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Pollyanna posted:this weekend’s track it's got that thing where the bassline melody starts out with a different downbeat or at least my brain settles into a rhythm and then like 10 seconds in has to recalibrate itself to what is actually going on. this is a neat trick and some famous tracks (that i forget at this point) do this too i like the sounds you have going in there, feels like it is a synth business punk song, in video terms: shots of sped up factory lines, traffic, trains, business suit men rushing around sort of feeling. you could cheat and end it suddenly with an explosion sample and it would instantly become a critique of the unsustainability of high octane capitalist systems my weekly this week is a track where i tried to record some more interesting basslines (after having learned what is 12 bar blues) and also to record stuff real time instead of just copy pasting a 8 bar loop https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkin...=social_sharing
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Pretty much got all the kit for my little brother's christmas gift together here, he loved playing with my Volca Keys before that got jacked so I'm hooking him up with the Keys, Drum, a Keystep and Midi Thru box to control it, and a nice little stand to tie it all together. Think I can nab an old rackmount Kawai mixer off my buddy to get the sound routed and have some effects loops he can hook his guitar pedals in with, but I'm a bit stumped on what to do for a speaker solution. The built in speakers on those units are pretty garbo so I'd like to get him something a bit nicer to hear it all through, but full on studio monitors might be a bit overkill. Any recommendations on like a decent portable speaker or similar for the job?
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4lokos basilisk posted:it's got that thing where the bassline melody starts out with a different downbeat or at least my brain settles into a rhythm and then like 10 seconds in has to recalibrate itself to what is actually going on. this is a neat trick and some famous tracks (that i forget at this point) do this too i think that’s syncopation? or something like it, at least. it’s very useful and effective but can be overused or wielded incorrectly like anything else. i have a habit of making melodies and harmonies with contrasting/offset rhythms like 50/50 syncopation in my head when i’m bored or walking around. when i write ill tweak phrases to start on the next downbeat or to start on the previous upbeat (as as vice versa) just to see how it sounds. if it’s good it stays advanced technique is to go in and out of syncopation. pro technique is to go in and out of syncopation with purpose quote:i like the sounds you have going in there, feels like it is a synth business punk song, in video terms: shots of sped up factory lines, traffic, trains, business suit men rushing around sort of feeling. you could cheat and end it suddenly with an explosion sample and it would instantly become a critique of the unsustainability of high octane capitalist systems interesting visualization! maybe it’s just cuz i’m listening to it right now, but on relistening it could pass as a long-lost, beepier Sonic CD track which would be very appropriate for what you imagine. i didn’t have any picture in mind when making this, all i had going in was this poorly written plan:  it is what it is  quote:my weekly this week is a track where i tried to record some more interesting basslines (after having learned what is 12 bar blues) and also to record stuff real time instead of just copy pasting a 8 bar loop https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkin...=social_sharing oooo v v chill, i like it. good use of (i think?) a flanged EP as both countermelody and pad (since it holds its notes a lot). i need to get better at that myself. was this made with an actual bass or samples/a patch?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwcK-twSXB4 gonna Moises this and try my hand at a housey remix this week
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picked up my acoustic bass guitar again after rather ignoring it for a year while i raised abby. god puppies can be such assholes. anyway i was never all that good and 95% of my practice has been via yousician which is probably teaching me bad habits but i'm having fun so whatever. at some point though i should probably see an instructor about reducing things like fret buzz also tried out my electric bass -- one of those hofner violin-style basses mccartney uses and... i just can't gel with the thing, y'know? just feels so awkward and hard to press down on the strings compared to the acoustic. maybe i just need to build up the calluses. think i want to take the acoustic to the luthier who fixed up the hofner after the holidays and give it some tlc. maybe some new strings, see what can be done to make it a bit less... twangy for lack of a better word. too much upper harmonics for my taste
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Nov 30, 2022 08:04
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consider labella tapewounds, i bet they'd sound cool will probably be a little quieter but they are the smoothest thing you can buy i have labella steel flats on my short scale PJ and it sounds like the 60s, and labella tapewounds on my fretless 6 and it sounds like an upright. very cool
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i'll take a look, thanks! i dont care too much if they're quieter, i dont jam with others at the moment
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funny coz I’ve always had the opposite experience with acoustic vs electric, as far as the acoustic generally being harder to play and electrics especially nice ones being very easy to play
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its all about string gauge and action i have a really wide variety of gauges on both my guitars and basses, its neat to experience how different they all feel
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Might need to lower the action if the electric feels harder to fret, electrics generally have a much lower action which makes them a lot easier to play in my experience.
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Jonny 290 posted:its all about string gauge and action yeah, and lovely acoustics tend to have high action to avoid fret buzz which of course was the first kind of guitar I had. it’s amazing I kept it up at all
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Keys dexterity is starting to come back. It's funny, all the drum parts I come up with are driving IBM type things, then as soon as I start messing with melodies it's all depressing ballad type lines. Eh, I'll make it work.
