So as far as I can understand there is this whole crazy convoluted thought process that is the base of the sovcit thing.
It is conplicated and deranged but it can be boiled down to them thinking there is some sort of "cheatcode" to every interaction with public and official ententies. If they just use the right words and phrases they can get out of debt, avoid prosecution, get a free beer....
It's all really weird and confused.
I mean a pianotuneR (as in a guy that tunes your piano) is pretty expensive.
These apps seem to be marketed as tools for professional piano tuners. And looking just at the screenshots it looks like it has a lot of tools and features outside of just showing the correct pitch.
If tuning pianos is your profession, paying 999$ once and writing it off as a business expense isn't that far fetched.
(Better be a bloody useful tool though ;) )
Also: welcome to the "I need to buy a mixer, and/or I need a new audio interface with more inputs then the last every year"-club
You get your membership card after your 2nd upgrade. :)
It's not the guy in the trenchcoat next to you you need to worry about.
It's the fact that some unknown entity owns/has set up the WiFi.
Anyone working with complex network setup and admin will tell you how much you can abuse owning the network a user is connected to.
The network guys at work never use public WiFi, not hotels or anything. Neither do I, even with my much more limited knowledge of network administration.
The app is a VST host, and not a VST. They claim to have plans for a iOS and android app, but to be honest that seems a long time away...
https://github.com/bjglover/Intuitive-Instruments-Exquis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHBxXx0nnLY
Example code for how to light up the pads with midi messages.
The app is pretty fun and will get more features eventually. It lets you record several loops and turn them on and off and even arrange them in scenes.
For now i Just use it to swap between vsts on the fly, but i have used the record/loop functions a bit while playing with it. it can be synced with midi in, and will probably get more interesting features along the line.
I mainly see this as a live performance tool for now, but im going to need MPE capable DAW at some point, as for me the MPE expression is one of the main draw.
But i absolutely agree with you that the form factor and features is pretty interesting. It does have some basic functions without the app, like lighting up scales, and you can swap between MPE mode and Polyaftertouch (standard midi) mode.
You can find some details in their manual here: https://dualo.com/en/welcome/
EDIT: I just realized you might have been talking about the Circuit Tracks and not the exquiz... (im to exited by my new toy to realize your focus might be different) The Tracks is a synth/Groovebox, so it wont work for what you need as far as daw control i concerned. :(
I have not really tried it mutch with daw yet. (Since the app is very fun and a pretty nice vst host for just playing)
My main daw is Reason and it doesn't have MPE support, and I'd say you will need mpe support in the daw to get maximum utility.
Other then that, the buttons and encoders all send cc, but for now they are locked at pre selected cc# so you would need to be able to set up your daw to respond to those cc values.
Other then that there is no specific daw integration. (Different pad functions etc.) That being said the whole thing responds to midi signals for lighting up the pads etc So once those things get documented, it should be possible for community members to expand on it's function.
For now it's definitely early days, with lots of room for improvement. But it's good enough to be useful, at least for me.
Yes.
The microfreak loooves some delay and/or reverb.
Im convinced a lot of the presets are made with that in mind as they instantly sound lush and lively when you give them some room to work with.
My second hardware device was a circuit tracks, and the microfreak really revels in the built in effects. They are a really brilliant pairing, the sounds really work well together.
What makes the microfreak still one of my favourites is that sound design on it is so fun, and it's a real happy accident machine.
Sorry to spoil the one man show, but I'm joining in.
This is a good but complicated question. And depends on where you are in your synth journey.
Let's start with "my first synth"
My recommendation is mostly just a from personal experience.
I had played quite a lot with software synthesizers in reason over the years, but my recommendation for those starting out is my first hardware synth: Arturia Mini Freak. It's a very flexible synth that i still use and enjoy today, but it has a pretty logical layout, and the display will also help with grasping some of the concepts better.
Getting a hardware synthesizer is in my opinion a great way to learn, as the immediacy of "turn a knob, hear what happens" is very satisfying.
There are many synths out there, but I say start with something simple with a relatively easy layout is a good start.
Also, while menu diving is not a huge problem (but still annoying and "boring") once you know enough to know what to look for, in a first synth I would recommend something with all or most functions exposed to you.
Well they do... But only barely and less so in the US lately.
There are still cases of small artists getting compensation for big business using their images or music without consent. But sadly it is far from the norm.
I agree with your core sentiment. Copyright is not working how it was intended and it is being abused by corporations.
It might be because I'm not American, or because I am a musician and songwriter myself. but I still see a point to having some laws protecting the rights of the creative mind behind something.
Removing copyright completely will only make it even more easy for the guys with the money and resources to exploit the small independent creators.
But (American) copyright is severely broken. This is true.
A starting point would be that the right is only tied to the specific creative(s) actually involved in the creation of something.
The thing is its only the copyrights of individual artists and creators that will die to this.
The big corpos will find a way to protect their value, just you wait.
They will steal from every single creative in the world and then sue them to hell and back if they use anything they them selves "own"
This is not a threat to the copyrights that you want to die.
This is the key. Like a lot of other such scams and conspiracies they are either by design or just "evolution" geared towards exploiting desperate and or uncritical people for the profit of snake oil salesmen.
Like a lot of e-mail scams it actually helps if you can weed out any person that could waste your time or spread knowledge to others early in the process.