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  1. On 8/5/2023 at 5:19 PM, aderei said:

    For the life of me do not get this software. So many weird quirks. Would love to know how the f to use it as easily as cubase though 

    It's not Cubase, that's maybe the point. It's a sampler with a DAW bolted on. Kinda like an MPC, but not as good a sampler. Better DAW, though (because you can use VSTs).

  2. 1 hour ago, randomsummer said:

    Great, now India just needs to put someone's uncle on the moon and there will be 100,000 Indians moving there within 2 years [/sarcasm].

    To be clear, I kid because I love, I spent 4 months living in India and loved it.

    Someone already recycled the joke (from 1969) that when they arrived they encountered a Malayali tea salesman.

    Only this time people were not amused. Sigh.

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  3. 9 hours ago, J3FF3R00 said:

    Bro. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. 
    I have 90 hours of Dokken, Y&T, Kix, Yngwie, Stryper, Great White, Helix, Krokus, Trixter, Hanoi Rocks, etc, etc…

    It actually is a pretty interesting time capsule. Something about the pre-nirvana heyday of jockish androgyny with trashy/virtuosic theatrics that takes itself dead serious really warms my heart. I think it is because that era was when I started really discovering music and playing guitar. It seemed, at the time, like all of those tropes were very alluring. I remember being 10 and badly wanting stretch pants and a belt made out of bullets. 

    Yup. Spent some time going through it to refresh my memory. Your list is fantastically thorough. Thanks!

    Some quick observations:

     

    • Poison: still no, but I’ll admit they’re like a really well trained pub band so I guess that’s the appeal.
    • Warrant: oh god no. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.
    • Ratt: the most 80s thing imaginable and therefore dull, but very competent.
    • Cinderella: couldn’t for the life of me remember what they sounded like. Very good, it turns out. Like a mix between AC/DC and Motley Crue.

     

    Like you, I was very young when this was relevant. 13/14. Hated the ballads but liked the energetic stuff. But then I discovered punk rock and “alternative” and I was so glad there existed music that was loud and energetic but that didn’t use those blues rock clichés all the time that I dumped absolutely all of it.


     

  4. 1 hour ago, beerwolf said:

    Though as a thrash metal disciple I was always taught to hate 'hair metal' I always, and still do love this track

     

    Hahaha … Title track from this album is pretty good too, but like this one I never know much is the band and how much the producer.

    1 hour ago, J3FF3R00 said:

    For anyone interested, I have a massive playlist of the stuff that’s well worth a shuffle (I fancy myself a connoisseur, of sorts) …

    Oh boy …

    Poison? Really? ;-)

    I see you included LA Guns, though. That’s cool. 👍
     

    Will save this for … uhm … later reference 😂

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  5. 7 minutes ago, J3FF3R00 said:

    I’m not surprised. 89 was arguably peak Crüe. 

    spoiler

    Early Crüe is VG++ as well.

    /spoiler 

    Yeah, but for me 89 was also when I discovered "alternative" music and the accompanying anti hair metal attitude, so in my head these guys were all flash and no substance (with really awful music to boot).

    I still feel that way about most of the other bands they're often lumped in with but judging from this video these guys actually did what they did very well.

    Like I don't think it's really *necessary* to have such an elaborate stage act, but if you're going to do it at least do it like you really mean it, like they do. Also, this video gives me the impression that even without it these guys could probably still rock, unlike, say, Ratt or Poison.

     

     

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  6. For some reason YT has started feeding me Motley Crue stuff.

    Out of curiosity I watched a few things. To my great surprise this show from 1989 was actually quite good:

     

    I mean, yeah, it's stupidly excessive, with all the fireworks, the band rising up through the stage and the drummer doing a 15 minute (I think? didn't watch the whole thing) segment *suspended above the audience* not to mention his spinning his drumsticks *every* *other* *beat* that really gets on my nerves after a while ...

    But if you take it for what it is: simple balls to the wall balls to the wall bad taste rock and roll ... 

    They're *way* better than I remember them.

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  7. 20 minutes ago, beerwolf said:

    As mentioned before I finally started to get into Love Death & Robots

    Watched Season 3 first (no idea why) and I see why watmm recommended it. BECAUSE ITS TRIPPY AS FUCK lol.

    Favorites were In Vaulted Tombs Entombed, Kill Team Kill, Jibaro and the best imo The Very Pulse Of The Machine but they were all good (Masons Rats lol). Do the other few seasons asap.

     

    What also makes this is good is, and I can not stress this enough, that every episode is self contained (ok, there’s some recurring things, but they’re minor).

