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Final approval came in the House on New Year's Night. The vote was 257 to 167.
The Senate passed the bill less than 24 hours earlier.
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It also extends expiring unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, prevents a cut in fees for doctors who treat Medicare patients and cancels a $900 pay increase due to lawmakers in March.
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#1 ? glotze?
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Posted Yesterday, 08:33 PM
Hallo,
I am really new to scripting in Lua, so i have some basic questions. I am normaly using PureData and dicided I could try to rebuild some of my PureData things with scripting in Renoise. So I need some basic tips to get startet.
I realised through other threads that it is not possible to trigger an instrument via the api directly. I have to start the OSC Server connect me to this Server and send OSC messages to it right?
I managed to to this verry simple with the OSC example.
The i realised thanks to MXB and the irc channel how i can make timed actions in Lua. ( renoise.tool():add_timer(myfunc, 1000) )
One thing i didn't solve was the use of midi in lua... i tried the following from the example but had no success. Any ideas what is missing? the example should print some text in the terminal but nothing shows up...
-- midi input listener (function callback) local inputs = renoise.Midi.available_input_devices() local midi_device = nil if not table.is_empty(inputs) then local device_name = inputs[1] local function midi_callback(message) assert(#message == 3) assert(message[1] >= 0 and message[1] <= 0xff) assert(message[2] >= 0 and message[2] <= 0xff) assert(message[3] >= 0 and message[3] <= 0xff) print(("%s: got MIDI %X %X %X"):format(device_name, message[1], message[2], message[3])) end -- note: sysex callback would be a optional 2nd arg... midi_device = renoise.Midi.create_input_device( device_name, midi_callback) -- stop dumping with 'midi_device:close()' ... end
additionally i have some understanding questions. - When i send note_off via OSC does this trigger an envelope which fads out my instrument? - does every send note_on osc signal trigger a new instrument play or does it stop the old instrument and plays it again. or do renoise play two instances at the same time so that they overlap? - do i have to send a note_off for samples like i do for pads? or do they automatically stop playing? do i have to do this for example for freeing the ram or so? - is there a simple way to stop mall playing activity from lua? or do i have to send osc messages to all instruments when i want to stop all sounds? - is there a way to change the transpose value of an instrument via midi, osc or lua? thats it for now...thanks! renoise is awesome!
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#2 ? glotze?
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Posted Yesterday, 08:59 PM
here is an example how my first tests sound like: https://soundcloud.c...ka/lua-test-002
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#3 ? vV?
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Posted Yesterday, 09:25 PM
glotze, on 31 December 2012 - 08:33 PM, said:
One thing i didn't solve was the use of midi in lua... i tried the following from the example but had no success. Any ideas what is missing? the example should print some text in the terminal but nothing shows up...
It depends on what is midi inputs[1], have you first of all printed out the devicename for inputs[1]? Perhaps it is not the midi device that you are controlling.
glotze, on 31 December 2012 - 08:33 PM, said:
additionally i have some understanding questions. - When i send note_off via OSC does this trigger an envelope which fads out my instrument? - does every send note_on osc signal trigger a new instrument play or does it stop the old instrument and plays it again. or do renoise play two instances at the same time so that they overlap? - do i have to send a note_off for samples like i do for pads? or do they automatically stop playing? do i have to do this for example for freeing the ram or so? - is there a simple way to stop mall playing activity from lua? or do i have to send osc messages to all instruments when i want to stop all sounds? - is there a way to change the transpose value of an instrument via midi, osc or lua? thats it for now...thanks! renoise is awesome!
1 - It should be 2 - If you don't send a note off, it will trigger a new note, but up to a maximum or 12 notes per track and 6 notes in NNA. 3 - Notes only stop automatically playing if the sample isn't looped, frankly the whole NNA and note-off deal is just a serious gameplayer as control through Midi is. 4 - You could create a custom OSC function in the GlobalOSCActions.lua of the scripts folder where you can simply perform a "stop song" play which should more or less act as panic and stop all instrument play, but i haven't tested this myself. There is an existing function /transport/panic. 5 - See 4:add a custom made lua function that responds to a custom designed OSC call that would perform the API call by using the renoise.song() api. There are some testscripts in the scripts\Snippets folder where you can toy with and ofcourse you can inspect the contents of the GlobalOSCActions.lua to see which custom made lua functions are in there including the descriptions of what they are made for and how you can add your own.
