I feel so seen. :D
Also, username checks out!
KammicRelief
joined 2 years ago
Welcome! It was hard to leave reddit, sorta.... there are some good communities here, but we just don't have the numbers that reddit does. I'm mostly ok with it. :)
Also, I didn't find out I was autistic until after I made the lemmy switch, so I don't know what the reddit asd communities are like.
I laughed too hard at this. Thanks!
holy crap, nice.
That's really nice!
Much appreciated! Yeah.... going through some stuff that I'd rather not type about at the moment. But it's nice to feel the community. <3
Totally know what you mean! As long as it's not too cold, getting all wet and accepting it, feels great.
I have a shower at my work, and hang up my sweaty/wet bike clothes, but....yeah, if they're soaked, they're still gonna be wet at the end of the workday. And that's no fun, for the first few minutes at least. :D
Qwerty though? Remap that thing over to Colemak or something!
Cactus Juice (from the Flintstones).
I do physical synths / drum machine as well, in fact I basically use a daw as a mixer with effects :) The latency is good, and I don't have the newest machine or anything. On Linux it's super easy to combine interfaces too, like I have my tr-8 (drums) as a multitrack USB interface, and an 8i6 for my synths, and it combines them way easier than I could do in windows! Take with a grain of salt as I'm an amateur, but for my purposes it's been great so far.
I ended up switching to Linux recently for same reasons, but my kids are older and i had time to nerd out and go full Archwiki. Ableton was one of the last holdouts that was keeping me from switching.... and I spent a good month dicking around with wine trying to get it to work. And I couldn't! I ended up selling my Ableton license and buying Bitwig, which is natively supported in Linux, and actually pretty amazing... (I don't expect you to switch, just telling my story. It has really fun modular synth-like interface, with all the other VST support and quite good out-of-the-box plugins etc.)
I also couldn't get Affinity Photo working in wine.... and gimp doesn't quite do it for me. So I'm not sure what to do there, so my photo editing hobby is on hold til I figure that out.
That said, some of my other windows stuff works magically in wine (sierrachart, games, etc.).
So with all that in mind, I'd say if you don't have time to figure it out, and still want ableton to work, it might not be worth the mental load until you have more time on your hands. Unless you have an old laptop lying around, it wouldn't hurt to just try it and see what you can get working.
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Oof I'm sorry.... That sounds no fun at all. I definitely have misophonia about some things, mostly other people's mouth noises. If someone near me is chewing gum, I have to exit the situation before I go nuts. Last night I was watching a movie with my kid, and one of the actors was chewing gum, and I almost couldn't take that! Luckily for me, out of sight is mostly out of mind..... Once I feel that I'm in control of my sensory input (yay ANC headphones), I can relax. That part sounds a little harder for you.