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Bandcamp switching to Stripe is almost purely POSITIVE for artists, Stripe are NOT evil, they are forced to follow Visa and MasterCard censorship, as is PayPal; Stripe historically has been vastly better for small businesses and artists than PayPal; do NOT tell them to cancel this!

another thing we have just bought that we have been eyeing for ages: an “Intech Studio KNOT”. this is a tiny, very cute little box with open-source hardware and firmware, but also a commercial product you can just buy, and it's seemingly the world's best USB to (TRS) MIDI adapter

we really need to get a Yamaha MU, a real one

when all you have is schizoautist pattern brain every nail looks like a hammer

good lord, if you google the title of our new blog post, the one trying to give people a well-researched, fun, meaningful, myth-busting insight into the world of General MIDI, then Google will literally make up more bullshit for us to correct. this AI response is a hallucination!

uoah this super-pretty dennou girl has legs sometimes. who knew! new ene dlc… only for Mvidia GFX 7900 Ti(melost)

(re: https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01K3GDBKPSQWX1AZSGNVRTME2S, this is about the Yamaha PSS-A50 again)

seriously just buy one of these, we never shut up about them but for good reason, it's unfathomably versatile and worth twice or three times as much as yamaha somehow charge for it, it will Bring The Music Out Of You one way or another

we finished that blog post just in time for what is a bit of a hikari_no_yume tradition at this point: taking the train from southern sweden to germany, lightly sleep deprived, slightly manic, and vibing out. don't worry about us, it's one of our favourite things in the world

Hello everyone. We have a special treat for you: a new blogpost that is a audiovisual whirlwind tour through a neglected era of music technology. It's easily the longest, but also the best-researched and most fun thing we've ever written: https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2025-08-24-around-the-general-midi-world-in-12-pianos.html

In the first two chapters of SubaHibi, there is a recurring motif of asking why God didn't make the sky be a different colour every day. We understand it, but it doesn't land with us in the particular way the game might want it to, because the colour is different every day.