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    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

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    6 hours ago, thawkins said:

    My experience is that it's quite a headache to get a comfortable workflow with a multitimbral synth, mainly for two reasons:

    • if the hardware has just one stereo out, you have to juggle muting different sounds and you can't easily have a dedicated track for each part. It's an interesting limitation to work on a single stereo pair so that you build a whole track with no DAW effects or EQ until you get it finished and then it is somehow way more easier to mix it.
    • the are only a limited amount of parameters that you can change over MIDI - for anything deeper you need a librarian/editor VST that does sysex. I have 0 experience with that last part but the official editors for MicroX and XV5080 don't work on my laptop natively and I don't think there is a good 3rd party replacement.
      Due to this, saving any automation or knob fuckery you do into the project so that you can open it later for editing and mixing, is a huge pain. I use some M4L MIDI CC device for managing some basic parameters but I do no deeper sound design than that.

    Yep. I like the challenge of squashing to stereo, but you'll generally end up with a cartoonish, unbalanced mix. Even where the Monomachine provides a handy 1-band EQ, this is a bit of a riddle. And frankly even with an audio interface that can handle it, I can't be arsed dealing with more than about 4 outputs at a time.

    I used to think software librarians were great for "unlocking" these parameters. But for me they're an existential crisis waiting to happen, i.e. "why am I using hardware again?"

    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

    It’s like irony and sarcasm and everything else not even just coming full circle but circling around itself with such velocity it’s creating some kind of ironic blackshithole that everything rational will get sucked into 

    I'm sure in a year (if we still exist) we'll either be like "damn, that was pretty crazy, wasn't it?" or "ha, remember that? before the shit REALLY hit the fan?"

    ... so yeah, uh, buckle up and enjoy the ride, I guess?

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Nebraska said:

    GOD doesn't approve whats going on with this election. hopefully he'll step in and stop the count
     

     


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    Go back to your nest, fashie bird

    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, Brisbot said:

    And Cenk's quote at  3:03 and on is exactly how I am feeling. It breaks my mind. I just don't understand authoritarianism and the double think that goes along with it. I am unable to put myself in their shoes. All I can think is that they are knowingly lying "for the greater good", that Trump is the best president for the USA, it's just that everybody else just doesn't see it yet, and so they have to scheme, lie, and use intimidation tactics to get what they want.

    Yeah, frankly, I don't see these people as fully functional adults capable of grasping democracy, civilitt, or the social contract. They're seriously a bunch of fucking barbarians. Not saying all Trump supporters are, but certainly these dipshits who clearly have no faith in the democratic system, and probably don't understand it.

    Jonathan Pie did a heartfelt analysis of the results back in 2016, talking about the "deplorables", and I felt genuine remorse for looking down my nose at them. But he did another one recently, and I realize after 4 years of screaming, bigotry and revving truck engines I think I agree with her. They're an embarrassment to our country, and I have no hope that they'll grow up and learn to work with people they disagree with. I don't know where we go from here.

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    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

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    My take: multitimbral is a pain in the ass and not worth it. This is what DAWs are good at. If you absolutely need this, get a groovebox - MPC, Elektron, maybe one of those Rolands that came out this year. Textural precision is at odds with the convenience of having everything in one place. But if you want this for live performance, get something nice like the aforementioned Argon8 plus a sampler/sequencer (Octatrack, MPC, Digitakt, SP404, etc.)

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

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    1 minute ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

    Any idea why? Pausing = open to abuse & other problems (speculation, unrest, violent protest etc).

    My honest guess is that they are tired/overwhelmed. But yeah it certainly opens it up to speculation. 

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

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    Just now, Hugh Mughnus said:

    Hey sorry I know I prob missed it in this thread, but what’s up with the Nevada stall? I know they’re waiting to count mail in ballots but there shouldn’t be a ton. It’s been stalled at 75% votes counted since last night.

    They said they are pausing counting until 9 AM PST tomorrow. Which is fucking obnoxious. 

    7 minutes ago, ignatius said:

     

    This got me a little misty. This is America at its best right here.

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Just now, hijexx said:

    I definitely share the sentiment but I don't really think he is smart enough to be effective in the courts.

    Yeah dude that "claim" tweet... holy fuck. He clearly does not comprehend how elections work.

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    2020 US Election

    in General Banter

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    1 minute ago, Brisbot said:

    The same people who were rolling their eyes when we were angry/upset after Trump won in 2016. Except you know, we didn't have a nuclear meltdown and immediately whine about voter fraud with no evidence to back it up.

    Well there was that Russia thing, but that was later.

    You know, I think you're onto something. Not just the emotions but the fact they have been so fucking smug (just like we were) about winning this thing.

    Difference is, Trump hasn't even officially lost yet.

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