I recently started dabbling in making music, and yesterday I set up a new drum pad MIDI controller (Akai MPD218) and played around with it a bit. Much more satisfying to have physical pads and knobs instead of just using the DAW with mouse and kb.

Same, no complaints here.

Beautiful! A bit like that Thiago volley in Liverpool-Porto 2021.

Bought a LP player and started hunting for second hand LP’s and CD’s again after ~15 years of only streaming. Also buying digital albums from Bandcamp & trying out Soundcloud.

Yeah, and not only paying in but actually working the labour intensive health/elderly care jobs.