#the Toniums

[klaymoggs-armikrog-blog]

Got to thinking about my Armikrog: Revisited AU-thing and realized I came up with some 'Toniums and never shared. So share I shall!

As I was making this little graph it was as I initially suspected; P-Tonium is green!

Some were artificially created in a lab while trying to find a solution to Ixen’s power problem, such as U-Tonium 2, U-Tonium 3, A3-Tonium, M-Tonium, Q-Tonium, X-Tonium, and X.y-Tonium. Also, not all of them are crystals, though if you try hard enough they can adopt such properties.

As an interesting note for the AU-thing, Vognaut, once corrupted by the P-rasite, becomes more sensitive towards the different Toniums. Who knows what might happen if he was exposed to them?

[cosmictalenora]

Gaster Brothers and Nova Height

This might change but here's what Nova, Sans, Papyrus and Wingding (+ Void ver) looks like right now !

Sans and WD Void are the same height, short people.

They all have stars on their head, Sans on the right, Pap on the left and Wingding both sides but at the side. The blob is just there

[faction-art]

Words, and pictures : Eksovichea Tito Hak

Nostalgic for the Pacemaker? Well this is one instance where stuff has actually gotten way better since, only most people didn't actually notice, or knew of the origin context to appreciate it. I remember one time how Pioneer fanboys used to talk smack on Tonium's 'Pacemaker' DJ device all the time, saying that it will never replace professional CDJ's. To which I thought, 'no shit', but that wasn't the point of the Pacemaker DJ device. What the Pacemaker device essentially did, was take the dedicated two turntable metaphor DJ setup, and condense it into a pocket sized device that pretty much allowed you to create fully professional sounding DJ sets, anywhere, and anytime. It had a battery that allowed it to run for 3 hours without mains power ( the average length of a DJ set), that allowed you to potentially bang out a fully professional sounding DJ set using it, but despite what the pocket sized DJ device could do, those that feared it would constantly say it was 'nothing but a toy' that will never replace CDJ's. It was never meant to, but if the kids wanted badly enough to party, they would simply use what ever means they had that allowed them to knock out professional sounding DJ sets, just like back in the day when someone thought using vinyl turntable to beat match records together to create a seamless DJ set was a good idea, although the technics turntables weren't actually specifically designed for that purpose, but Tonium's Pacemaker DJ device is. Back in the day when raves, house parties, and illegal warehouse parties were happening, DJ's could have only dreamed of something like the Pacemaker DJ device, since there's no heavy records to carry where it's 120GB was ample to store thousands of records worth of tunes, and there were no heavy vinyl turntables to carry/transport either, meaning that it your illegal shin dig got busted, you could be out of there in no time with your pocket sized DJ device. It had built in stereo headphone monitors that were independent of the stereo line outputs too. Admittedly it did take somewhat of a learning curve to become accustomed to it, but most enthusiastic users would have been able to bang out a professional sounding DJ set on it within the hour of having hands on with it, and sure, it was a little more fiddly to use that a CDJ, or vinyl turntables, which for those that went out, and ordered one as a pre-release device was something that wasn't an issue, and/or they didn't really give a crap about if you were one of those enthused people that actually bought one back then. Sure, it was never going to replace CDJ's, but like I sad, that wasn't the point.

Eventually Tonium's Pacemaker DJ device was then officially, and exclusively brought to the Blackberry Playbook, for the Pacemaker DJ project to finally come to close in its final form on the final Blackberry OS device before they completely switched to running Android on Blackberry devices instead. (I nearly forgot that the Pacemaker DJ app saw its final place exclusively on the IPad).

Since then though, it seems Pioneer have made an official free mobile DJ app for both Android, and iOS (that doesn't require a paid subscription to use!) that is essentially close to what the final form of what the Pacemaker DJ device should have become, where the software and interface is now highly optimised to a pocket sized phablet device that everyone (nearly everyone) owns. It's also possible to use Pioneer's WeDJ app with an external DJ controller too, which I'm guessing Pioneer would more than likely hope you would use one of their Pioneer DJ controllers with.

