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  1. rax2099

    cool

    2 years ago  ∞
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  2. Vallinen92

    DID THEY DIE!?

    2 years ago  ∞
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  3. defect530

    I love music!!!!

    except country and rap @:D

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  4. Enoch001

    fun fun

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  5. kajoong

    This was quite interesting!

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  6. SNaRF66666666

    max looks like a weak language.

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  7. VicarOpusDei

    has any one ever told this chick she is amazingly beautiful. I mean she is one really pretty girl, the fact that she is smart is just and addition to the many qualities that complement her. any way great info. Love the channel guys! now you guys have one more humble subscriber.

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  8. chrisquick123451966

    cool as always RB

    2 years ago  ∞
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  9. Rooney10Nani17

    Shes Hawt

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  10. LivingForLOL

    That smile in the end was funny!!

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  11. r000nin

    yoooo

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  12. enjoydotcom

    I’m happy I subscribed to Rocketboom, learn something new with every video. :d

    2 years ago  ∞
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  13. JBTheAnimator

    But isn’t that fast forward play with that clip he just made?
    Thats actually pretty simple -_-
    Or i just don’t get it ^_^;;

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  14. Underdogz

    Damn, she IS pretty!

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  15. ZZLe4Ni

    I agree.

    I like to build software synths with synth edit, it’s a pretty cool little free package, but it’s a fucking beast to learn.

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  16. TomHendricksMusea

    I’ve suggested that you set music to PI. Transform 3.14159.. to a set of 9 notes. This is truly a song of nature.

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  17. PureRebelM1ko

    ..or microsia for pc.

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  18. banido

    She’s the future mother of my children, all 12 of them.

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  19. TBVnBIX

    can’t focus to what she’s saying :< anyone has this problem? :D

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  20. drywater2k

    wow i thought she was gonna do that guy the entire time…gotta stop watching porno

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  21. ThisguyQuake

    She’s no Molly :(

    2 years ago  ∞
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  22. HollyTheFireNinja

    She reminds me of Morena Baccarin. Reminds, not look like.

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  23. jimirounders

    Boy, she’s got the most beautifull nose i’ve ever seen!

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  24. seed419

    How about I fuck the shit out of you, then we scan the soundwaves of your moans and make some sweet generative music.

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  25. mickek77

    random atonal crap is going to the top five hits 2009

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  26. Nirdjha

    Ok - NO idea what I just watched - but she sure is cute! She maybe a little Irish? Irish with some Asian thrown in somewhere?

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  27. fandanstan

    I swear she looks like that elf chick from LOTR.

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  28. fandanstan

    And after reading most of the comments, I’ve noticed they had nothing to do with Generative Music, but they were about Ellie’s epic hotness. LOL

    2 years ago  ∞
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  29. eerockk111

    What a complete and total waste of time! But she does appear to be somewhat do-able.

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  30. TaoOfPhilosophy

    This is awesome; science meets art.

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  31. 0YuriS0

    talentless.

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  32. T1carus

    music cannot be made wiith a computer…

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  33. ostrorawr

    That’s quite an eloquent point you make there.

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  34. ThisIsCleverUsername

    i don’t understand what he did at 1:25, somebody tell me pls

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  35. sn3ar

    thats cool

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  36. PlayGenSeriousGames

    really boring! bring back Molly!

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  37. ksandom40

    JBTheAnimator, I noticed that too. What he described wouldn’t sound anything like that. I wonder if he was wanting to keep something for later…?

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  38. RufftaMan

    as she said right afterwards.
    he didn’t actually create a recording of her voice, but used the microphone input to generate the 3d-spectrogram, which when played back sounds (of course) exactly like her voice again.
    however, i don’t really get what the big advantage of this method compared to just making a recording is.

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  39. goodman854

    DO NOT DIS ELLIE!

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  40. matkakashi

    @PlayGenSeriousGames Molly is still there, this is just a different series.

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  41. matkakashi

    Looking good Ellie!

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  42. Syntox

    Ellie, oh, She is so cute. I wanna take her to Dairy Queen for milkshakes and tell her stories of the high seas.

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  43. Tanikaze2

    uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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  44. skoddyboy

    Wow! Great show today! Generative music is super interesting. Haha he used the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s performance of the Hallelujah Chorus. That’s awesome. Thanks Rocketboom.

