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  #MadhuvantiPal has captured my attention with her amazing #RudraVeena playing. I am awestruck at this truly cosmic instrument and how it transports me to other realms when Madhuvanti plays. https://youtu.be/UgOObtgL-UY

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  #LinuxAudio #BitwigStudio folk. Are any of you using a #Novation #Launchpad X successfully in your workflow?

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  #Mailchimp wants to automate everything and send emails over and over again to people who don't open. I want none of this. Once is fine, thanks.

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  13th day without a break. It is a delight that today’s takings at our cellar door are within $5 of the cost of replacing our keg washer front panel/brain. Thank you, #Universe. Tomorrow is for #BonkWave #Winterbonk #SampleChallenge. Gonna go #DrumAndBass. Yeah.

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  Deconstructing #FishChowder tonight. A customer brought me some brined and smoked gurnard fillets. To be cooked the #Scottish way (pan fry one side, poach in full fat milk the other) and then poach an egg in the sauce. Served with baked onion, pan fried baked potato. Am spectacularly mellow from an #OldFashioned made from local rye whiskey (brought by another customer today) and chased with medicinal brownie. Not sure if there will be food pictures… Again, thanks be to the Universe. It has...

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  I have made The Best Fish Chowder Ever.

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  My beloved does NOT respond well to only pharmacist-only cough suppressant that is made with dextromethorphan and synthetic sweeteners. So I am engaging in cauldron-adjacent #HomeRemedies. To a scant 250mL of boiled water I have added a heaped teaspoon each of rubbed sage and thyme and a generous grind of black pepper. I simmered this for a few minutes and stirred in a good teaspoon of local honey. Next I strained a tin of sliced pineapple for the juice (80mL or so). I then sieved the herba...

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  Is there a #WestCoastWave #emoji?

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  I wish the creators and writers of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds were not so enthralled with horror. I do not like it and it feels anathema to everything which all other Star Trek has represented.

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  2 million cans seamed at @kererubrewing@mastodon.social

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  @radiofreefedi@musician.social I wish I could join in, but I am needing to run our canning machine now. Sad face! Have fun!!!

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  Iggy & Tom : Blues, Burroughs and weirdness make an ideal marinade with Resonator and a hot bath. I'm super relaxed now. DM if you want hear this fine Radio 6 Iggy Confidential episode too.

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  @Justin@social.younger.wtf there are solid rumours of other goodies in the pipeline as well...

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  Last night I discovered that 1 finger of #1605Chartreuse and 2 fingers of hot water is an excellent tonic when one has a cold.

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  -2°C at work today. Brrrrr!

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  @bazkie@beige.party @sknob@mamot.fr I’ve been thinking this morning (while it is 6.8°C *inside*) on writing music when one has little formal training. Something akin to “Structure by Ear”. I’ve listened all my nearly 6 decades to a vast amount of music but I still get hung up on the most basic concepts like Verse and Chorus. This feels like the #Grammar in #MusicTheory, and my comfort with grammar in my native language is not very significant. My response to the terms Verse and Chorus is very...

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  @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com I like to practice sensory memory exercises. For example: retracing some favourite walks and recalling scent, sound, and weather. Another is handling different tactile objects in my mind: pottery with exciting feeling glaze, a pumpkin, etc.

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  Today is a day for hot water bottles and lots of wool. So cold and wintery! 10C in our kitchen. Brrrr.

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  Four consecutive, stupidly-long days of heavy and demanding #brewery labour means that I am #rewarding myself with a hot bath (it’s Winter where I am) loaded with Epsom Salt. There’s also 3.75g of medicated brownie and Ibuprofen helping me to unwind along with some of our Whale Played Red IPA. Friends, this week has been ridiculously challenging. I really wish I had time to work on my #BonkWave or #NotBonkWave #FSOBW track.

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  @Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com all of the above. Yes!

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  @sybren that has a lovely, warm quality.

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  My attempt at taking a personal day has failed. I’ll try again another day. Sigh.

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  #Blender3D version 5.2 brings some excellent functionality to the #BlenderCompositor. I think I will be leaning into this and the #BlenderVideoEditor and move beyond #Kdenlive and any feelings that I should be using #DaVinciResolve (which looks amazing, but there's no free #H264 support on #linux). Here's the release notes video queued up to the compositor section: https://youtu.be/g4OXlrxqIx0?t=1286

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  #Blender3D folk who are into #particleFX #FluidSimulations and more; #Insydium have just released their #NeXusForBlender plugin. If you already own an Insydium product you can get the Blender addon at a discount. Otherwise it's £140.00. It also works under #Linux and supports a range of processors, but not ARM at this time. The manual just recently went live and you can check it out here: https://docs.insydium.ltd/blender/

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  More #BitwigStudio #Reverb explorations. My All-Pass reverb was almost adequate, but not quite as smooth as I wanted. I found another YT channel where there were some nice examples of how to populate the Wet Tank with all sorts of other stock devices (or 3rd party) to achieve some truly spectacular results. #AS-Reverberator is getting an overhaul. What? I never posted about this when I first made it over a year ago? Whoops. In short, the Wet Tank is packed with goodies - EQ, Pitch Shift for...

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  @aurynn@cloudisland.nz would you like some more cider tomorrow?

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@kererubrewing/116875204507171357 Brewing again. This time it’s our big triple IPA.

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  Friends of #BonkWave and #NotBonkWave and #BitwigStudio #ElectronicMusic producers who use #LinuxAudio, you might want to have a play with my AS All-Pass Reverb preset. I made it in Bitwig Studio v4.0 so it should work in just about any version after that. You can check it out on my website over at: https://www.ambientspace.com/technical-notes/bitwig-notes/as-all-pass-reverb

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  @bazkie@beige.party I’d like to share another source of pleasant smells: soaps. I have been enjoying the patchouli (with a fair amount of sandalwood in there) scent of these #Ayurvedic soaps from #Chandrika for ages. I’m all for peppermint, and sometimes rose or English leather, but I keep coming back to these. I think you can find them online. Depending on use, a bar can last about a month.

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  I’ve been exploring the All-Pass Reverb techniques described by @polarity@social.bitwig.community. I’ve opted to lean into a 5x5 setup. All values are pulled from a list of Primes from #Wikipedia. There are 5 parallel rows of 5 nodes in series and the results are rather satisfying. My AS AP 5x5 Reverb is presently nested into the Fog stage of my latest #SealEggs #NauticalDelay preset.