There is a big difference between figuring out, what is right or wrong, and what is defined as right or wrong by a certain group.
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I suppose the dog whistle is that Lines is full of āwokeā people. If one has a hard time being āwokeā or canāt suppress their āunwokeā opinions, then itās not an issue with Lines.
I have no idea, what Lines is full of. I was commenting on the general idea, of a right and wrong written in stone.
More than anything, lines seems to be full of programmers.
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I am a bad guitarist with a Digitakt. Which I think allows me to lurk and occasionally post on Elektronauts. Its definitely a better place than most guitar forums which I find grim beyond belief (I canāt speak for their synth equivalents). Though I did quite like Ilovefuzz until it pretty much expired as an active forum.
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I think Lines can be a little self congratulatory but I donāt think the facade thing is as overblown as some might think. I think people are just nice to each other.
Also, there are great artists, and itās got probably the best ciat lonbarde forum at this point.
People offer good music making advice with outside-the-box thinking (it has stoked my appreciation/interest for asynchronous looping)
I donāt currently own any monome products but I have used a Norns shield before.
Edit: this is a relevant thread with good ideas Here
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The smugness on lines feels like an extension of monome products and culture: opaque, uninviting, tribal, a certain air of pseudo-intellectualismā¦
I have no interest in their over-priced, user-unfriendly products. Regardless, Iāve found good movie/music/book recommendations on lines, and I check in from time to time.
edit: I should add, the people on lines seem nice. Iāve never been slapped literally or figuratively by them.
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Wow, a forum with a subscription fee. Does everyone pay a fee, or just new people?
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This has not been my experience - and everything Monome make is available open source (so the opposite of opaque) - a Norns Shield (ie the open-source variant using a freely available PCB design that anyone can have made + a Raspberry Pi) cost me less than, say, a Micromonsta 2. Add in a couple of Launchpad Minis Mk 3 in place of a Grid, using the midigrid script, and itās still one of the cheapest and best-value devices Iāve used.
The apparent user-unfriendliness may however be a function of open source / Linux in general; but thatās precisely what Lines is there to help out with, and the designers, users and script authors are usually more than open to questions, and the latter will frequently modify scripts on the fly to match usersā use cases.
Some parts of the Monome website is a little unclear and poetic, maybe. But there is an expectation that users will participate and investigate and explore rather than (say) using presets or having a conveniently organised soundpack provided from the get-go - though some script authors do just that too.
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Great post. Glad you are doing better 
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Hadnāt noticed that. Never been a WATMM member.
I have paid subscriptions before for some things but that was for more than just forum access.
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it was always a paid forum ā¦for as long as I know it.
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vintagesynth.com used to be a good one. it looks to still be, it just doesnāt get much traffic. I think people left there for MW and GS.
I donāt mind lines or MW. theyāre big enough that you can just find the spots you like and avoid the ones you donāt. just like here, try your best to steer clear of the three forbidden subjects: politics, religion, and Behringer.
I donāt really like GS in general. sometimes thereās good info to be found there, but overall itās the most middle-school/immature feeling forum I know of. Iāll go there if Iām looking for a solution to an issue or an opinion on a piece of gear and it comes up in a web search. otherwise, I avoid it. I never go there to casually browse subjects.
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Unfortunately I canāt think of a better one than Elektronauts. I can say that I think I made a healthy decision to unfollow all the hardware groups Iām a member of on FB.
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GS is infuriating sometimes. The middle school playground stuff (perfect description btw) used to suck me in even when I had no horse in the race. So I mostly just avoid it now.
Especially since they made the dance music/DJ section like a sub-sub-sub forum which gets no traffic, Iāve basically got not interesting in GS these days.
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Yeah there are a few good threads Iāve come across on GS but people definitely take it personally over thereā¦ like just flaming threads because they think there favorite synth is better, pretty confusing. Still there are some people who have been around forever and really know a lot there.
MW is also a knowledge troves but also has itās own issues, for me it is mostly that itās hard to breath any life into an old thread, stuff will rarely be surfaced long enough for someone who would be interested to notice.
Lines is super pleasant and also maybe the least gas oriented area, some nice threads and cool diy going on but itās not nearly as active feeling, makes me want to get a norns so I could feel more at home there.
Really the only down side of elektronauts is we feed each other gas for breakfast.
M8 dirtywave discord is a pretty fun place also not really a forum though.
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Or persons could just move on with their lives ĀÆ\(ć)/ĀÆ
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so true
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any electro forums? ghetto-party-producing, digitally punchy and analog overdriven, āmix that snare louderā , āhihats on the 16thsā crowd?
here everyone is talking about either kicks or ambianceā¦ still lovely crowd, no offence!
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This thread reminded me to check if thereās a forum for Roland stuff, since Iāve been diving more and more into the MC-707. I suspect though the wealth of information here is just as deep, just as in the case of the Moog Matriarch - Moog Semimodular forum was mostly questions from users (Matriarch, Grandmother, etc.) going unanswered.
Oh and I did not use the flag function on this thread.
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