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2 hours ago, cruising for burgers said:
I think I must have done something really wrong on my previous life or even on this one cause my karma keeps fucking me up...
it's little things but if putting it all together it weights considerably...
I keep having situations like, for example, a lot of people where I work don't comply to standard rules (hairstyle and grooming) and I mostly do but yesterday the captain saw me on the elevator and told me that I needed to trim my beard... and I immediately think, fuck, why me... it's not just me... one day I was looking at my phone on a place where we should not but nobody really cares so everybody uses it, but me, by chance, crossed ways with a security and she told me I cannot use the phone there... immediately I thought, what about the other 100 persons who also do it?
I've learned the hard way not to get conflictuous on these situations so I'm always basically 'yes sir' 'yes ma'am'...but these are just 2 examples... I go trough stuff like this almost on a daily basis... I work with people who don't give a flying fuck about anything like completely clueless about these things but they never get in trouble... I get to the point where I can't even decide what to do because there's always pros and cons on my mind...
this is nothing new I just decided to share it now because (as a non native English speaker) it's not easy for me to explain this stuff without something being lost in translation and also when I read what I wrote I sound like a dumb fuck...
my first sentence about karma is just a figure of speech, I don't believe in karma, or do I? maybe there's something else out there but I guess karma is the best word to describe how I look at it... or bad luck? is there such a thing?
Maybe people see you as approachable and unlikely to cause trouble so they feel they can confront you to either set an example or project some of their own personal bullshit onto you. Obviously this is their problem, but maybe try to look angry/pissed off or try to give an impression of being emotionally and mentally unstable. Try to channel any kind of weird energy or unpleasantness you have in you so people don't feel so comfortable around you.
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Occasionally I entertain myself by intentionally mishearing the lyrics as "on a quest for fun". But not always.
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On 2/10/2023 at 1:18 AM, ignatius said:
raid mirror enclsoure shit the bed. had my entire photo/music library on it. fortunately i had backed up to a USB external in october. so, should have most everything there except a couple releases i can redownload.. we'll see.. anyway.. so, RAID is a lie. put both drives in another enclsure and they will not mount.
what's weird is i was listening to music via itunes playing off that drive. i guess it had loaded that track to RAM or something and when it go to the next track it said it couldn't locate the file. i clicked on the drive icon and opened up and it was empty. wtf. but there's data there. 3TB drive w/1.7 TB available.so, i'm backing up the back up of the library and once that's done i'll install MacOS Ventura and see if it automagically does some shit. supposed to fix some bug with peripherals or something.
one thing extra nnoying is i felt like making music and was going to work on some shit as soon as i straightened up the studio. also, a month or two ago i recorded some old dj mixes off cassette and dialed them in and put them in the library so i will ikely have to do that again unless it was longer ago than i thought? anyways.. FML today. also i still have a cold and it blows. i'm wiped.
Good thing you just made that backup... f'in hell. Occasionally I freak out thinking about all the sys admining that is required these days and in the future and it makes me want to git my entire life or something and then I remember I don't really know how git works all that well and that I'm not equipped to deal with any of this. Then I remember my sister-in-law who poured a coffee into her macbook a couple of months ago, which I offered to thoroughly clean but she felt confident it was ok after drying it for 24 hours give or take. I asked her to let me know when she'd want some assistance cloning her drive for when it would inevitably start to shit the bed. So now it's saying the battery needs replacing (thing is like 2 years old) but she's still indifferent to taking any steps to prepare for the inevitable. Uses this machine daily for her work, also no adblocker
You almost back up and running?
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Wonder how much effort it would take to write a script that crawls the "It has been used by..." lists on vintagesynthexplorer and have it churn out articles like that for every artist that's mentioned on there. (pretty sure the list is something like, fsol, afx, autechre, crystal method, bt and depeche mode) Oh, and fatboy slim ofc. And the chemical brothers.
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Dominic Hawken, regular on Sonic Talk and host of his own mr. Wiggly podcast has passed away after a short bout with pancreatic cancer.
https://sonicstate.com/news/2023/02/11/tragic-news-dominic-hawken-rip/
I feel weird posting this, I didn't know him personally but I always really enjoyed him as a guest on sonic talk and would also incidentally tune in to his more off-beat and personal mr. Wiggly podcast. A few months ago I stumbled on a livestream he was hosting with I believe a friend or relative of him who had been struggling with addiction and basically they were doing a sort of open recurring group-therapy session. It was somewhat surreal and occasionally made me feel slightly uncomfortable but it was so incredibly heartwarming to see these guys making a genuine effort to connect and help each other... it takes a special kind of character, I think, to just fly in the face of cynicism like that. On YT of all places.
Anyway, even though I've been gas-free for over 2 years now and synth youtube people usually rub me the wrong way I've always had a soft spot for sonic talk and many of their guests. This is incredibly sad news.
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mebbe there is a way to automatically force yt embeds to become plain links when the # of embeds per x amount of posts exceeds a certain number?
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AIFF AIFF Baby
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Time to switch to macrowave and play with the big boys, yek. Microwaves… can’t even see them lol
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Heh. Guess there’s normally (prolly powdered) milk and butter in it?
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Not wanting to be laughed at by WATMM is way worse than being laughed at by WATMM.
imho, although tbh I’d personally prefer both
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In Dutch the working class might also say “chineebinee” (kinnebakkes) (literal) or “chinface”/“chinmouth”. (kinnebakkes/kinnebakkes). An old habit still in use from the war because of the phonetic similarities to “shin” especially when pronounced by a Dutch speaking person.
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Did anyone get in touch with you yet?
