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Weird, I posted a couple hours ago that this category includes most of my favorite albums, but the post disappeared.

If they were like $150-$200 for what's essentially a dedicated, low latency DSP platform running one of their plugins, with a hardware controller and USB audio/MIDI interface, that would be a great product for people who needed something to play out with that was portable and wouldn't be too big a loss if it got stolen or broken, or people who were just starting out and wanted something with a bit of tactile control (and resale value) that plugins don't have. For $400 you're well into the zone where you could do better without spending much more, or go with the plugin without compromising enough to justify the price difference. A Dreadbox Nymphes is $100 more than a Roland Boutique.

I mentioned it in a different thread last week, but the TC-8210 plugin/USB controller thingy is still $29 shipped on Amazon (promotional pricing that was supposed to end sometime last year but I guess never got changed here). I got one and just set it up a coule hours ago, so far I've got to say $29 is definitely worht it for the plugin - sometimes you need a really familiar reverb and this does a bunch of them very well. For $100 I wouldn't have considered it when youcan get tthe Valhalla stuff for half that (and there are plenty of other great reverbs for even less, or free), for under $30 it's a bargin and totally worth it. The remote control is actually pretty handy, too, less of a gimmick than I expected and if you're going to have DRM on your plugins this is way better than an iLok or license server or something. So I guess score one for Behringer. If one of the other plugins in this line shows up this cheap I won't hesitate to buy it.

Well, a single oscillator monosynth is pretty simple. I've built stuff more complex than a Minitaur from kits for less than $200, so when you factor in economies of scale, cheap labor and owning your own component factory it makes sense. "How does Roland have the gall to charge $400 for their Boutique series synths?" is the real question.

While we're name dropping, I have the Hammond Auto-Vari 64 that might have been used on the 8 Heads In a Duffel Bag soundtrack. Top that, u cant

Behringer Taurus clone is tempting, and it's pretty cheap even by Behringer standards.

Yeah, I've had it on my list of games to play for ages (I didn't want to emulate, couldn't afford an original, and then when I trashpicked an XBox 360 a few years ago I didn't know about the port) so other than the whole upside down thing I've managed to avoid spoiling much of it. Definitely a good game, I always liked Simon's Quest more than the other early Castlevania games and it's hitting some of that same spot for me.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here, but it's certainly not the worst we could have.

I jsut think the focus since the 70s has shifted too far toward medicalization, and it's part of the reason. Not that it's bad, just that the taxonomical aproach to psychology should be one tool out of many but right now it's absolutely dominant. If you watch the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (one of the greatest movies of all time), there's a really obvious read of it as an allegory about the shift from the social model of psychology to the medical model, which was a big thing in the 70s, and I'm more in the social camp. I've got a B.S. in music technology, so I'm obviously very qualified to talk about this and my opinions should hold a lot of weight. Anyway, people who actually know what they're talking about (or at least allegedly do) also don't agree on any of this stuf, so I don't think it's actually a very hot take at all. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sax-sex/201306/critique-dsm-5 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26772207/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-mind/201305/the-real-trouble-dsm-5 I'm basically a left-liberal humanist if I had to label myself (which feels gross to do TBH) and I see a lot of illiberal, antihumanist qualities in what I know about some of the most popular schools of therapy (looking at you, CBT).

Responding to an old post, but I have to say I was shocked to read that artists actually make as much as 12% on physical sales now! Historically you were lucky if you got 5%, with a few exceptions like the Rolling Stones who actually had negotiating power. Also, I didn't catch who wrote that until after I finished it. Damon used to come into the record shop where I worked in my 20s, seemed like a nice guy. This is not at all the sort of thing I'd expect him to write. He seemed like more of a "music is the universal language that will unite all societies and bring world peace" hippie (that's an almost exact quote from the one time I saw him play live), but I guess he's actually a business hippie. His posts in the comments are at least as good as the article, too.

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The guy who was doing that was charging anywhere from a few thousand to over $2,000,000 per cable pair depending on the model. His Youtube channel used to be amazing but after he was banned from all the audiophile messageboards mental illness caught up with him (as far as I can tell) and he deleted all of the oldvgreenscreen stuff a few years ago. Now all he does is upload first person footage of him walking his dog in the woods with voiceover in character as the dog and it's no longer funny, just kind of sad. Apparently enough people took it seriously that there are some customer reviews still floating around, and I don't think all of them were written by him. https://www.audiogon.com/listings/interconnects-coconut-audio-unreal-rca-interconnects-the-best-for-last-2014-10-12-cables EDIT: the cables reviewed in that link weren't $1.5 million - 1.5M is the length. The price was a mere $45,000. I tried to find some photos of them, but it's tough - not even archive.org has his old site. Here's a thumbnail of one of his audiophile USB cables: I've got my issues with the DSM, but I think there's a strong argument for adding audiophilia to the next edition.

I had no idea they made a TV adaptation of Kodemus! https://archive.org/details/NRKTV-FTEA001271-AR-199001040 I don't understand Norwegian, but the original short story is probably my favorite piece of science fiction writing of all time (not so much because it's a grat piece of writing as because it's such an on-point satire of the way smartphones and the Internet - and especially ChatGPT - are changing the fundamental nature of human societies, except it was written in 1971) so it's pretty easy to follow, and fun to see it done with cheap, Doctor Who quality production values.

Ok, Symphony Of the Night is pretty excellent. Not convinced yet that it lives up to the hype, and it's way easier than the Castlevania I'm used to, but it's definitely a good game and I'm glad I'm finally playing it. Glad they kept the original English voice acting for this port, apparently they "improved" it for most of them.

The first thing I thought of was this. Yes, that is a $100 baggie full of gravel that you just put somewhere in your room and it makes your stereo sound better because AUDIOPHILES! My favorite piece of audiphile snake il ever. Even better than the multi thousand dollar USB cables.

Not a new plugin, but new to me: https://freevstplugins.net/blue-lab-audio-chroma/ Seems like it should be really handy for reverse engineering chord progressions and stuff quickly.

Not free, but Amazon US still has a few of the TC8210-dt plugin+USB controller packages available for $29 USD. There was a sale around a year ago and every other retailer I'm aware of has them at $99 again, but there were still three left after I ordered mine just now. The USB remote is whatever, but it's a nice sounding reverb and $29 is a good price for it. I'm not adding a link because I emailed a friend about it and want to give him a bit of a head start, but it's not hard to find at all.

I can still use DirectX plugins from like 1996 if I want to in Windows.

That UI is killing me inside, but I'm not goign to turn down a free plugin.

In high school I played in a band with a guy who's dad had a guitar cable that he once loaned to Chuck Berry. The joke is that I'm not actually joking.

I just found CD audio rips of the entire sample library from MTV Music Generator/Music2000 for the PS1: https://archive.org/details/music-2000-sample-library-44k-wav-rip

Finally caved and ordered the Konami Collection 1 for the old 360, so I can play Symphony of the Night on an actual CRT without emulator lag (or spending hundreds of dollars on an original disk, or finally installing a modchip in my ps1). Seriously considering grabbing an old Wii so I can softmod it and load it up with the whole Gamecube library, too. EDIT: in the mean time I might get Syndicate Plus going in DOSbox. I've had it since I was a kid but never really got far into it because the DOS version enver worked reliably on any computer I had back then, so I mainly played it on a friend's mac. If nothing else, I might have never played Dungeon Keeper if it weren't for Syndicate making me implicitly trust Bullfrog to make a good game.

Bagpipes.