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@@Cactuspractice12 yes. I actually started with the digitone 1 first, went backwards to the model boxes, then to the d2 and it was way easier :)

@@if_dots cool, thank you

Honestly? I've always just fully ignored that. ... it's actually closed now but it took me a good month to realize. I'd also just switched computers when I made this so ... yeah, I just didn't see it until way after posting this video.

@@if_dots that shows an incredible ability to just concentrate on the essential stuff. I wish I were like that

@@xiwire thanks :)

thanks :) it’s one of those things where I initially felt pretty stupid spending $40 on a skin but it made me use it so much more that it’s been totally worth it, haha.

@if_dots I feel that. It's the same for me and my Lofi-12XT. The skin for mine makes me happy.

@@tomio_ueda it’s the ufo50 intro music!!! phlogiston.bandcamp.com/album/ufo-50 the whole soundtrack is fire tbh

hah, thanks :p I really wanted to figure out the elektron workflow and the larger labels and color coding helped a lot (and it's all reversible which is nice)

lucky for you, i've posted a fair bit of music in the two years since i posted this :) if you don't want to see gear reviews you might want to ... not ... watch or engage with that content though!

@@nkozi thanks!!

Thanks, glad to hear it :)

@@RondallaScores no, though I haven’t done anything with custom drivers. I did notice lag running emulate analog lab playing larger chords though, so am using an x86 laptop for that.

@@if_dots i currently have the Behringer one but was quite hesitant because of driver problems.

@@if_dots thanks for the comment tho!

@@RondallaScores I think as long as it can use generic x86 drivers it's fine, and AFAIK that is what the behringers use - the lag situation isn't fantastic though, so it really depends on what you're doing with the interface. I didn't have interface problems just playing a controller like an astrolab through my scarlett 2i2 (other than emulation load as mentioned above ... the x86 emulation is definitely much worse than apple's). Windows does have a plan to bring Asio4All natively to ARM that they announced a little while ago that I'm planning to cover eventually in the update to this video - and that would solve any lag issues. The link is here: devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/making-music-on-windows/ - but the release date is TBA (with a 'dev preview' shipping sometime in 2025), so I wouldn't count on it yet.

@@AvianBreak honestly, the price increase and discount means it’s basically the same to buy the original transit and the upgrade as it is to just buy transit 2, so I’m not super annoyed at the upgrade itself. … But this “you can always keep using transit 1, which has mysteriously disappeared from our downloads page, and will remain supported for the things it runs on now” business is … suspect.

Any recommendations on a good transition app option? I’ve heard others say Turnado but that’s not a good experience. I’m interested but I’m not seeing anything that does the transitions like Transit.

@@mhavock that’s true! I really like fracture as one of those but there are a bunch - I just like the way transit makes using it so simple

@@analoguewings hey :p

@@if_dots hey hey?

Hey!

Hey, I don't use this much anymore but plugged it in to check, and I was able to use a logitech webcam (the c920) fine with it! (It did not install extra drivers - I assume it's using the generic microsoft drivers, but it looked good enough for me.) I am pretty sure that you also can run 32bit windows applications in emulation mode. They're slower than they would be otherwise, but ... 70% of them would run fine. If there's an emulated app that you 100% need to run I wouldn't recommend windows ARM right now (or possibly ever, depending on how the emulation layer comes along).

yeah ... me too. There's a version with 8gb+128gb actually, but it was $400 more when I was looking for it. At this point I'd say it's almost certainly not worth it - the new snapdragon things are so much more powerful, and an iPad and keyboard is generally going to still be more powerful than this. ... But I think if Lenovo re-released it with one of the new Snapdragon chips (and 8gb/128gb at least standard) it would be really great! We'll see if they do though.

@@martinspedding4210 Glad to hear the Lenovo laptop is working for you! :)

@@williamcopeland2617 Thanks! I’ll make sure to post an update video in a few months. At worst by the end of the year, depending on how quickly anything changes …

It's honestly way, way better than I thought it would be. Especially for $200 (you can find it in the used market for around that regularly) ... I actually was first introduced to the model:cycles by a friend, and I think me and him have very different sounds that he likes. I've found much more joy with it this time around (after learning the model:samples, also). I think punch actually expands the timbral versatility a lot.There's no attack, which is the most annoying feature of this and the model:samples, but otherwise ... beautiful.

