The Kontrol S2 MK2 has some heft to it but it isn’t overwhelmingly heavy carrying it in a bag with your laptop shouldn’t be that bad. While the F1 utilizes the standard click buttons well for mode switching, the performance buttons are some of the best that don’t include velocity sensitivity. It seems, however, that NI are moving away from those sturdier feeling buttons for the more noticeably click-y buttons on the X1 and Maschine. The larger transport and cue point buttons resemble X1 MK2 buttons, but I was really hoping they’d feel closer to the F1 performance buttons. NI has implemented their HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) protocol as opposed to RGB, which almost every other manufacturer uses, and they really provide stunning colors the pads light up just like the F1 and X1 MK2 buttons do. Plugging it in gives the expected light show, and damn these LEDs look stunning. They aren’t performance style controls, and aren’t going to be hit on a regular basis in a rhythmic fashion, I’d just really like them to be a bit bigger. I need to focus a lot harder on hitting the target than on larger buttons, and it is easy to miss. The small round buttons in the effect and mixer section feel fine, but I feel like they are too small for my fingers. The endless encoders are all click encoders and, while I understand why manufacturers use these, I always wish the gain and filter knobs were smooth it feels so much more natural. The knobs all feel consistent, none of them are too loose or tight. There is still a pressing mechanism and, while it doesn’t require a lot of pressure, I always prefer the feel of capacitive sensors over mechanical ones. They feel a lighter than the original S2 jogs but I was disappointed they weren’t capacitive, like my old VCI-100. One of the big changes Native Instruments boasts with this line of updated controllers is the metal plates on the jog wheels. The transport and mixer buttons are the same style as the Maschine and Kontrol X1 MK2 buttons, and the effects and pitch buttons are almost identical to the buttons on the original S2. The controller feels exactly as I expected, what with being surrounded by various Native Instruments gear. Unfortunately, I had to purchase a 30-pin to Lightning connector, since it would not work with the USB to Lightning plug I already owned. The box includes a license for Traktor Pro 2 and hardware registration, a wall wart with various international adapters, a USB 2.0 cable and a USB to 30-pin iPad connector. The Kontrol S2 MK2 is exactly what you would expect from a Native Instruments controller. We are still going to put these controllers through their paces and cover more than just the additions. Should they upgrade their already solid controller to the new version or, if they don’t own it already, should they even spend their money on the new version when they can now get the original for less.Ī note about the S2 and S4 reviews - these are going to be more than update announcements. This direction, embraced by many hardware manufacturers lately, puts consumers in a very difficult position. While the S2 MK2 is just an update of their solid Kontrol S2, it does provide a few extra tweaks to the design and featureset. Their controllers, all-in-one solutions like the Kontrol S2 MK2 and modular products like the Kontrol Z1, always boast extremely tight integration and super high quality hardware. Native Instruments has an inherent advantage in their hardware design: they also design the software. In a world of me-too controllers, a world where almost every controller on the market looks identical, manufacturers need to dig deep to set themselves apart. Link: NI | Price: $499/€449/£379 (offer price) | Manual: PDF Introduction
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Īpple must have a lot of trust in their SSD stability. force reducedĭecimated my peripheral Hardware and Software anyway.Īnd no more bootable Disk Clones via CarbonCop圜loner. I’m not bringing a charger since it isn’t needed (I get home after an 8-hour day with ~65% battery remaining.)That got much worse over the years (starting with Big Sur ?)Īt one point some App Preferences went into the Container Folder.Īnd with Monterey everything preferences feels doubled and tripledīut deprecation of 32bit Apps, Drivers using KEXTs. I was on exactly 50 charge cycles and 98.9% health by the ioregistry or coconut battery (100% by the battery health system preferences control panel.) For the last week I’m working onsite for the first time in a few years. For the last 15 months the MBA has been mostly in clamshell mode and the optimized charging has kept the battery at 80%. I’ve had my M1 MacBook Air since launch day and I turned on optimized battery charging early on. It will be interesting to see if and how long it takes for the training to learn my new schedule. Today on Saturday it is still charged to 100%. The rest of the week it charged to 100% with no interaction. I disabled optimized charging for 1 day and it charged back to 99% by the time I left for work. On Tuesday morning the charge was at 96% and the battery was discharging back down to presumably 80%. On Monday night I plugged it back in and the battery panel said it would be fully charged by 8 PM. On Sunday night I told the Mac to charge to 100%. I’m not bringing a charger since it isn’t needed (I get home after an 8-hour day with ~65% battery remaining.) lol.