Here's a fun coincidence that can be the foundation for some new deranged theory of historical linguistics.
English: humbug, n., "something designed to deceive and mislead; nonsense, drivel."
Cebuano: hambúg, n. "big talk, most often not quite true."
Discovered at: https://acd.clld.org/cognatesets/26278#6/11.401/123.587
afaict this reeks of being potentially just gen-ai-slop, but if not then at the very least the machine-generated voiceover & non-disable-able onscreen transcript were an unending misery for me to endure. yet, despite that, much of this was simply hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eYjd3B-VMQ
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"But after a dramatic pause, the computer flashed a bunch of red exes and a message: THE PLAY IS NOT VALID. Cam threw his hands behind his head in disbelief." —Stefan Fatsis for Defector
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🧵 So, on my journey to live #PitchShift on #Linux with an #audio #plugin, I found #SpectralShift. This one is very good I think. However, it has too much latency for live use, so it's more for mixdown.
The old #MaPitchshift serves as an example for one of the reasons why #LinuxProAudio had a bad reputation in the past: It's practically useless. It does pitch shifting, but it only shifts by some magic floating point number which has no easy-to-handle relation to musical terms such as semitones or cents. The latency depends on the window setting, yet it is possible to sabotage the thing completely by nonsensical settings.
So I asked ChatGPT and it said the ratio is 2^(Semitones/12) – keep this in mind and your calculator ready. 🤪 This is actually sort of correct.
Turns out that the shifting of #MaPitchshift is too inacurate for musical use with a window size suitable for live use. So, giving up for now, back to outboard, my 21-year-old #Lexicon #MX200 is way better.
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