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4 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:
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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8 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:
Quarantine motivated me to work on mixtapes again, and I was trapped at my Father’s house when lockdown began, so I had his janky PC and nothing else. That forced me to design an aesthetic around what software was available to me at the time. Once I left, I decided to keep that limitation, and it has forced me to be more improvisational and resourceful. Focusing all your attention on a limited palette, can be more rewarding than losing focus on a million bits of gear or plug-ins. ymmv
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.
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By that time we will have Buli Hehringer set up an AI to systematically detect which pieces of old junk are crossing the point of "worth a clone release".
Or we just have tech where you can put in the circuit board and a memory dump and every Raspberry Pi 7+ can be a fully functional Octatrack clone. Something like this is happening right now with old game consoles from the 90s and even up to the PlayStation I believe.
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All the gear I ever purchased is already worthless or has lost most of it's value since I got it. Must be my lack of taste.
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On 5/21/2020 at 10:10 PM, Joyrex said:
FYI this shows up as a mp3 download only, no play button. I am on Firefox with uBlock Origin and AdNauseam.
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1 hour ago, oscillik said:
I would say both yes and no. Sure, it's not doing anything bad right now and everyone who is raising alarm are easily painted to be like overreacting.
That said, industry direction IMO is quite clear - for free products, often times the only way to monetization is some kind of data collection. Why would a large company invest in developing a tool that is given away for free? An answer could be that they want to gain access to the userbase in order to sell some paid products to them. Analytics is one way to do that, or at least a step in that direction.
Big company takes over development of free open source tool and wants to add analytics almost immediately. Well that step is not inspiring trust in anyone.
Also worth mentioning is a thought from security minded folks: if the main point of the application is not about communication and sending data back to a server, then that functionality (i.e. telemetry, analytics) has no place in that software.
If they want statistics on what operating systems are using it - they can keep tabs on who downloads their stuff from the website and I am sure Linux repositories can give some insight too.
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New track from last week:
New jam session from this week:
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Using a firewall to block this already assumes that you know enough background to suspect this kind of thing from a no frills audio editor. I don't know how many non-technical people even vaguely think about this at all. In fact I don't know if there is an easy way to do this on all OSes.
Probably the tracking itself is fairly benign and lets be honest, the data is super worthless too - it only has value because the companies hoovering up have magicked some AI and stuff to make it seem valuable somehow. Well, for now at least. I guess it will get more and more invasive silently over time.
IMO what really matters is that in the end Audacity devs have decided to break the trust of their users and push through these changes in the face of huge pushback. I mean if I already suspect foul play in the application, then the only way I could use it is to get the binaries from a trustworthy source, which in this case means that someone will fork Audacity and strip the tracking crap (I hope).
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Oh, the audacity!
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God damnit, upstaged by a Tubular Corporation Tall Tale (tm) again.
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3 hours ago, chim said:
Some stuff will do you good to get rid of though, workflow-wise...
Look, just because I don't make music with my grand piano it does not mean it is cramping my workflow. For example, yes I don't have space for a bed but have you considered that you can stick a mattress under the piano and sleep like a baby? And it's a perfectly good table too.
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I recommend everyone to first watch this video muted and try to imagine what sort of music is going on.
I think the concept is cool but it may have unintended consequences if the artist does any kind of unplanned movement on stage.
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A short krautrock track I did using only a vanilla Reaper install because I was away during the weekend:
And here is last week's online streaming experimental jam session with fellow WATMM user Tubular Corporation:
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1 hour ago, cboyardeat said:
yea all the listings are really dear. a lot of them in different countries so id spend loads in postage
Yeah unfortunately this is a authentic reissue of an iconic synth so the used prices are what they are, doubt you will get a better deal from anywhere else, unless some fool is just selling theirs without checking prices first.
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@Taupe BeatsI remember someone on this forum mentioning the Blokas Midihub, and maybe it is something you want. It does CC LFOS! https://blokas.io/midihub/
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Have you tried checking on reverb? https://reverb.com/p/roland-boutique-series-sh-01a
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2 minutes ago, TubularCorporation said:
When I recommended starting a thread like this, my hope was that it would be about sharing ideas/suggestions/resources for sifting through those thousands of DIY labels.
It really looks like a job search. Send out your crappy CV to 100s of companies (labels) and maybe someone will care enough to listen to your demos, and even less of a chance that they like it enough to put it out.
I think for me it means a lot that even "experienced label-releasing artists" are doing this same thing over and over, and there are no cool boys and girls clubs that you can get into automagically. Maybe.
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2 hours ago, dcom said:
Nick Sadler: The Label Machine - How to Start, Run and Grow Your Own Record Label (Velocity Press)
This is cool but it really feels like "running a label" is something like "getting into eurorack", i.e. a huge waste of money and energy that will allow you to say "i make modular music" ("i run a label").
That said it would be wonderful to know how to deal with all this licensing, fingerprinting and copyright crap because I don't think even experienced label runners have all that stuff down at the moment.
And I always felt like running a label would mean that you have to be a sociable person who gets around, befriends artists and other industry people, spiking their drinks at parties and stealing their ipods full of lossless demos so they can release it and make it look like it's all cool and legal. Also a person who runs a label has to - in my headcanon - be a really good and popular DJ who has 3 podcast shows and is a regular in at least one club.
1000 thanks @purlieufor that informative post, I guess it's time to start trawling.
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Some attempt at faster krautrock.
... which is a part of this jam session
But we also did a new jam session yesterday!
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13 minutes ago, xox said:
You didn’t understand why I asked you those questions! Can you please try again to answer them, with yes and no?
(I wasn’t talking about earning money but your perception of your own music.)
I think yes to both questions. So far I have never paid that much for a download only album, only if it comes with a vinyl.
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40 minutes ago, xox said:
Do you like your music so much that you listen to it regularly, and you like it so much that it’s on your own top-something list of all time?
Also, would you play 30 euros/dollars for a flac album if it were someone else’s music?
There are some tracks I am happy about and I will listen to occasionally.
However going for a label in my case I do not care about the money aspect of it. For me what matters is that I get my music out there for people who might be in the correct headspace to enjoy listening to it. And also to get opportunities to play live.
Making money from it is a distant cherry on top of the pyramid of Giza.
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12 hours ago, purlieu said:
Nah, whenever I self-release I sell between two and 20 copies. Last time I released on a label - only a tiny DIY cassette one - the album sold 120+. Ultimately, even if it's a small label, you're only ever going to add to your own fanbase by including the label's fanbase in the sphere of people who'll hear the album.
Lots of thoughts on this subject which I'll pop in this thread tomorrow.
Sent you a PM to hear your thoughts on an album/track by the way.
If anyone else is interested, let me know I will send a private link too, I just don't want it to be out on the public forums yet.
It's a huge 47 minute generative ambient masterpiece.
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Yeah, to be honest I think my performance issues were related to hooking the LFO to ControlChange8 to modulate filter cutoff in hardware. The problem with that is the LFO is more fine grained than MIDI 0-127 so the result was CC8 spamming gear with MIDI even though the underlying value in 0-127 scale did not change at all.
I ended up fixing this in the M4L device itself, just setting it to only send a MIDI CC if the value really changes.
the watmm GAS thread
in EKT General Discussion
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Those mics are bugged to hell and back probably, so CIA will steal your tunes.