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I've got some 24-bit wav files that I need to convert down to 16-bit so that they'll open in my editing software.

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I use Cool Edit Pro, and it has no trouble at all doing that sort of thing.

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Actually...argagargarg. Its variable-rate!? I won't be able to turn that into a big .WAV file at a constant bitrate very easily, now will I?

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No. Send me USD$50 and I'll send you the pure WAV mixdown. :-)

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Hey, there's some Dune references in the voice overlays...

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That's Astral Projection for you :-) I've yet to get into sampling voice stuff and placing it in mixes. When I get an idea of a theme, though, I'll think about.

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Anyway, I like it. Its got enough variety, and no beat or theme seems to stagnate as in poorly-done minimalist works. Haven't listened too hard to analyse the patterns yet, but its cool, man.

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Ta. I'm still not 100% happy with it; I think it was a bit of a rush job and I forced it to work rather than letting it flow naturally. But that's me being criticial. Glad you enjoyed it.

Have fun,

Paul

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ou've got Quietman - Sleeper in there :)

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Good heavens, do I? Why, so I do - how singularly amazing. Well spotted, that man.

Any other recommendations? Mail them to me at [email protected]!

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What is the name of that piece that (seemingly) kicks in at around 28:54?

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...it sounds like three drives on a vinyl/massive drive (greece 2000, green record, side A)
-mark

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Is there an 'AlephSpawn' on the horizon?

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Forgive my ignorance, but exactly what are we talking about when we say "Spawn" here?

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Do you know why it wouldn't fit on a 74 min audio CD?

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Not a clue, since I've successfully burnt a copy for my own use... However, I have heard of people having problems with DirectCD where they copied all their information to the disc and then found that in order to make it a CD-ROM they had to have an extra 13MB or so in order to write the table of contents. *shrugs* Dunno. It should be a good two minutes under the limit.

Good luck...

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If you care, I usually skip the first 1m30s of the intro, but I like that "attack formation" part.

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Fair enough; I feel that bit's a bit loose but I prefer not to start really fiddling around with songs unless I have to. The only vaguely irritating thing for me about that is that I'd love to know where the sample comes from. It sounds vaguely Battlestar Galactica.

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Dose that mean that we have some kind of exclusive here? I can get a cool mix that my friends can't find real easy like?

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Absolutely - apart from the members of this BBS, only one or two personal friends of mine know about the existence of these mixes. Since I'm borrowing the bandwidth as it is that's probably how it's going to stay. I might put the track listings up on my web page some day, when I get around to it.

Your summary of the Aleph notation is masterly. I didn't know of the Aleph Two classification, though - that gives me a working name for the next one. Since I don't think there's any classes of infinity larger (if you can get your mind around that) than Aleph Two, I'm going to have to come up with other names anyway...

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Paul, got any German gabba techno to mix down?

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No. I can't say I'm a fan of stuff faster than 180BPM. However, I am looking to put together a mix from 150 to 170BPM. Infinity One hits a peak of 174BPM at "Bring Your Mind Back Home" by Boo-Boo & Mace.

At this stage it's just a matter of getting all my BPM readings. This is turning out to be more difficult than I'd hoped - bloody stupid programs that can't write text files longer than 64KB!

If anyone has some really good automatic catalogueing programs, I'd be interested to hear of it. I use DiscPlay for my CDs, but need something that can get BPMS as well. Doing MP3 files is almost a must - I'd rather feed it my 15 music bag CD-ROMs than feed it my 200 or so CDs.

My CD listing you can find at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9791/cdindex.html

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The problem seems to be that the BPM calculator program, which I licensed so I could get it to output the readings to a file, doesn't like writing a text file longer than 64KB. I don't know why, maybe that's not the case, but it seems to be provoked by the output file size.

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-mark

...proud to have owned one of the first Mark I units

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The set of all subsets of a given set has a larger cardinal number than the set itself, resulting in an infinite succession of cardinal numbers of increasing size.

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Er, well, you'd think so, but not necessarily. For instance, you'd think that a two-dimensional grid of integer coordinates would logically have to be a larger infinity than the infinity of integers. But not so. To prove this, start with the origin, Then, draw a line up to (0,1) and proceeding clockwise to (1,1), (1,0), (1,-1), (0,-1), (-1,-1), (-1,0) and (-1,1). The move one circuit outwards and so forth. Eventually you will form a line - the spiral - which includes all of those points. Thus, the two-dimensional grid is exactly the same order of infinitude (ie. same Aleph number) as the set of integers.

Enumerating infinities does strange things to the consciousness of humans.

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As the Aleph One mix uses a lot of copyright material, I suspect that putting that on the empeg at the factory would be a recipe for disaster...

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May Heaven forefend!

No, I definitely wasn't suggesting the Aleph One mix. Apart from the fact that the whole thing is on that lovely borderline of copyright violation, it's one big file. The next mix I do is also going to appear as a set of individual 'tracks' as well as one complete file and a low bitrate 'trailer' preview - bowing to public demand :-).

I must do a bit of research into how much it would cost to actually license the songs I want to use... Imagine actually being able to publish my own mix CD. Hmmmmmm.

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But that has little to do with steveb's assertion, also correct, that the members of the set of all subsets of a given set cannot be placed into one-to-one correspondence with the members of that set.

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Actually, I wasn't denying what steveb said. I'm well aware of that proof. I was just saying that when you're counting infinities the normal common-sense rules don't apply. Hilbert's Hotel is a good example.

I love little diversions like this.

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Edited by PaulWay on 9/7/00 08:24 AM.

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Wait a minute! YOU started it with your challenge to guess the meaning of your mix title.

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Er, that was my brother, using my computer. He didn't bother to log himself in. He's not that bright, so we sort of humour him... :-)

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Do I get those extra points or not?

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Absolutely. You can have (-0.796718147099018097,-0.182627315521240234). I'd suggest a magnification of about 625000 or so.

Have fun,

Paul


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