{"id":735,"date":"2005-09-05T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=735"},"modified":"2005-09-05T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T01:33:56","slug":"this-beat-is-dope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"This beat is dope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>fter playing with D-lusion&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-lusion.com\/ProductsRubberduck.html\">&#8216;Rubberduck&#8217;<\/a>, which is actually fun, I skidded towards the Propellorheads&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebirthmuseum.com\/\">&#8216;RebirthMuseum&#8217;<\/a> site to see if I could try it. Yes, I &#8216;ve read today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/05\/09\/05\/1521257.shtml?tid=185&#038;tid=141\">Slashdot discussion<\/a> about this one too. If I remember correctly, the link(s) first appeared at Metafilter (can&#8217;t find the link: pretty shitty search mechanism at MetaFilter).\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big download apparently: a 215 MB as a torrent file (so this means I need to get Azureus or other torrent client first<sup>2<\/sup>), so I decided to wait for that one for now. I&#8217;m not in  a hurry, since I&#8217;m not into <em>garage<\/em> or &#8216;drum and bass&#8217; music<sup>1<\/sup> <sup>3<\/sup>. It&#8217;ll be fun only because I know how to work with machines and trackers like these.\n<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how expensive home-recording, sampling and sequencing was back in the 80s.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> I was going to add a footnote here, but I forget.<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> I&#8217;ve never seen any use in bittorrents (besides finding Slackware one&#8217;s), so Azureus was installed and removed a many times.<br \/>\n<sup>3<\/sup> Right, I remember: I hardly listen any music. A couple of months ago, I managed to get some of my musical collection in MP3 format, but honestly, I hardly listen to them.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After playing with D-lusion&#8217;s &#8216;Rubberduck&#8217;, which is actually fun, I skidded towards the Propellorheads&#8217; &#8216;RebirthMuseum&#8217; site to see if I could try it. Yes, I &#8216;ve read today&#8217;s Slashdot discussion about this one too. If I remember correctly, the link(s) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}