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> reliability Pre-COVID I had a semi-regular synth jam session with a dude 100% invested in software synths. First 30 minutes (no exaggeration) of every sessi
by colanderman 6y ago
> reliability
Pre-COVID I had a semi-regular synth jam session with a dude 100% invested in software synths. First 30 minutes (no exaggeration) of every session was him fighting with Ableton or whatever, and rebooting his Mac, trying to get something trivial to work, like MIDI clock or input monitoring.
Meanwhile I just plugged my Minilogue into the power strip and mixer and did my own thing.
There's something to be said for a musical instrument not to be joined at the hip to a general-purpose networked computing device.
- tomcam 6y agoCan’t argue. I love playing a Minilogue or an Electribe or a Roland JD-Xi. They are all superb instruments for jamming. And you are so right, host environments can be frustratingly buggy. On the other hand, the Korg Gadgets on iOS are pretty damn reliable. My only argument is that with software versions you’re much more likely to get upgrades when bugs occur. And I personally will simply no longer buy a Korg flagship because of my troubles.