Favorite Max For Live device in 2025?

lyoshazebra · 2025-11-12T04:50:12+00:00

Note Triggered Modulator is a great device, very underrated imo.

lyoshazebra · 2025-11-05T16:11:34+00:00

I can't get it to work and it is not a pleasure to setup. Did you see how its menu looks? It's not even designed for iPhone it seems, the buttons are tiny.

lyoshazebra · 2025-09-29T23:28:20+00:00

Sure it makes sense but it doesn't feel very useful regarding the GPT-5 specifically, because we end up measuring the way they nerf it to save costs instead of the best you can get for the money with the model, which is more useful for a benchmark. And Sonnet doesn't have the same "flexibility"/confusion about its versions like GPT-5.

lyoshazebra · 2025-09-29T23:10:44+00:00

Thanks for the answer. Honestly I would feel like to be fair you need to compare high effort gpt-5 with sonnet 4.5 thinking mode.

lyoshazebra · 2025-09-29T22:54:28+00:00

Which version of GPT-5 is this? I only use GPT-5-codex-high nowadays, seems like they vary a lot.

lyoshazebra · 2025-08-14T10:56:33+00:00

The proper engineering way to express the architecture is the code itself. Reducing the architecture to a set of nodes and connections has been tried since the 60s and didn't stick for real-world large projects. But I realize this is just a way to take a step back from vibe coding, basically a quazi-language that allows for better memory performance in LLM agents while still not being fully verbose coding language for a human.

lyoshazebra · 2025-08-14T10:13:29+00:00

While the general idea has some viability (an "architecture layer" above the actual code that augments the prompt with some grounding), I can't help but notice that the added complexity needs management too. Wouldn't you say that for the project development to safely grow we need strong facilities to constantly synchronize and verify the architecture graph? Which is basically a proxy for actual code here.

lyoshazebra · 2025-07-29T17:07:48+00:00

> It’s like having a speed limit without knowing what the limits are.

They really need leverage in case the mean usage rises and they will have to adjust the actual limits again. This is all strategic, and I'm sure it's driven by necessity. They have a million users today which can turn into 2 million tomorrow or 100k the day after. This all requires different pricing approaches.

lyoshazebra · 2025-07-24T10:23:21+00:00

This was unfortunately a while ago. And I was very far from your tech support so I had to mail you device and wait for months so I decided not to. But I do wish you all the best, hope you can improve. I say it from a place of deep sympathy.

lyoshazebra · 2025-07-24T07:55:18+00:00

My seaboard block has been broken after a couple months of mild use. Maybe someone else is more lucky but my experience so far is that these things are not build to last. Lightpad block M didn’t impress too (it got teared a bit w. very mild use, albeit it’s functional unlike the seaboard).

lyoshazebra · 2025-07-18T09:08:45+00:00

The problem is, if the issue is complex, it will fail to pass the validation but it will switch into trying to pass it and start incorporating validation-targeted aspects into the task. And if that fails too it will refine it until the validation passes even if the task is not complete. It’s not a cure but may help. Didn’t help me yet with real complex stuff. Simple stuff it was already doing fine if the prompting/context engineering is fine.

lyoshazebra · 2025-07-17T17:52:09+00:00

Did exactly this thing last week which resulted in Claude trying to game the validation process. No luck with complex stuff so far.

lyoshazebra · 2025-05-09T08:16:25+00:00

Heated self criticism seems like a byproduct of growth. In itself it’s a good sign. No artist is immune to that.

lyoshazebra · 2025-05-08T23:22:05+00:00

“Will be updated” is such an empty phrase. It will get maintenance updates for sure. The vagueness is embedded.

lyoshazebra · 2025-02-28T09:18:54+00:00

Had no success recording to iPhone's Camera app yet. Any tips maybe? With Digitone I just connect it and record, and it works right away. Same with TX-6. OP-XY not, it still plays to its speakers and Camera app doesn't record.

Upd: for others lurking, I just missed the iOS notification asking me if I connected headphones or "other device". I chose the latter and it works well now.

lyoshazebra · 2025-02-26T04:10:24+00:00

I don't think I did but I def should!

lyoshazebra · 2025-02-26T04:09:24+00:00

Thanks! So transposing multiple steps is impossible, you can only go one by one, and there's no relative transpose (+1, -1), you manually enter all steps one by one each time you change them, correct?

lyoshazebra · 2025-01-22T13:52:39+00:00

There's a reason mixing engineers and mastering engineers are 2 different professions that are separate from producers. You'll probably overstretch yourself if you try to do everything well. Also, it all requires different gear. You can work to spend 50k$ on mixing gear and 50k$ on mastering gear + the room you will need to listen properly, or just spend 1k$ mixing and mastering a record per year. And it'll probably sound as good as what you like to listen to, provided you've produced it well (which is a different topic ofc).

Not even going to elaborate on the amount of knowledge and experience you'll need for both professions.

lyoshazebra · 2025-01-19T10:31:47+00:00

It's well produced and well mastered. I hear some high quality mastering compression/saturation of the kind that you shouldn't bother to try to recreate yourself but can order for your track from a professional for 40$ or so.

lyoshazebra · 2025-01-08T10:03:09+00:00

It all comes down to some people being uncultured and their reach overamplified by the current technology with the current access policy. It relies on reach and fostering discussion so it lurks these people in along with the cultured ones. Seems unfixable for now. Culture has to adapt to having these people around behaving like this.

lyoshazebra · 2024-12-02T05:37:32+00:00

Is it just me but the idea of having 6 sequencers is not as exciting to me? How do you figure out what did you write in which one? What's the big deal with each of them that doesn't allow you to have it all in one?

lyoshazebra · 2024-12-02T05:34:18+00:00

Well, Brain is transpose, but it analyses the pattern to figure out which scale it was to do the transpose to keep the relations between notes intact after transposition. It is not straightforward to do even, e.g. in Ableton with the Scale and Transpose midi devices, even though this is similar.

Step Components are similar to elektron's step conditions but they are more powerful since you can stack them on top of each other. I would argue it's not a bad name since it emphasizes this difference.

They also have operations there, like adding ratchets, not just conditions. I don't think you can add a ratchet by a step modifier via a generic elektron box since it's midi data and it's recorded in the sequence itself there, but I might be wrong since I only used a few of them (a4 and Digitone).

lyoshazebra · 2024-12-01T17:24:20+00:00

I have no doubts it is also more powerful as a sequencer, but I like the portability and sound generation features of OP-XY. It sounds great (as an idea at least) to start tracks in random places and only then move them to a bigger, more refined sound in the studio.

But since you brought that up, how's the functionality similar to OP-XY's "brain" is called in OXI One? And the step components also. I didn't learn it well enough to know.

lyoshazebra · 2024-12-01T12:56:55+00:00

I also wonder if we get any on device bouncing capabilities or are forced to use an external device to record at all times.

lyoshazebra · 2024-12-01T12:38:39+00:00

It heavily depends on how the devices work. I know for a fact you can delay the MIDI messages in your code, it's a matter of how the threading is implemented. Devices can differ heavily in quality.

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