[actiaslunaris]

A NaNo challenge for vidders, y'all.

[Copied in whole from the original post on Dreamwidth (https://actiaslunaris.dreamwidth.org/565916.html), with slight alterations for readability on Tumblr.]

Many, many thanks to simplecoffee, who brainstormed with me and helped me design these challenges. All my love for her support and creative ideas!

Two ways to approach -- an easy mode and a hard mode -- for four different challenges, but pick one to do.

On easy mode, you do all your planning in the months preceding November, starting whenever you feel most comfortable. On hard mode, you do your planning only in the month of November, with a few exceptions.

I've tried to design these to be accessible to new vidders, while still presenting a challenge to more experienced vidders. New vidders can also use the Vexercises Challenge prompts to help generate different ways of creating fanvids (https://vexercises.dreamwidth.org/12201.html). There are others there, so poke around.

All these, whichever you choose, must be finished in the month of November.

The four challenges:

The Back of Your Hand

Take a fandom you've vidded to death, meaning you know where all the clips are you want to use, and vid a thirty-second vid for every day of the month. If you think you can't match this, make a one-minute vid for each seven-day week.

Anything goes, to the limit of your inspiration.

New vidders, get to know your source using this challenge. Do start your planning before November.

The DJ Mixer -- courtesy of simplecoffee

Make a fanmix, and then vid that fanmix. Bonus feature to the challenge -- invite someone to create you a fanmix and vid that. Your challenge here lies in creating a fluid mix, where you choose how much of each song to use. This is for those who want to make a long narrative, or play with audio mixing, or anything else this might spark for inspiration. Your finished project should have a run time of at least twenty minutes, because you are creating a set.

See the conversation between myself and simplecoffee on how you can approach this for a more clear example. (https://actiaslunaris.dreamwidth.org/558508.html?thread=522412#cmt522412)

If you think you can't match this, create a shorter set, around ten minutes.

Some audio editing resources that make creating mixes easier: Sound Forge (trialware), Audacity (free), Tonium's Pacemaker Editor (specifically designed for DJs and free; has some bugs when used on Windows 10, but nothing severe).

Simple mix example: "Diamond" by imbir, Hotel Del Luna, (https://archiveofourown.org/works/29056350).

The Extended Play of Your Fave

Choose a musical artist whom you love. (Optionally, in addition to the musical artist, focus on a favorite actor.) Mix and match four to five songs from their body of work. You are not allowed to cut these songs. Create a thematic set of videos, your pick of topic. For instance, think tropes, or other commonalities, like for supercut visuals. Choose a recently consumed and previously unvidded source, only.

For a bonus approach, go multi-fandom. For less difficulty, do only three songs. The Vidder in the Booth

Your challenge here is to show us your process. For this one, you must only work during the month of November. You choose only one piece of music, but it must be four to six minutes long. You choose only one source.

Now, get hold of a screen recorder and other methods of recording your progress. For instance, if you work on paper to take notes before you start your vid, take photos. Log your progress visually, from the beginning stage up through the finished project. You'll then edit all these into two videos: your process and your project. You must share both.

Your process video can be in "Let's Play" style, including everything without cuts, and you can fast-forward process, whatever fits with your sensibilities. If you cut out what you consider to be boring or repetitive, keep track of the time spent there and log it in your process video.

The "I Have a Type, Don't I?" -- concept courtesy again of simplecoffee

Fanvids can be many genres. Some common ones are angst, fluff, alternate universe, and constructed narratives. Fanvids can also be meta, utilizing music and source to comment on the source in some way meant to provoke thought (for example, a vid could comment on toxic couples).

So, this challenge is to exercise your ability to create several of these genres, but with two little requirements. This is for multi-fandom vidders with a shipper's focus. Examine your fandom history. What ships are you most drawn to? Do they have commonalities?

As you’ve noticed, each challenge also has an easy, as well as a more difficult way, to accomplish creating several fanvids. For this, the easy way would be to pick and choose two from the given genres -- angst, fluff, AU, constructed narrative, metavid – and make two videos for each genre. For the more difficult challenge, pick four, and make two videos for each.

