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I think if you use real instruments, vocals, external synths, etc... REAPER is perfect for what it does. Renoise and Max are polar opposites, where they are both great for sample manipulation and sequencing. I dunno... I feel better off working with something that meets at both ends for the stuff I need to do (that isn't Bitwig).
I was kind of staying away from Ableton for the longest time because it uses granular techniques for pitch and speed stuff whereas I've always been used to old school Nyquist frequency problems and getting dirty when playing with the playback speeds. Live looks powerful but, like a poster mentioned in the Live 10 thread, they seem to always be targetting idiots who stumbled upon a midi controller.
However REAPER is a beautiful multitrack recorder and it should continue to develop on that strength. I feel like I'll continue to use it for live recording stuff because it's easy to set up.
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Thanks for fixing that. Yeah I meant two updates a month.
I'm thinking of biting the ableton bullet at this point. REAPER is a decent mastering and multitrack recording DAW, but for composition and wav editing (or lack thereof), it's definitely lacking and absolutely requires the use of external wav editor .to have complete sample editing options available. I'm sure something like the Redux VST would facilitate it somewhat but it definitely cramps my workflow, ironically. There's adobe audition but later versions of it aren't that good unless you are doing video editing.
It's probably just worth it to save up my money for the summer sale that Ableton and Cycling 74 are going to have for Ableton Live 10/Max 8
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Something similar to cooledit pro. REAPER feels more like somewhere I put finished work to arrange it into an album. I find that REAPER isn't as "destructive" as cool edit.
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I've actually had problems with REAPER too. 80% of the options are all about configuring your workflow. It's both its greatest and weakest strength, but REAPER updates their software like twice a week and things are being changed and added constantly so I never feel like I can understand the software 100%. It's frustrating to the point that I wish they would slow down their updates.
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Tried to watch the new X-men show "Legion" but it immediately lost me when the scene in which the "dream-builder" mutant performed telepathic communication on a broken reel to reel to find clues about the protagonist. It expects the viewer to believe that the reel-to-reel had a brain and eyes and witnessed what happened in the room before being smashed to pieces. I couldn't suspend my disbelief on that one and stopped watching. In addition to that, the show relies heavily on stealing storyline elements from Inception, Mr. Robot (most notably Mr. Robot) and 12 Monkeys and characters themselves are very flat and uninteresting for the most part. I felt like the director was trying to make the lead character sympathetic, but he comes off as overwhelmingly narcissistic and having a god delusion (goes with the schizophrenia diagnosis at least).
It's getting more difficult to find anything worth investing the time into watching anymore. :(
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Just got an Arizer Solo 2 based on recommendations here (and on sale). Holy crap it's efficient and gets me crazy high in one session. The flavour of the flower comes out really saliently. This is easily my favourite portable vape now. I would even say its better than the Pax 2/3. I'm super worried about breaking the glass stems though. Any recommendations on ways I can protect them or am I going to have to order a dozen from arizer.com?
edit. also lol at the lavender they send with it
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The average person poops 360 lbs. worth of feces a year.
Thought exercise: Using a 70 year lifespan, the average person will poop roughly 25,200 lbs. (360 x 70)
The world holds 7 billion people. So throughout a 70 year cohort, there will be approximately 176,400,000,000,000,000 pounds of poop in total expelled. If you take into account all of the other animals on land, in the ocean, in the air, and all of the other people that were not counted among that cohort... that is a *lot* of poop.
Like how do you even comprehend that much in your mind? Each bowel movement that we have is around 1-4 pounds. Like if you were to imagine this 176,400,000,000,000,000 pound object existing in your mind as a spherical or rectangular shape, it would be HUGE! That is a large amount of food for spores and whatnot. Spreading that across the landscape wherever we go would make us efficient biological terraformers for our spore brethren.
And in the event of a nuclear war, we see that fungus' can be resilent to the effects of radiation and in some places thrive in it. I mean look at all of the shit on the streets in India and the range of microbes that spawn from there to kill us more efficiently.
I really think humanity's purpose here is to provide food for fungus and mushrooms.