    None of this story arc soap opera bullshit.

    In other news:

    - Star Trek Strange New Worlds: “Boldly crying and whining where no one has cried and whined before”. Nay.

    - What We Do In The Shadows S5: running out of ideas but still fun.

    - Good Omens S2: obviously the original source material has run out so it’s all a bit stretchy. Still fun.

     

     

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  8. Update: there’s now a paper that shows the material sort of half-hovering over a magnet is not, as first thought, proof of superconductivity. Instead, this effect has been shown to also occur in materials that are definitely not superconducting.

    As most of the evidence of LK-99 being superconducting was this half-hovering over a magnet, this does not bode well.

    Ah well, summer is almost over anyway.

     

    Edit: the paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110

  9. 53 minutes ago, IDEM said:

    These two immediately came to mind. The Alva Noto one belongs to my most favorite pieces of music altogether. It's magic. Love the original too. Funny that the first response to this thread was also about "A Forest".

    TBH Anyone but James Hetfield singing Nothing Else Matters immediately improves it. It's not even Dave Gahan at his most David Gahan-iest ?

     

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  10. 3 hours ago, dcom said:

    The tracks below were all made with Fruityloops around 1999-2000.

    Ooh … right in the 1999 / 2000 feels. They’re pretty good, too. Thanks for sharing.

    And also definitely very FruityLoops. Like tracker music with the harshness polished off if you know what I mean.

     

  11. So it turns out there is no thread about this DAW yet …

    On a lark I installed the demo version a few days ago and I have been having so much fun with it. Sequencing samples is a breeze and because the main pattern view is rows of buttons, it’s still fairly close to forcing you to listen instead of look at waveforms.

    Part of the enjoyment is doubtlessly nostalgia: decades ago I upgraded to FruityLoops from Impulse Tracker (and a brief spell with (IIRC) Digital Orchestrator) and spent a few years with it in what is the closest thing I ever had to a music career.

    But, like I said, other than that really *is* fun and fast to work with and it turns out all the (dark! patterned!) floating windows don’t bother me all that much. Points also to the playlist that allows you to create a song by *arranging* existing patterns instead of by *copying* them (looking at you, Ableton!). It’s almost like a tracker workflow with less typing. Or something.

    Anyone here use FL Studio? Any workflow tips?

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  12. 8 hours ago, IDEM said:
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    Grundsätzlich bedeutet das jedoch nicht, dass LK-99 ein Irrtum oder ein Schwindel ist. Zurzeit bedeutet es lediglich, dass zwei Gruppen, die sich nach eigenen Angaben genau an das Rezept zur Herstellung des Materials gehalten haben, bislang bei der Reproduktion der Ergebnisse gescheitert sind.

    The Indian group didn’t follow the recipe, apparently :facepalm:

    Didn’t know about the other one, though.

    But the original team too has a hard time actually making the material (something like a 10% succes rate) so maybe that’s why  the Chinese team couldn’t reproduce the results.

    7 hours ago, auxien said:

    just saying there's a history there of pressure to produce outstanding results....or at least there was in the past, could see that sort of thing contributing to things like this.

    Yeah, I think that’s the reason the first version of the paper was uploaded with a different list of contributors than the second version (which also had some corrections of obvious flaws). Probably something was made public when it shouldn’t have (the 99 in the title tells you how long they’ve been working on this).

    Anyway, it’s all a fun diversion in a time without other, more relevant news.

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  13. On 7/30/2023 at 10:18 AM, o00o said:

    Just watched the new fist episode of the Futurama relaunch and while it felt very much like the futurama I remember it was utterly boring. Maybe I have just outgrown it

    TBH you’ve probably just outgrown it. Just watched it and it was fine, just Futurama as it always was. Not super exciting but quality stuff nonetheless.

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  14. 15 hours ago, auxien said:

    call me up when there's multiple reproducible suxxesses

    Skepticism is good and room temperature super conducting more than warrants it, but there seems to be more going on this time. Take this HN comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36965812)

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    I got my PhD studying band structure of high-tc superconductors (experimentalist, ARPES). These Cu d-d interactions right at the fermi energy give me huge hope. Feels very familiar to other superconductors (re: all the cuprates). (Note: I specifically worked in a lab that was measuring a lot of the d-wave character / gap-energies of various superconductors)

    All in all, I'm now much more bullish on LK-99 being real superconductivity after seeing multiple different labs compute similar band structures. The video of multiple directions of magnet showing some levitation also inspires a lot of hope

    I’m not knowledgeable about this field at all, but over the past few days people who claim to be have repeated stated this LK-99 thing may actually be interesting.

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