Slow_Hand

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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I'm a music producer and the FabFilter Pro-Q3 equalizer plugin has THE most refined, intuitive, and quick user interface I've ever experienced. They've taken the most frequently-used audio tool and found a way to really let y
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
As a counter-example of this phenomenon I think the character of Joe MacMillan from Halt and Catch Fire moved away from being a sociopathic manipulator with infinite charisma in the first two seasons and ended up as someone with sincere&#x2
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Ha. I was once on a street corner playing a copy of his 'Passages' record (with Ravi Shankar) when a stranger walked up to me and fondly recounted spending an entire summer digging holes with a crew to that record. It seems that t
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I'm a massive fan of Einstein On the Beach. It continues to be one of my favorite pieces of music, since first hearing it 12 years ago. There's a vitality and a sense of energy to it that keeps me coming back. It's also large
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I'd be happy to email you a track or two. I'd want to share recent work, but it's also unreleased so I'd like to not have it be made public until it's complete.
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Ha. I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you think I'm right about or why that requires you to gently explain it as a good thing. But thank you? I don't think that there's anything fundamentally objectionable abou
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Yeah. It’s definitely an acquired taste. I would describe their musical arc as a pair of British B-boys who took super-hard to the beatmaking aspect of early electro hiphop and then pushed that as far as they possibly could. They’re certain
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Well for the band in question, Autechre, I'm not trying to suggest that they compose by having the machines generate parts and then they go back to tweak those parts. It's more as though the program they write for a composition is
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I'd be curious to know how tightly Mozart would have stuck to the outcomes that the dice dealt him. I could imagine him also using the dice as a jumping off point for compositional suggestion but disobeying the dice for a round if he w
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I like this quote “Don’t try to procedurally generate something that you can’t already create”. I’ve been actively making music full time for a good 15 years now. I work as a writer/producer and despite all of my experience and theoret
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Seems like a really sloppy test and a dumb article to make a single point about Monster cable being overpriced. In my experience Monster isn’t anything special, but it’s not unusable either. Since their undefined panel of listening judges c
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Not quite. I think we're discussing two different things. You're trying to synchronize two pre-recorded songs. That feature has been around since the beginning and is fairly trivial to do once you learn some of Ableton's core
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I believe it may have to do with the fact that Ableton is a performance tool first and foremost. It would follow that all design decisions stem from that requirement. Yes it is a full-featured DAW like Logic or Pro Tools, but Ableton differ
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I don’t find this to be true. The Push is simply a remote control for the software and it controls features that already exist in the DAW. I don’t believe Ableton is hindering other manufacturer’s MIDI or SysEx integration. It’s strength i
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Absolutely love this about Ableton and that’s the reason it’s my main tool. As a creator it allows me to flow and shift quickly between different modes of production. It emphasizes speed and intuition, and it allows me to excute powerful mo
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
I live in small gated cul-de-sac of duplex houses. In all, there are 20 units where everyone knows each other. Two weeks ago my landlord decided to install a pair of bright LED spotlights on the top of my unit which shine down into the gras
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Spotify includes loudness correction in it’s preferences. It will compare the LUFS loudness of all songs and turn down the loud ones to match -14 LUFS. It works as expected on my phone, although I notice it is off on my desktop app, despite
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you go about auditioning these systems in your own practice? Are you a performer playing an instrument by ear? Are you sequencing sounds in a DAW? Or are you tuning your sounds in a programming environment similar t
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Yup. But it’s not very common. Secret Chiefs 3 come to mind. They recently started selling ‘Geek Pack’ downloads for some of their songs. It’s a folder containing the hi-res stems for a given song. It also includes detailed notes on the son
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
They can make their way into the public's hands in a couple of different ways: 1) The multi-track recordings are deliberately released by an artist who wants to encourage others to remix their music. Sometimes it's just the instru
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Yeah, interesting point. Depending on how granular someone wants to get, you can break a session for any given pop record into upwards of 60+ channels. Drum kits in particular are among the most complicated instruments and can have anywhere
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Plenty of reasons: By "music files" I assume you mean the records that you can buy off the shelf in a record store. 1) Bandwidth. The file size would grow proportional to the number of separated tracks (less silence in the audio f
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
There is a strong appreciation for cinema that permeates the entire chain. From their programming of new AND old films, to their special events, to their creativity in presentation. There’s a lot of little touches that really make a differe
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
You’ve just described The Alamo Drafthouse. A chain of movie theaters based in Austin, TX and now making it’s way across the continental US. If you’re in an American metro area there’s a strong chance that there may be one in your city. The
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Off-topic, but related: I've always wondered why someone hasn't offered a muzak-type service that is built around algorithmic generation of music. In my estimation, the state of algorithmic music doesn't currently allow for t
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Seconded.
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
Yeah. It’s pretty garbage. I do check in because of occassional nuggets that can pop up. Any recommendations for alternative sites?
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by Slow_Hand 6y ago
As a frequent reader of 'Digital Music News' their articles rarely get more than 2-4 comments per article for the lifespan of the article. IF ANY. I'm starting to suspect that there may be something funny going on with their