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Nil, I'm so happy for you!
I actually just picked up a 2012 Thinkpad because I want to do more TC/SC on it. I've chosen (probably mistakenly) Arch Linux as my base OS and unfortunately getting Haskell up and running has been a nightmare so far and it's not over yet. The base Arch cabal package just will not install Tidal, and trying to build from source or from the "stack" bootstrap script actually crashes my poor laptop which only has 4 GB of RAM. I'm going to take another swing at it with a fresh boot and then maybe try and hunt down some ready-to-go binaries. It's been a while and I always have this kind of adventure with Linux, but hopefully once it's done I can be off to the races and have my own little Tidal/SC workstation.
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Existential dank is the best dank.
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This must be obvious to people who have kids, but the shit this presidency does has got to be seriously distorting their perception of what it means to lead a country. I remember being so confused about all sorts of shit when I was a kid, just believing nonsense things because I didn't know any better. To have a president acting the fool 24/7 making delusional claims and saying so much shit that makes no sense, using executive powers in ways that aren't only abusive but also just generally irrational and sloppy has got to be warping their minds, especially the ones too young to have another precedent to compare with.
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So you can "plan" a national emergency like a conference call or something?trump is gonna sign the bill funding the gov't and avoiding the shutdown but is also going to declare a national emergency.
this fucking guy needs to get rolled up in a rug and dumped in a ditch.
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My farts smell like a dirty fish tank. It somehow must be that massive burrito I had for lunch.
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Concur, Holocene was dope.
Hmm, I'll have to revisit that one. Sweepstakes and I were at that show, and it was the first of their North American tour. All I remember is it was dark as shit and I was practically in hypnosis with all the crazy sounds they were blasting. Holocene was my favorite venue of the three we went to.Portland : 40:00
hey i was at that show too and went to both portland shows. holocene used to sound like shit but they spent some time and $$$ sorting it out.
I think Rob Hall's Seattle set was his best of those three nights. I want that soundboard.
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Lol that's about all I remember too, I don't even remember the small Asian man. I had a great time kicking it with the WATMM upper left coast massive. I remember making a couple obnoxious comments but I remember close to 0% of the set.Glad to have the Vancouver one. I completely forgot how it sounded because I was fucked up on a lot of substances. Mainly just remember ambermonk, sweepstakes and throwing a small asian man into the crowd at the end. I was FUCKED.
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Yeah, uh, frankly I hope this is just the warm up to a real release. Might pick up the 3 sets I was present for... idkae turning into Phish there
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dank u
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I could not agree more. The sincere pursuit of understanding is not zero-sum. The best working relationships I've had have always been rooted in an ego-free attitude of genuine curiosity.It needs to be possible to be 'wrong' and not be looked down on for it. When we're young we're taught to argue all the way and to stick to our guns and not let up because you are "stupid" if you look wrong, but knowledge requires constant re-examining. A conversation needs to go from " I'm right, you're wrong, and you're stupid for it" to "let's pool our knowledge and change our mind with the relevant facts". That way knowledge grows instead of just branching off into lots of irrelevant paths.
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Yeah, now that it's too late.the collective belief in climate change has progressed to the point where denying it makes you look like a flat-earther (or the President of the United States). five years ago those same people would be climate change deniers. there's just been a slow collective shift in beliefs while those individuals remain mostly inert, rather than deciding to truly commit to supporting/acting on climate science.
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Hear hear. Also anyone who has a problem with these washed-out sine waves is granted authorization to chortle my balls:stupid guns, lasers going out of business in space, monsters from the future producing britney spears songs. prime real estate for explosions, sterile Sylvester Stallone doing a complicated backflip on top of a spike in the middle of a car commercial while Robocop drums and clicks as he carries a ghost up a mountain. faggy washed out bombs and swords and that, suck my dick.
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I honestly cannot tell whether anyone is sincerely bent out of shape over this. It must be a slow news week.They are precisely marketing it as a show with a HOT serial killer. Fuckers.
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Fuck youlkso high
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Except for e.g. the addendum circa 2012 of a definition for "literally" to mean its opposite. That is a crock of shit, even if it followed an emergent convention, one perpetrated by the sort of milquetoast-memeing halfwits that would christen a boat Boaty McBoatface.dictionaries don't lie dawg.
I wonder whether that was always the case with "cleave."