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I've been experimenting a lot with different temperatures and find that there are huge differences in the highs that you get, as well as flavours form the terpines, depending on which temperature you vape at. For a nice stim high, regardless of plant, 365F is awesome. Anything more relaxing and body high I go from 390-410 F.
If I just want to chill and relax while still being productive, I lower it down to 330.
Anything that you don't finish you can save later and either vape it at a higher temperature to get the other cannibinoids or do edibles/pills/CBD distillation.
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can anyone on here recommend a vape? wanna burn plants not oils, and not spend a ton. just to replace my pipe ya know. it's 2018 after all
Depends if you want a portable vape or a desktop vape. From my own personal experience.
E-Nano if you can afford it. It's one of the best desktop vapes and highly recommended among most of my pot buddies. It's convection, accurate temperatures, easy to clean, and you can leave it on indefinitely without anything burning. E-Nano with the bubbler attachment and placed on a water bong is the best way to vape at the moment out of all of the possibilities.
If money is no object, a Volcano Digit is your next best bet. Its big and bulky but its the most efficient at vaping plant and you can hold a lot in those balloons!
If not desktop, then the Pax 2 or Pax 3 are great ones too on the higher end. I heard some bad things about running the Pax 2 on the highest setting (red) causing combustion but haven't seen it myself. They are pretty durable and haven't had any problems with them but they are like $350 Canadian :(
On the lower end I've tried the Atmos Aegis and Atmos Jump, and Flowermate 5.0s that were on sale.
They were all highly rated but I wasn't a big fan of the Jump after multiple uses. I was pretty sure that it was combusting and there was not much vapour that I got out of it. The pen lid also stopped functioning properly after 6 months (the teeth that hold it in wore out) and its a bit of a bitch to clean the ceramic filter. I don't know because there are a lot of positive reviews on it but I never felt like it was a five star vapourizer.
Aegis is pretty dope for such a small unit but it gets mad hot and again I feel like the lid is flimsy and likely to break, so I usually feel too paranoid to take it out of its receptacle when its not in use.. I don't know if I would recommend Atmos brand stuff tbh. Flowermate is really awesome but the battery dies fast. I was kind of skeptical about the mouthpiece again too but so far its been alight..
On the cheap end, I'd recommend the flowermate for sure.
Also just keep in mind things like ease of cleaning (you are going to have to swab it out with alcohol like you're reloading a musket), temperature control, durability of parts, power supply and conduction vs. convection.
edit: looking back, the Atmos Jump was not a bad beginner's vape. It *did* get me high, but everything else i've tried has blown it out of the water in terms of quantity and quality.
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Another Sennheiser nod. I had a pair of 280HD's that I upgraded later to a pair of 380HD. I find that they needed a mid of a low-to-mid range boost when I am detailing tracks but other than that the things are pretty solid and durable. Only other problem is that their plugs are 2.5 mm and customized to only fit their specific cord design, much like Korg's abstruse power plugs. The 280 are the only low-priced headphones that I have both enjoyed and would recommend to a beginner to use for sound production.
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All right, this dude's probably gonna be pretty good in about... 10 years? I don't know. I mean that positively. Because yah, this thing whatever track for his new whatever, it's actually all right, and you can tell that he just cried for the first time like 3 months ago or something like that (as opposed to just looking in the mirror with a dramatic face- nude- and drawing the Squarepusher logo in the mirror with red lipstick; after which he quotes Nietzsche out loud for no fucking reason). Still boring, but the intro is nice.
YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST NOTICED ABOUT THE FLASHBULB RIGHT NOW?!?!?!
I always thought his music was emotionally flat and the faux-complexity generally meaningless (Acidwolf stuff is actually all right, though), but check this out: The reason why this dude's music feels so flat, is because he has very little *GROOVE*. Aphex Twin is fucking crazy with groove. Squarepusher got groove for days. All the great electronic musicians have mad groove. Some Acidwolf stuff has groove, which is why it's so different (like Valley Shuffle is a straight up Squarepusher vibe-clone track, but it's at least got something you can sit in for a bit).
What a great revelation, but I also feel kind of tired that it was about The Flashbulb.
