Thankfully for things other than books (and maybe also for books), a lot of companies offer two day shipping now. Sometimes there’s an order minimum for that but I find that most of the time my purchase exceeds the order minimum anyway.

This is the weirdest fucking thing I’ve seen on the Internet in a long time.

I sympathize. This kept me on Facebook far longer than I wanted to be. If I wanted concert dates, event invites from friends, etc, I had to use it. I cut that cord eventually, but I get invited to way less stuff than I used to.

The Reddit deprogramming goes deep, for sure. I still find myself deleting comments here after typing them out because there is a 50/50 chance of getting abuse or arguments from someone for basically anything you post on that site.

I got mine in mid April and my feelings on it are very mixed. It sounds really good, but it can be kind of a pain to use. Most of the menus make sense, but putting the mixer behind a shift function is baffling, and pretty much kills it for live use for me. I really hate the save structure as well.

I really only use a couple of the oscillator models, so a lot of its potential is wasted on me - I mostly use 3d, 4d, Juno and 101 models, I don’t really care for the others. Like you said modulation options are really lacking, and even though I like some of the sounds I had a really hard time fitting them into something that sounds like me rather than like Roland.

I got it primarily for the 101 and Juno models, and those turned out to be either just an overlay for the interface rather than actual emulations, or a really mediocre emulation. I picked up the S-1, which is amazing, and now I am thinking about selling the 4d. I just don’t know if I can justify the space it takes and I think I would rather put that money somewhere else.

Honestly, people committed to plans in a way they don’t now. I rarely had last minute cancellations when I was younger. Time might have been cut short or something, but people showed up. Changes of plans happened well in advance. Occasionally, I got stood up, but it was rare.

Now, I’d say probably 20-30% of the time, plans get changed last minute or more rarely, somebody bails.

Otherwise, yeah, having a mobile computer/phone in my pocket is indispensable and I’d never fully give it up.

I really love the transparency here, thank you for the update.

Hey, if you have time I have a second question that’s only partially related - how come my comments won’t post in other Beehaw communities? I’ve noticed that when trying to comment on posts in beehaw’s lgbtq community and a few others, it just spins forever. Is this a server overload thing, or maybe some kind of safety measure because I’m new and not native to Beehaw?

My setup has been in a state of flux lately - the stuff in the second list is kind of on the chopping block at the moment. I just got a Push 3, so if I like it the MPC One will almost certainly be going. Feel free to ask about anything, I love talking about it all!

Things I use constantly:

• Peak (my first synth, still one of my faves)
• Take5 (my absolute favorite)
• Digitakt
• MPC One (mostly for sequencing the non-Elektrons)
• Roland S-1
• Op6

Things I use less often:

• Microfreak
• Typhon
• Roland SH-4d
• Syntakt (DT tends to be more useful in more contexts)
• Korg ER-1

A handful of FX pedals:

• EQD Hizumitas, Boss CE-2w, Digitech Obscura and Polara (all of those usually on the Freak)
• Champion Leccy Skitter (tremolo/reverb)
• Poly Beebo (anything)
• DBA Rooms (reverb)
• Kinotone Ribbons (tape emulation/ modulation)

It all gets recorded into Ableton, where I finish the song. I actually don’t use the FX pedals in finished productions too much, aside from the Microfreak chain - I like having more control in the arrangement phase.

Ahh, got it. That was my initial understanding, I overcomplicated things - still wrapping my head around federation. Thank you for the in-depth response! That’s the kind of thing I’ve loved about this place in my short time here.

Right on! What are your favorite features, compared to other grooveboxes? Mine arrived early this week, I had a chance to boot it up for a few mins yesterday. Fingers crossed the updates/ sign in go smoothly.

Wait, so if the instance I signed up on is still federated with the blocked ones, I won’t be able to interact here, even if I’ve never bothered using the blocked instances? Or did I misunderstand?

Sounds like y’all are taking the steps needed to protect your community, even if it’s a bit inconvenient.

I think it’s more likely that they will go to Elektronauts, Modwiggler, etc. The barrier to entry to use Lemmy is relatively high, comparatively. An unclear structure, server issues everywhere due to the influx of users, etc.

Absolutely not. I dislike how much of my data I gave them over the years that I used Facebook. Don’t want to start giving them that data again.

I got so much abuse posting on reddit that I almost entirely stopped posting content, preferring just to comment. It’s going to take me a long time to unlearn that hesitation.

Agreed. And, so far, the mood is better here abs comments are much higher quality. I’ve been using normal forums again for the past few months and I’ve grown to like smaller communities.

This will be how I use it as well. Reddit usually tends to have the most concise, up-to-date answers for a lot of questions that I have about most my hobbies. Especially video games.

That will hopefully change, but it was such a good way to basically guarantee I found the information I actually wanted.

Yeah, figuring out how to join Lemmy and getting a basic understanding of how it works was a struggle for me. I just want to log in and have discussions with people.