u/frugalacademic

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I have been looking at the Maschine but I am wodnering if I need it for what I want to do. I want to play in some drums using pads rather than a regular keyboard because i think it will feel more natural if I do it like that.

I have Komplete so I would use studio drummer or battery for the sounds. Does it make sense to buy a Maschine or is it overkill if I won't really use the software? Or is the software really worth it?

I understand that it has its own DAW but you can use it in Ableton as well.

And finally I see quite a few MK2 for sale. Can I still use that well today or should I go for the new MK3?

It's insanely difficult to land a job in academia yet this guy managed to become the youngest professor at Cambridge. Seeing the article in the Guardian, his backstory has so many inconsistencies that it just doesn't make sense how nobody picked up the red flags. I am curious what happened at all the Uni's he worked that they couldn't catch him. The plagiarism seems to be the least bad thing about him.

Yes, this sub is called experiemental music but there are sounds that you want to avoid in your composition/performance.

I have never really done live music, firstly because I never really learned it in-depth but seondlly because I am lo9w-key afraid to make some mistake in the performace resulting in a burst of noise or the sound falling away completely. I started experimenting at home with no-input mixing and some synths as well (like the Behringer Crave). It's quite fun but sometimes, I turn a dial or push a know and I get a sound that totally doesn't fit the rest At home it's not a problem but in a live performance: how do you deal with that kind of things? Do you accept it (it's experimental anyway), or do you have annotations as a kind of score to guide you through a performance?

I saw the catch video of the Chinese rocket and it's quite cool but: does the rocket have fins that act as catchpoints for the wires so it can rest on them or is the rocket only held by friction by keeping the cables as tight as possible?

Also: is there only one level of cables or are there several? I imagine cables at different heights would make it easier to balance the rocket faster and reduce the swinging.

With the World Cup lasting another week, wouldn't it make sense for the team to return to Belgium and train for another week? They are free from their club anyway so it would be a chance to work without the presssure of an upcoming match. The trainings don't have to be intensive, just being together for a week as a group would help them I think.

I commented on a post and it got quite a few likes and replies. Naturally I went to check out some of the repliers and likers and weirdly enough, most of those are private accounts, accounts with 0 or few posts, and none of them related to the topic of my comment. It was a post about the arts sector and none of those people seem to be artists, just random (bot?) accounts.

Now: what's the deal with that? What gain is there for those accounts?

I commented on a post and it got quite a few likes and replies. Naturally I went to check out some of the repliers and likers and weirdly enough, most of those are private accounts, accounts with 0 or few posts, and none of them related to the topic of my comment. It was a post about the arts sector and none of those people seem to be artists, just random bot accounts.

Now: what's the deal with that? What gain is there for those accounts?

I find myself sometimes in a writer's block in the sense that I want to know exactly what I am doing. When synthesizing sound,. I want it to know how the sound gets made exactly so I can replicate it in the future. Especially when workinng with NI Reaktor ensembles, I lose myself in trying to understand all functions and end up recording nothing. It's a bit like impostor syndrome and I think it sems from my time at college where rules where super-important. Anyone else has this problem?

Om een gat in mijn cultuur te vullen besloot ik Tom Lanoye eindelijk eens te lezen. 'Alles moet weg', een vroege roman uit 1988 viel nog mee, hoewel het een doodgewoon verhaaltje betrof. Niets memorabel maar het kon erdoor.

Ik ben nu De Zuivering aan het lezen en ik ta op het punt om er na 2/3, oftewel zo'n 200 oaginas de brui aan te geven. Het is gewoon langdradig en (ook in Alles moet weg maar daar in mindere mate) is daar een soort Vlaams Blok discours. De clichés over vreemdelingen volgen elkaar in sneltempo op en het voelt alsof hij dak wil uithangen via zijn personage. Ik vind het raar dat hij als een linkse kunstenaar wordt voorgesteld terwijl in deze boeken zo'n rechtse gedachthen neerpent. Nu ja, een personage is niet de auteur natuurlijk maar er zit een auto-biografisch aspect aan dat ik dan moeilijk kan verzoenen met de semi-racistische praat in zijn woorden.

Herman Brusselmans verkoopt ook rechtse praat in zijn boeken maar bij hem kan je snel zien dat hij een typetje speelt. Bij Tom Lanoye vind ik dat minder het geval.

TLDR; ik vind Tom Lanoye langdradig.

Hallo (ek het Deeple vir die vertaling gebruik, want ek praat eintlik Nederlands). Ek is op soek na die notene vir 'Duitswes Wals', die bekendste in die weergawe deur Randall Wycomb. Het iemand dit dalk?

Op den duur begin ik tegen de Duivels te supporteren. Dat zijn mannen die in topcompetities staan en een hele voorbereding meekrijgen. Als je dan als ploeg niet kan winnen tegen een ploeg van een land dat in oorlog is, met spelers in 'zwakkere' competities, en een deel dat door de oorlog zelfs geen clubvoetbal heeft gespeeld, dan mogen we ons afvragen of de Rode Duivels niet overschat worden. 'Gouden generatie' is eerder 'klatergouden generatie'. Waarom roep je uberhaupt Lukaku nog op als die als een schlemiel speelt? Of De Bruyne, die er de hele tijd tegen zijn goesting bijloopt.

En laat ons niet vergeten: de Iraniers mogen de VS pas binnen op matchdag en moeten meteen weer vertrekken na de match. Dus zij hebben het minst voorbereiding van eender welke ploeg op dit WK.

Hi

I have the Zoom H5 but I notcied that certainly in quiet nature environments, the noise-to-signal ratio is too high. I am thinking of buying a Zoom F3 as an upgrade from the Zoom H5. Is that a good idea or should I look for something else?

Hi

last year, I wanted to experiment with ultrasonic recording with the EM258 but only got noise (thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fieldrecording/comments/1ja6qg0/using\_the\_em258\_mic\_for\_ultrasonic\_recording/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button)

Without a solution, I put it away but just out of curiosity, I today tried it again, and it was the extension cable between the microphone and the VXLR+ that was casuing the problem. Changing the cable has solved it, so I hope I can fetch some ultrasonic souind in the coming days :-)

I have a problem in my choir: a woman who has a bunch of health problems recently rejoined the choir ()she was a member before I started conducting it). But it's clear she cannot keep up with the rest. Our choir consists mostly of elderly people but those can still 'function' well. I don't want to go into much detail about the health but it impacts her participation: her speech is still suboptimal (singing helps in the longterm, but most of the time she just doesn't sing), she needs assistance moving around (even with a walker, it is complicated), she has impaired eyesight (I made large prints of the lyrics so she can follow), and half of the time, it looks like she's dozing off.

I know she doesn't do that on purpose but it's holding back the rest and putting a strain on the others: we always have to drive her to/from the rehearsal, create alternate versions of the sheet music (and then she doesn't even sing), and during the break and after the rehearsal, she doesn't really socialize. If somebody talk to her, it's as if we are waking her up.

This situation cannot go on and I think it's best to remove her but how do I do that in a good way that doesn't burn bridges?

Some more context:

• We are an amateur choir. It used to be both for church and non-liturgical music but the last 10 years it has been not attached to the church.
• I already provide accommodations:
  • we do warm-up exercises: articulation, singing exercises, rhythm, ...
  • we make custom scores for her. Large font, text onbly because the notes are confusing
  • we transport her from/to home
  • I made recordings of all songs and made them available via SoundCloud and for her I gave a USB stick