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 No.1483[Reply]

Anyone here into synthesizers? What do you own? Have any personal preferences or holy grails?

I figure this can be a thread for musical equipment and making music in general. Talk about guitars, basses, effects units, warshboards, or whatever else you're into.
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 No.1487

>>1486
I kind of have that problem with my analog synths. I have a Prophet-10 and a Behringer Model D. I wanted the Prophet and Minimoog sounds to get a '70s type of feeling, but at the same time I really want something less brash.

I'm currently waiting to see what happens with the ISLA Instruments Caladan. It's going to be based around using different types of voice cards to effectively become a musical chameleon. They're taking feedback for potential cards on their forum, and a Jupiter 8 card is one of the most-requested ones. If it manages to nail the sound authentically, I'll probably end up buying one. Roland synths seem to do softer sounds better than their American counterparts, and for me having both a Prophet-10 and a modern Jupiter 8 could possibly end my GAS for analog polysynths. I don't even find the classic Oberheims all that appealing, but it would still be nice to have something that could cover that ground for the few sounds I'd want it for (like the "99 Luftballons" pad sound).


I definitely don't plan on parting with my Prophet though. It's versatile for being such a simple polysynth, and with the polymod feature you can easily get some pretty exotic sounds.

 No.1488

I have a few, mainly small inexpensive things like the Minibrute and behringer model D, and the obligatory MicroKorg. Also have a Korg Triton (the dark blue K-On!-spec one that weighs an absolute ton) but I mainly use that just for its built in presets like a keyboard because actually modifying the sounds on it looks like pure menu dive hell.

 No.1489

>>1488
>Microkorg
I really considered getting one of those when of those when I first started getting into synthesizers and wasn't sure what I wanted. I ended up wasting money on a Casio XW-P1 that I soon realized wasn't up my alley. I'm sure I would have felt the same about a Microkorg though. I bet you could make some good sounds with either, but I need something that personally inspired me. Unfortunately, a lot of the synths I'm interested in are ticking time bombs as far as maintenance is concerned.
>Korg Triton
That seems like it would be nice for making pad sounds with a decent editor. People rip on '90s ROMplers, but there's something special about those digital pad sounds they were capable of. A big problem is how overused a lot of presets were back then, at least with Roland's stuff. I have a JV-1080 and feel afraid to use it for recording for exactly that reason. For me the problem with making sounds by combining relatively complex samples is that it's hard to make anything that doesn't draw attention to itself. Maybe Korg's stuff is better about that though.

I ended up getting an old Kurzweil rack synth a while ago that I still need to dive into. The V.A.S.T. engine seems like it offers a ton of possibilities, but I also find it imposing. If I remember right, the one I bought has sampling capabilities too. That in itself would give it a leg up over similar synths. I plan on using it as an atmospheric pad machine further on down the line when I work up the motivation to learn it.

Here's a nice little atmospheric K2500 piece I keep coming back to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_t4-2VqXtU

 No.1490

I have over 30 synthesizer... plugins
I really only use Pigments and sometimes Vital myself and the others exist just for factory presets haha

 No.1491

>>1490
I'm too autistic for plugin instruments nowadays. I find Dexed really useful as a patch editor and librarian though. Creating sounds on a real DX7 would be a nightmare.


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 No.1505[Reply]

i figured this was a bit irrelevant for /cel/, but this board isn’t very active so i’m not really expecting more than maybe one response

by “hobbies/interests” i’m mostly thinking of 60s to 80s anime and stuff. i suppose i’m not really sure.
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 No.1512

Have you had any luck yet, OP?

 No.1513

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>>1505
That's a pretty tough hobby you've got there, OP? I'm pretty big on anime myself and if all you wanted to talk about was stuff from the 60-80s we'd probably have nothing to talk about after an hour, haha. Ever thought about branching out your interests? Music, Movies, Board Games, Books, Dancing, Yoga, Martial Arts, Arts and Crafts, Drawing, Woodwork etc?

