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The device itself is class compliant, so that should work without a hitch. I've not tried an Apple M1, and don't know much about how to make older software work on it, but if you want to find out if the setup utility runs natively or through Rosetta, it's freely available to download at store.djtechtools.com/pages/midi-fighter-utility

For me, it's still only two years, really. I sold it not that long after making the video. Not because I don't like it, but simply because I felt I used it too little, my limited time spent making music mostly focusing on modular generative patching.

Thanks. I actually made a little tutorial about how I made this effect 3 years ago: ruclips.net/video/xq2uZArRdHo/видео.html

I've not seen anyone put lemon in tea for 40 years now. It might be traditional, but that doesn't automatically make it very commonplace.

@@hakonsoreide milk is the American way. Lemon and Sugar is the traditional British way. As long as tea is being enjoyed it don’t really matter.

@@chriswright4677 I live in Britain, and have yet to see a single squeeze of lemon in anyone's tea. Statistically, I would say it seems milk is also the British way. That's right: the main thing is finding whatever way makes you enjoy it the most.

@@hakonsoreide agreed; Let’s enjoy tea. Long days and pleasant nights to you.

Many people like my style, unscripted, unilaterally conversational and occasionally digressive though it is, but it certainly doesn't suit everyone, just like I am sure there are videos you love I would quickly stop watching, too. But thanks for letting me know. Unlike 99% of negative comments, yours is actually concrete, specific and therefore useful. Perhaps a possible improvement I should always consider is to bookmark my videos to indicate when I actually start getting to the point so it's easier to skip to that bit? 🤔 I have actually done that in a few of my videos that are of several parts, when the reason people started watching in the first place is highly unlikely to be the first bit.

hmm...interesting theory. Balthus sems like someone too power hungry to take notice anyway.

@@hakonsoreide I would suspect the gark fathered the green kids, but we need the input of straight women as to whether he's definitely more attractive than the feeble goblins and orcs in the courtyard.

Probably not to her face ...

@@hakonsoreide That would earn a nuclear blast from her eyes 👀

The ganjees do feel a bit like the true boss monsters of the book.

Thanks for the comment. Nice to hear you enjoyed it

Yes, it would make sense for it to have a higher skill, even to the point where you'd need a successful luck throw rather than a skill check or combat roll to defeat it - or even a combination: first a difficult combat roll, followed by a luck roll.

Yes, combat stats when seen relatively, can be rather ridiculous, but that's just how it is when you have a game system that is so horribly unbalanced, unrealistic, and yet where it should be reasonably possible to win.

@@hakonsoreide They still could have done better with the guard fight in Midnight Rogue. They ought to have limited the player character to only dishing out one stamina damage and allowed the guards to deal 3 stamina points a blow, since the player would be less able to defend himself.

That makes sense.

I don't know what the Norwegian translators did with the gender references. I only ever played The Warlock of Firetop Mountain in its Norwegian version, and only two more books were published in Norwegian: Citadel of Chaos and Forest of Doom. I don't think they'd have considered it errors since it's not ever made explicit that the references to the adventurer are supposed to be gender neutral.

I suppose herrings sometimes also come in other colours.

I haven't read all of it yet, but people wouldn't normally associate "infernal" with cold.

Indeed. Any encumbrance rules based on number of items as opposed to size, bulk or weight are basically too simplistic and contrived to be of any value in a game such as this. What does work is putting the player in situations where items is limited in other ways, such as only being able to afford one or two items from a shop, for instance.

@@hakonsoreide Caverns had never been edited or play tested. It was clearly just submitted as a first draft.

@@hakonsoreide They should have specified 100 gold piece limit and added that IF the player character has the spear and warhammer, they must leave just those two weapons behind to take the gold. Incidentally, were you aware that gold pieces in Fighting Fantasy are supposed to weigh 80 or 90 grams? That makes the gold in that world worth only about as much as steel was worth in Medieval England and Germany.

Thanks for your comment. The idea for the video effect and an excuse to use it was actually one of my motivations for making the video.

Thanks. Nice to hear you liked it. I am quite partial to a bit of vocoder sound myself. I've done some audio alterations and additions in a few of my FF videos now. I think my favourite might still be the wight in Masks of Mayhem, though, where I re-recorded the dialogue from different positions to match the description in the book of the voice coming from all around you: ruclips.net/video/trge7JPBimE/видео.htmlsi=luFOd3qfzDdesWIC&t=2922

It is indeed a very wordy introduction, so I can see why you might want to skip it. It does include a few hints for the playthrough, though. I am from Norway, which might not be entirely obvious from my accent which is a little hard to place for most people as it lacks many of the typical and easy to spot hallmarks of a Norwegian accent. I presume you're from Denmark?

@@hakonsoreide Yes. I got curious about your homeland. I figured we were almost neighbors.😄 So I have been to Oslo a few times, now we're so close to each other.

