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Does anyone know anything about the state or sale of this property? I walk by it occasionally to get to either the market, or the gym, and if it's night time, I usually cross the street to walk on the opposite side because a) it smells like piss, b) has trash all over sidewalk, c) has several small groups of people standing on the sidewalk in front of the property, d) has a person or two sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the property, e) is dark and unlit. Quite frankly, it's a shit show. I know there's a 350 person capacity shelter across the street on Bedford Ave, and I can't help but assume that the people I see out front St. Bartholomew's are there because of its proximity to the shelter. In any case, I just want to know if anyone knows anything else about this place. Like I said, it's a shit show. Shame on the owners for not maintaining it or doing something good for the community with it. I bet it was beautiful once upon a time.

Background: I started getting into production about 3 years ago. My first instrument was a Korg Monologue, then I got an Arturia Drumbrute Impact for drums. That was fun, but I wanted more synth layers so I did a little research and got a Digitone 1. I loved it, but I also wanted to trigger vocal samples, so I got the Digitakt 2. I've been playing these two boxes for about two years now, and I've added only the Faderfox PC12 to control parameters on tracks 1-8 of the DT2 and tracks 1-4 of the DN1. This can be fun, but it requires real cognitive work. Doing it stoned, or with an unclear mind is just not possible. That's no complaint, since it is healthy to replace bad habits with good habits and hobbies, and that's what music production is for me, a hobby I enjoy.

Dilemma: I recently took my DN1 on a long flight, and I really enjoyed the reduction in options. I didn't have the DN1 long before getting the DT2, so I didn't really explore the creative ways to create a full song on the DN1 by chaining patterns and using the trig locks to use multiple sounds one tracks. I ended up with kick and hats on track four and snares and claps and other percussive elements on track three, with bass and melodies on track one and two. This turned out to be so fun! And it sounded almost better than when I'm sitting at home in my little basement with all my gear chained together and clocked via midi.

Questions: should I sell my DT2 and just upgrade my DN1 to the DN2? (Independently, I don't really use the DBI, so I might sell that as well). Is there anything I said above that suggests I'm maybe thinking about my set up incorrectly? I can't seem to get the sampler workflow. I never even change machines, and I usually just lay down some basic FoF on the DT2 which always seems somehow lacking, but doing the same on the DN1 sounded really actually quite nice.

Silver Panda playing next Friday and all I know them for is their remix of We Call This Acid. Dress code suggests dresses and heels for the ladies. No way in heck all I'd wanna rave with heeled ladies

I am feeding a chain of three AIYIMA A07 Premium
from an old Amazon echo with aux output to the first a07 rca input, which is feeding the next a07 via aux pre out to rca input and so on for the next one. I turn the volume all the way up on the echo, but I find that the first a07 in the chain controls volume, or if i set the volume on the first one all the way up, the second one control the volume to the third. Does that sound correct to anyone else chaining a07s?