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I have poor tone, even worse control, and my vibrato sounds ... bad. Time adjustments: I use Logic's \"flex time\" for this. Having your vocals land crisply on the beats you're aiming for really improves the sound of things musically. 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Sungmin Park https://www.youtube.com/@SungminPark", "context": "", "use_case": "piano sound", "switched_from": "", "story": "LiveCoding in CommonLisp [video]"}, {"id": 796846721, "item_id": 49802920, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802920", "by": "davidee", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Logic is one of the last tools keeping me tethered to MacOS.", "excerpt": "It's not just iOS. Final Cut Pro on MacOS now regularly advertises iPadOS Final Cut Pro (which is a paid SaaS tool). Professional applications (arguments about Final Cut Pro X not being all that professional notwithstanding) that advertise like that are almost non-existent in the pro audio and video industry; an Apple pro app advertising, would have been heresy a few years ago. And yeah, it drives me crazy. 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I haven\u2019t ever tried Reaper however.", "context": "", "use_case": "audio editing", "switched_from": "Audacity", "story": "Audacity 4.0"}, {"id": 780299872, "item_id": 48768742, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768742", "by": "faizshah", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "fun times I had making synths in Logic and VCV Rack for fun", "excerpt": "My favorite is 20th Century Food Court in Last Call BBS. Some of the other games remind me too much of work (I\u2019ve bought all of them including the coincidence card games but I have only beaten this one), whereas this one reminds me of fun times I had making synths in Logic and VCV Rack for fun. Highly recommend! 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