Man… what aren't I reading?

In no particular order (and in no particular order of importance/scheduling - I'm part way through all of these):

- Blackmore: The Meme Machine
- Kim-Cohen: In The Blink Of An Ear - Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art
- LaBelle: Background Noise
- Dawkins: The Extended Phenotype
- Arte Sonoro (an anthology of sound art exhibitions/essays from Spain)
- Resonanzen : Aspekte der Klangkunst

So many! But they're the main ones at the moment. More coming in… x_x

My studio isn't a studio, and it's in the midst of being converted to a standing workstation. But it does the good jobs. This is my office, in all senses of the word as I work from home. I do have a recording interface and microphones and stuff packed away, as I rarely use them.

I think that given the file size limit of 16mb per track, is it really such a bad thing to allow downloads even if you DO release an album? I can't imagine why anyone would release an album of 128kbit (or anything below 320kbit) mp3s these days when you can do lossless. There is a clear incentive therefor to obtain the album - which is curated, selected tracks rather than a weekly track - via whatever the distribution channel is rather than download an inferior quality copy here.

Wow. What a post.

I use Live, but I'm not a chiptune person or anything like that, so take from this what you will.

Live has, in my experience, the most flexible everything, ever. Particularly for what I do. I've not used FLS since about 2001 or something, so have no opinion on it.

The mixing/routing thing in Reaper seems weird. I used Reaper quite a lot a couple of years ago and don't recall such a problem. Have you tried just routing internally? Set an input that is always the input for that physical input, and then just modify where it gets sent to create your extra tracks without having to make a new input track?

Also, Live is what, $800+? Reaper is what, $50? Heh…

I used Logic almost exclusively until about midway through last year, when I switched to Live 8 (and early this year purchased Live 9). I changed to Live due to the performative aspect of it, which by and large didn't exist at the time (and I don't like FL at all). BitWig Studio seems to be a potential Live alternative though. The potential for flexible sound design in Live is, in my opinion, better than anything else I've used out of the box, though Logic comes with some really great stock instruments and effects. Some of the best, especially synths. I found the audio editing in Logic quite clunky, and was worried for a while that I would need to have both Logic and Live. But I've found Live delivers on everything I need it to. I also use Max4Live occasionally, but generally just use Max (for the moment, anyway).

Reaper was good for when I didn't have anything else (and ran Windows); in some ways superior to Logic. But I've not used it for a long time now. Will likely buy it soon though, just to have.

Yeah. But like 2012, I'll happily do "cop-out" tracks - some of which has some gold in them.

http://weeklybeats.com/#/vinpous/music/praxis

I think...