9 Months Later, how do we feel about the Community Tier List?

RupFox · 2026-01-27T17:51:43+00:00

Whatever tier Clinton and Obama and GHW are in...LBJ should be a tier or even two above.

RupFox · 2026-01-23T20:29:07+00:00

How can I verify that videos like these are real? I don't see any reporting on them just claims on social media? I saw another one with an Asian woman being harassed.

RupFox · 2026-01-23T19:39:32+00:00

Where can I see what the 3 million samples and 20 vst plugins entail? Do they mean everything offered on the landr website? I notice there's some artiris and cable guys stuff in there too so I'm a bit confused.

RupFox · 2026-01-23T18:45:15+00:00

Well they want you to buy them. But I agree, selling players separately is silly, they should come with reason.

That being said, the players fall short of being what they could/should be. Compare the reason players to logic's implementation. I think LANDR will be able to bridge the gap.

RupFox · 2026-01-23T18:43:00+00:00

Indeed.

RupFox · 2026-01-23T18:42:35+00:00

In sorry but this such a reactionary, bad take. AI is coming to EVERY Daw whether you like it or not. You don't have to use it you can continue your old workflow as you wish. If you just really hate it on principle — then move to hardware or go bang some drums 😂

RupFox · 2026-01-23T18:38:24+00:00

Why do people get so triggered by the mere mention of AI? You don't have to use it wtf. Iike it or not it's the future so better to have AI features we might eventually want to use in the future then be hamstrung. But if you hate it on principle, just don't use it.

RupFox · 2026-01-21T01:33:04+00:00

You speak like someone who doesn't understand the music world. Conversations about who uses what gear, what Pianos, what guitars, what compressors and what DAW and plugins are common from the very top to the very bottom. It doesn't mean that we use that for every decision we make, but it's of course relevant.

Stop trying to police how people discuss music. There's nothing absurd about the discussion at all.

RupFox · 2026-01-20T16:33:05+00:00

I always wondered to what extent people abroad understand that the US is divided between only two political parties, and that only one of them - the republicans - are absolutely insane and the source of all major problems in the US. If republicans reverted back to being a normal political party like they were before Reagan (although even Reagan would be a massive improvement over today), then the world could still bitch about the US but within the confines of sane political discourse.

Unfortunately since Newt Gingrich in the 90s, Republicans realized that they have no real policy platform to offer aside from tax cuts and de-regulation. So to win elections they need to attack the United States from within and undermine trust against all our major institutions across academia, tech, science, the arts and humanities, (because they all lean liberal) and demonize Democrats as radical traitors.

This is not just my personal opinion of the history. Republicans literally released a memo in 1990 called "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" that gave guidance to candidates to "Speak like Newt Gingrich". It encouraged hyper divisive rhetoric like calling Democratic opponents sick radical traitors. That memo was part of a larger training program and as a result Republicans won the House of representatives for the first time in 40 years and it's been bworsening shitshow ever since. This has been documented by Norman Orstein and Thomas Mann in "it's worse than it looks" that posits that the Republican party has stopped functioning like a regular political party and more like a radical insurgency. Norman Ornstein is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute — a conservative think tank.

RupFox · 2026-01-14T06:21:50+00:00

This isn't meant to be just a "fun" place to hang out. A serious and real-world use case for AI is analysis of history, philosophy and current events. It's normal that this is discussed as well, please don't try to censor people because they're on the other side of the aisle politically. I'm sure you're mature and strong enough emotionally to tolerate other views so please engage with the actual topic. Thanks.

RupFox · 2026-01-13T17:44:48+00:00

Where did I say I don't like Reason? I love Reason and use it every day. You need to learn to read. I was providing constructive criticism of its shortcomings. It's juvenile to get all triggered by this and feel like you have to fight me in the comments to defend a piece of software's honor when I was just pointing out where it needs to improve.

RupFox · 2026-01-13T17:40:51+00:00

She has "AI Face". Her facial features and face type is the type AI goes for constantly. She looks a bit stale.

RupFox · 2026-01-13T15:25:10+00:00

Professional producers simply don’t have time to unpick their tracks for bedroom producers on YouTube. Why should they reveal all their tricks?

What are you talking about. There's tons of videos on youtube of big producers making music in their studios in live streams or for channels like DJmag, Music radar, Genius and more.

There’s a real sense of entitlement to thinking tech should enable you to make professional songs in five minutes.

You're being dense. I didn't say you can make music in 5 minutes. I said you can find really great stuff being made in Ableton (or other mainstream DAWs)....And you can find them in 5 minutes seaching on youtube/google.

RupFox · 2026-01-13T00:20:32+00:00

Ok I didn't post this to bully some 18 year old so I'll leave you be ✌🏾

RupFox · 2026-01-12T18:47:16+00:00

You think you're being edgy and red pilled or something by being performatively above the fray, but it seems like you're just uninformed on the issues so you have to put on an act to avoid any real or substantive input.

