I only listen to John Cage, everything else is rubbish
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i disagree.
in Jobs days, Apple products were well thought, durable, intuitive and near-zero hassle. (iTunes was the notable exception).
i still miss my G4. it was the best personal computer experience i ever had.
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Hah! I was going through this thread saying âwell, honesty i can think of good examples of every one of these techniques where someone has either used it subtly or blew out the walls with it but i canât think of any examples that subvert and werenât cheesy with risers 
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Berlin atonal is GREAT (sobs)
Techniques that meh me out.
- âHow to do your eight-ohh-eightsâ (hate the term - call it sub bass for f**k sake!).
- Trap hats and snares.
- Melodic playing of vocal chops (oh ehh ohh oh uhh ohh).
- Pitching down female vocals so they sound like someone has a bad trip, brain damage or is about to throw up.
- Hooks and drops.
- Too much singing so you barely can hear melodic parts.
- Too much harsh tones and overexposed high registers.
- Wavetable synthesis - overhyped.
- Modular for the sake of modular. At the end it sounds like 8 step sequencer running simple subtractive synth with short env treated by some saturator.
- Going backwards to 80âs and 90âs sounds and techniques - the whole nostalgia brain wash. Many times people are overcomplicating stuff with hw or sw setups, routings, configs just to end with 4 by 4 plonks that can be made on iPhone.
I must admit Iâm an addict of tweaking decay over 909 hihat and 7 steps polyrhythm sequence lines. Just love it.
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Buchla
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the problem is that too much excellent music was made in 80s & 90s, and it still rocks.
also, it was made without stacks of EQs ans still sounded good. a miracle, lost secret, and violation of all production laws by todays standards. such things naturally excite people.
Wavetable synthesis.
For some reason I never really like the sound of most wavetables. They usually all sound a bit the same.
Give me wavesculpting/bending/folding abilities and Iâm much happier
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They are everywhere for 5 years nowâŚTime to end thisâŚDefinitely ! 
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Thats too easy. I would like to hear a âproperâ track challenge. Where everyone shows their Ăźber tracks without all the dreaded tricks.
Any chance of a poll so we can make a definitive list?
Iâm hoping for a âNOW thatâs what I call a technique that everyone loves but mehs you outâ compilation.
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i think poll would not be right tool for this topic, because people have love/hate relationship with many of techniques mentioned here.
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Good point , simple level/panning manipulation goes a long way for a ballanced mix . Today it seems that if you donât have 20 plugins on each individual track and the masterbus youâre doing it wrongâŚ
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some tutorial iâve seen on youtube yesterday killed me:
âok, letâs add another EQ to the chain to compensate frequency loss we made with previous EQ!â
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haha yeah , you see the same thing happen in every domain where (post production) tools become more accesible or digitised . Same thing with photography for example , people wonât bother to take a good picture and then spend ages in photoshop finetuning their subpar image .
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I meant this part worked for Steve Jobs 
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This.
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So good it needed telling twice.
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God, this is mainly why I started hardware in the first place. I was layering like 2-3 soft synths, all with tons plugins tone shaping, compression, and EQ⌠what a mess⌠lol
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yesterday i got a copy of Bitwig 8-track and discovered that DAW is not that bad if i just mimick the behaviour and feel of hardware.
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