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fascinated by the yamaha qy10… they made a battery-powered midi sequencer that fits in your pocket, but doing that in 1990 required big sacrificies: only 8 tracks, 30 crunchy instrument sounds (+ 26 drums), no fx, a single-line lcd. i love the demo songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X13vLaTOVIs

the computer industry died when it stopped making computers with a real physical presence. you can talk down to an iphone all you like but you can't talk down to an ibm mainframe. it demands respect

oh no, i've been so busy getting irrationally annoyed at how many ways europeans have found to make karl sound cooler than it is (charlemagne, karolinska, carolingean, charles…) that i missed that the americans have a fucking state called south karl whose big city is karl town

early iPhone app names be like
iHateMyself
iHaveNoSelfRespect
iAmGimmick
iLongForHuman Touch

Wovon kommt das Gear-Acquisition-Syndrom? Eigentlich ist es ganz einfach. Man sagt, dass „Neugier“ die wichtigste Eigenschaft der Musiker ist, aber viele haben sich verhört, und sie glauben, dass sie „neu Gear“ ist.

can't believe analogue gentrified famiclones

furry friend has confirmed to me that they use nfc at nfc. all is right with the world

my fediverse thread from 2024-01-16 where i was far too excited about the new yamaha seqtrak got deleted in the server accident so here i'm gonna quote it from twitter so i can reply to it

must avoid gear acquisition syndrome but the yamaha seqtrak looks actually good and i am not afraid to say it

this is not even why it was tempting me but apparently it might be fully controllable via midi sysex??? is the dream of the 1980's still alive???? yamaha wtf i love you

all the most important awm2 samples!
[manual screenshot listing SFX voice names: Argentina, Reverse Cymbal, Fret Noise, Breath Noiz, Seashore, Tweet, Telephone 2, Helicopter 1, Applause, Gunshot 2]

it's like a certain teenage engineering product if it were cheaper, larger, and had better build quality, a non-masochistic and comprehensible physical layout, support for normal computers, and a realistic chance of still being usable in 10 years' time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saJWk8d2-lU is a nice video about the book "on growth and form" which argued that lots of patterns in biology might have physical/mathematical origins

my therapist: the new nintendo 2ds xl isn't real. it can't hurt you
the new nintendo 2ds xl: