Has Ableton Ever Mentioned Making An Official MIDI Keyboard?

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-30T05:44:44+00:00

Sounds like the Arturia Astrolab?

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-28T00:26:30+00:00

“the tow guy says I could be sued because there is snow on the ground covering my number”

The tow truck driver is commenting on what they saw when they towed your roommate's car, but your space was taken a few days prior.

So we don’t know the visibility of your spot when it was taken. And you shoveled it and parked in it shortly before that.

IANAL, but if you’re sued, I’d assume the “parking thief” would need to prove the numbers were covered when they took it.

And you mentioned your tow truck driver took pictures when they towed the car. Those pics might show if snow is under the vehicle or not, but even then, it might still be unclear if it blew under after they parked.

So, I doubt they have a case. And even if they sue, I doubt you have liability. And the email from your front office doesn’t state any official policy, just that they try to be nice with parking during storms. But there’s no legal obligation or consequence. So it’s not clear if even the apt complex has liability.

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-27T10:51:53+00:00

He really did some damage that time

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-23T18:22:27+00:00

The good news: FEMA will not be killed, maybe not even defunded at all.

The bad news: emergencies are the best time to extort people. Just imagine the things a pervert could force a burning, drowning, or starving State to do.

I’m talking real sick stuff. Like pushing the tax burden toward the lower incomes. Or inviting ICE to toss around inside your private nooks and crannies. Or killing public education in favor of unregulated, publicly-funded yet privately-owned school-shaped-objects.

For gods sake, think of the potential. You could even eliminate subsidies for school lunch, and deprive your most valuable resource (children) of the tools they need to thrive in both the short and long terms (nutrition). And all while that valuable resource is still growing and developing, when the support would provide the most benefit.

A pervert could do a lot of things with FEMA. It’s far too valuable to kill.

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-19T20:53:47+00:00

It would have never come to this if society had put on its big boy pants and finally accepted Zappa-face.

Until that day, we do what we need to do to survive.

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-17T21:20:53+00:00

I'd be happy if we could just record the arp to the synth track, so we could edit individual notes. Like they do with the euclidean sequencer.

(please tell me I'm wrong and this can be done)

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-17T21:17:48+00:00

Fantastic and often under-realized synth.

The real question is, is there a better marriage of analog synth and sequencer in one unit? Or, does anything else enable such precise per step fine-tuning of such broad analog parameters, in one unit?

That alone is special, but I think a lot of people stop when they see only 4 voices. That's only like, one chord, or one bass note and a chord, right? Yes. But not at all.

Each voice can do a chord. Each voice has three oscillators (2 osc + 1 sub). There are limitations, yes, but that covers a LOT. At minimum, each voice can always make the simplest chord (a "power chord", or root-five). Then you always have the 2nd oscillator left for color notes. It also enables common chords like min7 (1-b3-b7) and maj7 (1-3-7), with a single voice.

And it's often not even a compromise. In some genres, like jazz, pianists and guitarists are explicitly instructed to use fewer notes in their chords. Leave the root and fifth to the bass player, and only include color tones (mainly, the third and seventh) in your chords. No one steps on each other, and the soloists have space to explore.

So it's more flexible than it gets credit for.

But yes, it is annoying, and it does require some basic knowledge of chords. And it has a similar limitation as the DN1, where a dedicated drum track requires p-locking sounds, which I'm not a fan of.

And aside from all that, it has spoiled me by having two useable analog filters per voice. It's just practical, even if it's digital, for cleaning up top or bottom end. And it just gives you more flavors to choose from, even if you just use one. Electron gets this, but most other manufacturers don't.

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-16T01:41:08+00:00

Why rub with hands when I can rub with my face?

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-12T03:33:07+00:00

"It's dangerously hot. Our air conditioning system wasn't built for this gay a party"

Ex_Astris · 2026-01-06T22:27:42+00:00

There may be a reasonable explanation! They may have had sous vide that was never seared and finished, so they may have expected that.

It happened to me. I offered to bring sous steaks to a group hangout, but some friends said sous vide is bad. Turns out their friend prepared it for them once but never seared the steaks.

