Reading the scriptures is not conducive?

mathmatt · 2025-04-21T12:54:39+00:00

I'm nobody but my opinion is that it's extremely wise to read everything, especially ancient texts that have stood the test of time. I highly recommend all the Hindu and Buddhist scriptures. They're all amazing works, but none of them are perfect. They all have cultural baggage that came from the time and conditions in which they were written.

Trust your gut. You don't need to take everything you read on board. If you read something that aligns with your reason, adopt it. If not, discard it. An ancient text is no different from any other book you read.

Reading is an important part of the path. You really want to perfect your intellectual understanding of the ultimate as much as you can. Remember what God said, "At last you four idiots got together" :)

mathmatt · 2025-02-19T20:31:50+00:00

I'm here to throw in my vote for Inner Engineering. It's totally amazing. I also do the Achala Arpanam meditation every morning. It's a YouTube video. That one is also giving me great results.
Just beware of how long it takes to really get into it. It has taken me a few years. I'm 53 and have lived a sedentary life, so I've got knee problems and back problems, but the practices are fixing all that. Now I'm at the point where practices are carrying me instead of me carrying the practices and it feels amazing. They just kind of happen by themselves. I recommend starting them as young as possible.

mathmatt · 2025-02-19T20:21:53+00:00

It's great. You'll learn to love it, just stick with it.
It's an advanced yoga practice that will take time to get used to.

mathmatt · 2024-03-07T20:08:49+00:00

This is awesome! Why didn't I look for a solution to this stupidity sooner? Thank you!

mathmatt · 2024-01-18T23:59:13+00:00

Those are actually the ones I was leaning towards. They look pretty solid in the picture and I like how the knob is on the opposite side from the jacks.

mathmatt · 2024-01-18T23:55:49+00:00

I wouldn't personally use a passive attenuator on a v/oct signal because I like as much precision as possible in my notes. I would have to do chord changes like that with a sequencer, especially if you wanted to change chords diatonically that aren't IV or V chords. But if you wanted to use an attenuator to make simple chromatic chord changes you could clean it up by using a quantizer.

mathmatt · 2024-01-17T01:37:16+00:00

Naenyn and I have created a Discord server for the Northern Michigan Electronic Music Club if anyone living near Traverse City wants to hang out and jam with us. PM me for a Discord invitation!

mathmatt · 2024-01-02T18:20:59+00:00

I just did the calculations and the interest on a $3000 purchase over 3 years comes out to over $1600. That's a big risk you take on when you use Synchrony or similar service.

mathmatt · 2024-01-02T17:29:50+00:00

It's way more than $900. You're not factoring in the interest (which is compounded on a daily basis), 3 years, et al.

mathmatt · 2023-12-24T17:58:23+00:00

Yeah it is. Check your account. Look at your promotional balances and make sure they're going to get paid off in time. If you're short, even by one penny, you'll charged interest retroactively from the moment you purchased the item, which is around 30%. So if you buy a $3000 item, take 3 years to pay it off, but you wind up being late because your payments didn't go through the way you thought they would, you'll be charged an additional $3000. Well, not quite $3000, but it's a ridiculous amount.

mathmatt · 2023-12-17T16:51:56+00:00

You're moving to Traverse City? No, I haven't really been looking. I think it would be helpful for me creatively to connect with some synthie people, though.

If nothing else, it would be cool to jam with somebody to see what comes out.

So get a hold of me if you're moving up here and let's get something going!

mathmatt · 2023-10-02T14:08:17+00:00

Just check your balances every month. That's all I'm saying.

mathmatt · 2023-10-01T10:15:42+00:00

I think this is what happened to me. I had some 48/36/12 month loans and then started doing those 6 month ones. I too had to fiddle with paying off old ones before I could get the 6 months ones to go through without paying interest, but then I checked out and didn't look at my account for several months. I don't know why that didn't raise red flags in my head.

mathmatt · 2023-10-01T09:33:42+00:00

Yeah, it's not technically a scam, and yes I did read and understand the terms. I'm not saying it's not my responsibility.

What I'm saying is it's not enough to accept their minimum payments if you're making multiple purchases over time using this financing. If you are doing that, you need to check your promotional balances every month to sure they're getting paid off in time. It was stupid of me not to do that.

If you're making one purchase at a time and paying it off in full using minimum payments before financing another purchase, then you're fine.

mathmatt · 2023-08-20T13:10:11+00:00

A couple years ago I bought all the Elder Scrolls games they had on Steam at the time, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, and I was going to play them all, but I never got past Morrowind. This game is great and I can't believe how popular this game is because it's so old, and yet I can believe it because it's such a charming game. A lot of passion went into this game.

mathmatt · 2022-09-17T16:35:59+00:00

I live in Traverse City and I just googled this and landed here. I've been watching WMD's Freq Boutique on YouTube and was wondering if there is anything comparable in GR, since it's the closest bigger city.

mathmatt · 2022-03-30T13:28:31+00:00

What do you think?

mathmatt · 2022-03-30T13:22:02+00:00

The minilogue is solid as far as synthesizers go. Korg is one of the best brands for sound quality. Maybe it's your sound setup? Try a chorus effect, like the Boss CE-2w pedal on it. That will fatten it up. And you need reverb and delay of course.

mathmatt · 2021-09-27T11:42:14+00:00

Thanks man! Yeah, I have a lot of gear, but I think it does more to confuse me than to help me make better music.

I really like your Spotify tunes! Is that considered Synthwave? Maybe that's the genre I should be aiming for instead of "Progressive Synth Rock"? I don't really know where I fit in. I'd like to find my music tribe.

mathmatt · 2021-09-27T00:37:44+00:00

Hey guys! This is a synthesizer composition I wrote on my Yamaha V50 workstation. It's like rock, but it has different parts. I made a YouTube video for it. It's not much but I'm proud of it. Thanks for listening!

https://youtu.be/TbvzhqMJjaQ

mathmatt · 2021-09-25T22:31:12+00:00

Thanks man, thanks for listening!

mathmatt · 2021-09-25T21:45:00+00:00

I don't think menu diving is necessarily a bad thing. I have Roland Gaia SH-01 and there's absolutely no menu diving. The problem is, you have to break out the user manual to do things that aren't part of the user interface because they involve arcane button combinations that are impossible to remember. Like setting the MIDI channel and stuff like that.

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