts and SFZ files | MuseScore[^]
The fluidsynth package, itself, contains a couple of OK .sf2 files.
I could not get LMMS to read my MIDI keyboard and/or make sound. Renoise hogged the CPU and, when running, whether idle or not, caused videos to not play in my browser and possibly not in VLC.
Good luck.
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If you have simple needs ALSA may be sufficient. For more professional requirements you may want to consider jack (jackd). there is a front end Qjackctl. If your linux repo does not support them, try Fusion repos. Alsa can be bridged to jack with a2jmidi.
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