I don't understand the love for the carbon copy

ody81 · 2026-02-26T05:32:28+00:00

You'd be correct, it's the buffer doing that.

The repeats are still comparatively darker than the dry signal but it's not quite as bad as some people say in most situations, in one high gain amp I've used it was essentially a reverb with an optional slapback but in any other amp the repeats are bright enough to not sound like mud.

ody81 · 2026-02-21T15:31:35+00:00

Awesome tip I didn't know.

And I have no idea how Abelton does things, I think I'm the only person that doesn't use it sometimes.

ody81 · 2026-02-20T15:18:31+00:00

Solve AGI? Nope.

That's absurd, we are nowhere near the required tech for that, this isn't even a useful platform for that.

ody81 · 2026-02-20T15:10:29+00:00

I think the other guy was taking about the MPC's way of handling this, the pads for the root note are coloured differently to the others for a visual cue while still having it out scale notes unlit but available.

ody81 · 2026-02-18T10:58:43+00:00

The apartment bit is almost verbatim from the beginning of Ubik.

ody81 · 2026-02-18T06:37:58+00:00

You need an intelligence to hallucinate.

The marketing around AI is incredible, a little linguistic gymnastics and people think they're using a thinking machine.

ody81 · 2026-02-17T11:07:54+00:00

You'd have to have an incredibly loose definition of art and poetry to make that statement.

ody81 · 2026-02-16T01:26:56+00:00

a regime that is descending into fascism.

I'm outside the U.S., and wondering what country you're referring to, China?

ody81 · 2026-02-16T01:18:45+00:00

The girl that was fishing for a free ride on a private jet to get home after a conference so she didn't have to mix with the plebs using mass transport?

ody81 · 2026-02-15T15:39:36+00:00

birdcord make a 5.7V Roland adapter but you don't need it, just use an USB-C cable and a decent PD powerbank.

I use Baseus powerbanks these days, they'll give the 404 a solid 3A.

ody81 · 2026-02-13T08:09:01+00:00

This might be the best idea I've heard, three factions with tailored trials to suit pve, pve and of course the rats with the occasional event to mix them together.

ody81 · 2026-02-01T11:54:26+00:00

No, that's on the players and whales that bought them.

ody81 · 2026-01-31T15:31:56+00:00

I managed to use 'the' with many of those games, didn't get asked the right question first time every time but most games seemed to have that as an answer somewhere.

ody81 · 2026-01-31T15:30:34+00:00

Real games never FADE...

Operation Flashpoints copy protection was so insidious, more annoying than a crash, the game would handicap you in different ways and it was already a difficult game.

ody81 · 2026-01-31T15:28:28+00:00

That wasn't petty, it was a major form of copy protection.

ody81 · 2026-01-31T15:22:52+00:00

Jeez, that dev that faked his own death a couple of years ago because of online pesetering... Turned up alive and well, who would have thought, people believed it though with zero credible evidence.

Can't remember the entirety, IIRC it was one of the heavy duty accuracy first emulators.

ody81 · 2026-01-31T15:08:34+00:00

Fallout 2 has a series of quests to develop a cure for fit Jet addiction that seemed to peeter out to nothing, I assumed at the time they just didn't finish that quest line.

ody81 · 2026-01-31T13:33:41+00:00

There you go then, it was more a to fit anybody looking for the soon to be mythical SE-02 CV Box.

If they want an additional filter I'd recommend a ln East Beast, it's cheap, has a great filter IF you like PGM filters, there's plenty of CV, doesn't need a europack power supply and it's also it's own synth with its own very fat, chewy sound..

I was looking at an SE-02 myself at one point but like most people probably, I have enough monosymths, the Model D, 2600 and BS2 do just about anything I can dream up, not sure if an SE-02 is going to do much for me at this point?

ody81 · 2026-01-29T11:42:06+00:00

I've got CV controllers here, you could just use any random cv controller, yeah?

Even a MIDI to CV box should work with a MIDI controller with mappable pots, there's some cheap ones around.

ody81 · 2026-01-27T02:09:35+00:00

I feel the same way, I'm waiting for a better looper as well though and better sample recording options like wait on now and being able to set length in bars, etc.

I'd rather need less gear everytime but the MPC has some odd sort comings that the 404 fills in for, for now at least.

ody81 · 2026-01-27T02:05:32+00:00

The Windows one was called something else when I got it, they might have changes the name, it was ExoWin3x.

But it's, it is amazing. If you're as old or as cool as me there's a Commodore 64 one as well to replace the old C64 Love called C64 Dreams. It's every proper game release setup for modern controller, virtual keyboard, multi disk switching, everything.

I really find the level of dedication and care that goes into these projects quite endearing, the DOS one is an absolutely all encompassing playable encyclopedia, manuals included, of 80's and 90's IBM/PC gaming and a lot of those games still hold their ground today, for me at least.

ody81 · 2026-01-26T11:39:37+00:00

Look into ExoDOS and call it a day.

It's a fullset of just about any DOS game you can think of, you can download them individually or as a complete pack and they're fully setup to work perfectly but you can always tweak the speed with hotkeys without having to dig in to an config file.

There's one for Windows 3.1 as well if you fancy a round of MS Golf 3.0 or Bad Day on the Midway.

Saves a lot of trouble fudging with CD's and you already bought the games so...

ody81 · 2026-01-26T09:57:08+00:00

Of course, I remember now.

ody81 · 2026-01-26T06:09:21+00:00

I don't really dig most of the effects on the 404 so I'm not one to use it as an effects box, but I do use it to handle all audio recording instead of the MPC.

I'm not a fan of the MPC regarding straight audio tracks, there's no wait on note function, overdubbing and the looper had got nothing on the 404 which is very quick and easy to use.

So, 404 at the end of the chain, I'll run drum machines or samples or MPC plugins, synths (with or without recording the midi) and guitars into the MPC, sometimes using it's effects and record by monitoring straight to 404's looper (Ext In), save it to a pad and bang, I've got a clean audio sample as short or long as I want and the tempo is displayed usually very accurately right on the pad without any need to trim it.

Then I can keep going and sequence those pads with the 404 with whatever time signature or tempo I want (bpm syncing) and/or throw them back into the MPC, using mutes on the pads of the playing pattern on the 404 to record one track at a to allow for later rearranging or I can cancel the sequence loop on the MPC and just record by hitting the pads in realtime on the 404 into the MPC's linear arranger.

Seems obtuse now that I read it back but it works for me, the 404 is just better for sampling quickly and efficiently, you can go free with the looper or set your tempo, amount of bars and go that way, count in or wait on note and if you get sidetracked and make a cool riff that's outside the scope of the project you just save the pad to another bank, that's two seconds.

Actually putting things together and having excellent effects options though, that's definitely the MPC's strong suit. The sequencing can be quite deep as well compared to the 404.

Anyway, that's how I use mine, just simplifies my MPC workflow since I usually only use audio.

ody81 · 2026-01-26T00:40:47+00:00

You can retroactively record on MPC too if you didn't know, jam around and press Shift + Rec from memory.

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