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Yes, Randy using Copilot for example, in Sumu's development, that's what I meant.
We have updates and new ones arriving all the time of course, like DeepSeek's R1 (open source-- R2 likely soon, next or later this month); Anthropic's Claude 3.7; Google's Gemini 2.5 and so on. Copilot might still be some ver. of OpenAI's ChatGPT, but Microsoft may be working on its own model.
I've tried to get a couple of those to create an additive synth and the best I got was a long list of 512 individual partials with a single (amplitude?) slider beside each one. :D
It was, like, "Are you a research AI or not?"... "Just look up all the papers on additive synths and combine them to form one, what's the problem?!".
:D
Might it be feasible/advantageous for Madrona Labs to somehow leverage artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including their associated 'coding assistance tools' like Cursor or Windsurf?
Has this been considered or is it already being done? Thoughts?
Sample exchange:
Me (gary): Madrona Labs' Sumu seems to need some optimization, such as to run with more voices on smaller systems. Might you or another AI like Claude Sonnet or DeepSeek help in this regard, and from Sumu's developers' (coders') standpoint, perhaps involving the use of such tools as Cursor or Windsurf?
AI Copilot: Madrona Labs' Sumu is indeed a fascinating software synthesizer, blending additive resynthesis with FM synthesis and spatialization. However, optimizing it for smaller systems or increasing its voice count could be a challenge, especially given its complex architecture.
From a developer's perspective, tools like Cursor and Windsurf could be instrumental in this optimization process. Cursor, an AI-powered code editor, excels in code refactoring and optimization, offering intelligent suggestions and real-time error detection. Windsurf, on the other hand, is a next-generation IDE with advanced AI integration, designed to streamline workflows and enhance productivity. Both tools could help developers identify inefficiencies in Sumu's codebase and propose optimizations.
As for AI like Claude Sonnet or DeepSeek, these models are tailored for advanced reasoning and coding tasks. Claude Sonnet, for instance, offers hybrid reasoning capabilities and excels in software engineering, making it a strong candidate for tackling complex optimization challenges. DeepSeek, with its open-source architecture and focus on efficiency, could also contribute significantly to refining Sumu's performance.
Would you like me to delve deeper into how these tools or AI models could be applied specifically to Sumu's optimization?
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Me (gary): Would the above AI's and tools also be used to help Sumu's developers to add features to Sumu and fix bugs and so forth and at a more rapid pace/turnaround time?
AI: Absolutely! The same tools and AI systems could be invaluable for enhancing Sumu's development cycle in terms of both feature expansion and bug resolution, all while accelerating turnaround times.
Here's how they might contribute:
AI-powered Bug Fixing: Tools like Cursor and AIs like Claude Sonnet can automatically detect and analyze bugs in the code, suggest fixes, and even implement changes when appropriate. This reduces the time spent debugging and ensures smoother performance.
Feature Addition: Developers could use these AIs to prototype and refine new features by generating and testing code snippets based on desired functionalities. Claude Sonnet, with its understanding of complex development paradigms, can assist in seamlessly integrating features into Sumu's architecture.
Code Optimization and Maintenance: With Cursor or Windsurf, developers can refactor and clean up existing code, making it easier to add new features without causing unintended side effects.
Documentation and Communication: These tools can also generate documentation or provide insights into the codebase, ensuring clarity across the development team. This fosters collaboration and reduces potential bottlenecks.
In short, these tools and AIs can significantly streamline the development process for Sumu, enabling the team to focus on innovation while handling repetitive or intricate tasks with speed and precision. Would you like to discuss specific features you'd want Sumu to have?
With regard to potential development and maintenance acceleration in these and other regards, see here.
We're All In This Together; Soylent Green Is People
Randy, here is my hypothesis regarding why the whole mainstreamization of LGBTQ+ and BLM now and not before ('Why now?'). (It's not like Floyd was a novel, isolated situation)...
It wasn't grassroots.
It was State-engineered-- top-down, mainstreamed, status-quoed, agitpropped... infiltrating our institutions, like the legacy media, university/colleges and sports.
It was a color revolution, but redirected toward our own backyards as the target.
'We got fooled again.'
It was like a USAid-type endeavor like those made, in part, to attempt to topple governments, like Chavez'/Maduro's for example, including an attempt to install that Guaido guy.
Like China's Red Guard.
Tapping/Leveraging/Taking advantage of and redirecting often already-simmering minority, etc., issues within the culture, the target.
That is and was the problem.
So why now?
