I am just starting to play around with SurgeXT, after coming from a metal background and playing mostly with amp sims, drum kits and some orchestral libraries. I feel like I’ve discovered a new world.

Who wants to give me a billion dollars to dig a hole and I’ll give you a billion to fill it back in and we’ll both say to investors we posted a billion dollars in revenue.

Fender Studio does seem like a nice alternative to something like Garageband.

I also switched away from Ableton on Windows a couple years ago. At this point, after working in several of them, I swear by Ardour.

It’s a little ugly, it’s a fair bit to wrap your head around at first, but it does serve every one of my needs. It even recently got a clip launcher much like Ableton’s “Live” view! The only thing I really miss from Ableton is its audio warping engine, but that’s long been one of Ableton’s killer features, even compared to Windows and Mac DAWs.

It kind of depends on your use case though; what are you using the DAW for? Demoing? DJing? Traditional tracking and mixing?

Also about people’s comments about Bitwig and Reaper - yes, they are indeed damned good. If you want a 1:1 parallel with Ableton and don’t mind spending a bit of money, Bitwig is about your best bet.

I think that’s q bit overblown. You have an option to use a Murena account in place of a Google account. I just said no thanks and everything works perfectly fine with no services affected. In terms of security of privacy of the Murena account itself, no idea. Never used one.

Raymond’s book is an amazing read and full of stories very much like this one.

Americans.

Yandex is Russian

Yeah, it’s come a long way. If my wife can use it without blowing a gasket, I’d call it a ringing endorsement.

Communities, friends, family and media are your discovery algorithm! Get involved in things. It makes your music acquisitions meaningful and makes the experience of discovering and listening to music so much better.

I’ll just vote with my feet

I don’t think that’s what they’re saying

If they just resigned in protest then there would be very little media attention. Arguably they’ve achieved what they set out to do

I just try to describe it like email. “You’ve got your gmails and your outlooks and your yahoos and whatnot, you pick one you like, but they’re all email and it won’t stop you seeing emails from outlook guys if you’re a gmail guy.”

Took me ages to understand this. I’d thought "If an AI doesn’t know something, why not just say so?“

The answer is: that wouldn’t make sense because an LLM doesn’t know ANYTHING

It’s actually a really good representation of how execs are viewing AI. It’s a bunch of meaningless graphs and pictures of robots with the word ‘AI’ sprinkled over the place, the whole thing is backwards for the worker, and it’s imaginary.

“Mum, if you really loved me, you’d be able to compile your own kernel”

Its users

I tried to use it for admin in a Windows environment, but half the modules I needed wouldn’t work in Linux which made it pretty much useless.

I guess not using it when everyone else is would be another way of fingerprinting too