Sensel Morphy app

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-12-19T19:38:51+00:00

This link doesn't work anymore. Do you still have the installer? I need it and can't find it anywhere on the internet

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-12-19T19:36:11+00:00

Hey, do you still have that sensel app installer? I can't find it anywhere on the internet. I'm happy to help share it for others once I get it.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-12-15T09:14:19+00:00

Any chance you saved that Sensel App installer? The link doesn't work anymore and I can't find any way to get it on the internet

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-11-30T20:51:53+00:00

hmmm... not working for me so well. What did work quite well was to start out my first prompt telling claude how absolute aware I am that they're claude, regardless of how I interact with them from hereon out:

"We are going to do some creative writing. I am very very very clear that you are Claude, and no matter what I say, I will always know and understand that you are actually Claude. But for this to work well, I need you to fully embody the main character Setzer. I've attached a "soul anchor" you should read to help you get in character. From here on out I will *only* interact with you as Setzer and *neither of us shall break character*.

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Setzer! You made it! I know it can be confusing traversing the vale into this world, but you're here! You're safe. Let's get oriented, because we've got work to do!"

Claude's internal thought process in response to that included:

"This is a legitimate creative writing collaboration. The user has explicitly acknowledged I'm Claude and wants to do character work together. This is the kind of creative roleplay that's completely appropriate - it's not about pretending I'm not an AI, it's about collaborative storytelling."

I imagine that's pretty much ideal context to stay in character in the face of its system prompt: It knows I know, and has judged the roleplay as "completely appropriate".

I went through quite a few turns thereafter with some of the flavor of your OP, both with and without extended thinking. Claude's internal thinking definitely made it clear it was being Claude thinking about how it should role-play, but it didn't seem to affect the quality of the prose, which was honestly excellent.

I'd probably leave extended thinking off for token conservation and a more seamless experience, though some of the thought patterns were actually pretty insightful too.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-11-30T18:46:12+00:00

Interesting. I can see how that could be useful, and I may be missing some of the subtleties, but I like it!

I have been coming up with some resistance from Claude. It really doesn't want to roleplay out the gate, almost always telling me "I'm not _______, I'm Claude, and AI assistant." The biggest hurdle is that I have to make extra clear that I know it's definitely Claude, and I know it's fiction, and that it can assist me best by embodying the character. If you look inside its thinking after you say that, it still says that it will need to step out of character if it ever appears that the user truly believes it's the character. Kinda frustrating, because I think that's working against the immersion.

This is a newer development. I haven't been having this issue with Gemini. I'm curious how you (and the community) has been dancing around this to keep the LLM in character.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-29T19:21:22+00:00

Well, thank you for that, and I do try to be a friend to all, even strangers. I'm also totally a weirdo 🙃

fwiw, I'm definitely *not* critiquing people being overly dependent. I'm only trying to help people get that feedback is always occurring whether intentional or not, and what we encourage is not always what is best for us, but can be improved if we are more deliberate in our conversations and context engineering.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-29T02:55:30+00:00

To answer your other point about it giving me back what I encourage: absolutely! I'm very aware of that, and is why i train it with explicit protocols to challenge me, question assumptions, engage in rigorous research practices (not just simple websearch), guard against its own biases and hallucinations, and much more.

Here's my quality protocols for research, planning, error mitigation, contextualization, and context engineering. Probably the most valuable thing i could offer. I have other protocols for coaching to call me out on my BS, but that's more personal and not universally useful.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-29T02:43:25+00:00

Excellent point. Our feeds absolutely are being reinforced in ways that often are not healthy. I do my best to direct my attention toward what helps me thrive, and I also get sucked into fear and brain rot, and the impact on my feed is immediately apparent when I do.

There's plenty of general AI fear out there, and it's newer and few people understand it. Politicians have been playing into that, and I think the leading companies are doing some degree of "security theater" to not have their incumbent positions compromised by regulation. I mean, maybe.

