I used the barbed wire fence of the horse-ranch I was on, out in the bush, as an antenna for a broken TV I'd found ditched on the side of the road a few days prior .. I got through the static and tuned into RAGE, Cabaret Voltaire Sensoria, and was baptised in electrons for life ..
Zynthian audio/synthesis platform: I got it to act as an FX processor, and it has become an extremely rich resource for creative instruments and digital music-making. Not just an FX box, its really more like an entire studio.
Synthstrom Deluge: so incredibly deep and complex, it also started life as a simple tool that is now becoming a lynchpin in my studio operation - not just for drums and sequencing, also for recording quick takes and samples and so on. This machine has replaced the DAW for pure creative modes.
NORN+Grid: Again, was purchased for one thing and is now being pressed into use for so many other purposes, un-dreamed of previously.
Arturia AudioFUSE Studio: THIS was just supposed to be a neat desktop mixer that fit on the table, but it has become so, so much more - the STUDIO in the name is no nonsense! Again, way more power than expected, and it has expanded beyond the original purpose of having a quick desktop mix available - now practically everything in the studio is going through it (ADAT for the win) and it is the central console for production. I haven't touched the other mixers in weeks ..
> platitudes hardly provide compelling evidence for ignoring 20 years
> of networking/OS research and architecting unnecessary copies into the.
> core of an OS that wants to be taken seriously...
dont forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.
-- mingo<endquote>
.. don't you go ignoring the fact he was talking about zero-copy in the kernel!
It should be understood that the MPC is actually a Japanese clone of an American invention, the LinnDrum MidiStudio.
Roger Linn kicked off the innovation around the sampling/sequencing revolution - Akai just made it affordable.
Disclaimer: have worked in the digital musical instrument market for decades, including for Yamaha and other (German) major players in this space. This industry is incestuous in many ways - but it follows the 'musicians rule', which is 'its okay to copy each others riffs as long as it improves the groove' ..
1. The LinnDrum MidiStudio was never a product. The two appear to be similar but it'd be hard to claim one was a clone of the other. They seemingly differ in polyphony, sample resolution, and a wide variety of other features. Indeed the MidiStudio has more in common with the 9000 I would think. Does this make it a "clone" of the 9000?
2. Linn developed both the LinnDrum MidiStudio and the MPC60. Just because he was working with Akai does not make this a "Japanese clone" of one of his designs.
I recently had to go through the hell of setting up a Java development environment, plus Android emulation, on my new M1 MacBook .. mid-way through, I was cursing myself that I wasn't just using a Linux machine .. but okay, eventually, SDKMAN came to the rescue. For a while there it really felt pretty regressive ..
With over 67,000 years of culture and heritage - the worlds longest-running mine operation (Wilgie Mia), its oldest known still-extant school (Gabarnmung), the longest successful oral traditions of any culture, ever - the original land owners don't need to adapt to us: We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.
> We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.
Ok, does that include you? Go! I looked up Wilgie Mia. Apparently a 20-metre deep hole in the ground, an ochre source. Hmm. Couldn't find anything online resembling a school by that name, assuming you don't mean the rock art site whose "existence had been forgotten until its 2006 rediscovery". I'm not sure what "longest successful oral tradition" means exactly. (What does "successful" mean there? Are there unsuccessful oral traditions? And what does it come to besides "no writing system"?) ...And don't we all have "over 67,000 years of culture and heritage"?
My first thought is, the implant business has now got a problem. Soon enough, anyone and their pal will be able, finally, to validate their silicon at adequate scale.
As a huge fan of Lua, but not Python, I'm not sure whether to be terrified or impressed by this. Probably a little bit of both.
Actually, I can already see ways this is going to be good for Lua adoption on some of my projects, but also simultaneously threatening, since it means a 'more widely accepted language' could predispose continuing in Lua.
Actually, this is going to be very weird, once word gets out that Pythons batteries are up for grabs in certain circles ..
Hungarian villages are fascinating. Are you tuning into something, in particular, about them? (For me, its the village sun alignments/road-parallelism that fascinates..)
I was following the Austrian border, in places it is hilariously convoluted, assuming it follows meandering rivers - the effect on fields and contrast to straight villages is fun...
