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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: February 18, 2016, 12:02:30 PM »

Yeah, you actually have to use a 3rd party addon installer program to be able to install Genesis and other less-above-board addons. It's not that hard though. There are plenty of walkthroughs. That's cool you helped with the development. I remember playing around on XBMC on an old soft-modded Xbox. It was cool. Kinda insane KODI is an offshoot of that.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: February 18, 2016, 10:18:37 AM »

Check out KODI. It's a free streaming video player that supports 3rd party addons. Genesis is the main one, it works like Netflix, you just search for what you want and it scrapes all the main streaming services for you. It's insanely convenient and I've been able to keep up on everything that's not on Netflix/borrowed HBO login. Super lightweight too, runs on my old Android phone.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Synthesizers

« on: February 09, 2016, 01:23:34 PM »

Anyone currently using synths in a live band? I've been playing an M-Audio Venom (didn't know M-Audio even built synths until I bought this) with a Kaossilator and running both through a Boss Space Echo pedal before it hits the amplifier. Sounds awesome, and been getting a good diversity of textures and tones.

I use a korg mono/poly

always wanted to try a mono/poly, that oscillator stacking feature looks super fun and sounds HUGE

If you've got multiple synths that accept MIDI, you can chain them to control them with one keyboard. I've got a Moog Slim Phatty and an MS20 mini. I control both with a Microkorg. It's like having a 4-osc synth with 2 EGs and LFOs.

The synthesizer thread, or WHY I CAN'T GET LAID in jpeg format.

As opposed to every other thread on this site? 

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Cities / NYC 2/10-15

« on: February 03, 2016, 10:37:08 AM »

Anything going on during this time? Gonna be loafing around. Was gonna go with a friend but that didn't pan out, so just gonna be floating between friends I know in the city. Any noteworthy shows, record stores, art stuff, places of interest, general cool things to do would be appreciated. Been a couple times to play gigs and it's been mostly awful, so kinda like to enjoy myself this time.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Synthesizers

« on: January 24, 2016, 08:49:17 PM »

Also this is the coolest thing to come out of NAMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76E_eDWkhgU&feature=youtu.be&t=170

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Synthesizers

« on: January 24, 2016, 08:44:00 PM »

Yeah, if you're not gonna gig with it, a cheap MIDI controller and software synths will be a lot more useful than a Microkorg. I've got one but it's basically been relegated to controlling my analog gear. And it's not a very good controller, the keys are kinda cheap and respond weird. It's capable of some cool sounds, but you gotta do a lot of menu diving for that and it's pretty tedious. I don't mean to shit on it, I've had it for a while and gotten a lot of use out of it, but a lot of affordable and highly capable synths have come out in recent years that kind of leave it in the dust. But any decent plug-in will probably sound better and be loads easier to work with.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Synthesizers

« on: January 22, 2016, 02:55:47 PM »

I mean, I dig the EMS/2600 matrix style patching and that it doubles as a 64-step sequencer looks cool and convenient as hell. And I dig the ability to save and call up patches instantly. I've got a Slim Phatty, and while I have some gripes with it, being able to call up a patch on the fly is really useful for performing. I'm sure it'll be cool as hell to screw around with. I think it's kind of crazy though that they go that balls out but don't make it a poly synth.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Synthesizers

« on: January 22, 2016, 01:14:22 PM »

The Minilogue looks pretty awesome. I really like that you can route the EG to the LFO depth/rate. I can imagine you can get some interesting results. Wish they had included a resonant high-pass filter. Never realized how crucial those things are until I got the MS-20 mini and saw how it just pulverizes the signal. But that's just nitpicking and the price on this thing for everything that's included is simply awesome.

I don't even know what to think about that Arturia. I've fooled around on the Micro/Mini and they're fun and have some unique features, but the sound is lacking next to other synths I use. It's great for a cheap subtractive synth, but as a basis for a flagship model seems patently ridiculous. And they couldn't have used a worse promo video to show off the capabilities.

