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SPEAR is the best tool of its kind that I've used, but it could be SO much more useful if certain additional features were added, particularly:

-amplitude envelope editability for every partial

-a fast way to set the frequency and/or amplitude of any partial to a constant value

Does anyone have any other feature suggestions? Let's round them up and send them to the developer! If he hears from a lot of people, it may encourage him to develop SPEAR further.

Does anyone have any other feature suggestions?  Let's round them up and send them to the developer!  If he hears from a lot of people, it may encourage him to develop SPEAR further.


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SPEAR really is amazing -- I use it a lot, even as a performance

interface... scrub them partials, live! I just finished a piece a

few weeks ago, all of the percussion sounds came from SPEAR mods of

me hitting a Coke (or maybe it was Pepsi?) can with a pencil:

http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/writing/mm-blog/mm-3-drugs.mp3

I'd love to see the ability to drive SPEAR with some kind of

event-scripts, but I'm a text-based kinda guy.

Michael may not be able to do a lot of SPEAR development for awhile;

he just scored a really good job and needs to finish his

> SPEAR is the best tool of its kind that I've used, but it could

> be SO much more useful if certain additional features were added,

> -amplitude envelope editability for every partial

> -a fast way to set the frequency and/or amplitude of any partial

> Does anyone have any other feature suggestions? Let's round them

> up and send them to the developer! If he hears from a lot of

> people, it may encourage him to develop SPEAR further.

SPEAR really is amazing -- I use it a lot, even as a performance
interface...  scrub them partials, live!  I just finished a piece a
few weeks ago, all of the percussion sounds came from SPEAR mods of
me hitting a Coke (or maybe it was Pepsi?) can with a pencil:

   http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/writing/mm-blog/mm-3-drugs.mp3

I'd love to see the ability to drive SPEAR with some kind of
event-scripts, but I'm a text-based kinda guy.

Michael may not be able to do a lot of SPEAR development for awhile;
he just scored a really good job and needs to finish his
dissertation to keep it.  Go Michael go!

>
> SPEAR is the best tool of its kind that I've used, but it could
> be SO much more useful if certain additional features were added,
> particularly:
>
> -amplitude envelope editability for every partial
>
> -a fast way to set the frequency and/or amplitude of any partial
> to a constant value
>
>
> Does anyone have any other feature suggestions?  Let's round them
> up and send them to the developer!  If he hears from a lot of
> people, it may encourage him to develop SPEAR further.
>

Which is it? Like yeah, I play a violin. It's a Stradivarius (or maybe

It matters! The density of a Pepsi can is lower leading to a slow response

and dullness in the high frequencies when struck by a common #2 pencil. I

much prefer the Coke (in full scores, Coca Cola) and I recommend pencils

with ratings 2.5 or higher. (Professionals use #4 according to our

On 4/27/07 9:13 PM, "garton@columbia.edu" wrote:

> few weeks ago, all of the percussion sounds came from SPEAR mods of

> me hitting a Coke (or maybe it was Pepsi?) can with a pencil:

Which is it?  Like yeah, I play a violin.  It's a Stradivarius (or maybe
Guarneri).  

It matters!  The density of a Pepsi can is lower leading to a slow response
and dullness in the high frequencies when struck by a common #2 pencil.  I
much prefer the Coke (in full scores, Coca Cola) and I recommend pencils
with ratings 2.5 or higher. (Professionals use #4 according to our
per4cussion professor.)

On 4/27/07 9:13 PM, "garton@columbia.edu"  wrote:

> I just finished a piece a
> few weeks ago, all of the percussion sounds came from SPEAR mods of
> me hitting a Coke (or maybe it was Pepsi?) can with a pencil:

Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson

On 28 Apr 2007, at 10:19, Gary Lee Nelson wrote:

> much prefer the Coke (in full scores, Coca Cola) and I recommend 

This is why New Coke never took off: it sounded bad.

> I
> much prefer the Coke (in full scores, Coca Cola) and I recommend  
> pencils
> with ratings 2.5 or higher.

Nick Rothwell / Cassiel.com Limited
www.cassiel.com
www.myspace.com/cassieldotcom
www.loadbang.net


love it, thanks for sharing. We have much too little music on this list...

> I'd love to see the ability to drive SPEAR with some kind of

> event-scripts, but I'm a text-based kinda guy.

garton@columbia.edu schrieb:
> http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/writing/mm-blog/mm-3-drugs.mp3

> I'd love to see the ability to drive SPEAR with some kind of
> event-scripts, but I'm a text-based kinda guy.

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> Which is it? Like yeah, I play a violin. It's a Stradivarius (or maybe

> It matters! The density of a Pepsi can is lower leading to a slow response

> and dullness in the high frequencies when struck by a common #2 pencil. I

> much prefer the Coke (in full scores, Coca Cola) and I recommend pencils

> with ratings 2.5 or higher. (Professionals use #4 according to our

I agree it matters, I play those french plastic water bottles. And the 

different brands make a huge difference. The "Chantereine" is the 

Stradivarius of plastic water bottles. Fortunately its one of the 

cheapest brands around, because if you play it once, its gone (I crunch 

them from full size to a small little something) You have to drink a lot 

Regarding coke cans, age matters as well, I remember that they were much 

thicker in the past. Though at those times I preferred small beer 

bottles (plastic bottles weren't common that time fortunately... ;-)

Gary Lee Nelson schrieb:
> Which is it?  Like yeah, I play a violin.  It's a Stradivarius (or maybe
> Guarneri).  
>
> It matters!  The density of a Pepsi can is lower leading to a slow response
> and dullness in the high frequencies when struck by a common #2 pencil.  I
> much prefer the Coke (in full scores, Coca Cola) and I recommend pencils
> with ratings 2.5 or higher. (Professionals use #4 according to our
> per4cussion professor.)

I agree it matters, I play those french plastic water bottles. And the 
different brands make a huge difference. The "Chantereine" is the 
Stradivarius of plastic water bottles. Fortunately its one of the 
cheapest brands around, because if you play it once, its gone (I crunch 
them from full size to a small little something) You have to drink a lot 
to play a longer concert...

Regarding coke cans, age matters as well, I remember that they were much 
thicker in the past. Though at those times I preferred small beer 
bottles (plastic bottles weren't common that time fortunately... ;-)

> Regarding coke cans, age matters as well, I remember that they

> thicker in the past. Though at those times I preferred small beer

> bottles (plastic bottles weren't common that time fortunately...

But I diligently recycle! I even use samples and patches from one

piece in another! And I drive a Prius! Does that make me a Good

Oh, I forgot... I'm an American. And like the Bowie/Reznor video

suggests, you should be afraid of us. I certainly am.

> Regarding coke cans, age matters as well, I remember that they
> were much
> thicker in the past. Though at those times I preferred small beer
> bottles (plastic bottles weren't common that time fortunately...
> ;-)
>
> What a waste music can be...

But I diligently recycle!  I even use samples and patches from one
piece in another!  And I drive a Prius!  Does that make me a Good
Person?!?

Oh, I forgot... I'm an American.  And like the Bowie/Reznor video
suggests, you should be afraid of us.  I certainly am.

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