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On 7/20/2019 at 3:49 PM, Limo said:
At this price point a laptop with Ableton Live and a pad controller makes a lot of sense.
The software is pretty much guaranteed to work better: Ableton has been at it for far longer than whoever currently owns the Akai brand. Also: VST support.
Looking if there were any threads on here about the MPC I ran into this doozy of mine …
So now that I’ve had an MPC for about a year I can categorically state that the above is Wrong(tm).
As it turns out, a new MPC is a fantastic device. The sampling workflow is second to none, the sequencing is good enough and the combination of touch screen + pads and knobs is way more than the sum of its parts.
As a brain for other gear it’s ok. What it unfortunately does not do well is long audio tracks, so for that you’ll still need a DAW. Also, the on board effects are serviceable but not great. Same goes for the plug-in instruments (yes, it has those).
If you’re considering one, try to get your hands on one before you buy. The workflow is fairly specific (not so say odd, in some places). It’s very much a YMMV thing.
Finally, instead of an MPC Live, do what I did and get an MPC One. The form factor is nicer (imho), it doesn’t have a non-user-replaceable battery (these go bad after a few years) and it’s cheaper to boot. The extra features of the Live aren’t really worth the extra money, especially since you can just hook up an USB audio device for extra in / outputs.
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Necrobump.
Please, WATMM, recommend me your favorite instrumental hip hop.
I'd give my own recommendations, but they're either bleedingly obvious (J. Rawls, Petestrumentals) or they've seemingly disappeared off the internet (those beat tapes Lord Beatjitzu barfed out in late 2021 / early 2022 were hilarious).
Well, ok, there's still this:
Any bandcamp links I should dig through?
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@cruising for burgers: if you want to be reassured before you shell out a whopping 4,99: yes, Koala sampler is good. The sequencer is … serviceable and the effects are … you should just get creative with them. As a sampler, however, it is excellent, like an SP404 with a better sequencer (which isn’t saying much, tbh), only it fits in your pocket.
If you’re not convinced by random internet strangers, check out some YT videos of people making entire tracks with the thing.
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Dunno if it’s been mentioned in this thread yet, but if not: Vladimir Sorokin’s “Day of the Oprichnik” is a good (and short!) read right now. It’s a satire of Russia in the future under Putin-like leadership, written in 2008 (iirc) and ridiculously prescient. Ridiculously vulgar, too, and probably a lot of the satire eludes you if you’re not Russian (be sure to look up what an Oprichnik is before you start, it’ll make more sense).
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On 2/16/2023 at 12:34 AM, Nebraska said:
She's *such* a good saxophone player
Too bad she always plays over those two chord dirges all the time. For me that becomes boring very quickly.
But then I tend to like excessively noodly stuff, so what do I know.
Here's one of my favourite saxophone players, at a concert I attended a few months ago. Almost made me cry because the musicians were so good (be sure to check out the drummer, too!):
Concert proper starts at 25:20
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Thanks to your recommendations in the thread above the wife and I did White Lotus S1. It is indeed very good. A bit heavy on the cringe but enough funny to keep that bearable and with an ending that is very, very grim. Recommended.
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Picked up Doom 2016 for a whopping €4,29 for my Steam Deck. Quite playable even if you're, like me, not used to controllers. Very fun to be running around shooting monsters again. Unbelievably gory, though. Crushing zombie skulls with your bare hands is disgusting.
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5 hours ago, ignatius said:
51 yr old people shouldn't be having heart attacks.
51 year old is, unfortunately, when the lottery starts. Really sucks.
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Even though it was written before the instrument existed, baroque music sounds surprisingly good on a saxophone. Throwing a whole saxophone quintet at it may be a bit much, but in a way it does work: Händel's famous "Ombre Mai Fu" Largo, recorded by a guy in his closet.
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Scofield starts at 3:50-ish. Takes a while to get up to steam but once he gets there (around 4:40) he's great.
Pat Martino is always one of my favorites.
The interplay between the two of them, towards the end (starts around 10:10) is really fantastic.
Love how good these guys are that they can make a boring instrument (the guitar) and a hackneyed tune sound awesome.
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On 1/21/2023 at 8:13 PM, exitonly said:
you might laugh but a lot of clubs are requiring a phd to dj these days.
