SubJeff on 5/12/2019 at 02:49
The Expanse, Marvelous Miss Maisel, The Good Fight, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones, Black Mirror.
Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Edge of Tomorrow, Inception, Upstream Color, Annihilation, Ex Machina, After Earth.
Gunship: Gunship, Gunship: Dark All Day, Carbon Based Life Forms: Derelicts.
God of War, The Witness, FTL, GTA V, Batman Arkham City, Dishonored. Hyperlight Drifter, Company of Heroes 2.
Thor on 5/12/2019 at 04:26
Pardon, I didn't really mean movies and people, I was just being uncreative. Nate Higgs was a not very funny joke also.
To add to my list (not too creatively again), I think the series Inside No 9 was such a good hidden gem, that I consider that to be also one of the best things of some category (TV maybe) of 2010s.
The downgrading of most of the internet to a few main websites, half of which are social media has also been a big thing (as much as I dislike it).
For games, Dishonored and The Witness have probably been my favorites.
Aja on 5/12/2019 at 05:30
TOP FIVE synthesizers of the 2010s:
Korg MS20 Mini
Korg Minilogue
Intellijel Shapeshifter
Make Noise 0-Coast
Moog DFAM, maybe? (not sure; I don't own this one)
PigLick on 5/12/2019 at 07:04
top live show 2013, The Pig and Whistle with me playing Lover Lover to an aftermatch soccer team. And yes that was the actual name of the pub.
demagogue on 5/12/2019 at 08:18
Quote Posted by Aja
TOP FIVE synthesizers of the 2010s:
Korg MS20 Mini
Korg Minilogue
Intellijel Shapeshifter
Make Noise 0-Coast
Moog DFAM, maybe? (not sure; I don't own this one)
Good list, although the Hydrasynth is going to just slip in at the end here and overtake most, maybe all, of those IMO (depending on what one values in a synth). I'd drop the Shapeshifter to let it in that list. Also I'd add the Neutron and drop maybe the Mini. Make the Moog a Grandmother. And I still want to throw in the Minibrute and Prophet 12 for good measure.
PigLick on 5/12/2019 at 09:11
the only one out of those i have played is the minikorg ms20, pretty good i must admit.
heywood on 5/12/2019 at 20:25
I'm no musician, but I discovered the Minilogue when shopping for a keyboard for the family to play with. That's a toy I could play with for days on end. I didn't buy it but I was very tempted.
Since we're taking some liberties in this thread, I'll offer 10 general trends in STUFF that I have appreciated since 2010:
- You can find almost anything on a legit streaming site now
- Smart phones finally became smart
- Indie gaming got a lot bigger and better (or maybe I just started paying more attention)
- Sci-fi made a comeback
- Windows finally became decent (technically, Win7 did come out in late 2009)
- Tablets killed off netbooks
- Cloud computing
- Machine learning
- Sensor-based safety systems in cars
- Going cashless
Aja on 6/12/2019 at 03:50
Quote Posted by demagogue
Good list, although the Hydrasynth is going to just slip in at the end here and overtake most, maybe all, of those IMO (depending on what one values in a synth). I'd drop the Shapeshifter to let it in that list. Also I'd add the Neutron and drop maybe the Mini. Make the Moog a Grandmother. And I still want to throw in the Minibrute and Prophet 12 for good measure.
The Hydrasynth does look very cool. It ticks all the boxes, but after watching some demos of it, I wondered if, ironically, it might actually be too much. Usually I'm more productive with gear that has limitations.
The MS20 Mini was my first synth and is still my favourite; I mostly just make ambient and drone music these days, but the MS20's in pretty much all of it.
As for the Shapeshifter, it's the odd choice, I admit, but it's so much fun to explore, and the sounds it makes are definitely unique. You can do bizarre stuff like use the second oscillator as an LFO to control the amount of oscillator one phase modulating itself, and then do logic operations on the output. A lot of the time you just get noise because the parameters can go really deep, but if you can rein it in, it's pretty incredible.
Starker on 6/12/2019 at 07:37
Quote Posted by heywood
- Going cashless
Very true if you live in a place like Sweden or other EU countries. Things like contactless payment have made paying for things very fast and convenient. Not to mention the rise of e-commerce and all the e-government stuff that has been getting traction. Being able to buy train tickets to your mobile phone or do government business without any of the bureaucracy involved is quite handy.
demagogue on 6/12/2019 at 13:07
Quote Posted by Aja
I wondered if, ironically, it might actually be too much. Usually I'm more productive with gear that has limitations.
Oh I understand that. I think that's one reason I'm so obsessed with VCV Rack right now. It's just the bare modules you pop in one at a time that just do the one little thing they do, and you layer them up. I like the kind of handheld simplicity of the 0-Coast too, if I were going to get anything like that. Still though, I'm saving up for the Hydrasynth. An intuitive UI does more for me than the other things, and I'm more of a performer so the strip & aftertouch, and the fact you can plug anything into the front knobs so easily, are all too dreamy to pass up.
I ousted the Mini & Shapeshifter because I don't know anything about them. So I don't really have an opinion on them & you can take my ousting with a grain of salt! XD