Each video should be one to two minutes long.

Please note -- there can be a lot of overlap between AU and constructed narrative, but to my understanding, an AU is if characters who are not werewolves in the original source are all now werewolves in your vid. A constructed narrative is something like if you chose to retell the story of a popular film but using the characters of a different source, or repurposed source and cut it to also tell a different story than what exists in the source.

Meta example: "Cosmic Love" by lola, multi-fandom, (https://lola.dreamwidth.org/96907.html).

Constructed narrative example: "【汤薰衍生】因为我的另一半是你" by 翼翼酱, Galileo, (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Pe411W7Di/).

AU example: "【浪客剑心现代衍生|斋藤一X比古清十郎】雨系列之一" by rainnorth, Rurouni Kenshin, (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1is411S7Mk/), contains flashes.

This is a multi-fandom challenge specifically to allow you to compare and contrast, and also, to borrow from other sources, so you can be as wide or narrow in your focus as you like. Go wild. (Break a few rules from all these guidelines if you want.)

The goal is to have fun. Show us what you can do!

[444names]

external khuzdul names + minerals + brythonic deities BUT excluding "ite"

Abanis Abarnus Abasonine Abayasson Abwenium Acele Afghuba Agnetine Agoisler Agreghte Ahery Akerapar Akhar Alacos Alate Alauin Algar Alincel Aline Alson Ambis Ambotte Amionne Ampyrot Analulum Anawstütz Andronium Angstione Anise Anksiddin Antandes Aplestis Aquilver Arnate Arrosal Artis Aucametar Auddenste Auine Aultis Avaus Aviviana Awavis Bacca Balan Balete Balis Bankovi Baros Basenus Benste Berctor Beric Beride Berimos Beris Berne Berot Berrotta Bette Bixinia Blogate Bogorane Bollomen Borbenia Bourans Bractou Brapaste Brase Bremankis Brium Brolme Bromet Buelinium Bunus Burre Burtheli Buxier Buyne Buyttrór Cabanos Cafornete Cagne Cahne Camberin Camion Cammone Camus Capodot Caranbus Carate Carbanos Cardianus Carse Carvo Catio Caubellus Cavide Celbismur Celsmin Cemagne Cerbus Cereatana Cerin Cernus Cespis Cethyl Cevine Chilli Chiriplo Chron Chráini Chrór Cladolum Clase Claus Clausis Clete Cline Cofanalax Colic Colline Colyte Comala Comele Comse Conin Copald Copase Copis Cormeris Covidia Coviland Covin Cryogolin Cuanna Cubis Culaferia Cussum Cymon Cyroma Dalmes Deliven Deste Dialephte Dinus Dongtum Dromeste Dwatte Edrase Ekane Ektaesus Eldium Emarge Emayfaum Emazunte Erine Evene Fagros Farphypin Fericus Ferid Feris Fermaucry Ferus Flumanot Fluse Foslein Foutne Frase Frectrum Funnis Furqual Fílini Gaarsis Gagnet Gahne Galsager Gamone Ganony Garnberis Gaste Gerihole Geris Giamia Gmarmase Gortine Grararin Graus Gravorili Grens Grovid Gwoleus Halax Halcos Halugèrin Halybdin Hanus Hanyen Hapiar Heaum Heriust Hinad Hinnus Hordipse Housmio Huprope Hübne Hübnos Iclinesta Icondel Idamin Idium Ilinete Ingsillos Ircum Jadhany Jadrid Jaffis Jampenus Jargus Jastine Jetre Jiannalc Jurquen Jurutne Kaens Kalilhain Kaman Kamane Keffette Kerium Kerum Khunne Kolde Kovedele Koverry Kovertous Kovis Krani Kraseate Kraserris Kromovin Kutungum Lagne Lagre Landum Lansis Laste Lathus Lectiest Lemen Lenional Lennale Lenoine Lenomper Lephen Leryte Lesmapid Limium Lindrin Loguara Loran Lovium Lumelde Luordin Luorna Lusambia Lybalzan Lévyncmes Madaus Magne Majorár Malachrór Mandoni Manna Manortin Mante Marsuyte Mawle Melasse Melbane Melle Menohos Mesparvi Meste Metis Micergus Micos Miede Mioselar Molus Monnate Monte Montz Moridium Mulin Nabis Narine Natighel Nette Niumenium Nocerne Nohene Nohestio Nolum Nordin Novend Obaylus Oberse Otaeitzin Otrel Pacevi Papous Papse Parvaus Patte Paustobou Pazlena Pechris Penkerine Phauchre Picrium Piypsot Plamel Plaum Polinne Psconus Pselli Pumberoet Putus Pyrid Pyroca Pyros Pyrot Pyrrhale Pääkköne Relazus Relschia Retrax Rosia Rosputhor Rugine Ruvilin Sacote Sagnellum Sanus Sapar Sasgus Scambenad Schte Scoclane Segen Selscoid Senine Sevogus Shase Simthis Sminevi Sodalc Spary Spaus Sphyne Spine Stargente Stasis Sthax Stili Stime Stita Stobar Stona Stonitz Stravale Sumbetz Sumbutte Surma Suvildri Svangar Sérakros Talase Tamete Tankale Tannabar Tarse Tasta Theme Thibigne Thodote Thomele Thouis Thouttra Tisideni Tiste Tocac Tomer Tonium Tratis Trelin Tripper Tuklia Tunus Ucamus Ulase Ulria Urquet Vanonus Vantony Vautte Veine Verin Veros Vette Vichry Visingin Vlagraues Vlanne Voret Vulin Wager Weerne Wenitz Wherne Whilin Wüste Xanine Xanna Xifer Ximicker Xonne Ytermen Zacoehlos Zajordia Zalcana Zarin Zenalcius Zhaum Zhoum Zirchte Ziris Zorman Zormate Zulven Zykinoles

