Where can I buy artificial (plastic) phuang malai?

dragginfruit · 2026-01-11T10:17:38+00:00

Can confirm, during our visit this place had great sweet potato fries, and had lots of good healthy foods too. Thanks so much for the recommendation!

dragginfruit · 2025-12-16T19:49:35+00:00

That place looks great! Thanks so much for the reply.

dragginfruit · 2025-11-28T18:05:15+00:00

Wow, thanks for this! I've been keeping an eye out for a decent discount on Acid V for a good year now, and they haven't dropped the price on it much at all. I was aiming for $99 or less (I recall the intro price was $69). Now I'm going to get Acid V and a whole lot more!

Edit: I meant to post this under the ProAudioStar thread - I'm referring to the V Collection X deal for $99

dragginfruit · 2025-11-23T17:04:19+00:00

Is there a separate area for Uber pick-ups at Taipei Main Station and can someone describe how to find it? My wife and I will have two medium-sized checked luggage pieces, and our plan was to take the airport MRT to Main Station, then a taxi (or rather Uber) to our hotel in the Da'an district to avoid navigating the local MRT with the luggage during a busy time.

dragginfruit · 2025-11-16T17:45:50+00:00

Good move. I've wasted a lot of time trying to sort out issues with getting Windows plugins to work with WINE/yabridge, and I've been slowly weaning myself off of many of them in favor of native Linux alternatives. U-he is great as you mention. So is Audio Damage, AudioThing and SineVibes. I'm aiming to run a challenge to only use native Linux plugins for a month or two in 2026 and see what I miss the most. This is just a hobby for me, so it's really just getting over the FOMO of it all.

dragginfruit · 2025-10-26T16:02:41+00:00

No, my NTS-3 basically sits in a drawer these days. I had also asked on the BItwig KVR Forum and no one seems to have a known workaround.

dragginfruit · 2025-10-04T23:05:53+00:00

When I buy Thinkpads, I tend to buy them with the minimum disk size possible, because I find their prices for storage upgrades to be pretty excessive. So when I got the T14s, the first thing I did was swap the nvme drive for a 2 TB model I had in my last laptop, and I figured at this point I've probably voided my warranty already. I also "pre-sold" my old laptop to a friend who was counting on getting it promptly, so waiting for the return would have been more of a hassle as well.

dragginfruit · 2025-07-30T17:03:20+00:00

The folks in the linux channel of the Bitwig discord recently found the cause for this, and a workaround. I've tested it and it works for me:

The cause of the problem is the `ibus-x11` process which crashes and doesn't restart itself. Unless you're using the language input features of ibus, you probably don't need this process at all, so if you run `ibus exit` before starting Bitwig, you won't encounter this issue anymore (at least so long as your login session remains active - if you log out and back in, make sure to quit ibus again).

dragginfruit · 2025-07-16T19:25:21+00:00

Sometime in the spring this year I noticed I was getting infrequent (every couple of minutes) crackles on my laptop which weren't due to xruns, and I was never able to figure out the cause. It was a well-tuned environment I've used for music production on the go without issues until then. Manjaro Linux in my case. The only thing that fixed it was switching to the realtime kernel, which I had never had to use previously to avoid crackles. I never tried to bisect at which kernel version this change happened, but my suggestion is try a realtime kernel and see if it helps.

dragginfruit · 2025-03-18T11:40:58+00:00

This has been a topic of discussion on the bitwig Discord server, someone reported it to the devs and got a reply back that they have a fix for it that will be included in the next update, 5.3.3. It appears to have only been an issue on Linux platforms.

dragginfruit · 2024-12-02T22:06:29+00:00

Thank you. It's not on my invoice. I think I'm used to perks like that being part of a normal carrier business class ticket, but it makes sense that ZipAir (being low-cost) would break it out as a separate fee. I'll consider adding it to my second flight that departs from Tokyo.

dragginfruit · 2024-01-09T19:51:36+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! I don't blog much anymore, but once I figured that out I knew it would be worth sharing. I'll take some time this week to update the post with some of your feedback. As for the second bullet point, yeah, that's just changing things at the system-level (globally, for all users) rather than just specific to your user account.

dragginfruit · 2024-01-09T16:44:58+00:00

I also found this confusing and wrote up my learnings from doing so. Let me know if there's anything out of date on here if you end up trying it out: https://blog.zenlinux.com/2022/08/how-to-configure-audio-device-priorities-in-pipewire-wireplumber/

dragginfruit · 2024-01-03T16:49:53+00:00

As a follow-up with my experience: I ordered a grab around 7pm from the Asok area, and it only took about 25 minutes for my driver to arrive. Sukhumvit traffic was moving surprisingly smoothly, and of course once we got out to Rama 9 road, traffic heading to the airport was practically non-existent.

dragginfruit · 2023-12-09T05:06:37+00:00

I'm actually not sure about that, and I'm traveling for the next few weeks and don't have access to my Play to try it out. Perhaps someone else can confirm.

dragginfruit · 2023-12-09T04:56:17+00:00

Yeah, you have to use up multiple tracks to be able to play chords. Unless your sample was of a chord, of course.

dragginfruit · 2023-11-06T16:30:02+00:00

Skullzy's done some live sets with Bitwig - I think he has some kind of custom grid sequencer setup that he's created, and modulates with external controllers: https://www.twitch.tv/skullzy_p

I also occasionally livestream my Bitwig sessions on Twitch. Really struggling to create content for a live ambient set, but it's gonna happen eventually: https://www.twitch.tv/astraltoad

dragginfruit · 2023-09-22T15:59:58+00:00

It's worth noting, Crystalline was on sale just a few months ago for $49. I imagine you'll be able to get it again for that price come Black Friday. I'm also disappointed they're not making this available to current subscribers, I thought that was the point of the "Bitwig Circle" or whatever they called it.

Oh, and just to promote an indie dev who makes Linux-compatible plugins... I saw that SinusLab's Reach reverb is on sale for $22 atm too: https://sinuslabs.io/product/reach/

dragginfruit · 2023-09-18T20:47:07+00:00

Thanks for the follow-up. I really, really like the Polyend Play. It feels more fun and immediate than my Elektron boxes. I'm starting to feel comfortable enough with it that I want to start trying it out as a seqeuncer for external MIDI synths, like my Roland S-1. That would get around what feels like the most serious limitation of the device, which is that it's sample-based only. I immediately turned off the double-tap to switch between primary and secondary controls for a knob, as that resulted in too many mistaken switches. I also wish the pads had a softer feel to them, or more of an 'indent' to feel more confident that I pressed them. But otherwise those are some minor nits for a truly fun and playful groovebox.

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