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4lokos basilisk posted:please dont take this the wrong way: i admire your devotion to building the ultimate beast setup for whatever you want to do, but its one of those things i would never personally do or suggest anyone to do I am envious of this beast setup but personally I would probably spend the money on other bits (like an Axe FX, new monitors... OK fine, more RAM too). I love the idea of having 30 different articulations on strings but I don't have the patience and or skill to make the most of such things. Venus Theory, one of my fave music youtubers (who recently did a very candid video about the effect youtubing has had on his music and mental health which is a hard but worthwhile watch for anyone with anything even approaching artistic temperament) , did this with a viola and its super cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssp_A-T5hZI (buy cheap viola with no idea how to play it, make a sample library from it anyway) NonzeroCircle fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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i have something heretical to say: all music is bad on some level even well known and well liked david bowie stuff has some janky and dumb parts there’s always a little poo poo in the meat
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Jun 1, 2022 21:39
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there is no perfection, so do not attempt to chase it and do not feel like you are unique for making crap. like I haven’t heard any music these days that absolutely destroyed me like I got destroyed back when I was a teen, and I suspect that growing up and getting a better perspective is the reason for it that or my depression meds aren’t working but I’d rather not consider that Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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Jun 1, 2022 21:40
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Im definitely hypercritical of myself but slowly getting more accepting of "is this fun to play or listen to? Yes? Then it's OK." Generally the few people who I send my scribbles to have positive feedback and, although I don't necessarily believe them, it's important to remember what a niche of a niche of a niche being someone who writes and records and mixes all parts of a tune is. Most of my friends are musicians but very few of them have even the first idea about recording or programming drums or whatever. It's easy to get blindsided by hearing "aNyOnE cAn MaKe a ReCorD NoW"; it's true, sure, and it's all definitely more accessible than it was 30 years ago but it's still far from being watching TV or playing videogames. And this sentence is often also followed with "just means there is more poo poo to wade through"
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Jun 1, 2022 22:02
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if toby fox had released the undertale ost as a single independent album without any game to accompany it almost no one would have bought it and it wouldn’t have become as widely beloved as it is today supply and demand my dudes
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Jun 1, 2022 22:16
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Pollyanna posted:i have something heretical to say: I know what you mean, and it’s important to grok this in order to be ok at with your own music like there are some songs etc that I think are near perfect, but i’m not such a blind fan that I can’t see that I wouldn’t play that note or whatever the other trick here is to listen to it when high as heck because drugs can kinda smooth over any bad bits lol all of that said, “easy” by faith no more is perfect. I can’t think of a single aspect or note in that song that is wrong
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Jun 1, 2022 23:05
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4lokos basilisk posted:please dont take this the wrong way: i admire your devotion to building the ultimate beast setup for whatever you want to do, but its one of those things i would never personally do or suggest anyone to do NonzeroCircle posted:I am envious of this beast setup but personally I would probably spend the money on other bits (like an Axe FX, new monitors... OK fine, more RAM too). putting stuff together of pretty much any kind is fun for me, and playing with sounds to get them to how it sounds in my head. it's a fun hobby that i get a lot of enjoyment out of, and the amount that i spend on it is a drop in the bucket compared to even dumber stuff like cars
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Jun 1, 2022 23:20
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for about 25 years now i have been into Computer Music, and it has this baked-in unsolvable flaw, which is that you need a few CPU cycles to make the sound and wiggle the waveform. It's been a fascinating ride from then to now seeing how low you can shave the latency down, but you can never really eliminate it. When I started out i was using a p133 and cubase 3 and i could squeeze 4 mono tracks in to realtime only if i took it easy on the EQs and dropped their bitrate to 32khz. Now i have this 2 pound laptop that I can load fifty tracks of 96khz audio into with full parametric EQs and probably a separate reverb for each one and it doesn't even heat up, but - there's still that one millisecond of lag. it's just neat to think about.
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4lokos basilisk posted:please dont take this the wrong way: i admire your devotion to building the ultimate beast setup for whatever you want to do, but its one of those things i would never personally do or suggest anyone to do this is a very unusual post and I am a bit of an expert of hosed up posts but this reads as a pure negative post. i don’t get why you’d post this
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:putting stuff together of pretty much any kind is fun for me, and playing with sounds to get them to how it sounds in my head. it's a fun hobby that i get a lot of enjoyment out of, and the amount that i spend on it is a drop in the bucket compared to even dumber stuff like cars I hope I didn't come across as mean, I absolutely get how your setup appeals to you and its clear how much enjoyment you get from it- I enjoy the posts and also am not totally convinced you might not secretly be hans zimmer. It's a different approach to mine, but that's what makes music interesting and fun! Mixing orchestral bits with guitars etc but not like yngwie is something I enjoy doing and tbh it'd make my life so much easier if I could stack ampsims the way you do string libraries 
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Jun 2, 2022 01:44
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I wanna make cool orchestral stuff like koshiro and uematsu do  I also wanna bleep bloop and I also wanna terrify
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i dont even know what the gently caress is the difference between a viola and a violin is, i love both woolwich's attention to detail and echi's lack of attention to detail just write tunes
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Jun 2, 2022 01:54
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the viola is one of my favorite instruments and doesn’t deserve the poo poo it gets 
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Viola is cool and good except for reminding me that alto clef exists.