PHDJ
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“Automatic consideration, for appropriate research projects, for the […] Nitin Sawhney Scholarship in Popular Music”
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Nice one. Tracks are fun. Mastering is on point, too
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*Day* beer?
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7 hours ago, chenGOD said:
Paywalled….
seems the wiki page on them is out of date, or the FT writer got their facts wrong. Strong possibility of both those scenarios being right lol.
Try porn mode, maybe?
I suspect the FT is a little less susceptible to astroturfing by CCP supporters, btw.
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16 minutes ago, zero said:
from what little I know of these type of groups, sounds about right. they call themselves church of satan or something similar, but no, we're not satan worshippers! we're open-minded naturalists talking about pantheism, spiritualism, or some other new-agey mumbo jumbo. I'm old school though. I like good vs. evil nicely compartmentalized. I grew up in the latch key kid era where devil worshipping satanists could break into your house at any minute and cut everyone up into tiny pieces. so keep the fuckin door locked!
From what I gather these guys aren’t open minded naturalists at all, they really are what I glibly referred to as a social club for libtards: they use some quirks in US law to subvert laws on religion against themselves, primarily to further social causes that usually have their supporters on the left - as they are doing now, in fact.
All the while throwing around satanic imagery to piss off people who truly *are* religious. From where I’m standing, in the thoroughly secular Netherlands, it all seems a bit silly and childish, but I imagine in the US, where fundamentalist Christianity genuinely has a lot of power, it’s a lot more relevant.
edit: this is about the temple of satan. The *church* of satan, on the other hand, is more like what you describe (and also not involved in this).
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You guys had me doubting, so I looked it up:
QuoteThe Mission Of The Satanic Temple Is To Encourage Benevolence And Empathy, Reject Tyrannical Authority, Advocate Practical Common Sense, Oppose Injustice, And Undertake Noble Pursuits.
So: yes.
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Isn’t the Satanic Temple just a social club for libtards with an edgy name?
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Meanwhile Evergrande, the largest real estate developer in China (and therefore, presumably,
, in the world), is facing possible default:
https://www.ft.com/content/ae2bbe36-1e49-4a46-bc65-955bbf962e2a
It is apparently yet another private company that got obscenely rich and powerful on the coattails of China’s breakneck economic development of the last twenty to thirty years or so and that is now being reeled in.
Problem is, of course, that this time it’s not cab rides, an online marketplace or a chat app with games but a company that builds the houses people live in. A Dutch newspaper said they were likely “too big to fail”. We’ll see.
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1 hour ago, chenGOD said:
Definitely does. As an example, Singaporean treatment of Myanmar domestic workers. Google it for the sordid details (it’s really fucked up, so if you have a shred of hope for humanity, better if you don't).
Allow me to one up that with a suggestion to look up the way Myanmarese are treated aboard Thai and Malaysian fishing vessels. This is so horrible it would shock a Barbary galley captain.
Makes (back on topic) Uyghur re-education camps look benign in comparison.
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1 hour ago, chenGOD said:
Slavery in China existed for well over 400 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_China
They just didn’t need to import their slaves.
Yup.
There isn’t a single form of slavery, however, that compares in scale and brutality to chattel slavery in the Americas. That really is on a whole different level than pretty much all slavery anywhere else in history.
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5 hours ago, usagi said:
ideology determines the system of governance, which determines social settings and thus shapes people's lives "on the ground". I don't get why you would break that very well-understood chain of causality, other than to win some silly internet argument. the fact that Marx and Lenin's shit was perverted from its original intentions doesn't change that, it's an additional fact that merits its own discussion.
ideology is not just some purely abstract irrelevant thing with no practical consequences. I'm amazed anyone would argue this as we approach the 20 yr anniversary of a certain event that we're constantly reminded of, which was both ideologically-driven in nature and sparked a number of ongoing ideologically-driven conflicts with very practical consequences on a huge number of people's lives.
It’s always about power first and foremost. Governments that put ideology first never last long. See the Paris Commune and the anarchists in Spain.
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These are fun. Morally reprehensible (lots of gods raping unwilling mortals *and the punishing them for it*) but fun nonetheless. +1, would read again.