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    How does the World view America these days?

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    that t-shirt is fucking insanity.

     

    america is the point at the tip of the spear flying through the shitty timeline dragging us all w/it.

     

    i wish i was the blue transporter guy in X-men.. so i could zip in and out of places w/ease. i'd shit on the desk in the oval office two or three times a week and wreak havoc on all these maga fucks just for sport and lulz.

     

    I feel ya, it's frustrating... fantasies about comeuppance via superpowers just make me sad though.

     

    And yeah that t-shirt is some of the most boneheaded Idiocracy shit I've seen in a while.

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

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    Just sort of interested in the psychology of why some people turn right or left wing and if it somehow correlates with aesthetic preferences..

    Yeah, I think there is something innate there. By which I don't mean to say that right-wingers all have bad taste, just like they're not all stupid. There are a number of brilliant people on the far-right that make beautiful stuff. For some reason Borges is the only one springing to mind. But I think the right's aesthetics just doesn't scale down as well as the left's; they don't work as well on the shallower end of the pool. On the other hand I think that the average right-winger has a higher tolerance for cheesiness than the average left-winger, like they are more comfortable with adopting artifacts for their symbolic values even if they're fugly or gaudy.

     

    Might have more to do with propensity for piety or general respect for authority than taste alone, or how they prioritize that. Like, aren't pretty much all communist/hard-socialist states officially atheist or secular?

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

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    D0gJ5bdWkAAal0E.jpg

    That is the musical equivalent of making a really well mixed and mastered track that still sounds generic.

    Sorry to be That Guy but this there's nothing "really well mixed and mastered" about this painting.

     

    It is hilarious though. I love how the eagle is shredding the flag, like "fuck this place, I'm moving to Canada".

    TidalCycles

    in EKT General Discussion

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    Yeah, that's one thing I love about TC, the terseness. After using it for a jam with someone this last weekend, I feel even more confident that this is how I want to do my sequencing in the foreseeable future. There's so much you can do with so little code, and you can turn on a dime. Since getting my laptop set up, I haven't even bothered trying to hook it up to hardware or plugins or even another SuperCollider synth. I usually spend way too much time on sound design relative to sequencing. With TC I'm having so much fun sequencing that the most sound tweaking I've bothered to do is to loop a built-in drum sound to turn it into a pad.

     

    There's been a few suggestions of similar things in this thread. I'm not sure what it is about TC that makes people avoid it at first - maybe the initial setup because admittedly it's a minor hassle. I avoided it too until Youtube kept recommending me a kindohm set. I finally watched it, paying careful attention to his actions, and I was blown away.

     

    Also I think someone mentioned it already but the community is great. It's a pretty diverse bunch of folks from seasoned Haskell hackers to music academics to average EKT types who just wanna have fun tinkering and making tunes. And yaxu's attitude is great, he's right in there taking suggestions and answering questions and encouraging people to contribute. TC has a bright future.

     

    this is a good read if you're on Fedora:

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit

     

    the real fix that eliminated Xruns for me was using this as a guide:

    https://github.com/raboof/realtimeconfigquickscan

     

    Before that I had a setup where I was sending MIDI to a separate PC via aseqnet and x11 forwarding Renoise and Diva back to my laptop. It's still a good setup if I really want to push things, but for now, running the U-he plugins with TC all on the same laptop is performing fine now that I have it tweaked for Jack.

    Ah, yeah, I ran that quickscan thing too, that thing is brilliant. I ended up using the JACK version that doesn't do dbus, and that solved some problems that the scan didn't detect. I think the only thing I haven't done yet from its suggestions is to replace my kernel with an RT version. I will check that fedora one as well.

    TidalCycles

    in EKT General Discussion

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    Yeah I do most things in Linux these days. I have Tidal running with a vim plugin. Jack is a sound server for Linux that allows you to route audio from different applications. Took a while to tweak it right, I was getting a whole bunch of Xruns which would result in unpleasant audio glitches.

     

    I'd post the code for that but it's on my laptop and I'm at work atm. It isn't anything fancy, and it's working with the Diva arpeggiator.

    Nice, I have a similar (maybe the same) setup - any recommendations on said tweaks?

    Elektron Octatrack MKII

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    hey boys, hey grils, superstar djs, i need yo help!

     

    am about to buy the OT but I'm in a slight doubt... I'm not sure about its constraints; how versatile it actually is...

     

    can you imagine your self creating some of the most complex tracks that you've been listening to with only OT? to my ears, autechre's rmx of oberman knocks could be made just with the OT. am i right or even close to being right? (im not planning to make such rhythmically complex music but it'd be nice to know it's possible)

    It might be technically possible to do something like that on the OT, but there's some limitations that end up making it annoying for constructing full tracks. On its own, it works best with loops. You can slice the everloving fuck out of them, and since I have no restraint, nothing coming out of my OT is ever remotely recognizable from the source. But for melodic stuff (like, tracker style rather than MPC style) it's not great.

