Blush Response calling out Elektron Manuals

[Francis]

Private Parts?

[Bunker]

@alechko

but they are still better then the Roland ones…

The irony is Roland’s service manuals used to be some of the most informative I’ve come across with in-depth descriptions of circuits, data handling etc. it’s just a shame they were never written for end user consumption.

[Ulysses]

‘Principles of Love’ is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment in life.
I need to print out my OT manual for more hmm research

[SKull]

@Fin25

We absolutely should expect society to cater to disability

Sure. I’m all for ramps, braille and what not.
But dumbing down information in general, because folks like us can’t concentrate, means dumbing down everyone else.

[lowph]

@obscurerobot

I love Elektron’s manuals, but understand that not everyone has the same kind of weird brain as I do.

I think I have one of those! I like to read Elektron manuals and a lot of other technical documentation. I’m aware that we might be in the minority, haha

[Bunker]

@Fin25

offering another gentleman to meet you in the car park for a fight

Or as my mate says “having a bit of a dance”

[m0ld]

@SKull

But dumbing down information in general, because folks like us can’t concentrate, means dumbing down everyone else.

Making things easier to understand for everyone isn’t “dumbing them down.”

[lowph]

@martibs

Sorry to go off topic here, but can anyone explain to me the concept of having negative MIDI latency, as mentioned in the video?

Yeah, I want some of that negative latency too. I couldn’t find anything about it in the manual!

[waftlord]

it’s one area of LLMs and progression of “AI” that excites me.

reforming educational systems to adjust in real time to the hugely diverse learning styles of humanity.
if it can dumb/slow it down - speed it up at a pace that suits individuals to arrive at the same end goal then that can only be a good thing.

i wouldn’t be surprised if hardware will have a real time learning system that talks the user through the interface and specific functions.

[pidgeo]

i like elektron manuals.

I don’t read em, but I like em.

[waftlord]

hopefully Thom Yorke will pipe up in this thread

[lesstalkmoredisco]

I really dislike them too

Way too dry and technical for me to understand where to go with all that information. I personally prefer when it’s mixed up with use case examples within the information.

That said, I’m also someone with ADHD, sue me

[LyingDalai]

I actually think I should read the Elektron manuals again.
There are a few things that are still unclear to me… Looking at you, and …

[pidgeo]

if I had kids I’d read em elektron manual bedtime stories

[Kegeratorz]

Hold up! Did you guys know the Digitone has a manual? This is awesome!

[blushresponse]

I’m holding a book burning for elektron manuals at my gig in Seoul next week. RSVP to me privately for location details

[Suspect_Frequency]

The warm glow and gentle cracking of a good book burning warms my cockles.

[bodymechanics]

I completely agree.
I’ve never understood the RTFM comments.
For one not everyone has good reading comprehension, two reading a manual up front to learn seems counter productive. It’s after you’ve learned to navigate around that the manuals become useful for me.
The Elektron manual terminology is definitely complex for simple things.
Parts for the OT comes to mind.

I do find Elektron boxes simple to grasp though.
The OT gets a lot of flack for being too complex.
I find it extremely simple and gets more so over time.
In relation to Live Lite it’s much easier to learn, but very much a similar idea.
All of their boxes remind me of Ableton native instruments broken out into a piece of hardware.

[snakegoat]

+1 for this. Although I’m not into industrial/noise that much I really dig the reviews from Blush Response because he makes the module work for what he wants. He doesn’t just make some insipid lift music

[thermionic]

@blushresponse

haha you guys i was kind of fucking around!!! whoops

Most of us took it as such

But y’know, internet and tone and all that…

@waftlord

it’s one area of LLMs and progression of “AI” that excites me.

reforming educational systems to adjust in real time to the hugely diverse learning styles of humanity.
if it can dumb/slow it down - speed it up at a pace that suits individuals to arrive at the same end goal then that can only be a good thing.

Theoreticals about learning and pedagogy are not really geared towards those developing these standards at any national scale sadly.

I appreciate being able to ask stupid music theory questions, but they also… lie. A lot. Boldly.

The agent will explicitly tell me things that aren’t true in order to seem knowledgeable and not like a data sockpuppet.

If scaled to children, this is not going to be used to instruct on anything but a specific form of Nationalist Realism without the additional lens of decent teachers.

It’s an interesting tool for people to play with the bounds of, but it’s not a great replacement for anything beyond additional focused tutoring in areas it’s been explicitly trained on with good data.

I don’t have a ton of confidence that the people who want to “revolutionize learning” are going to do anything but privatize knowledge and pretend that GPT bullshitting is a proper substitute for instructors.