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Most of these are either discontinued or some sort of paraphonic and/or hybrid-digital architecture.

I can't tell if this is a serious reply or not.

A quick look at Thomman would show you that they are all analogue polysynths not paraphonic mono-synths.

I think the only model from my list in short supply is the Prologue but you could swap it for a Dreadbox Nymphes if you like.

The Minilogue xd is "hybrid" only in the sense that it has an additional 3rd digital oscillator per voice but that can be turned off. It's still a true 4 voice, 2 oscillator analogue polysynth. If that's not good enough then swap it for a Behringer UB-Xa.

There's no shortage of models to choose from.

There's so much amazing music made with analogue polysynths. I don't know why anyone would ignore the work of Vangelis for instance. If you think he uses his CS-80 polysynth as a bad piano I don't know what to tell you.

porn is as American as apple pie

So not at all then as Apple Pie is a traditional English desert. :P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie

You have almost no control with Codex or Claude in that you have to trust them not to break their own rules.

You have almost no control with Kimi either, they can also say one thing and do another. You will not be able to sue a Chinese company if it breaks the law.

I can think of no faster way to hand over your trade secrets or intellectual property than to run something like this.

I think success and dominance for agent providers will eventually come to which ever is able to best guarantee that they don't damage their customers businesses not the cheapest to run.

What is it that you don't understand?

Yes, but literally none of them are doing analogue polyphony.

That's simply not true.

Korg Minilogue, Mililogue XD, Prologue, Behringer Pro-800, Sequential Take 5, Prophet Rev2, Prophet-10, Arturia PolyBrute 12, Oberheim OB-X8, Moog One and many more.

Polyphonic analogue synths are popular and very useful actually.

Patch cables will need to be stored externally, as with other semi-modular synths. I've seen little cable hangers but it would be unusual to have that as part of the main design.

They say that it comes with a custom hard case to hold both the main unit and the keyboard.

Korg worked previously with David Friend of Arp and the Alan R Pearlman Foundation to reissue the Arp 2600 and Arp Odyssey. The Arp 2600 Full Size design is somewhat similar to this, although smaller, in that it comes with its own flight cases.

I have Korg's smaller still Arp 2600M reisslue and that came with a suitcase and foam inserts to hold the main unit, keyboard, patch cables and sequencer.

I get the impression that the PS-3300 is meant to be set up permanently in one place like a studio rather than being gigged.

I love this. It's been a while since I've been back to visit America but as a European I always find this style of architecture very aspirational.

I particularly like proper prefabricated dinners. It's like visiting a David Lynch film and you get pancakes and coffee.

This is the oddest statement I've read in a while.

How is there "no musical value in a polyphonic analogue synthesizer"?

There's a lot of unique music written using polyphonic analogue synths. Enough that people clearly like the sounds of subtractive synthesis. If they were only used just to playback tracks written in the 70s, 80s and 90s then they would still have value.

The growth of cheap analogue synths proves it's not just collectors that appreciated the user interface and the sound. There's a legion of people buying Bass Stations, Korgs, Moogs, Behrigners and Eurorack.

If Yamaha could reproduce a modern analogue GX-1 or CS-80 recreation I bet they would get snapped up too.

You seem to be missing why people object very strongly to digital IDs.

The digital ID along with mandatory "age" checks and a potential ban on VPNs was widely seen as part of a push by the Starmer government to strip people's right to online privacy.

Just switching to a passport based system does not address that.

If it's just the singlet and the shoes you would expect lots of other runners to get close too. It's surprising that the previous record stood for 27 years if the equipment has been progressing since then.

Sorry I think you misunderstand me.

I'm not pitching Apple as the best or only solution, I'm saying that selling local inference seems to fit with their current marketing goals.

Selling high end, high margin computers that have lots available GPU RAM with at least lip service to local inference for privacy fits with what they already do.

I don't see anything to stop say Framework making the same pitch but with Linux but since Framework don't design their own chips they don't have quite so many levers to pull as Apple do.

I would guess it's because Apple are a hardware vendor that at least talks about privacy as a selling point.

The M series chips provide large amounts of GPU RAM so I think people can see a world where Apple sells local first, privacy focused, inference based on hardware sales.

LM Studio's strategy seems to fit that very well.

Now it would be interesting to give it some text on blurry nonsense to see what affect that has.

Probably that it just reports it can't find the second message or that one is not present but I wonder if it would flag it up and if that could be spammed?

(Not that I'm suggesting anyone do that you understand).

FYI the current run of Korg PS-3300 sold out in minutes even at £11,000.

Hmm, I sort of get this but I also think people fetish treating tools badly and then complain when they break.

I have a micrometer. It's delicate and lives in a velvet lined case.

