Otto Matta

I have no patience with this new download system, Pav...I mean, NHJOHYENNRO.

Totally agree. I've got the lowest possible expectations for the new one, which honestly might help it a little.

Yeah, CD of the weak. Check it out: "Mixed by Dj Tsuyoshi, the leading Japanese DJ. Matsuri Productions and Return to the source are his well known achievement. He shift to playing for psychedelic trance these few years and got big popularity again. For the field of other than psychedelic trance, he has been expressing new style of underground culture with Tadanobu Asano, Shinji Takeda, Kyono from The mad Capsule Markets. He is also playing for his band; Joujouka, and soloproject Numanoid." What?

Chix: You can trust 'em as far as you can throw 'em.

Reported. Nemo, this is pure ban material. Ban the Nurbs for this blatant insolence that flies in the face of all that is psacred.

I'm pissed that nobody's been banned recently. We should have regular bannings.

Entheogenic was crap from the beginning.

Hey moni, maybe you should start a Best of 2007 now so it'll be ready by January.

Hey healium, I suggest checking out the Krumelur album, Paramoral. You can download the entire album in lo-fi at his website. Tasty stuff, with as much if not more character as/than Non-Standards, in my opinion.

Hope you still kept a copy of Blast Food...

Isao Tomita (for analog tech) Claude Debussy (for general music theory and composition) Rob Brown (for digital tech) Bill Frisell (for looping and atmosphere) Amon Tobin (for sampling tech)

I think artists of any kind are in a constant hunt for an efficient means to express themselves, to purge the energies and the demons out of their systems and therefore feel the bliss that comes with constantly renewing and evolving oneself. I also feel that artistic expression is a form of communication with people when regular words and actions don't do much good. Lastly, I feel that art is a way to exert oneself upon people in a broadly sociological way when other means of exertion don't do much good. So all in all it's a way of being among people in a more or less functional way when, as an artist, one is largely incapable, for a variety of reasons, of being among people in a "normal" way. Music, for me, is a way of achieving these goals.

Okay, the farthest I was able to get last night was having Cubase trigger Reason's sequencer. But I was unable to get individual tracks into the Cubase mixer. I was able to assign different instruments to different channels, and Cubase was picking up a MIDI signal, but I wasn't able to hear any sound. I'm sure it's a settings issue of some sort, so I'll see if I can find something in the manual/online about how exactly to configure the programs. This technical stuff is not a talent of mine, sad to say. I'll get there.

Colin, you are my hero to share this information with me. I'm going to try this tonight when I get home from work.

I've been meaning to try this, Colin, when Cubase came out with a more stable update, especially since you've been recommending this for some time. Now I just have to figure out how to do it. Are there decent instructions in the Cubase manuals? Or maybe a good source on the Internet?

Well, fortunately, my biggest problem from before - an inordinate amount of CPU hogging - seems to be solved now. I haven't given it a good spin since the update, so I don't know if it's going to crash on me regularly. If it doesn't, then I think I'll have spent good money (which was a lot). So I'm actually optimistic. Meanwhile, I think it's going to be hard to leave Reason for good, since it's such a super-stable and easy program to work with, and we've had a very fun and active year together. Ultimately, I think finding a nice balance between the two will be ideal.

According to lots of people at the Cubase forum, yes. Seems it's either super-stable for people or it's crashtastic for others.

It appears that the recent Cubase 4 update (4.0.2) is more stable, which makes me happy. I haven't touched the damn thing since October because it was flaky out of the box. However, it seems it has the tendency to crash on people willy-nilly. ...

Cool videos!

I'm still baffled why this is in Off-Topic as opposed to General as the title suggests...

Yeah, I kinda agree. Seems easy to wreck a track by trying to master it yourself without knowing enough about the process and not having the right tools. Either plan to dedicate yourself - get some books and study up, and get some decent equipment - or let the pros do it.

Well, it may help to know that it is fairly new. It's not one of the their original 10 or so released tracks, and it wasn't on their Live 2006 recording.

It is cool. I don't know the track, though.

Sweet. Thanks. Helium - Maybe a good way to hear the music is to sign up with Beatport or something like that (eMusic is also half-decent). Very cheap. Lets you download individual tracks or entire albums legally, for a price. Then if you don't like the album enough to buy it, at least you might have some interesting MP3s, which you can then convert to WAV and have on CD for the car and such. Also, most label and artist sites have downloadable samples.

You mean Socially Inept? I've got it. I like it. I also really like Machine Drum's album, Urban Biology.