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^ That's seriously cool.
My process today, until I ditched the Max For Live Feedback Network plugin/effect/instrument: edit, edit, crash, try restarting, crash, try restarting, crash, try restarting...oh, that worked! Edit, edit, crash, try restarting, crash, try restarting, crash, try restarting...oh, that worked! (Repeat.)
Hi!
My roommate, Diamond Machine, introduced me to this awesome project. This thing has been a blast and has really helped my work progress. I was wondering if there was a way to change the time clock to reflect my EST zone. I had a submission for week 3 done at 10:00 PM EST but the site said it was already on to week 4.
Thanks!
- Bifflecup
On your Profile page, click Settings, and set your time zone to UTC - 5 (Eastern). That'll give you an accurate countdown. Be sure to select the Daylight Savings Time option, too.
Tracking phase: "I'll don't have enough material for a decent track. Better record some more parts."
(Arrangement phase, recording triggering clips in Session View.)
Editing phase: "How am I going to fit all these parts in?"
Based on some suggestions from a producer meetup I went to this past week, I'm going to use convolution reverb instead of Live's built-in, and use some M4L Humanizer in front of Impulse...and possibly some LFO. Might do some side chaining to avoid sending too much hat to the reverb...but I'm undecided there. (I'm definitely pulling down the hat levels.). Time to add another couple of electric piano lines, maybe.
Started with a beat in mind, added Max for Live's Humanizer in front of it and might interfere with it more. Added an uninteresting Analog line and a potentially atmospheric Electric (piano) line, and just tracked some bass loops (drop D). I kind of want to take a left turn on something this week.
I'm hearing that we may get anywhere from three to seventeen inches of snow this weekend, so I hope the power stays on.
Guitar, electric bass, various other stringed instruments (uke, mandolin, lap steel, weird one-off cigar-box things). Lotta virtual synth action in the last several years, though.
"Music y'all ain't done heared."
I'd vote for that. Or "Music yinz ain't crammed down your earholes yet."
In general, I do a bunch of little loops that seem to work together, starting (often) with beats, and then on Saturday, I'll do an event recording, triggering those loops in session view, to end up with an arrangement, which I then edit down on Sunday. (That's where I'm at now.)
In the last day or so I was listening to all those 5/4 patterns and thinking "you know, I'm really counting this in 4/4," so I've converted them to 4/4 at 80% tempo. Sounds exactly the same, but it's also kind of interesting when I bring in some still-in-5/4 percussion.
I would've gone with "ain't yet".
"H'ain't" works here, too.
To be true to my region, though, I should vote for "ain't yet heard, 'n'at."
I thought it might be interesting for people to post their thoughts or interesting things they run into while they're working on something.
Today, I heard a little beat in my head, and just got it down in Ableton Live (Impulse instrument, because I can just get started on patterns without a lot of sound design work). Apparently I'm hearing a lot of 5/4 right now-it doesn't sound like 5/4 to me...but that's how it's plotting out in the timeline.
What do you have going on?
It's shocking news to us. That he knew for a year and a half, kept working, and orchestrated his final statement this way...it's admirable. Inspirational. Respect, sir.
Anyway, I could not agree more with you about how pointless those endless discussions are (you know, "that vaporwave post-bass EDM ukelele influenced seapunk goth polka scene is not what it used to be" attitude)
That scene is so 30 seconds ago!
My main motivation tends to be "what do I want to hear right now?" The answer might be "I want to hear something with this rhythm" or "I want to hear something with this sound" or "I want to set up a Pd/Max patch that does ________." A lot of the time, that ends up manifesting as ambient, or trip-hop, or funk, but there's a lot of other stuff informing that, too--it might be something I hear in my head (sound art, IDM, post-rock, dub, jazz, etc.), but going through my mind, it comes out different.
Awesome--thanks for setting that up!
I've played a bit with Tidal this past year--while the current implementation is more on sample playing (and manipulation) than synthesis, it's still interesting.