[the-luckiest-guy-thanks-to-you]

another thing about the "its just friends" argument: Thats a made up definition too. LIke whats the difference between a friend and an acquaintance. Whats marriage? that requires sex? i don't think so. Like the previous person is right about QPR being a specific term, but also coming at it from another angle is that literally all terms made to describe relationships are made up. If you get married its not like your atoms re-arrange into a special element called Maraige-tonium. Literally the only thing that legitimizes the most formal of social relationships is that its recognized by the government and even that's socially constructed and just written down for tax purposes and to formalize the made up idea to get people to be a nuclear family. Whats the line between friend and acquaintance? there isn't one. Point is, all words are made up. You cant say that QPRs arent legitimate unless you are willing to concede that any classification of relationships is illegitimate. QPRs are as real as calling someone a partner, a friend, an enemy, a lover, a spouse, etc because that's how words work.

I can’t get over this lmaooo

[maximuswolf]

DJs and fans: 20 year DJ here Record Collector since the mid 80s and I'm starting to muse on AI algorithms and that mistakes might build brand?

DJs and fans: 20+ year DJ here, Record Collector since the mid 80s, and I'm starting to muse on AI, algorithms, and that mistakes might build brand? TL;DR - people are accustomed to flawless algorithms delivering music, and don't actually realize you're a human djing until you make a small error that makes them look up, and with empathy, realize you are there and actually a human curating music for them. anyone else experience this?----------------------------I am not condoning being a shite DJ. That's not my point. I'm not saying you should engineer in mistakes. But something I've been noticing lately...People passively consume music, and without effort or cratedigging are spoonfed beats by algorithm. The music is constant, "there", and in the background, a soundtrack to our lives as delivered by Spotify or Pandora, maybe Amazon Alexa or Google Home... and it's just churning out song after song.Some algorithms mix, even the ipod had a phasing between songs, where it'd poorly blend tracks so there wasn't a hard stop to beats.But people just "expect" the music to be there, and when out and about at a happy hour, in a bar or club, they just have the music as tapestry, and wouldn't pay attention to a DJ vs just having canned music. I mean, DJs for wedding are expensive, and there's a reason people are doing the calculus on the overall cost of a wedding and just making a joint romantic list of shared music to save on that part of the wedding cost. People are very comfortable ignoring personality vs music. As a long time DJ, I like this. I remember the Tonium Pacemaker in the late 00's, where you could even hook up a bluetooth receiver to the mixer, and the DJ could disappear into the crowd. I always like when it's about the music and not some idiot (like me) raising his hand over the mixer while twisting treble or pressing the flanger effect.I do understand there's a time and place for personality, like the Playa at 1am or a festival with some big name, etc. But I'm sort of a romantic and maybe I'm just not good enough to have an ego, but I don't pretend I'm a producer or making music, vs just playing other people's tracks.SO HERE IS THE POINT...In the last few years, my most flawless DJ sets (in SF... Off the Grid, Film Festivals, Bottle Rock Napa, my residency), people