pentaphobe

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by pentaphobe 2y ago
In fairness, the only reason it stuck out for me is I do the exact same thing And I meant what I said; epically thoughtful and cool feedback that I hope the creator sees
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
It's super awesome of you to take the time to provide detailed feedback for a random stranger's project - good on ya! A single suggestion: Try using "the critique sandwich" when commenting on people's hard work - ca
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Hehe, honestly I just assume everyone here has a copy of GEB (or has infused it into their being) But yeah, I read TC's post as being less "you can't play music without formal theory" and more "taking a music apprec
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Right? Had (brief) moment of joy at seeing it used in a non-deep-learning context, alas.. Digression: perhaps a retaliation is in order for all the name overloading caused by the AI gold rush? We could start calling Meta Languages "Dee
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
> music is not like math That's going to age beautifully
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
It's new to me and I've found the comments thread enthralling.
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Thanks for the very reasonable response to my diatribe hehe
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Not really - you showed an _observation_ about the distribution of decimal digits in a very limited sample of a long (likely infinite) set, but then confidently presented a conclusion about the whole set drawn from this. If you'll forg
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
great stuff - wasn't aware of the tool proposal [1] (updated link [2]) but the need for one has come up a lot at work. if ever `go.work` behaviour is finished (read: fixed / un-broken) some of this setup would be a lot easier, but
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
So glad to hear someone else with this pet peeve - first thing I have to override whenever trying new themes/tools
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
I dunno - it's not like it's a random few years in history. look at all the streaming services simultaneously raising prices, adding or increasing ads, _and_ reneging on account sharing.. The pandemic altered a lot of spending and
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Thanks for this balanced (and IMO necessary) reminder. It's all too easy to get caught either doing way too much defensive/speculative stuff, or way too little. one person's "premature optimisation" is another perso
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
There's your feedback then: People generally don't blindly sign up for apps which expose exactly nothing about themselves or their privacy policies
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Absolute champ, thanks!
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Yeah thing which has always irked me about that is you have to maintain the original sequence and setup if you want the freedom to change it later Something which made that transparent would be ideal. Ableton and a few others have freeze o
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
> There's a mental block for me with VST/VSTis (... snip ...) they lack lots of the expressiveness and flexibility working in all samples used to offer. It'd be neat to have the best of both worlds, ie. Give me VSTs but le
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
It did always feel like the "real" folk had some mysterious room full of hardware I guess it was true, but so neat that they were sometimes triggering that stuff with trackers or sampling it for use within trackers (or similarly n
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Buzz tracker was so awesome I never got around to making full tunes in it, but I spent countless hours exploring the modular aspects It actually was what opened my eyes to things like PureData, Max/MSP, etc.. highly underrated program
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Totally - the "I like this, how does it work?" Factor is such an amazing learning tool (and a hell of a fringe community builder) Between mod files and small demoscene programs written in assembler there was so much incentive to i
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
The free time aspect is probably a big one - easy for nostalgia to say it's the tools that changed, but as an adult (or close approximation of one) getting a few hours of free exploration time is downright miraculous - can't possi
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
> was "sketching" out songs that I might somebody revisit to remaster or clean up with better instruments Haha big time - I didn't really have the kit for such things, but I remember trying to "finish" a few tune
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
This is mindblowingly cool Here comes another rabbit hole
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
It's so good (and sticky!) When mine arrived I fiddled for a minute, then wasn't so sure it was going to be a winner Then looked up and 6hrs had passed - absolute love
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Heck, I'm all about polyrhythm and polymetre Had no idea Reaper had this, thanks! What actually switched me over from trackers as the primary tool was this (discontinued) DAW called Orion, it had a piano roll for which you could provid
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Will keep an eye out! Hopefully they get their supply chain back - sucks when small (great) ventures like this get gutted by shortages
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Awesome, thanks - had no idea this existed (and great name)
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Oh that woulda been a neat bit of time travelling, glad it worked out! I'm quietly hoping I end up finding a bunch of my old x86 assembler projects in these discs (well - excited and a little scared... perhaps better through the rosy g
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
Oh cool, hadn't heard of this person - thanks!
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
That's super impressive, and very reassuring! What sort of memories did you find? (if you don't mind sharing) Also: any tips for recovery? I'm so far assuming I'll just get them nice and cool, then do multiple raw read
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by pentaphobe 2y ago
If you find the dragon I hope you'll let us know! I've a suspicion that what's missing is those early producers drew inspiration from a diverse set of non-genre (or non-electronic) art, and also were driven at least partially

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