Ĭlick to expand.I get to do an interesting experiment. Most people don't want complication when they're trying to get work done (or enjoy an evening). Like other posters here have said, I wish Apple had a built in limiter - but I do realize why it doesn't. And my battery health shows the benefits of this (over the course of my Intel MBP's life vs not using AlDente (using coconut battery to watch health)). This means I can have my battery at 68% all day running off of the mains, then use 10% of battery at night. I like AlDente because I use my laptop as a desktop for most of the day then unplug it as a laptop later in the day. When the M1 MBP is off and plugged in, nothing can prevent it from charging to 100%. Also, how Mac OS prevents 3rd party apps from interfering with charging habits when sleeping cause a lot of people to blame AlDente for Mac OS limitations in that arena as well (sleep/off). Yes, after Mac OS updates and what not sometimes I'll have to reinstall the helper - but that's cuz Apple resets everything, not necessarily the app's fault. But it is built in and if your charging habits are fairly consistent, it can work.ĪlDente does have issues but I've used it since the days it was a free GitHub project and it has worked pretty well for me. The only problem I have with the built in optimized charging is that it can take weeks for it to learn, and the slightest deviation in charging habits can result in weeks more at 100%. That's the sailing mode.īattery currently has 14 cycles, 100% health (got it last month).Ĭlick to expand.Whatever works best for you. After that, it will keep itself on the power adapter unless the Mac loses 5% charge (e.g., high workload, using it on battery away from my desk, etc). I also hit Discharge and it is currently discharging the battery from 100% to 75% while I work, plugged in. Hardware Battery Percentage is on for more accurate readings So I installed AlDente with the following settings: This is the scenario I'm in, except for grabbing it to work somewhere else or having a work call away from my desk. I don't push the CPU to the max (it's hard to!) so the 140W charger that came in the box is complete overkill, the Mac does not lose charge with my Xcode workflow.īut, as many have said, keeping it plugged in at 100% for a long time is not a good idea. This means that the Element Hub dock I use it with - providing 60W of power - always charges and keeps the Mac at 100%. My M1 Max 16" is almost always in clamshell mode connected to 2 monitors at my desk. I just found out AlDente Pro is included with my Setapp subscription, so I decided to try it. There would be no such lengthy respites in 2023. John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management 3 in our Greatest Pop Star rankings for the year (behind Bad Bunny and Harry Styles) was because she’d spent the first eight months of the calendar mostly dormant, recharging. 1 in the pop arena the only reason she slotted at No. Now all those qualifiers were moot: Swift was dominating on every platform at every level, and if anyone else was nearing her performance in one or two facets of superstardom, they certainly weren’t in all of ‘em. We actually named her the Greatest Pop Star of that year, too, saying that she’d been “making the type of moves within and outside of her music that elevate an artist from superstar to legend.”īut Midnights took her to yet another new level, with 1.57 million units moved in its first week – nearly three years into a decade where no other artist, even Adele, had even come particularly close to clearing a million – and spawning the longest-reigning Hot 100-topper of her career with the four-quadrant smash “Anti-Hero.” Previously, Taylor Swift’s Greatest Pop Star Alive claims had to be tempered with allowances that Adele sold more, that Drake streamed better, that The Weeknd and Ariana Grande had bigger pop hit singles. October’s Midnights release had served as the climax-to-that-point of a 2020s where Swift had made every right move, starting with the acclaimed alt-folk reset of Folklore and Evermore in 2020 and crescendoing with the triumphant first two Taylor’s Versions re-recordings (and the improbably Billboard Hot 100-besting 10-minute revision of Red deep cut “All Too Well”) in 2021. The main reason we were able to call such a big year coming for Swift in 2023 was because she’d already ended 2022 on a stunning new career peak, 15 years into her superstardom. Which isn’t to say that it came totally out of nowhere, of course. It was a year not to be judged against Swift’s 2023 peers, but against the entirety of modern pop history. It didn’t seem possible that anyone could have a year this dominant: not this deep into the streaming era, not this long after the oft-proclaimed death of the monoculture, not when the entire industry seems to be in crisis over how to capture and hold onto listener attention. 