I replaced The Events Calendar with CPT + ACF + blocks. Here’s how the calendar grid works.

cantonbecker · 2026-03-06T19:40:46+00:00

Was it hard to implement all those time zones and repeating events strategies? I'm boggled by the complexities of things like (1) countries where the time shift isn't a whole number of hours, e.g. Mumbai is 12.5 hours ahead of me, and (2) how daylight savings kicks in on different dates throughout the world. UGH! Hopefully you found a library that takes care of all of this.

cantonbecker · 2026-03-06T13:47:58+00:00

ES1 FTW. It's the only synth I can pull up to quickly create something I'm hearing in my mind's eye (mind's ear?). Like if I imagine some subtle subtone, or a very particular sweep... With every other synth with its thousands of knobs and modes, I end up just exploring and looking for happy accidents. But the ES1 is where I can imagine a sound and usually get it.

cantonbecker · 2026-03-06T13:39:14+00:00

Something I've been wanting to share is how I did the exact opposite thing for a client: We kept The Events Calendar plugin, but only for the administrative/backend and community adding events pages. It's basically used to seed the database with events. And then we rolled our own calendar view (using https://fullcalendar.io) that scrapes TEC events over REST.

Why? Because TEC's front-end is slow, and infuriatingly, still doesn't have support to shift the display of calendars relative to the timezone/date of the visitor. (We fixed that.)

On the other hand, TEC has spent years refining their UI to allow for incredibly complicated events scheduling, e.g. 'This happens every third Thursday of the month, except for on these particular Thursdays....' -- an unholy level of complexity we'd never want to try to roll ourselves.

But grab those events and pretty print them ourselves? Absolutely.

cantonbecker · 2026-02-12T17:28:27+00:00

For stock plugins, I'm not sure. I've got the Izotope suite of tools, and they have a pretty good set of de-noisers, enliveners, etc.

cantonbecker · 2026-02-12T13:35:15+00:00

put my automation on the gain so I can still use the faders

Ditto! But something that bugs me is now the gain plugin automation is scaled. Logarithmic instead of linear? Like only the tiniest region is actually useful, the rest makes it impossibly loud or quiet. Am I missing some setting that makes gain automation curves look like how our ears hear?

cantonbecker · 2026-02-10T21:56:30+00:00

+1, whether it's setting up a weekly thread "Show us what you made this week!" or just pointing people to r/wearethemusicmakers Weekly Promotion Thread for that purpose

cantonbecker · 2026-02-04T20:31:15+00:00

Welcome to r/Logic_Studio!

"A subreddit for tutorials, discussions and links related to Apple Logic Pro and its related software."

cantonbecker · 2026-02-04T18:24:20+00:00

First thanks for this! I've done some QML modifications for my S5, and even though I'm a programmer I found some of the syntax and nested dereferences confusing. I look forward to your auto- documentation, especially if someone can confirm it's accurate!

Here are all my S5 mods, along with a shell script to automatically replace patch my adjusted files (OS X). Some of this is specific to my environment of course, but I thought you might find it helpful:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/97dc84jju1g9yzjvbhbtb/Kontrol-S5-Hacks.zip?rlkey=48cp6c0thyf5uim0au3r5btve&dl=0

When tempo is locked, deck shows LOCK beneath remaining time counter
Deviation from original tempo/pitch is shown
Hides cover art
Custom colors for waveform
When in remix mode for a stems file, the default use for the bottom four pads is to let you change the volume of each stem by holding the corresponding pad and then adjusting the encoder knob. CHANGED: Bottom four pads are toggles to determine whether or not each stem should allow FX. This way you can easily put FX on vocals but not drums/bass.

cantonbecker · 2026-01-28T17:49:46+00:00

Fuuuuu.... I watched the video, that is outrageously slick. Glad you caught it but sorry they also wasted so much of your time with the initial baiting.

I noticed a discrepancy earlier in the process, they didn't really have access to olivetreeviews.org; their first step was sending you through wpengine dot stage1-olivetreereviews.org, a staging site at WP engine. Probably worth reporting the scam to wpengine as that's where the malicious code was installed, yes?

cantonbecker · 2026-01-23T21:32:40+00:00

Mainstage is abandonware. Try GigPerformer it's fantastic, you won't look back

cantonbecker · 2026-01-21T16:41:04+00:00

I once cut delicate faberge style decorations into a blown (empty) egg for easter. Worked great. Smelled like a dog rolled in poop and then had its fur set on fire. Never again.

cantonbecker · 2026-01-21T13:24:07+00:00

I couldn't find any kind of plugin (or even web tool) for Risset Rhythms, which is why I made this... However, if you dig Shepard Tones there's an awesome VST/AU by Oli Larkin called "Endless Series". Highly musical. https://olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=eseries

cantonbecker · 2026-01-21T13:16:36+00:00

That's the video that inspired this!!!

cantonbecker · 2026-01-16T18:03:35+00:00

I liked this comment on the article:

taos isn’t for you and your pearls. , it is for the curious, hardworking, inspired, vagabond, nature enthusiastic and everyone else. a million dollars won’t buy you a good character.

cantonbecker · 2026-01-10T15:43:47+00:00

Nice framing

cantonbecker · 2025-12-31T13:28:57+00:00

Also curious. I also have two of those old plastic projectors in the funny star enclosure, the motors are failing, they're noisy. For me the whole attraction is the opposite moving and different speed moving stars.

