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PhonoBrainer

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  1. How old are you? Just curious. Music has been your lifelong love, I can assume. Has it been your main job as well, or a sideline?

    I've heard a bit of your opus and found it quite good IMHO, for what it's worth!

    Anyway, if you no longer love doing it, I don't blame you for eschewing that hamster wheel.  There are no hamster wheels in labors of love.

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  2. 6 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

    If you had to check out of mainstream pop culture for a decade, the 80's were a splendid decade to check out of . . .

    My mother bought me a color TV for Christmas 1989, and I discovered Star Trek: The Next Generation and then Twin Peaks. That helped me transition back into the mainstream somewhat just in time for the 90's, which were much, much better.

    Perhaps the 90's were better. For you 😀 and chalk up another cultural win for STTNG. Well done there.

    In actual fact, having lived through both and enjoyed both, I can say with unassailable authority that the 90's were a mere capitalistic refresh of the vibes and patterns of the original 80s aesthetic. 

    The core cultural principles of the 80s found their way from the streets and the cul-de-sacs into the boardrooms  where clever upper-middlemen harnessed the ethos, and monetized it.

    Proof? OK. Max Headroom got a filter and some polish and became Ryan Seacrest.

     

    We can't live in the past. But we can certainly argue about it 😀

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  3. Welcome to the Dead Man's  party. I saw them multiple times in '81 and '82 when they were just big enough to be touring colleges.

    I've never danced my butt off as I did then. And their recordings still hold up well today. They were so original. Intellectual new wave punk with jungle drums and a three-piece horn section.

    Congrats. To anyone I'd  recommend "Pictures of You", "Capitalism", or "On The Outside" or "No Spill Blood" as starters.

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  4. Might be worth a check to see if it works on an older computer. I tried the Pulsar Echorec on my 2013 win10 machine, and it froze my DAW because the GUI required Open GL or some such na na da da bla blah.

    Maybe I should update a video card driver. But that makes me worried it might break something else.

    Old man wanders into thread, mumbles something barely related to the topic, causes confusion, and leaves 🙄

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  5. In the future, all vocals in all songs will be AI vocalists, with a preponderance being "Celine Dion"

    But you will be able to download the song, and AI strip the "Dion" vocal out, so you can add your crap amateur vocal back in.

    And this is how William Hung has the last laugh.

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  6. I have the RD-88 as well, love that is only 30 lbs! This new version looks "upgradable" for mo sounds / mo money? 

    The blurb sayeth:

    "The friendly weight and streamlined dimensions make it easy to move, while the rugged build will hold up to years of heavy use. Built-in stereo speakers project rich, room-filling sound, eliminating the need for an external amplifier . . ."

     

    Ok, please know the case / outer shell of the instrument is all plastic. So would it last "years" of heavy use? Well, "years" is technically 2 years. Maybe.

    As for the rich, room-filling sound?  Technically, yes, if the room is the walk-in closet.

    I actually love my RD-88, plays great, onboard sounds are quite good, and a breeze to transport with the light back-saving weight.

     

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