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CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments (futurism.com)
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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I used to keep a piano keyboard next to my computer for loading downtime, and it was the least depressed days of my life.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Why not do it again then? Even a small keyboard might do.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I gave it to a relative that wanted to learn piano and I was too busy with work to sit at the comp/piano station, then never got around to getting another. I have a second hand seaboard now but I haven't looked into setting it up or if it even works under linux

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    seaboard

    This? That is... holy shit, really cool! I didn't think there was anything beyond velocity and polyphony in terms of expanding the capabilities of what a keyboard controller could do. I kinda want one myself, now.

    Also, LOL at the the other thing they sell that looks like a Theremin but actually uses computer vision to turn your hand gestures into MIDI commands. I don't know what drugs that company's product designers are on, but it's the good shit.

    or if it even works under linux

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    the midi definitely works, the firmware updates was the mystery. worst case I have a shitbook laptop in the closet with windows for doing such updates

    edit: I remember what i thought might not work. the original board and the minis of the same time period can connect over bluetooth but it sounded like it worked fine on mac os but windows was nearly unusable, and no linux users even knew about the thing. No idea if the seaboard 2 or the current minis have that fucntionality.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How long do you think it would take to set up?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    realistically probably a month or two. I've been in renovation limbo and parts of the house are incomplete, and I still need to redo some of the parts that are done.

    just setting it up though, maybe like 30min of research on the clock at work when nobody is looking and maybe about the same for the actual setup.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I can’t believe I’ve never heard of the seaboard before. Just looked it up and have straight up cartoon heart eyes about it. What a cool instrument! I’m used to playing on a regular keyboard and then spending hours editing the expression in my DAW (for things like synth, strings, brass, wind, etc). The concept of playing it that way to begin with is kinda blowing my mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I demoed it before I took it home. Its super cool. Its the original 25 key model which I suspect will end up making me want the bigger one fairly quickly. Hopefully I'll have time for it soon.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I don't have a Seaboard, but FWIW it shows up as a valid controller in the menu for Bitwig Studio under Linux, so it might not be hard to set up at all. Bitwig also has great MPE support, and if my Linnstrument is anything to go off of, you'll have a ton of run with MPE on the Seaboard. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If it's a midi keyboard, it should be pretty easy to get working. No problem if you got a DAW definitely, but I'm sure there are enough programs that can play piano sounds at midi input.

    And midi is mostly just USB nowadays, so connecting should be easy enough.

    If it's not a midi keyboard, it should have its own speakers, otherwise what's even the purpose?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I swear I wish I wasn’t so stupid.

    I have Roland electric drums and I couldn’t figure that shit out to save my life. I finally plugged them into my old Mac and Logic Pro just did it for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Electric drums are not a piano though. Getting drum pads (or pads in general) to work correctly can be a bit weird.

    I seem to recall that it was convention for all drum pads to always be on midi channel 11, so even if your device normally outputs in channel one, it does that. Maybe try to set it to that? But it's a long time ago that I've worked with that so don't quote me.

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