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Fishshe Boug

By Devieus on March 22, 2020 11:44 am

Remember when you said "I'll never use math in my life". You were probably right, because it's people like me that do. Today's song was brought to you by Math. Consult your local mathematician to see if Math is right for you.

I added math to the wave form generators so now they don't make noise, they make sine waves, square waves, sawtooth waves as well as noise. Something's wrong somewhere in the code and the waveform isn't always complete, but that just means the waveform is more interesting. I probably want to fix it before doing the more crazy math though.

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This track reminds me of some song from pokémon red/blue, could definitively see this track in a rather industrial 8 bit environment, maybe a sewing factory.

Those are some neat timbres for the percussion parts!

Fish! A word!

Damn dude, thats wild.  What do you use to do this?  Is there some kind of plugin that lets you enter your own functions to shape waves and play them as an instrument? 

V cool man, great work

Song generation is proceeding along nicely my friend. Definitely sounds like more variation is being introduced and its sounding more cohesively strung together.

ScanianWolf wrote:

This track reminds me of some song from pokémon red/blue, could definitively see this track in a rather industrial 8 bit environment, maybe a sewing factory.

Yea, I can see that. I guess it's the drums, they're really pulling the whole thing here.

Reilly Farrell wrote:

Those are some neat timbres for the percussion parts!

Thanks, it chose well this week.

hieme wrote:

Fish! A word!

Not quite, but it's definitely sort of in there.

Chrisfoo wrote:

Damn dude, thats wild.  What do you use to do this?  Is there some kind of plugin that lets you enter your own functions to shape waves and play them as an instrument?

Not directly, but there're 5 or so plug-ins that'll let me draw one or more (up to 9 in one of them) by hand. Since I'm procedurally generating the song, I needed a way to draw these waveforms and that's where I can input the functions (albeit in a computer science-y kind of way).

Women of the Night wrote:

V cool man, great work

Thanks man, really appreciate it.

ViridianLoom wrote:

Song generation is proceeding along nicely my friend. Definitely sounds like more variation is being introduced and its sounding more cohesively strung together.

Thanks, I think it's mostly the drums that hold it together here, but there's some good bits and pieces around.

Nice dude! Eventually it will be so good that it will become Skynet.

I always tell my kids, math is everywhere, you always need math! 

There's something Fishshe about this track smile

I feel like every time I listen to your tracks I'm at a museum, observing some piece of music history. "This is what the martians used to listen to when they first colonized the planet and didn't have VSTs or real world instruments. It is said some of them even danced when they weren't gasping for oxygen."

Like another poster said, this reminds me of first gen Pokemon music in a way. Pretty neat haha.

Mission Crossing wrote:

Nice dude! Eventually it will be so good that it will become Skynet.


Nah, I'm not using artificial intelligence, only human intelligence.

Jason Nijjer wrote:

I always tell my kids, math is everywhere, you always need math!


They don't need math, I need math. I need it more than they do, tell them to keep their hands off my math.

orangedrink wrote:

There's something Fishshe about this track smile


I bet it's the Boug.

scottux wrote:

I feel like every time I listen to your tracks I'm at a museum, observing some piece of music history. "This is what the martians used to listen to when they first colonized the planet and didn't have VSTs or real world instruments. It is said some of them even danced when they weren't gasping for oxygen."


Some were dancing because they were gasping for oxygen.

I'm deliberately not using VSTs though, the source is available to everyone and I like to keep external dependencies to a minimum. In this case it's just python 3 and LMMS to make it as accessible to as many people as possible.

Ipaghost wrote:


The "STUN" setting will also work, but only if you want to wow your audience.

roboctopus wrote:

Like another poster said, this reminds me of first gen Pokemon music in a way. Pretty neat haha.


I'm starting to think it's not just the drums.

Like the tones!  The results are in and Math good for you. Is not right for me.

nice, hammering drive in this... somehow uplifting too smile

I consulted with my mathematician, and I still don't get it.

Love the track though. The gameboy vibes feel bright in this one. smile

NWSPR wrote:

Like the tones!  The results are in and Math good for you. Is not right for me.

One math a day keeps the mathematician away. I guess that's another thing that's just not your thing next to the "its/it's" thing.

Ashen Simian wrote:

nice, hammering drive in this... somehow uplifting too smile

It helps I never go away from the major key.

hent03 wrote:

I consulted with my mathematician, and I still don't get it.

Love the track though. The gameboy vibes feel bright in this one. smile

You can always get a second opinion.

Interesting you call it gameboy vibes when I haven't gotten to using that one yet.

Great tones! I also get that first gen Pokemon vibe which is nothing but great for me smile

this all adds up to a really nice piece!

Sodabelly wrote:

Great tones! I also get that first gen Pokemon vibe which is nothing but great for me smile

Well, it was a pretty great game at the time, so that makes sense.

kaedo sevaada wrote:

this all adds up to a really nice piece!

Number don't lie, that's just science.

Devieus wrote:

I guess that's another thing that's just not your thing next to the "its/it's" thing.


Damn, you just won't let that go smile

NWSPR wrote:
Devieus wrote:

I guess that's another thing that's just not your thing next to the "its/it's" thing.


Damn, you just won't let that go smile


Callback baby! Thought you can get away with that, eh. At least you're doing it right.

math me up daddy

p5yL|<0 wrote:

math me up daddy

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