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That album generally feels pretty relevant right now. I never appreciated the concept when I was an angsty teenager but they hit the nail on the head (pun acknowledged)I feel this is a good time for me to whip out the only Marilyn Manson song you really need.
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I mean, he’s not wrong.
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lol
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This EP is the only thing from 2018 that I both love and can also listen all the way through without cringing or getting bored. Vibes, pacing, memorable moments, tight and clean mixing, and satisfying juxtapositions and transitions, it's got it all. It does feel a bit glib or breezy or vapid, maybe a little below Aphex average in the melody department, but it hits the spot most of the time. Good driving, walking, bus riding, computering music.
Not a moment too long either. I hope we get more solid EPs like this in 2019. It's a great format for these breezy vibes and rhythmic indulgence.
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the next big incriminating thing that is totally going to fuck up trump blah blah blah and retarded drumpf shit ... i get that all you guys really want to do is eat up the slop like the little piggies you are
You most certainly have a point... but haven't 90% of discussions on WATMM always been some variety of slop-lapping? And the average outside WATMM is even worse.
But yeah... that story last week w/ the Indigenous Peoples March bugged me.
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lolEvery time I open this thread it pops me up to the damned face zoom ins and I don't want to see that because you know that's what his balls look like too
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Thank you very, very much for your answer. I'll definitely give it a go, it might fit pretty well for the more techno oriented material I want to write (but I'll have to investigate MIDI routing/mapping).
A simple (maybe dumb, ah!) question : is there a way to store everything you type as you go into a txt file or are all modifications to your code definitive ?
Oh absolutely! I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.Thank you very, very much for your answer. I'll definitely give it a go, it might fit pretty well for the more techno oriented material I want to write (but I'll have to investigate MIDI routing/mapping).
A simple (maybe dumb, ah!) question : is there a way to store everything you type as you go into a txt file or are all modifications to your code definitive ?
So the plugins just provide a way to execute a chunk of code (like a line or a "do" block). Generally you'll save the file as you go. You could probably set up your text editor to auto save too. A lot of the workflow comes from what's provided by these auxiliary/supporting tools.
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Re: the text workflow - I completely agree, and this has some huge benefits over other methods, especially if you use the built-in samples/synths:
- Saving interesting sketches using pretty much any electronic medium (text doc, github, email...)
- Sharing (see my snippets above)
- Eyeballing a pattern to get an idea of what it's doing
- Making quick (as in, live performance speed) modifications
- Huge number of text editors out there, although the plugins are a bit limited at the moment (you got Atom, VSCode, Emacs, and Vim for sure)
- Collaborative/simultaneous coding (I haven't tried it yet as I have no livecoding friends yet lol)
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How steep is the learning curve ? Can you already write melodies and beats the way you would using a piano roll / tracker or is it more about experimenting and trial and error ?
I have loads of work to achieve within the next few months but I can't help being appealed by TidalCycles / live-coding, because of its text-input based workflow (the most logical way to interact with a computer IMO).
It's a really weird deal. Technically you're writing Haskell which 1) is very powerful and 2) has a notoriously steep learning curve. BUT it really feels like it was designed to be user-friendly, and supposedly most users are musicians, not coders. There's a long but excellent and easy tutorial in their docs. You just type or paste in each line/snippet of Tidal code and you're off to the races. It took me like 8 hours to go through simply because I went on a long, gleeful tangent every single time I learned something. These video tutorials are also good, although some of the older ones are outdated and use deprecated features. The "Elastic Tempo" one is particularly interesting.
You can certainly punch in melodies (there are some recognizable ones in the docs) but that's not really the focus. And if you're trying to create notes with velocity and human timing this probably isn't for you (although it can be done). But for more electronic drum rhythms I actually find its notation very intuitive. You can make really funky, interesting stuff happen in one simple-looking pattern.
All that said, I'm really early on in the learning curve myself, but I can say with confidence that I'm not looking forward to going back to my hardware sequencers. I think this thing ruined them for me. If I had some nice eurorack logic modules that miiiight be less true.
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Actually ghc was fine, I think Cabal and/or base was killing it.
My workaround was to create a dummy package with dependencies on tidal and base. Actually the latter may have been extraneous. Anyway, I had a package.yaml, a stack.yaml, and a project .cabal file and I was launching ghci/Tidal via stack from within that project folder and it did the trick. Kind of janky but hey, it worked.