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TheGoonspiracist
Jul 24, 2002

The terrible secret of space... :stonk: the Mods, they knew!
To whomever was messing around with the woodpecker beats.

Here's the cover we used it as a intro for.
https://youtu.be/iAoFSx1gMTQ

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im_sorry
Jan 15, 2006

(9999)
Ultra Carp
How do you make drum patterns in weird time signatures? I'm most used to doing them in 4/4, and when I try to do it in other time signatures, I can never get them to sound like they're properly looping.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I reckon you need a rhythm


listen to “day I tried to live” by sound garden. it’s 7/8 then 8/8 in the main riff but it doesn’t feel “out” at all. the bassline dominates and makes it flow

or the intro riff to “jimmy” by tool. it’s 3/4 + 3/4 + 4/4 (or however you want to break it down, 6/8 then 4/4) but once again isn’t obviously broken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbckIuT_YDc&t=34s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvdbCDZ5UY

echinopsis fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Sep 8, 2022

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
“you again” by shihad is such a sick heavy riff and it’s in 3/4 it owns hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhjaNaHbWk4

echinopsis fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Sep 8, 2022

Corla Plankun
May 8, 2007

improve the lives of everyone

im_sorry posted:

How do you make drum patterns in weird time signatures? I'm most used to doing them in 4/4, and when I try to do it in other time signatures, I can never get them to sound like they're properly looping.

Repetition legitimizes! But you can also google your time signature's claves to get a feel for how it is usually accented.

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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im_sorry posted:

How do you make drum patterns in weird time signatures? I'm most used to doing them in 4/4, and when I try to do it in other time signatures, I can never get them to sound like they're properly looping.

odd time signatures generally loop in 2 bar segments, with the accents shifting in the second bar to give a consistent feel

like:

1234512345

Stringent fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Sep 9, 2022

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
It's also that on some level, part of the appeal (if you will) is that they do feel "out", on purpose. well for some of it anyway

echinopsis fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Sep 9, 2022

Kernel Sanders
Sep 15, 2020
Pink Floyds Money is great for getting the feel for 7/4, it actually feels most natural to count out as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.

Ditto for Take 5 for 5/4

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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man, this was hard to find, but it gives a pretty simple demonstration of how the two bar phrase works with a score so you can follow along:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1wQ3I_g_Y&t=1048s

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


Kernel Sanders posted:

Pink Floyds Money is great for getting the feel for 7/4, it actually feels most natural to count out as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.

Ditto for Take 5 for 5/4
7/4 always has a nice feel to me, like you’re being pulled forward into the next bar. i love the feeling of forward momentum you get from it

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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this is probably the coolest use of 5/4 ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinRq_29jPk

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

jesus WEP posted:

7/4 always has a nice feel to me, like you’re being pulled forward into the next bar. i love the feeling of forward momentum you get from it

the toadies are a chronically underrated band and they did that neat thing where they'd drop the last beat every fourth measure or whatever. it is so good at keeping your ears perked and doesn't sound clumsy at all

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
dem bones > money, fight me

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


this weekend i figured that hey if musicforprogramming and ultrawizardsword come in podcast format, and are listed on apple podcasts, then why should our podunk krautrock streams be any less, and turns out it's fairly straighforward to set up, so a few hours and 100 lines of python later, here we go https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/telecharger/id1644613931

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



i spent a lot of time yesterday trying to figure out why my new (from goodwill) mixer was suddenly making everything lovely and crackly

then i realized it wasn't the mixer, it was my td3. so i spent a lot more time troubleshooting it

it turns out that when the td3 is behind the mixer (probably bc it's close to the power supply), it gets some RFI that makes it sound bad. if I put it in front of the mixer, it sounds fine. if i have it to the front of the mixer _and also to the right_, it sounds bad again. so it just lives in front of the mixer, and it's slightly harder to get to my little keyboard (but not so hard that i wont be able to continue messing with it during meetings)

