And pads on the right!
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No, no, absolutely not, nope.
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The only pad I need is in my gusset.
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That’s a good point about the hobbyist use. I am not so sure about user interfaces though, I see very little that is really user-friendly - both hardware and software-wise. Maybe more casual demand for grooveboxes and the like is forcing companies to keep prices low and they cut corners everywhere.
I kind of agree to some extent, although I don’t want that “do everything box” because every single one I have tried has been too much like a computer.
But I do think samplers with memory in mb these days is often not a step in the right direction, storage and file management on most gear is pretty dire when it need not be, features that were once workaday now seem absent - advance editing of sequences by range, recorders that can’t sync to midi, plenty of deeply editable built in fx, and so on.
Some of my favourite gear is over 20 years old, and has better features than a lot of new gear, and better user interfaces too, but just let down by slow processing and storage. I’d really love modern versions of these, but I don’t ever see it happening and I don’t let it stop me making music.
Realistically if you want to do everything then a computer is the only real option today, as long as you don’t mind using one. I have no aversion to computers per se, I use them for some stuff, but I can’t stand all the hassle of modern desktop operating systems to use a computer for everything music related.
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Not according to Taylor or Martin… 
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Neither does the Human race.
Could do better.
Want unlimited power? Use a DAW.
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I’d like to compare it to modern medicine. Other than laser eye surgery, I really don’t see much change in the last 100 years. We have better medicine but not really better technology. You still swallow some pills that come with tons of sideeffects. You still need Xrays ( that comes with its own risk), you still have invasive surgery, you still have colonoscopy. They are all done pretty much how they were done 70-100 years ago.
Really?
So MRIs, Radiotherapy, keyhole surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants, cochlea and corneal implants, defibrillators, pacemakers, CAT scanners, IVF (I could go on all day)… all of that was going on 70-100 years ago?
Fuck me, what a mad thing to say…
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That’s true. Newer therapies, sometimes better, but the essentials didn’t change much it seems. The last time a true radical innovation was announced was personalised medicine, but in reality very limited application so far.
Maybe we peaked as species back in 2000…
The fuck are you people on about?
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Pads on the right side and cross faders on the left!
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They were doing radiotherapy a few months after the discovery of Xrays. Similarly organ transplant is not a 2000s thing. I also didn’t say nothing new exists. I am debating the methods. I was promised nanobots going into my body and doing targeted therapy 
I want my touchscreen dead center. 12 inch. Haptic feedback. 23 billion colors. Eye tracking.
Edit - and lots of knobs.
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You’re right as well, don’t get mad. We were just thinking super-high level. For example, medical counseling has not improved that much, now it’s all following protocols from what I see. Protocols are affected by interests, this has been shown regularly. So clear tech advancements, but medical practice as such maybe not that improved. How it all balances out, a matter of debate I guess.
It’s all just opinions.
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Now that I think about it this thing is super cool but I imagine such a pain to use for now…
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Luckily for us, with a little bit of effort, we can come up with new and exciting ways to use our gears and quench some of that need for new and innovative stuff.
also, laptop
dammit @Suspect_Frequency, I don’t know why I’m replying to you directly! Laptops suck ass, pfft!
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Fucking same old bullshit “everything was better in our day” nostalgia mate.
Go back 20 years and show producers a syntakt, an MPC Live or a Pulsar 23 and they would absolutely shit themselves, not to mention the arsebending shit you can do with a laptop and Ableton now compared to then.
We get these threads coming up all the time and it’s the same old shit. So much so I’ve successfully created an entire persona based entirely on taking the piss out of this sort of shit.
Humans are wired up to think the world has gone steadily to shit since they were about 14. It hasn’t, you’re just getting old and think everything is shit now. It isn’t.
The tools are available (and largely affordable) to make any sort of music you want, pretty much any way you can think of. Some of those tools probably aren’t for you, so don’t waste time buying them, buy the tools that meet your needs rather than moaning about the ones that don’t.
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I read somewhere that nostalgia is for twats. Can’t quite pinpoint where, but it was recently!
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