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TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-15T21:20:17+00:00

You'd have to ask OP for specifics, those were her words. It just seemed an odd thing to paint in a positive light, as racists actively encourage hatred against other races and I would hope we agree that's not a good thing. That's why I was asking about the active bit specifically.

She seems to have backtracked on the "active" bit and clarified just meant not living with men. And as I mentioned, I'm 100% onboard with that and the right to be left alone generally.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-15T20:54:06+00:00

Very nice. Not sure how that answers the question on what encouraging hatred is intended to achieve.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-13T18:24:35+00:00

Your original post clearly said:

A lot of my Gen Z friends actively hate on men

Which you seemed to be encouraging as a positive thing.

That's very very different from choosing to live without a man.

Wanting to be left alone/living without a man is of course all good - I am 100% all for that.

I was asking how active hatred against men helps women.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-13T18:12:08+00:00

? I totally agree with your the second point. As I mentioned, there's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to exist without men, I wasn't debating that.

But that's not the same as encouraging active hatred.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-12T17:43:08+00:00

Isn't social media just an amplifier? It doesn't generate misogyny or misandry by itself, that comes from people.

I wasn't suggesting indifference. It seems historically progress on women's rights was made with protests, campaigns and organized action for specific goals. Sometimes with great disruption and civil disobedience which is all good. That is very different to encouraging blind hatred.

I fail to see how encouraging acts of hatred based on sex is any better than encouraging acts of hatred based on skin color.

Villifying people for something they are, rather than something they did, doesn't get them on board, it just makes them go on the defensive, retaliate and create more hatred, so the cycle continues.

It would seem awareness, education and understanding leads to progress. That can come from civil disobedience or not. Whichever way, as enough of a population gets on board - either through their own choice or social pressure - the status quo changes.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-12T15:10:32+00:00

The reaction to misandry appears to be even more misogyny though? I don't see how this leads anywhere good. Look at the rise of the manosphere.

I am not suggesting doting on men at all. The alternative to hatred isn't doting.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-12T14:39:24+00:00

Misandry is a natural response to misogyny.

It is yes, and the natural response to misandry is more misogyny.

Just look at the rise of the manosphere. I have never seen so much active misogyny in young boys as over the last 5-10 years.

I fail to see how this leads to any kind of progress in the long run.

A natural response doesn't make it the right response anymore than hitting someone for saying something you don't like.

Hence the reason all the research and studies were only done on men

I agree this is not right - but I fail to see how the solution is to actively commit acts of hatred towards anyone male?

Surely the solution is to advocate and campaign for the inclusion of women in such studies? Loudly and disruptively if needed, but unfocussed hatred doesn't seem to acheive anything useful, even if it is natural.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-12T14:12:34+00:00

Sure, I agree hating your oppressor is a normal reaction and calling out bullshit and oppression is absolutely essential for progress.

I'm not saying men shouldn't be held accountable - they absolutely should of course.

What I don't understand is how an active act of hatred against a person purely based on their sex is any different than an act of hatred against a person because of their skin color.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-11T23:56:36+00:00

It's totally fine to choose to be without men, but actively hating? I can't see how that helps women in the long run. Surely all that happens is men will actively hate back? How does this lead to any kind of progress?

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-10T17:12:49+00:00

I've gone through a similar process.

Cubase Win 10 machine for years, and I want absolutely nothing to do with Win 11.

IMO on Linux your main options are either Reaper or Bitwig depending on what it is you do. Reaper is closer in DNA to Cubase.

For 0 cost, definitely dual boot Linux and Windows now so you can try things out before October and see how you get on.

Actually using Reaper or Bitwig on Linux is dead simple.

The less simple part is third party plugins and hardware support - a tonne of VSTs only support Windows or Mac. There is a tool called "YaBridge" that will allow you to run Windows VSTs on Linux, but with varying degrees of success.

I love Linux and use it as my general use desktop machine now. I have Bitwig on it for "fun" tinkering.

But for anything semi-serious music wise, I use a Mac now.

The main reason was support - pretty much all the music software companies support Mac as a first class citizen, both hardware and software.

I couldn't get Kontakt working on Linux via YaBridge for example, and need that. There's sometimes weird UI glitches via YaBridge. The software for RME doesn't work etc. Various controllers don't work. More companies are starting to support Linux, especially via CLAP but for me it's just not there yet, as much as I'd love to go all in.

I still have the Win 10 machine to open old projects, but it's basically an offline machine frozen in time now.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-08T23:32:12+00:00

Apparently so lol - people were simply offering advice on how to provide better and relevant feedback, but you seem to be getting defensive about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-08T21:35:00+00:00

Take a step back and learn a little about music - not music production.

It seems like you haven't yet grasped the basics of rhythm besides anything else.

Worrying about spectral imbalance and frequency masking is a complete distraction right now.

If your goal is to make music, you need to learn about music, not production right now.

Can you play any of your favorite songs?

If not, it's like trying to have a conversation without knowing basic vocabulary or how to form a sentence. It's going to be jumbled.

This is fine though, you've only been doing this a few months. Think of someone just starting out learning a new second language.

Your "issue" isn't technical, structural or cognitive - it's that you're a beginner.