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yeah that’s about when scp jumped the shark
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NonzeroCircle posted:I hope I didn't come across as mean, I absolutely get how your setup appeals to you and its clear how much enjoyment you get from it- I enjoy the posts and also am not totally convinced you might not secretly be hans zimmer. oh you didn't at all, no worries. i like music of all kinds and i enjoy listening to the stuff posted here even if i don't comment on it directly. making music is cool and good and hopefully a fun process for people doing it. also i love all the guitar stuff because i suck at actually playing them and there's so many amazing sounds you can get from them viola is a cool instrument and i like using it, but i really need to get a good solo instrument plugin for it some day
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Jun 2, 2022 02:48
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music good imo vague sadness of all forms and origins bad imo
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Jonny 290 posted:echi's lack of attention to detail I apply this technique across my whole life with a huge loving trowel
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pshhhhhh detail is for lfos and sample and hold
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I could add form and fill to my drum track ORRRRRRR I could say gently caress it and play the same four bars the whole time
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echinopsis posted:this is a very unusual post and I am a bit of an expert of hosed up posts but this reads as a pure negative post. i don’t get why you’d post this its possible to have 1000% respect for someone’s drive and work ethic even though you might not be into the end result at all like the beatles aint my favorite thing but i will absolutely take my hat off for the sheer human effort they put into it
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yeah that’s fine of course, just like.. why post it
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echinopsis posted:yeah that’s fine of course, just like.. why post it idk i wanted to make it really clear that im ribbing bagnets wild virtual orchestra setup in good faith
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i just read it as 'lol you're crazy' which is fine, because it is  i tend to go all in on whatever I'm doing/working on so it's not horrible advice either
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did someone here own a line 6 helix? trying to find out if you can disable the amp and cab blocks on presets and just use it and a big fancy DSP pedalboard. I’d like to be able to run without amp and cab sim into my mesa for effects stuff and then run my mesa out into my cabclone for IR and DI, but I’d also like to maybe use the amp block on some other presets for simulating some amps I don’t have
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I don't personally have one but every amp modeler/sim out there has the ability to switch any of the modules in or out. I'd put $20 on you being able to use it as a raw pedalboard. e: but jesus christ dont do that dude lol theyre a thousand dollers plus. if you JUST want stomp boxes you'd do well to find something like my m13, which i got for $200 and ive seen them as low as 100. no amps no IRs just pure fuzz boxes and phasers. Sounds good too. --- xpost from bass thread: im so mad so i bought this sx bass forever ago and it just never sounded right like it was so quiet no gain, couldnt push my amp thought my amp was busted, ended up buying a preamp pedal and then i rewired the bass and put new pickups in. no change then i realized. its gotta be the strings idk what the gently caress they used for stock strings on this but they just didnt have any output. like theres no ferrous metal in them just put some slinkys on and it about blew my ears off so now my sweet rear end 5 with rail pickups and a homebrewed varitone and series/parallel pull pot and phase pull pot with chickenhead knob is a real boy 
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lol what? that’s the last thing you’d assume was the problem lol hard to believe non ferrous strings even exist, and surely you’d have to go out of your way to buy some
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yeah. i swapped one string to compare and test my theory and it sounded like a Real Instrument. Much happier now. easily 6db more output, maybe 10. like i dont think they werent ferrous at all but they could have been some pot metal crap that the Korean factory put on
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hey we're outta the correct strings, what do we do? ehh, just paint some nylon ones silver, they'll never know the difference
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the hosed up part is that i have tapewounds on my fretless 6er, and it has WAY more output than the other bass does! and those strings are literally a nylon wrap on a steel core! (it sounds as close to an upright as you can get on a guitar-shaped bass)
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gently caress DAMMIT this track is going nowhere
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I am an rear end in a top hat who can’t produce music for poo poo
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what the gently caress is a key change???? how do I brain??? what is musical ideas sounds tasty? let’s do the same thing over and over again oh golly gee I love it
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never key change that is cursed boomer poo poo
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when I used to play in church band (congregation of about 1000 people), we would often choose the epic song with all the emotion to do a key change in and drat it hits hard if you’re looking for that emotion thing the OG easy by the commodores has a key change and i’ll never really know if faith no more abandoning the key change was a good idea or not. FNMs version is perfect so maybe it was good to leave it out Jonny 290 posted:never key change that is cursed boomer poo poo
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echinopsis posted:
i mean its whatever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ba5dUGtPw
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every bar without a time signature change gets a key change 
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this is 909 cowbell slaps and the best of breaks
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I want to not work i just wanna plink plonk my stupid rear end in a daw all day
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take some time off pollyanna and spend it making boops for yourself and no one else when you took the job it probably had 3 weeks of vacation but now it has 4. that extra week is the pollyanna make music week* *ofc it's fine if you decide you'd rather do something else as long as it's for you and not somebody else but for real take some time off
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