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Music Shit / RIP Nicholas Caldwell (awesome beard dude) of the Whispers

« on: January 12, 2016, 09:53:15 AM »

My favorite member of one of my favorite post-disco/R&B groups the Whispers kicked the bucket last week. Dude's presence in their music videos is always a highlight.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aRvVTSC0I

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Demo Tape / Music video we did for an X-Files compilation record

« on: December 29, 2015, 01:36:11 PM »

Shot it at a motel in Yellow Springs. The old ladies were guests there and asked us to let them be extras. We partied with them afterwards and 2 of them pissed their pants. Apparently the camera was glitching out and dropping frames so the excess ramping throughout the video was done to salvage the footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4QfsX0PU_s

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Music Shit / Re: ugh, hate this guy...

« on: December 11, 2015, 01:33:34 PM »

Nobody involved in this turkey was coming out not looking like an asshole. Anyone who will pay $1 mil+ for this kinda gimmick is virtually guaranteed to be a piece of shit. Cilv is an asshole for pushing the stupid idea, and everyone else isn't much better for going along with it. And the Bill Murray thing just reeks of half-baked viral marketing. Dude is a walking caricature of himself at this point. Whole thing is as contrived and banal as Macaulay Culkin's VU pizza band or that Jack White/ICP collab.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: December 03, 2015, 01:45:46 PM »

Fine youtube screenshot I grabbed the other day

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Music Shit / Re: Secrets For Selling Records

« on: December 01, 2015, 01:55:47 PM »

There's a shop in Columbus that's ostensibly a vintage fountain pen store that doubles as a random junk store scattered with the biggest collection of classical records in town. Most of it is in good condition and the pricing is a flat $3 for mono/$5 for stereo. Have gone there and spent countless hours shuffling around boxes of random transistor radios and vacuum tubes to hunt down that real weird shit. Dude's never tried to upprice anything, but is often reticent to let stuff go and regularly have to engage in a battle of wills to collect on that random Stockhausen that took me 2 hours and a future knee surgery to track down.

Maybe a year or 2 ago I caught wind of a classical collector (basically an archivist, something like 30,000 pristine condition classical records and an even larger jazz collection elsewhere) that was unloading his whole stock. The sale turned out to be right next door to the pen store guy. I'm guessing pen guy's stock was mostly just the excess/sub-graded overflow from next door. Found nearly every concerto/opera/quartet/lieder by every composer I've been looking for for years for a buck a pop no questions asked in actual NM condition and haven't been back to the pen store since.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: December 01, 2015, 12:31:58 PM »

Fargo has been my top shit. Binged on season 1 a couple months ago and absolutely loved it. Started season 2 and the 1st episode had me worried it was gonna pull a True Detective, but I can safely say that's not the case and that it may well surpass S1.

Started High Castle, but gave up halfway through the 2nd episode. Maybe it's good, but it didn't grab me and felt it wasn't worth my time, which is fairly worthless to begin with.

New Mr Show series was a bit dissappointing. I enjoyed it and thought it was funny, but nowhere near as good as the original. Felt a lot like the Arrested Development reboot. All the pieces were there but just didn't quite connect.

Master of None, got through all of it. If you've seen Ansari in anything else, you know what to expect. His schtick is getting pretty tired at this point, but there are some fine moments and some great social commentary. The episode about being an Indian actor was gold. The relationship episodes were fairly cringeworthy, like some bad Zoey Deshanel sitcom on ABC Family. Could have gone without that. Some good cameos throughout, but at this point these Netflix shows are starting to feel like B.F. Skinner boxes for whatever demographic NF is targeting through their massive datamining operation. Very much a by-the-numbers single camera rom-com for the socially-minded, college-educated, tinder-swiping, brunch-as-fuck, late millenial crowd.

Heroes Reborn. Why am I watching this shit?

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Cities / Re: Chicago

« on: November 25, 2015, 03:21:32 PM »

Anything of note going on there this weekend? Headed there on Fri to visit my brother. All the other people I know who live there are transplants and visiting family in their respective states. Trying to figure out what to do. I've seen the bean, ascended the Hancock (or whatever it is now) tower and done most of the touristy stuff before.