    TidalCycles

    in EKT General Discussion

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    Thank you so much!

     

    1) in sessions, I'd be using MIDI notes instead of samples, to trigger a drum machine (DrumSpillage2 to name it), so I'm trying to keep it all into a single pattern. But I guess I could simply stack patterns (one of the kick drums, another for the sd etc...). That should work.

     

    Now the issue I have is thatI fail at using "cat" to chain patterns made with "stack", ah ! I know how to stack, I know how to cat... but I don't know how to do it at once... yet ;)

     

    2) 3) & 4) so I guess I have to experiment ;)

     

    Ideally, I'd love to figure out a way to write something like :

    do
  setcps (160/60/4)
  d1
    $ s "[bd ~ ~ bd€ ~ ~ bd? ~, ~ [rs rs£ rs rs]•, cp:1*16¥]"
    where € = degradeBy 0.25, ? = degradeBy 0.5, £ = degradeBy 0.75 and ¥ = degradeBy 0.875, and • = $ every 8 (rev) (or whatever). Or anything more complex that would happen step/event-wise.

     

    Would be quite amazing to have, to program some sorts of minimal beat structure with sorts of auto-fills or micro breaks.

     

    Basically, creating functions and incorporating them to the pattern itself (sorry if paraphrasing myself, not that easy to put words on these nebulous experiments).

     

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    By the way, auto-degrading footwork pattern à la Rian Treanor anyone?

    do
  setcps (160/60/4)
  d1
    $ every 16 (degradeBy 0.875)
    $ every 4 (degradeBy 0.75)    
    $ every 3 (degradeBy 0.25)
    $ every 8 (rev)
    $ stack [
      s "bd ~ ~ bd ~ ~ bd? ~",
      s "~ [rs rs? rs rs]",
      s "cp:1*16?"
    ]
    So I've been wanting to look into this but had other stuff going on the last couple of days. I think for things like "?" you might actually have to dig into the Tidal code itself. This made me wonder if my workaround makes more sense to just use the TC source anyway and not have a dummy package at all. So I'll see if I can find more about "?" etc. while I'm in there.

    Now Reading

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    what I'm really looking for is contemporary writing that captures the "now", the zeitgeist, to use such a wanky word. I want to read stuff that, through the mirror of fiction, expounds on the world we're living in right now, especially people's inner lives and their thoughts and feelings. that's what I'm looking for, and I have no idea where to start. who out there is writing good stories about the present social, psychological, political and technological state of the world, in fiction?

    Feeling this... minus the technological, though. I wouldn't mind something that kind of ignored cell phones, for example. I'm so tired of cell phones both in reality and in media. Maybe I do want to escape a bit, but in a way that makes me feel more compelled to live more meaningfully, instead of being the literary equivalent of Doritos.
    Maybe this is bleedingly obvious, but ... Houellebecq?
    Not bleedingly obvious; you're overestimating how well-read I am ;) The Possibility of an Island looks really interesting, thanks!

    Now Reading

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    edit: ^ the problem is that the technological aspect has an intense influence of everything else, especially socially. I don't think it can realistically be ignored if you want to capture the times.

    Right, that's a hard point to refute. But maybe I'd rather examine the relevant aspects of it in a more abstract way? Kind of like what Black Mirror does I guess.

    Now Reading

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    Posted

    what I'm really looking for is contemporary writing that captures the "now", the zeitgeist, to use such a wanky word. I want to read stuff that, through the mirror of fiction, expounds on the world we're living in right now, especially people's inner lives and their thoughts and feelings. that's what I'm looking for, and I have no idea where to start. who out there is writing good stories about the present social, psychological, political and technological state of the world, in fiction?

    Feeling this... minus the technological, though. I wouldn't mind something that kind of ignored cell phones, for example. I'm so tired of cell phones both in reality and in media. Maybe I do want to escape a bit, but in a way that makes me feel more compelled to live more meaningfully, instead of being the literary equivalent of Doritos.

    Now Reading

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    I'm still slogging through Mona Lisa Overdrive at like less than a chapter a week. I'll read like 4 paragraphs on the shitter every other morning. I'm so sick of 80s Gibson but I gotta finish it.

     

    Then I want to re-read The Pale King. I'm really feeling that mood right now. If anyone has suggestions for similar existential white collar desperation that's not too high brow, I'd appreciate it. DFW is kind of his own thing though, isn't he.

    i slogged through mona lisa overdrive as well.. so dated feeling for me.. and this was years ago.  his modern spy stuff sorta bored me too. wasn't too into it.. but i loved some of his other stuff "the Peripheral" is one i liked a lot. more recent and weird and still fun. i need to re-read "pattern Recognition". enjoyed that one and it made me feel really weird. jetlagged or something. i don't know. 

