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Airwindows take on the Inflator came out a couple weeks ago, too: https://www.airwindows.com/inflamer/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/magazine/the-oppressive-gospel-of-minimalism.html

Yeah, I've played with this, it's pretty good. Definitely a good way to see if it's worth spending money on hardware now that the prices are inflating, if nothing else, and if you DO buy hardware then it's still a good patch editor.

A banging donk.

A lot of the most artistically conservative music is "experimental."

Yeah it sucks what's happened to the prices. I got one for around $30 shipped a few years ago, and that wasn't even through any effort - I jsut sorted lowest-first on eBay and bouth the cheapest one. I think $125-$150 is about the highest price that seems reasonable unless you want to really make it the center of oyour sound (it's pretty distinctive but not super flexible or anything).

Price went up, they're like $200-$300 now. Still not bad but way more than last time I looked.

Actually that sounds pretty interesting.

Puredata + GEM isn't in here yet, but it's an option too.

This would be great if it didn't run in a browser.

The USB-MIDI jitter under Windows 10 was up around 7ms for me (multiple computers, multiple interfaces, always the same result). XP was pretty decent, 10 is at least as good as XP, around 2ms total for me IIRC. Still loose but usually OK for sending transport messages and stuff. I finally got a mioXL earlier this year, though, and switching to RTP-MIDI brought the jitter down to around .2ms, though, which is comparable to good hardware clocks and really about the best you can expect from MIDI. So that's the way to go if you use hardware but absolutely must sync to or sequence in a DAW and need tight timing. At least until MIDI 2.0 is actually a viable option, since I'm pretty sure it includes event timestamps that would make all of the issues with USB irrelevant.

Interesting. I'm not going to upgrade my music desktop any time soon but maybe I'll try it on the old Dell I use for OBS, it could use all the help it can get. When I finally updated the music system from windows 7 to windows 10 back in 2021 I didn't notice any performance change but USB-MIDI timing got a lot better. Almost usable!

Interesting, I only knew about the hall effect kind. Either way that sees like a much better option than conventional pots but I wonder how much different it is than optical or hall-effect encoders that are also contactless. EDIT: those obviously don't have the advantage of also being motors, though. I bet you could use drone motors as the basis for a nice DIY DJ controller.

So they're using brushless DC motors as encoders like this? And simultaneously using them for mechaical feedback (i.e. turning knobs to match preset values)? That's a good (expesive) idea, and I'd expect the lifespan of any half-decent brushless motor would be WAY beyond even a high quality pot or encoder. EDIT: wrong link

Isn't Anything is the only one I even bothered to own.

I was going to make a dumb joke about playing laserdiscs on a turntable, but when I was looking for a photo to go with it I learned that the ELP Laser Turntable is still being manufactured! https://www.elpj.com/ These thing are realyl cool even if they're notorious for not actually working. AFAIK you basically need a pristine, perfectly pressed record that's been stored in a perfectly dust free environment, otherwise it skips a lot (I've never seen one i person so I can't comment). Maybe that was just the old models. Plus their history (it was an archival preservation tool for digitizing damaged records) makes me think that might have all been record shop myth. OTOH the one person I've known who actually had a 10 year grant to digitize rare, pre WWII Armenian-American 78s didn't go anywhere near one - he got access to an media preservation lab that had a turntable with a vacuum platter so it could play records even if they were broken into pieces, and then used a microscope to find the part of the groove with the least wear and made the recording using a stylus chosen to ride at that depth. He didn't think very highly of the laser stuff at all. EDIT: this cork-sniffy audiophile review seems to agree with what I've heard from everyone I ever met who tried a laser turntable: they're cool but kind of shit. https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/elp-lt-1lrc-laser-turntable/

I want one of these, though. I've heard they did the "spinning a guy on the platter" demo for the original Technics SP-10, too.

Just put out this album of orphaned tracks from 2019 (and a few from the first month of 2020). https://lagooncity.bandcamp.com/album/a-dogs-head h5qr-ukzq hr8w-ekkz qln4-78z6 9caq-5fkk

I haven't sued Fruity Loops in a long time (the last version used was either the last one before it became STUDIO, or the first one after) but it was definitely really fun. EDIT: I'd been using Impulse Tracker in DOS before that.