Anyone know of any (preferably free) ear training tools/games?

abstractpaul · 4 months

The best feature I could possibly suggest for Quiztones is multi-platform support. Not all audio people work with apple products (not by a long shot), so it's a bit frustrating to see a lot of audio products being developed exclusively for it. Right now, even if we really wanted to buy your product, the only thing that we could actually use would be your online demo; provide us with android and Windows compatible apps, and you could consider my money as good as yours. Major extra brownie points if you go so far as adding Linux support, or making the osx version available outside the walled garden of the Mac App store.

edit: or as somebody above me mentioned, you could even try turning it into a full web app with paid login access, or release it on the chrome store (in which case I would suggest checking out Native Client for the port, if you're doing any intensive audio processing in the full version).

abstractpaul · 4 months

Sounds like you're talking about QuizTones.

Aside from that demo though, there really does seem to be a shameful lack of decent free frequency training tools out there.

oblique63 · 4 months

Which brands have you noticed that have really consistent quality throughout their entire product spectrum? (doesn't have to be just limited to guitars, I'd be interested in hearing about amps in this regard as well)

For example, I've noticed that Ibanez [RG-style] guitars tend to all feel and play roughly about the same for the most part, from their bottom-end budget ones, to their top-of-the-line JEMs*. Yet for some other brands, I've played multiple guitars of roughly the same model (or in some cases, the Exact same model), and they all have a noticeably different feel to them.

*I did get an Iceman a while ago that plays pretty differently from most other Ibanez's I've tried, though. It might be mostly due to the painted neck, but then again, the uneven frets that it came with sure didn't earn Ibanez any brownie points either!

kdun · 4 months

I hope this has an option to show all songs 'by Artist', while still grouping and sorting them by album. I'm surprised the Samsung Galaxy S music app is the only one I've seen with this feature, it's like the best layout for browsing music that I've used (requires way less back button abuse than most players, which is a big deal when you're on-the-go and trying to fumble with it), but I HATE how buggy that Samsung player is, so I really hope someone else does a music app that supports this style of layout. I also really liked PlayerPro, but the lack of that kind of layout was a deal-breaker for me.

*edit: This is what I mean.

mattmacneil · 4 months

Yes, NS10s were a standard for a long time, but it wasn't because they sound shitty. It was because they had a signature that many engineers "knew", and could compensate for.

Once everybody was already using them maybe, but I don't think that was necessarily what made them so popular in the first place (cause you could apply familiarity/compensation to work with any speaker). As I understand it, it's because listening to NS10s (and probably even more so, Auratones) is like getting a zoomed-in view of the mid-frequencies, which are the most likely to be accurately represented across all kinds of speaker systems. Smaller/cheaper speakers have problems reproducing lower frequencies, and a lot of speakers can't reproduce a lot of the higher frequencies too well either, so the part of your mix that's most likely to survive it's transition to most small/cheap commodity speakers is the mid-range, hence it's useful to have monitors that let you really 'focus-in' on that critical area of your mix.

StuporCollider · 4 months

I'm a total metalhead, so I really wanted to like the original soundtrack once I heard the distorted guitars come it, but unfortunately it was just some more uninspired nonsense (like a lot of metal these days). Though I think the main reason people aren't liking it is because of its production value; the guitar sounds like it was recorded direct through a POD without a cab-sim.

However, I still think a good metal soundtrack would fit the movie much better than the style Mike Shinoda seems to be hinting at in the trailer (though he is a talented composer, so hopefully he'll make it work out).

alpheccar · 5 months

Agreed. But clunky language syntax is clunky language syntax, regardless of the "family" the language is in. So comparing Objective-C to C++ is about as useful as comparing it to Perl in that regard... At least C#/Java share the same C-derived syntactical style with Objective-C.

alpheccar · 5 months

As far as C-derived languages, it's nicer than the other one (C++).

That's really not saying very much... Especially if you want to throw C# into the mix of 'C-languages'.

Bradaphraser · 6 months

Napalmero · 6 months

OnLive

ilamont · 1 year

That's an AT&T/Verizon thing, I don't think Samsung choose to remove those features from the Captivate, or [whatever the Verizon version is called]; just look at the T-Mobile Vibrant, or their unlocked Galaxy S, those are fairly full-featured (software-wise anyway, let's not forget T-Mo's shameless removal of the front-facing camera)...

As lame as I find their TouchWiz UI to be, can't really say Samsung's done too much harm to Android's core features

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