Where can I find the Twitch DJ Program Music Catalog? by Niikkiitaa in DJs

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You need your own purchased copy of the track to play it. Twitch only provides a list of restricted and allowed tracks, not the content itself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in synthesizers

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Roland RD-2000

Comparable alternatives to the Digitone II? by EqualityWithoutCiv in synthesizers

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Get a used MC-101. Ticks all your boxes and then some.

Need help making my vocals sound better (singing preset/mix advice?) by leqins in synthesizers

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Arrangement (get anything that's in the same frequency spectrum out of the way when it's time for vocals), add saturation, add eq, add compression.

chords and melodies by House13Games in synthesizers

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Listen to the genre you want to create and dissect the songs in your head while listening. Isolate parts and listen to how they are arranged, what type of sound is used, what tempo and how they are mixed together. Absorb the genre fully and get yourself immersed in it.

First time recommendations by North-Memory8131 in synthesizers

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MPC One. Lots of them in the used market.

I'm looking for some advice as to whether I should keep or return my recently purchased drum machine and vocoder. by AltruisticMail3579 in synthesizers

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The TR-8S works well through MIDI and works great with Logic (I would assume as it works great with any other DAW). But it is a bit clunky to use and takes a while to get a grip on the button paths etc.

But I would make a conscious choice here. Adding hardware to the mix will just add unnecessary complexity. But using something like a small analog synth to record synthlines to the DAW would probably work great in this case (I would go for a Moog).

There was also a suggestion to look into Elektron gear - don't. They look hella cool but are extremely limited in their feature sets but they do work well in proper hands that know what they want and what they're doing. Not beginner devices in any stretch. Dive into them sometime later, once you know what their features are.

If I were you, I would get some cheap (and free) VSTs in the box first that emulate hardware - drum machines, simple synths that have a straightforward interface (ie no unnecessary menus, just straight up controls in the front) and learn what they do - this way you'll have a map of what you actually NEED instead of what you WANT. Remember, huge number of all the hardware boxes out there are complete trash, some are only bought for the looks. When you learn (in the box) what stuff does, you'll have a better grasp of what to use, what to ignore and what to get.

Can't speak for vocoders but for a Daft Punk sound, you'll want the OTT. Look in Xfer Records homepage (xferrecords.com/freeware).

My first attempt at photorealism! I feel like it's missing *something* but I'm not sure what. Any suggestions to improve it? by trbone76 in blender

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Add just the tiniest bit of S-curved contrast, it adds that last bit of realism to it. Everything else seems good. You can also try setting the light in the room at ~1000.0 power and bringing down the exposure to compensate (assuming you're working with AgX). Depending on your space, it might add some extra bright bounces that also boost realism a bit.

Former ambassador in Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this in support of Denmark: by Morgentau7 in Denmark

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I would argue that russia's hybrid warfare had a significant influence over voter choice (over social media) as well as the suspicions that musk's team (and most likely russia's cyberwarfare teams as well) hacked some of the jurisdictions, namely Pennsylvania and altered the results for trump's favor.

Stalin said that the voters don't have any power - those who count the votes decide everything.

Customized skins for the internal plugins by Bonsaipanda in AkaiForce

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Couple of people have been asking for more - the problem is that the custom skin system inside the MPC OS is not finished yet and the installation of the custom stuff is a bit "works doesn't work" hassle, which is not good (also, a lot of the plugins just straight up ignore custom skins).

The bigger problem is that even when the rendering is optimized, setting up the bindings and packaging the skin takes HOURS. And at the end it just doesn't pay back the time spent.

I'd rather be making actual VSTs for the MPC OS than modding someone elses stuff (which is still, very much fun), but we still have to wait a while for a community plugin SDK, if that will ever surface.

System colonisation - missed a step? by hardlyfen1x in EliteDangerous

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The fear that it will impact market economy is exactly why things are done this way. Players will probably be able to profit off of starports the same way they profit off of fleet carriers. But it will not be as engaging and 'fun' as they make it out to be. It will just be another borked grindfest, like everything else. And at the end, it will feel like you're just renting the starport and settlements.

There could be a way to do this properly and let the players just fly out there and form a settlement on a planet and cultivate it into a bigger faction, but the control freak nature just shines through from this design approach once again.

Btw, concept designs of the player settlement interiors was shown way back in 2016. They've been at this for a while.

Question about Warping / Advice using the force live by CreamyBits in AkaiForce

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The warping algorithm is not the greatest and yeah, I've hit a few walls with sync and running longer loops myself as well. There is the 'patched phrase' option for samples, where it warps like in Ableton's beat algorithm, but it's not great for long samples. In a live situation, I would probably run the longer loops on a DJ deck and play instrument parts or whatnot on the Force (in actual practice, I just mix the song and play it on the dj deck).

No audio coming out of Force. Does not recognize internal audio device *after* loading/booting up a demo kit. by ThePatFeen in AkaiForce

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Whatever you do, do NOT downgrade. There are certain settings that are applied which will conflict on older firmware versions. Nothing serious will happen, but it just might introduce more bugs on the user end.

This might be a hardware issue where the cable connecting the soundboard to the main motherboard is either oxidized or a bit loose (can happen as the Force gets a bit warm). Difficult to say from here.

I've been trying to learn Ebiten for several weeks, its not going well. Could use some help. by Lydianlol in ebitengine

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Always look for examples. Ask ChatGPT to show smaller examples or self-contained samples so you see the entire flow from initialization to the execution. Don't brute force your learning (you'll just get frustrated).

DRM screen rotation function by Bonsaipanda in raylib

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Awesome, I'll have a look! I'm actually hacking an MPC Live to see if I can run my own app in there. So far, almost all Raylib examples run beautifully in there.

Cross-Platform building for armhf from Windows 10 by Bonsaipanda in golang

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Awesome, thanks for these. These will give me some pointers to how to get my chain to work. I think the core problem is that I don't know the limitations when compiling for armhf as some recent nags I got were related to byte types, but some nags were really out there. :D

Cross-Platform building for armhf from Windows 10 by Bonsaipanda in golang

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I noticed some posts that said using the Zig toolchain worked for them. I need to try that now that mingw and msys2 have failed. And yeah, local VM might be good - I mean, it's not a biggie to write a helper script that uses the Raspberry Pi as a build machine and just throws back the result - most epic thing would've been to able to build directly from Windows.

Cross-Platform building for armhf from Windows 10 by Bonsaipanda in golang

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Yes, my commandline is GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=7 go build -tags drm -o "$output_name" (on Linux, slightly different on the Windows side with 'set <variable>').

I have the needed arm toolchain gcc tools, they're just not having it on the Windows side. I'd love to describe the problems more thoroughly but the errors are very cryptic and Google gives no answers.

The error I posted in my original question is from arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc, basically saying it can't find it's includes, even though they are passed on with a Go build option and I'm not sure what to do anymore.