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I’ve collected and played guitar for over 20 years and I am thinking of selling them on now. I may keep one but I am just not playing them anymore. I’ve kind of settled in to the ability to play and remember most chords and a dozen or so songs. I’m no longer writing music with guitar and my fingers just aren’t as fast as they once were. That said I’m having more fun than ever with a handful of synths/samplers/a rhodes and ableton live. I will say that with the caveat that I wish I had the ability to play guitar or any instrument really well

I have one of these but unfortunately never had keyboard issues other than it sucks to type on. The touch bar on the other hand…

The real crime is that there are only like 5 appliance parts companies that stock parts and they each seem to look at the other companies for what to stock. Meaning, if someone else has it they won’t. But what ever they do stock ends up selling for 500% or more of the wholesale price.

I don’t know you or what you’re going through but even though the above is true I would be saddened to know if you harmed yourself. Life is and can be tough. I’m posting the below not to try and play any game of “my problems are worse than yours”.

I’m currently in the midst of a fight with incurable cancer. There is a hope that they can shrink the numerous tumors and affected lymph nodes with chemo and I will have a risky surgeries shot at being cured. According to the very pessimistic internet my type of cancer across ages 8-80 means I have 2 years to live on average.

Funny thing is a few years ago I was a contractor and was billing up to 80 hours per week. I missed a lot of family interaction doing this and I now regret working so long.

So my point in all of this is health is literal wealth. And aside from needing to address your mental health (parents dying is not something you should just stuff down). It sounds like you are generally healthy but going through something. It may be tough to get through this phase of your life but if you do I’m pretty sure you will be happy you did.

SAP continues because they have a great sales team that makes execs feel like they are making a choice that never gets them fired. SAP doesnt care about UX and in the 10 or so years Ive dealt with it on the periphery, its been a barely serviceable product with a terrible user interface. I especially love how the localization is so sporadic in the application. Sure the front end will be mostly english, but be prepared for a lot of tables/columns/fields to be in German. Granted, its been a few years since Ive done much SAP related work(I build interfaces between trading systems and SAP for accounting and some logistics interfaces.)

Anyway, their goal is to move into new business verticals and not really fix the product. They are actually trying to move into the trading and risk management arena in which I work. So far they have one major client that I'm aware of and they are struggling to make it work.

While I agree that styling elements that are outright pedestrian harmful(a row of spear heads across the grill, etc) should be banned, I also HATE the way that these same regulations are making all cars look the same. Maybe folks who don't like cars don't care. I DO care what a car looks like.

As someone who also would not like to meet his demise by an errant vehicle, I think I would rather see a bunch of safety tech designed to not hit pedestrians in the first place would be ideal. Auto stop seems to be getting pretty good and while you could never eliminate vehicle to pedestrian crashes(suicide by car is likely impossible to protect against in many scenarios) But I hope we can stop making all the cars look like a shin destroying tear drop. :)

I pay 50 a month extra to Concast for no caps or throttling, and for the most part it seems to be true.

It’s in progress. Should be another few weeks

mp3/compression artifacts is all I hear- that is likely all you would need to do.

I really hope these sorts of things make their way to trials soon. recently found out that I have a recurrance of colon cancer...

FL Studio/Fruity Loops was created by gol who had no music theory knowledge and was a game programmer(only) before starting on Fruity Loops...

I see what you’re saying but I also think that it is a legitimate statement. I have interest in building analog synthesizer gear and efx pedals. I’ve built a few circuits on breadboards but I am not an electrical engineer or synthesizer designer. The statement is likely just a way to say excuse the mess/possibility of bad practice in my implementation.

So I am struggling with the connection here. Is it just the fact that tech workers can afford elective surgery? Is this really something that only happens with tech workers?

Love it- was just digging out my old laminated chord chart to re-learn them. This is way more convenient! Would love to see this expand to scales and modes too!

Time to break up the google into smaller parts that may allow a competitive market again. Google FB Apple could all use a bit of competition

Could the same thing be used to remove carbon dioxide from earth’s atmosphere?

Question- how does a company like Zuru think this is a good idea? Suing a former employee because they left a negative review doesn’t exactly give me warm fuzzies. Is this just a case of C level megalomania?

A “problem” can be that your car breaks down or that you don’t know how to use the infotainment system. That’s a pretty wide berth. JD power has bad incentives to track these things.

