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- microkorg14
making beats
My kids 7&9 do piano lessons and the teacher organises concerts through the year. A couple of times a year she organises 'fun concerts' where you can play anything.
Took place on sunday, was some great parent kid duets, my favourite was a (french?) father and son. Father playing a double bass and his kid playing some thrift-shop retro organ that sounded amazing.
I played a gig with my two. Daughter playing Kalimba with contact mic attached - through a Blackhole Revervb on a 'Sigur Ros' preset.
I was providing some simple drums, fingerdrumming on the 404Mk2. Son was manning the iPad running Logic Pro with Bleas Synth on 'Boards' preset (Boards of Canada sound) it was sequenced, he was controling the cutoff/resonance.
We used the 'Session Musician' AI based feature in Logic to write a good bass guitar and piano track.We chopped up the original interview with Rickie Lee Jones that The Orb sampled for 'Little Fluffy Clouds' and dispersed that through the song with a little delay.
The kids had a lot of input into building the track with me on the iPad but it ended up sounding pretty epic.
Imagine Primal Scream (screamadelica) vs Boards of Canada vs something like Massive Attack. But on a sketchy level.Piano teacher said tonight that she had a lot of people saying what we played was awesome. :)
- ideaist
- love this :) My kids both took piano lessons as well, and they did shows like this too :)
great memories :)exador1 - Love this too :)mort_
- WTF; my post was a "Cool Dad Alert" with emojis, BUT I guess QBN wasn't having it?!
Nice @microkorg!!!ideaist - That's awesome.zaq
- Its epic that your kids are into this style an also that you are able to facilitate it for them. Sounds like the sort of show I would go to.slappy
- Sounds really cool!stoplying
- newcunt26
- love emscruffics
- sweet. try one painting on board, you're brushwork is made for itGnash
- niceprophetone
- Grace Jones?utopian
- Do you know what Grace Jones looks like?canoe
- I'm quite taken by the positive feedback, thought I'd get slated on qbn. Thanks fellas. Gnash, I will try board!newcunt
- Welcome back!palimpsest
- ^Continuity
- +1garbage
- yuekit5
- that's why they call it techno soulcanoe
- nice! glad to see this thread coming up for airSquiddy
- always loved those weirdo videos like this that they projected on the walls at the clubsSquiddy
- me too @TheMajesticcanoe
- If you check that YouTube channel all they post are videos like this
https://www.youtube.…yuekit - The complete list of all their videos here
https://www.the29nov…yuekit - Thanks -- not familiar with even half but lots of good soundsSquiddy
- Reminds me of Ken Iishi. Just a little!hydro74
- The visuals from Funeral Parade of Roses?Squiddy
- Nairn11
What are you listening to?
I've been trying to give my daughter a grounding in eighties music, so have been listening to quite a lot of it recently. One thing I've never really done with music from that era is listen to it with headphones (well, at least modern in-ear ones - I'm not talking about those orange-sponged atrocities we had plugged into our walkmans) and it's made me really appreciate it beyond the base background radio presence it always was for me in my younger years. Like, they were tunes I thought were fine enough, but i never really savoured or appreciated them for what they actually brought anew.
Anyway, her favourites from today are:
Obvs Spotify or originals have better headphone-sound than youtube...
