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"We wound up just deciding that we should play it to the click, speed up the pauses just a bit. It takes away a little personality but keeps the song tight."

I wouldn't have done that, in though it's a massive pain I would have used the tools in the DAW to change the timing to match the song, and not the other way around.

I have bought from Foyles, Waterstones and Blackwells - all in the UK. What makes them special, well they are not Amazon. And Foyles used to be amazing, I haven't been for many years but it used to be the largest bookshop in the world in shelf length.

That is really cold, but the temperature I would keep an unused house at. If I tried to do that in our current place, my family would be extremely angry - we have it at 20 and even then I get complaints.

As a Taycan owner I would say it isn’t ( there are a lot of factors involved to sum that up ).

It’s a better car though.

It’s cheap for the range you get. That’s about it in my personal opinion.

Prefer Polestar, Hyundai, Kia and a whole bunch of others to Tesla.

You are not allowed to be driving anything while drunk in Sweden.

Being there are the time of release and it capturing a certain feeling and mood of that time.

I was, and looking back on it, its very nostalgic but some of the music hasn't aged well such as some KLF tracks. Early Liam Howlett (The Prodigy) tracks I must admit I find interesting just because of all the sources sampled and how it was worked with the hardware available at the time with a raw energy that I remember when I was 17/18

Sounds like you are judging the book without reading it, it covers most of what you are talking about and more.

In fact I would go so far to say if you had worked with them you are going to find the book really interesting.

Spoiler: it totally works

Downvoted because you obviously haven’t tried it.

Totally agree. I tried it, found water.

Doesn’t really combine those things the GP is talking about.

I have VCV installed but never use it because I have a large modular system - the hardware is just so much more fun.

With difficulty. Can cause a great deal of stress unless you manage it.

Also getting a firm grounding in the fundamentals let’s you quickly take in new learning as mostly the new stuff is a rehash/reimplementation/pivot on old ideas.

Yeah Foyles was excellent. Spent many an hour there, can’t say I have been in the last 15 years though.

That site design takes me back.

Its more that the whole operating system was better for creative tasks, from font management to color management, as you touch upon, then the software started building on that.

The Studio XDR display is not a replacement for a reference monitor and Apple ended up back pedalling on claiming it was. I don't know why you think what it looks like matters, or the size as they are a professional tools.

I used Photoshop on Irix running on an SGI, and the SGI back in the day was way more powerful than anything Apple produced for serious tasks (not sure it was a better Photoshop machine though).

It's not based on the whims of a company, it's usually based on what runs the software they need to run well, and what the operators like working with and how well it integrates with the rest of the production line.

The higher up in the food chain you get with production the less these machines are used as general purpose computing boxes and the more they just run one task (be it color grading, compositing, editing, sound editing & foley).

Yes, you can use Windows/Linux PCs, and they make more sense for a lot of 3D work and certain other tasks but at the end of the day Apple macOS and hardware just make sense and the cost is not a problem.

I use OmniOS - its actually not that rare to use if you want a good ZFS server. I am about to do a fresh install on new hardware of it as well. Its not legacy at all.

Well I am on the fence at the moment. Perhaps I should be downvoted for being indecisive!

One of my first thoughts when I saw the changes to LiveView was "What does this mean for the AlchemistCamp videos"!

I admit it's a long time since I used Rails and Ruby, and it was around the same time I was learning Python and Django back when Rails was the hot thing - but Django seemed to be more straight forward and less of "So why is this working". If you read the PEP20 Zen of Python that resonates much more soundly with me particularly "Explicit is better than implicit."

This drives me nuts for example: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#re... - ok it's automatically parsing and rendering that template, based on that route and controller and it's less code but less explicit. And it assumes that we have written all the filenames correctly.

Oh my god, why didn't I know about "h Module.some_command`. Thanks, that is going to be really helpful!

Will be reading the IEx documentation more closely.

Thanks for the reply. I go through great days with Elixir/Phoenix and bad days, yesterday happened to be a bad day.

I really like the promise of Phoenix, it really is one of the most forward thinking projects I have come across - hence continuing using it, though I don't have all the time in the world to invest in it so just jumping in and out can be painful.

Want this project to work though, I have tried commercial products, IOS apps, and nothing matches upto my vision or indeed my old working prototype.

Hey drcongo long time no speak! But I can’t say that is the way to do it anymore.

Often you have to make sure that there is not multiple things going on down there, so you high pass a lot of the elements in a track. Then the sub of a Kick can’t be out of phase with a sub bass. You can duck one of them so they dont occur at the same time (probably still the way a lot of people do it), or you automate a high pass eq in relation to the other sound which can cause other phase issue but tends to work really well and is easy. Or you align the waveforms of the kick and the bass to match in phase and control the ducking more manually.

It also depends on the playback medium to some extent - vinyl has a slightly different set of challenges to digital.

Check this out for reference: https://youtu.be/K-eneMG_DVE

There was a bit of a trend in the UK over the last 12 to 18 months, to mix breakbeats and house. Early 90s house (particularly from Europe) used sub bass and breaks quite often before all the formulas got more settled. The trouble is the influences don’t quite match up very well between Jungle and House.

Room correction rarely can get as good a result as actually sorting out the room, particularly at concert/club levels.

Plastic People (Oxford Street or Shoreditch) was indeed an amazing experience. I went a lot. But its soundsystem was not quite on the same level as Fabric’s or The Ends - those two both seemed to have the sound system more integrated with the rooms design with huge reserves of power so everything was crystal clear and no ringing ears afterwards.

PP did have a better sound system than 99% of clubs I have been to around the world though - it was no slouch.

Most club owners will not spend half to two thirds of their budget on room acoustics and speakers. They build an expensive looking bar and VIP room instead.

It doesn’t just work in my experience. Once its working it is fine, better than fine in fact. But I am going through a process of upgrading a Phoenix LiveView hobby site and its been miserable.

For some reason LiveView has changed between versions, and the documentation isn’t the greatest on explaining why or what to do to remedy it, but its broke my app. I’ve managed to fix the majority of it but then the third party libraries used have not kept up (for authentication of all things). There is so little people using Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView that libraries are often poor quality and maintained by one person or very few people. It makes me miss Django for the batteries included completeness, quality of documentation and eco system.

Phoenix also feels a little bit magical in the way Rails is, and I hated Rails for that. Give me configuration over convention and stop with the damn macros.

I am also not convinced with Elixir as a language, I miss types, I miss C# and Typescripts documentation or the fact they feel well designed, I want something to replace Python as my goto and Elixir just feels like a dead end that happens to have a web framework with some excellent ideas.

So I am currently thinking of rewriting the whole damn thing and leaving Elixir.

Why not look into adoption? There are many many children looking for a stable, loving environment.