\pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600\f0\b0\i\ul0\fs32 "Nevertheless the winter wears on and death follows death. I've tried it, and know how the narrowing-down feeling conflicts with the feeling of life's coming to a point, not a climax but a point. At that point one must, yes, be selective, but not selective in one's choices if you see what I mean. Not choose this or that because it pleases, merely to assume the idea of choosing, so that some things can be left behind. It doesn't matter which ones. I could tell you about some of the things I've discarded but that wouldn't help you because you must choose your own, or rather not choose them but let them be inflicted on and off you. This is the point of the narrowing-down process. And gradually, as the air gets thinner as you climb a mountain, these things will stand forth in a relief all their own -- the look of belonging. It is a marvelous job to do, and it is enough just to approximate it. Things will do the rest. Only then will the point of not having everything become apparent, and it will flash on you with such dexterity and such terribleness that you will wonder how you lived before - as though a valley hundreds of miles in length and full of orchards and all sorts of benevolent irregularities of landscape were suddenly to open at your feet, just as you told yourself you could not climb a step higher. This casual, poorly seen new environment (but how gladly you are aware of imperfect vision, this time!) is to be a new kind of arbitrariness for you, one that protects and promotes without ever leaving the time-inflicted lesions of the old, toward which you struggled so hard without knowing it. These are vanished with the saw-toothed anomalies of time itself, and an open, moist, impregnable order of the day -- kind, generous and protective -- surrounds you as the artless gestures of a beautiful girl surround her with nobility which may never be detected, the fountain of one's life. And one never need wish to see it, for its truth does not matter, and is unimaginable."\
\i0 is a program which generates pseudo-NewAge (or perhaps it's the Real McCoy!) music using the Motorola DSP chip. I wrote it because I like to have long droning sounds going while I stare at error messages, read news, move windows around on the screen, etc. One of the considerations that went into the design of the program was to make it place as light a load on the main CPU as possible, so that
\i Looching
\i0 can be hidden away to do it's droning thing without interfering with other computing activities.\
\b\fs34 Operation:
\b0\fs28 \
\b RELAX
\b0 button starts
\i Looching
\i0 in operation. It should toggle to
\b ENOUGH!
\b0 -- depressing this (or "Quit") will stop those long droning sounds dead in their tracks. The
\b\i Set Them Values
\b0\i0 button sends changes in the slider or radio-button parameters to the sound-generating part of the program. Any changes in the parameters won't effect active tones, but will alter any tones after the
\b\i Set Them Values
\b0\i0 button has been pushed.\
\b\fs34 The Parameters:
\b0\fs28 \
On the left-hand side of the main
\i Looching
\i0 window is a set of five radio buttons. These select various tone and timbre sets that
\i Looching
\i0 will use to synthesize the long droning sounds.\
\f0\b the Original
\f1\b0 -- a set of justly-tuned notes\
\f0\b morning stuff
\f1\b0 -- one of those happy chords\
\f0\b the Big Drone
\f1\b0 -- yes, it is\
\f0\b Schoenberg
\f1\b0 -- the first hexachord of Arnie's 4th\
\f0\b Bach
\f1\b0 -- notes stolen from the past\
\fs16 \
\fs22 (note: each of the five tone rows will begin with a particular timbre set. If the tone row is reset while
\i Looching
\i0 is active, the timbres will not change. For a new timbre set to be initialized, the
\i Looching
\i0 must be stopped and restarted by depressing the
\b ENOUGH!
\b0 button (and then
\b RELAX
\b0 , of course) after the new tone row has been selected using the radio buttons).
\fs28 \
The "vibrato rate limit" slider sets the highest vibrato frequency that
\i Looching
\i0 will choose. The units are cycles per second (Hz).\
The "vibrato width limit" sets the maximum deviation of the vibrato. This is expressed as a percentage of the base frequency (i.e. a 1% spread will set the maximum allowable upper and lower bounds of the deviation to 99 Hz and 101 Hz if the base frequency is 100 Hz).\
The "frequency spread" sets the upper and lower bounds of the actual frequencies
\i Looching
\i0 will use for each note it produces (
\i Looching
\i0 uses multiple oscillators for each note). It is also expressed as a percentage of the base frequency .\
Again, no changes in the synthesized tones will actually take place until the
\b\i Set Them Parameters
\b0\i0 button is pushed.\
Happy droning! Oh yeah -- "Looch" is the name of my dog.\
\pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600\f0\b0\i0\ul0\fs48 Once Upon A Time there were some people, and they didn't know what to do, and they didn't know what to do, and they didn't know what to do, and then they did it; and then they went on to the next page.\
Once Upon A Time there were some other people, and they didn't know what to do, and they didn't know what to do, and they did it and they went on to the next page.\
Once Upon A Time there were some more people, and they didn't know what to do, and they didn't know what to do, and they didn't know what to do, and they did it and it was the End.\
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