literally don't even know I'm there. However, on the off chance the floor is shaky or it's a rickety rig, or the needle gets bumped, or I just plain screw up... it's 100% *ALWAYS* a net positive. I'm a vinyl DJ, so I am not saying the CDJ freezes up or the sound goes out. I just mean a 1 second error....... and every time the crowd realizes I am a human. They realize I am curating the sound and not an algorithm, and even in the worst screw up (let's say 2 seconds or a real scratch / skip), it not only doesn't work against me, nor does the crowd turn against me.... they vibe empathy and feel respect that a human being exists out there, doing this "thing" for them.It's like an error actually makes people realize a human is there and DJing. Without it, there are 100% times where people come and go and have zero idea it's a human, because it's just about the wallpaper or tapestry of sound and vibe to accompany their lives vs being about Tiesto or Diplo.So that's a lot to say, and ask... anyone else ever notice this in the modern day? Any long time DJs notice the way people are consuming you now vs then, and notice the crowd sort of comes alive, and to your defense, when they realize you're actually a human DJing, vs passively not paying attention to a superb set that is totally flawless? Submitted October 25, 2024 at 01:31PM by unclefishbits https://ift.tt/Nd9uPCZ via /r/Music

[copyqueer]

also chatting with the absolute homie nadia earlier and i'm brooding over what an awakened clone-clone fruit is like (because you KNOW it's gotta happen post-timeskip like... come on....) and so far it's looking like some combo of "actually able to copy people's powers/skills along with their bodies", "turn people into different people" and "make copies of shit like a 3d printer". I'm working on balancing it all out and if it does all of those etc. I do know I'm capping the "can copy other people's abilities" thing in saying he can't copy mythical devil fruit with the exception of the gum gum fruit but even then he can't do gear 5, not even sure he could pull off gear 4. normally he wouldn't even be able to copy him PERIOD but that fruit is literally bonkers and runs on "for the bit"-tonium so that why he can. they both just think it makes sense so the laws of looney tunes allows it. but he's just you know, Not Luffy, he's not built silly enough to be anime bugs bunny.

[cosmictalenora]

Cosmictale Characters Multiverse Names

Frisk - Thera Flowey/Asriel - Veri Toriel - Rhymer Sans - Nep Papyrus - Ranos Nova - Saya Undyne - Yimne Alphys - Phyars Mettaton - Jutari Asgore - Solger Wingding - Tonium Chara - Crescent

More will probably be added here..

[faction-art]

words & Image credit : Eksovichea Tito Hak

Free or inexpensive DJ gear to get the job done... its definitely come a long way since I last checked

It's crazy, I haven't looked into DJ equipment for over 10 years since I exclusively started delving into music production back then, but I was at a place where all my records were stored ('were' being the operative word, since I couldn't find a single piece of vinyl anywhere having spent thousands of dollars on records back then, where I would near ritualistically blow near 80% of my wage on records alone on a monthly basis. Although my two technics turntables were still there, and intact, my backup 4Channel digital hybrid analogue/fully midi assignable Korg Zero4 midi controller was nowhere to be found. In that failed attempt at setting up my DJ rig last night for not being able to find anything, I thought I might as well see where its currently at on the digital front.

