Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

@ronald @chhopsky Just got a Satechi USB-C hub for my iPad Pro, which has USB A, C and headphone ports, and this was the device I needed to capture MIDI from my piano AND when using an iOS soft synth app, play back sounds out the headphone jack.

However, the iPad won’t let me select the heaphone jack as audio out, so my piano which can work as audio device and MIDI device steals both when connected. The trick is to not plug in the headphone until AFTER.

I was going through some old downloaded/screenshot images and found some fun things from Apple's website circa 2001:

#Apple #OSX #iMac #2001

@InfiniteHench I seem to remember with the launch of Destiny 2 people lamented that it was a new game instead of a continued Destiny 1 because it meant starting over the character, gear, vault etc.

Now they're ok with a new game and starting over?

Lightfall’s campaign was weak for what it didn’t explain of events and lore, and #Destiny 2 can be tough to onboard for new people, but I wouldn’t throw away the whole game. It’s still the magic endless fun it’s always been. This “Destiny 3” noise doesn’t make sense to me:

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/04/destiny-3-begins-trending-on-twitter-as-fans-are-fed-up-with-current-game

@Hypnobeard Same :)

@Hypnobeard In 1080p FPS was in the 30-40. In 1440p, 15-22.

Needed to turn on some DLSS frame generation for those targets, otherwise the 1440p one went down to 17fps hehe.

Cyberpunk 2077 with the new path tracing off, and on. Tested with: Nvidia 3070 at 1440p.

I wonder if subscriptions are transferrable upon death? Probably not.

I'm in Canada but if we have something similar, I would also decline it. I wouldn't be alive long enough for its full duration of 40 years, so I may as well not pre-emptively pay taxes on something I couldn't fully redeem.

Whoah in the United States if you win a game subscription prize, it's considered taxable income and you have to pay taxes. 😲

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/04/xbox-fan-wins-game-pass-for-life-but-shockingly-declines-the-prize

#Xbox #GamePass #Subscription #taxes #IRS

@ronald This is a technical look at the method I used back then: http://midi.teragonaudio.com/tutr/bank.htm . This doc even references the JV 90.

Ableton Live way: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209070489-Sending-Program-Change-messages-from-Live

Logic way: https://support.apple.com/en-bn/guide/logicpro/lgcp2158a633/mac

The trick is to send these control changes at the beginning of the song like a “setup” step. But the sound generator needs to be multi-timbral and have enough polyphony for up to 16 separate patches playing back together. https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/multitimbrality-explained

#midi #music

So I asked Blue Willow to make me a :

Smurf versus Godzilla, city battle, hollywood monster movie

And what I got back was not disappointing. 😋 It's a 3-way hybrid of Kong, Smurf and Godzilla, all blue and furry but with tail and tallons along the spine, with the face and mouth of Kong.

#MachineLearning #Generative #Image #AI #MonsterMovie #BlueWillow #Discord

@ronald Ah ok. When I was using the JV 880, it was with an Amiga 1200 and Bars n Pipes software. I remember configuring my own control changes (bank and program select I guess?) to set the right patches per MIDI channel.

I think. Lol. It's been 30 years 😅

I'm happy accepting what you say is true considering. You're experiencing it in the now.

@ronald Oh noes! No storage for performances?

My 5+ years evolution from Scawed No Pewpew #Mercy, to (Enemy) Heroes Always Die aggressiveness represented as my history with gaming computers so far. 👼 😈

#Overwatch #gaming #VinylDecals #PCMasterRace