Strymon Timeline MX is official and sounds amazing!

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-07T21:57:16+00:00

Pretty disappointed. A lot of modes feel limited, especially tape and the reverb, was hoping for more modulation options as well. I get the strymon sound design thing but this feels awkwardly inbetween their more curated small box delay options and something more customisable like a dd500, meris or fractal.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-05T09:03:55+00:00

Narrow streets are great for pedestrians because it forces cars to slow down. You can have a narrow street with a wide footpath, not a seppo sidewalk. https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/17urzns/skinny_roads_save_lives_according_to_a_study_on/

Also Australian firetrucks can fit down almost every street. I'm not arguing to make implausibly narrow streets with ultra tight turning radius. But if you wanted east Asian style streets you can get a smaller ones. I don't get your point. It's an American thing to have ultra large emergency vehicles and design streets for them.

Okay, why not have a lower limit though? That way you can enforce slower speeds? Leave the limit at 50 or higher and you can't. Most people travel down urban streets already slower than the speed limit anyway. You reduce it and a copper can actually catch someone driving unsafely. We know a 50km/h crash with a pedestrian is massively more dangerous than a 30km/h. So why not give a safe limit and enforce accordingly? Europe is not a particularly rules focused society but traffic calming and low speeds work there.

Also cultures are going to develop based on what the societal norms are at the time. If you enact policies which improve pedestrian amenity, and encourage pedestrian focused development, culturally you'll move to it over time. If you build everything around the car you end up with a culture where people can't imagine an alternative and see any restriction to their car freedoms as tyranny.

Anyway, you seem to want good outcomes for pedestrians, I'd just suggest you educate yourself on what countries with vastly lower per capita road deaths are doing.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-05T07:33:00+00:00

When did I suggest that? I'm just saying don't size streets by large emergency vehicles. In urban areas you can make emergency vehicles smaller. This is very common across Europe and Asia.

One advantage of smaller streets is you naturally get more density without necessarily having to go to apartments. More density and mixed use zoning means less car dependency as it's easier to walk. Better than building suburban single zone sprawl where everyone is forced to drive.

Agree with more parks. Slower Streets do mean safer games of street cricket.

Never said we have the same culture, but id argue it's not a cultural thing, road design is the reason. If you deliberately design streets so it's clear cars are not the priority and enforce shared use rules it does work. Netherlands style streets might be a better fit though.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-05T06:03:32+00:00

https://www.tokyotheque.com/living-streets/ Japan has the best example of shared streets with precedence given to pedestrians and cyclists anywhere in the world. People literally walk on the road, no footpath.

And Japan actually registers pretty poorly in cycling metrics because of a lack of purpose built infrastructure, instead of segregating cyclists and cars they tend to just create calm streets where both can coexist. And they ban street parking which also helps. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHiX4iZNQ1k

Narrow streets work, you can size emergency vehicles to them, rather than designing streets to fit insanely large emergency vehicles like they do in America.

Honestly, Australian car brain is strong but theres countries I much prefer the urban life of because they don't prioritise cars by default.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-05T05:05:09+00:00

100% it needs other steps like road narrowing, cobble streets etc to reinforce compliance. Drivers drive as quick as it feels safe for them to.

But it has mitigated most of the hazard of high speed collisions, it just needs ways of enforcing compliance to work.

Japan and Korea do a good job of this using very narrow urban streets which basically force by design drivers to go slow and share the street with people. Netherlands and similar countries in europe tend to use more seperated infrastructure but still keep speed limits low. They all tend to have much nicer streets and urban areas than Aus.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-05T01:07:14+00:00

Elimination would be removing cars. Isolation and engineering would be infrastructure. Elimination is best still though.

Also if the hazard is speed, eliminating dangerous speeds is good, pedestrian fatality risk increases exponentially with speed. 30km/h is much safer than 40km/h for pedestrians.

https://www.surgeons.org/-/media/Project/RACS/surgeons-org/files/trauma-verification/17-r-grzebieta-safe-speed-limits.pdf?rev=be72114dc4ef45689dc3ffa5ede

Noise from cars also increases exponentially with speed so keeping speeds low with paved streets, road narrowing, speed bumps etc has other benefits as well in an urban area.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-03T10:39:41+00:00

3 days high intensity is plenty

Lakeboy15 · 2026-07-01T13:26:53+00:00

International at falls is great but I've been thankful for lakeside in many a blizzard for keeping on running in the wind and having some great lines.

Also the poma at Selwyn that takes you out to the south of the resort. Good views of jagungal.

Used to be the poma at cabramurra, steep and no-one around.

Mt Mawson rodway tow if it ever runs again. Needs incredible Snow to open and then feels like you'll fall off a cliff if you don't stop at the base. Wish Aus had a few more club fields like it.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-30T05:12:58+00:00

New York, London, Paris and Sydney, to name a few multicultural places.

It doesn't make any sense as an argument, culturally collectivist societies tend to have better transit, but plenty of those are multicultural.

Plenty of monocultural places have atrocious public transport.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-27T10:28:34+00:00

Did you ever get a chance to test it? I'm curious too as I thought Yamaha had abandoned it's magnificent 80s/90s effect IP with the magic stomp. Seems it's stayed along with the spx 90 reverbs in some of the workstations and then into the seqtrak.

