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its kinda crazy how little Coil is associated with IDM considering that this sounds pretty much like a psychedelic as fuck Plaid song long before Plaid was doing stuff this weird and/or good if you like that track check out Unnatural History 2 & 3 and also Stolen and Contaminated Songs (an overlooked sister 'remix' ep to Loves secret domain which has a lot of totally new shit on it, mostly instrumental) there should be a a Coil compilation of all their most idm/weird techno style music. There is enough of it but not too much that it couldn't fill a solid 2xCD set anyone interested in doing a poll or a watmm custom Coil idm/beats compilation? Theme from Blue/Hills are Alive would be the opening track (instead of the last track like on Unnatural History)

not enough public interest + very high entry level price. The main companies pushing the envelope on phys mod were Korg and Yamaha (with the Vl series and Korg's oasys and original wavedrum, which uses zero samples) but the price tags when the stuff came out were incredibly high. One other challenge of phys mod synthesis, especially the stuff from the 90s is its not very easy to place elements of it comfortably in a mix, especially compared to acoustic instrument samples. Took me at least 5 years to get over just this hurdle, of how to actually mix in Yamaha vl1 sounds into songs in a way that didn't sound like shit and in terms of 'doomed to be explored by smaller companies making vsts' not really since nothing software has even com close to touching Korg or Yamaha phys mod technology made in the 90s (yet). It will happen eventually though

absolutely, been using Tassman for years and haven't used it too heavily but I plan on doing a lot more with Chromaphone. Pianoteq is fucking mindblowing, definitely the 'first' 100% convincing acoustic instrument recreation i've heard, i love how you can hear the damper pedal come up off the strings. Thank you Reid/Wisp for turning me on to it originally. What constitutes a phys mod synth though? I mean, for example: Subtractive synth: shaping a raw wave using filters Additive synth: adding harmonics to a raw wave FM synth: modulating the frequency of a raw wave etc.. .. Phys mod: ??? I can make a fairly acoustic sounding bassdrum using subtractive synthesis and a bit of reverb, or bells using FM, but would it only be considered phys mod synthesis if I called it that? I think the Ae guys said something similar in the AAA thread. watch this immediately, everything you asked will be delivered by an awesome dude

looks interesting, how does it compare to the two most powerful physical modeling softwares right now : Logic's Sculpture & Madrona Labs Kaivo?

the interesting thing about max4live is that it opens up whole new ways of getting Max to interact with a DAW that i never even thought of until it existed. For example there are Max4live objects that can actually create midi parts/clips and drop them into your session timeline. This is something that before Max4live could not be done, even if you got Max to interact with Live. Also imagine in Logic if you had a channel strip of effects and you wanted to randomize every single knob on every single plugin with the click of one button. Before with just MAx + Logic you'd have to do it all over Midi or OSC and assign shit. In Max4live things are integrated in such a way where there is already a max4lve patch called 'randomize channel' which fully randomizes an entire channel of effects with no assigning necessary. Stuff like this makes max4live a total game changer even if you've already been using maxmsp for years

Twin Peaks overall lives much more comfortably in my distant memories. Everytime i've tried to rewatch it I get that X-files season 1 vibe, where I know if i keep powering through for long enough it It'll improve but its hard. S1 of Twin Peaks has so many leather jacket troubled teen style soap opera moments that aren't weird enough to sustain a lot of it

his comments resonate pretty strongly with me, especially when you combine them with other elements of vacuous tentpole movies. I have to admit I don't remember so many generic big budget super hero/scifi movies having such forced in emotional heartstring tugging moments in them. The Marvel movies especially are filled with these emo moments and to me they've always felt calculated by some kind of shitty focus group in a way that i didn't feel maybe 10 years ago. Having movies based on characters designed to excite 12 year old boys in the 1950s combined with 'adult' manufactured/superficial emotional catharsis to me is a very alarming trend overall. Its putting even more a sheen of unreality/fantasy on our actual lives not just the way we escape in the movies. "wow i just felt something while watching Antman that I never actually feel in my real life because I spend all of it playing call of duty and iphone puzzle games" <-- very fucking disturbing