Maybe those minorities, among others, and policies like 'DEI' and rainbow paint and flags suddenly everywhere were used to help enable/lubricate the State governments' overimmigration policies in recent years ('pump-and-dump'), and maybe to slow down potential protests as a result, and stuff like that.
Who really expressed concern about some minorities disproportionately targeted by status-quo coercive forces like police? Not many really. Only until it became mainstreamed did others jump on the bandwagon and virtue-signal.
Nevertheless, minorities had made good headway and progress by the bottom-up/grassroots. They didn't need the State.
If anything, the State's over-involvement/social-engineering may prove to have set progress back for many through, in part, blowback that comes from resentment, such as from losing one's job prospects due to reverse-discriminatory DEI policies.
Recently, over here in so-called Canada, a local bank removed its rainbow design off the outside of its buildings. Just like that.
Why did they put it up in the first place? Who directed them? The State (government)?
Well who directed them to freeze the bank accounts of the truckers during the trucker protest?
Trudeau's mafia?
Banks shouldn't be in the business of aiding State social engineering. No one should. That's nature's job. But of course they are and have been-- used and abused like people of LGBTQ+, etc., and people in general. Brainwashed.
Like children in the State government school system. 'The Pied Piper'.
And of course Trump has now entered the fray and we've already seen pushback on minorities-- the very people that often need the most protection. That's what happens when 'reality' is dictated from the top-down, not from the grassroots, organically.
It's State government: Like the notion of 'follow the money', in this case, follow the brainwashing/coercion/control.
At the risk of mansplaining, again, anarchism is a perceptual superpower. Take it if you haven't already.
Maybe talk to John Zerzan in your neck of the woods if you already haven't. He's not getting any younger.
BTW, Israel is yet another kind of non-grassroots, glorified color revolution (beginning 1948) and USAid-like beneficiary on steroids. It's getting away with murder-- by 'law'-- so-called, as if that sort of 'law' is immutable, like the laws of physics.
They are just elite's rules, imposed upon the general populations. Imposed upon our children, by mandatory so-called education in State education-mills we call 'schools'.
We have our own rights, by nature, by the cosmos, or if you're religious, sure, by God, why not.
(Jesus was probably an anarchist anyway. I looked it up and was pleasantly surprised that I'm not the only one who suspects so.)
We don't need no stinking oligopoly, plutarchy, neo-feudal lords or otherwise coercive groups' laws, constitutions, bills, decrees or treaties to dictate their notions on us...
We are our own sovereign authorities.
'There is no authority but your own.'
The sooner we can teach our children these kinds of things-- not just the 3 Rs-- and to think critically and for themselves and/or we can figure those kinds of crucial things out for ourselves soon enough, the sooner we can truly care for our (and bring about) real communities (not the fake ones we currently have) that include all so-called minorities-- so-called because we're all unique individuals who fundamentally cannot operate under the cookie-cutter, monocultures that coercive States' elites want to impose on us.
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear." ~ Alan Coren
"The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not." ~ Joseph Sobran
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." ~ Edward Abbey
Thanks for your reply, Randy, and pardon the delay-- I initially couldn't find the comment (to say nothing of my Win11 problems).
Hi All, just some questions as a prospective user:
Can Sumu properly interpolate (morph), rather than fade-in/-out between two or more sound sources, either in realtime, or as a new mutant sound to then further work with (perhaps using Vutu as a bounce back and forth, if it cannot)?
What kind of files (export and import) does Vutu support, aside from Sumu's?
WRT the 3D module in Sumu, I am interested in the acoustics of other things besides 'cubic rooms', such as caves and city soundscapes (think fireworks bouncing off of its buildings), and was just wondering how Sumu's approach might compliment or clash with that, what to do about it and if Sumu does or might offer the option to import impulse responses and/or the like?
Thanks!
@michaelohagan:
A little late for your questions and you maybe found an avenue but, FWIW, if you haven't, you may wish to try the Native Instrument Reaktor forums and maybe even the Reaktor Library comment section for some questions.
" Everyone wants to protect you from evil people like me ..." ~ randy
Some of us can attend the next Halloween costume party dressed as you with a hypoallergenic non-latex 3D mask likeness, modelled, with the help of artificial intelligence, from extracts of your You Tube video tutorials.
Hi All...
In light of the upcoming Sumu, I thought to inquire as to whether more/extra partials/high partial count, perhaps in different contexts, has any bearing where Sumu is concerned, and if so, what/how, or if not, what/how and if it's kind of like comparing apples to oranges?