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  45. mickey mouse

    huh?

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  46. MustRunFaster

    LOL!

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  47. GrimReaperGamer

    I’d just like to give her a “milkshake”.

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  48. yugisr2

    i want to cum on her face

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  49. andharvey8

    Ellie is hot, hot, hot…..

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  50. yoshypoo

    shes hot…but needs to get a better top

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  51. Ook

    That’ll scrape off some tubers for the day.

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  52. Feilongy

    God damn shes hot

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  53. newbalancerun04

    Ellie is gorgeous!!! :)

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  54. WERTY1112

    had me at oral

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  55. Probewitch

    Programs to play with sound; does it still classify as music, or I should think, fall into the catagory of performance art.

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  56. mattblack77nz

    @newbalancerun04 Yup, she could sell uranium tablets and I’d buy 100!

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  57. jinkies121

    nice =P

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  58. httprover

    What happens if you mix generative grammar with media lab?

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  59. Firster

    first

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  60. demonslayer55555585

    I know I should write down something more “Intellectual” but damn is this girl hot I mean she could make a man’s head spin around!

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  61. joejumps4fun

    I love how they don’t give web addresses for the software they mention.

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  62. Tibotot

    hahaha!! I kinda had the same thought.

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  63. Ryguy1450

    What software is that? Hook it up!

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  64. csmceo

    Ellie moves like she has some kind of disorder. I’m going to crusade for a cure for it…who’s with me!

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  65. Generative music is the auto-tune for egg-heads. And I don’t mean it in a derogative way, except when the auto-tune is used to prop up untalented celebrities and deceive people.

    And who says that a computer is a worse composer than a human mind (who can take the credit of designing the algorithms?)

    We’re so accustomed to associate music to human artistic performance to forget that music is meant to the ear and not to the eye. Chances are that real instruments and real voice will fade away along with the capability of computers to emulate their timbres and tones. Up to the point that the listeners won’t care any more about the timbres and the tones of the tradition and will look for new sounds (maybe sampled from the real world). It’s already happening.

    In a sense it’s sad (and I will keep playing my guitar no matter what), but when the primitive man invented music to accompany tribal dances he used drums because he had nothing better. Probably he would have been happy to have computer generated podcasts going through powerfull woofers and tweeters, and operate rituals like the rave parties of today.

    PS. I assume that “atonal crap” is Schoenberg’s.

    PPS. Mrs Rountree has to change her nail varnish.

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  66. Sound & Vision (hold onto your ears)

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    1. WATCH FULL SCREEN FOR THE TRIP OF YOUR LIFE.

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      1. Ook

        These digital meditation aids serve a real purpose.

        While racing through a day of earning a living without thought to the unnatural pace of things, some technological help is useful. Fight fire with fire.

        Take a spiritually oriented inventory anywhere it is possible to get a break from the forces of a digitally driven schedule that has one motoring at 65+ mph.

        Drop ones blood pressure by up to 20 points.

        Realize how wankered one’s interior is getting before accidentally jumping down someone’s throat.

        Keep a busy day from becoming too empty and meaningless.

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  68. ModeLTU

    Ellie seems to be one of those genuine “nerd” girls.
    Most girls as hot as Ellie would be trying to show their assets as much as possible trying to attract more viewers, but she seems to truly care about this stuff.
    INTERESTING!

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  69. Z14LDO

    ohh wooww! =D

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  70. If you’re into s-o-U-n-D you might also want to
    learn about Supercollider. Ya gotta love those algorithmic compositions.

    http://www.audiosynth.com/

    SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

    Since then it has been evolving into a system used and further developed by both scientists and artists working with sound. It is an efficient and expressive dynamic programming language which makes it an interesting framework for acoustic research, algorithmic music and interactive programming.

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  71. Theshayeman

    assets… tehee

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  72. TheLonelyImmortal

    She would be so hot if she got rid of her makeup!

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  73. lpasepok

    I hate how my ideas never are unique :(

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  74. BigAndTall666

    Damn, you´re gorgeous Ellie! ;-P

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  75. NakedJKid

    stay still woman. always twitching!!!

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  76. Scarfaced111

    cool

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  77. sumgui

    @csmceo nope, looks like its just you… tell me how that goes aye?

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  78. csmceo

    You got it!

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  79. csmceo

    I admire her acting talent as well, ModeLTU.

