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It's McMansion... it's faux British , not faux Scottish. (Yeesh!)
It may be an allusion to McDonald's...
Obviously.
Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
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Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#22I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
The modern musical instrument is a diaphragm controlled by a stream of real valued position samples. There's absolutely no need for anything complex to play it, you can write simple C programs to generate all kinds of bizarre and beautiful effects.
In principle, you're mostly right. And its true, there are folks who do make music entirely on their laptops, successfully, and a lot of it.
There's a visceral, physical aspect to music-making, however, that begs for tactile feedback. Some people really need that out of their instruments. That's why, in the case of electronic music, the big old modulars are making a comeback.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#23My McMansion detector just went wild.
Most elements have a practical purpose, and the overall design serves the interior space needs. I know it's fun to call every modern big house a McMansion, but sometimes it's just a big house, and you have to pick some style for it.
DeadMau5 lives close to me, and I hope it doesn't broach any sort of rules but you can find the sales details by searching up
twiss road campbellville invidiata
Normally it would be uncool to provide an address like this, but Deadmau5 is very, very open about where he lives.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#24I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl. There must be a pithy term in German for what…
IIRC, he said (in his MasterClass series) the synth lead on Cat Thruster is an analog synth patch.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#25I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
That's entirely true, and I don't think he's doing all this "to make better music". But as a true audio geek, that's something that's extremely fun and cool to do if you can afford it. It's like people building insane gaming stations with lots of lights and crazy decoration. It won't make them better gamers, but it's a great hobby.
As mentioned in the video, you can emulate all of these in the computer anyway, but if you've got the money, why not create something cool like this?
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#26My McMansion detector just went wild.
Most elements have a practical purpose, and the overall design serves the interior space needs. I know it's fun to call every modern big house a McMansion, but sometimes it's just a big house, and you have to pick some style for it. DeadMau5 lives close to me, and I hope it doesn't broach any sort of rules but you can find the sales details by searching up twiss road campbellville invidiata Normally it would be uncoo…
In support of your comment, here's a tweet where he posted a satellite view of his house. He also mentioned that it's a "studio complex for actual musicians", which explains why the studio might be filled with more equipment than he actually needs for himself:
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#27I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
The modern musical instrument is a diaphragm controlled by a stream of real valued position samples. There's absolutely no need for anything complex to play it, you can write simple C programs to generate all kinds of bizarre and beautiful effects.
True, in theory
Now create a C program that reproduces a person singing, with all the variables that a real singer can act upon
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#28Cool setup. I'd really wonder what Aphex Twin would do with an analog wall like that.
Would be awesome if they ever worked together on something.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#29I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl. There must be a pithy term in German for what…
> an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl.
That's conspicuous consumption as well, just of a different flavor.
Tracking down a working vintage sampler and a pile of rare groove records is a large investment in both money and time.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#30I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl. There must be a pithy term in German for what…
He livestreams himself using the modular all the time...