>>1509
You're pretty young still, have you tried checking out local university societies (if you even go to university)? I was able to make my entire current irl friend group from going to the vidya/anime society they had there and discovered a lot of those guys loved retro gaming and anime and I talked about it with them all the time. It's my go to for younger anons and even freshers at uni, uni soc's are some of the best places to meet like minded people.

Check out the community centers and stuff around your area too, might be a good shout if you're looking for friends.

I'd also say that comic cons can be great places to meet people, if you see someone cosplaying a character you like you can usually run up to them and just be like "woah cool cosplay" and get a conversation going, in some cases you can add their contact info and become friends with them. Meetups are good for this especially if you can cosplay a character from that, I went to an Ace Attorney meetup a few years back and joined a discord full of AA fans and while I'm not super active there anymore, it seems like it's full of like minded people that just wanna be friends and have a fun time over a shared interest.

Hope I helped you man.

 No.1514

>>1505
Anime conventions. You will find most people there revolting, as any sane person would, but it can be pretty funny. Anyways, check out some of the panels, there's usually someone doing something on classic anime. Go there and talk to some people. Could be good.

 No.1515

I'm trying to figure that out myself, OP. I started going to these places that are designed for people with issues to make friends and get help and I'm trying to enjoy myself there. There's one with a pool table with no chalk. Sometimes people bring chalk but I've never played with chalk there. There's another where they can help you find jobs. Staff members at this one are supposed to be indistinguishable from club members, and they may have some pretty silly staff members but I don't know. I was thinking of going to a night club last night but I've been feeling what I think may be depression so I opted not to go. I don't drink but I don't have the money to pay the entry fee at a lot of the places I'd want to try, right now. I've never met my internet friends in real life. I've talked to people online and met them in person but they've never been people I really considered myself having been friendly with on a level that made me feel a special bond with them. Anyhow, I think that this is a personal question that you can answer yourself. It's good you're looking for resources on how you can make friends. Personally, after high school, virtually all of my connections that I've have some reverence for have been made online. I'm trying to change that.

 No.1516

>>1513
You sound pretty cool. I just wanted to say that


 No.1517[Reply]

Let's say I went to the Supernanny fanon wiki.

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 No.1123[Reply]

Post your desktop!
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>>1141
>but my desktop is shamefully littered with files, so I won't post it...
Same, but here's my background image.

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>>1123

 No.1167

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I've been really lazy. I gotta overclock my CPU and I'm several kernel updates behind!!

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>>1123
My desktop has always been a mess but I change the background once every few years I guess. Right now it's Stonehenge from Ace Combat 4.


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 No.1132[Reply]

Post your homescreens

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 No.937[Reply]

Does anybody know what happened to the guy who operated 04.sbs? He has closed his site, and I haven't heard from him since November, as that was the last time I saw him playing MikuMikuOnline.

I know he used to come to /kind/, so I figured somebody might have an idea.
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 No.1104

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Cool, Rin enjoyers.

>>1011
Rin was my first route. Whenever I think of this game I think of her, I'll never forget the first time I went through that roller coaster, it messed with me during and after her route. She's got a special place in my heart as well.

 No.1110

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>>1085
>intense experiences
whoa! sounds rad! i remember being similar when i was a kid. those
were fun times!
>>1086
if you don't like your job, why don't you get another one? like something more fun and fits you, like writing?

 No.1112

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>>1104
Hey, now. That makes 3 of us already! I am happy to have you here, anon.

I tried to go for Rin in my first route, but ended up on Emi. I like her as well, her dynamic with Rin is incredebly precious. Same here, if I think about it, the first thing that comes into my mind is she. I honestly don't know what hit me the hardest in the entire route. For me it was more of a boxing match, one where I couldn't get it together from one hit to the next. One where I went down in the first round, but I got beaten again and again, not being able to do anything, just laying there, taking it all. No idea how many times I stared at the wall, starting to think about the topics that were touched, my intepretations of it, debating with myself about conclusions I have come to and statements from the route. I also had to get every ending, I couldn't pass on that. The neutral ending, huly fucking shit. Just thinking about it made a few tears appear.