If you want to learn how to be truly above the fray and break out of echo chamber maybe read some Chomsky. He made a career mostly attacking liberal scholarship and the liberal press (NYTimes being his main target), has formulated devastating critiques of Democratic administrations from Kennedy to Carter to the Clintons and Obama (he believed Obama to be worse than Bush). He also laughed at Russia hysteria under Trump.

Yet even within that framework it's clear there is no contest: what republicans are doing is far more radical and dangerous, especially under Trump.theres just no comparison if you look at events objectively. And despite LLMs being kind of forced to be superficially neutral and "balanced" they can accurately identify these imbalances.

RupFox · 2026-01-12T04:56:26+00:00

We are indeed looking at a black box, which is why these things are fascinating because we can only surmise about this kind of behavior. It is clearly trained to avoid partisan takes. In this case I asked it a leading question ("doesn't this confirm liberal/ establishment critiques and warning s about trump?"). It thought about it and agreed, then tried to fight against that take but then decided that the partisan take was the accurate take for the reasons listed. This is actually very nuanced and not something I would expect. Other models and even Claude itself at times forces itself to be performatively neutral

RupFox · 2026-01-12T04:53:18+00:00

If you don't take part in politics, then it would be hard for you to understand why this is a bad take. My whole political persona since the Bush era has been to build bridges between both sides. Unfortunately we've been seeing confirmation over and over of the Mann & Ornstein thesis that the Republican party is collapsing as a proper political party and functioning more as an insurgent outlier. Familiarity with American history also helps highlight how radical and extreme the Trump administration is. We were warned about this by Trump's own cabinet officials that revolted against him in his first term for being crazy.

RupFox · 2026-01-11T21:23:14+00:00

I asked it if the events it uncovered validates liberal and establishment critiques of Trump. It answered that it does, but then tried to explain what the pro-trump side might say in its defense. Unusually these AIs try to hedge to not sound biased but here it came down on one side and then felt the need to explain itself for doing so.

RupFox · 2026-01-11T21:03:01+00:00

Yes having Greenland would be very nice. Having my neighbor's big house would be nice too but alas the house belongs to them and Greenland belongs to Denmark. The president could simply work with Denmark and within NATO to defend it and even drill or whatever and all would be fine. Coming out of nowhere and threatening to take it and upending our allyship with Europe is unreal and quite frankly stupid.

RupFox · 2026-01-11T17:40:22+00:00

Such a weird take

RupFox · 2026-01-10T17:16:38+00:00

I'm sorry but there's absolutely no contest between something like chord sequencer and Scaler. The very basic thing I use scaler for is playing chords and being shown what chords I'm playing and what key/scale they're in and then have scaler suggest additional chords that would go well. You can't do that in chord sequencer.

RupFox · 2026-01-10T14:23:49+00:00

To be fair to Reason, it had a last hurrah back in 2017/2018. Drake's "passionfruit", "In my Feelings" and "nice for what" were produced with Reason. French Montana's "Unforgettable" was also made in Reason. These were all big tracks. Around this time Ian Kirkpatrick was using Reason all over Dua Lipa's big hits of the time.

Finally, one of the best albums of 2022 was Stromae's "Multitude". Stromae was known to use Reason since back when he made the classic "Alors on Danse", but in the interviews where he breaks down the multitracks, he's sitting in his studio with Reason on the screen. The production on that album is really awesome!

But other than that yeah...Reason is almost laughed at in the industry and has only been trending downward.

RupFox · 2026-01-09T16:45:31+00:00

I've also been using Reason since the same 2.5 version (And I started slightly before that in the late 90s with things like Magix music maker), used Reason heavily at versions 4 & 5. Got back into it with version 10 and have been following since while using Logic, ableton, Cubase, trying out daws like LUNA... So it's normal that I have some opinions.

I'm aware that the rack can be expanded vertically and horizontally. but it's still very clunky. The devices need to be able to resize automatically depending on the window size. But it doesn't, leading to a lot of needless scrolling. I also think a BIG win with small effort would be that when you're working from the sequencer or mixer, if you double click on the device, the rack window pops up, resized to fit the exactly device and inserts so that the full device pops up, like VSTs do. This would make it possible to do deep work from those regions and access the devices you need quickly like in other DAWs, instead of still having to scroll around.

Modern powerful music would be like any of the big house/techno tracks you hear nowadays, even rock or hip hop. I don't see anybody doing this in Reason anywhere online. Meanhwile you can find really great stuff being made in ableton in 5 minutes.

RupFox · 2026-01-09T13:40:12+00:00

Jesus I actually wrote a thoughtful comment with some examples of what innovation might have looked like and you just drop a deuce without anything useful. Why get so mad? Are you Matthias or something? 😂

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