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  80. AKACalh00n

    she reminds me of an older miranda cosgrove

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  81. wildboy92004

    I would take Ellie’s voice and make it say naughty words back at me…lol.

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  82. soccermafia89

    Maybe she’s all twitchy because she’s nervous.

    I wonder what the Mandelbrot set would sound like. Though instead of using a high-tech software program, I might just try weed.

    And what is the point of expressing sound as a 3-D image…Any one who understands Fourier series, knows that there are simpler ways to express music as a summation of sine waves.

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  83. ruagamer

    Hearing a song that didn’t sound completely dissonant would have been nice… and I don’t get why all that tech was necessary to play Messiah in Fast Forward…

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  84. JJloveKiwi

    she looks like an older miranda cossgrove xD

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  85. partykrew666

    holy crap

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  86. UltimateRuler3

    She really does look like Miranda Cossgrove

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  87. partykrew666

    shes just expressive or animated. i wouldnt call it twitchy

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  88. mickey mouse

    degenerative music !!!!

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  89. mike_dixon

    hey that was a great show!

    i want to try, sometime, scanning my stubbly whiskers as a three dimensional plot to see what they’d sound like! but, alas, mr dubois’ program probably doesn’t read sonograms that contain gray lines or areas.

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  90. s4101012

    Why are people calling her twitchy? She’s being animated and expressive in her presentation…

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  91. SevereRepugnance

    Elle’s hot and interesting clip.

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  92. MrFluffay

    you just read the mind of every person watching this video

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  93. MrFluffay

    I assume this reply is a hotdog.

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  94. Falcon1499

    Ellie’s a “10″ !!

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  95. Llitsor

    How predictable. Put a woman within a mile of the internet, and a million school boys wet themselves.

    So, generative music anyone!?

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  96. r0ck0ut16

    This is the coolest thing ever.

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  97. wallmunky503

    My weiner, her mouth. Good times.

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  98. m0r1arty

    I know Ellie will have done some research before going to the interview and so her grasping the concept of the image of her voice was a bit understated in terms of audience comprehension- but a little vote of who knows what that means would be nice to substantiate this.

    And in keeping with the theme of ‘Ellie is hot’ the number of babies you would have with her can be added to your vote.

    So for me it’s Yes (I understood the voice image ) and 2 (babies - a boy and a girl, or 2 hermaphrodites).

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  99. roboimp

    that is really cool

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  100. 1x800xPOCKETS

    Is that the Fancy Pants Adventure song?

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  101. minuteforce

    so, that’s like an X-Y pad, basically …

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  102. roidroid

    People in the P5 Glove community (a cheap virtual reality glove) seem to use MAX to do live performances using the glove.
    But the audio/visual thing isn’t really my scene, so this video was enlightening. I’d never really seen MAX in action before.
    I liked that visual programming thing he’s using at 3:10. Is that what MAX is based around? I like it, very simple and intuitive. Reminds me a lot of the “Juice” robot simulator by NateW.

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  103. bmacked

    THis is why I love Rocketboom. Not only is it bamf information, but the exposure to artists, expressive forms, and in such a user friendly way, it’s unbelievably exciting. I look forward to rocketboom’s broadcasts daily. Kudos from Seattle!

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  104. MrBloodyknee

    Woo I knew she would eventually mention electroplankton, its the coolest game for DS

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  105. CBrook5

    1:46 …someone looks like a serial killer.

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  106. And now for some REAL music. Algorithmic sounds/noise put my neurons on edge.

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  107. This guy will blow your mind. Listen to the whole thing as it gets pretty wild 1/2 way thru.

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    1. Ook

      LOL

      Did you see how many comments on the Weird Al episode?

      1,871

      Almost beat the combined Sesame Street episodes.

      1,940

      Coming that close is a serious butt kicking in tuber world!

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      1. Damn you Weird Al Yank My Dick for surpassing the David Blaine Central Park episode which has held first spot on YT for the past year. As you may recall, (hint, hint, hint) I composed the music for that wonderful episode. Watch out Yank My Dick cause I’ve got something in the works that’ll blow your scraggly hair right out of the pores in your head.

