Hi all!
I am interested in participating GSoC and Mixxx project really caught my eye. Why? Let's start with a short description of me. Me and music? I started to deal with the music when I was three. I was a member of a kinder-garden choir and participated in all the events that were for parents. Later on I went to a more serious choir that was a Lithuanian National Radio and TV choir. In the 5th grade I switched schools and went to one of the best choirs in Lithuania which is also a music school. I learned there how to play the piano, music history, music theory, choir conducting, choir and solo singing. I finished the school with almost excellent grades. * Long story short, I know what the music is. After finishing music school, I've started putting more effort into computing. I've participated in all kinds of Olympiads in Informatics and showed decent results there as well. Later on I enrolled Vilnius University and finished BSc in Software Engineering. Now I study MSc in Distributed Computing in Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. What is my programming experience? Well, I've finished BSc in Software Engineering, right? They taught me all kinds of groovy stuff. Moreover, I also worked in several companies. Firstly as a C#, XSLT, Sql Server developer and later more as Java, JSF, Oracle (and friends) developer. I've built there interfaces or improvements of interfaces using WinForms, JSF and Adobe Flex. Of course, I've built not only interfaces, lol. :) What is more, I've started a project that would turn PC keyboard into a piano keyboard. I've written it in Java and used low level Java access to the audio sources (javax.sound.sampled.AudioInputStream) and audio devices (javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem). The program had several samples of a grand piano. To get all notes in a scale I used stretching in time domain with linear interpolation between samples. I also used primitive mixing technique which is a + b - (a * b). But I had some troubles with a sound. On sun VM the sound was a bit choppy (on IcedTea VM it worked fine). And I had to write my BSc final thesis at that time so I put this project aside. Oh, yeah! Didn't I mention? The source code is online! https://github.com/skd/VClavier/ :) * So, I have a little bit of software developing experience. You can look more at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zygimantasbruzgys What about music software? Unfortunately, I haven't used Mixxx (except for today), but I have used other software including Fruity Loops (mostly), Cubase (less), Traktor (less as well), Audacity (does it counts? :D), Adobe Audition. * Bullet point again! I used some kind of music production/mixing software. Hm, I am running out of bullet points. Some say that you can include only four. Let's make one about dreams. Sometimes I catch myself thinking: wouldn't be it cool working in Steinberg or Native Instruments? :) Don't you think? * I have dreams! :) Now, what can I do in the Mixxx project. Sadly, but I've used Mixxx only for a day so I can't say that I am really into it. But it was really fun to play with it! Wow, that's a solid piece of software! So, ideas I liked the most were key detection (sounds like frequency domain, yay!) and integration into Mac OS X environment (I really like that Mac OS X full screen button!) :) Now, i'll be sure to make smth more concrete, but for this email, I think this will be enough. If you still with me, I want to conclude this email: * I know music theory and I know what the music is * I have a bit XP in the software engineering (or gardening). And I coded smth related to music! :) * I have used some music production/mixing software. * I have dreams and I am keen on working on Mixxx this summer! Be sure to check http://www.linkedin.com/in/zygimantasbruzgys and https://github.com/skd/VClavier/ if the email was not convincing or too much convincing! :) And I am sorry that the email went so long. I hope it was not too long for you to read. Kind regards, Žygimantas Bruzgys GSM: +34 633 024 512 E-mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
