m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@thor The songs were a demo for some fest, I was sure I had a month to do everything, but then the fest was moved to a sooner date, two weeks earlier. And they had to upload it even earlier so I had a week. So I load the files into DAW and realize how bad the recorded material is! And we didn't have time to redo it. I mixed three songs in three days and had to jump through a lot of hoops to make it sound better. They did like the result though. I was so relieved I got dead drunk🤪

@thor I did it for free once. Well, they were friends 😁
I was interested because I've never recorded music like that: female vocals + acoustic guitar and ukulele in one of the songs. We tried recording it at home as we had all the equipment, but the acoustics was not good enough and it was noisy for recording music like that so we've rented a studio. Did three takes of each of three songs and I took it home for mixing.
This is where the fun started 😅

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network
I can relate. You don't even realize what this red flag talk is about because you've never encountered a person like that before or didn't become close, even if the relationship didn't work out previously, there was no drama, you could even stay friends. Until you meet THIS person and you can't fix it no matter what you do on your side, and you realize — oh, THIS is abusive!
Stay safe, man!
@Pixificial

@rootbsd I'm not against evangelism in general, but on Fedi it looks so out of place most of the time: like "interjecting for a moment" when by Linux I mean preisely the kernel, or telling me about xmpp when I explicitly state that I know what xmpp is and I still want matrix… 🤷 @drcounelis@mstdn.starnix.network

@kaedechan@mastodon.ml Если текст получается семантически корректным, он уже слабо отличается от настоящих новостей.
С законотворческой деятельностью в РФ, как мне кажется, нейронная сеть бы прекрасно справилась 😆

@thor I feel the same way! Programming job also makes you realize how ugly stuff you use daily is on the inside. This just drove me crazy!
I'm unemployed now so I can have fun with tech, but I'm going to get a job and start doing all this for the money pretty soon. This is terrifying 😱

@thor Designing operating systems and programming languages is creative, using really good algorithm for data processing is too, but 80% of it is mundane stuff. Like every other field, I suppose 🤷

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network Mojeek is okay too. I really like the bang-shortcuts at DDG though, like "!wt something" to do Wiktionary search. I wish everyone adopted this.

@splitshockvirus
Looks delicious nonetheless!
I think I usually do this backwards 🤪
I use the frying pan to cook meat and veggies then put it into the rice-cooker and mix.
And I use something like emmer or bulgur instead of actual rice so it's not really according to any original recipe, just my own thing. But it's edible 😋
@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network

@iska@mk.starnix.network
Ardour looks like a traditional DAW to me. I'm fine with using things like ProTools for recording stuff at the studio, mixing and audio-engineering, but for actual music making it's so limiting and… uncreative.
BitWig is more in the vein of Ableton Live — that is what makes it interesting.
@splitshockvirus @dem32@mstdn.starnix.network @nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network @Zergling_man

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network
I never was into VSTs, only used a couple of them. We were using instruments and filters built into Live — those were really well-optimized.
Did you try this BitWig thing? I wasn't into music when it got released so I didn't try it myself, but it looked promising. It's commercial software and I think it runs in Linux — shouldn't involve too much fawkage.
@iska@mk.starnix.network @splitshockvirus @dem32@mstdn.starnix.network @Zergling_man

@nerdtronics@mstdn.starnix.network
I remember recording our jams using a PowerPC G4 MacMini. We had bass and mic plugged into the FireWire sound card and a couple of MIDI controllers. Of course a bunch of filters/effects over it. It was recorded at 48 kHz in real-time and worked just fine. When did this stuff get so much more demanding?
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@atyh
> Homepage, websearch, external player, external pipe, things like that.
Looks interesting, I've never explored those, I think I should take look.

@Jessica Like snails? 🐌
@shibao

@atyh Building from source is fine and xbps-src makes it even easier. But some hardware is just old. Building Firefox (yes, sometimes you need it) on my PowerMac G5 takes about two full days 😮
I don't usually patch it and I'm fine with default optimizations, so I'd just go with binary. Unfortunately Daniel no longer builds those for PPC-BE MUSL systems, so I build everything myself. Sometimes it's just a waste of computing power 🤷

@atyh I build st, dwm, dmenu and slock from source too. Like you said, patches, colors — it's the only way to customize those. But surf is fine as it is, that's why I asked.

@atyh That's because #VoidLinux has surprisingly small amount of cruft. If you tried an average Linux distro, you'd be terrified 😅
BTW did you try this: https://chimera-linux.org/
It's based on Linux kernel, but has BSD userspace and Clang. It's from the maintainer of PowerPC port of Void. I never tried it myself, but sounds interesting on paper.