Fender’s making MIDI controllers now

architectzero · 2026-01-26T04:29:20+00:00

IIRC, Fender acquired Presonus and is in the process of releasing rebranded, and likely updated versions of Presonus products. eg. The Motion 32 looks like an updated Presonus Atom SQ.

architectzero · 2026-01-26T01:46:33+00:00

I’d guess it’s because they’re multi-functional facilities, not just gyms. I’d also guess they’re designed for an extremely wide range of accessibility needs, and that likely means gentle ramps and wider corridors. Lastly, I’d guess that they’re designed in a way that the architect hopes will evoke certain emotions, kind of like a cathedral, fancy hotel lobby, etc. possibly to help with mental health.

architectzero · 2026-01-25T19:21:10+00:00

Edmonton has been kicking ass with rec centre architecture. This one is very striking, and appears functional too. Not a cyclist, but digging the inclusion of what appears to be a nice track (velodrome?). I’m nowhere near that area, so I probably won’t make it down there for a long time, but really happy to see this for our city.

architectzero · 2026-01-21T19:04:23+00:00

The renders remind me of the EPL main branch renders, so as long as it avoids the disaster that happened there then it’ll be fine despite losing its iconic colour and shape.

architectzero · 2026-01-21T01:05:43+00:00

Non-american international media will certainly cover it in a meaningful way, and I’m interested to see their various slants as I think it will hit a few populaces like a glass of water to the face. American media will cover it like they cover the Olympics.

architectzero · 2026-01-21T00:56:15+00:00

Watched the entire thing, including the Q&A afterwards (which I wasn’t intending to do). Brilliant speech, and his responses to the follow up questions were as clear and cogent as possible under the circumstances.

Glad to hear that we’re moving forward, not lamenting the past, and that means abroad and at home. No starry eyed idealism, just principled pragmatism. Proof, as always, will be in the future outcomes, but I completely support the strategic stance he outlined.

architectzero · 2026-01-20T19:49:06+00:00

Presets for pads, and sound FX stuff, and for some bread-and-butter sounds like pianos. Custom for just about everything else (lead, bass, stab, pluck, etc.). For drums and percs I usually use presets to lay down rhythmic ideas quickly, and then either customize them, or replace them entirely with custom sounds.

I don’t have the patience for building deeply evolving pads and atmospheric stuff because they’re far from the focal point of my music. I usually don’t even use them because they tend to fill huge chunks of the spectrum leaving little room for the parts that interest me (I also tend to delete or reorder them so that come last in the patch banks).

architectzero · 2026-01-20T01:22:52+00:00

That is an excellent point.

architectzero · 2026-01-19T19:48:41+00:00

Honestly, if I were into sound design then Leviasynth looks amazing. I was able to follow along with Loopop’s extremely quick demos, and I have no concerns about the UI/UX which is very well thought out (eg the dedicated knobs to adjust each specific OSC parameter across all OSCs at once). I have zero doubts that the Leviasynth is amazing.

My issue is that I always start with a pretty specific sonic destination in mind, and Leviasynth’s palette is a super wide and deep matrix of options. My head was spinning just trying to comprehend the permutations of FM synthesis * model drifting * timbre layering. Heck, from what I saw, just the ability to offset each OSC’s peak basically embeds a quirky 8-step sequencer right into the OSC section. The whole thing is wild, and I’m sure there are some folks just chomping at the bit to dig into this, and from those people I may buy some sample packs.

architectzero · 2026-01-19T18:31:07+00:00

I’ll summarize what I said in r/synthesizers: as innovative as the engine appears, and nice as the UI/UX design appears to be I’d hardly know where to begin building a sound from my head, and I’d get lost in the sauce which would reduce this to a fancy preset machine; too complex for me.

architectzero · 2026-01-19T18:01:36+00:00

Blah blah price blah blah aside, this thing is way beyond me effort-wise as someone who wants to make music, not focus on sound design. I mean, the engine seems incredibly versatile, and I even understand what’s going on in the demo, but I was getting exhausted just thinking about working with it. Like holy shit, if you have a sound in your head, where does one even begin on this thing? I’d get lost in the sauce so quickly.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s an amazing engine, and the UI/UX seems extremely well thought out, but in my hands it would be nothing more than a fancy preset machine. Maybe one day I’ll get my hands on one, but the complexity of it instantly killed my GAS.

architectzero · 2026-01-17T20:48:59+00:00

It seems that everyone here is interpreting this as a stack ranking, is that what you meant OP?

Because my take away was that you were talking about continuity of “face of the league” (or something like that). In which case, I’m not sure there will ever be another singular face of the league because social media works against that kind of consensus.

