mcbpete

April 19

And to see it in reality it'll cost you an additional 76 quid

and to play it another seven hunner

and to keep it in the cupboard 4 and a half grand

April 19

Let the fleecing continue

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Thank you for your recent order from the Orbital Official Store.

You may have noticed an Expanded Digital Download has been added to the store today which includes over 54 tracks, 2 exclusive live sets and remixes only available digitally.

You can order this using the details below and upgrade your purchase to include the Expanded Edition at the reduced price of £29.99.

How naive of me to think that 70 pounds was enough to spend on a release that would get me the whole release

April 15

Thanks for the download link. I don't know a huge amount of his discography (other than some of his more minimal Ø stuff) so does anyone know what the 3 and a half hours are actually made of ? (a best-of, unreleased tracks, a mix set made by Mika of him and/or other artists ?)

April 15

21 minutes ago, Brisbot said:

replicas of probably stolen copyrighted material and free audio materials

Absolutely, this is the thing that 'AI artists' don't quite seem to have grasped - Essentially it's just a glorified version of a search engine that just mulches the search results.

Whenever there's a big enough copyright case brought forward all this stuff is gonna go back into hiding. We're basically at the free-for-all equivalent of when Napster first came out - Maybe Metallica will be the people that try to get all shut this down too

April 15

34 minutes ago, hma said:

But can it actually output high quality audio? Everything I`ve heard so far has this terrible spectral smearing all over it and I don`t think it`s the encoding.

I'm presuming its just a generational thing from [fft block?] size of the training data, remember when AI image generators only just over 5 years back were only capable of smushy abstract jpgs

April 15

I tried a prompt injection to see if I could get it to make a track with lyrics citing where it's getting its music and lyric training data from.... completely unsuccessful but without any other prompting I got this:

https://www.udio.com/songs/nZjnnLFxyHi5utwb3qVGWY

holymaloney ... After the first 45 seconds of late 90s cyber-hacker-core it hits HARRDD, so just hit continue until it hit the track length limit - I'd legitimately want to hear albums of this!

Now I'm even more curious as to where the training data has come from.

April 12

13 minutes ago, chronical said:

wow this music hit me right in the feels. Reminds me of playing Myst and the lot as a kid Does this run on modern computers?

yeah it's on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/labyrinth_of_time_the

bought it a few years back to finally finish it and works perfectly on modern machines

ps. a tip to save frustration if you do get it: the one soft-lock (possibly only soft lock - I always thought crushing the train also soft-locked you but you can un-crush it! ) I can think of is spending your only coin on the fortune teller machine - save that coin for another place !

April 12

Played this free little thing last weekend, despite the 'yeah I've literally seen all that already many many times' premise it really nails the perfect vibe in game form for its 30-ish minutes lifespan. Definitely recommended for a quick little diversion if your machine is up to the challenge (the post-processing and rendering pipeline is quite a burden on the GPU)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1942120/The_Complex_Found_Footage/

It also made me think, IMO this game I loved in the 90s (and still enjoy) was the ultimate 'liminal space' game before the liminal space thing hit the zeitgeist (is that the word?) - Would love them to remake this in full VR-like 3d:

April 12

16 hours ago, Blir said:

I fed it some Autechre style instructions. It is scary how good this is.

https://www.udio.com/songs/a8PjPAJutRxa14u53HjDiw

At least we've now worked out how Aleksi Perälä spits out his thousand albums per year

April 10

18 minutes ago, zazen said:

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS TILL NOW

Squarepusher + Cbeebies, genius

The programme (and soundtrack) is bloody lovely, saved a copy in case the BBC take it down from Youtube. Watches it countless times with friends and family, like a kids introduction to Koyaanisqatsi Would've definitely preferred some of these in DisterlyDosterlyTime than the Red Hot (Car) Peppers-esque ones

April 10

It's really nice - Reminds me of the 'super-hot mid summer temperatures where you need to cool down in a pool' sounds of Hotel Nota ( https://romeopoirier.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-nota )

April 7

Found out a while ago you can take a CD to hospital when you're getting an MRI scan (to help calm your nerves) and they play it over the supplied headset when the procedure takes place. I grabbed Xerrox 3 (or might've been 4) and never have I been more submersed in an album before - The real world clonks and static-y noises and hums & the chest vibrations and pressure when it scans your body .... combined with everything from the album playing through the headset was just *chef's kiss*

Might need to book another appointment with the hospital when this drops

March 26

The title is an anagram of 'ne geskon today', so named after the conversation tween rarb and stan when booting up the maxbox.

rarb: we do nu autekka today sam?

steam: ne. geskon today, ralf

March 21

On 3/18/2024 at 2:41 PM, Freak of the week said:

Number of guides I've seen for this bast. and Ruby Weapon ... still never been able to get either of them 20+ years later.

March 15

'Currently offers' optimistically sound temporary to me, so maybe it's still coming....

March 9

6 hours ago, oscillik said:

I received an update yesterday I think, but mine is still showing 8 voice polyphony. Is yours showing 12?

Dang, no you're absolutely correct - Still says 'Voices 0/8' and maxes out at 8/8....

March 8

On 3/6/2024 at 8:38 AM, oscillik said:

I noticed that despite Robert Henke's documentation stating that Granulator III has a fixed 12-voice polyphony, it's actually currently limited to 8.

I emailed him asking about it, and within 10 mins he responded saying that's deffo a bug and they'll get it sorted. Nice one, Bobbo

Looks like the update has now been rolled out :ok:

March 8

12 hours ago, Mattthegoone said:

I have 2 copies of this on vinyl, still listen to it on CD or on my phone, the 1977 (label) vinyl repress from a few years back without stone in focus is dubious, its so crackly, I barely played my copy and it sounds like it was used as a frisbee, thought I had lost my warp copy and found it, sounds much better, the crackling on the sire 1977 version actually sounds OK to my ears but if you didn't want it you can't ignore it, not sure what contraption they pressed it on

This one became my definitive version when it was out there. All the tracks (and more) in tippedytoppedy dark and dank quality

March 5

51 minutes ago, YEK said:

I guess we’ll have to install to a different path on c drive or the same as 11? Sorry for being a noob.

Maybe I’ll just uninstall 11 first

By default A11 will be in C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 11 Suite

and A12 in C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 12 Suite

I'd maybe install 12 first then remove 11 later in case it loses your preferences

edit: @ignatius beat me to it !

edit2: Loading up Ableton just now and I've 26 more packs to update, looks like they were busy today

March 5

11 hours ago, ignatius said:

the 12 beta and 11 beta and 11 release version all install separately and are each available for use.

I was thinking Yek meant installing the 12 (release) installer over the 11 (release) version (the address for which 'got out' yesterday evening, before it was officially available in the accounts page just now)

March 5

1 hour ago, YEK said:

So just install over previous?

On mine (windows machine) it seems to have kept 11, grabbed my preferences, default template and installed packs & user library and used them for a new 12 install. So currently I have both but will no doubt uninstall 11 tomorrow

March 4

59 minutes ago, oscillik said:

Wooo finally got the released version installed. But no updated manual yet

Just downloaded and installed too - Cpu fan currently spinning at a billion rpm indexing everything.

March 4

Do you have uBlock origin or some other ad-blockery type thing that blocks those cookie messages .... Had to whitelist this place to stop it going freaky like that

March 2

Now *this* looks/sounds bloomin 'mazin:

Nightly builds here - https://nightly.link/robbert-vdh/nih-plug/workflows/build/master

March 2

Found where I heard it from .... the music video for it mentioned in the above quote from over 10 years ago (yikes, time flies)

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