If I could get funding to study The Flashbulb phenomenon, I would get all the hardcore Benn Jordan fans and see how well they can dance, because my hypothesis is that there's a strong correlation between how little groove one can feel and how much one loves Benn Jordan music. Of course, not all people who can feel groove can dance, but they can at least move their head or hands, as they ride the waves of the music. Benn Jordan's The Flashbulb music generally has no groove, so when his fans start to dance to it for the scientific study, this is already proof that they have severe no-groove-disorder. And if funding permits, they can all receive free therapy, which will be sending them back in time to relive their childhood-- but raised on at least 5 hours a day of hip hop, house, jungle, and jazz.
Yeah just listening to the title track and I can hear that he has a lot of skill in production technique in regards to headspace and mixing, but he lacks actual talent needed to do anything with it. His tracks are abnormally unimaginative and resorts on familiarity to make up for it. It's more blatantly expressed in how he imitates anything Aphex Twin leaves in his wake.
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Father 'killed his son, 13, after the boy found and mocked compromising photos of him eating feces from a diaper he was wearing and posing in women's clothes with makeup on'
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This guy was warning them it was fraudulent for almost 2 months before the event and the idiots still came.
Also lol. The supermodels advertised only stuck around for 1 minute: they danced off the plane, giving a couple of shots of tequila, and then jumped right back on the plane.
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Hahahaha white rich people getting owned is the happiest thing.
^Bit of butter or mayo and that sandwich wouldn't be half bad.
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max on tri rep? that seems early. what track?
Max has been around for a very, very long time but it was mostly for control signals to send midi in and midi out. The digital audio signal generation (actually producing sound on the computer) came later when computers were powerful enough to run it in real time.. I think they were working with the control parts until around LP5 or Cichlisuite.
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11/9 never forget
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It sounds exactly like the Volca Bass
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Always wait for the sale. And yes Reaktor 6 is good if you want to design synthesizers and effects if you want to go down that route. It wasn't for me but almost everrything you make it in will sound good right off the bat.
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All the time. You should love the stuff you make. I love listening to my stuff and its one of the reasons why I make music.
I throw my stuff in a car and listen to it over and over until I start to hear all of the problems and engage in thought exercises on how I can transform, remove or fix something. If I get bored of it pretty fast, or I am skipping over parts of it, then it's most likely not a good track.
well yeah of course, i mean isn't that the point, really? if you don't enjoy your own music why should anyone? while doing so i quite consequently follow this fine old formula:
Also this
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except elliot fucks
and gets fucked (unwillingly)
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i don't even know what's happening in this show anymore and frankly don't really care that much, those "OMG WTF!!! twists are becoming tiring, law of diminishing returns and such...
same actually.. I keep watching it though because it's entertaining.. but I get more and more confused with each episode
As much as the show outright steals every creative and technical idea that Stanley Kubrick came up with, the show rewards people who look for details and observations on how things are communicated Not just what the characters say or do but a lot of the camera work, the chess game moves, music, scenery and computer code are also telling different stories at the same time. There was a lot of foreshadowing with Elliot's twists so they were not unexpected (except the part with finding out who Darlene was in Season 1) Also the show covering the aftermath of what a large, economy destroying hack would do to the world (everyone continuing to live their lives as normal due to habit, the rich being fine off and the working class being even more fucked) is refreshing.
The bigger problem with the show is that it blatantly steals its main American Psycho, Fight Club, and all of Kubricks Films. From the role of Elliot's delusions of living in television shows though it might be related.
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Family Matters: The Movie
Carl Winslow (Sasha Baron Cohen) and his family return in a two hour drama-comedy that sees the family becoming divided apart as Laura (Beyonce) and Eddie (Craig Ferguson) join the Black Lives Matter movement while Carl struggles between his duty of the police force and those he loves. Jaleel White (Jaleel White) returns as the popular "Steve Urkel" taken into a more edgier role as he struggles with adderall addiction and his "open relationship" with Laura and her new beau. Featuring artwork and set design inspired by H.R. Giger. and music by Trent Reznor*
*not actually performed by Trent Reznor
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Wow I stand corrected. You guys all just schooled me on REAPER.
Looks like there *is* enough there to work with to make up for its shortcomings. The pitch algorithm menu is exactly what I was looking for. I'll grab Redux and get that radial menu too.