thawkins
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Quick and dirty with the Yamaha QY100. Click play if you like krautrock.
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The power jack on my QY100 is acting up. I found some tutorial for bypassing a power jack by soldering on another jack. Isn't there some better fix for this? Like if a jack is being touchy dropping power when you move the thing, is there a comparatively easy way to clean or resolder it? Here's the video. I think I have a very similar problem. The jack is not super touchy so I can still use it, but would be nice to fix it somehow.
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That man appears to be knee deep in manure. I guess standards were different back in the day.
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This is a kind of chilled out dubby space rock track based off our weekly jam session (like I make any kind of other stuff recently).
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Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der deutsche bahn Due to baggage constraints I only brought with me the shitty apple earplugs which started hurting after a while, but this is a really nice piece of gear to play with.
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Roland A-33 has served me nicely for something like 4 years now. Doesn't studiologic offer some smaller and more weighted keys? I kind of got over wanting to have MIDI sliders and knobs on the keyboard, because that gear is a pain to work with - you always depend on some crappy automap scripts and software (may be buggy, may install a lot of crap, may not be updated) and it's better to get a dedicated thing like Push that is designed to work with your software out of the box.
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I am eyeing the K&M 26772 strictly because their [ shape means that I can put things under the monitors in a way. My current setup is basically a desktop drawer unit with some books on top to get the speakers to the correct height. They take a lot of horizontal space that I would rather use for my keyboard. I guess it would be possible to get a pair VESA mounts that I can attach to my desk and dangle the speakers on top like that, or maybe even some badass thing that carries speakers and my screen. My screen is a Dell 25" and according official specs it weights like 3.5kg / 7.6lbs. The Neumann KH120As weigh 6.4kg / 14.2lbs each. So if I get a VESA mount, it better be some heavy duty thing so it can carry all that weight.
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I guess I should have specified that I'm thinking about the speaker type monitors, although maybe I should think about a VESA stand for my screen too at some point.
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Come on, guy I messaged about buying his Yamaha QY100, get your shit together and reply and let's get this over with. Also is it me or is K&M 26772 literally the best monitor stand solution for gaining some precious desk real estate? I haven't seen anything else like this around. My current desk gets really cramped if i lay my huge Roland A33 keyboard on it, but I feel like switching to those stands I could make it work much better (and finally stop using books to get the speakers to the correct height.
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Posting a nice chilled out psychedelic track that I re-arranged from this week's jam session with Tubular Corporation (alias Lagoon City): Full jam session here (description has video links too!):
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Could be related... Local newsroom manager caught selling all his reporters' equipment for funding modular habit
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how do you actually create full songs with hardware?
thawkins replied to cboyardeat's topic in EKT General Discussion
During the past year I set up my things so that Ableton Live is my where I sequence my MIDI and also record a stereo stem of whatever it is that I am working on or playing. The MIDI goes out to different hardware synths but comes back each instrument on their dedicated track with Live's builtin effects. For a controller I use Push v1 with a foot pedal and a 72 key keyboard. I just record MIDI loops and mess with them in Live and see what sounds come up. I realise this is basically like having a bunch of physical VSTs to generate sounds, which is fine for me because I am mostly after modeled presets of real instruments like vibraphone, piano, rhodes, acoustic drums etc. I like this because I can have the project take not so much space on disk. MIDI is basically nothing, so the only waste of room is the stereo stem, but I can rerender that anytime since I record all the automation and MIDI anyway. If you want to hear how it sounds like, click on the "Streaming..." link in my sig. ? -
No worries, working on new music every week is a big thing, congrats on doing it and keep on keeping on.
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Hey man that's my thread! Came to post this here, kind of long but it's two tracks really.
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If you get an angry response then let them know that you did everything based on the advice of your WATMM lawyer. ?
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Well if they cared at all they could just google your posts right here in a public forum. ? I mean if it came to light that Ableton was secretly spying on all the other software that you have installed on your computer - which they would have to do in order to detect "pirated" copies of Live - then you bet that people would have found out and raised hell about it. Also, do you think Ableton would fuck over their new clients that just gave them $$$ with this bullshit? Do you think anyone who pirates Live would ever buy the legit version if they got sued or something? Piracy is even kind of good for them because people can try out the software and sometimes end up paying for the full version, why would they break that flow. And as I said, I used to have a non legit version of Live on my computer, probably I still have in some backups or old hard drives and I also have legit copies of Live 9 and 10 Suite so I don't think you will have a problem.
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Not sure what you mean by "conflict". Anyway I had a similar situation before getting a legit version of 9 so I don't think you will have any kind of problem with it.
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Not really. If I have a workflow where I use a variable number of tracks, effects and custom stuff then it's not really possible to map everything I need beforehand. Of course there are automapping control surfaces like the Push, but I really do see the immediate benefit of having something mouse-like where I place the pointer with the "real" mouse and then fine tune the value using the "knob" mouse. Can't argue with the small physical footprint either!
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Did you have any hands on with it? It looks like it controls the mouse somehow (or it IS a mouse kind of) which makes me all kinds of specktical. Actually here is the SoS review which clears a lot of things up https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/nob-control-nob (time passes) Wow this seems kind of cool. Like a poor man's Faderport. Well, since it's €238, it is actually rich man's Faderport. Seems way too pricey for what it is, but maybe that is just because they have not scaled their production up or something.
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Sounds like you two might be able to make a mutually beneficial business deal, somehow. I'm just the idea guy.
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Those mics are bugged to hell and back probably, so CIA will steal your tunes.
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Just to balance things out, now you have to submit social media usernames to US border patrol to be cleared for entry, right? Luckily there are definitely no law enforcement backdoors on those platforms, so it's all cool.
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Yeah that's the real shit. I have felt it so many times when I am away from my regular setup and there is just a guitar or some weird toy synth or something really minimal, but you can still get into making music on whatever "setup" you have and it's really not half bad even. Feels good when it makes the creative juices flow too. Then I come back to my regular setup and immediately lose that minimalism feeling again. I think the main reason really is that if I already need to have good monitors, an interface for recording anything acceptably, then it's really easy to lose yourself from that point on and chuck on more and more gear-plugins-whatever.
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Yeah and on top of this dragnet ISP level surveillance, there was a case recently with the Facebook SDK that mobile developers use for some features and integration with Facebook platform, possibly so that your users can log in with their FB account instead of having to maintain your own user database which is a load of work and a security risk. What happened/happens is that the Facebook SDK - their code - keeps its own analytics/tracking which phones home whether or not your app itself does any sort of analytics. I only learned about this because a bunch of smartphone apps were full on broken due to some error in Facebook code and it was not phoning home to correct servers or something. So now it's not really about the developer of Audacity, but also the developer of whatever tracking libraries they use, and whether that bunch can be trusted not to silently turn on some "advanced features". In the end it all comes down to trust. Even though it is really nice for software developers to have automatic feedback on how their stuff is used and how it breaks, the track record with regard to privacy and not selling the data is a pretty solid turd.
