No more programming, with one exception

[fleissig24]

Hi! I thought I would post before it gets dark. Soon there will be lots of noise due to fireworks, some hopefully harmless gunfire, and lots of barking dogs. Some of them are very sensitive and freak out when they hear loud bangs. I think I will dash over to the nearby liquor store and get some adult beverage before it gets crazy.

Last night was actually quiet, except for a loud police helicopter that hovered not far from my apartment complex for what seemed like a long time. A neighbor told me about an aircraft tracking site. I found the police helicopter and tracked it as it went north a bit and hovered some more. This is a totally legitimate and popular website, and I would provide the link but I'm not sure irrelevant links are allowed on this forum.

I've been doing too many things at once. Since today is my country's Independence Day, I am making some revolutionary changes in favor of music and art. I've decided to go into full rebellion against coding. I never liked it very much but I learned it when I was younger so I could keep the wolf from the door while I was developing my skills in drawing, painting, music, etc. But that period is over. The one exception is that I am improving my Lisp code which I wrote a few years ago to help me with composition and production.

I still like the LMMS GUI which I think is the best among all other DAWs I have tried. I'm sticking with the built in plugins. Right now my LMMS focus is on learning more about making sounds with ZynAddSubFx. Here's the link to lots of documentation.

https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/support.html

Best Regards

[fleissig24]

P.S. I forgot to mention that I also use the amazing Synth 1. On the other hand, I spent some time in the past attempting to use some singing synthesis plugins, but abandoned that idea.

[fleissig24]

I spent some more time on an old Lisp project for music, and I remembered why I vowed to never use Lisp again. It seems C or C++ are the best choices after all. Which one is best depends on the type of program. Actually I found that OOD as implemented in C++ is easy once I found the right approach. On the other hand, I find it difficult to understand other people's code, and even if I could I would not like it. Therefore it's not possible for me to debug and correct open source projects.