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y’all tell me what you think of this short piano idea https://on.soundcloud.com/fwokbyr4AxDNJUgZ9
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# ? Mar 25, 2023 01:38 |
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killhamster posted:been loving around with and tweaking this and think it's just about done, or very close to it i am likin the beat against the drone and also the syncopated arp in the background what was your approach to arranging this? it sounds like the usual “write 4 bars of every voice against each together and mute/unmute over time” trick but boy am i bad at that part lol
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gdi you have fills!!! everyone uses fills but me!!! i need to remember to use fills!!!
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anyway it’s good op i like it 👍 i can imagine loving up a bunch of combines and head crabs to this
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arrhghhhghhh i need to internalize every single bit of this https://youtu.be/iiL3K3ewfuc especially the part about not guessing and instead acting with intent “what do you truly want to do with this music, what are your goals with this song” oh my god i never HAVE goals i don’t HAVE anything to accomplish, that’s why i’m like this ![]()
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Pollyanna posted:y’all tell me what you think of this short piano idea
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insert prehensile penis joke here ![]()
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but yeah when i don’t feel like thinking about instruments i just stick to piano. pretend there’s another person on another piano
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Pollyanna posted:what was your approach to arranging this? it sounds like the usual “write 4 bars of every voice against each together and mute/unmute over time” trick but boy am i bad at that part lol yeah kinda, i chose a pretty simple chord progression to base everything on, then built various arps and patterns, muting some while i created others, etc. same with the drum patterns what i usually do after i think everything is ready to arrange, i bounce the patterns from their player devices to their corresponding midi tracks, then set all that aside and created droney things and noises for the intro, then started to build up the track by just moving blocks back and forth until they made sense in a progression, working towards building up energy to the end of the track. once everything was laid out i added fx and fills and transitions last also i listened to nothing but psytrance for like a week so i had a good idea of how i wanted to structure everything Pollyanna posted:y’all tell me what you think of this short piano idea i dig it, sounds like it could be the intro and riffs for a power or gothic metal song
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also an absolute shitload of trance gates
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Pollyanna posted:y’all tell me what you think of this short piano idea i like it, one thing i would recommend is turning down the velocity of the piano so that it doesn't sound so harsh, and using more reverb/pedal to smooth it out a bit here's a random thing i've been working on for the last week https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/some-more-wip-stuff/s-jDxyoQ8OKu4?si=e82cb2f4990f476db75f9cc31f06a30f
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Got the 7 string set back up, man this thing is a ton of fun with some pedals and such to run it through.
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tyty!!! i wasn’t sure how to expand on it so I kinda left it at that. i already think the low hand needs work, something about it just seems flat and awkward to me. but it is certainly pretty overall and I think it’s an example of my potential (such that it is)!! right ![]() killhamster posted:also i listened to nothing but psytrance for like a week so i had a good idea of how i wanted to structure everything yeah that might be the kicker, knowing what structure you want. all my stuff is near structureless which is not a good thing quote:i dig it, sounds like it could be the intro and riffs for a power or gothic metal song I’d need a lot more reverb and pad patches if I tried to made this full-on dungeon synth ![]() Woolwich Bagnet posted:i like it, one thing i would recommend is turning down the velocity of the piano so that it doesn't sound so harsh, and using more reverb/pedal to smooth it out a bit lol yeah i would need to rerecord the velocities to make it usable, as-is it’s just the same 2 bars of velocity over and over and the current velocity sucks peñor. but if I wanted gorgeous dynamic piano I’d have it recorded live so v ![]() quote:here's a random thing i've been working on for the last week I like the part around 1:04 the most, it gets a nice little edge to balance out all the happy maybe it’s because I’m a sour little poo poo but I just wanna kramer in and go full phrygian or dorian on this and make it darker yet darker ![]() I should really get back to trying orchestral composition. sometime maybe
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put new strings on bass for my 13yo and got a very cheap headphone amp thing for now it'll do but it's kinda poo poo. but the new strings are nice, and I got him to do a GCDC progression while i played chords on synth and that was pretty cool
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starting a livestream in approx 20 minutes for anyone interested https://cohost.org/thawkins/post/866718-telecharger-livestre
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echinopsis posted:put new strings on bass for my 13yo and got a very cheap headphone amp thing I'm not exactly an aficionado of bass tone, but I've been decently pleased with the result of hooking up this 5 string to this Joyo Mesa Boogie clone pedal: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085PVGT6C Gotta dial in the EQ just right but it works alright for my practice needs. Got it running into my mixer so I can just adjust the gain/volume there for monitoring.
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killhamster posted:been loving around with and tweaking this and think it's just about done, or very close to it Woolwich Bagnet posted:i like it, one thing i would recommend is turning down the velocity of the piano so that it doesn't sound so harsh, and using more reverb/pedal to smooth it out a bit Pollyanna posted:y’all tell me what you think of this short piano idea getting caught up on this thread is like the soundtrack to a yospos themed jrpg and i am 100% here for it heres my remix of papa roach https://soundcloud.com/splatahouse/papa-roach-last-resort-splatahouse-vip e: and the original https://soundcloud.com/splatahouse/papa-roach-last-resort-splatahouse-remix Lotron fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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I got an EMagic AMT8 on eBay and it turns out Apple still provides a current driver and Logic still supports it so now I have an 8-in, 8-out MIDI interface that I can use with literally any Mac from the original Mac 128 to the latest M2-based Mac
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i would kill for a VST of this pedal. it's easily my favorite chorus out of all the ones i've ever used and i can't and won't articulate why![]()
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:i like it, one thing i would recommend is turning down the velocity of the piano so that it doesn't sound so harsh, and using more reverb/pedal to smooth it out a bit this sounds good. maybe it sounds *too* good on account of all your high quality string sounds. but i think i would not find this out of place in a computer game soundtrack do you sequence everything nicely quantized on the grid, or do you also try some more humanized crescendos-diminuendos which happen in "real" classifal music?