I have heard, specifically on KVR music site for example, that apparently better synths, like Harmor, Razor or Loom 2, can work with 512 partials and higher or something like that, whereas other, apparently less capable synths, have less partials than that, like, say, 128 or less.
To help elaborate what I mean, consider this video (link below) that talks about how one can hack Native Instruments' Razor (maybe through its 'host' or some kind of 'host', like Reaktor?) to make it operate with more partials (thus with a higher 'sound resolution'?) if one's computer can handle it and that when Razor was first developed, computing power was less able to cope with more partials which is why it has the default it has.
The point also is that I seem to have read about Sumu as having a much lower partial count, but perhaps this has little or nothing to do with how it works, compared with other additive synths.
So what's the deal with Sumu and how might it compare and/or contrast in this and other ways with its synth relatives and other synths as well for that matter?
Here's the partial hack video-in-question:
https://youtu.be/xvVedjkvFgM
Thanks!
Hi randy, I appreciate the insight, thanks!
Knowledge Is Power: The Superpower 'X-Ray Vision' Of Anarchism
Apparently-- that's apparently (take most everything you read with a grain of salt)-- a Black Lives Matter person-in-charge ran off with some of the funds (10 million?) for their own personal advantage or something like that. (But of course there are other related organizations and forms of help that may have better 'accounting systems').
In any case, I want to offer those readers here who do not have it, what is viewed as a kind of superpower; namely an anarchistic lens through which to peer at the world.
Look up its proper definition if you're unsure and then don the lens and find, too, how it will likely change your perspective and therefore in a sense change your reality.
"The police have always been thugs, but they have traditionally been thugs in the service of elites. The crises of the 1960s produced an outbreak of police hooliganism directed against the citizenry... and a revolt against their own commanders and the civil authorities.
The police, in short, became self-conscious political actors seeking to defend their own interests, advance their own agenda, act under their own authority, and increase their already substantial power. Such a development is very dangerous for a wavering democracy like that of the United States." ~ Kristian Williams, 'Our Enemies In Blue'"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." ~ Malcolm X
"It is useless and... futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people..." ~ Nelson Mandela
"The philosophy is basically what we call intercommunalism-- we're not nationalists, we don't believe in nationalism. Nationalism or nationhood is... akin to superiority, is akin to racism..." ~ Bobby Seale
"Patriotism is, as we know, the last refuge of a scoundrel. Now we're talking about real scoundrels, like Nixon." ~ Gore Vidal
" 'I am a former Los Angeles Police narcotics detective. I worked South Central Los Angeles and I can tell you, Director Deutch, emphatically and without equivocation, that the [Central Intelligence] Agency has dealt drugs in this country for a long time.' (He then referred Deutch to three specific CIA agency operations known as Amadeus, Pegasus and Watchtower... Ruppert... [said] that in his experience as an LAPD narcotics officer, he has seen evidence of CIA complicity in drug dealing for a long time.)." ~ Michael Ruppert, documentary film, 'Collapse'
"The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation." ~ Emma Goldman
Lot's more but you get the idea.
Of course, the superpower is also good for music, incidentally, such as lyrics.
If you accept it, use your new power responsibly.
And, lastly, I'll wrap this fine comment up with one of my faves:
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable..." ~ H.L. Mencken
Understood. 'u'
Sumu-Wrestling, Or Shepherding Cats In The Funland Fogs?
Hey guys, maybe it's a bit like those probability things where the mere act of observing collapses the predictability or like that spooky-physics-at-a-distance thing that Einstein talked about. Is it Halloween soon?
So along those lines of thought, perhaps Randy changes state too unpredictably if we observe him too intently or something.
So maybe let's pretend that we are entirely uninterested in the Funnish Fog.
Randy, I have a beloved Funnish friend-- the sister I never had-- and, as such, am reasonably up on Funnish culture, or at least in some areas, like contemporary music, like Happoradio, Vesterinen Yhtyeineen and Kemopetrol...
Kemopetrol, incidentally, are or were apparently working on an upcoming album, at least last I looked, but it seemed to be taking some time. But maybe had they not mentioned it on their site, they'd have had something by then. ;)
Nevertheless, as for additive synthesis, apparently it's something along the lines of trying to herd cats, what with those partials/sine waves each and all wanting to go this way and that and over considerable lengths of time, to make something ear-grabbing yet manageable. A bit of a fine art perhaps and/or witchcraft, yes?