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Comment on on Unity2D and llvmpipe, and the differing approaches of fedora and ubuntu by onewayness

onewayness — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:17:30 +0000

Yeah, Unity was a bit of a non-starter for me, especially since I record mostly on a netbook with limited screen real estate. I’ve never quite understood the rationale of the ‘oh, you’ve got less space, so let us fill a bunch of it with big buttons for you’ school of thought. I’m currently running KXStudio (which is essentially a skin on Ubuntu), and I’ve been really reluctant to upgrade the Ubuntu behind it for fear of what it will change under the hood…

Comment on sketchbook: sooperlooping the rhodes by onewayness

onewayness — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:07:36 +0000

I like using a USB foot controller to control SooperLooper, myself, as it allows for easier 2-handed playing. I use one of these little 3-button ones (which are like $70 US), with an add-on expression pedal:

http://logidy.com/?pid=1

…and generally map the buttons to Record, Overdub, and Undo, with the expression pedal mapped to output volume.

Comment on sketchbook: sooperlooping the rhodes by ioflow

ioflow — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:35:07 +0000

glitchy drums? additional parts? ask, and ye shall receive:

http://soundcloud.com/ioflow/20120117-1

reworked into downtempo instrumental trip-hop. of a sort. thanks for makin’ the original loops available!

Comment on sketchbook: sooperlooping the rhodes by Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:17:20 +0000

I really enjoyed that. I don’t know that adding to it is a necessity…maybe just clean up some of the rougher spots.

Of course, I can totally hear what you’re saying about adding to it, as well. I think you could have two very different moods from the same start.

Comment on the (musical) year ahead by DoosC

DoosC — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:10:44 +0000

Dude to my opinion Texel is the track of the year 2011. I already told you it is an awesome track. I have been listening to it randomly on my mp3 player for some time now and it is always a great pleasure to hear it again. So I don’t mind if you take your time. I mean you can do only one track in 2012 and if it is as good as Texel then… wow ! That guy did it again !
Seriously dude Move Along is a great track but Texel is much more, it has more “soul”. More lo-fi downtempo tracks? Hell yeah you are good at it !

Comment on the (musical) year ahead by ioflow

ioflow — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:42:07 +0000

more lo-fi downtempo tunes? yes, please! lookin’ forward to seeing what you create this year.

Comment on the (musical) year ahead by Switchbreak

Switchbreak — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:28:25 +0000

I can’t wait to hear more stuff from you

Comment on new track: new version of “move along” by the (musical) year ahead | woo, tangent

the (musical) year ahead | woo, tangent — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:51:25 +0000

[...] doing myself a disservice to judge my productivity based solely on numbers. Both of those tracks, move along and Texel, took a lot of work, and I’m very proud of how they both turned out. I also spent a [...]

Comment on on Unity2D and llvmpipe, and the differing approaches of fedora and ubuntu by Tom Novelli

Tom Novelli — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:13:43 +0000

Hehe… I switched to Fedora sometime around April because of nonsense like Unity. The first time I tried Ubuntu in April 2007, it just worked, graphics and codecs and everything. No such luck with most subsequent releases. Even back then I had the disturbing insight that Canonical was just imitating Apple, and once they started wasting time screwing around with Apple-style titlebars and menus this year, I couldn’t take it anymore!

The trick with open-source systems is to keep them simple enough that you don’t NEED help from companies that expect favors in return. Linux needs stripping down. Just give me Javascript, Clang, LLVM, OpenGL ES, and JACK. That’d be a start, anyway

Comment on converting MIDI to WAV (or MP3), the easy way by Ronnie May

Ronnie May — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:31:08 +0000

if you’ve got a Mac, just drag the midi file into iTunes and it auto-converts for you.