No need to hate - positive constructive feed back would go a lot further in creating work that we can all enjoy.
The reason I started is because I really wanted a stim file for "CH Flux Episode 5" - and I got tired of waiting - besides I couldn't even post a request for it. I'll admit, I got carried away creating stim files for all the other CH videos I like - having software just made the process easy - then I figured I should share my work with the community.
Until I published some files and got invited to join Milovana I couldn't reach out to you since registration is closed and by invitation only.
I'm guessing you don't have a social stim account so you didn't get to read the nice tribute to your efforts I made when I started releasing these files - in it I point out that its your sample beats I use and its your tutorial that I followed in building my software.
I wrote an Audio Beat detector which got me 80% of the beats - this was still too much work for my liking so I wrote a Video Beat detector which got me 100% of the beats. This gave me an appreciation for all your hard effort in laying these beats out by hand; however, innovation in detecting the beats is good not bad.
Detecting the beats is/was the bulk of the work - the next piece of software I wrote was to generate the audio file given the beat file.
This is where I'm confused over your acceptance of the files since the audio file generated is bit-for-bit the wave pattern from your own sample beat track. I took your sample and split it up into multiple files each one containing one single wave representing a single beat of that specific length. Next, the audio generating software goes through the beat file and grabs the beat that best fits (the biggest beat that can be used in that specific time span - for example if beats are exactly 1s apart the wave pattern that's 0.98s long is centered at the beats position and so on). Next, as per your tutorial the software adds from 5s to 15s the maximum strength for people to tune, then it applies a 2s fade-in to all leading beats where there is a significant gap so that people are not jolted when the next round starts.
Having software that can trim days off your efforts is not a bad thing too - computers are meant to do tedious repetitive tasks.
As I see it, there are three main differences between an StL and a TZ/NTZ file;
1) StL files are mechanically generated, yours are hand crafted.
2) StL files have the Right-Audio channel shifted by 50% of each individual beat (for us tri-phasers).
3) I ramp from 70% to 100% of beat power from first to last beat - but that is because I prefer to edge over the entire video rather than numb out by the end of the first round. So definitely you have a point there - I do not ramp up in each individual round. If people prefer that I can generate multi-ramp versions of my files - no problem.
These differences are no a reason to discount my work - instead they are an opportunity to offer more variety to a niche of people that enjoy stimming - in fact, based on feedback I think a lot of the people enjoying my files don't even watch the video but just run the stim track on its own.
I'm a programmer, not an artist so these files are yes mechanically created and do not have that hand crafted polish - but maybe that's where we could partner - if I can generate you a wav file that 98% accurate to the CH video in hours and saves you days of effort and you add the polish then these could become extraordinary?
Lastly, if your reaction is purely ego based then all I have to say is suck it up buttercup there's a new kid on the playground.
StL
