iPad music - amazingness continues

 Wow, making music on iPad is wild.  So good!!

Transit 2 just came out on sale for $10!  Got it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/transit-2-baby-audio/id6753751150

Transit 2 is not just multi-effects, its a multi-effect that is specifically focusing on transitions.  It reminds me of Turnado (iOS) but the UI is magic -- and Dark Mode!

Other recent acquisitions 

- GRFX - an audio mangler.  I was initially intrigued, but now I regret it bc its cool looking but Im not impressed by the audio output.

- Elpiano - got electronic piano synth by Klevgrand on sale.  Not sure I needed a piano synth, but it sounds cool & looks amazing.

- Hammerhead Drums - Wow, its simple and gets the job done.  Sequencer & instruments.  Classic plugin.

- Patterning 2 - $20 was $10 off sale.  Too expensive still IMP, but it is a sick drum instrument.

Got Synthmaster2 free on sale today.

Re-downloaded - Moog 15, Moog Model D, Figure, & Samplr.  Out of all, Figure is hands down my fav -- I use it, kids use it, its just so fun ... (Could've probably become much more, but its still pretty awesome as it is.)

- almost got Moomu (wild iOS modular synthesis app) after going to this amazing spot in Portland called ControlVoltage.net & messing with Eurorack craziness, but making music that way hurts my brain so I saved $hundreds there and scored Transit 2 for $10.  Woot!

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Now that I've said all this, the tool Im using most on iPad (or Android phone) to make music is Suno Pro (paid).  OMG what a gamechanger.

- yes, I don't like that Suno & other AI co's sample all music & dont pay the artists.  This is clearly criminal breach of IP laws.

- Yes, talentless hacks are making tons of shit tracks with SUNO or other AI tools.

But ... the tracks I get make me feel good.

Will link a few recents:

Business of Freedom. - https://suno.com/s/AFwdObjRP4WfMsDY

Flashback on Slavery - https://suno.com/s/JeHacUx7B98hRBGC

Backflipped - https://suno.com/s/oUxEP0CSXvpQogfz

And for a few really different tracks:

Kaiju and Mecha - https://suno.com/s/KzuBK2s7iCVcuwTh

Evolutionary - https://suno.com/s/tMLk9U4NjVFDp8Rg

Mo Mo Sound Defex - https://suno.com/s/ESdrlYu4tcchndnC

... And so many more!

New podcast from Empire Files covers USA Secret Military drug-crazed criminal behavior - Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces". Shocking!

Sstuff to think about:

Coked-Up Executioners in the Pentagon's Secret Army w/ Seth Harp. 

Episode: https://soundcloud.com/empire-files/fortbraggcartel . 

Media: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2149647489-empire-files-fortbraggcartel.mp3 . -

- Sent from Podcast Republic. 

I am always interested to hear reporting on USA secret military, and obviously it is very rare.  Gary Webb reported on CIA Contra drug connection, and now Seth Harp exposes USA secret military activities based from Ft Bragg and now spread to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other hotbed countries where 'Operators' are murdering with the tacit blessing if the USA.

Give this podcast a listen and maybe you will learn something surprising?  I did not realize the pervasive drug and criminal behavior that is apparently rampant in these elite units.

Tron: Ares - review

Story - stupid.  Explanations not offered.  29 minutes & then bye bye.  How's that work?!?!  Don't say.  Permanence, how's that work?  Dont say.

So if we ignore that glaring oversight, how about the fact Jared Leto keeps breathing / sighing in the grid?  Is there now air there?  Maybe, bc now there's also water.

If we ignore all the liberties with Tron story-line (and 'canon'), the badly filmed fights where you can't see clearly the action, and the 'we can immediately generate things from nothing on the grid or real world' without explanation of how rules of physics no longer work BS, then ...

Also a moment on Jared Leto choice -- ignoring his baggage of being accused of criminal behavior with underage girls -- the guy doesn't represent any aspect of tech or VR or AI that I could see.  The fact that his beard wasn't precisely shaved into crisp lines was annoying, yep.  His walk was awkward, strange.  I'm very curious why anyone thought he was the pick for lead here ...?

I really liked the 3D printing style creation of stuff.  It looked cool.  Would've been great if they had elaborated on the insane cost of that setup or the cost of printing humans...?

The story line is also flawed.  Good CEO grieving vs Bad CEO who's trying to be more daring than his mama.  And the climax is Leto goes to Europe and has a croissant?!?  WTH???

Lastly, if govts could insta-generate armies of sci-fi murdering robots, the Earth would flip.  It would be a nightmare.

Anyway, I love the old neon-glow and the vehicles, just wish they could make a storyline that matched the first one AND not blow the whole thing.

NINE INCH NAILS music was THE highlight.