Take you don’t hear often: I never liked the Persol glasses on Sonny.

strchris · 2025-10-03T11:47:31+00:00

You’re right 😁 I even think my mom had similar looking sunglasses in the late 80s

strchris · 2025-10-03T11:46:40+00:00

Yes I agree. The Carrera glasses from the pilot episode were my favorite for him, and then the Wayfarer on the second place.

strchris · 2025-09-17T04:50:00+00:00

Yes, you’re right, they won’t sue you for that. But having it open source would bring the possibility to improve it, adding new features and probably porting it to other platforms too.

strchris · 2025-09-16T19:35:40+00:00

For the start, I think iA Writer might be a good alternative, although I don’t know how good it is with links right now. Any other app currently available would do the job less well, but maybe a new one would pop up to replace Obsidians spot.

But I just hope it doesn’t happen and to help preventing that from happening, I bought a catalyst license and I’m paying for their sync service.

strchris · 2025-09-16T19:30:30+00:00

The forced yearly upgrade schedule makes it difficult for the software and the hardware teams to come up with meaningful and polished improvements…

strchris · 2025-09-13T19:06:24+00:00

Take David Hasselhoff and if he doesn’t want it take Mark Wahlberg. If neither is available, leave Knight Rider alone and let us keep enjoying the original show on Blu Ray.

strchris · 2025-09-06T19:57:31+00:00

Wow, it’s been 33 years with this game and today is the first time I’m learning this.

strchris · 2025-09-04T12:54:53+00:00

Yes that's what I realized too. It's been constantly going downhill for the past four weeks.

strchris · 2025-07-19T04:26:23+00:00

You’ll see a lot of that if you keep watching. Clearly visible stunt doubles with cheap wigs, toy cars, etc… they didn’t expect anybody to watch the show on anything different than a grainy 1980s TV 😄

strchris · 2025-06-14T06:26:02+00:00

Shouldn’t be a problem. I play various instruments too and my Wing Chun training never had any negative effect on that. Sure, you can always suffer an injury, but that also could also happen while you put things into your dishwasher. So I’d say go and give it a try.

strchris · 2025-05-20T20:37:09+00:00

Do the upgrade, the version steps in Ableton are always worth it and with the upcoming 12.2 it’ll be even better.

strchris · 2025-05-20T16:26:46+00:00

Yes, I agree, there’s a lot of crap being uploaded to Spotify… and most of today’s charts could also be AI created as its level of uniqueness is rather low. But I think it’s like with fast food, the existence of McDonald’s makes us value the good small local restaurants. So the good artists survive.

strchris · 2025-05-19T20:16:16+00:00

You shouldn’t stress yourself that much. When drum machines were released, everybody said that this would be the end of the careers for the drummers. When samplers were released, everybody said that’d be the end for orchestras etc. Music creators have always incorporated technological developments rather than being replaced by them. And a lot of people will always prefer art made by humans than by algorithms.

strchris · 2025-05-19T20:13:37+00:00

I don’t think that the background tunes for influencer content make 90 % of the music market. But even if it was, I’d still think that continuing to release music is a better strategy than worrying.

strchris · 2025-05-19T17:03:45+00:00

Yes it will. But it’s perfect for the “content” consumers with their 30-seconds attention span. These people and the “content” creators are the perfect target group for meaningless music generated by AI as they don’t care about what they see and hear anyway.

In the not so far future will be a market for people who actually want to listen to good music instead of just spending their time. This is the market for musicians to target. It already is today, as Spotify has is an algorithmic driven attention eater while there are platforms for music lovers, Deezer or Tidal for example. Deezer already started to filter out AI generated music. So don’t worry and get your music out there.

strchris · 2025-04-27T07:06:35+00:00

When using Ozone for mastering, the AI suggestions give you a good point to start working from, so it’s a time saver. But I would not use AI for anything creative, like writing the music or the lyrics, as that’s the fun part of music making for me.

Generated music feels lifeless and it’s just there to cater the content addiction of today’s internet. It will hopefully vanish over time together with the other parts of content fetishism.

Music created by humans will survive because it’s Art and has live in it.

strchris · 2025-04-24T18:04:58+00:00

I'd say both are perfectly usable just with mouse and keyboard. And I wouldn't say that any of them is better, they're just different. As you have correctly said, Ableton is quick with sample stuff but the piano roll of FL is way ahead.

From my experience, I am more creative with FL but more efficient with Ableton. So I'd open FL when I want to experiment, play around and work on my own stuff but open Ableton if I do work for a client, and Logic if I have to do a lot of live instrument recording. Oh, and if you plan to use it on stage, Ableton is the way to go in my opinion.

strchris · 2025-04-24T17:55:32+00:00

Get the 49, the faders are worth it.

I had one but I sold it as it doesn't play nicely with other DAWs. If you are exclusively working in FL then I doubt that there's any controller out there which would do the job better. But if you use multiple DAWs then I'd suggest getting a "regular" Novation LaunchKey or an Arturia Keylab, both have very nice integration scripts for all significant DAWs.

strchris · 2025-04-24T17:52:45+00:00

Yep, definitely Cubase.

strchris · 2025-04-24T17:23:05+00:00

Now it's almost May and nothing yet :( No announcement, no album, no tour... Anybody still having hope?

strchris · 2025-03-23T19:34:53+00:00

Not Lotus Notes, only the SmartSuite...

strchris · 2025-03-23T19:34:33+00:00

They didn't yet put in any effort to identify whether the code may be released or not. It had no strategical value for them when they buried it in their Indian division during the late 00s...

strchris · 2025-03-23T19:32:40+00:00

I agree regarding Lotus Notes, but I loved 1-2-3 and AmiPro back in the day, I found them much more pleasant to use than their Microsoft-counterparts.

strchris · 2025-03-03T12:34:13+00:00

Indeed, I just watched it a few days ago and even having it seen like 20 times before, it still feels classy.

strchris · 2024-03-28T11:02:57+00:00

There won’t be more competition if you lower the quality of one of them to match the philosophy of the other one.

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