This video made me think these would be in every garage. If you want to start at the hovercraft part go to 2:08…

https://youtu.be/l-Vs0gYDN20

Live 11 is becoming more of a cpu hog to my iMac Pro with each M1 update. It crashes the most often of all my DAW software. That said while I could go back to Logic or Cubase I still get 10x more music done with live vs the others. I remember about 10-12 years ago live version 7 or 8 was way behind schedule so much so that the CEO/Owner made a statement about it. This is all from memory though so some details may be wrong. I say that to say that is suspect that the code base is probably more fragile than the others.

Brian didnt use a PC though, so its possible it was someone downstream that used the cracked soundforge. That version of SoundForge was what I used in college very heavily. I should look at my old sample folder and see how many have the watermark...

Maybe this tactic will help me get my youtube account back. Any Googlers interested in a 45 year old graying software developer with a dad bod?

But seriously, I wrote a post about my youtube account getting banned and without telling me what caused it just shut down my request for review. Sounds like in all of these companies you can either have a false positive AI flag you, someone decide they dont like you online and report you for something that isnt necessarily true/the case, and then you have some tech workers who either dont care enough to really fix problems or enjoying their fiefdoms and the power they wield at strangers.

But if you are working in a startup you will hardly be poor esp with a comp sci degree.

Take the safe job when you are old and have family/dependents. Take the long shot bets when you are young. You have the potential to learn way more way more quickly at a startup and if it folds you are still young and have experience. I wish I would have taken this advice when I was 25...

I’ve owned a few 808s and sampled all of them. They were indeed all different sounding. The cowbells are one exception and sounded more like the 2 Live Crew example. Most of the variation was in the hi hat and cymbals. Which IIRC is 6 square waves and a noise source.

This was a fun read but I think it is also not accurate. Paul and John are both geniuses. Both wrote amazing songs without the other. Yes the Beatles output was more consistent but I chalk that up to being younger and more open and agree that having a sparing partner improves every persons game.

I sorta guessed that the algorithm was words that had nothing to do with each other so I guess the 85.53 percent I got was probably more confirmation of a guess than anything.

Very well said. I used to attach my self worth to my release and if people didn’t like it I would feel it was a personal affront. Then I realized that

1) you can’t please everyone 2) if I put in the best effort towards the finished product that I really could see that the song was simply a creative journey I went on and it may not be for everyone but it was the best I could do with that idea. 3) acknowledgment of “The Muse”. Sometimes it’s there and things just flow out like magic. It feels like you’re a vessel of the universe. That is what makes music making fun and rewarding. The end product is usually better when this is happening but not always. Sometimes, though, you have to grind out a song and every step is hard and unnatural feeling. These sorts of projects can also end up great and that too is rewarding. 4) I’ve said this on hacker news before but it bears repeating- as long as you are putting in your best effort don’t make your music so precious. It’s just a song. Non musicians will either like it or not and not really care about how you crafted the song. They don’t care that you spent 30 grand to buy a vintage Jupiter-8 for all the keyboard parts. Use the gear you have that inspires you. Make music often and finish everything you start before starting something else. Forcing yourself to finish creates a habit of focus.

This is interesting to read- For me Logic is the lightest on CPU of all the DAWs I use. (Ableton 11, FL Studio, Reason 12,UAD Luna, Cubase 10.5) on my iMac pro (base model 8 core Xeon with 32gb ram)

Ableton, while it is my main daw and by far my favorite, is pretty CPU heavy as of Version 11.(10 was not quite as bad) The others are more or less similar in performance in terms of track count and latency. Ableton is completely usable but I usually start having to freeze tracks as the track count hits ~24ish depending on what plugins Im using.

With Logic, I can usually get closer to 2x that amount, but I should probably do a more apples to apples comparison.

I do have my eyes on the Mac Studio as my next Audio computer, but Im hoping to stretch my iMac Pros lifespan closer to the 10 year mark if I can...

Wish that they would have included some basic sampling functions here. I know there is Digitakt for that, but the did include some digitone-lite functionality.

Elektron seems to get close to perfect drum machines but never quite hits the mark for me. I know, who am I and there is plenty of choice and all that.

In the meantime I am patiently waiting for my Rossum SP-1200 reissue.