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Read some article that said something about mistaking ai's increasing success rates in probability based prediction for sentience and now I'm worried that I might actually just be some left-over code as I've been guessing my way around for more than 30 years and getting shitter at it by the minute.
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On 1/18/2023 at 11:22 AM, TheBro said:
Hey man no this one just hasn't left and right jack outs - that's it plus other standard connections. You can tune drums individually though which is handy and it has decay too. The samples a quite crusty which is nice for that sort of rough 80s vibe. It's a nice drum machine both in terms of looks and functionality. Definitely good for oldskool hip hop and funk! The swing is a bit weird though so I'll need to play with it lol. Will try and do another video demoing it's sounds!!! Don't know if you managed to watch the whole video but I explain are fair bit about it with my first impressions and yes it's quite rare.
Reminds me a bit of the Yamaha RX drum machines.
Colour me embarrassed, for some reason my brain missed the YT vid in your opening post and thought it was just a picture. I'm officially going senile.
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Have you considered making use of Ableton's info text? You can add notes to any track that will appear in the info/help box on the bottom right of the screen (shift+? to show/hide). As long as you always adhere to the same mental layout of the midi fighter (top row = knobs 1,2,3,4 etc) you can quickly add some notes right after you've mapped a knob and the mapping plus your notes will be there next time you open the project.
Another strategy would be to always use racks when you assign anything. You can use a midi script to automatically assign the first 0-16 macro's on whichever rack you have selected to the midi fighter's knobs. Again adhering to the same arbitrary layout will make it easier to find what's what later on.
For more run of the mill mappings (track volume, pans, sends,etc) I recommend using Selected Track Control. STC also includes macro mappings btw.
Make sure you get the 1.4.0 version for Live 11
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I really rate severed heads. That cover though, jesus christ. Shit like that wasn't ok in the early 00's and it's not ok now.
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Listening to the idiots are winning for the first time in like 15 years, goddamn that's some nostalgic shit. He's yet to put out a clonker as far as I'm concerned, and although I guess he's (understandably) done with DJíng his DJ-Kicks is still one of the best psychedelic post-krautrock workouts there ever was IMHO:
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Sounds like your friend could do with a punch in the nuts, is what I'm thinking.
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Nice one! Total bargain at 70 sea creatures.
I've always coveted the DDD-5, initially purely based on its looks but it sounds pretty good too imho. Don't know anything about its specs or workflow or anything though, does it have individual outs?
This afternoon I was giving my trusty Korg i5M arranger module a quick last spin before we have to part ways and lost like an hour just going through presets with a keystep. So many cool vibes.
Any chance of getting a short demo or something? Slap some quadraverb on it if you can!
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On 1/7/2023 at 7:07 AM, Brisbot said:
I said it wasn't as bad by comparison. I never said it was good. My house flooded in 2019, and partially burned down in early 2021 so I may be biased. It didn't feel like the world was coming to an end in 2022.
Another thing is. If you spend time keeping up with the news. You're not going to ever have good years. There is always something shit going on somewhere. And good news doesn't grab attention like bad news does. If there is a slow news day, well let's get this neo-nazi on to talk about how we need to segregate people and how fascism isn't so bad.
I Remember when there was an Ebola "outbreak" a few years back. And there were like... 6-10 known cases overall. And for a few weeks \it would keep coming up in conversation with people, and the news covered each case. And talked about the chances of it getting worse. And I was worried about it at the time along with people I knew. And in the end it was a total joke compared to Covid. And the news STILL spent way too much time covering it when they knew the chances of some major outbreak were slim to none.
So year 2022 > past few years.Damn, I’ve had my house flooded twice but the burning partial or entirely I’ve been spared so far, that is some rough shit.
And it’s definitely true what you say regarding following the news, at least I definitely get a greater sense of impending doom the more I’m engorged.
Otoh even considering that, here in NL 2022 was a shitshow in terms of politics, gouvernement and the societal consequences etc.
On a personal level for me it’s been progressively worse each year and 2023 seems to be continuing the trend so far.
Anyway, kinda pointless post by me here. Sorry about that. Hope upward trends continue for everyone and all.
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15 hours ago, Brisbot said:
Lets take a moment to appreciate that 2022 wasn't NEARLY as bad as 2020 and even 2021. From 2019 to 2021 it was just so stressful. Well except the war in Ukraine.
Wait, what? Which 2022 were you living in?
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1 hour ago, dcom said:
Does anyone have a TR-8 + SP-404A combo? I'm keen to know if the SP-404A (M)FX are/can be applied when samples are triggered by the TR-8; there are some indications towards no, but I can't find a reliable source to confirm or deny.
Have you tried broadening your search by finding out if the SP404's fx can be applied to externally triggered samples? The TR-8 just sends out regular midi notes when the pads are in external trigger mode.
On 1/2/2023 at 11:20 AM, thawkins said:I haven't bought any gear since last summer I think. I am quietly trying to hype myself up to getting a Studiologic SL88 to have a real hammer action controller though.
Do it! I ummed and ahhed for at least a year but finally went for it, think about 2 years ago, and I wouldn't want to go without it anymore. I think I got the SL88 studio.
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This problem is persistent and has gotten worse because now the text prevents clicking on the icon that takes you to the first unread post.
Funny Pictures Part IV - Funny Harder
in General Banter
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Hearty lol and then rewatched to fully appreciate the waterslide warden gracefully slide down the slide, prevent lady from colliding with kid, then advanced move in the form using the kids board as a shield against the lady’s rebound and then quickly popping the kid up on the slide’s siding before sacrificing himself. 10/10