Another #musicProduction note. Apologies to non-musicians – done soon!
This year I finally settled on a routing #template that fits my workflow, and it really saves a bunchload of time.
The gist of it for non-orchestral: Three room verbs, three plates, and three halls with close, medium and far settings – then a duplicate set of those with chorus, and a bass bus.
7 drum channels that go to a drum bus. 4 Delay sends: 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and Ping Pong.
@terjefjelde That’s a lot of reverbs! I usually have one each of plate/room/hall in the template to start, but maybe I’ll try adding others to see how much use they get.
Which reverb plugins do you like to use, out of curiosity? In my template are Fabfilter Pro-R, Little Plate from Soundtoys, and Valhalla Supermassive for big washes. Sometimes I use Space Designer as well (Logic Pro X).
I’m not totally happy with my template yet… trying not to overdo it, but it feels incomplete.
On his birthday, technologist @andybaio invites the world to attach their pc clipboards to a reply on his social media account.
Always looking for inspiration, I pulled some titles from the responses and created 6 tracks in the spirit of the project – raw, intuitive ("no editing") with factory presets on the respective #synths ("paste"). Some humour, some pomposity. "Mundane momentary ephemera that’s forgotten two seconds later," as Scott would say!
@terjefjelde@andybaio These are really lovely! I'm a romantic and love the M1, so I enjoyed the third track the most. First track (Wavestation) was also a great nostalgia trip–I love these 90s Korg ROMplers! In the Mini V track I really wanted to hear a 4-3 suspension at the end (as cheesy as that might be), but the vibe was right on.
Thank you so much for sharing them, and for the inspiring idea! I look forward to listening to more of your work soon. 🎧
@Em0nM4stodon I don't think I'll ever delete my Twitter accounts: I did this in the past, and someone immediately scooped up my username and it was a big headache.
Locking the accounts down and logging out is enough for me.
@jeffmoore In your experience, how does it compare to using something like an iPad with the Obsidian app? I use an iPad now, but I really like e-ink screens so I’m curious about it.
@thomasfuchs I’m all for making Mastodon the best it can be (definitions vary), but I’m not personally concerned or convinced that “other apps and networks wil eat Mastodon’s lunch.” It doesn’t have to win a competition for market share to be worth using.
I think far too much emphasis is given to "the algorithm" when describing Twitter as some kind of hell site. The behavior of users on the platform is shaped by the available features–features that evolved with the platform itself over years of use. (Twitter didn't even have the concept of retweets for a long time!)
If we want different results, maybe we should be careful/thoughtful about what we choose to build.
@alper@samleegray@thomasfuchs But also, I feel pretty strongly that quote posts are an example of a feature that makes Twitter an awful place to be, and that they would be a net negative if brought to this platform. Reasonable people can disagree about this, but it isn't obvious to me that it's something that should ever happen.
Search would be nice, but there are unanswered technical/community questions about how it should work. Maybe we can move the conversation forward by addressing them?
I'm going to scream if I have to watch another talk about interactive story telling and one of the tips is "Create compelling characters". No shit! If that is your problem then you're already doomed. No one assumes that you already know how to tell good stories and gets into the nuts and bolts and structure of interactive stories. I blame GDC and them focusing too much on newbies. GDC is pointless for me because very few talks assume you're already really good and want to be better.
@dancinyogi North American Scum here, voted “couldn’t care less.”
I’d like to elaborate my answer to say that I couldn’t care less about anything related to the royal family, including Meghan Markle. I wish them well but it isn’t newsworthy to me: it feels like tawdry celebrity gossip, catty and pointless, as contemptuous as obsessing over the Kardashians.
Surely there is something more worthy of our attention. Certainly there is something more worthy of spending money on.
@nixCraft Seems good to me: it’s to the point, it’s obvious how to use it, and I bet it loads very quickly.
And hey, it probably works with assistive technologies out of the box because it builds an HTML form and doesn’t wrap it with a bunch of unnecessary custom controls rendered in DIV elements.
Perhaps the page could use some CSS, but it certainly doesn’t need React/Angular/ExtJS/whatever.
@hacks4pancakes Celebrate this collection! I love browsing media libraries on shelves when I visit friends, and you’re protected against your favorite shows and movies disappearing from streaming services as a result of corporate whims. 🙌
I think the thing that bums me out the most about the current crop of AI-powered developer tools is just how boring they are.
We already have too much code and too much complexity. Just supercharging how much code people can write that they don’t fully understand is only going to further reduce software reliability.
Where are the tools that help us understand the giant codebases we already have?
@kyleve This is a good point. I don’t want to write more code, really–I want to condense, refactor, and (most importantly) delete code.
The kind of insight I’m looking for from computer-assisted coding tools is pattern recognition, which probably requires more training at the domain level (framework/language best practices) than the predictive models we have now. The generative tools don’t help us get to “less is more!”
Yesterday I wished for a yellow-card/penalty-box on Mastodon (a temp mute/block). For those times when someone MIGHT be an asshole but maybe they were just having a bad day? Or because they are posting spoilers for your fav show for the next week?
I know Mastodon has good filters buried in settings but I wanted a one or two click solution.
IVORY HAS IT BUILT IN! On a user profile you just:
@ethanschoonover@ivory Love this feature, and Ivory in general–it’s made my Mastodon experience very nice!
What would make this feature even better for me is if I could assign a filter to a swipe action/behavior. Sometimes when reading trending posts, I’d like to “swipe away” content for six hours or one day. Something to consider maybe?
Remember: Tim Cook views our customers as THEIR customers, our sales as THEIR sales, and the 30% as what they rightfully deserve for gracing us with a platform that we provide no other value to.
@marcoarment I’d like to understand your position on this a bit better:
How much do you object to the app store commission versus the inability to side-load apps? Is it 50/50? 70/30?
What evidence is there that Tim Cook views developers as “gracing you with a platform that you provide no other value to?” It seems like all messaging indicates the opposite, so is this also a response to the 15-30% developer fee?
