Media piracy is part of the family lore. I don’t recall having more than a handful of original cassettes (audio and vhs), later on the same with cd’s growing up. Turns out my dad was the progenitor, he only had maybe 25-30 records, but recently I unearthed a huge box of reel to reel tapes with music mostly recorded from other people’s records (from about 1966-1980). When online piracy reared it’s head, it was only yet another way to obtain quality home entertainment.

Why did I read this in Glenn Fricker’s voice?

Just last night I was playing around with the Tukan plugin collection and they are mental. Lots of very good sounding clones and models. I haven’t checked the drum stuff, but I did play around with the bass and guitar stations and managed to dial in some serious high-gain wall of sound type tones very easily.

Another way of getting good tones is simply obtaining high quality IR-s and just loading them in a suitable plugin. If you have a reamp box and access to some nice amps you can even create your own.

You could also do something similar for the drums. Just get some nice samples, load them into any old sequencer and you got yourself a drummer who’s never late or drunk. Then again, you lose the out of the box experience, but you only have to do it once.

I regret not switching my audio workflow to linux much earlier. A few years ago I got rid of everything Microsoft and started working with Reaper stock plugins exclusively. Not as pretty, but basically anything can be done with some fiddling. Only now I’m exploring the JSFX and LSP options and I’m hard pressed to find anything that I miss from the days of expensive plugins. Made me a better engineer as well. Less distractions, more listening and measuring.

Have you tried LSP? I’m super impressed by it and it can be a drop in replacement for many pro-grade technical plugins. That and reapak have pretty much replaced everything for me.

That would make sense, but I remember a lot of people calling it “BIZO”

Those being back memories! Still have some old shirts that I refuse to throw out. How I loved my Tensor trucks with the “unbreakable” titanium king pin (not like it was an issue).

So far I like this version the best. However, someone put up the human rights logo and I think it would do quite well here, since it’s a dove (as requested), but also looks a bit like a hand. Another request was the color black. Maybe make the pupil black? Pretty sure that covers the commitee’s requests.

Edit: something like this

I’m sorry, but could you please elaborate? I’m not being facetious, I truly don’t understand what she’s saying/doing.

Love the idea! Shopify as the highest tier sponsor? Not so much.

Not sure there will be any.

The subtle difference between praying and preying on their bank accounts.

“I’ll even give you free undercoating on your new horse if you let me do butt stuff too.”

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Isn’t there maybe a way to keep the factory os and selectively disable google services. Sort of no-script style? Not too familiar with the android ecosystem tbh, other than google is on top of the food chain, haha.