I do love the unique art style in this one. The nose ring didn't really register with me. I wouldn't have thought it would have felt that edgy 40 years ago either in a country with many people of Indian origin. 🤷‍♂️

@@hakonsoreide People in the UK will find any trivial thing to be judgemental about, even today. With taking the Snow Witch's treasure, how do you interpret the "leave one item per fifty gold pieces" instruction? It's so vague, it poses the following list of questions: Does it refer to separate items, or all of a category of item? There are four dragon eggs, but the player will only use one. There are three iron balls, but the player will only need one against the Snow Witch. Does the player lose the ball they fired at the frost giant? Did they lose the rune stick they drove through the Snow Witch's heart? Did they use up all their ground minotaur horn on the white rat/dragon and then discard the container, or use some and keep the rest? (It does not specify). Does each individual portion or provisions count as a separate item? What about items that are not in the backpack, such as the redundant rings and cloak and the spear and the warhammer (if the player has them)?

Yes, some editorial streamlining missing right there, and a little bit of sloppy handiwork, but not disastrous to the point of being gamebreaking as certain errors can be in some of the other books. Ian Livingstone might have been a prolific gamebook writer, and certainly an influential pioneer of the genre, but he's not the greatest, and in my view also completely overshadowed by his fellow FF originator Steve Jackson who tried evolving the structure and concept and had the decency of adding hints and clues. Ian Livingstone thought he had the formula sussed out very early on and tried applying the same one a few times too many. If I had been part of their D&D group back in those days, I'd have been looking forward to whenever it was Steve Jackson's turn to DM and dreaded whenever it was Ian Livingstone running the show.

@@hakonsoreide Livingstone's very obviously innumerate, so that would be a handicap in being a DM. Have you played Blood of the Zombies? It's utterly unplayable! Livingstone's ability to design started to go pearshaped in City of Thieves, when he suddenly forgot all about distinguishing between attack strength bonuses and replacing lost skill points.

Thanks for your commnt. I don't know why you enjoy it so much either, but it's nice to hear that you do.

Yeah, there's a bit of false advertising in this and some of the other books that still basiclly just copied and pasted the rules section from the earlier books where that was actually true. Even with 12 skill and knowing the optimum path, this can be a tricky one.

You're welcome, and thanks for your comment to let me know you enjoyed it.

Thanks.

Hello. Thanks for your comment. It's been so long since I made this one I had to look at it myself to see what exactly was going on, and because it is so basic (I was quite a newbie myself when I made it), it doesn't actually disconnect the CV output from the second sequencer from the oscillator when it's not running, meaning that whatever value is on the last step of the second sequencer will still be added to the oscillator, and I presume that is the effect you have seen when patching this up. If I were to make this now, I'd probably have made it so that when triggered, it would wait until the next cycle of the main sequencer to start, only then connecting its value output to the oscillator on a single run through, and then disconnect when it was done. All a little more complicated, but perhaps I should revisit this and make a tutorial explaining that in detail one of these days.

@@hakonsoreide That's it ! Thanks for the explanation !

I do appreciate all the videos and tutorials though. I think I just need to watch it several times because you’re doing things a lot of the times and kind of just moving right past it. I’m not complaining. It’s just someone like me that’s brand new. Every step needs to be announced. 😁🤦‍♂️

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I would have struggled to follow this as a noob too, though I try to keep the explanations at a very basic level, just not the absolute basics. The thing about the Zoia is the patching workflow is rather different to anything else, so it takes a little time to wrap your head around it and patch your own brain - so to speak - to think in a more Zoian way, but persistence pays off, and once you get into the thought process, it's amazing the kind of stuff you can do with it.

Thanks. NIce to hear you found it useful.

The Sylphyo is indeed a good MIDI controller. Embertone's Jubal Flute, though it actually doesn't allow for as much expression as other virtual instruments, such as the ones by Samplemodelling, is really well sampled with a lot of the expression already present.

@@hakonsoreide I got the Sylphyo specifically for the SWAM instruments. Now I am learning a whole bunch of new playing gestures which SWAM can utilize.

The SWAM instruments almost feel like they were made specifically for the Sylphyo, but as with any expressive controller, that also means you need to practice a little more to get the most out of them. The SWAM instruments also play great on controllers like the Linnstrument, but I think a wind controller for wind instruments is optimum since it's easier to get the natural cadence of breath and phrase that you might get playing the actual instruments modelled and sampled, as well as using your own variation in breath pressure for things like vibrato.

@@hakonsoreide Agreed! Working hard on developing new chops on the Sylphyo.

This is one of the two books I didn't finish because I got to the point where I stopped enjoying trying to, so, if I remember correctly, this was the last episode of playing it.

Thanks for the correction. Since I use the modes so seldom, I have been known to conflate them.

Thanks. They are indeed amazing sounding synths. I did sell mine to focus on working in a more purely modular and open-architecture environment with the Dreadbox Dysphonia as my main synth voice since I still absolutely love that ineffable Dreadbox sound. I now have two Dysphonias, and no matter what other sound sources I use, they always barge their way to the front with their characterful filters, in particular.

Thanks, Mike. Glad you enjoyed it. Despite what I say in this video, there is of course no one correct way to drink Earl Grey tea, and I have been known to enjoy some variations on my recipe from time to time, too.