marcedwards

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by marcedwards 1y ago
Agreed! Also, context matters. How and where you’re listening matters.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Thank you! What are you working on? Sounds interesting.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Yes! Not sure how many times I’ve watched that, but I will watch it at least once every time someone posts it.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Yeah, owning their masters was a very smart move. I was surprised they rented the Sennheiser instead of buying one. Having said that, they don’t come up for sale very often.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Ah, cheers! I’m in Australia, and it seems like Alto won’t ship here. I’m sure they’ll appear on a store that does ship to me soon.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Thank you!
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by marcedwards 1y ago
I feel like that’s a theme for Arturia’s plugins. I have their 1176 compressor and some other stuff. They’re nice, but use tons of CPU and can be a bit flaky at times.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Did you buy one? I think it’s very likely I’ll get a VC16, but they’re not in stock anywhere I purchase from yet.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
You may already know this, but Junkie XL/Tom Holkenborg has done some great film soundtracks, too.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Awesome! That would have been so good. I saw them just once — the Alive 2007 tour. Was a great day.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
I really, really like Human After All. It’s probably their second most cohesive album, given how much they used the DigiTech Talker and DigiTech Synth Wah all over it. (Second to Random Access Memories in terms of being cohesive.)
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Yeah, there’s a few, and I probably should have included more plugins. I don’t mind the built in Ableton vocoder. The built in Logic Pro one is a bit average. I like the XILS 201 plugin, but it’s not as nice as many of the hardware vocoders
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Thanks! I’ll give it a listen. Number of bands doesn’t necessarily dictate the quality of results — the Electro-Harmonix V256 has 256 bands, and it’s not even in the top 5 out of the vocoders I tested, imo.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
We’re working hard on it! It’s going to be good. There’s some more info on this page: https://bjango.com/mac/skala/ Thanks. :)
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Thanks for the talk link! I’m going to try writing some harmonizer code next, so your video is right up my alley. I believe IVL’s algorithm also isn’t FFT-based. That makes sense, given the CPU power around on consumer tech at the time. As
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Yep, I’ve read that as well. The workflow and sound of the VP-9000 make me think it’s not what they used. It’s just so cumbersome to use, and it sounds pretty bad, and to my ears doesn’t match the results. The covers using DigiTech Vocalist
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by marcedwards 1y ago
The Oblivion soundtrack is amazing! Love it. I’ve listened to it so many times. I haven’t seen the movie yet. I should do that.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
There’s rumours they’re working on more material. I wouldn’t blame them for telling the world they’ve broken up, just to take the pressure off. I can live in hope, right?
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by marcedwards 1y ago
That gives me something to research! I’ve only scratched the surface of IVL’s algorithm, but intend to look into it further.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Yep! The Sennheiser and Ultimate VoIS are in their own league. There are some other rare high-end analogue vocoders that I would have loved to include in the comparison, but I don’t know anyone who owns them. The EMS vocoders are supposed t
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Absolutely. Hopefully there’s at least one more.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Did you listen to the example audio in the video? Soft synths and digital emulation can be absolutely amazing these days, but the VSM201 and Ultimate VoIS are in their own league. It’d be pretty easy to pick them out from a blind test with
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Kai Krause wrote the VSM201 manual and helped sell it at Sennheiser?! You’re blowing my mind. I didn’t expect that info today.
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by marcedwards 1y ago
Thank you! Your kind comment helps. :)
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by marcedwards 1y ago
I wonder how many are still in working condition today? Can’t be many. I’d love to see one in person, one day.
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Matching drop shadows across CSS, Android, iOS, Figma, and Sketch(bjango.com)
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by marcedwards 3y ago
And now you have some scaling factor values to match things easily.
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by marcedwards 3y ago
Pasting UI images into team chat apps is pretty common, and the apps I’ve used have some pretty serious and ongoing issues. Not fun when others are making decisions based on those images.
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by marcedwards 3y ago
Yep, yep, yep. Getting better quickly, but regressions are common, too. (QuickLook on macOS hasn’t shown correct colours for a while now. FB12602125 and FB13475690 if anyone from Apple is reading this and wants to take a look!)

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