Ableton Live

Seems obvious, I used to use it all the time for DJing experimentally after my long foray into using vinyl emulation. Everything else to my mind is just a speed bump as far as DJ equipment is concerned, even CDJ's. The only problem with using Ableton Live though is that you pretty much have to set up a DJ setup work session project within Ableton Live, which can take hours of prep depending how many tunes you want to use (that all need gridding), and what your setup is going to be. It's not simply a case dropping in nay tunes in as you go along. It's not the most affordable option, and would require that you already have Ableton Live (unless you have the pirated version of course). The Ableton Live lite version usually comes free with music hardware, or can be acquired for as little as 20 bucks legit, but it does lack the audio clip manipulation, mix, and remix features that come with the standard, or suite versions of Ableton Live.

Pacemaker DJ device

It's in a box, in pieces. It doesn't work, and was kaput years ago. I didn't want to spend the money on buying another one, especially with having a laptop at my disposal. Surely there must be some laptop software alternatives?

Pioneer WeDJ

In its current form, it's everything that the Tonium Pacemaker DJ device/DJ app should have become on a mobile device for both Android, and iOS. However I don't have a mono headphone monitor, and line out cable splitter on hand, nor could I be bothered ordering one, although I do have one somewhere that I can't find that I bought for the Blackberry Playbook (also now kaput) many years ago. If you have one of Pioneers controllers you can obviously use WeDJ with that instead, which should then give you both stereo pre-mix monitoring, and stereo line outputs to your amp. Pioneer's WeDJ app is completely free to download and use for both Android, and iOS, and is essentially a fully functional DJ app that doesn't require any sort of ongoing subscription for full functionality in order to DJ your music collection.

Native Instruments Traktor DJ 2

Useful if you've got a laptop or a MacBook Pro, and in its most current form is completely free as a fully featured, and highly polished DJ app that functions perfectly for purpose. It's actually shocking how much they actually give you to work with here given that its 100% free from a main competitor commercial brand, but then again with the likes of the open source MIXX DJ app projects giving you way more fully pro features (even a stack of things that many will never even get to using) than this for completely free, I guess they didn't have much of a choice. Although native instruments do have a Pro version of the Traktor DJ app that does come at a premium, which comes with more features than most people would ever even use.

If you don't have a touchscreen to use with it

You'll definitely need an assignable midi controller of some sort to use with it, as well as an audio interface of your own that has a separate set lines for stereo pre-mix monitoring, and stereo line outputs to your chosen amp. Then again, I'm guessing Native Instruments would probably most likely prefer you use one of their midi controllers with it which pretty much gives you a one to one layout. Depending on which you get, there's one with a built in audio interface (which will give you the stereo pre-mix monitor headphones outputs, and separate stereo line outputs you'd more ideally need integrated directly into the midi controller), and one without, but if you were to buy one used from places like eBay, they could be acquired pretty inexpensively for anything between 70 to 150 bucks.

If you have a touchscreen on your laptop

This is probably the ideal, as this gives you the options to 'needle drop', and track scrub via the touch screen, as well as use the controls via the interface, although the GUI controls for the EQ, and pitch within the windows version of Traktor DJ 2 software isn't ideally optimised for touch interactions like it is on the iPad version, but the ability to competently needle drop, and track scrub via the touchscreen, combined with a one of their midi controllers, and an appropriate audio interface would be a killer combination. Something like the Behringer U-Control 222 is great quality as far as its audio is concerned, and can be acquired for around 25 bucks new, However, that won't give you independent headphone pre-mix monitoring, and separate stereo line output compatibility despite the U-Control 222 being equipped with it, where they've most probably rigged it in a way where it Traktor DJ 2 app will only function fully in such a way with one of their own Native Instruments audio interfaces.

