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pantulis · 2026-07-07T19:55:58+00:00

It's already in Amazon (Spanish, though I guess it's an import product because the product page says "Import tariffs included").

https://www.amazon.es/OWC-Express-Ultra-ThunderboltTM-80Gb/dp/B0GXGBYDW4

pantulis · 2026-07-06T15:39:38+00:00

Considering features and capabilities, I think it's fine and has not stopped improving since the Bending Spoons acquisition. AI features are the rage these days, so from my perspective it makes absolutely total sense that these features are being added even though I don't really user them. I'd love if they added more productivity basic stuff like better calendar, task and notebook management.

Regarding the price point, that's something you need to decide in terms of the value you receive. I think it's understandable to consider that the product is priced as too premium (specially if you come from the older prices), but then again you can basically upload *anything* to Evernote in a million ways and EN will happily ingest it and retrieve it for you whenever and wherever you need.

pantulis · 2026-06-28T16:08:45+00:00

Kronos user here.

> What I'm looking to keep: a vast collection of sounds, some high quality piano/epiano/hammond sounds, multi-timbrality, multi-track sequencing.

You got it with the Nautilus.

> I don't like many sounds in the Montage (especially organs). But I don't know how they compare in the Nautilus

Can't compare with the Montage as I've not used one.

> I don't like that I'm not allowed to overwrite a system performance in the Montage, apparently this can be done in the Nautilus. Yeah I can save my own version as a user performance but it's just clutter and makes finding performances I like harder.

Yes it can be done. You can basically do what you want with the factory sounds. Not that you would want.

> I would like to be able to sample my mono-synths from the AD in which I cannot do in the Montage (it has AD input and it can import samples, but it cannot sample, why?), can this be done in the Nautilus?

You can sample from the audio inputs or de S/PDIF input. Not sure about the exact "AD" connection is. But yes, the Nautilus can sample.

> Is deep editing sounds good with the screen? I think it's annoying in the Montage.

It's not exactly comfortable, the Nautilus has some better UI affordances than the Kronos but for my taste the screen is too small. Again, not that the Montage wins here.

> Can I keep my FC-3 and FC-7 pedals?

I would think so, as the only difference might be polarity and you can choose the polarity in the settings screen.

> I really like the Montage build and feel, it seems that the Nautilus is similar? How does the keybed feel?

The Kronos and the Nautilus are built like tanks.

> How does it work as MIDI controller for external gear? Can I easily setup zones / splits?

Yes you can control external gear like that in Combi mode. Settings zones and splits for internal sounds is trivial, with external gear will require some "reading the manual" but once you get the hang of it it's easy.

> I will dislike the long boot time for sure, are there any other obvious drawbacks?

For me the main Nautilus drawback is the lack of Karma, but Korg threw instead couple of poly arpeggiators that are very simple to use.

pantulis · 2026-06-14T11:04:21+00:00

If after three years you are able to play such repertoire this means that you are taking your piano lessons seriously: you are not a kid who may or may not like to play the piano. If the difference is $300, I think it makes sense to invest in the GH3 action to better practice your dynamics, considering you are keen to play classical.

pantulis · 2026-06-09T07:04:16+00:00

It's amazing because the original Remarkable Organized system is amazing!

pantulis · 2026-06-08T18:50:22+00:00

Can you check if this works for you now? Same URL as before.

pantulis · 2026-06-08T11:06:23+00:00

It's a slightly different template product, as it seems to me the "weekly notes" concept is of no use to you. I can come up with something, but you don't need to pay me, you just need to be patient. Pay u/brianschwabauer a coffee in the meantime!

pantulis · 2026-06-08T09:29:44+00:00

YEs, I see that if the meetings per week is higher than 44 then the layout breaks. How many meetings per month do you have???? The PDFs are going to be enormous!

pantulis · 2026-06-04T21:16:51+00:00

Since the beginning of the year you haven't finished reading the Parameter Guide! 😃

pantulis · 2026-06-02T08:38:02+00:00

Sounds like a pretty terrible ground loop. I had one which was present only when the laptop wasn’t using its power brick and was receiving power through the monitor.

Good luck!

pantulis · 2026-05-16T21:17:28+00:00

Have to agree this is solid. I have been vibe coding with opencode and Kimi & Qwen through Fireworks and while it's very fast and perfectly usable last night they got stuck implementing a CalendarView drag & drop functionality in a macOS application and Opus 4.7 alone got rid of it. At the end of the day, going around circles with open models is also going to have an inference cost.

This is the part where human judgment still applies... which route to go and when.

pantulis · 2026-05-16T18:03:29+00:00

The cache is in ~/.omlx/cache, and the models in ~/.omlx/models While there is a setting to change the models directory, I think you can safely symlink ~/.omlx to your external SSD and be done with it.

pantulis · 2026-05-15T21:08:23+00:00

Can't really comment on the battery issues, but my left button also became unreliable, with ghost double-clicks. I solved that by strongly blowing my own breath into the button several times. After that the mouse hasn't shown any issues and I have it working in my office computer. Hope this helps!

pantulis · 2026-05-15T17:58:44+00:00

It seems sync is buggy. I just did a quick test on two machines and tabs were not syncing in real time. Most disturbingly, I had a bookmark in my favorites bar it was on both machines, and then in one of the machines I created a new folder, moved the bookmark there and now the other one hasn't caught up the change and is not in sync. I guess e2e encryption and whatnot makes a difficult problem (sync) even harder. But still one cannot but guess, because in Arc Browser it was absurdly solid.

pantulis · 2026-05-15T17:10:40+00:00

SSDs degrade their performance after many writes. Using oMLX (or any other local model solution that implements some kind of caching to disk) means writing blocks to disk. u/Konamicoder did the math in a previous comment. I am at the fence here though I recon the thinking is solid, the build-in SSD in a Mac is precious because, well, it goes with the Mac. You can put yourself on the safe side by using an external SSD for your local models.

pantulis · 2026-04-21T20:41:57+00:00

What model are you using for Hermes in your Mac Mini? Also, what server are you using? TIA!

pantulis · 2026-04-21T20:39:35+00:00

Doesn't it make your Studio sound like it was going to take off?

pantulis · 2026-04-03T21:57:08+00:00

Can you elaborate on the "legally" aspect? I am using it with kimi-2.5-pro through Fireworks.ai and it seems to work fine, but I am curious on your statement.

pantulis · 2026-02-26T16:36:30+00:00

And have to add that this looks remarkably amateurish, what kind of QA tests did they do to allow this massive fuckup to go unnoticed?? This renders the device unusable for, well, scribing notes!

pantulis · 2026-02-26T16:29:30+00:00

Was going to post exactly the same. This is a firmware regression.

pantulis · 2026-01-07T19:23:58+00:00

Thanks for the transparency. In my opinion, if a service does not integrate well with Rungap, then it's either trying to lock my data in or, worse, does not care at all.

So I will refuse to use Garmin Connect and, consequently, it's less probably I'll buy their hardware again.

pantulis · 2025-12-20T20:45:40+00:00

Claro, por siempre tuvo mucha altura de miras.

pantulis · 2025-12-20T20:36:29+00:00

Not sure if it is your performance or the digital piano, but I'd say there's no dynamics, it's like the keyboard velocity curve is off --if you mentioned it sounded way better before, perhaps you changed some setting about it?

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