yes you need suite. are you anti pirating software? Maybe im unethical but like 99% of the software I used is pirated. Only stuff i've bought is from indie developers like Aalto. Max/msp newest full version is not cracked for Mac afaik but to run Max4live you don't have to have a legit copy of Max, you only need one to create Max4live patches. Annoyingly Ableton made it so that to edit Max4Live patches you need to actually open Ableton, you cannot save/edit/load Max4live patches into a legit fully paid for MaxMSP since they obviously want you to buy both... assholes So let me get this straight. If I just bought ableton without buying max, I can use max4live devices but i just can't change them or make my own? well don't take my word for buying ableton since I've never done it (and probably never will) im talking about pirating Ableton Suite 9, and yes when you do that you can use max4live devices in it. I'm 99% sure you need a legit install of maxmsp to actually save edited max4live devices or make your own. best part about MAx4live for me is it has an insane amount of midi effects. I don't understand why Reaktor is so lacking in this department.

are you anti pirating software? Maybe im unethical but like 99% of the software I used is pirated. Only stuff i've bought is from indie developers like Aalto. Max/msp newest full version is not cracked for Mac afaik but to run Max4live you don't have to have a legit copy of Max, you only need one to create Max4live patches. Annoyingly Ableton made it so that to edit Max4Live patches you need to actually open Ableton, you cannot save/edit/load Max4live patches into a legit fully paid for MaxMSP since they obviously want you to buy both... assholes

Yeah i don't get why people do this. Whoever made those tracks is really fucking good. Why throw that away by claiming it's someone else? Sounds crappy to me. Pretty boring rather. It's all done in Reaktor, in fact I recognize many of the default sound files. The second track is just the Krypt ensemble running at 180+ BPM. thats interesting you'd put it this way because the onlyt ime i've actually sat down and listened to his music seriously I was taken aback by how cookie cutter and typical his style of 'lofi' production was. So in terms of trying to set himself apart from the pack of 'shiny' production techniques by aping other lofi producers so specifically he's tying himself to something equally and arguably more time sensitive (aka will be dated quicker) than someone doing hifi production. I think hearing a certain era of or 00's 'lofi' hyper compressed side chained electronic music is going to sound dated as shit after a certain amount of times passes I have no issue with intentionally lofi production if its done with a unique or personal touch, but I don't hear that in the music of Actress (at least not yet). If he evokes a unique or cool emotional feeling for you thats all that matters, but to say that he's carving a lone path by rejecting of mainstream production aesthetics I vehemently disagree with. I think his ideas would be stronger if he didn't rely on muffling his sounds so much for them to have an aesthetically pleasing sound bed. IF he can make a song sound amazing without cutting off all the high end, adding fake hiss and compressing it into oblivion i'd probably change my mind Sounds to me like you haven't really listened to Actress, or maybe just picked out a few songs of his, which is cool. I do it all the time. But I gotta disagree with you. His technique isn't completely EQ, more specifically cutting out just the high ends and throwing in some sidechain compression. If you listen to an album like "R.I.P." or an EP like "No Tricks" or "Machine and Voice" you can hear that his EQ choices aren't limited to Lo Fi and muffled. In fact you can tell his decisions are quite intentional. He doesn't drape a blanket over his sound at all. He has stated in the past his obsession over Autechre and, to me, its clear he is an active disciple. He can make tracks that hit hard, 4/4 bangers, spacey textural drones, etc. I just feel like the guy needs more respect than to be called "Lo Fi". It doesn't seem that you have even listened to the guy, by saying "the onlyt ime i've actually sat down and listened to his music seriously ". what i meant by the last statement is I had only heard his music on a car ride previously (both albums all the way through) so i decided to do nothing but actually sit down and listen to RIP since it was so hyped up by a lot of people who have respectable musical taste. I immediately understood the appeal but felt like his cliche lofi production method was a hindrance to what he was trying to achieve. I felt that it was a very amateurish and predictable way a lot of producers try to make their stuff sound murky and mysterious. Like i said in my original post, if he can make a good tune without burying it in in later 00's cliche lofi electronic production methods I'd be totally open to it. So far I haven't seen it. Sorry I have strong opinions against Actress that you attempted to writeoff as me not listening to it :(. edit: part of the reason I have such a strong opinion on it is because Actress pulls influences from music I love (something his musical peers don't tend to do) and i've always very much disliked what I view as a cheap and time sensitive trend of burying clean electronic music production in deliberate murky/muffled states. I don't like Lee Gamble either for this reason, it feels gimmicky to me. edit: sorry didn't see your earlier posts. I can't think of 'specific producers' hes aping, its more of a general trend that took over Boomkatty electronic music around 2009/2010. After IDM 'died' the LA beat scene type of sound creeped into a lot of areas, and at least as far as i can tell the simulated lofi/sidechain compression into oblivion thing started thereabouts.

for basic mixing and audio editing / putting together a track structure MAx/msp alone would be a nightmare. this is why Max4live is such a game changer.

