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Esteban Villanova

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  1. 33 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

    To be accurate,  Christian,  who has long seen himself as a strong liberal,  started to embrace myths about transgender children getting surgeries that have been spread by anti-trans people. He became outspoken and tweeted about standing  with a very  hateful, anti trans comedian and JK Rowling, who maintains a similar stance. Because of Christian's standing as a well known composer and owning a successful business,  his tweet immediately got media coverage in the UK, then other countries.  Interestingly,  far-right media embraced him as if he shared their ideological perspective,  not realizing that he is otherwise liberal,  but simply holds prejudices and has embraced  some hateful myths about trans people. 

    Because he's a business owner and has LGBTQ employees and customers,  it especially put his company in a bad situation to have its co-founder embracing hate, intolerance and bigoted myths. There were some outspoken composers who sought a dialogue,  urging Christian not to silently resign, but engage in conversation,  which being a strong believer in the  "love one another" school of thought and a believer in second chances and hope that people are capable of change and learning, I really hoped to see. But Christian decided to resign and fade out. Christian has been public about mental health struggles and I believe that was no small factor in all of this. 

    This is not s political forum but your first statement about surgeries not taking place is false. I'll say no more about it.

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  2. NEVER GIVE IN TO MOBS. Stand firm, give 'em the finger. You don't need to be liked by everyone. But you do need to like yourself, since you live with yourself. Stand your ground, speak your truth and face the consequences. The world of free sample libraries is now worse off because a company couldn't stand the heat. The whole world becomes a worst place if you wuss out. 

     

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  3. 18 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

    One of the things that has put me off from the company is the apparent "in your face" snotty locker room bro attitude.

    Naming the company "Cockos?" Calling their plug-in language "Jesusonic?" That indicates (to me) limp high school rebellion. People are supposed to outgrow that crap.

    I have a hunch that you won't find many women working there.

    Oh yeah, the snotty attitude goes WAY beyond that but I won't get into that.

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  4. I think White Tie doesn't have the talent to make something amazing. All of the suggestions people made about the new theme were simply brushed off repeatedly and we were told that he would simply do wha he wants. I said that his attitude was unacceptable towards paying customers and that any decent company would fire an employee like that. He proceded to delete my posts (he's the forum moderator). So yeah, Reaper is a company run by a guy who has NO aesthetic or moral sensibilities to see that the guy he hired is a talentless tyrant. I now use Bitwig.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Fleer said:

    Saw that too, looking interesting. Anybody using it already?

    I'm trying it out now. Works great with very low CPU use. It has a granular mode but also a loop mode and a one-shot mode, so very versatile. The only problem is that the samples I drag are not being set to C but to G and there's no way to adjust that from the interface.

    EDIT: you need to the Root drop down to Auto. It wasn't working at first but when you set it to Manual and then back to Auto it works. This is my main one-shot sampler now.

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  6. I've been using the NI ones but really don't like them. I have the Lounge Lizard Session one which is physical modeling that I'm going to try later today as my last few projects convinced me that I don't like the sound. Arturia also has some modelling EP's, a few patches are included in Analog Lab. I'm going to install the Addictive Keys collection again to see if I gel with those.

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