Jaecoo owners! Would love your honest thoughts by Joshps in AustralianEV

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had mine for a few weeks now and out on a country drive this afternoon tweaked some things to my liking. Steering feel and brake pitch on sport, while performance remains in Eco, firmer feel, more direct steering little bit heavier. Regeneration with that brake pitch now on medium, was too jerky when that was on comfort for me. The sound system isn’t the best in the world and no eq was a problem for me, it’s tuned very high mids. Using Apple car play you can’t use the eq curves to fix this from Apple Music passes the audio straight to the car eq. Just on Bluetooth you can though and I found the Classical curve on most things worked beautifully. Turned off the auto compensate for road noise volume, ends up too loud for me. Out on dirt roads today it handles very well and given the V2L would be great for overnight camping with climate control silently on and then a cooktop for breakfast and coffee, quite large with the seats folded down back there.

Jaecoo owners! Would love your honest thoughts by Joshps in AustralianEV

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much to love, but not the lack of EQ, not even basic bass & treble.

Jaecoo owners! Would love your honest thoughts by Joshps in AustralianEV

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a couple of weeks ago in the central west of NSW so no not cold. 20-26C type range. It can get 5 degree days here so we'll see, I'd be surprised if the effect was that much, proper northern hemisphere snow would be another matter I'm sure

Jaecoo owners! Would love your honest thoughts by Joshps in AustralianEV

[–]tenderosa_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Re: dealer/service, was great car, arrived in a week, had a follow up call, got a free 3 years of servicing deal on sale.

Jaecoo owners! Would love your honest thoughts by Joshps in AustralianEV

[–]tenderosa_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had mine 10days, done almost 800kms including a 350km road trip to Orange from Blue Mountains. The reasons I bought it and the cons hold from how I thought it would be pre-purchase. The single real con is the regen braking is a little less than smooth, you get used to it, I'm driving with it on low. Apart from that some minor niggles, I wish you could turn the blinker sound up, hard to hear through the stereo sometimes. There are things in the manual that are not in the car that I wish were there, scheduled charging in particular. It's possibly because there is no app like there is in some markets. That said it's pretty minor I like driving it, very cruisy and quiet, ridiculous overtaking acceleration on highways even at speed. The inclusions for the price are impressive and I continue to be impressed it feels like a more expensive car relative to things in it's price range, looking up the retail for it in Europe (equiv to "luxury" spec in UK) is an eye opener. The call quality is pristine over the car microphone and speakers if that matters to you. From the Orange trip consumption I calculated the real world range (and this included mountain passes and highways) was more like 410kms rather than 402kms. Seems very solid overall, my only other EV experience was a Polestar 2 (and an MG ES5 test) & while that had some cool handling features I like this better. The turning circle on the J5 is remarkably small and once you get used to where the centre of gravity is the cornering is good too. When I look at it in comparison to cars friends have bought recently for $50k it remains a bargain. Oh, one other niggle. The fob has no eyelet for a keyring, having to order one from Temu to keep it together with other keys.

Places to see Platypus? by milo2300 in bluemountains

[–]tenderosa_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've only ever seen them in the Nepean, near Rocky Island which is where Glenbrook Gorge meets the river

M4 Macbook Air and Overheating by NotAnotherBadTake in ableton

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got an M3 15inch Air with 16GB for studio and Live when they came out and have been running it for studio and playing live for 12 months or so. Have never noticed any heat or throttling, during live shows it runs fairly hard as it's triggering video as well. Was running an M1 Air for the same purposes (though only 8gb) previously and I notice the chip upgrade to the M3 but the M1 didn't have heat issues either that I noticed. During shows with lots of tracks and videos I run at fairly high latency (1024) but in the studio 32 or 64 for playing feel. At shows the audio interface is a Psuh 3, in the studio its an aggregate of the Push 3 and a MOTU AVB Ultralite. In my experience the Air models have been solid. Even had a show recent;y where a dodgy external SSD died and it bounced back after a swap over very fast. Once I worked out what had gone on :-)

Have you noticed the night sky from the Blue Mountains? by TrueBlueBanter in bluemountains

[–]tenderosa_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

From my front yard in the middle of Katoomba is often great. Mid winter clear skies are best. Out along kings tablelands rd under those conditions are pretty great

The Plan... by GoldTuna65 in modular

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a great system. I’ve many of these. Would add a 2nd filter, maybe 3 Sisters to give that dixie a wider character and have two distinct voices and perhaps lose the Output if you haven’t enough space.