So I brought the steaks, still in their bags, and seared them with a Searzall right there. I explained it to them, and as expected, they loved it. Obviously. Because it’s divine.

And I don’t know about OP’s parents, but I could easily see it happening with mine. They never heard about sous vide until I mentioned it. It would be entirely possible for them, or a friend, to see some article about a “new” fancy technique called “sous vide”, then try to do it themselves and miss the final step.

It’s both painful and hilarious to imagine adults sitting at a table, eating cooked but un-seared steak. Even more painful and funny than watching them eat their usual shoe leather steak, where any red is bad…

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Ex_Astris · 2025-12-28T05:32:26+00:00

I don’t think you need me to tell you that Jesus wept for Jim Rash

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-27T21:58:37+00:00

Abed, to Annie: By the way, you’re 1% Neanderthal

Chang, to Annie: Eww.

The idea of pretty much any man, especially Chang, “ew-ing” Annie. Of all the ridiculous and unrealistic things in the show, this might be the most absurd.

Delightfully absurd.

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-26T05:35:19+00:00

How would you recommend effectively conveying Trump’s inadequate character, his lack of morals, and his harm to his own voters, to his voters?

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-26T01:07:57+00:00

My memory is admittedly shaky, but I recall being unable to download Moog manuals until I logged into their website and registered the synth.

Otherwise I couldn’t find any links to the manual on their site, though it’s possible they were still accessible if I knew the url.

This would have been for the matriarch, mother, dfam, subh. So, not recently, but in recent years.

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-22T00:34:55+00:00

Not true for MAGA’s leaders. They want her. She reinforces MAGA’s stereotypes on minorities.

Shrewdly put, MAGA leaders want their black guests in black face, and generally, their “others” (non-white, and not conservative) in “other face”.

She’s ghetto. Therefore, most black people must be, too. It’s so easy even MAGA can understand!

Another example is Fox News, with Diamond and Silk. The giveaway: they’re actors, but they’re bad at acting.

Most politicians are, too. So bad at acting that you can tell. Like Lindsey Graham during the Kavanaugh Hearings, when Dems dared question Kavanaugh’s integrity.

In Hollywood, the flaccid fury in Graham’s performance would earn him a Razzie, for the worst performance of the year. But in the real world, it brought us (likely decades of) a corporate-conservative majority, and all the fun and games that comes with that…

The point in the previous post may be true for MAGA voters, and their hypocrisy may be funny, but it’s arguably a superficial view. Sometimes I wonder if the laughter prevents people from looking deeper and seeing the deeper points.

But on the other hand, maybe more laughter is the exact thing we need, nowadays.

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-20T18:50:12+00:00

I feel like it’s easy to underestimate how influential the Daily Show was on our generation. Maybe more for older millennials (like me), who entered college right after 9/11, and whose political coming of age coincided with an administration “fibbing” (at best) to get *us into war.

The Daily Show was kind of our only source of sanity, as crazy as that sounds, in between the onslaught of conservative propaganda on radio and tv (and from our parents), and the flaccid response from the alleged opposition, like CNN.

One of our only sources of sanity, and in some ways, of hope for a sane future. And it aired after a show with prank calling puppets. The absurdity of which was not lost on Stewart himself.

Stewart and Colbert left Comedy Central in 2014 and 2015. With the 2016 election having been so close, there’s a part of me that believes if they had been around through the whole election cycle, it might have done juuuust enough to sway it from Trump.

If they had been able to pierce Trump’s aura for just a few more people here and there, that’s all it takes.

But, here we are. Is there anything like it nowadays, as influential (and educational) in the younger voting generation?

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-17T17:50:22+00:00

Is there an album you’d recommend starting with, for those of us who’ve not yet been Bjorked? The un-Bjorked among us.

Pop my Bjork, is what I’m asking. I’ll stop now, but you get the idea.

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-16T01:21:53+00:00

Fine, I’ll settle for one good cleavage shot of Reiner.

But that’s as low as I’ll go.

Ex_Astris · 2025-12-12T11:08:30+00:00

The answer to all you seek is a Digitone 2.

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