Help getting started

I have been trying to get Tahoe running with VMWare Workstation on my Windows laptop, but I've been having a lot of trouble. I didn't get very far, and a lot of the tutorials and forum posts I've looked at didn't help, or directed me towards paid downloads, websites that are down, or step-by-step directions that skipped steps (perhaps they were obvious to someone more experienced than me).

Anyway, my laptop has an AMD CPU with an iGPU, AND a dedicated GPU. I know AMD introduces some extra difficulty. If someone could point me in the direction of a guide, I would be super grateful. Or maybe my laptop just won't work, and I'd appreciate hearing that as well so I don't put any more time into this.

Some likely unimportant context is that I want to be able to do software development in a lab at my school, but everyone here uses a Mac, so no one noticed it can't be built on Windows lol. Currently using a loaner Mac, but I have to return it soon.

Thank you!

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u/MrKahoobadoo — 9 days ago
▲ 1 r/ElectronicsRepair+2 crossposts

How to identify a capacitor on my laptop?

I shorted a capacitor on my laptop. It still works but it's clearly damaged, and it got visibly worse the longer I used the laptop. So I wanna replace it before I start a fire or something lol.

I'm having trouble finding schematics for the mainboard. I just need to figure out exactly what this capacitor is, so I can solder on a new one. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you!

GA503RM-G15.R93060

u/MrKahoobadoo — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/serum

Key-track algorithm for filters

Dunno if this fits on this subreddit (I'll happily go to the official forums with this if not), but I am new to audio plugin development, and I was wondering if anyone knew what algorithm serum uses internally for keytrack/keyfollow in? Currently my approach is:

final filter freq = (freq. set by cutoff-knob) + (freq. of midi note * keyfollow-knob, ranging 0. to 1.)

It sounds pretty good like this, but I was curious if Serum has a better approach? Thanks

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u/MrKahoobadoo — 20 days ago
▲ 14 r/laptops

Loose metallic thermal compound on the mainboard!?!

I've opened up my laptop a number of times, can't believe I only just noticed this now. I found what looks to be a little drop of metallic thermal compound just sitting on the mainboard under the ram stick? Is this as crazy of a screw-up as I think it is, or somewhat common, or maybe even harmless?

For the record, I've never touched more than the ram, nvme drive, and plug connecting the battery to the mainboard, so I don't *think* I could have made this happen

u/MrKahoobadoo — 23 days ago

Did Deadmau5 hit a seagull with a truck in "Outta My life (deadmau5 Touch Remix)"?

I was listening to this classic track when I suddenly heard a seagull get hit by a truck at 5:45. I was wondering did Joel use a real truck to hit a live seagull? I was hoping that it is a fake seagull. Or maybe it was a fake truck and a real seagull? I suppose that wouldn't be as bad, but still worse than a real truck and a fake seagull. Can anyone confirm that either the truck or the seagull was fake?

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u/MrKahoobadoo — 2 months ago

Satisfying latching buttons/keys

I'm not exactly doing synthdiy, but midi-controller diy. I wanna make a sequencer, and I was wondering if anyone knows of any latching buttons that have a really satisfying feel? Bonus points if they have an LED built-in, but if not I can just add that to the circuit pretty easily.

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u/MrKahoobadoo — 2 months ago

Clang linter finds hundreds of errors in JUCE C++ files, but code builds fine

SOLVED: I shut off clangd. Don't really know what it is or how it is different from clang-tidy, but unchecking it in settings worked. Idk if this will have negative effects in the future, but clang-tidy is still running and it looks like normal linting is still happening in the IDE. There are some random irrelevant warnings, but not hundreds of warnings and errors talking about undeclared functions and variables.
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I'm using CLion and Clang on a windows PC to learn programming in JUCE. I am following a video tutorial series and I am using their template code, and it builds fine with no errors.

However, the linter says a bunch of the files don't have a target project, that all of the functions and classes referenced don't exist, and gives me completely wild and fake errors, too. One time it told me to add a comma somewhere, only for that to make the build fail because there actually WASN'T supposed to be a comma, which was especially wacky. Of course when I deleted the comma, it just kept saying I needed it there.

Anyway, does anyone have any knowledge on how I can fix this? Other people have the same issue online, but I have found no fixes. It makes programming really hard because my code is just red everywhere (as you can see in the code below) and I can't tell what errors are real or fake.

Thank you

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fclang-linter-finds-hundreds-of-errors-in-juce-c-files-but-v0-tfji3hwtyh5h1.png%3Fwidth%3D1912%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5151a729ec686d2bf3549a91b65acaa9a9eaaba3

EDIT:
Here's the course and github repo:
https://www.wolfsoundacademy.com/products/official-juce-audio-plugin-development-course
https://github.com/juce-framework/tremolo-juce-course

specifically the .clang-tidy file:
https://github.com/juce-framework/tremolo-juce-course/blob/main/.clang-tidy

CMakeLists:
https://github.com/juce-framework/tremolo-juce-course/blob/main/complete/CMakeLists.txt

u/MrKahoobadoo — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/JUCE

Clang linter finds hundreds of errors in JUCE C++ files, but code builds fine

SOLVED: I shut off clangd. Don't really know what it is or how it is different from clang-tidy, but unchecking it in settings worked. Idk if this will have negative effects in the future, but clang-tidy is still running and it looks like normal linting is still happening in the IDE. There are some random irrelevant errors, but not hundreds talking about undeclared functions and variables.
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I'm using CLion and Clang on a windows PC to learn programming in JUCE. I am following a video tutorial series and I am using their template code, and it builds fine with no errors.

However, the linter says a bunch of the files don't have a target project, that all of the functions and classes referenced don't exist, and gives me completely wild and fake errors, too. One time it told me to add a comma somewhere, only for that to make the build fail because there actually WASN'T supposed to be a comma, which was especially wacky. Of course when I deleted the comma, it just kept saying I needed it there.

Anyway, does anyone have any knowledge on how I can fix this? Other people have the same issue online, but I have found no fixes. It makes programming really hard because my code is just red everywhere (as you can see in the code below) and I can't tell what errors are real or fake.

Thank you

Template from tutorial: https://github.com/juce-framework/tremolo-juce-course
Tutorial series: https://www.wolfsoundacademy.com/products/official-juce-audio-plugin-development-course

https://preview.redd.it/tfji3hwtyh5h1.png?width=1912&format=png&auto=webp&s=119330e99d2b0f60e44f57297d731e66780ad1e9

Solution: shut off clangd. Don't really know what it is or how it is different from clang-tidy, but unchecking it in settings worked. Idk if this will have negative effects in the future, but clang-tidy is still running and it looks like normal linting is still happening in the IDE. There are some random irrelevant errors, but not hundreds talking about undeclared functions and variables.

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u/MrKahoobadoo — 3 months ago