>>1110
I tried to get away from my field several times already, all attempts failed. I tried picking something I like, it failed. I tried picking something that may have circumstances that are bearable, it failed.
I don't like writing. If I did, then I wouldn't have stopped doing it for more than a decade nor would I have put my project on hold.
A job being fun sounds like very high expectations for me btw. It all boils down to a job being profitable, which means money needs to flow. Supplier and demand, customers, that bullshit. Whatever you do, you are always subject to the whims of customers. Even if you are self employed and are your own boss, you have to do something that sells. After all you have to eat. Exempt working for the government or church, payed by taxes.

 No.1113

>>1112
/rin/ when

 No.1114

>>1113
Every time you open it, parity starts playing.


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 No.977[Reply]

why do animals like birds and butterflies have wings, but i don't? it's not fair... i don't want to be chained down by gravity! i wish i had wings!

 No.1000

You can learn how to fly anon

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>>1000
How?

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>>1000
>>1002
woah!! i just figured out how to fly! the answer came to me while i was meditating. i'm going to build my own glider!

and >>1000, epic post!


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 No.738[Reply]

lets love other people
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 No.966

There's too much focus on gatekeeping. People forget that more goes into making a community than setting up barriers that keep party poopers out. A community needs values. e.g. phreak BBSs back in the 80s had their own code of honor. You don't rat people out. You share your knowledge. You do what you do for the love of the hack. Never hurt ordinary people. This is where 4chan went wrong. There's no values there aside from lolz and sticking it to normalfags. No wonder it went sideways.

>>965
All communities are going to have their unwritten rules. If those are just there's nothing wrong with forcing people to play by them. The issue is when a userbase becomes a hivemind of drones obsessed with conforming to a code. e.g. a certain type of poster who will freak out and become hostile whenever they see X type of content posted and reply with the same insults, slurs, and images. "when see X, do Y" is burned in their brain. This kind of thing is a problem on social networks too but its more noticable on anonymous sites because its the only way users can signal what internet tribe they belong to.

All of this stuff is off topic anyway. I wish I could love other people but I'm always worried they are being insincere and they are actually nasty and hostile but being fake nice. So I do what I can to stay away from people.

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>>965
>>966
mean sites that let you post with no name do have values, though! like not breaking any laws! and FREE SPEECH!

 No.988

>>965
>You can't deny that complete anonymity in combination with attracting a large number of certain users can lead to bringing out the worst of each other
But I can deny that this is an element of anonymous image boards specifically and not part of the broader human experience. That happens everywhere, to everyone, online and off.

>adjust to their culture, or you will get ruled out
yes generally you are supposed to integrate into a culture of a place and not fight it, anon. if you dont fit with the culture, change or fit somewhere else. Expecting a group to automatically accept you without you having to actually put in the effort to fit in with them is very silly. Its something I've noticed a lot of normals do, prying open communities they dont belong to or fit in with, only to destroy them and then move on. I don't understand the mentality.

> group-thinking is a thing even in places where posts cannot be easily traced to users
to a lesser extent sure, humans are social animals after all

>by making burner accounts and posting something valuable for example
a significant portion of reddit does not allow you to participate unless you have lots of their upvotes accumulated. burner accounts dont work for this. new accounts and low score accounts are also more often than not flagged automatically for moderation when posting at all. so this is not possible in practice, and I think its a bit ironic for you to be complaining about groupthink, when the penultimate example of groupthinking communities gets brought up. It may not be perfect, but anonymous imageboards are far and above forums with user accounts.

 No.992

>>973
Sure, they can be moralistic and have ideals they cling to but there's no ethics there and whatever values you find on those sites just aren't good when taken by themselves. e.g. emphasis on being contrarian, as amoral as the law will allow. sticking it the normies, and not giving a fuck by itself is a terrible rule to live by. If you take that to the extreme its just self-destructive.

 No.994

>>988
>But I can deny that this is an element of anonymous image boards specifically and not part of the broader human experience. That happens everywhere, to everyone, online and off.
Sure, but a large role plays anonymity and the place in itself that fosters that behaviour.

