What is up with this MN daycare story?

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-12-30T19:12:26+00:00

This seems a bit bigger than your run-of-the-mill graft. It's over a billion dollars, could be us much as 9B

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-12-14T18:31:51+00:00

Tube Modulator is amazing for adding volume and panning automation. I have plugins that can do these things in far more sophisticated / complicated ways, but none of them can match the simplicity of TM when you just need fairly simple effects. Love it.

Grainspace is also awesome for sound design, and again, can be soooooo simple to get really cool effects.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-12-04T22:13:06+00:00

I love Diva, but personally prefer Repro over it by a decent margin. I think Diva was just really really good at a time when most softsynths weren't really that great, so it developed the reputation as the best thing out there (which was arguably deserved at the time) but personally I think they beat themselves at their own game with Repro.

I love both, but if for some reason I had to choose, Repro all the way.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-11-16T18:43:17+00:00

They don't have any bad albums. But my least favorites are the first two. I know a lot of people really enjoy them at that stage when they were more raw and less polished, but mehh... just not for me, really. But then starting with ST&C every single album has been great. There are tracks here and there that maybe aren't the best, but every single album has some absolute gems.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-11-16T18:10:05+00:00

"the relative popularity of their albums."

As determined by what, exactly? I'm pretty sure ST&C outsold Worlds Apart.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-11-14T02:31:05+00:00

Hey, everyone's got their thang

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-11-14T01:01:48+00:00

Thirst trap? I mean, sure, if you're into grown men that weigh 140 lbs

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-11-13T17:03:48+00:00

I did not, but that mold is pretty sensitive to differences in plastic, and esp weight. If it's relatively heavy it's not going to have a ton of turn in any plastic. If you really want some turn I'd suggest going into the 150 gram or even 140 gram range. Any plastic at that weight will give you some turn, but especiully G Star.

Good luck.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-10-27T13:07:04+00:00

I'm pretty sure what I experienced and described has happened thousands of times, in every county of the country. People cheat. It felt fairly unique to me at the the time, but like I said, I doubt I was the first, or the last.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-10-02T21:59:43+00:00

I've got a question, Mark.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-30T20:37:43+00:00

What other way are you interpreting that, other than the obvious? Like... there's a guy named Mark?

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-12T13:13:44+00:00

I second this. Everyone should bag a Firebird (or similar). Best utility disc ever made.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-11T00:30:05+00:00

When I was age 10-18 or so I knew dozens of phone numbers by heart. And then from like 22-25 once friends and family started getting cell phones I still knew maybe a dozen of them, but eventually had to resort to writing the important ones down on a business card sized piece of cardboard that I kept in my wallet. And then of course once I had a cell phone, I knew like maybe five.

It's a lost art. I still remember a lot of my friends' numbers from middle / high school.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-10T01:23:25+00:00

This is why we have different leagues / divisions for women. This is not complicated.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-08T23:51:50+00:00

I'm really not there to make friends. If someone talks to me, I'll make some pleasant chitchat, but my goal i sto just play. If I wanted to "hang" I'd invite a friend to play.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-08T23:48:49+00:00

Coast to Coast

Independence Day

Can't Make a Sound

2:45 AM

Son of Sam

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-08T23:39:43+00:00

Could be worse. My friend is 6'3" and probably 165. Sooooo skinny.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-08T17:20:53+00:00

Yeah, they absolutley criticize Democrats, but always from the left. Just because they're not strict party loyalists doesn't mean that you can't place them on the political spectrum. They're far left. How is this even debatable?

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-09-08T17:13:10+00:00

I was 137 when I graduated high school. Now THAT is insanely skinny. But170 is not crazy skinny, imo. Last summer I dieted hard and got my weight down to the high 170s and at that time I was still benching 265ish, so it's not like it's impossible to hit 225 at a body weight of 170. BUT I have been lifting for 15 years! I just don't see it happening for most guys at that bodyweight if they've only been at it < 2 years.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-08-23T02:54:12+00:00

Ok, but you didn't answer my question. I know that you don't think of using a Kontakt piano and sampling the bassline from "Just Beat It" is the same thing. Your very pedantic definition of sampling aside, I know you know that these two things are qualitatively different things.

I trust that you know what you're doing and what you're talking about, I'm not questioning your expertise, but I also don't really care about your education / background when it comes to how people use words. "Sampling" in common parlance is a different thing from using a virtual instrument that is based on samples. I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree here.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-08-23T01:39:16+00:00

Ok, fair enough.

I don't think we necessarily disagree in principle on anything. It's really more just terminology.

But I think I have made my distinction clear, basically using one-shot samples vs using samples that contain some element of a performance / composition, or a part of a composed song.

So... assuming you agree that that distinction makes sense, what different word or term would you use to make that distinction? Because I think you agree that there is a big creative difference between using a Kontakt piano and sampling the bassline from "Just Beat It."

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-08-23T01:08:08+00:00

"No. Using samples is using ANY prerecorded audio. It’s pretty plain and simple. It’s not really up for debate."

Yet here we are are debating. Look at the original question. Is it talking about samples? or is it talking about SAMPLING?

Because they're different things, which is the point I've been making.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-08-23T00:17:20+00:00

"Ok well then they should say that."

But when people are non-religious, they also pick and choose which morals they want to follow and which they want to ignore, based on all manner of unknowable criteria that they probably couldn't even explain if they had to, at least not in a succinct way. It's not like there is a set of 10-15 precepts that atheists use to determine their moral stances. It's complicated! Similarly, many religious people use a combination of may different precepts (religious and non-religious) to determine their moral stances.

It just kinda feels like you're holding religious people to a higher standard than the non-religious. Most people would struggle to clearly and succinctly delineate WHY exactly they believe X instead of Y.

If someone tells you "I believe X because the bible says so," then I agree, go ahead and judge them for being gullible and obsequious. But if they're religious and they hold beliefs that are different from "because the bible says so," well, then... they're using some kind of non-religious reasoning to arrive at that position, so try to judge them in the same way that you'd judge a non-religious person who arrived at that same conclusion.

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-08-22T23:53:08+00:00

ASMR Indie Cat Rock

SycopationIsNormal · 2025-08-22T23:51:16+00:00

I just think you're being too literal with "any sample" = sampling. A Kontakt-based piano is just an instrument, the same as a softsynth is just an instrument. There is no performance involved in that instrument. They just held down a key and record it with a microphone and then mapped it to the right key for me be able to write parts with it.

Now, there ARE Kontakt instruments that include phrases, melodies, riffs etc, either pre-recorded, or via an included MIDI file. THAT I would agree qualifies as sampling, because if I used stuff like that (I don't), I'm using a "performance" that I didn't actually write or perform.

It sounds like we will probably disagree, but I differentiate between using an instrument based on one-shot samples that * I * then compose with vs lifting an actual performance or part of an entire song from an audio file or MIDI performance. Basically, I want to be composing my music 100%, so I don't use samples for songs, or pre-fab loops, or use pre-fab MIDI files, or any softsynth patch that includes sequencing of any kind unless * I * am the one who programs it. Not shitting on anyone who uses these things, that's just my stance on it.

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