PhonoBrainer

Thanks Larry! Let's mention the minimum spend for this to apply is $70. I tried to score a Pultec for four bucks, no dice. This Pultec trick didn't work.

I come not to praise the M1, but to bury it. I remember coming to a decision point on buying one, maybe 1988 or something, as my old performance keyboard had died. I tested it, evaluated, listen closely, read the ads, knew it was popular. But for me it just sounded cheeeesy. I went instead with a dummy Yamaha KX-88 controller, driving a Roland MT-32 module. Which had its own cheese issues, of course. So somewhere out there is the M1 I almost but didn't buy, and I hope it made someone very very happy!

No brainer, if you have the cpu.

My goal is to create more finished original songs than I have plugins. I have 327 plugins.

Any opinions on the telecaster? All the vids I find are from at least 5 years ago. Do the older guitars shine now with better strums now that they get the v4 overhaul?

I hope you are correct. Perhaps the music-human soul connection will remain viable, even fifty years from now, to kids not yet born. They will be able to watch grainy videos of concerts that happened long ago, like Stop Making Sense as an example. So they will know it used to be a thing. Whereas the human-accounting, human-information, human-photography, human-painting, and other human-? connections will be long abandoned.

I've been seeing a lot of these "where music is headed" vids these days, and this might be the most heady. What do you think?

Pepsi tasted better back then ???

Spread is great for making the bass more mono, and making the shimmery top things wider. Very easy to use, its a great gui design.

Zero plugins.

But at least they tried, becoming willing victims of their own career arc. I guess if you have an excellent retrospective documentary just dropping on Netflix, then you are through being cool.

Here's 5 EZ paks and a random midi pak. Whoooo.

You clearly haven't seen the first "Downton Abbey" movie. 🫣

That's a lot to pay for "Curation".

My randomness is beyond classification. I am for a time conscripted into the plans of others, to good effect, necessitating everything on my "to do" list be set aside. All good.

Much preferred over a heavy metal Bob Marley.

Headphones fer sure. I don't hate this, which is praise in 2025. I loved the hard panning hearken backs. It's the Uber clean digital soundscape, hosting what would be a grittier vinylescent progfest near-classic had they added the crackle. I wonder how this would have charted in 1978? Where's the single??? 🤑 The songs have a wonderful variety to them. The vocals really hold up, the changes are more inventive, the mix and arrangements have an Alan Parsons quality and clarity. And it's Queen-adjacent in more than one song. Thanks Bit! It's pretty great. I could see this getting more listens in those moments when I've got too much time on my hands.

All the ones I've ever used kinda sound like crap.