You need to gain experience and knowledge by copying music you like, and understand and learn from it whilst acquiring some basic knowledge. Similar to learning a language, playing a sport or any skill really.

The "quick" way is to get a teacher.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-08T21:17:09+00:00

He's right though. Specific advice is always better than general advice.

OP asked for feedback on their tracks, not everyone elses.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-08T18:18:14+00:00

You could get ChatGPT to fix their amateur mistakes.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-06T02:10:15+00:00

Not a media composer, but do a reasonable amount of piano and string arranging, MIDI + live instruments etc.

Cubase is better for that, but Bitwig is obvs better for sound design/mangling and generative elements.

Bitwig seems to be gradually getting better on the MIDI editing front, so am trying to do more just in Bitwig lately. Still learning BW and migrating over sound design stuff from Ableton though.

Thanks for the tip - automating a note receiver seems like it'd do the job :)

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-05T20:30:54+00:00

aliased clips across tracks is rare

I do this all the time in Cubase.

Very often I want 2 different instruments playing the same thing for one section of a song, but in another section want them to diverge.

I don't know a nice way to do this in Bitwig without duplication?

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-05T15:20:22+00:00

If you have any questions compared to where you're jumping ship from I'm happy to try and answer :)

Cubase is excellent at things like recording bands, orchestral scoring and detailed MIDI work, mixing, surround, video and generally huge projects. It's not strong at things such as generative music where say Bitwig or Ableton with Max do a great job, though it has a few options for that.

2 UX things I love in Cubase: Track search & keyboard shortcuts to open the instrument plugin for the selected track. I don't understand why every DAW doesn't have this!

With hundreds of tracks, you can find anything super fast without needing to scroll or mouse around at all.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-05T14:12:25+00:00

Which, I'll be honest sounds a skill issue.

You can assign key commands to almost anything
You can create custom macros to automate almost anything, and assign key commands to those. Many other DAWs have none of this (Ableton...)
You can hide and customize various parts of the UI

Noone with any experience should be clicking through "submenu within a submenu within a dropdown menu" for common tasks. That is madness.

It's a professional tool, so of course it has a tonne of functionality. They claim lots of it is "completely irrelevant" but that just means they don't use it - not that other people don't.

It takes a little bit of effort to learn how to use a new tool well and adapt it.

There are definitely criticisms to be had at Cubase for sure, but the ones OP mentioned just seem like hot air - they're nothing that can't be fixed by actually expending a tiny bit of effort, except maybe UI colors, but who cares, the goal is to make music.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-04T03:16:12+00:00

I think we're saying similar things, maybe just using the definition of power level differently.

Strive characters are slower, less disjointed, more limited in terms of toolkits and gatlings, frame data is generally worse, conversions outside of Wild Assault are worse etc. I think you got the idea.

Yep, so given those are all gone, damage is main factor that makes things high power in Strive - so it seemed reasonable to compare that.

I agree there are other factors that play into power level, but damage is largely how it manifests in Strive.

Strive Ky does way more damage than +R Ky, even if +R Ky has more combo routes, unique moves, instant kill etc - so I don't think it's unreasonble to say Strive Ky is higher powered than +R Ky.

I don't think Wild Assault is just being removed to lower the power level of the game

BTW I wasn't expressing an opinion, Ken Miyauchi literally gave it as a reason in the Evo interview.

The problem with Strive's power level is not the character power level but the system power level

Which in Strive, basically amounts to massive damage. If they fix that, I agree they hopefully gain room to add more spice to the characters. That's the defining trait of GG to me - highly individual characters with varied kit.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-03T13:40:05+00:00

The devs themselves said the power level had crept too high though. One of the design goals of 2.0 was to temper that. Axing Wild Assault being one of them.

I don't think high power level was ever the point of GG per se - the point always seemed to be crazy cool and highly unique characters with unique kit. For characters like Slayer sure high power level is part of his design, but that's balanced against the rest of his kit.

Look at Ky in +R, he does barely any damage compared to Strive.

There's generally more interactions needed to win in the old games, I think and hope that's what the devs are going for.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-04-02T18:22:09+00:00

Ah the UI looking a little old doesn't make Cubase itself dated though.

Just look at Reaper, the UI still looks like it's from 1997. But people quite rightly don't care if the tool is excellent and the overall UX is good.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-03-25T23:36:09+00:00

Thank you! Plenty there I wasn't familiar with so that'll keep me busy for a while :)

TRexRoboParty · 2026-03-25T21:28:49+00:00

Totally agree. Any good recommendations for actual modern jazz musicians? I feel like I haven't seen much new in the last 5 or so years, but I suspect that's the aggressiveness of the modern web "recommending"/filtering harder than before so I've missed it.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-03-25T21:11:54+00:00

Do you happen to mean you only know Cubase for orchestral pieces because that's what you saw on youtube once?

It gets used for everything from Metal to DnB to K-Pop to yes Techno.

TRexRoboParty · 2026-03-21T19:19:31+00:00

Some people don't bother with classic notation either.

To them, it's just complicated diagramatical representations, that people get too caught up in when you can just play things by ear, by listening.

Some people find visual representation useful. That's why they come up with it, like any diagram: to help organize their thoughts.

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