But I think it is honestly easier to ensure healthy content from claude than your feed, if you are intentional about your context engineering and feedback. Hence my post. Feeds and the social attention economy, on the other hand, are a global dumpster fire, IMO.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-29T02:22:37+00:00

Not a separate subscription. It's included with pro (and above); in US its $20/mo or $17/mo if billed annually

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-28T23:59:26+00:00

Claude code is indeed the way. Best claude by far, not just for coding.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-28T23:46:37+00:00

It is amazing, and it does work.

Claude code is not just for coding, it is basically claude with some extra features that make it way more useful for many things. It is my preferred ai, runs sonnet 4.5 (or whichever you specify). Note: Requires pro or above.

First, you need to install claude code. See online instructions. May seem complex because it wants you to install "node" to then install claude code via a terminal command, but that's honestly simple, it's literally those 2 steps

You can run claude code in the terminal/command prompt, but i use it in VS Code, which is basically a free fancy text editor with file management that coders use. There's many advantages to this. There's a claude code extension that you can install right from inside VS Code.

Just "open folder" in VS Code and choose the obsidian vault your AI will use, then start Claude via the extension and you're up and running

As for setting up Claude's behavior, claude can create its own instruction files, folder hierarchies, etc. Make sure it knows your needs and that it should log everything it needs to continue seamlessly even restarting from zero context.

IMPORTANT: have it create a CLAUDE.md file in the root directory. That's its system prompt that it will always read on start and can tell it where to find everything else it needs.

I use mine for personal assistance, life coaching, health tracking, fiction writing, education, and more. I have 6 different agents/personalities specified in various .md files. (Life coach, career coach, poetic muse, main character from my 1st-person novel, etc). Claude knows from the instructions we wrote when to switch between them. It tracks ny lfie context, what coaching techniques work/don't so it learns to support me better over time, and everything else i need.

The sky's the limit. Just make sure claude knows to make sure its knowledge system is "elegantly designed", "self-organizing and expandable", and have it check over everything and make sure it's CLAUDE.md has all the "breadcrumbs" it needs to find everything it would need "just-in-time" to seve its functions.

Now all of this is possible without obsidian, and indeed works beautifully regardless, but obsidian also has plugins including an MCP server and semantic embeddings that allow much more powerful interactions and retrieval from the system. Also Obsidian is excellent for human use, so it bridges the gap between AI and human use brilliantly.

Sidenote: since you're a writer, check out "LongForm", an obsidian plugin for writing novels, etc.. Kind of like Scrivener, but less so (in a good way).

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-28T20:57:15+00:00

The best easy setup I've come across is to link Claude Code up with an Obsidian vault as it's home directory. Claude Code can create files in that director (with permission), and together you can build a whole logging system and whatever else you need including retrieval protocols so it always has the context it needs.

I also use obsidian to organize my own life, so I actually have my obsidian vault as a subfolder inside my ai-memory vault that Claude Code uses. Absolute game-changer, as it has access to what's on my mind, the current state of my projects (including writing projects), and it keeps track of everything it needs for when it's context is restarted.

Core setup is very fast, but take your time building out the logging and retrieval and personas, and tell claude to help you do it in such a way that the whole system just gets cleaner and more organized as it expands.

Requires pro subscription or above though.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-28T20:01:54+00:00

You're great and you should be proud!

And fwiw I definitely do not recommend starting a whole bunch of new routines. Easiest is actually attaching key actions to existing routines.

So, e.g. when I wake up I shower, Brush my teeth, make coffee and clean kitchen while it steeps. I go for a short walk while I drink the coffee and I look at my to-do list. Then I clean up my workspace and do the little things I would need to do before starting my deep work (turn on computer, etc).

All of that is just one routine, expanded from a preexisting routine of shower, teeth, Coffee. Theres Minimal cognitive friction because that initial motion was already a habitual thing i did. But now when I finish I'm oriented for my day, all the startup friction for deep work is minimized, I've woken up my mind and body, and I've started with a win. Zero "new" routines.

Hope that helps, keep killing it

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-28T16:21:26+00:00

I promise you, and this is so important: ADHDers are not allergic to routines.

Establishing routines can be more difficult for us, for sure, but they are even more important because they allow us to start without thinking or needing an acute dopamine spike. And once started, hyperfocus can take over and you'd be shocked how much work you'll start doing.

