How much computer power? For what? Let's bring the MP (The Gadget) to March, 2017 after a brief prelude:
I know I am cagey and only giving of hints with respect to what it is and exactly why I am now devoting almost all my time to The Gadget. The hints and the cageyness are the no reveal until the product credo; the reasons for which I spend my time are several. My last series of projects has been to make multibit widely available to suit a range of pocketbooks. In fact, almost all of those have been released.
So this leads to the question of what this dog does when he catches the multibit car. The Gadget, of course. Since it varies parameters both in the frequency and the time domains utilizing DSP, there is a fundamental, underlying milestone which needs to be absolutely dealt with. There are a number of DSP products which deal with a number of applications, such as, equalization, karaoke, sound effects. What most, if not all of these these applications all have in common is a tendency to sound like ass. Something you could listen to at a Hockey game or proper to someone drunkenly singing, but don't try it at home.
Which brings us to March 2017. We have a version of the Gadget which allows us to vary the time and frequency parameters which does NOT sound like ass. This in itself has been taken months, but I can shout to the skies that it cannot be heard. So there it is – that is what we have: an engine that I am happy with. The first fundamental, underlying milestone is done.
So how do I configure it? The above parameters can be adjusted; when one adjusts them there is a clear sweet spot, but there are tweener spots that sound worse than ass. Do I make it fixed? Do I make it adjustable? Do I make it auto adjustable? If it is fixed, I run a risk of overlooking a few recordings. If it is adjustable, users can adjust it very badly. In fact, when badly adjusted you could use it as a device to get rid of unwelcome company. Steady use could be useful to send bad roommates packing – I digress. If it auto-adjusts, this is where I run into the issue of computer power and memory – further the problem of how many samples the device needs to decide how to adjust or when to give up and light the BuyBetterMusic Laser. For the sake of proper music, that light should be so bright as to cause sunburn.
As far as to the paragraph above, this is what is in front of me. What I listen to as we speak are a Bach mass with my fixed MP. I am trying to listen to as many different types of music as possible as sample inputs; normally baroque is far from my fave – the MP helps that out quite a bit.