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    I would assume, if one were to trust this.
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    Originally released on Dot in 2000, Lee Norris re-releases a classic Metamatics album in digital. PWYW for a while, so get yours. Highly recommended.
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    I bought Fruityloops before the turn of the millennium, and got lifetime upgrades, so it's been my go-to DAW for about 25 years. I've gradually upgraded it up to the max, i.e. All Plugins Edition. I come from an Amiga tracker background, so FL seemed like a step up from all the tracker clones, and felt really natural to me as an environment. I agree with your points, my biggest complaint is that after 25 years there's still no better support for polyrhythmic/polymetric patterns. Otherwise, if I weren't in the throes of going DAWless with HW only, I'd have a FL Studio setup. I have one AKAI Fire, but I'd like to have at least another and/or a Novation FLkey 37. The tracks below were all made with Fruityloops around 1999-2000.
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    Digitals released just now.
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    Six new pieces of electronic listening music from Undiagnosed. Recommended.
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    Beautiful first album from Sk'p, rhythmic, melodic, and ambient IDM. Highly recommended.
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    I don't, but I do have a bunch of semimodulars I put into cases to reduce the number of wall warts, so I added a few utilities as well. I've been thinking of getting an OXI Pipe to minimise patch cable mess, and I'll probably remove the Twisted Electrons Crazy8 Beats from the case and replace it with something else, haven't yet thought about it too much.
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    That's what I'm doing, like I wrote the problem is that reading manuals, watching tutorial videos, and pondering my orb doesn't give me what getting hands on with the kit does. It's also about the workflow, the affordances, ease of use, muscle memory even - I come from an Amiga tracker background, via Music-X as a MIDI sequencer, then there was a long hiatus where I concentrated on DJing, then got back to making music with Fruityloops (w/ lifetime upgrades I now have FL Studio upgraded to the max), then a hiatus again, and now I'm doing DAWless. I know what I'm doing, I really need to get my hands on the kit and work them to really know what I'll keep, it's not an abstract academic exercise. I think OXI One is the one (pun intented), it has the best balance of complexity, features, UI/UX, and workflow compared to the others; I also like the immediacy and speed of working with the Torso T-1. Then again, I love to have alternatives, and completely disrupt my ways of doing things, so I will probably keep what I've hoarded; although I listed things I'd still like to try, it doesn't mean that I will.
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    I've collected way more hardware sequencers than I need because there's usually no way to try out something unless you buy it. I've currently got (in order of acquisition) Squarp Pyramid MK3, Torso T-1, Twisted Electrons Crazy8 + Crazy8 Beats, Pioneer Toraiz Squid, and OXI One. I've also got a Polyend Tracker, which can be used as an 8-track monophonic sequencer. There are sequencers in many of my other devices, like the 1010music Blackbox. I'd still like to try out Synthstrom Deluge, Squarp Hapax, Polyend Play, and of course a Sequentix Cirklon, but high-end means high price. Some more exotic ones are Spektro Audio's NGEN, and Sixty Four Pixels' Noodlebox. There are plenty of odd-and-not eurorack sequencers out ther, but I'm most probably not going that way. I'll maybe get an SQ-64 to try out at some point.
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    The above DJ Food mixes are just amazing, check them out, please.
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    Blessed Are The Noisemakers - Before, Behind & Beyond The Art of Noise (Mixcloud) Blessed Are The Noisemakers (Diversion 2) (Mixcloud) I love AON. See also Art & ACT -- the remnants of Art Of Noise (Metafilter).
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    WAPP480

    dcom replied to spunktronics's topic in Aphex Twin

    Infinite surface area, zero volume. Menger sponges are cool, 25+ years ago in school I hand-modeled one to M³ in 3D Studio, took effin' ages to draw the triangle vertices and edges, then render an animation with the sponge mapped to a glass material and several moving light sources. Things have progressed a bit since then.
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    Igloo says things.
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    EP2 in four weeks, two tracks out now. Rather nice.
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    Still available from FSOLdigital.
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    Got MM4 and Trip Maps, the FSOL Digital MM4 t-shirt is nice but not as nice as MM3's, so pass.
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    @purlieu any idea how many Mind Maps there will be?
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    I also have an OG Spanners vinyl, but somehow never got around to getting Bytes on wax. I know the bronze vinyl pressing of Bytes is most probably the worst of the AI series coloured vinyls (I have Incunabula on silver vinyl, and it's awful), but never go the black vinyl either. Now, as I wrote before, Surfing On Sine Waves is the only AI release that hasn't had a vinyl repress... here's hoping.
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    I also have an Empress ZOIA Euroburo, which is an amazingly versatile device, but it's far from the hands-on capabilities of Godfather. You can do anything and everything on ZOIA, but you'd have to build a patch to use an external controller to get even the rudimentary functionality of Godfather. I don't have that many outboard effects units, I have the Roland AIRA modular effects (Scooper, Demora, Torcido, Bitrazer) and a TC Electronic M100; also, the Roland SP-404A can be used as an effects processor. Now that I have an Erica Synths Matrix Mixer I can do almost any routing configuration I can think of - I'm still missing a proper mixing desk, but it'll have to wait.
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    It's amazing, four mono channels (w/ two pairs of stereo out) with separate controls for most things, only the reverb params are shared. Per-channel gain, saturation, delay, double tap delay, reverb, filter, compression w/ sidechain, panning and whatnot, I haven't even scratched the surface yet and I've spent hours jamming with just a couple of sound sources. It's expensive, yes, but definitely worth it - it even has two LFOs you can route to internal things or via the patch bay to other modular gear; gate ins and outs, extensive MIDI control, you name it. Definitely useful for live setups, but I'm sure I'll find a lot of use for it at home, too. It's really hands-on, and there will be firmware updates which will allow combining two mono inputs to a stereo pair input with single controls etc. There's nothing else out there that does what Godfather does, Elektron Analog Heat +FX comes close, but I went for the Godfather, and I think I chose wisely.
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    Got physical today, although I've been caning the digital all the while. Noice.
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    Right now Amazon's Jack Ryan. Got to the end of Future Man (at times funny, but mostly not) before that. Loved Witcher S3, Warrior is watchable, The Righteous Gemstones S3 is awesome, watched The idol S1E1 and will watch more, but on the fence. ST:Strange New Words S2 is better than I expected, remains to be seen if I can get through Rabbit/Hole S1. Will start Full Circle. Secret Invasion, meh.
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    I like everything he's done up until now, even the shorts and Oats Studios stuff is great; Elysium isn't the greatest, but it still has his touch, his personality ingrained. I adore Chappie, it has a metric fuckton of great ideas expanded from Tetra Vaal and the casting's ace with Ninja and Yolandi. Haven't seen Demonic yet.
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    Saw that trailer a few weeks ago when I went to see John Wick 4 (and The Flash after that), I have to admit I was baffled that it's a Blomkamp movie. It's really weird that he chose a project like that, I would've rather had Alien instead, although I don't think it was up to him. I know some have to make Gran Turismos to get the chance to do whatever they actually want to do, but.
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