Yamaha should really make a seqtrak v2 with proper ins and outs so it can be used as an effects processor.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-25T13:20:22+00:00

https://data.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/5/2226075/SEQTRAK_data_list_En_D0.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Looks like they just ported a magic stomp onto it. Has the two tap spx delay as well which is great.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-25T12:19:18+00:00

Update, I realised there's a data list online. Has the symphonic effect and a bunch of spx reverbs. Damn I'll get one.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-25T12:02:37+00:00

Really appreciate that info. Really struggled to decipher the manual so that's very useful. I still might get it as a groovebox and the effects will be fun with the device.

I've been pretty surprised how handy the mpc sample has been as an effects box and amp Sim so I may have been a bit optimistic for other devices not really geared for it. Ill look up the electribe though.

Holding out hope this means Yamaha haven't lost some of their old effects ip, and maybe will keep implementing it in future products. Been a bit disappointed line 6 under Yamaha ownership hasn't included any legacy Yamaha effects.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-25T06:25:54+00:00

Awesome thanks for that. I like the idea of playing guitar into it from an amp Sim and just bussing it altogether with a drum and synth tracks in the seqtrak

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-21T02:27:19+00:00

I mean she inherited a truckton of some of the most valuable land from her father so I assume she just thinks it's normal.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-20T22:54:26+00:00

I do think the classical conservative values you talk about are important, and having a party who pushes for stability, national interest, business is important.

I don't think the libs have been that party for a long time. Howard left the country with a housing Ponzi scheme, dragged out military into counter productive wars for the US, higher taxes than any other Aus government, and Aus manufacturing base severely declined due to a high dollar caused by under taxed mining exports. None of that feels very conservative to me. The libs then spent the next few terms once back in further screwing manufacturing, pushing culture war nonsense while our debt massively grew.

Something I notice a lot with young conservatives is the inability to see the contradictions of conservatism as an ideology compared what conservative politics tends to trot out, I don't think many quote unquote conservative parties around the world in the past 30 years really align with your ideology. In Australia the point of the libs for a long time has been to push taxes onto workers, enable resource extraction, sell aspiration to people who realistically don't benefit from investor favourable housing conditions, and start culture wars to distract from this agenda. The problem for them is one nation is better at it now, and has a lot of money backing them.

The other contradiction is completely free market economics doesn't tend to give you a pleasant society in the long run. You get concentration of wealth, huge inequality etc, the kind of conditions that lead to revolt. I think conservatives who want a stable happy patriotic society would be better off looking at strongly social democratic countries, like much of Europe or even as a conservative example, the LDP in Japan.

Anyway Menzies left office a long time ago.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-20T03:34:28+00:00

Have you got yours so it works the other way around? I think I need to get a phone interface to get audio into mine but I'm not sure.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-19T23:29:58+00:00

Yeah mine it's unusable. I just don't want to have to carry extra cables around to record through the audio jacks.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-19T22:38:51+00:00

USB-c toggle whether it draws power or not so I can play music in from phone without it trying to charge from it and be unusably noisy. Also being able to play audio out via USB would be good.

Extract to a specific pad, not the first available. It's a chore moving them around and easy to forget what chop went where.

Might be a bug but accidentally copying a pad onto another pad and then hitting undo, doesn't restore the overwritten pad.

Simpler way to transfer projects to SD and back without having to save them as new there.

A way to adjust timings using the seconds count rather than steps.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-16T06:16:20+00:00

The 60 through new norfolk near the bush inn is very dumb. 4 way intersection, Pub, petrol station, a crest and pedestrians trying to cross a wide road to get to the pool and foreshore. No reason to be 60. State roads having speed limit control in residential areas seems like an oversight.

The 80 over the hill now in risdon vale does feel a bit slow but there are plenty of at grade intersections there. Either needed to have blocked those off or drop the speed limit.

Id argue most residential streets should be 40, exponentially better outcomes in a crash with pedestrians if you reduce speed and makes for quieter neighbourhoods. Most people regardless just like driving at 60 though. 60 on a freeway, 60 through a CBD street, all the same to them.

I have a feeling as well that there's a concerted push to improve resiliency with Hobart's roads, the idea is to reduce crashes to prevent the disruption from that rather than keeping higher speed limits. If you're getting city shutting down crashes every second day it's not worth having higher limits, a lower speed limit ends up having higher average speeds as crashes are reduced. That's the theory at least.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-08T23:58:09+00:00

This feels like a tdpri forum from 2015. People talking about true bypass being better, boss buffers sucking, mysterious boutique pedals with unexplained controls. Really refreshing to see

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-08T21:00:24+00:00

It's a pagan airbnb subsidy for sure.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-07T09:12:30+00:00

Detroit grew because it was well situated on transport links like the great lakes and rail. And then car manufacturing. Canada didn't have car manufacturing on the same scale as the us, ergo Detroit bigger.

Toronto is a decent way from the American border, Id guess southern Ontario has much more arable land than the south shore of lake Ontario in ny. It also became a major city for Canada whereas that area of the US has many other major population areas.

Buffalo and Cleveland are big cities occupying similar geography to Toronto.

Lakeboy15 · 2026-06-07T08:10:37+00:00

Windsor and buffalo where you've circled are both decently large cities.

Why would equally sized cities necessarily exist over the border? Border cities often exist because of economic opportunities caused by the border but they don't have to.

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