     

    i haven't reread the Pale King. i have mixed feelings about that one. reread everything else by DFW though. Nicola Barker's Darkmans was really good but not really like DFW.. very different but seemed like there was something similar feeling there. can't put my finger on it but i liked it a lot. 

     

    for pure smarts and density and craft and fun and big ideas... Neal Stephenson is always good. absorbing. 

     

    but for DFW type american post modern or whatever the fuck people call it.. i don't know. people say Eggers but i read heartbreaking work of blah blah blah and after a while it's just a rant that loses its edge and i became un interested and not dazzled by the pace of it or the capturing of that moment etc and was more annoyed than i was pleased.  that book is the literary equivalent of whiskey dick.

     

    Don DeLillo is good. Whitenoise might fit for a chunk of americana modern edge but more washed out or bleached.  the problems in the book seem related to DFW material to me. i've like all the DeLillo stuff i've read. 

     

    some of Paul Auster's stuff i really like. Moon Palace is particulary good if memory serves. i should re-read that one. 

     

    currently i'm reading Jerusalem by Alan Moore. only about 70ish pages into it but i like it. it's weird, the characters are good and once i got into his flow story telling and detail i find it sticking to me.

     

    Yeah, MLO is kind of a dumb thing to read in 2019, isn't it? I just wanted to finish the trilogy because it's something I always wanted to read, I guess. Some of the action scenes are kind of entertaining in this smug cringey Baby Boomer kind of a way. There was one chapter where the assassin woman (whom I think of as the main character even the book is in that cheesy multiple story lines style) talks to the digital ghost in the alley and I really enjoyed that, it was almost worth the read just for that. But I could pretty much do without the rest of it. I also enjoyed "Pattern Recognition" very much; there was definitely a weariness to it. I think it will be worth re-reading since it's been 10+ years and now I've read his legendary trilogy, which frankly I was not that into. 

     

    I haven't dived all that deep into DFW. I'm the cliche guy who's had a copy of Infinite Jest for 10+ years and still hasn't finished it. Sometimes he hits the spot though. But yeah, I loved Pale King. Or, at least, I remember loving it. Like it's bland or even banal but unsettling... almost Lynchian but with a different kind of dread? There was something special about it to me, even if it was unfinished and imperfectly compiled and doomed. Like perfect afternoon sunshine on a building that's so dreary it's surreal. I'm probably projecting something onto it that isn't really there.

     

    Thanks for the recommendations. I usually read whatever PKD I haven't read yet... started getting into Jeff Vandermeer a bit last year but right now I'm not feeling the sci-fi/speculative thing as much. I'm in the mood for something that's imaginative without being escapist or fantastical or purple or overly clever, if that makes sense. 

    Now Reading

    in General Banter

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    I'm still slogging through Mona Lisa Overdrive at like less than a chapter a week. I'll read like 4 paragraphs on the shitter every other morning. I'm so sick of 80s Gibson but I gotta finish it.

     

    Then I want to re-read The Pale King. I'm really feeling that mood right now. If anyone has suggestions for similar existential white collar desperation that's not too high brow, I'd appreciate it. DFW is kind of his own thing though, isn't he.

    the watmm GAS thread

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah Thyme seems like a really sweet delay, I love the multiple heads thing and it seems like just a really attractive object to play with. I wonder how the CV control compares to the MIDI control in terms of e.g. resolution. I loved the idea of the SoftPop but all the demos just sounded like wet farts. Like taking the most cliche, boring aspects of modular and boiling it down into one (very cool-looking) little box.

     

    Also Enrique Martinez seemed to indicate in his most recent video that the Dude isn't being made anymore? wtf? I need to grab 1 or 2 more of them. These guys are so good at making comfy but tiny gear.

    TidalCycles

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    Thank you!

     

    First tests with Gibberwocky, it feels less direct and more hmmm linear than TC? Easy to get into details such as various velocities and notes lengths. I've printed its doc, going to read it anyway. I'm wondering how easy it is to chain / stack / modify patterns with it, the way you'd do with degradeBy / stack / cat and such ?

     

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    Back to TC, I have a few questions you guys might know the answers of. As you'll see, I'm focusing on TC's sequencing abilities as I solely work with synths. I'm using samples in my examples though for the sake of clarity. 

     

    Full disclosure, I've found a very, very similar pattern on TC's twitter page and admire how smart it was.. so lets say we have:

    do
  setcps (160/60/4)
  d1 $ s "[bd(3,8), ~ rs*4, cp:1*16?]"