MIXX

This has everything that you can find in all the commercial premium DJ application (and more), with compatibility for multiple different vinyl timecode DVS standards too from the numerous different manufacturer brands if you're a vinyl emulation junkie. They've vastly improved the default GUI skin too, that makes it look WAY more professional, and slicker looking than it used to, where it wouldn't look too out of place on a laptop sat next to another laptop maybe running Ableton live on it as part of some sort of sync setup. However, if you're fortunate to have a touchscreen on your laptop, you're a little out of luck here, as it's not really touchscreen interaction friendly optimised, for a fair number of the core control buttons being too small and fiddly on the screen to actually use touchscreen interactions with, so you'll definitely need to have suitable midi controller to assign controls to for this one if you don't want to be stuck using mouse click interactions. Its 100% free to download, and use. It's also the only fully featured DJ app that has a fully functional version for various different builds of Linux too, as well as windows, and MacOS.

RemixLive

It's technically not a DJ app, and if you want to do some fancy stuff with it, it can potentially become quite expensive in order to unlock all its features, but it essentially takes the live remix, and sample based line of approach that Ableton Live can optionally be used for beyond pure music production, and gives it to you within a highly polished, and easy to use touchscreen based application. It's also been created in such a way that you can also use it as a drum machine step sequencer too. You can do some decent stuff with the free features, but if you want to unlock its full potential as an app, you'll have to fork over a fair amount of dough. The app itself is available for both Android, and iOS.

It looks like something from the creators of an app that was originally made for the Novation Launchpad midi controller as a freebie, but greatly further elaborated on, as a separate commercial software product.

There's a lot of potential here…

Using it reminds me of how one might use Ableton Live for stem clip, audio sample based loop music production, but delivered within a very touch based centric package. It's been many years since I last checked it out, and it's certainly come a long way from those plaything like beginnings.

If anything having played with it briefly for a couple of hours earlier this morning via an Android device, with a little more refinement (that’s not to say that it's not actually come a long way since I last briefly looked at it many years ago), it could actually seriously be a much better replacement for the kind of defunct and very expensive Native Instrument stem clip based live remix, and creation controllers, that allows more direct control. It even has full Ableton link sync capabilities within the Android version too. Maybe this was the missing part of development that could have somehow been integrated, and used with something like the stem based Traktor controllers for potential greater success as a product that would have made it less cumbersome in order to simply get things cooking on the fly in a way that's actually fun, and enjoyable without feeling like a chore to get a dancefloor rocking that doesn't require hours, days, or weeks of prep beforehand?

There's a VERY limited selection of free stem packs for it, with the prices for the numerous premium stem packs being very much in line of a chart release track that you might find on Beatport. It's possible to create your own custom combination packs from the packs that you've bought, as well as import your own sample clips too, but they don't make this process as intuitive, or as quick as it could potentially be, as it might be with using something like Ableton Live, or FL-studio mobile for the purposes of creating your own, and using them for quickly putting together a tune off the cuff.

It seems to lack the ability to easily save projects as a separate file save state at any given point which was a little jarring, meaning you need to remember set it up as anew project at the start with its own file name, because if you don't and simply mess with it to come up with something you actually want to save, there's no obvious way to save it that I've found yet.

Touch OSC

If you're a bit strapped for cash, or just simply don't have the space, or need a much more portable fully customisable solution, the traditional midi controller might not be what you're looking for, and particularly if you're limited to android for budget reasons, touch OSC is your friend.

I first came across something like this many years ago, however, back then it was sort of new coming off something called the Jazz Mutant midi controller, which was a dedicated fully customisable midi control surface device, which back then, used to cost a few thousand dollars for the Jazz Mutant control surface device.