- Yes have noticed this too.microkorg
- Good taste!mort_
- nice :) my daughter is in her 20's now, and grew up listening to stuff like 'killing joke' and cocteau twins with me :)exador1
- she's always been keen on late 70's and early 80's synth bands... lately she's been obsessed with a band from that era called 'the sound'exador1
- This is the original version of the first song strangely
https://www.youtube.…yuekit - ^ haha, wtf - I am all of the comments from the older Youtubers there :)Nairn
- @exador - lovely! I've long-since wondered at the perception of the continuum of music development and how it's perceived by 'new' ears.Nairn
- I know it's impossible, but I've always wondered what it would be like to be in the head of some different, younger, hearing 'old' tunes for the first timeNairn
- *someone differentNairn
- pr22
- Gardener10
- NBQ003
- "credible sources" ... fuck right off.hans_glib
- Yes. But at least it's a former UK parliament member and not just some random dude with 20 followers. There's many who are saying this though.NBQ00
- many? 99% botsneverscared
- NBQ's conundrum - on one hand, nuclear destruction, but on the other - turning Muslims into glass. what do, Western Man?face_melter
- I wouldn't put it past IsraelYakuZoku
- Israel has become the new NazisYakuZoku
- And the US is fighting alongside themYakuZoku
- @face that's BS and you know it. I don't think I need to repeat myself here again about this topic.NBQ00
- "former" also i doubt he will reveal the source. so.... who knows. it's a none zero chance. but so are so many things.pango
- the credible source is his butthole after he ate a lot beans.neverscared
- thanks for the reminder...time to start reposting accounts who promote hippie stuff and not war.uan
- Andrew looks like a cunt to me.robthelad
- @YakuZoku neo-zionists is the word i use because zionism is something else altogether. not all israelis are supporting the idea.renderedred
- the "weaponisation" of holocaust for example, etc.renderedred
- Noted, stay safe brother!YakuZoku
- Bridgen went dotty after his family estranged him from their potato empire and had him evicted.Fax_Benson
- mort_6
Ganja Thread 3.0
New toy. Smooth. It's replacing my crater 420 and immediately feels like a massive step up.
- Got one of these... love it although it'll stink up your place like crazy (even if you only use it outside) the oils still release for another 10+ minutes...PonyBoy
- ...and will stink up your coat / the room you store it in (and it's an oily stink that 'sticks' to that room / clothing etc) :/PonyBoy
- Good to know... thanks!mort_
- Portable volcano, eh?!
Awesome.ideaist - I wonder does the newer Venty have the same issue.mort_
- I got the Venty.. doesn't seem to bad on the stink up factordee-dubs
- *toodee-dubs
- Maybe regular cleaning helpsmort_
- People collect the oil build up and use it to make edibles :)mort_
- I take it back .. maybe depends on the 'herbs', currently sat on packed train carriage on way home whilst stinking up the place... not gooddee-dubs
- Yeah I don’t think the chamber is intended to be smell proof so loaded with fresh weed will always stink.mort_
- AQUTE11
War
I genuinely think 99% of the people on all sides do not want war.
- + for optimismrenderedred
- I know a couple boomers who love it and cant wait to start bombing CubaYakuZoku
- Realistically more like 60-65%utopian
- Don't think so, there are a lot of idiots out there, who then throw their hands up in despair. Sadly, utopian is closer.OBBTKN
- and in the end there will be a minority of strong men in power exploiting all the others for their own ends.uan
- All we are saying is give peace a chancepalimpsest
- even isreal side? they seem to really want it.pango
- when someone wants your Straight of Hormuz you gotta fight for it.robthelad
- renderedred25
blog
As a half-Jew living in Jerusalem and partly American, I would like to extend my deepest apologies to all the nations in the region. All of this is leading to total destruction and countless deaths, and Israel and America are responsible. I am deeply ashamed for what is done supposedly in my name.
*If I disappear, it's because of what I'm saying, and I take full responsibility.