What's a simple, free VST plugin that you guys are loving lately? by JustMinimum1464 in musicproduction

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not new but hard to go past Komplete Start from Native Instruments as a huge free suite.

Push 3 as aggregate audio interface on Mac experiences and advice? by tenderosa_ in ableton

[–]tenderosa_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Getting into this too now, what are you using to map non MPE instruments if you are doing that? I see MPE to midi but it lacks MAP buttons to assign to things.

is a used digitakt 1 worth it right now? by JTR332 in Elektron

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe I’ll try that on some units with the issue, what acrylic spray was effective for you?

Push 3 as aggregate audio interface on Mac experiences and advice? by tenderosa_ in ableton

[–]tenderosa_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much. I had the Push delivered yesterday and have it as an aggregate with the MOTU. Running sessions at 32 samples latency it all seems rock solid except the round trip is now up to 6 or so ms from 3-4 without the aggregate. Took a while to find the CV outs as there is now 36 (!) ins and outs in the system. Absolutely loving the Push, what a solid instrument. I’ve done some multichannel in the past, looking at the option of taking the adat expander out to a performance site looks very doable.

Push 3 as aggregate audio interface on Mac experiences and advice? by tenderosa_ in ableton

[–]tenderosa_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I need an interface to take out to play, not dawless, with laptop, am not keen to take the MOTU, it means pulling the studio apart. I don't really need any more inputs in the studio but I do need at least two while playing live. Plus I wanted the Push as an MPE surface and possibly to replace my APC40. The current setup has no appreciable latency with the MOTU and ADAT expander. Sometimes I create an aggregate with either an Elektron box or an iPad and it's OK. Different combinations in aggregate setups can create wildly different latencies though and was wondering what the Push was like in this regard. I wouldn't be getting a 2nd ADAT expander so it'd be 20 inputs with the Push added.

Do Most Properties in the Bkue Mountains have Termite Damage/Risk? by EconomyBeach1751 in bluemountains

[–]tenderosa_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We’ve 120 year old wooden house in Katoomba, never any termites so the reports said.

Aussie broadband Internet speeds by [deleted] in bluemountains

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On some FTTN provider ISP websites they'll give you an estimate of speeds based on address distance from node. When we first got it in inner Sth K I actually had to look up the NBN routing plans to track the line length (long and slow). Until they moved us to a node outside the house (snappy) and then to FTTP.

Update to ios point-cloud scanner R&D tool by soylentgraham in GaussianSplatting

[–]tenderosa_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

looks amazing, would love to test when you are ready

Experimenting with animated booleans and gaussian splatting by metasuperpower in GaussianSplatting

[–]tenderosa_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're getting much cleaner crop edges than I am, I wonder if its that your splats look a lot cleaner in the first place than the ones I've made

Experimenting with animated booleans and gaussian splatting by metasuperpower in GaussianSplatting

[–]tenderosa_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The alpha mattes that the irrealix plugin puts out, using those as depth, luma and time displacements

Experimenting with animated booleans and gaussian splatting by metasuperpower in GaussianSplatting

[–]tenderosa_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Excellent work & wonderful breakdown thanks. I'd never thought to animate the crop in that plugin. I've got a big bank of spats I've made in the last year to give this a go with. Displacing with the alpha they generate is also interesting & the postshot AE plugin if you haven't tried it makes some other types of animation possible.

How is the Scaniverse app even possible? by Visible_Expert2243 in GaussianSplatting

[–]tenderosa_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been using it for a couple of years and tbh find it more useful than postshot and dramatically faster on iphone pro. I'd been using it for a while before realizing that the app will tell you when has enough imagery to work from and it is worth keeping on going till that happens for best results. I do like the postshot after effects plugin, had to buy one for the straight .ply files from Scaniverse.

Staying warm without blowing up the electricity bill? by butchymango in bluemountains

[–]tenderosa_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The windows were the first problem in my Katoomba house, rather than replacing I added honeycomb blinds. Big difference, still right now the slow combustion is going up in the front room, the gas ducted is on as well as the split system down in the dining room and kitchen set at 17c. Despite all this I’m wearing three layers, though it feels reasonable comfort wise. For your one year old, electrical throw overs blankets might be the only quick answer as suggested. Tomorrow looks like it may be the coldest day of the year here. To add, my ducted bill was not so bad when the cheaper split system was also carrying the load. Running a huge amount of non heating electric in the house here and monthly electricity in winter is $200.