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  108. 96dnibrats

    when she said ‘oral’ i was thinking ‘yea.. i’d like some from ya’

    yessssssss 8]

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  109. RobSellsTacos

    ..aural

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  110. MADE1NVIETNAM

    ellie looks good

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  111. Stewart Champion

    Hopefully you folks are aware that since last week all your shows encoded for Tivo downloads have a persistent, extremely annoying, audio gargle effect going on. Whatever you changed recently on your Tivo uploads needs to be looked at again.

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  112. MrCaltec

    As with any sound manipulation, to what ever extreme its taken, the most important part is the source of that sound, and degree the manipulator decides to put himself in it. I would not call it music. At least not in this case. Nice programs though.

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  113. RichoRosai

    “I didn’t actually record your voice, I just plotted it.”

    That means you recorded it you pretentious moron.

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  114. wildboy92004

    Well, if she was moving wierd it’s only because I was ‘with’ her the night before.

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  115. beb4x

    he just ment that he didn’t record it in the traditional fation, rather than recording the voice, he recorded the data

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  116. peterbriers

    it’s kinda the same actually. When you record something digitally, it always will “plot” the data.

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  117. diamonddragoniori

    ok this guy is weird…..seriously…..

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  118. 1trip711

    hipster scum

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  119. hollowneck

    LOL

    It seems he’s not really sure about anything?
    Everything he says goes up at the end?
    Like it’s a question?
    Even when it’s a statement?
    Anyway, he’s not really doing anything that sounds any different to what has been done before?
    Seems he’s using a “new” method of making sounds that anyone could have made on a regular computer & readily available software10+ years ago?

    That’s my opinion?

    Sorry, I get really annoyed by the question inflection?

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  120. mbonnar

    Great episode!

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  121. sonyfucker

    MOAR KNOW YOUR MEME

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  122. jeffero80

    i’d so like to bone Ellie!

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  123. LuckyViolinist

    How come when you speed something up, the pitch also rises– why can’t we speed something up without increasing the pitch?

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  124. demonology1

    you can do that, if youre good with software

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  125. csmceo

    Well I hope you took care of whatever it is that you gave her while you were “with” her.

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  126. wildboy92004

    No, ppl didn’t get the joke. She’s moving weird cuz I wore her out. :)

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  127. Arachidon99

    @ LuckyViolinist

    When you speed something up, you compress sound waves so you can play them in a shorter period of time. This means you decrease the length of the wave, but when you do that, you also increase the frequency (as they are inversely proportional). And when the frequency goes up, you have a higher pitch.

    And you can in fact change the speed without changing the pitch. Try open-source Audacity for example. But there is lots of other software.

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  128. godshiva

    You can - you can change the pitch or the tempo in just about any software package. But if you try to modify it too much, it won’t sound right. But 25% of either without the other is fine generally.

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  129. himerius2007

    this was pretty unimpressive.

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  130. dzikiewicz

    we can do that, there are programs that change the tempo of things, kind of like changing the speed, but it wont raise the pitch

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  131. egg9man

    hahahaha

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  132. mundoexchange

    I just want to say you are right.

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  133. fusionrock666

    she is beatiful!

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  134. maikobot

    I Love Electroplankton! So glad you know about that.

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  135. GERdeathstar

    Ellie > Molly

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  136. faceoffkang

    Ellie=Molly

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  137. GERdeathstar

    @faceoffkang
    PARADOX

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  139. sslinux

    felixproject.cogia.net

    Please donate one dollar!!

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  140. atkinsda26

    check out my channel

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  141. sagiras

    one big comerciall…. -.-”

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  142. Gregorz

    when she talks it looks like she’s fucking dancing around

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  143. gernak00

    Okay, all of that just went right over my head. Very interesting, though

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  144. artlthepolarbear

    yes her tits are very interesting

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  145. gernak00

    Oh, um, okay..? I hadn’t really noticed… *now cant help but stare*

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  146. artlthepolarbear

    what?

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  147. SexiiAmmberr

    sexi girl looking for a sexi guy^^ .. Or girl hihi

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  148. erdal0

    does anyone listen to what shes saying?

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  149. JosephCheetah

    She said ‘Oral’ a lot.

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  150. Uktrayf

    Aural.

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  151. sufoodse

    degenerate music

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  152. 1888junkteam

    excellent work!

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  153. Martin vaillancourt

    Nodal is a very simple to use generative music software.
    http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/nodal/index.html

    2 years ago  ∞
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