Notices by Alison Wilder (alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com)

#fall attire

@Alice that dude really should have been made as a gif with infinite regression. Lost opportunity.

Masto-synchronicity

@mattly because I needed to want the Starlab more than I already do. That sounds super cool!

@killyourfm I know people hate on #AI here, and I totally understand why, but I'm here to tell you that shit is doing my proverbial dishes and laundry everyday and I love it. It has saved me about 10 to 15 hours a week recently. And yeah, of course I only use it to do stuff I hate doing.

Seriously, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool cynic and political curmudgeon, and this badass speech along with the crowd reaction has me in TEARS, swelling with pride. WOW.

#KamalaHarris #Harris2024 #MastodonForHarris

@mattly right? And as a 1981 baby, I'm so traumatized by the political environment I've lived in my whole life that I actually feel *guilty* for feeling so good about it.

It's so unfamiliar!

This Massachusetts crowd is on FIRE for #KamalaHarris, and so am I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfCVWjW42JU

The idea that it can take "up to five business days" for my unsubscribe request to be processed is utter and complete nonsense.

And if one more fucking company tells me to "be patient" while they're performing the classic Lucy-holding-the-football move, I'll just...

Well...I'll just...

Sigh. I'll just be kinda mad and post about it here.

@mattly it's in the big tower when you're going to Midtown to find Clementine. If you ride a bucket to the ground you find these awesome treasure hunters

I love it when great games quote other great games. Just came across this gem in #Stray.

#Skyrim #Belethor

I don't wanna sound all gaga for #bitwig but it just did a series of things that make me gaga:

1. It allowed me to bounce a MIDI clip in place as audio. Wow.
2. It accounted for the fact that the clip has a tail, and set up the new loop appropriately (recorded 2x, set the loop point at the beginning of the second time, see screenshot). WOWOWOWOW

Okay, I know this is severe inside baseball, but it's so good to see software that is so sensitively designed. (Ahem, #WTFAbleton)

#ableton #bitwig5

@mattly oh wow, I forgot about the harmonic splitter. I tried that when it first came out, it's such a great idea, and so well executed.

I'm working with the sampler's grain mode right now. It's honestly so much better and more flexible than the big granular Max instrument built into Ableton.

I'm trying to be impartial, but I'm having so much more fun. :vibing:

@mattly it blows my mind that the point of Ableton is to play live on a laptop, but it was tough to get a few 8-voice granular synths playing together on a brand new Framework laptop w/ the highest-end i7 chip they offer, which is pretty damn fast.

After I do some setup and testing on my studio computer, I'll definitely try putting the session on that laptop and see how Bitwig fares in comparison.

@mattly That's such a kind tip and offer, thank you! I may take you up on it!

I've had a Bitwig license for a few years and have dipped my toe in a few times and enjoyed it, but have always been doing "other things" that required me to abandon it.

But I've recently come to a way of performing that makes use of loads of samplers + session view in Ableton using the Push, so now that the show I was prepping is over, I have some free time and I'm pretty determined to perform in Bitwig from now on!

@mattly Did you find a massive performance difference leaving Ableton? So far it's looking like Bitwig may be WAY better behaved, at least on Windows.

(And of course the idea that I could leave Windows behind and run it natively on Linux is GLORIOUS.)

After working in #Ableton for a month preparing a piece for a show, I'm testing out the #Push 3 in #bitwig to see if I can recreate the piece there, and how the controller works. I don't know the answer yet, but...

BITWIG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

I mean, Ableton worked for what I needed to do, but my GAWD it sucks CPU, and the simplest things (note latch, anyone?) require some weird Max patch that shouldn't need to exist.

Not only that, the Ableton Push is BETTER IN BITWIG. No shit.

#WTFAbleton

Came across Low-Tech Magazine today. It feels like the future and it makes me feel strangely hopeful.

You can learn how to build a bike generator for your home and wire it in, or why fire "remains the most versatile and sustainable household technology that humanity has ever known."

NB: everything in the header area of the site is a link, and they're all interesting. Don't miss out on learning how the site is powered.

#sustainability #climate

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Just started using the "remove results from this site" feature in #Kagi, the paid search engine I've been using for a few months.

Never again will I click on an interesting looking Medium article, only to be told I have to log in to read it. (Spoiler alert: I will not log in.)

If you're using #Medium to share your writing, you might be interested to know that this happens to people who want to read your work. (And maybe that's fine with you!)

@mattly awesome, thank you! Curious what model you have, why you chose it, and how you like it, if you have time to share. :)

p.s. this thread has 100% convinced me to jump on this AWESOME bandwagon!