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If I choose new gear, I want it to interface with my existing gear. That means the interface would be either an XLR connection or a 1/4” jack. 1/8” inch means an adaptor which would potentially degrade the signal or worse.

I’ve been playing with the Mother-32 and Mavis. Dug out the manuals and will go digging on YouTube to see if there’s any useful videos there. The Mother-32 manual has presets in the back of the manual for a start if your’re stuck as a beginner, but they’re a bit lame.

The one thing about the Moog gear, when there’s a firmware update, you need to remember if your gear has it installed, as there’s no way to check which version is installed. I supposed you can review the manual addendum to see if the added features exist on your gear, but, for the money you pay for the Moog name, there should have been a more user-friendly system in place. And with the Mother-32, the update process id a bit convoluted.

I ordered a set of art supplies on November 1, and and Temu charged my credit card. Temu notified me that the order would not be fulfilled November 7. It took Temu until November 13 to issue a refund and of yet I have not seen the refund. Is Temu running a scam?

Well, instead of using my hardware synths, I decided to crank up the soft synth UVI Falcon thru Ableton Live. I think Falcon is considered a digital recreation. And it has so many settings, it could blow your mind. Anyway, I had a blast fooling around with the controls, and I saved some of them as presets.

I’m thinking that I should break out Pigments by Arturia, which is another soft synth and Serum, another deep and satisfying soft synth.

Maybe I need to take a longer break from using only hardware to make my music, since I seem to be stuck trying to wrap up the album which I had hoped would be a DAW-less creation. It’s proved to be more difficult to pull off than I originally had thought.

On October 21, DistroKid placed 37 employees, roughly 25% of its staff, on administrative leave, pending layoffs. These workers were all members of the DistroKid union, which had won its election in April with strong numbers. The affected employees make up 47% of the union, including 5 of the 7 bargaining committee members. They were given notice of this 1 hour before the union bargaining committee was set to resume negotiations with DistroKid over their first contract.

Sign the petition: Musicians stand with DistroKid workers! Tell DistroKid to stop union busting.

I have a new tune out (soon). It’s already out on SoundCloud, and dropping October 14 on all platform served by DistroKid. It’s called “Brazilian UK Bass Beat” See my linktree at https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53 for details.

Well, I’m officially tired of Dropbox and their lack of transparency. I have been trying for months to upload some files to my Dropbox account and have been mostly unsuccessful. It seems, if you don’t keep your app open on iPhone, you can’t upload anything. The “app” terminates any uploads and when you “restart” the upload, the file upload restarts from the beginning (and if any error occurs). This, in conjuction with the piss poor upload speed means, effectively, you can’t upload anything. Isn’t that the whole purpose of Dropbox?

Spotify reports bogus numbers to their patners. Here’s an example.

And as you can see, Spotify only reports 43% of the streams to SongStats.

And if you’re an artist looking to be paid more fairly, join http://Weareumaw.org to help a law they’re pushing to get paid 1 cent extra per stream, over and above what you’re already getting paid.

From Spotify

The reason I say BandCamp is sad is the discovery just sucks. I have fewer plays on BandCamp in four years as I have in a week on Spotify, a platform I don’t push. Spotify just sucks, where I’m getting less than 10% of my streams. So if you don’t find my music on BandCamp, it’s an also also ran.

This is in response to BCs selling our music to AI companies to generate fake music and fake streams to enhance their bottom line, cutting out artists from their efforts. After all does BC pay you to sell yourself out?

It’s easy to spot the trolls on InstaGram. They’re the shitposter whose account is private. Most likely less than 20 posts.