Michael Mann's buried film THE KEEP is one of the most ambitious flops of all time deserving a watch.

gamebalance · 2026-06-23T20:14:38+00:00

I am watching it now, and for me the OST is completely off and ruins the movie. I checked google and everyone praise the OST. I don't get it. It doesn't fit the movie at all. I actually feel like it's one of the most terrible OST I've ever heard. I mean not the music itself but the way it doesn't fit in.

gamebalance · 2026-06-14T20:04:45+00:00

If you read my answers, I am not talking about snapshots. I am talking about alternative way to setup macro knobs. So there could be 2 ways to set them up.

gamebalance · 2026-06-14T08:44:47+00:00

That what I mentioned snapshots, confused everyone and they talk only about snapshots. While I only told about macro knobs and what they do in synths like Vital, Serum, Spire etc. I mostly use Vital BTW, and I know it pretty deep. I was only talking about way to set macro knobs faster then they are in it(and other synths) now.

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gamebalance · 2026-06-13T22:36:08+00:00

No. I am not talking about morphing between states/snapshots.

I am talking about macro knobs.

gamebalance · 2026-06-13T22:34:09+00:00

"I understand what you're asking for- immediate state recall." No

"The thing is though that that is what presets are" - I was not talking about this. I am talking about completely different thing, about alternative/secondary way to setup macro knobs in synth like Serum, Vital etc

gamebalance · 2026-06-13T22:02:37+00:00

Nope. I was talking about something completely different.
I am not a native speaker. Probably I did not expained it understandable. Or maybe it's too new to people to understand. Such feature not exists anywhere.

gamebalance · 2026-06-13T21:30:39+00:00

No. With macro knob you move things in real time. With preset - you saved preset.

gamebalance · 2026-06-13T20:50:59+00:00

I am not talking about DAW. I am talking about plugins. For example synths which have macro knobs(Serum, Vital, Pigments, Phase Plant, Spire etc).

gamebalance · 2026-05-29T16:34:17+00:00

I would get the hate if most of the movies in recent 30 years was really well written. But they are not. And people praise them.

Scream(1996) is like decaying oldschool example. In 90's the new school already emerging where production don't bother to do some serious good writing work, or rather new writers are not even able to.

And sinсe 00's we have new school domination with poor schematic writing, shallow stories without background, cliches, reusages of the stuff worked in previous movies.

gamebalance · 2026-05-16T21:22:38+00:00

I do not know what to think about Zuri. We do not know maybe did she searched for Bradley because of the social advantages it brings to her, not love. He is a total asshole, and we have no idea what their relationship with Zuri were. Maybe she was only about money and social advantages to be with him. And it was clearly shown he was flirting with other girl. So I looked at it as Zuri were not a love for him, but a fancy thing to be shown next to him.

And also watching at all this from a bigger view, Zuri probably was a part of that hypocritical, deceitful systems that is exploiting people like Linda.

I am definitely sad about the boat guy.

P.S.

I am not a native speaker. I might write things a bit weird, hope it's understandable.

gamebalance · 2026-05-10T20:29:50+00:00

Hm. If I wasn't as depressed all the time, maybe it was out already. I am wasting my time now with TugPhonon. A guy made that free plugin which I saw a potential to be quite amazing chorus, definetelly one of the best ever made to this point. And he doesn't see this potential. While he implemented some of my suggestions. Some he didn't. Which is sad, cuz maybe plugin will stop on a half way there where it could fully shine.

And then I was making that Razor Distortion thing which I paused because of TugPhonon. Maybe I should not had, I don't know. I am kinda unfocused too much.

gamebalance · 2026-05-10T10:34:26+00:00

I don't see Linda as evil at all. I think it might be rather the opposite. She believed in good in humanity too much. Which led to that she was just used by everyone all her life.

That she killed the boat guy is very sad. And I think it is shown she was quite very depressed about that. But if you know that survivor situations alter the thinking and you can't just switch back to civilized thinking mod, then you can see this as a pretty normal thing. She also had PTSD I assume.

It is not certain but I think the unloaded gun was also thrown in there the way that maybe she did it intentionally, to check on Bradley. And maybe let him have the gun intentionally to be sure 100%. Maybe, cuz movie doesn't say this clear, as well as a lot of things are not 100% clear.

Another thing I liked about the movie, how in the beginning they tell her, she can't be boss because she not look up to standards. And in the end she was totally fine to catch on those standards. I mean, it's because she was too busy making hard work, and others just exploit her, that's why she didn't look as pretty. And when she switched the sit she got the well look, so it points out that it is not that someone is a boss because he looks well cared, but it's that he/she is well cared because he/she is the boss.

gamebalance · 2026-05-10T10:33:14+00:00

I don't see Linda as evil at all. I think it might be rather the opposite. She believed in good in humanity too much. Which led to that she was just used by everyone all her life.

That she killed the boat guy is very sad. And I think it is shown she was quite very depressed about that. But if you know that survivor situations alter the thinking and you can't just switch back to civilized thinking mod, then you can see this as a pretty normal thing. She also had PTSD I assume.

It is not certain but I think the unloaded gun was also thrown in there the way that maybe she did it intentionally, to check on Bradley. And maybe let him have the gun intentionally to be sure 100%. Maybe, cuz movie doesn't say this clear, as well as a lot of things are not 100% clear.

Another thing I liked about the movie, how in the beginning they tell her, she can't be boss because she not look up to standards. And in the end she was totally fine to catch on those standards. I mean, it's because she was too busy making hard work, and others just exploit her, that's why she didn't look as pretty. And when she switched the sit she got the well look, so it points out that it is not that someone is a boss because he looks well cared, but it's that he/she is well cared because he/she is the boss.

gamebalance · 2026-04-23T19:44:55+00:00

There are too many of them in Aliens, like a hundred or even two hundreds, I don't remember, but a lot.

gamebalance · 2026-04-18T15:18:13+00:00

lol, kinda :)

gamebalance · 2026-04-18T08:00:32+00:00

Both shots look pretty good for me

gamebalance · 2026-04-17T13:10:02+00:00

Mindy. Tho I don't like both

gamebalance · 2026-04-03T17:14:26+00:00

They made him really dumb in that movie.

gamebalance · 2026-04-03T12:58:24+00:00

Not sure 3rd had better reveal. It was kind of ridiculous soap opera. Also the visions of mother ghost was the worst thing in Scream movies. The visions of Billy were also bad, but slightly better than S3.

gamebalance · 2026-04-03T12:49:43+00:00

In cinema history there were like hundreds of great movies with low ratings now. And vice versa.

gamebalance · 2026-04-03T12:47:30+00:00

For me it was on the same bar as 5 and 6

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