awesome capacity exceeded

i stole your car · Mon 15/02/2010 16:41:07

It appears there is only so much awesome that a computer can handle before it completely gives up and refuses to do anymore. The pressure kicks in and the computer says 'hey pal, I've had enough.' at which point you are confronted with either an error message or a still frame screen of the computers last ditch attempt to process your request before it disappears out back for a cigarette break.

This is the first time in the history of ever where I have recieved an error message that simply said the word: "PANIC." That is no joke. I wish I had taken a screenshot.

Anyway I was working on this song at the time:

I was not making it for any particular purpose other than messing around/exercise I guess. Sometimes I like to kick off the shoes and make something messy, progressive or structurally obscure and this is how far I got before my computer almost exploded and killed me. That's right, I survived a near death experience to bring this to you.

I am not going to edit it any further because my computer can no longer handle it, so any criticisms will be taken into consideration and then ultimately ignored. However I wanted to share it nonetheless.

david · Mon 15/02/2010 18:11:26

kaputtnik · Mon 15/02/2010 19:13:18

Glad you survived the incident. I had a similar experience some time ago. After an exhausting five hours of composing, I finally saved the mixdown of the funkiest piece of music in the universe and set it to run on loop mode. The first three loops went alright, but then my computer started to have serious problems handling the unlimited funk capacity.

After five loops, it broke. Hewlett Packard sent me a replacement unit within five days and apologized that their computers just weren't built to take such amounts of funk and - in what I conisder a very honest act - advised me to get an IBM because they could withstand even heavy space funk.

If you have an IBM personal computer, play this on infinite loop: http://www.box.net/shared/j7g0vacyml
If not, please be careful.

i stole your car · Mon 15/02/2010 19:56:38

Quote from: david on Mon 15/02/2010 18:11:26

If you are going to throw up, do it out the window.

Quote from: kaputtnik on Mon 15/02/2010 19:13:18
Glad you survived the incident. I had a similar experience some time ago. After an exhausting five hours of composing, I finally saved the mixdown of the funkiest piece of music in the universe and set it to run on loop mode. The first three loops went alright, but then my computer started to have serious problems handling the unlimited funk capacity.

After five loops, it broke. Hewlett Packard sent me a replacement unit within five days and apologized that their computers just weren't built to take such amounts of funk and - in what I conisder a very honest act - advised me to get an IBM because they could withstand even heavy space funk.

If you have an IBM personal computer, play this on infinite loop: http://www.box.net/shared/j7g0vacyml
If not, please be careful.

I must say, I am using a HP so I was hesitant to take the risk, but having now done so it seems the risk was minimal. As funky as your piece may be it is a mere nothingness in relation to the funktasm that is:

http://www.tjande.com/audio/tje_theme.mp3

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Tue 16/02/2010 06:15:02

If you are not interested in improving your work and considering feedback please post your work to General Discussion since this forum is for people who wish to improve (not for people who just want to show something they've made). If you change your mind about feedback in the next day I'll leave it here, otherwise I'll move this to General Discussion.

i stole your car · Tue 16/02/2010 09:35:51

Quote from: ProgZmax on Tue 16/02/2010 06:15:02
If you are not interested in improving your work and considering feedback please post your work to General Discussion since this forum is for people who wish to improve (not for people who just want to show something they've made). If you change your mind about feedback in the next day I'll leave it here, otherwise I'll move this to General Discussion.

Like I said, it's not that I don't want to get criticism. It's just that I can't actually edit it any further. I was still looking for feedback that I could carry forward in general but this song itself is going to stay how it is. It doesn't really matter if you want to move it to general though, I guess it doesn't really make a difference.

"I am not going to edit it any further because my computer can no longer handle it, so any criticisms will be taken into consideration and then ultimately ignored."

What I meant by this was not "don't give me criticism" just that I can't actually do anything about this song.

I'll leave it up to you if you want to leave it here or move it.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Tue 16/02/2010 23:17:08

Well if you're interested in improving your work this is the place for it so I'll leave it here.

warmer · Sat 20/02/2010 08:42:53

Nice tune! I like what you are doing.

When you usually just get the warning "PANIC" that typically means, Midi Panic.

Midi Panic is what your sound card does when it's got to many samples to trigger for your memory or polyphony to handle.

It's a hard reset in a sense. Everything stop because nothing is working properly.

Look up "midi panic" or just panic in your help file. It's probably associated with that issue.

If you want to edit further and know you have several parts already finished, try to bounce some some of the voices that simply loop and do not need to be triggered every go round. This will free up your sound card and your cpu overhead and allow you to do much more.

I run into this problem all the time in traditional DAW recording. A midi panic and an audio dropout are caused by very similar root problems.

What software are you using?

LGM · Sat 20/02/2010 20:20:29

Can I just say, Kaputtnik, that that song is amazing and needs to be in a game #sofast

Badger · Thu 25/02/2010 11:21:50

Really nice sounds!! If you get any crits please show again!
LGM is SOOooo right!
Get that funk in a game!