- :|pango
- Man that’s heavy. Possible to get out for a while?_niko
- I thought about that, to be honest. But there are no flights.renderedred
- Unfortunately probably going to get worse.NBQ00
- Due to the Security Situation -All Flights at Ben Gurion Airport and Within the Airspace of the State of Israel Are Cancelled Until Further Noticerenderedred
- @NBQ It's worse by the day.renderedred
- They are pummeling the south now. Constantly.renderedred
- Stay safe. Honestly, I don't know who will be able to stop this before everything is destroyed. Take care of your loved ones :'(OBBTKN
- Godspeed @renderedred!ideaist
- thanks guys, your support means a lot.renderedred
- Repeating stay safe. You don't need to apolgize, know that people with brains don't equate Bibi's war with antisemitism.garbage
- @OB i don't want to be a party pooper, but you guys are not that far away from all this. this is a global problem.renderedred
- One of my best friends is literally the last of her name. Russian Jew that has lived with the guilt of this regime.garbage
- I'm full goy, and my yiddish is terrible so I'll just say l'chaim and shlep and run.garbage
- thanks @garbage. i know a little yiddish, but i am sephardic so we spoke ladino in my family. and i'm sincerely sorry for your friend. give her my best from jlmrenderedred
- Stay safe brothermort_
- @rr, I know. Don't think I'm far away and "enjoying the show" ; I think we all know the repercussions of what's happening...OBBTKN
- Stay safe dude, peace & love.jagara
- thanks @mort_ and @jagararenderedred
- @OB exactly!renderedred
- just take into account that russia is very involved...renderedred
- Stay safe!prophetone
- Take care man, it's always the regular people who suffer from the actions of corrupt governments.yuekit
- Stay safe !d_gitale
- So much hate, greed, and evil consumes this world.utopian
- drz se sefe!!!loool
- Thanks! @lool hvala druze!renderedred
- people disappear all the time. they say things too.robthelad
- yuekit5
Artificial Intelligence
It's getting to the point where you can almost do pixel-perfect front-end development with AI coding agents - the main challenge here is conveying all the information needed to the AI.
Apparently Figma is better for this, but since I was working with a PSD file I created a script for Photoshop that exports all the layer data to a JSON file (font sizes, colors, positioning of elements etc) and then give that to the AI along with a mockup image. The results are far from perfect but it's still a big time saver.
- Cool, any working examples that you would like to share?utopian
- Here's the script if you want to try it: https://pastes.io/vP…yuekit
- Save as JSX file, then in Photoshop, open the PSD file you want to export data from and select scripts > browse > select the file.yuekit
- Then try giving the JSON file it generates to an AI along with a mockup of the design. It should be better than trying to code off the mockup alone.yuekit
- pretty good system! I would have killed for something like this before I discovered Figma... you should save this into the 'useful thread' as well!exador1
- Did you 'vibe code' this? And, if so, are you generally not a programming spastic?
That sounds bad! Just trying to work out how deep the AI goes here xNairn - lol...not only that, the AI suggested this idea in the first place. But I do know how to program and have a lot of knowledge of front end/UI dev.yuekit
- And this script is not something that's going to mess up your Photoshop files if that's what you were asking. It's using this capability that has existed for ayuekit
- long time
https://developer.ad…yuekit - It's just some JavaScript code that collects metadata from your file, it doesn't change anything. I suspect if you search you'll find many similar scripts.yuekit
- yep! awhile back I'd supplied a screenshot and asked chatGPT(!) to give HTML and tailwind CSS and the result was useable. crazy what can be done now.Squiddy
- mort_18
- https://www.instagra…
Bananas.ideaist - Wowmonospaced
- As a graffiti writer, I have to say Portugal has some of the greatest artists.. Odeith, and these 2 brothers here.. I think biological.. show off consistently jYearzOne
- sickmilfhunter
- DopeYakuZoku
- OSGEMEOS are amazingautoflavour
- https://www.instagra…
- kingsteven4
QBN'r AI Slop of the day
vibe-coded this realtime* stable diffusion drum machine at the weekend and found the hihat man.
*max 15fps with modulations off at 640x360 on a RTX4070Ti Super
- neverscared4
Heist of the day
Thieves steal Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings in three-minute Italian heist
Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros were stolen in a heist on a museum near the Italian city of Parma, police say.
Four masked men entered the Magnani Rocca Foundation villa on 22 March, police said, making off with Les Poissons by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Paul Cézanne and Odalisque on the Terrace by Henri Matisse.
- https://i.haasie.com…pango
- i think the nightfox did it https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- you can see these paintings online so who cares.robthelad