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Pollyanna posted:arrhghhhghhh i need to internalize every single you don't have to have goals or something to accomplish with music or any creative art, it's completely enough if you are enjoying yourself while you are doing it! david lynch said this as well the guy has a point with repetitions, but on the other hand there is the concept of ostinato, which is a musical thing where you repeat something and it psychologically becomes something different (i don't know how to explain this well)
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4lokos basilisk posted:this sounds good. maybe it sounds *too* good on account of all your high quality string sounds. but i think i would not find this out of place in a computer game soundtrack the strings i use for solo violin/cello are very good and natural sounding depending on the play style selected. i use virharmonics pretty much exclusively now for those solo instruments, although their price reflects their quality. they simulate bow stroke and i use key switches when needed to switch between up and down stroke. a lot of work for them goes in to setting an appropriate velocity for the note, the length of note (some are quantized, but a lot are not to get a more natural ending to a phrase) and when to use vibrato/ non vibrato. at lower velocities they tend to have a natural crescendo / diminuendo based on the progression of the bow across the strings. they also have different selectable play styles which are more/less aggressive or have more/less vibrato. they're releasing a viola this year which i'm looking forward to, and hopefully a bass after that.
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4lokos basilisk posted:you don't have to have goals or something to accomplish with music or any creative art, it's completely enough if you are enjoying yourself while you are doing it! david lynch said this as well i agree with this. i don't usually have a goal when i start something except maybe 'this would sound neat/i want this kind of tone for this.' other times i just start noodling around on a keyboard or throwing down semi-random notes, listening to them, then refining them to make them sound better to me, then doing that again. yeah repetitions aren't bad. in a lot of music there's a constant repeat throughout it, but the perception of it changes based on whatever else is going on. i've certainly listened to stuff and thought dang that was a cool key change in the repetition only to go back and listen again and realize it never actually changed.
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I've been trying to work more with my hardware, but it seems like whenever I actually feel like working with it, that's when Lola is feeling super affectionate, and walks all over everything while I'm trying to work on it!! If I shut the door, she sits right outside the door and protests loudly. Anyways, I just did this. When I was recording the input from the sq-64, I accidentally had the drum track receive all midi, but it ended up sounding kinda cool, so I kept it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_-KrHwFHs February Album Writing Month is coming up... is anyone else planning on joining in? I've done it for the past three years, but I'm not sure if I have it in me this year.
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I'd settle for a whole rear end song, still getting the hang of this composition thing. Get too distracted noodling around half the time I sit down to work on music haha.
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After getting a little time to sit down with the 1010music Blackbox and gently caress around with it: holy poo poo this is suuuuuch a better interface for setting up samples. Think tomorrow I'm going to sit down and figure out how to set up the Electribe to run samples from the Blackbox out to it, run them through the Electribe's FX and resample what I get. Should be able to get some pretty gnarly drum sounds that way. EDIT: Wait it has automatic multisample recording of instruments through generating it's own midi/cv? Hooooly poo poo this thing is dope InternetOfTwinks fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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we're going to do another weekly stream in a couple of hours https://cohost.org/thawkins/post/900688-telecharger-livestre click if you think you might like krautrock re: album writing month. i have been doing the weeklybeats and other weekly music creation things and i decided to take a gap year this year to just make myself finish some things that i have wanted to finish for a long time. maybe not in february, but i have been working on some stuff every week and it seems it is progressing, if slowly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvZA3OHLcrY
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I like it. It kinda makes me want to fire up the hardware and start jamming myself. I was messing around with the SQ64, and this came out. For some reason, I decided to try adding some bass and guitar to it. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/bios-update-failure
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very rough sketch, just got an hour or so into it dnb remix of XG's Shooting Star: https://vocaroo.com/1fjUXS66THgv its a rapper-based group so they're really on the beat the original if you'd like a frame of reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7spCJxloLY
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https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/ yeah
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i blanked out for 4 hours and then this was on my computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6FaDJRodo
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im_sorry posted:I like it. It kinda makes me want to fire up the hardware and start jamming myself. i v much like, v cool, i dont have any advice for getting better but I Enjoy!! lmao
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yeah it is very not there yet. but it's cool for inspiration nonetheless
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despite echi's blatant attempt to take over my gimmick, i am still going to do a livestream tonight - tuesday night - where i do some synth jams https://cohost.org/thawkins/post/939154-telecharger-livestre
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I've been meaning to do this forever, but I finally actually recorded a song with hardware and without using my DAW (beyond taking the file from the DP-006 and adding reverb and tape effects). https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_...=social_sharing
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im_sorry posted:I've been meaning to do this forever, but I finally actually recorded a song with hardware and without using my DAW (beyond taking the file from the DP-006 and adding reverb and tape effects). sounds like the theme for a mad scientist or something i've been playing too much cyberpunk so i wanted to do something with synths again https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/the-streets
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dig the synth that it starts and ends with, and the chill beat, good imo i melted a deftones song https://soundcloud.com/killhamster/deftones-minerva-rbms-all-numb-remix
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killhamster posted:dig the synth that it starts and ends with, and the chill beat, good imo i liked this a lot more than i thought i was going to before clicking on it. that's really cool!
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# ? Mar 25, 2023 01:38 |
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yeah I had a really stupid idea to do a series of things with nu metal songs and really twist them and change them up and it’s somehow kind of worked so far. the trick seems to be taking so far a departure from the source material that you’re not constrained by the original genre
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