▲ 18 r/BlackTransPeople+1 crossposts

To my sapphic transfemmes, how do you flirt?

It's come to my attention that Ive forgotten how to flirt, and beginning my transition has made it even harder and stranger. I also can't tell when people are flirting with me. I literally just misread a man trying to take me home for trying to put my band up for the night.

How do you flirt? How do you know someone is flirting with you?

I've heard eye contact, but to me that just means you're listening. I've heard touching people, but it feels rude and inappropriate to touch people you haven't established enough of a friendly rapport from. I've heard complimenting them, but that's never seemed to move the needle for me and I assume people complimenting me are being nice.

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u/kidkolumbo — 2 days ago
▲ 20 r/guitarpedals+1 crossposts

A venue's sound system rendered my whammy useless

I just finished playing a show about 3 hours ago, and the strangest thing happened. I started a song with my bass whammy set to whammy mode, +2oct, and as the first song went on I was getting out of tune— going sharp.

The sun loved directly under the stage, and the my whammy pedal was loose enough that the vibrations were shaking it to a neutral place, and making me go out of tune. It was wild, never had that happen before. Thankfully I have a pitchfork on my board so it became whammy.

TL;DR — played so loud it shook my whammy out of tune.

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u/kidkolumbo — 2 days ago
▲ 140 r/ableton

Ableton has started a Beginner Series for Learning Live starring Bad Snacks

Watch here.

I remember when Lil Bad Snacks was a baby user on reddit, look how far she's come. The series appears to be ongoing, but some of current topics are:

  • Chord Progressions
  • Chop Samples and Write a Melody
  • Record Vocals

Neat stuff.

As an FYI, they also have other intermedia videos where an artist walks through a track for 20 to 30 minutes and talks about how they made it, mostly with stock devices.

u/kidkolumbo — 16 days ago

I'm unable to change the font color in MacOS 15.2, what gives?

I can change the font, I can change the size, the alignment, but when I click the color option it opens the pallet, and when I click a color nothing happens. The pallet doesn't close, the font doesn't change. No matter the type of font, it won't change. What am I doing wrong?

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u/kidkolumbo — 24 days ago

Is there any place near the west side to buy a bike light at night?

Misplaced my light, need to see. Also a few years ago I came out a bar and saw my light gone, so I feel there's a market for this.

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u/kidkolumbo — 1 month ago

Soft(er) Killswitch pedal with LED?

I've got a saturnworks Killswitch that I mostly love— it works whether or not it's plugged it, plugging it in just turns on the LED status light, and it's really small, like less than 2"x2". My issue though is it clicks when my meat

box signal is going through it. Is there a more fancy Killswitch that maybe does some filtering or something to soften the clock? Currently my solution is to just try and turn it on when I'm not playing a note which isn't convenient.

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u/kidkolumbo — 2 months ago

Is there any way to clear the Shuffle Looper silently?

Title. Very annoying that you always get a little sound as far as I can tell. If I want to make a really loud chopped loop then go to a quiet part of the song and make a quiet loop, there will be a few seconds of just loud noises.

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u/kidkolumbo — 2 months ago
▲ 4 r/Mc707_Mc101+1 crossposts

The 101 is struggling to output a sub bass and a vocal sample without crunching both of them, and recommendations on how to deal with it?

I rolled off the low end of the vocals and set both of their lecture to about 70 which doesn't completely remove the crunch but makes them better audible in the mix. Any other tips?

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u/kidkolumbo — 3 months ago

Those of you who use Live to write to picture, what tempo do you use?

Is it something like 600 so each beat is one tenth of a second? Or am I being silly?

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u/kidkolumbo — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/MacOS

How do I make MacOS forget Wi-Fi details?

I'm using a public computer at work and signed into the wireless using my work email, and now every time I go to the sign in page when I reconnect to the wifi it offers to autofil my information.

Edit: The wifi does not have a password. The portal to get access once connected asks for only an email address. It auto-fills my email address, but not in a regular way (you start typing and it guesses) but a popup saying "Wi-Fi details" comes up and clicking that fills in my email. I want to not have it do that anymore.

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u/kidkolumbo — 3 months ago
▲ 11 r/MtF

I am in love with my cis bestie and it's killing me, how do I get off Mr Bone's Wild Ride?

Can't avoid them, we are in a band together. They're also my number one confident and I don't have a relationship with anyone else I could talk to any this, either because they know her or they're tired of me talking about this (it has been YEARS). It's making me I credibly miserable, and of course it's making me feel as if my transition is invalid (I know it's not but I can't stop feeling it). I've seen so much of their ugliness and it only makes me want them more. They've literally changed my life, and helped me transition. Please share some advice, my goof ass is regularly crying over this person and this is so fucking dumb.

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u/kidkolumbo — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/guitarpedals+1 crossposts

For anyone with a Source Audio drive pedal, how do you set the second output to always output a clean signal?

Title. I could figure it out on my C4, but can't seem to figure it out on my Aftershock for some reason.

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u/kidkolumbo — 3 months ago
▲ 190 r/ableton

New Rules — No Selling, No AI, English Only, Final Destination

Hey y'all, it's me, the mod who is quitting. Finally got around to adding the rules I mentioned last time. I wanted to open the floor one last time to discuss them, or any rule. The goal is to set up a reporting system so when I leave, AutoMod and whoever else mods still around can take out the trash.

Previous post, for reference.

Also, finally fixed "hobbiest". Your Welcome.

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u/kidkolumbo — 3 months ago

Unfortunately the Bin LFO won't work in case the second oscillator stays on for too long. I could have LFO 1 set to random and randomly effect the time of LFO 2, set to piano envelope, but for long cycles it could still be audible for too long, and ideally it's just a short burst of sound. Any other ideas?

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u/kidkolumbo — 4 months ago

Unfortunately the Bin LFO won't work in case the second oscillator stays on for too long. I could have LFO 1 set to random and randomly effect the time of LFO 2, set to piano envelope, but for long cycles it could still be audible for too long, and ideally it's just a short burst of sound. Any other ideas?

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u/kidkolumbo — 4 months ago