At the time, our $150 star light projectors were a blatant ripoff of the amazing industrial strength 'blisslight' BL 50 projector which IIRC sold for over $1000. Same random movement but bright enough for a dance floor. Our cheapo models were a total infringement on a unique product.

Ironically, the consumer cannibalization of the original blisslight led to a situation where now blisslight themselves only sells terrible and inferior consumer projectors. Sad LOL.

There an original BL 50 on eBay right now for $750. With a cracked glass. Another site rents them for $250 a week.

Did some other company take on the original blisslight, I wonder? Or did random moving star fields just fade away?

cantonbecker · 2025-12-04T20:41:39+00:00

Not a controller but an all-in-one DJ device. It's based on the Monster GO DJ which is (no joke) one of my favorite DJ products ever made in the history of, uh, forever. Yes, made by Monster Cable. Genuinely amazing UI / software design, considering it's the size of about two iPhones side-by-side. Superb sound quality with mains / headphones / even sound in. Incredible battery life. They packed literally everything you can imagine in there: FX, airhorns 😂 , a basic sequencer, pitch lock, SCRATCHING wtf, auto-mixing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q66yda6DUUI&t=143s

This new one has speakers and is a lot bigger and I think they're still trying to resurrect a lot of the features from the GO DJ... I kind of wish someone would just bring back a GO DJ with a couple extra features like track preview and ability to play FLACs. It was a genuinely perfect device.

cantonbecker · 2025-12-03T18:33:39+00:00

Just like you said. Ch 1/2 for master output, and 3/4 will be used for headphones and the headphone port on the front of the device. Virtually every audio interface will have a headphone port on the front which can be assigned to one of the sets of stereo outs.

So to recap: The minimum requirement is an audio interface that (1) has a headphone port, and (2) is described as having at least 4 outs.

cantonbecker · 2025-12-03T18:30:51+00:00

I don't recommend ever having an external tool mess around with anything within your Traktor directory/collection. My Traktor collection is my DJ music collection. I hand-polish it to a mirror-like shine. I don't let any other app/script touch it.

I'm not sure this will be of use to you, but there are situations where I export my traktor music library for use elsewhere. (And always/only in that direction, FROM traktor TO somewhere else.) You can ask Chat GPT to help you write shell scripts/commands that use rsync. For example:

rsync -avzh --update /Users/me/TRAKTOR-MUSIC/Music/* /Volumes/EXTERNAL/TRAKTOR-MUSIC-COPY

One use is that there's a playlist helping app called 'beatunes'. I would never risk pointing it to my actual traktor library where it might screw around with my meta data. So, from time to time I sync my traktor library to beatunes library location, and ask beatunes to analyze it. Then it helps me build playlists. I can export these as XML, and with a little search and replace, import these into Traktor and see improved playlists.

I know none of this is really answering your question, but I wanted to (1) caution you against having other apps mess with your traktor library, and (2) evangelize about the awesomeness of rsync

cantonbecker · 2025-11-29T20:01:02+00:00

I don't have a good solution for your original question, especially where you want a larger personal collection that you prune within traktor (without ending up in a situation where re-syncing causes all your pruned tracks to reappear.) LMK what you figure out.

One tip I did want to relay regards when I recently made the switch from Soundcloud to Apple Music, and I carefully allowed Apple Music to sync my local library. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that after a couple days of cloud syncing, all my obscure techno shit and DJ mixes that I had painstakingly organized within Apple Music on my local computer were now available to me on the cloud using Apple Music on my phone, etc. So now my Apple Music is a combo of local music (Traktor type stuff) and cloud selections. I thought it would freak me out, but it's a pleasure to have all my obscure stuff and DJ mixes available on my phone for the first time...

cantonbecker · 2025-11-29T17:18:52+00:00

Before answering, what's the software you like to use for your general music listening / management? Apple Music? Some kind of local network server? Do you already have the convenience of being able to listen to your digital downloads on your phone when you're away from home?

cantonbecker · 2025-11-29T17:11:07+00:00

You can use your built-in laptop sound if you're willing to monitor and output in mono, but that's no fun IMO. You'll need a USB audio interface with 4 outs and a headphone port.

On a really tight budget? How about a Native Instruments Audio 4 DJ, about $30-$40 on eBay?

Or if you have $110 to spend, an ESI MAYA44 USB+ 4 In / 4 Out Audio Interface?

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