I believe this + PureData is a double-win.
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#4 ? glotze?
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Hey vV,
thanks for your answeres...this helps me a lot.
when i print all midi devices, i get the following: "table: 0x6b764c0" i rechecked the first midi device is my midi controller. any ideas? is that right?
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Posted Yesterday, 10:53 PM
glotze, on 31 December 2012 - 10:04 PM, said:
Hey vV,
thanks for your answeres...this helps me a lot.
when i print all midi devices, i get the following: "table: 0x6b764c0" i rechecked the first midi device is my midi controller. any ideas? is that right?
I'm not that familiar with the midi or osc API trickery, but in this case I'd say using rprint instead of print would get you further. Rprint is an addition for recursively printing out lua tables. Instead of the "table: 0x6b764c0" (which I think is only the address at which the table holding the midi devices resides) you'll get a list of all the elements of the table.
If those elements are some objects like say renoiseMidiDevice-objects (making this up as I go along), you can query even further by doing an oprint (Object print) on those.
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KMaki, on 31 December 2012 - 10:53 PM, said:
but in this case I'd say using rprint instead
that or oprint(object_table) Vv....
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#7 ? glotze?
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Posted Today, 12:10 AM
KMaki, on 31 December 2012 - 10:53 PM, said:
I'm not that familiar with the midi or osc API trickery, but in this case I'd say using rprint instead of print would get you further. Rprint is an addition for recursively printing out lua tables. Instead of the "table: 0x6b764c0" (which I think is only the address at which the table holding the midi devices resides) you'll get a list of all the elements of the table.
If those elements are some objects like say renoiseMidiDevice-objects (making this up as I go along), you can query even further by doing an oprint (Object print) on those.
that was the trick...thanks. controller was on [5]
now how to handle the values the best way? create a table and set all values to 0. then fill the entrys with the values when something changes? i think this is important because otherwise i get NIL errors.
is there something like a range mapper function in the api... like: func mapper(instart,inend,outstart,outend)
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KMaki, on 31 December 2012 - 10:53 PM, said:
I'd say using rprint instead of print would get you further.
vV, on 01 January 2013 - 12:00 AM, said:
that or oprint(object_table)
I use this function to indiscriminately dump the info I want, whatever it is:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Debug print -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- function dbug(msg) if DBUG_MODE == false then return end local base_types = { ["nil"]=true, ["boolean"]=true, ["number"]=true, ["string"]=true, ["thread"]=true, ["table"]=true } if not base_types[type(msg)] then oprint(msg) elseif type(msg) == 'table' then rprint(msg) else print(msg) end end
Then you just type `dbug(whatever)` and it will always print something useful.
Hope this helps.
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glotze, on 01 January 2013 - 12:10 AM, said:
now how to handle the values the best way? create a table and set all values to 0. then fill the entrys with the values when something changes? i think this is important because otherwise i get NIL errors.
is there something like a range mapper function in the api... like: func mapper(instart,inend,outstart,outend)
I don't understand. Why not just check for nil? (== nil, ~= nil)
I don't know of any mapper feature. I usually just use `for i=1,#foo do` where foo is a table and # means "count". But, there are some extended table functions like table.find() that could maybe help?
Travel websites have reported significant growth in searches and bookings for New Zealand this month, after the worldwide release of The Hobbit.
The flight search website Sky scanner.com recorded a 102 per cent increase in worldwide searches for flights to New Zealand this month compared with December 2011, including a 117 per cent spike in searches for flights to Wellington.
The foreign currency exchange group Travelex has reported a 26 per cent increase in pre-orders for New Zealand dollars compared with December 2011.
Air New Zealand bookings from the United States were reported to have nearly doubled on the day before the November 28 world premiere in Wellington, and increased by a third in Japan after a Hobbit promotion there.
The worldwide tour operator Trailfinders, which has introduced a Hobbiton Express Day Tour from Auckland for 2013, has reported almost a 10 per cent increase in forward bookings to New Zealand for the new year.
Positively Wellington Tourism chief executive David Perks said he had noted a growth in interest in New Zealand as a travel destination in Britain, "and a much more positive vibe about bookings" since September.