> you dont fit with the culture, change or fit somewhere else.
Maybe I expressed myself wrong there, obviously I don't expect 4chan to change according to my will alone, I search for places that I like, and avoid those I don't agree with. Having different cultures is nothing bad, for example I like this place here specifically for it, and don't want it to change into change into 4chan for the sake of attracting more people.
There is a difference between coming to a place and expecting it to change to your will, and being a regular and not wanting it to change into something I am not used to from that place.

Regarding reddit, I was also talking about forums in general, and like you say, some parts of reddit have those rules in place, not all of them. Avoid places like that, and my point still stands, based on a username alone you're not much more exposed than someone posting on an imageboard. I brought up groupthinking exactly because some act like there are worlds between a forum and an imageboard when in reality that's not the case at all, up/downvoting is groupthinking on a larger scale, but like I said, you also have that on imageboards, only in another way and not as obvious, either way it's ignorant to argue about a definitive way of what is "above" in the end, it depends on so much context.


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 No.906[Reply]

I can see myself killing myself within the next few years. I know why. I'm afraid I will be all alone for the rest of my life. And if that continues on for the next couple years, I will lose all hope.
I don't know how to make friends, the long lasting kind, the close kind. What I see as what I have right now, and all that I will have in the future, is no close friends, no lover, just surface level relations with people and my lonely self. I wasn't like this before. I didn't care about human relations. I was happy in my room, tapping away at my keys, making stupid niche software that only I needed for my own personal use.
Though, even back then, somewhere in me, I knew I had to stop doing that eventually. My family wasn't so well off that the generational wealth could sustain a hikineet for life. I knew I had to get out into the real world, interact with people, earn income, learn to live on my own. Naively, I figured it wouldn't be so hard. I just need to be welcoming towards strangers and I can get by with my own life without trouble.
About a year ago, I moved to a different state, thought I'd start life anew. But now I feel the loneliness in my ways, and even more so the fear of it going on for the rest of my life.
I think I know what's stopping me from having friends, I don't hang out with people that are around me. I'd rather be in my room, in front of the computer. I don't care about having friends that will make me compromise. That's the other thing, I'm not willing to compromise for people, friends. If they're not "up to my standards", then I don't want to be with them. As simple as that. And I plan to stick with that.






Venting, or expressing your feelings with words, really is a good way to get a proper look at yourself and assess one's current situation. As retarded and annoying as it sounds, I'm just love-struck. I don't care for a single soul in the world, but am unreasonably obsessed with that single soul that my mind has grown attached to. And the fear of not being with them is what's keeping me up all night. Haven't felt this in decades. It was not the fact that I might "not have friends all my life". Fuck close friends that I need to change my ways to be with. I don't want them.
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 No.907

Yeah, I want to die too.

 No.908

>>907
Just need to get yourself a hobby that doesn't involve sitting in your room, alone

Doesn't matter wtf it is, fuckin archery or beekeeping, fuck even simping over trains or something.

just get out.
drive.
there's nothing that swallows your soul more than sitting festering away in a room, essentially being on pause between events, loneliness has killed more men than ebola.

 No.909

>>908
No, thanks. I don't care anymore. Still /kind/ of you to suggest someting.


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 No.766[Reply]

the universe is really big, friends... it's so big, that on the grand scale of things, most of what we do will not matter much...

what do you think?
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>>814
The world always appreciates beautiful dreamers...

 No.817

>>811
Why does everything have to be conquered by humanity? Just enjoy your short time here. If it were small enough for us to see and conquer all of it, we'd get bored.

 No.818

>>817
But what if I am enjoying my time here by conquering everything?

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>>814
>>815
>>817
if you turned into an ice cube while you were sleeping, couldn't you have beautiful dreams... forever?

>>818
you sound like an AI from some 4X game. don't forget to explore, expand, and exploit too!

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>>766
Elizabeth from Bioshock says something like "We all swim in different oceans but land on the same shore"
And the first time playing I was like, well that's stupid, why bother playing at all then. But the point is that I still have to play, doesn't matter how small I am, or that there may be a reality where I'm pooping killer insects out of my hands, I have to make the best out of my own reality.


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