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record it and then triple the tempo of the track in your daw
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Pollyanna posted:i think that’s syncopation? or something like it, at least. it’s very useful and effective but can be overused or wielded incorrectly like anything else. no. i'm talking about a more large scale effect. like when you are listening to a track and your mind decides that a certain point is the "start" of the loop or the downbeat, and then the drums come in and the downbeat switches to another point entirely, making your brain readjust. well idk it may be syncopation too, but i thought that term just meant a rhythmic arrangement, not how the rhythmic arrangement *changes* Pollyanna posted:oooo v v chill, i like it. good use of (i think?) a flanged EP as both countermelody and pad (since it holds its notes a lot). i need to get better at that myself. was this made with an actual bass or samples/a patch? it's all played on a keyboard, using presets from roland xv5080, mostly
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Keys dexterity is starting to come back. It's funny, all the drum parts I come up with are driving IBM type things, then as soon as I start messing with melodies it's all depressing ballad type lines. Eh, I'll make it work. i'm sorry, is IBM a genre of music? this is very nice relaxing listening though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCiUtRnG-bg
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make use of ADSR too. a note that starts 1/16th early with slower attack sounds and feels different from one that starts on the millisecond with a hard attack that's a big key to making that flowing stuff that has a head nodding groove, rather than robot metronome vibes
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Jonny 290 posted:make use of ADSR too. a note that starts 1/16th early with slower attack sounds and feels different from one that starts on the millisecond with a hard attack this is a pro tip. Recording a live bluegrass band with a metronome, I’ll look at the waves and see that the bass and mandolin are milliseconds ahead of the metronome, but consistently so, and thus we get drive.
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4lokos basilisk posted:i'm sorry, is IBM a genre of music?
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4lokos basilisk posted:like when you are listening to a track and your mind decides that a certain point is the "start" of the loop or the downbeat, and then the drums come in and the downbeat switches to another point entirely, making your brain readjust. “post-facto metric ambiguity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWQj5IPb_4 i’ve also heard this described as “deceptive downbeat”
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see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57TuvksMR70
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ohh okay, I think i get what you mean. I don’t know the more complicated terms  c music s: sketched something out in korg gadget 2 today https://youtu.be/nVd3Ln0uK2k and am now watching a video on making ebm
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heads up todays stream is going to start in roughly 1h https://trenthawkins.bandcamp.com/live/telecharger-livestream-79 click if you maybe like krautrock and can stand a guy messing around live with 0 preparation except this dinner i am going to quickly make
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4lokos basilisk posted:click if you maybe like krautrock and can stand a guy messing around live with 0 preparation except this dinner i am going to quickly make I actually caught it this time. Hooray!!
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twitch app on apple tv doesn't deal well with audio-only streams, it just keeps a frame from the last thing you watched up, and i hence dub thee PickleVision
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Jonny 290 posted:twitch app on apple tv doesn't deal well with audio-only streams, it just keeps a frame from the last thing you watched up, and i hence dub thee PickleVision this is weird, i have video on twitch too. maybe 360p is too low definition for apple tv. glad to see random crypto bots are still a thing on twitch anyway thanks for checking out the stream. i dont chat or do anything like that because im too focused on keeping things moving and all. maybe i should do that to attract more viewers idk i up the videos on youtube by the way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PijKJ4BNxQ 4lokos basilisk fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Dec 6, 2022 |
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getting into music theory a bit but intervals not being 0-indexed is really giving me a headache
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Plank Walker posted:getting into music theory a bit but intervals not being 0-indexed is really giving me a headache lol
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Honestly, kinda same, makes more sense than unison being interval 1
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current music status:  the rabbit hole never ends and I may never even see the light at the end of the tunnel
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 Pyramid is dope as hell, lets me shunt the Electribe/TR-8 onto it's own midi output to free up a shitload of midi channels. Also makes like 3 of the midi merge/thru boxes I ordered obsolete but hey, I'll take it to not have a goddamn mountain of cables running. Think I can merge the midi out from my Beatstep into the Pyramid for drum sequencing too, will have to gently caress around with it and see what I can come up with.
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nice im the sn30 pro
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jealous of those energy drinks rn
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I’m the vape and also the devil may cry poster
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m the vape and also the devil may cry poster drat that's an impressive clock. Just showed up in my apartment one day like 8 years ago and it's been moving with me ever since. Oh wait I see the URL now lmao
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Oh poo poo, stepdad hooked me up with a modular starter setup, RIP my disposable income for the forseeable future
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I just made this. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/fighting-with-device-drivers I love it when the AI gets totally confused generating an image.
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hello, i have 30 minutes to shill today's stream, posting a cohost link because why not https://cohost.org/thawkins/post/605590-telecharger-livestre
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