Woolwich Bagnet
Apr 27, 2003



Achmed Jones posted:

i spent a lot of time yesterday trying to figure out why my new (from goodwill) mixer was suddenly making everything lovely and crackly

then i realized it wasn't the mixer, it was my td3. so i spent a lot more time troubleshooting it

it turns out that when the td3 is behind the mixer (probably bc it's close to the power supply), it gets some RFI that makes it sound bad. if I put it in front of the mixer, it sounds fine. if i have it to the front of the mixer _and also to the right_, it sounds bad again. so it just lives in front of the mixer, and it's slightly harder to get to my little keyboard (but not so hard that i wont be able to continue messing with it during meetings)

noise is such a pain to get rid of

i finally figured out a couple of weeks ago that the reason i was getting sound issues (slowing down/stuttering) with anything that wasn't reaper was because the ASIO buffer was set to 1024. setting it to 512 fixed it. it's been annoying me for almost a year now

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
thats hosed up and backwards from what i would expect, but right on glad you fixed it

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

maybe this is too far off topic, but can anyone recommend a good usb-c dac?

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



the focusrite line of interfaces is good; i use one and music sounds great. it's probably overkill to get one if you don't care about input though. but i can't think of too many times i'd want a dac that a little headphone amp wouldn't work just as well

anyway almost nothing that's USB is going to care what's on the other end of the cable, small exception for stuff that's weird wrt. usb 2 vs usb 3 but even that's pretty rare when you aren't talking boot devices (though I've seen some fuckery with ISP flashers)

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

nudgenudgetilt posted:

maybe this is too far off topic, but can anyone recommend a good usb-c dac?

the two good models I know (NwAvGuy's Objective DAC and the Atom DAC from JDS Labs) use Micro USB and USB Type B respectively, is a dongle out of the question?

fins
May 31, 2011

Floss Finder
drat you thread, spend a chunk of my tool budget on a polyend tracker

Dukes Mayo Clinic
Aug 31, 2009

nudgenudgetilt posted:

maybe this is too far off topic, but can anyone recommend a good usb-c dac?

I have a focusrite and a Volt 476, and having used both I very strongly prefer the Volt. The focusrite is completely adequate as a device but distorts digitally and badly at high gain; the Volt’s onboard compressor yields analog-sounding crunch instead through some software black magick.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

fins posted:

drat you thread, spend a chunk of my tool budget on a polyend tracker

it looks cool mate

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

they advertise the ways you can use it on the go with a powerbank connected and don't tell you it has the loudest loving keys

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


Woolwich Bagnet posted:

noise is such a pain to get rid of

i finally figured out a couple of weeks ago that the reason i was getting sound issues (slowing down/stuttering) with anything that wasn't reaper was because the ASIO buffer was set to 1024. setting it to 512 fixed it. it's been annoying me for almost a year now

wait dont tell me you built that supercomputer before you checked your buffer settings? :)

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


nudgenudgetilt posted:

maybe this is too far off topic, but can anyone recommend a good usb-c dac?

i was looking for usb-c interfaces (or thunderbolt interfaces for macbook pro) and my 15 minutes on the internet told me that it does not matter. just get a usb-b to usb-c adapter and get any good interface

the focusrite red boxes that show up in every gear video ever are probably a good bet for a starter interface (statistically only half of them are paid product placement)

it really depends on what you want to do with it too, of course

Laserjet 4P
Mar 28, 2005

What does it mean?
Fun Shoe

nudgenudgetilt posted:

maybe this is too far off topic, but can anyone recommend a good usb-c dac?

dacs are not necessarily audio interfaces but audio interfaces happen to have dacs

in general you want a dac when you want perfect playback of existing material

https://www.rme-audio.de/adi-2-dac.html

rme is not cheap but they support their products for decades

gearspace audiophile discussions about converter quality - great, but the tiny details and differences are irrelevant compared to the stability and driver support

and by the time someone starts yapping about how the soundstage is more three-dimensional while living in a concrete hovel and being over 40 i tune out because they're full of poo poo and lost all of their +15k hearing anyway

e: it's not usb c but audio does not need that kind of speed, i'm running 56 i/o on usb 2. there is however something to say for not burdening stebe's aluminum slab with more dongles

