An hour plus. Maybe read some manuals I’ve long escaped or doodle on some IPad music app using earpiece. Less of “stares”. If that isn’t really a concern, play on something as small as the SmplTrk or rumoured upcoming Akai MPC mini?
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Normally I just take my 7u 104hp case
I find patching therapeutic while sipping my oatmilk latte
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I made a couple nice beats with my Cycles in a diner in Colorado.
op-z in the rucksack most days but I don’t go to cafes much. Super quick workflow and fun for performance.
vvvveeerrrrrryyy interested to see if this is true.
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bourgeoisie
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this a good way to attract bandits to rob you
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I don’t play music in cafes so much. I find it very relaxing to transcribe songs. Every once in a while if it’s a nice day and not too busy I’ll bring my headless guitar with headphones and pick apart a song. I get self conscious if there are too many people and wander off to a park and sit under a tree instead.
But most of the time I’ll put on headphones and pick away on a keyboard app on my phone as I’m dissecting a song. Typically a piano or synth patch on FL Studio while slowing down/repitching a file on AnyTune.
That hotdog is past it’s best 
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Just to keep persuading myself that M:C/M:S in a cafe is not totally bonkers …
The polyend tracker. I always choose one gear that i always take out with me to only play outside which i dont put it on the main system back home. İt has been the tracker for a long time.
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Some, when they reach a certain age if they were born before a certain time and spent the last 20 years or so getting knickers in a bunches and feeling some grimace in the bowels upon seeing people doing things like synth-ing in a cafe, reach a conclusion that life is too short to waste on passing such banal judgments and find the freedom to do what they want, and where; in a considerate fashion ideally.
Off to Starbucks I go with my Digitakt!
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Bagpipe
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Come on in, the water’s actually pretty shit.
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The only way to do this without looking silly, is with a laptop, only a laptop. Remember seeing this guy with a goddamn 88 key akai keyboard, several times in a coffee shop. I think he wanted to be noticed and revered for his brave choice, we all despised him.
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I saw a dude having a beer in a six back shop playing a volca samples. He was having way more fun then me.
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Somehow I’m more productive there. My wife is chilling and reading a book or working on her laptop, while I am trying to wrestle the OP-Z into screechy industrial (the result still sounds chill 90% of the time unfortunately).
It’s the perfect cafe machine. Doesn’t take much space and gives me so much joy.
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An alarming amount of comments mention being robbed. As someone who grew up in a fucked up country, I have some valuable advice for you guys: move to a safer place. I’m able to walk the city streets at night now, and it feels so good.
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What I do in a cafe sort of depends. Because I’ve heard cafe used in reference to a coffee shop and heard it used in reference to a small restaurant. In the case of the former I order my coffee and get the fuck out. In the case of the latter I eat my food and get the fuck out. But really I don’t do either of those things since I make coffee and cook food at home. Thereby keeping way more of my money.
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