Even more maddening is when a manufacturer never specifies which type it uses. I ran into this last year. Struggling to remember which device it was but I had to email them to get the damn midi spec they used.
This shouldn’t be an issue in 2022, I don’t understand why everything doesn’t just have full midi thru capabilities by default.
To add my own: all hardware effects should have separate wet/dry controls and both should go from 0-100%. I know this isn’t possible in all form factors but it’s so useful.
Fire is too nice for my wife’s Mac laptop. A small nuclear device is what’s needed. Apple has, IMO, made some really stupid design choices in both the software and hardware departments. A keyboard with almost no key-follow. Skinny computers that rely on extra cords and dongles. A convoluted Finder and an OS that every step of the way begs the user to use cloud storage. Apple can bite me!
Apple have lost sight, but it’s easy to strip them back to a no bullshit legacy 90’s user friendliness. IF one has gone through every iteration of their “advancements” and knows how to bury them.
idk, beg to differ there. I think if viewed as two separate unrelated entities then the US one is ok, but when considered as a variant of the UK one it pales in comparison. The characters and storylines in the original are entirely relatable, (i worked in offices at the same time that it aired and everything about it rang true), whereas pretty much everyone in the US version is an exaggerated charicature, and many of the plotlines kind of not wholly believable in a real life situation. Also the central conceit of the Office is that it is all being filmed for a documentary, and that is the only footage that the viewer sees, whereas in the US one this conceit is lost to a kind of pseudo docu style that plays fast and loose with the rules- many of the scenes ‘caught’ on camera simply would not have happened and would not have been filmed that way. It paved the path for similar shows like parks + rec, which use the similar kind-of-but-not docu style, and also like parcs and rec it is cloyingly sentimental, (particularly the later series’), something that the UK one never was. Tbf im still annoyed that the UK run was grudgingly short, and likewise i dont know why the US run was allowed to limp on for so bloody long, as despite my reservations the first bunch (maybe 4?) of series were great.