    1) Is there a way to control (for example) bd's velocity without splitting the pattern into several dedicated ones nor affecting the other samples (notes if sending out MIDI notes) ?

     

    I've decomposed the pattern into something significantly less elegant and much more barbaric :

    do
  setcps (160/60/4)
  d1 $ s "[bd ~ ~ bd ~ ~ bd ~, ~ [rs rs rs rs], cp:1*16?]"

    First, as you've already noticed, I haven't succeeded in approximating the cp:1*16? by exploding this part of the pattern into a bunch of (16 that is) "cp:1?"

    Reason is, if having a patter of 16 cp:1?, they all share the same probability to be played per cycle, so basically either all or none will be played during a given cycle.

     

    2) Now, why would I want such long a pattern? To pick which of my hits will be affected by the ?, and which won't. Is there a way to do that ?

     

    For exemple,

    do
  setcps (160/60/4)
  d1 $ s "[bd ~ ~ bd ~ ~ bd? ~, ~ [rs rs? rs rs], cp:1*16?]"

    adds some simple variations to my pattern by adding some probability to 

     

    Which leads to my final question. I watched Kindohm's vid regarding randomness, very insightful, with a lot to grasp for a newb like me.

     

    Now I understand that :

    - degradeBy 0.5 equals "?"

    - degradeBy n (and similar functions) has to be written prior to the pattern

    - n can be any value between 0 and 1

    - "?" can be inserted anywhere in a pattern to randomise a or several given notes / sample / events

    - in Atom, using let, you can basically create your own functions (as a shortcut / an alias for a bit of code)

     

    3) So, is it possible to create custom functions that can be used the same way "?" can, i.e. to modify chosen notes / events ?

     

    4) Or, is it possible to somehow integrate degradeBy (and such) to a pattern itself (for the reasons explained above), rather than using it as a prefix for a whole pattern ?

     

    Hopefully I've managed to express it all in a clear way hehe, so thanks to anyone reading ;)

    OK I'm probably at least as much of a noob as you are (especially since I stupidly took almost a month break from Tidal) but I'll take a swing if only for the sake of my own learning :)

    1) Yeah I think you're probably best off splitting bd into its own pattern if you want to manipulate it by itself... however, something I have been thinking about is the fact that this is SC, so you can create your own instruments. So e.g. you could create an instrument where you sequence the notes with one pattern and control the gain with another. In fact I would like to set up something like this for signal busses as I'm not a huge fan of the "orbit" structure. With the orbits you're effectively controlling/modulating global effects sends unlike on, say, the Octatrack which hands out track-level effects like candy.

     

    2) Again, I think especially because you have a comma there you're effectively splitting it time-wise already so I think it makes sense to have it on its own track. Unless having it in one place does something for you that I'm missing? Maybe saving channels, or just making it easy to flip it on in one line (which you could still accomplish using the 'do' structure you're already using)? yaxu or kindohm might have cooler/more elegant ideas on this.

     

    3) Absolutely! I'm trying to think of some examples but suffice to say kindohm did some neat tricks like this in one of his videos, for example there was a "binary pattern" one where he used such a function to shorthand sequences using 1 and 0. I think all the TC text editor plugins come with a "boot" script, and you can just pop your custom functions in there.

     

    4) Yes (if I'm understanding you correctly) you can absolutely do that. For example, expanding on your first example (cool little pattern you made, btw):

    do
  setcps (160/60/4)
  d1 $ "[bd(3,8), ~ rs*4, cp:1*16?]" # gain ("8 [6 <4, 8>] 7 6 5" / 8)

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

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    If it’s not Bernie then I hope all his supporters can get their heads out of their asses and help vote trump out of office.

    This, for fuck's sake. I realize Hillz got the popular vote in 2016 but that's not enough, is it? Solidarity or 4 more years is what we're looking at. Put on your big girl panties, plug your nose, and get it done. Don't let Trump get re-elected just because you're too much of a little bitch to compromise.
    In early 2016, I was like “eeeehhhh... fuck Hilary.” November rolls around and I’m running to the booth like I’m about to deliver my first born child.

    Yep! With gusto! It's the right thing to do.

     

    And, yeah, this is democracy, it ain't perfect, and we got a fucking dud. Time to pop that one out, stat.

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

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    Posted

    If it’s not Bernie then I hope all his supporters can get their heads out of their asses and help vote trump out of office.

    This, for fuck's sake. I realize Hillz got the popular vote in 2016 but that's not enough, is it? Solidarity or 4 more years is what we're looking at. Put on your big girl panties, plug your nose, and get it done. Don't let Trump get re-elected just because you're too much of a little bitch to compromise.
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