Attending were John Herron, David Williams, Keith Sterzing, George Wyche, and Charlie Boas.
We noted that John showed up in a different truck. Alas, John, who lives down near Kyle, hit a deer. He was not hurt, and he was able to drive home, but the truck was not in good shape. The insurance company offered him some just enough so he accepted it. After taking his personal stuff out of there and looking ALL over for a decent deal on another truck... here he is. John said it was definitely a distraction.
After pizza and beer, George showed off what he has learned about MilkyTracker. It is a program that allows the creation of a music file (and later playback) from keystrokes: one keystroke - one note. You have to come up with an instrument. This may be designed by you with this program, but that is a challenging task. Normally you choose a pre-made instrument that is a short segment of any (one) sound, typically of an instrument that society has recognized as pleasing.
That 1 "sample" is assumed to be "middle C". Then when your recorded keystrokes are played back, that "sample" is altered by being played faster (or slower) to track your choice of frequencies (sound).
Nicely, you are afforded the ability to record more notes in parallel to create chords of notes. After that, you notice that more options exist to help you do "glides", "slides", "trills", and many, many, more.
Then the meeting split up into 2 groups. George and Charlie worked on getting the game The Maze of Galious.
David and Keith worked on getting UAE(?) to function on Keith's Bill Gates laptop.
We all kept it up until 8pm and headed home. Since summer begins shortly and we had ended the meeting "on time", I was treated to the full moon on the rise. I stopped and took this totally inadequate photo, but it does serve as a trigger for me to remember stopping in a parking lot, getting out of the car and enjoy the sight.