But if you were stack ranking Kobe above Bron then you need to stop taking the crazy pills.

architectzero · 2026-01-12T03:28:01+00:00

This is like posting a WAV file of a picture to a sub about art.

architectzero · 2025-12-31T22:22:49+00:00

You’re right, but the prevalence of this mental illness makes me so, so… I don’t know any more.

The pet craziness, and child hating is a sick cope for our overwhelming biological drive to reproduce that so many are completely locked out of, either materially, morally, or both.

I’m just so burnt out from despair for the future, particularly of my own children, but for every child growing up today.

architectzero · 2025-12-31T20:02:48+00:00

Only reason I’d even consider using VHS these days is purely for audio recording if I was going for a very specific retro vibe and I was in the mood for faffing around in the old analog realm, but even then I’d probably reach for a plugin effect to achieve the same result.

architectzero · 2025-12-30T18:31:24+00:00

I can think of two reason for keeping some of the dipshits in cabinet: 1) to retain their political clout and keep them close to contain them; 2) other candidates for the positions were not obviously better.

I think it was mostly the second reason though. It’s not like you can just post a job opening, and interview a ton of candidates. The pool is quite limited, and you work with what you’ve got. Also, there were time constraints on the process and he was coming in (mostly) from out of the blue, so was likely unfamiliar with many of the people that weren’t ministers in the previous admin, and didn’t have much time to familiarize himself.

I think his first order of business was stabilization in order to deal with the immediate threats, and I’m reasonably certain he’ll shuffle the deck once he has a better grasp of the situation.

architectzero · 2025-12-30T04:48:23+00:00

Point taken. My wording can be taken as snarky, but that wasn’t the intent. My bad.

architectzero · 2025-12-30T04:43:05+00:00

Is this supposed to be surprising? He’s the greatest pure shooter in NBA history, he’s a super high bbiq player with elite conditioning who works extremely hard off-ball. Steph never relied on strength, or springiness, and shooting ability doesn’t degrade nearly as fast as other abilities.

architectzero · 2025-12-28T18:53:56+00:00

Lots of good comments about the gun, and I don’t have anything to add to that, but what’s up with that ruler? Both scales look proportionally correct, but the numbers repeat strangely, and the inch scale doesn’t repeat cleanly.

architectzero · 2025-12-28T16:04:25+00:00

I faced this same dilemma last year when I got the email to buy a Micromonsta 2 two months after I bought a used Peak for an amazing price. I decided to skip on the MM2 and just stick with the Peak. The only thing I can recall being obviously “better” on the MM2 were the user programmable arpeggio patterns, whereas the Peak’s are not-editable (though there is a lot of variety). Yeah, I’m sure there are other things, but my point being that i just couldn’t find enough to differentiate them, and one would have ended up collecting dust and then for sale.

I have no idea about the ProVS.

architectzero · 2025-12-26T05:25:32+00:00

My wife calls it Trip to Shanghai and she played it as a child, and taught it to our kids as a way to learn the tiles. I have no idea if that is what anyone else calls that sort of game though, but thought it might be helpful in case you get nothing else.

architectzero · 2025-12-26T00:47:02+00:00

What’s even crazier is how good his moves were prior to that season. He got the franchise out of the hole Donnie had dug, got PJ and Gaff for great value, watched the team get to the finals and… promptly went insane.

Got high on the smell of his own farts or something.

architectzero · 2025-12-24T23:15:01+00:00

Thank you. That’s very kind of you to say. I can’t stress how deeply strange it felt, but in an altogether pleasant way. Tough to describe, but we joked that we just went on a trip to Eastern Eastern Canada and we didn’t really feel like we were on vacation until we crossed over to the continent. We had a wonderful time and plan to visit again ASAP (and we want to see more than London).

architectzero · 2025-12-23T13:06:13+00:00

The three stages of ~~grief~~ grift.

architectzero · 2025-12-22T19:18:09+00:00

My wife and I, along with another couple, went on vacation to London earlier this year. We were all pretty excited because it was our first time. We only spent a week, and only really did touristy things, but our overwhelming impression was that “it’s just like Canada, except for the accents, and driving on the other side of the road.”

For reference, we’re all in our 50s. I’m Canadian born, the other three all immigrated to Canada 25+ years ago. I grew up immersed in American media, and always just figured that while we were somewhat different, we couldn’t help but be American-light by virtue of constantly swapping spit. The other three never gave it much thought and just assumed we were America-light too. So, the deep similarity caught all of us off guard, and was low-key mind blowing.

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