Antman - 6.5/10 Had some great moments but clearly an inferior end product to what would have been if Edgar Wright stayed on board. Say what you will about World's End, but all the live action stuff in that movie was shot in a pretty expert way and the pacing/beats were pretty flawless. Only the CGI stuff in Ant Man seemed visually fully competent from a filmmaking point of view. Also the cgi in this tended to look better than even stuff in Age of Ultron probably because most of didn't need to be composited into a live action shot. The young cgi michael douglas looked surprisingly good though, a little jarring but weird how much they nailed the Wall ST era douglas face. Evangeline Lilly added absolutely zero to the movie, all her lines felt forced and her character was one dimensional as shit. Some of the emotional moments felt really forced in too, the only one that worked for me was the flashback scene with Hank Pym and Wasp. I almost feel like Marvel held off Antman's release (PAul Rudd was always attached) was delayed once they realized Robert Downey Jr was playing such a bankable comic relief type of character as Tony Stark. IT makes more sense to wait till Stark's character evolved into an unlikeable shit head to debut Antman. I'm getting sick of forced in tokenistic ethnicity in tentpole movies though. Jurassic World already had too much of it. The hispanic friends of antman in this movie almost felt more stereotypical and incidentally racist VS if the movie had 100% white characters in it

it absolutely does, i was really shocked at how ham fisted all the mexican shit was in the first two episodes. The musical montage with the skater twins left me absolutely horrified, but yes the show does improve a lot its worth giving a chance

yeah that part of her rant was weird to me, but what's more troubling is she speaks about Louis behavior like he's had a reputation (for taking his dick out inappropriately) for a long time that many people knew about. From my understanding of it only 2 female comedians have mentioned this specifically, Garfunkel & OAtes (they didn't tell Gawker but were super loose lipped about their personal encounter with louis and spread it all over LA) and Sarah Silverman who apparently mentioned that louis took his dick out in passing a long time ago while they were in the car together ( i can't find the source of this, just saw someone say it in a comment thread) but honestly and maybe this is just my paranoia, but it worries me that anytime Louis has been brought up on O&A in the last few months they hurriedly change the subject. The last his name was brought up Jim Norton seemed to literally interrupted mid sentence and 180'd the fuck out of the conversation. At this point I'm totally willing to believe he does act sexually inappropriately, but my main concern is that it somehow effects his comedy output or makes him shy away from the public eye (the torching the twitter account ahead of the Gawker story scares me a little bit)

Jen Kirkman a well known female comedian you describe as a click bait feminist journalist? Maybe you're not talking about her, if you are thats unfortunate to be able to write off what she said with a knee jerk approach like that but she made the accusations without mentioning louis by name months ago. there is something *definitely* going on the world of Louis right now in regards to these accusations. He torched his twitter account right before the newest Gawker story came out and other things happened which at least for me prove that other comedians are pissed off at him (who for years have been lifted up by his fame) if you follow the story closely enough it turns out Hall and Oates thought it was more 'crazy funny' than disturbing or sexual assault. They would allegedly tell the story in a funny way in groups in various public places around LA (thats part of how the story *recently* got around) but apparently he's done this a lot, and by them re-telling this story it sort of re-sparked the rumor that this is his MO with a lot of people. http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/250286/jen-kirkman-louis-ck-gross-behavior-podcast/

yes but again, the inverse of that a savvy group of 'fixer' types or hollywood elites protecting Cosby's reputation probably most definitely occurred, and not just for a short period of time to patch up a rough spots but for many many years. So the idea that someone has it 'out for' Cosby seems far fetched maybe, but the concept that whatever protection he had stopped protecting him anymore is pretty realistic to me. The Burress routine probably just came coincidentally at the right time, not that Cosby was past his prime necessarily but his influence to get people to protect him from the allegations had probably evaporated too. it seems like its a strike while the iron is hot type of situation

