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Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John

Tone air, it's the newest thing.

Finally have finished all the routing for Speakon connectors and handles. Sides, top and bottom already glued, Now doing front and rear glueing and clamping. Next steps tomorrow, let the glue cure overnight, a bit of filler (ahem), sanding down, put a 6mm curve on the edges with the router, two layers of smooth Armacab on all external surfaces, one top layer of textured Armacab but masking off any rebated areas, measure for black 3d printed corners, print them overnight as eight hours , assemble all and test for Sunday (hopefully).

New one from Don

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It says quarterly in the OP's post.

Good news and good luck, I think I'll get the physical for a year.

Hi Terry Thank you once again for your much appreciated views and thoughts. Oddly enough I'd just been watching an on line video of the 945 and I'm very impressed with the Nordstrands in the 945. Kind of tops the other BTB models equipped with the T1's, which in themselves I think are impressive and personally I'd be quite happy with ☺️ All very well me sharing my likes and personal choice of which model my hear desires but finding most of these BTB models as they so quickly seem to come and go so tracking down what I want is a challenge to say the least - though Andertons and Thoman do at least appear to have a half decent chance of getting hold of a 945. Does anyone out there have a BTB fitted with T1's/Nordstrands/Aguilars they're bored with !😂

Good afternoon Mr Brooks!

Sounds like a good update, I might give a v4 another go. I had a v3 and liked it, but didn't like the octave tracking jump thing (I play a lot of octaves with synth bass), so I sold it to get a C4. A few years later I got a FI V4 but had hours of hassles trying to get it to connect to my Laptop but no luck, could've been my Laptop and the many competing drivers and midi things on it, the midi connector, or the FI, not sure - but my patience wore out so I gave up in the end and sold it (I do think this is a bit of an overlooked thing and hence a lot of the popularity of the MXR, people just want something that works easily, no faff). However, if I can do program order editing and a decent level of parameter editing directly on the pedal then I'm not too fussed about Laptop connection (just as long as I can also switch the slow/fast tracking via the pedal). Bonus for me is my Keyboard doesn't have a proper synth (just samples) so I'm keen on getting a small midi triggered synth unit (had been looking at things like the Behringer JT Mini). Is the FI v4 always monophonic - or can it do polyphonic when controlled via midi?

Nice post. I studied Electronic Music Technology for three years in the early 80's largely as the result of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and dare I say it, Georgio Moroder (as well as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop)! For me, while at the time the technological achievement was huge, it was clear that by the early 90's pretty much any idiot with a synth could do what those guys had done. Does that lessen anything? I think it's like this.... There are probably 4-year olds who can play it now, but man, so what. In it's moment it was glorious, every 14-year old kid on the planet wanted to be able to play it. I listen to Kraftwerk today and love the fact that you can hear the hiss as they turned on a machine, various clicks and thumps and other random noises, the odd cough or grumble. My acoustics lecturer told me once that the test of a good orchestral recording was whether you could hear the pages being turned, i have always felt that. As is so often the case, it's the errors/weaknesses/nuances that make the art - the 5/4 bar in Rain, the mic stand falling over in Long Distance Love, Bonzo's squeaky pedal - OK they're extreme examples but the reality is that when music is made by humans in real time you can tell. AI can probably do that, but it probably won't because the people who'd use AI to make music would not see music that way.

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But right now AI can't produce something that is as new and different as your three examples were when they first started producing music. Sure your "fat uncle Dave can ask chat gpt to crap out an acid techno banger or a Kraftwerk-style song in under 12 seconds" but it will just be a facsimile of what has already been done. It won't have any of the innovation that the originals had when they were first released. Of course there are plenty of "artists" whose musical output could be described as a facsimile of the real innovators. They are the ones who should be worried about AI. Those who keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible and acceptable are safe for a long time yet.

insane in the brain - cypress hill

Nice, i do like a print mag over a pdf so i'll pick this up (that's if all my local newsagents haven't all shut up shop....) btw Is this monthly/BI/Quarterly ? i checked the subs on the webpage but it only shows years sub prices & nothing about the amount of issues per year? GL

Interested. Can't be at Birmingham so will wait for the first couple of issues to hit the stands.

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Kraftwerk are an interesting example to bring into this, they were innovating and creating original works *despite* the fact that what they were doing was technically (and financially) very difficult, and out of most people's reach. Rarity, innovation and skill and craft are all fundamental to works of art we perceive to be special and meaningful. As a couple of more contemporary examples, Aphex Twin was (is?) an innovator, and his process and tools were shrouded in mystery. Similarly, Photek pushed samplers beyond what people thought they were capable of, and his tools and techniques were also mysterious at the time, and on top of that, his records were not easy to get hold of, especially in the early days. In all 3 cases, innovation, craft and skill and rarity played a huge role in what made people value those artists and their works. Meanwhile, if my fat uncle Dave can ask chat gpt to crap out an acid techno banger or a Kraftwerk-style song in under 12 seconds, all of that craft, skill and rarity goes down the toilet. If you played an Aphex Twin tune and an AI generated ambient acid techno track to a 15 year old, they would probably assume both were AI generated and move on. The lines between 'digital' and AI are becoming very blurry. In the art/graphics world, people can often no longer tell the difference between 3D modelled / Blender-made artworks and AI generated images. And people attach zero value to anything AI generated, which in turn means they are increasingly attaching zero value to anything digital at all. Digital tools might be convenient and clever, but if the output of those tools has no perceived value, then people will stop paying to use those tools. (Which is partly why AI companies are starting to be in such deep financial trouble right now).

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