Hi there,

I have decided to take down waveform.social. There are too many nefarious actors trying to break it and I don't have the time or energy to keep fighting them off.

For your information: Over the pas month I have had to:

1. Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
2. Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage... Twice.
3. Repair Lemmy (or rather pictures) after it crashed because of full storage.

I will keep waveform.social active until Friday next week so you can pull data from here, though I expect most of it has been federated to other servers anyway.

For a set of headphones that is so extremely visible online and offers quite a unique feature, I couldn’t find much information on it that wasn’t hyperbolic. So here I hope to provide a nuanced view.

Note that my current set of cans and therefore comparison are the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro. I realise this isn’t a fair comparison as they are not only more expensive and not wireless. They are also open back.

Wireless

Wireless low-latency headphones are awesome. Yeah it’s noticeable to me but barely. The range is pretty much studio range. Don’t expect to wear them into a different room but walking around your studio without getting tangled in a long cable works very well. I can keep them on and hop from drums to piano without any interruptions.

User Experience

Getting set up was easy. No installations or software packages. Just plug in an analog signal, pair the transmitter and the headphones and go. There is volume control on the headphones which was set really high to begin with causing a hiss due to the high amplification. After turning the headphones down and the input signal on, it works fine.

There is no battery level indicator. Would have been a useful addition.

Audio Quality

Now here’s the downside. They don’t sound anywhere near as good as my current DT 1990s. I’d describe the quality as nasal and slightly boomy. It’s really disappointing but in hindsight to be expected.

Keep it?



I will live with this set for about a week and use them in the studio. I will decide whether or not to keep them after then. I suppose the big question is: Can I live with the reduced audio quality just because they allow me to hop onto my drum kit without switching headphones?

I am offloading a bunch of music gear. If you're in Europe and are interested in any of it, get in touch:

https://www.marktplaats.nl/u/thomas-biesaart/16654962/

• Drumbrute Impact: € 180
• MPC Live 2 + Decksaver + SSD: € 750
• Custom case for 2 electron digi boxes + power supply and cabling: €250

If you feel like sales shouldn't happen on this community, also let me know and I will probably delete my post. We're still looking to find a general consensus.

I am working on a small web app to allow sharing audio and videos on my instance. I read that lemmy supports embedding pages that provide opengraph metadata. To test this I created a simple page: https://chappio.gitlab.io/embed-demo/

But when I post it, no content gets embedded. My goal is to provide an embeddable widget to my instance. What am I missing?

I make music for therapeutic reasons. I've found that immersive visualisations and lights help with this a lot. I've already bought a couple of rack-mount spectrum analysers and they are awesome.

Do you know of other devices that provide a similar visual experience? I know there are a bunch of cheap bouncing led bars on ali express and the likes but there is a problem: They work based on microphones. I need to be able to plug them in because I use headphones most of the time.

I know it is kind of niche but any pointers would be appreciated.

I am thinking about adding some functionality to this instance (audio and video upload) which probably requires me to make changes to the themes.

To limit the amount of work I have to do, would you please let me know what theme you are using?

1. Visit your settings to check: https://waveform.social/settings
2. Fill out the poll: https://fast-poll.com/poll/903a1e38

I am looking to add video and audio clip upload functionality to the instance over at waveform.social since this is a music-focussed instance.

The way I am thinking about doing this is building a micro-app (similar to pictrs but with a mini frontend) that allows my users to upload audio and video clips and adding the required metadata to the pages to allow embedding.

I would love to add a few buttons (in nav and on the create-post) page to link to this micro app to allow users to find it more easily. My first thought was to create a custom theme. But from reading the docs, I can only see mentions of css.

Is there a way for me to modify the html to add these buttons? Or do I have to fork lemmy-ui to be able to achieve this?

So Lemmy (the software that runs this website) allows admins to define taglines. When people visit the website a random one shows up.

Any funny suggestions that work with the theme of this instance?

I am looking to add video and audio clip upload functionality to the instance over at waveform.social since this is a music-focussed instance.

The way I am thinking about doing this is building a micro-app (similar to pictrs but with a mini frontend) that allows my users to upload audio and video clips and adding the required metadata to the pages to allow embedding.

I would love to add a few buttons (in nav and on the create-post) page to link to this micro app to allow users to find it more easily. My first thought was to create a custom theme. But from reading the docs, I can only see mentions of css.

Is there a way for me to modify the html to add these buttons? Or do I have to fork lemmy-ui to be able to achieve this?

Hi there,

This site has a focus on music. Not being able to share audio clips makes no sense. Of course you can use a third party tool to share audio clips but I think the barrier is too big.

Here’s what I want to do: I want to create a micro application that allows people to upload audio or video clips to be able to embed them into their posts. The design goals are:

• low barrier of entry
• good viewing experience
• useful on mobile

Now I can easily do the technical stuff (upload and store files, embedding, deployment) but I’ve always had a hard time with graphical design for small apps with very few features.

Would any of you have the skills and time to contribute a design?

I’m receiving an MPC Live II in the mail today. Any tips or resources on getting started?

EDIT: Just made a first attempt at a tune: https://soundcloud.com/thomasbiesaart/learning-wav/s-QW3gkTQgRJM

We don’t have a memes community so I figured I’d just share here.