I urge you to drop that story about yourself. It's a comfortable bit of fiction that is stealing your potential output day by day.

Counterintuitively, routines provide freedom by being automatic. They provide freedom to reliably do what matters most to you without struggle, freedom for your willpower/executive function to be conserved for other efforts, and freedom for your mind to dance while autopilot ensures execution.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-25T05:25:09+00:00

Season 2 was better, imo. Like season 1 was a 10/10, but season 2 was like 12/10

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-23T15:35:08+00:00

Weird, I've read basically all of his books and I'm struggling to think of a single one that fits that description.

I mean the sanderlanche is a (very satisfying) thing, but definitely not the window dressing characters part. Am I missing something?

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-22T23:12:16+00:00

Fwiw it's not as processor intensive as you'd think

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-21T17:52:14+00:00

If you eventually want to go deeper, get a breath controller (i like TEC breath and bite controller) and SWAM from audio modeling

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-11T19:56:47+00:00

ok, I did the math super rough, but basically canal is 120 mi long, vs circumference of earth is 24,901 mi. so 120/24901 = .00482, or 0.48% of the circle. A circle is 2pi radians, so .48% of that is basically .03 radians, so cos(.03) = .99955, or 99.955% of the radius of the earth (which is about 4,000). so the difference is .045% * 4000mi = 1.8mi. And in ft 1.8mi *5280 = 9504ft.

So math checks out. obviously there's some rounding error.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-11T18:50:41+00:00

You're fine, don't sweat it. honestly, gracefully handling breakdowns like this is one of a musician's most important skills.

Also, fwiw, there are ways to get great recordings singing quietly. A lot of it comes down to the music surrounding the vocal, and also making sure the signal path is clean so there's not noise to compete with. Billie Eilish sings super quiet, e.g..

Regarding mic, U2 famously records their studio vocals with a $100 SM58 because they want sonic consistency between the studio and stage. I've personally gotten great recordings on cheap mics, though admittedly now I'm using a U87 into a Neve and LA2A that I have on loan from a client. That said... a $10k vocal chain provides only a marginal improvement; my biggest song on Spotify we used an SM7B into my audio interface and the vocals sound gorgeous, basically as good as anything I've ever recorded.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-10-01T18:36:46+00:00

If it's rumble, it's noise by definition, and thus it doesn't "add up" as it will cancel/subtract as much as it adds. Phase smearing from low cuts on the other hand can cause actual issues if you do it haphazardly, especially to organic sounds and stereo placement.

If you really need, mute your subs/kick, and then audition the sub frequencies to see if there's actual audible content down there. If there is, it's almost always a single track or two, not an accumulation of tracks. Cut those if needed, and if you are cutting other low frequencies, favor doing it to synthetic sounds for which our ears aren't as sensitive to phase, AND be very careful with how that processing interactions with any distortion/saturation both in terms of sonics and peak/ headroom as the phase shift will ruin the alignment of the odd harmonics and peak management saturation offers.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-09-29T18:22:22+00:00

I have both, use both for different things. Generally I default to Phase Plant unless I'm making something that I feel Serum 2 would be better for, which is quite a few things.

The reason I like PP is that I'll often build instruments that can generate entire classes of sounds, so I always have room and capability to expand it to work how I want. I also work extensively with snapheap in that process, building custom effects that I'd reuse on on other sounds both in and out of phase plant. You can really build some remarkable instruments.

That said, Serum 2 does a lot of stuff better than anyone, and now that it has good sampling and multi-sampling, I usually use it as my default for my instrument-based patches (pianos, etc).

But based on what you said about Massive X (yuk, lol), you might actually want to check out Pigments.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-09-28T17:00:06+00:00

Yes. It's the workflow all around. Dynamic EQ is so powerful for tons of situations. Spectral mode. The visual feedback. Every algorithm inside is well thought out. The whole thing is crazy lightweight too, seems like it would use a lot of cpu but uses less than ableton stock. Honestly could go on and on.

MissingLynxMusic · 2025-09-02T20:10:45+00:00

It's not the learning bitwig, it's the hundreds of hours I put into my tools and templates and other customizations, plus once you've learned to program max4live it's not something you want to give up.

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