i think you might be skirting over what I said a little too much because of your disposition to automatically reject anything that could be described as a 'conspiracy'. I ended with a point about Jimmy Savile that really can't be explained without the existence of people in the BBC protecting him. Same with Jerry Sandusky. Looking the other way intentionally at someone committing illegal acts is a form of protecting a criminal, and if multiple people were doing this to either Bill Cosby, Savile or Sandusky it is by definition a conspiracy. i'll happily concede that conspiracies do happen and Savilles and Sanduskys do get protected I'm just saying that there's no reason (as yet) to ascribe BC's downfall to a conspiracy i agree with that, but I think its pretty obvious that if he were not famous and had a lot of people protecting him (keeping quiet or actively helping him cover it up) he would have been outed years ago

i think you might be skirting over what I said a little too much because of your disposition to automatically reject anything that could be described as a 'conspiracy'. I ended with a point about Jimmy Savile that really can't be explained without the existence of people in the BBC protecting him. Same with Jerry Sandusky. Looking the other way intentionally at someone committing illegal acts is a form of protecting a criminal, and if multiple people were doing this to either Bill Cosby, Savile or Sandusky it is by definition a conspiracy. the event that put the Cosby rape in the spotlight currently was Burres doing a standup routine, but more alarmingly comedians have admitted freely over the last year that Cosby's history of being a rapist was well known among comedians in the comedy circuit for almost 2 decades edit: also maybe you haven't read that Cosby had at least one 'fixer', look up the term if you're not familiar with what it means in Hollywood. Cosby had this guy regularly pay off women, various people who knew and also directly helped him have affairs and cover them up. The guy claims that he didn't know Cosby was raping them but knew everything else, but I personally think its bullshit.

thats interesting you'd put it this way because the onlyt ime i've actually sat down and listened to his music seriously I was taken aback by how cookie cutter and typical his style of 'lofi' production was. So in terms of trying to set himself apart from the pack of 'shiny' production techniques by aping other lofi producers so specifically he's tying himself to something equally and arguably more time sensitive (aka will be dated quicker) than someone doing hifi production. I think hearing a certain era of or 00's 'lofi' hyper compressed side chained electronic music is going to sound dated as shit after a certain amount of times passes I have no issue with intentionally lofi production if its done with a unique or personal touch, but I don't hear that in the music of Actress (at least not yet). If he evokes a unique or cool emotional feeling for you thats all that matters, but to say that he's carving a lone path by rejecting of mainstream production aesthetics I vehemently disagree with. I think his ideas would be stronger if he didn't rely on muffling his sounds so much for them to have an aesthetically pleasing sound bed. IF he can make a song sound amazing without cutting off all the high end, adding fake hiss and compressing it into oblivion i'd probably change my mind

The idea that somehow someone 'high in the media' orchestrated a conspiracy against Bill Cosby over the course of decades involving at least 36 women separately accusing him of sexual assault and managed to get all other media outlets with their thousands of independent reporters to play along and pretend the lies against Bill are true and that somehow all these women are untrustworthy and just making up silly stories is literally insane. Of course the media decided to grill him. The guy spent his entire career using his power and influence to abuse women and sweep the allegations under the carpet. It would be pretty messed up if they weren't reporting this. you bring up a very interesting dilemma then, because heres the thing (if you inverse your premise above). If that many women knew Bill Cosby was a rapist for that long, how/why did it take the media so long to start seriously reporting on it? There is definitely something to the idea that celeberty classes are generally 'protected' unless of course they aren't, and at a certain point his hollywood friends (producers, actors, fellow comedians, whoever) decided to open the floodgates and stop protecting him. This is how pedophiles like Jimmy Savile were able to operate for so long at the BBC. To me this is a far more disturbing premise than the one you lay out above, that if you are a powerful and influential celebrity you can actually break the law in certain horrible ways for a long time and get away with it if you have enough people buffering you/protecting you

i just did that recently, glad I did. Season 3 is really great.

it always hurts me physically a little bit in the pit of my stomache when an artist I respect does a commercial, even if its a good one. thats too bad

That shotgun blast to that dudes old lady...haha. oh man.

AE MBM collab pls, but jack danger needs to take over the breaks and snares.

remember when Zach G said he'd quit hangover 2 out of protest if they had Mel Gibson in it but was totes cool with being in a Hangover movie already with a convicted rapist?