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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 05:30:03 JST iced depresso
   someone summarized the LSDJ style input as "for people who already know what they want." and that is probably true. trackers give you a very technical interface for a problem most solved by noodling.
   
   you can noodle on the PC ones but its kinda weird to do. i had wished renoise let you re-bind the keyboard piano keys but it don't :blobcatmelt:
   
   anyway the gptracker on an rg35xx is kind of fun but its definitely more of a deliberate "lets try triplets idk hit play" and less pop out keeb and channel the universe kind of thing.
   
   speaking of. linnstrument jam when :blobcatwhatsthis:
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     woke on a whaleheart (harneyb@decept.org)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 09:57:06 JST woke on a whaleheart

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     @icedquinn When looked at that way of paring down inputs, there's gotta be a sort of simplification of DAWs that almost replicates an old 1-4 track tape recorder but with the aesthetic sparseness in included instruments. Even programs like Audacity or OpenMPT go outside this boundary.
     SuperCollider or CSound with a sequencer and Synth1 or 3xOSC, or GarageBand but all sounds played back are generated with FM presets or Additive synthesis. FL Studio but if it never expanded its feature set past 2004.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 09:58:23 JST iced depresso

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     @HarneyB there is a data wheel on the mpc which is fun. sadly the current ones leave some features to a touch screen, which is annoying, because the wheel is more fun.
     
     separating an interface so you can use a big encoder to navigate it is weirdly comfy
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     woke on a whaleheart (harneyb@decept.org)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 10:19:22 JST woke on a whaleheart

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     @icedquinn I once used an old freeware program just called "VST Host" but despite on paper being just a thing to connect a Klon-type distortion plugin to an amp sim, the user has the option to record the raw output of whatever comes out. And so I ended up getting the best high gain guitar tone not from Studio One or Reaper or Amplitube or a real practice amp, but a bunch of old free plugins in a sort of VST sandbox.
     
     I feel like the private equity firm that started chewing on Ultimate-Guitar and Musescore and Audacity understands this and is trying to transform the latter in this direction. The problem is that IMO any community drama and old cruft could've been sidestepped by building up from a lower level than an audio editor.
     
     Idk where I'm going with the above, but a "Dear Imgui/Nuklear for Music Production" would be sick.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 10:19:22 JST iced depresso

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     @HarneyB bespokesynth?