3 Greatest Pop Star of 2022 essay for her that she’d be “ready to snatch the crown right back in 2023” – we never could have seen coming. That’s truly no disrespect to our runners-up it’s just about Taylor Swift having the kind of year that, as recently as late last year – even as we actually predicted in our No. 1 Greatest Pop Star has never been easier. And yet, the decision of who would be our No. We here at Billboard just wrote about nine of them, with plenty more we wish we could’ve given the full treatment it was a notably great year for pop’s best and brightest. 2: SZAĪ lot of pop stars – some new, some established, some all-timers – had great years in 2023. Introduction & Honorable Mentions | Rookie of the Year: Peso Pluma | Comeback of the Year: Miley Cyrus | No. When Swift was in the building this year, nobody else mattered as much when she wasn’t in the building, her absence was still bigger news than anyone’s actual attendance. And if it wasn’t your city she was coming to that weekend, chances are you still had a good idea where she was headed, because fans, the press and just about everyone else was on Taylor Watch all year – the kind of full-time job that major media companies needed to start specifically hiring reporters for. Certainly not in North America, which she spent most of the year criss-crossing on her culture-consuming Eras Tour, being feted with gifts, welcome videos, keys to the city, street namings, city namings and Taylor Swift Days in jubilant anticipation of her arrival. Then again, there were very few places Taylor Swift wasn’t in 2023. 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It’s not a complete repudiation – there are still hints of that game’s gothic stylings and macho posturing – but here, at last, is a sequel that fans of The Sands of Time can embrace. The first is one of relief: the Two Thrones is clearly and unequivocally a huge improvement on its predecessor, The Warrior Within. Two Thrones also suffers slightly from an imposing holiday deadline and the preposterously lofty expectations fans of Sands carry with them at all times. And yet, while this third game offers so much indisputable greatness, it still grips tight to the failing philosophies of Warrior Within in just enough key areas. Music, art, acting, acrobatics…story! Each universally applauded part of Ubisoft’s first marvelous foray into the Sands of Time trilogy has been recreated here with care and cunning, save for the scarred and craggy, battle-hardened face of our champion. Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is Sands of Time reborn. Boy does it ever feel good to be wrong! I’m dazzled. Sadly, it seemed back then that a title of Sands of Time’s caliber would just not come, given the new path laid down by Warrior Within for the Prince series. A good rule of thumb is to understand when one more stroke is too many and when an excess of magic is drab. Indeed, an excess of scantily clad women, shadowy beasts and heavy riffs made Warrior Within ordinary, for when all is dark and grimy, even the dark and grimy become bright. In trying to appeal to more folks by lining the game with more stuff, much of the original magic was lost. But despite best efforts and a healthy dose of hard rocking, Warrior Within cheesily fell short of the amazingly high bar its predecessor set. Swords and shadows! Dirt and “bitches!” Warrior was to be Ubi’s sinister, consumer friendly modification of the fundamental Sands mechanics that were ever so thrilling and critically acclaimed. Once upon a time… To appease the lowbrow demands of 100 million casual gamers unwilling to spend cash for Ubisoft’s brilliant Sands of Time game, the company took Warrior Within into the more digestible realm of “action” and away from the realm of “thinking-man’s platformer.” Swords and Shadows If you are, however, simply wondering if this particular version of Two Thrones is identical to the others in terms of content and also functional, wonder no longer: The games are clones of one another and this one works just fine. Prince of Persia The Two Thrones Free Download Repacklab ĭVD and Blu-ray release for What Now? came out January 10, 2017Īs Chocolate Droppa, his alias, he signed to Motown Records and released Kevin Hart: What Now? (The Mixtape Presents Chocolate Droppa), the soundtrack to the stand-up film. The film's teaser trailer was released January 12, 2016, and was shown in front of screenings of Universal's Ride Along 2. The show was filmed live on Augin front of 53,000 people, at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, with a live dress rehearsal for a small, intimate audience filmed at the stadium the night before on August 29, 2015. On May 6, 2015, Universal Pictures announced that Kevin Hart: What Now?, a stand-up comedy film featuring a performance of Kevin Hart's What Now? Tour, would be theatrically released in the United States on October 14, 2016. David Meunier as Victor the Russian criminal mastermind.In the performance portion, which takes up most of the film, Hart performs at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, providing a humorous insight into parenting, people on the edge, and hardships in everyday life. In the film's spy sub-plot, set before the events of the performance, Kevin is secret agent for MI6 (Agent 0054) and attends a poker game event with his date Money Berry ( Halle Berry), only for it to go horribly wrong. It received generally positive reviews and grossed $23 million. 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