Thanks, hope you have a happy pride too :)

what does it say? I have 23h2 installed on mine, no issues there (other than having to get the drive empty enough to fit windows ...)

Thanks! Yeah, I realized nobody actually reviewed one of these, that's the only reason I posted actually :) In regards to your other stuff: I know I was completely able to bring a charger: I simply didn't really want to (also my Surface Go 1's screen touchscreen started to mysteriously go out soon after the 30 day refurb warranty for some reason ... mysterious ... but also, I was just curious about this and wanted a reason to get it, honestly! A trifecta of reasons). I tried a bunch of very low-end games in Steam: heroes of might and magic 3 doesn't work, but dungeon keeper does. Bloons works on it, which is pretty great. I ran into a few cases where the MS Store didn't actually trigger ARM downloads which was weird ... I feel like a lot of things that seemed like they were due to "incompatibility" though were actually due to the speed of the processor, low RAM, or low disk space. But even beyond that, I think I mentioned it, but I've had like ... five or six just random freezes that needed reboots on ARM, which is more than I've had on my plethora of Windows laptops up until now. Things like the screen just turning off, or screen orientation mysteriously not updating (and needing a reboot). This is of course a sample size of 1 though, with all the caveats that brings! I think the Snapdragon 8 processors were a step above this, and I'm sure the Snapdragon Elite will be a big step over that. And the arm experience - low heat, massive battery life, no fan - is great: I haven't experienced something like it in x86. Possibly just because companies aren't setting TDP low enough for my tastes, but I am excited to see how the X Elite does when it comes out in like a month. :)

2 seconds per sample in high fidelity, 4 in low fidelity, and 128 sample slots. So it's ... definitely lacking in that facility, tbh. I ended up selling it off because chaining patterns was a PITA. Fun box though

@@if_dots Thank you very much. I definitely prefer a loopstation with 5 tracks and 13 hours of storage to samplers these days. Maybe if I had money to spare I'd take a chance on an MPC-X-SE to produce. But it's another "all-in-one" that becomes a problem of learning time, that I think I've already spent on my set lol. I have a Circuit, a Roland JDXA, two guitars (one acoustic) and 8 pedals. The instruments go into the Loopstation without a mixer, and the Circuit synchronizes to the 24ppq of the Roland and Boss naturally. If i ever produce to post, i'll have to buy a mixer to improve the sound, because the Loopstation is wonderful but it doesn't have such a good preamp. If one day the industry makes a real sampler like the E-mu Emulator II (with chromatic keys and good storage for today) then it would be a child's dream. Thank you for your prompt feedback and good creations.

Ah ... I think I wouldn't prefer more, just better, if that makes sense? The circuit's synths (and effects) feel very ... low-quality to me, like a mid-1990's VA synth, to the point where it can't make a lot of the sounds that I would like to use it for. The Tracks works really well with midi out actually, and I think if you look at it in that perspective - a 2-part poly midi sequencer, with a 4-part mono sequencer/weak sampler attached and a free basic synth - it just sounds like a much better deal. Personally I just normally hate having to move between boxes in the process of making music. YMMV. There are other all-in-one grooveboxes that have much better synths - the MC-101, and MPC One, for instance - but they just don't have the speed of workflow that the Circuit has. But perhaps this is just endemic to the entire field of it: either be very weak, or convoluted. Thanks for your considered comment :)

Thanks :) I've been meaning to make a bunch more honestly, but work and life is just so busy (and I keep having to adjust my video capture settings when I'm recording). At some point I'll have more time!

Sorry! X.x At least it's a real cheap piece of gear :p

Thanks! And I hope that you can find some stuff you want to work on past the demo stage evetually :)

Yeah, it's hard to make time and do it sometimes. I'm glad you made some interesting tracks before, and that you're back at it!! :)

Well this sucks... I have an idea for a song, and I was trying to come up with a drum beat and I tried to hit the snare really hard... and I missed! A kneecap is not a snare drum.

@@meatbeefindustries862 A kneecap can be a snare drum, but generally you want to hit it a little lighter x.x