He said the international media coverage of Wellington as a result of its hosting the premiere had increased the city's global profile, and this was expected to lead to a surge in bookings.
"We were really pleased how much coverage we achieved.
"We knew from when Wellington hosted the last Lord of the Rings premiere [The Return of the King in 2003] that coverage meant a significant surge in bookings, but we weren't sure how different global financial conditions would affect that.
"The indicators have been good since the noise around The Hobbit started to grow in September."
Tourism New Zealand spokeswoman Deborah Gray said there had been a surge in Hobbit-related searches on its newzealand.com website. Searches for "hobbit", "Hobbiton", "Lord of the Rings" and "Middle-earth" were up 265 per cent for November compared with the previous three-month average.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The addition of the antidepressant nortriptyline to conventional smoking cessation therapy didn't improve the chances of longterm success among male prisoners, Australian researchers have found.
Depression and other mental illnesses raise the likelihood of smoking, and quitting can depress a person's mood - which in turn can make it harder to quit. Studies have shown that antidepressants, including nortriptyline, can improve the success of smoking cessation efforts.
And prison inmates are notoriously heavy smokers, with higher rates of depression and other mental illness than the general population.
But the new study found that nortriptyline (marketed as Aventyl) - which is not FDA-approved for smoking cessation but often is used for that purpose - did not seem to help inmate smokers stay tobacco-free over time.
Compliance with the therapy appeared to a significant issue, however, said Robyn Richmond, a public health researcher at the University of New South Wales, in Kensington, who led the study.
Prisoners who were faithful to the treatment as ordered at least three-quarters of the time were much more likely to break their smoking habit than those who could not stick to the regimen, Richmond told Reuters Health.
Another factor, Richmond added, was that the prison population in the study tended to migrate, making follow-up of the participants difficult.
"One thinks that you have a captive audience" in prison studies, she said. "However, half of the prisoners were either transferred to another prison within the study or released into the community."
The study, which appears in the journal Addiction, included 425 male inmates from prisons across Australia. All were smokers, with a habit lasting on average 20 years and more than 23 cigarettes a day.
Nearly three-quarters of the inmates in the study had tried to quit in the previous year, according to the researchers.
All of the prisoners in the study received 10 weeks of smoking cessation therapy consisting of nicotine patches and two sessions of behavioral counseling. To that was added either a dummy pill or nortriptyline.
The researchers recorded the inmates' tobacco use at three, six and 12 months after the end of treatment, relying on self-reporting and direct measurements of exhaled carbon monoxide, a byproduct of smoking.
At the three-month mark, about one-quarter of prisoners who had received the antidepressant had managed to stay off smoking continuously, compared with 16 percent of those who had not taken the drug. But by the one year mark, the abstinence rate had fallen to about 11 percent for both groups.
Psychologist Karen Cropsey, a smoking researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said most jails and prisons in the United States have significantly restricted tobacco use by inmates. Roughly half of prisons, and many jails, now ban smoking completely, she said, while facilities that permit it typically require inmates to go outside to smoke.
Cropsey, who has studied tobacco use by female inmates, said the latest work is the first to look at smoking by male inmates.
Source: http://bit.ly/U67ejn Addiction, online December 11, 2012.
The Amami Black rabbits are found only on the tiny islands of Amami Oshima and Toku no shima in the Nansei Islands far out to sea near Okinawa.
The special bunny has seen a series of promotions in status over the years, firstly becoming a natural monument in 1921, protecting it from being hunted. Then in 1963 the bulky bodied, short hind legged rabbits was then further elevated in status to special natural monument, preventing both hunting and trapping of the isolated species.
The short eared black rabbit survived on the tiny Japanese islands which were predominantly free of predators until the onset of introduced species.
Destruction of the rabbit's natural habitat for construction purposes is also said to have contributed to the decline.
Also referred to as the Ryukyu rabbit, it is known for its strange behaviour. This nocturnal forest dweller buries its babies in a hole in the ground, covering them with dirt to evade hungry predators and only returns at midnight to uncover her young while watching out for would be attackers.
The mother then feeds her young milk, before tucking them back into the earth packing the soil down with her front paws.
The furry national treasure breeds only twice a year, giving birth to just one or two young at a time.
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glotze, on 31 December 2012 - 08:33 PM, said: