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i bought this elektron iq fing and the manual is very serious about how it's going to speak to you in various fonts, and it's important you understand what. they mean ...but where is the SD card? oh, it just has... somewhere... cool, this will last a while. and i dunno, a year and a half, two years, that's how long it took me to fill it up, never deleting anything, loads of ill-advised samples i never used etc kudos; this is how you build a machine. with that, and proper mechanical. there's a cypress hill joke in these buttons but i think i need to dump it to the computer and clear it out, now, and remember what bold+italic means in the manual again |
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what is elektron iq |
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elektroniqs. u noe |
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oh I getchu. I thought it was a new Elektron thingy, like machinedrum or monomachine. I've never used them but autechre did on untilted and quaristice so I've been somewhat interested. |
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the Elektron IQ, actually could see them making that sorry, no, just gurning words for now |
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>>there's a cypress hill joke in these buttons spect chuck that ham in the frying pan like spam |
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i have the digitone and hardly use it. im thinking of buying model cycles for some drunz, i think i might be stupid |
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Love that machine, still have to upgrade to song mode.. |
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so i would just, i dunno, kind of like to return the favors i see here in a nerdy way. like, just communicate that i don't just like this machine a lot, i see the engineering in here. in particular, you can't make everything gravy, no matter how good you are. that, at a certain point, all you can do is strongly nudge the energies in the right direction and pray. case in point ~ tonight, my situation. i've gotten some strange error -- rare UI miss; have to say. i shrug and decide to use existing samples; forget it (see last album posted). later,i've struck gold in a podcast that's like two solid minutes of brits saying silly crap, and i'm about to start grabbing it, when i remember the error, and it's kind of like -- my brain was busy before, when i was doing a track, but now, before i'm into it: ohhh yeah the memory is full so i go full idiot; i just plug it into the computer. it handshakes; but it's not a usb drive or whatnot. scour the internet and download elektronsfer; ok. it transfers half a project before screaming at me to upgrade my OS because this could corrupt my samples. eesh, dicey. i'd rather back it up first, right? but then i just drag the firmware update into elektronsfer and it takes... less than five seconds before it's all "please restart me," ui hit. now it's gurning along copying months of samples. that, ostensibly, i am a software engineer, and my feel is: you stopped me and screamed at me to upgrade the firmware before i broke something. i did so and it was like... well, i clenched my anus for nothing! and i respect that trying to mash an old OS through the current client could lead to tears, and, like, as i started off with -- you can't always make everything gravy. this situation had to be at least somewhat messy. that contrary for screaming about what mess there was, deepest praise for how much there could have been that i never saw |
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please send in a small crack team from elektron to arturia because someone needs to whip the keystep pro software into shape |
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oh, less good: it's locked up twice, both the PC app and the digitakt but everything else so smooth i'm inclined to blame myself, along with... freaking USB type-b on gear; cables for an 8mp digital camera have gotten mixed up with the proper new ones. so i honestly suspect... i'll find a proper cable |
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also i simultaneously love you and hate you for turning the naming facility into a tetris game with swedish characters. my names for things were bad enough already |
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that, fucking hell. what actually seems to be happening is that i leave it happily transferring and go off to do some squats and smoke a zig and something something powersaving and windows suspends USB and everything hangs. despite the fucker being permanently docked and me having done my best to disable all that, we have to suspect USB because power matters on a laptop! i doubt anyone is listening, but this is a prime nexus: i would never expect arturia to support linux, but please, elektron, i think you actually have the marbles to do so? please help me get da. fuk. away. from windows. OSX half the bullshit for ten times the price; but still bull fov hish |
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digitakt was locking up that i have to click into power settings, then, no, the other power settings, then advanced power settings, then really advanced power settings, and no one would ever do this except if they know what i know: this fucking shit is buried behind a million crap tree views somewhere. then i find it, and it's like: "selective USB suspend, enabled/disabled?" and the way it's written it's utterly unclear if setting this to "disabled" means "disable this fucking crap-ass power management that is fucking my shit up" or simply "just shut USB off" so i just set it to "disabled" as the elektron is copying my projects, and... it doesn't die. in fact it speeds up fucking. windows |
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there is literally an "internet explorer" section in this power management policy nightmare tree, and the only item is like "javascript timer" and at first i'm like "USE AS LITTLE POWER AS NECESSARY" but then i'm realizing this might actually be a setting that harks back to when windows explorer and internet explorer were shotgun wed and this literally might slow file browsing down if i throttle it fucking. windows |
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i was all happy about this being smooth, but now i've put in a nice new USB cable, i've bludgeoned the depths of windows, and it's still dying on transferring especially large projects. that i started poking the digitakt to see if it's still alive, and... it's clearly, like, sweating, lagging the fuck out. that i tap 3 to play some silly sample and... has it hung? no, not quite; it gets to it like ten seconds later. again, clearly sweating. then projects around over 50 megs i guess it just shits out i think it's a jinx for me to do anything other than complain |
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aaah. AAAH. dfjgkd i think... this is emulated sysex over USB? and i've just left the keystep pro churning around, and it probably has some sort of shared consolidation layer for all of the midi shit, and... soon as i press stop on the keystep pro; it no longer has to midi thru, process triggers, all that, and seems to do a lot better and i thought it was just the yamaha dx200 that did that |
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so tldr ~ digitakt is very well designed, especially appreciate the desktop software playing nursemaid and guiding me to upgrade before i broke anything. but budgets are budgets and whatever SOC in there simply can't handle me running MIDI through it, at the rate i employ MIDI, and still reliably transfer files without crapping out, because [speculation] something something realtime OS and it's baked in that everything has to get resolved within certain time quantums or otherwise.... well, i heard you could get some wicked noise out of the OS9 task scheduler if you ducked out of your music app and deliberately sucked the CPU away; pre-X macOS was never designed to multitask at. all digitakt probably has a better CPU than OS9 ever saw, but it... still lags out and hangs if you try to back up 50mb projects while a keystep pro is blasting four channels of midi spam into it, triggers, out thru. it's amazing for what it costs, even though it's expensive, and i'm sure they could get over this issue but they can't have it costing $8000 instead of $800 conclusion: it took some thoughtful marbles, but this is still entirely my fault. |
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