I could treat it like a hammer but I know that once the surfaces get damaged it will be less useful.

It's no less of a tool just because you take extra care of it. I don't treat it well because I want to hand it down to my grand kids, I treat it well because it's delicate I want to keep it working.

Likewise, I don't baby my laptop but also don't throw it around, drop it or use it as a step to reach high shelves.

I don't sweat dings but I do use a proper fitted case when I transport it because I don't want them either.

In someways this isn’t that unlike the past.

I saw that Pete Townsend has donated his synths to a school in West London.

That includes a Yamaha GX-1 and an EMS modular. That’s some of the rarest (and largest) synths ever made and would have cost the equivalent of hundreds of thousands at that time.

Not too many muscle in the 1970s would have been able to buy a GX-1.

Very true especially in this day and age. I think by “professional” I mean someone already successful rather than an up and comer.

Likely around £11,000 I heard.

That gives me the same feeling as a concert grand piano or installed pipe organ. I'll never get to own one or probably even touch one but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use.

Luckily cheap software and hardware synths can give us all a taste of what they're like.

This Korg seems more like something for museums or professional studios.

Good point. The full title was too long so I edited it down. Hopefully this is clearer.

They probably couldn't. Farage is in very safe seat. He wouldn't have called the election otherwise.

You don't vote for a comedy character to win an election in a safe seat, because they won't.

You vote for Binface because you think Nige is wasting money on a pointless box ticking distraction instead of spending the money locally to fix things.

Farage hasn't got much of a sense of humour but if massive majority gets smaller he might spend more time in the area and less time in America on speaking engagements.

I hear Farage has been boasting that he likes it where it is!

Ich bin ein Bin-liner!

It's Count Binface vs The Count of Dodgy Crypto.

Then he should probably say that.

Almost no words are exclusively "British English" as it is the original and oldest dialect of the language.

Actually the prior art is Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Looney Party[1] who started in 1963.

As a former Monster Raving Looney I have decided to defect to the Binface Party based on their sensible policies on the hand dryer in the Uxbridge Crown & Treaty pub.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Lord_Sutch

Of course but we're talking about vintage control room designs here, some of which predate that investigation, so it still seems relevant to point out.

Vintage nuclear plants are also infamously used as the canonical examples of bad UI in teaching.

To paraphrase, the Three Mile Island Disaster happened because the operators couldn't discern the right red light in a sea of other lights and noise.

https://uxdesign.cc/three-mile-island-how-bad-ux-led-to-a-nu...

An easy to learn UI is not without merit but neither is a complex UI with greater inherent flexibility.

I like old, analogue synthesisers. To pick two very famous examples:

I love the MiniMoog because it's very low friction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimoog

It's a classic that's simple to learn and quick to get useful sounds. It's a funk bomb.

I prefer the Arp 2600 though (it's the voice of R2D2!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_2600

The 2600 makes it really easy to the block signal path so no sound gets out, which can be confusing. Once you learn it though it can do all kinds of tricks the MiniMoog can't.

An Arp 2600 can make two completely different sounds at the same time though and a MiniMoog can't. Bob Moog himself was a fan of the 2600.

Both are classics, still being copied to this day, but for different reasons.

Or to put it another way, a piano is harder to learn than a tambourine. That doesn't make either worse in the right circumstances.

Very true. It reminds me of the aesthetic[1] of German musician Hainbach[2]'s studio.

He makes use of a lot of early test equipment. The look is very functional but not ugly. It's not colourful but everything is well made because it's made for professionals.

I see the same thing in mid-century BBC studios.

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1. Which I love.

2. https://www.hainbachmusik.com/

OK for those that seem to dislike the suggestion that pickup trucks and SUVs kill more than cars do here's a study from the BMJ.

Specifically, with regard to the shape of the front of the vehicle:

A large recent study in the USA found that, as compared with the low and sloping front end of a traditional passenger car, the odds of pedestrian fatality increased by 45% if the striking vehicle had a tall and sloped front end; increased by 44% if the striking vehicle had a tall and blunt front end; and increased by 26% if the striking vehicle had a medium-height and blunt front end.

https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/32/1/16

OpenAI is a company built on copyright violation.

That means it’s in the corporate DNA to treat laws as things for little people.

Apple have deep enough pockets that they can actually sue OpenAI but I bet OpenAI are surprised they got caught.

Now ask yourself, would the Codex agents on your machine ever over step legal boundaries? Would OpenAI ever make use of data you, voluntarily, send to their servers?

If they did could your company afford to sue OpenAI and would it still be too late to save the business?

a car hit him; he did, in his words, “a little flip” over the vehicle, landed in the road

He was lucky he was hit by a car.

A slab fronted SUV or pickup would have dragged him underneath and so it goes.