falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

@unfa Is there a written story of the same?

@rghvdberg@sonomu.club those are chewing gum I believe, after being thrown away and stepped on many times

@rghvdberg@sonomu.club you connect things and sounds come out! It's like magic.

Watch out though, it is quite addicting.

Cardinal 22.05 is here!
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=cardinal-2205-has-been-released

Finally with Fundamental modules, plus a bunch of other goodies.
Best release so far! 🚀 🚀 🚀

It takes care of all the major items I wanted to see in Cardinal, and seems to run quite well and stable.
Wanted to get this out of the way before moving to other things.

With that said, have fun!

@unperson part of internet discussion is that it is about everything and nothing at the same time 😅

@celesteh I expect people to do more than just use the tools provided to them for free though.
We are not at a point where software licensing and privacy are in good standing, so just letting status quo be is akin to letting things move more and more into a wrong direction.

Active participation is not required IMO, simply refusing to use pirated software already helps.
Otherwise it is just unfair that commercial tools get both paying and non-paying customers. Gets impossible to compete.

@celesteh we can always contribute stuff back in indirect ways, that is mostly what I mean.
I do not expect people to contribute to every single opensource project they use, but instead, stuff like making their own things also free/open, or contributing to a few select projects or could be by just refusing to use pirated software.

@celesteh That is the A group though. If something is free, you pay in other ways by donating, submitting reports and spreading positivity around a project.
Also, foss does not mean free of cost, many people happily pay for an Ardour subscription.

People that use opensource tools without ever contributing anything back can be thought to be in the C group.

@unperson @mxtthxw I don't get it either tbh. I think it is more that it is mainstream, thus sound is more recognizable due to its overuse.

Why someone would refuse to use a tool because a bunch of people pirate it, I do not know, or understand..

@celesteh D group?

@AriaSalvatrice Perks of opensource things, we can change them to fit our tastes and needs!

I have tweaked my mastodon instance style so it works better for large/regular pc screens. Actually has been so long I forgot how the original looks like.

@pocketvj there are quite a lot of people that simply do not have the chance, or the time, or the energy left for learning. If one needs to work pretty much every day for a living, then take care of the house and family, sometimes community related tasks too... Even if they have time, they often need that for resting after all the work. And then cycle repeats next week...

@lukas Not sure if a good idea, there is a lot of prior knowledge needed in order to proper understand the free software vs piracy dilemma.
And I think if class struggle is resolved, it would automatically/directly help free software case.

@AriaSalvatrice what millionares? I really question if audio software developers get to the point of millionaires, this is a very niche category of "products" after all.

But in any case, the use of obtrusive DRM is not directly correlated to software being commercial. Plenty of commercial software has no DRM at all.

If we are going to question pirating DRM software, that is a tough one. Supporting the devs is nice, but not such practices.

IMO the best is just skipping using stuff with DRM

Sometimes I wonder if open-source tools would be better if people were forced to always pay for the software they use.

The https://www.imsta.org/piracy.php page throws some interesting thoughts.

> Serum reportedly has a piracy rate of 94% and it is still being developed.
> It would be a mistake to infer that the popularity of a music software product automatically translates into riches for the software developer.

🤔

@AriaSalvatrice one can "just" use a desktop application for mastodon, there are a few ones out there, how many are electron/browser-based I dont know

@nanobotsdrain random wishes are the best ⭐

The new fundamental panels are all done!
More details at https://github.com/CardinalModules/Fundamental

This will be part of Cardinal 22.05, going to be a great one!

Recently been doing an audio-to-cv-pitch plugin, based on previous work by a coworker.

The result is this little LV2 plugin, can be seen at https://github.com/DISTRHO/PitchTrackingSeries

Additionally, because this is CV, added it in Cardinal just now too.
Scope shows it is able to follow the frequency change of an oscillator through an LFO.
Neat