Laserjet 4P fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Sep 22, 2022

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


haha that thing is 1000 eurobucks. well thats pro audio for you.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
i've got a behr umc1820 and it's very quiet and as accurate as i need. works4me

i run it at 24/96 with like 0.8 ms buffer and no problems

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


made some music https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-3217

this is a tuned up extract of what we do in the livestream. sometimes it sounds nice like this

Woolwich Bagnet
Apr 27, 2003



4lokos basilisk posted:

made some music https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-3217

this is a tuned up extract of what we do in the livestream. sometimes it sounds nice like this

this is really good, great vibe

I've been feeling bleh today, so I loaded up reaper and threw this down in 15 min or so. feel like I make the nicest sounding stuff when it's just stream of conscience type stuff. I think I'll be coming back to this later.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/15-min-piano/s-43lmTucHOzW

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


Woolwich Bagnet posted:

this is really good, great vibe

I've been feeling bleh today, so I loaded up reaper and threw this down in 15 min or so. feel like I make the nicest sounding stuff when it's just stream of conscience type stuff. I think I'll be coming back to this later.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/15-min-piano/s-43lmTucHOzW

thanks, glad you liked the track. i wish we could pull off this kind of stuff more often in the livestreams but it happens more and more

i listened to your track too, it's a nice piano sound - reminds me of some movie or game soundtrack for some reason. might be shrek, might be lotr, might be icewind dale. do you use pianoteq?

Woolwich Bagnet
Apr 27, 2003



4lokos basilisk posted:

thanks, glad you liked the track. i wish we could pull off this kind of stuff more often in the livestreams but it happens more and more

i listened to your track too, it's a nice piano sound - reminds me of some movie or game soundtrack for some reason. might be shrek, might be lotr, might be icewind dale. do you use pianoteq?

yeah not surprised on the movie/game thing, since that's definitely a lot of my influence. it's from eastwest, their steinway D piano. I'll have to look in to the pianoteq ones.

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


pianoteq is modeling, its pretty nice and i especially love the wurlies and that type of thing. the pianos are good too although i don't use them much. the trial version works for 20 minutes with some disabled notes so that's pretty much enough for some experimentation

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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new toy:





the cone/spider/bridge are trash so i gotta replace them (which is going to cost more than the guitar did), but after that it should sound pretty good.
the body is nice and resonant and it didn't go out of tune during shipping on a cold rainy day.

im_sorry
Jan 15, 2006

(9999)
Ultra Carp
I've been not feeling the music making lately, but I somehow managed to finish this today. I actually played live keyboard for one of the instruments.

https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/the-bdelloid-rotifer-will-outlive-us-all

im_sorry fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Oct 7, 2022

Woolwich Bagnet
Apr 27, 2003



im_sorry posted:

I've been not feeling the music making lately, but I somehow managed to finish this today. I actually played live keyboard for one of the instruments.

https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/the-bdelloid-rotifer-will-outlive-us-all

this uhh, makes me feel anxious haha

i finished my piano song by adding on a bunch of stuff that makes me think of pirates or something.

https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/memories-of-the-sea

the trumpet solo is audio modeling and sounds better than like, all plugins for them i've found (https://audiomodeling.com/swam-engine/solo-brass/trumpets/)

InternetOfTwinks
Apr 2, 2011

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just bad
Decided it's about time I start rebuilding my setup. Got a Virus C and an Electribe sampler on the way, waiting on a power supply for this TR-8 and seeing if I can get this TB-03 off my buddy who's downsizing, should be a pretty versatile kit all things considered. Gotta figure out how I'm going to handle sequencing it all and get all the cables routed, but looking forward to getting back in the mix on this poo poo.

im_sorry
Jan 15, 2006

(9999)
Ultra Carp

Woolwich Bagnet posted:

i finished my piano song by adding on a bunch of stuff that makes me think of pirates or something.
https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/memories-of-the-sea
It's pretty good. It makes me think of a naval battle where they fought valiantly.

I recently went through a big move, and just finished this. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/moving-day

I did a few different things with it, and I think it turned out well. Using AI to generate "album covers" is also awesome.

im_sorry fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Oct 17, 2022

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4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


heres a calm meditative track lifted with minimal changes from our livestream https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-4145

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