However, a few years later, Lemur (the makers of the Jazz mutant) eventually released an iOS app that essentially allowed you to do the same thing with an iPad. I actually got the iPad app, and used it with a hand me down iPad 2 (some time way after the iPad air had been released), and to all intents and purposes it was great, as it did exactly what it said it would do on the tin. I haven't used it since though, nor did I get a replacement iPad after it broke for that specific purpose, since iPads have gotten vastly more expensive where they cost more than a decent laptop these days, and the Lemur app was exclusive to iOS. I never bothered looking into Android solutions, and I do recall seeing touch OSC for android a while back in its very early stages when it was far less user friendly, and limited in features, and wasn't anything like it is today. How is Touch OSC today? The way the application has evolved for Android? It's almost identical to Lemurs Jazz mutant app port to the iPad, with barely any difference. It's perfect for function, and purpose in being incredibly versatile in a DaftPunk wet dream on the command deck of the starship Enterprise kind of way, as it delivers fully customisable midi control surfaces at your fingertips if you have an available Android tablet or smartphone to use it with in conjunction with your chosen DJ software on a MacOS or Windows machine. It's not free, but for such extensive, and powerful features fully unlocked, 12 quid isn't a lot to pay once, and be able to use it as you please for life, for many things, such as any DAW, or DJ app that supports midi. Even if you're using ZeroBug's excellent Touchable Pro app for Ableton Live, you'll still definitely find Touch OSC useful too if you don't want to be moving through layers as often, and have way more room with Touchable for specific control layers always on hand, particularly if you're using VST instruments, synths, and drum machines that are midi control assignable with Ableton Live, but don't have midi control support within Touchable Live pro.

Another sophisticatedly advance multi-tool like feature to add to your smartphone, and or tablet if you often use midi control, that most people would take for granted without knowing of its development, and how its vastly surpassed the capabilities, and versatility of its original high cost premium priced variants…

I suppose this gives you even more incentive to hold onto your old smartphone devices to possibly repurpose them as fully customisable advance modular midi/OSC touch control interface surfaces for your various plugins, and effects modules within your DAW and/DJ software. Obviously beyond midi, as its name suggests, it's all about the OSC, meaning you can also make custom controls for many other things besides DAW, or Video editing software (e.g. national grid powerplant control rooms, etc). Touch OSC running on your Galaxy Tab A7, Tab A8, Tab S6, Tab S7 or iPad 2/3/4 and above via Lemurs original app, whether wired, or more fancy, wirelessly too, it actually provides you with way more advanced features, and capabilities than the original Jazz Mutant controller in a vastly more portable compact device. Even if you had something like an LG V50. V50S, or V60, you'd also be able to plug them into an external touchscreen monitor, and use Touch OSC via the 12/13/14/15 inch touchscreen beyond using it on the actual smartphone device too. You'll probably also find touch OSC very useful to use with MIXX too.

Native Instruments free 'Native Access' apps

'Native Access' is basically their equivalent of the steam app management client, but for all their Native Instruments apps instead. There's mainly premium apps there, but there a number of high quality free apps there too, from synths, instruments, and plugins which you can use as standalone via a midi controller/keyboard, or as a VST plugin for you chosen DAW. Simply do a search for the their free apps on their website.

One app that you won't find there though (although you will need to enter the serial number for it within the Native access client to actually register, and download it after first install the Native Instrument Reaktor 7 player app), is the DP-06+ app, which is basically a faithfully recreated software version of the Roland 606 drum machine that you use like a VST plugin via Reaktor 7. Just head on over to 'Deputi Sounds' where you can buy it for a limited period for the price of $0.00 (you actually have to go through the checkout process to get the activation serial number code for it). I don't know how long the offer is on for, but the temporary offer rolled out yesterday.

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Headcanon about P-Tato and P-tonium: P-tonium is like pure unbridled happiness- the energy of joy and emotion- that P-Tato can channel and give form (as inspired by the fact she gives you a crystal after doing something that makes her happy; comforting her, playing with her mobile, and saving her from a corrupted Vognaut). In its raw state, it’s a bubble-y, lightweight mass that crystalizes after a few moments. As well as being a power special to her species, it’s also incredibly rare and only manifests every dozen generations or so. Lucky Tommy!

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Professor Liu-tonium

is this something?

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One last goodbye

I’m sorry for the delay but here’s my gift for @tonium for the @jjba-secret-santa event!!!! They wanted some angsty stuff and I tried to deliver. Is not exactly sad but I have a hard time making my boys suffer. Hope you like it Cherry!!! and thanks to @ctromedea for hosting this event