1 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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djippy wrote:

I am very sorry about the rule that says it have to be a "Finish" track and not a WIP as I personally did cheat quite a bit about this one rule with track are for sure finished for now but more of an idea than a completed track. Ooops. You can put me in the weekly beats jail now.

Don't worry about it: "Track is finished when it's released."

That is the final truth. Every track is WIP until that point. I'll take that so it means: It's more than just four bar loop.

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2 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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This is pretty dope AI usage: i uploaded Mutable Instruments Shruthi1 manual to ChatGPT and asked it to come up some patch ideas:
1.    “Psychedelic Dream”
    •    Oscillator 1: zsaw, parameter: 64, range: -12, subosc: sq1
    •    Oscillator 2: fm, parameter: 32, range: 0, detune: -2
    •    Mixer: op: sum, osc bal: 64, sub osc.: 32, noise: 0
    •    Filter: cutoff: 40, resonance: 60, env1->vcf: 32, lfo2->vcf: 24
    •    LFO 1: shape: ramp, rate: 60, attack: 0, mode: free
    •    LFO 2: shape: sample&hold, rate: 52, attack: 0, mode: slave

No env etc settings, but it knows the weird oscilators of Shruthi.

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3 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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Same here. You can remove a comment but not reply to a comment. A bug or a new feature?

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4 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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Cool video!
I have tried to use templates of all kinds over past two decades and now i'm back to default Ableton set with one audio and one midi track and no plugins loaded. 

"Problem" is that i usually do not know what i'm going to do when i open Ableton. I think i have never used same drum sound (or any sound) twice (during last two decades, before that i used drum machines). It's very counter-productive way of working to do everything from scratch everytime.  But i still get stuff done so i it kinda then works for me. 

These first weeks are gonna be exploring the Nord Lead 1 that i just got. I use it like analog synth: Create a sound, record it and move on without saving the patch.  Commiting early is good for getting stuff done.

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5 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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Judgement Act wrote:

The key thing, I think, is that there is no value to anybody in uploading a track that was rendererd wholesale from one of these new fangled "prompt a song" AI music generators, so I trust that people won't bother to do it (and those that do are lost to us already anyway).

I kinda doubt that. I think all music related challenges will be flooded with prompt to audio "music" in same way that all art challenges are flooded with AI images. The problem is that, non-art people making AI art think their images are art as they think they look good. Same is with audio/music: People have generated really crappy sounding 22khz out of tune tracks and they really do not hear that it's not on normal level of music. They think it sounds great.

I'm very heavily into AI and have been running Stable Diffusion locally for 18 months. I have also been running AnimatedDiff for AI video. Also have trained many datasets with Dance Diffusion so i can generate endless amount of original drums / one shots. I recently did a kinda psych rock track where guitars, bass and vocals were AI generated and now one label is going to release it.

For me the potential lays in the non-muscality of AI. If i prompt list of groceries and AI tries to generate music from it, it can be really bad or something really interesting. Problem mostly is the too lo-fi sound quality. But that can also be advantage if looking for samples for lo-fi hiphop triphop.

Same goes for AI video. It can generate some really psychedelic stuff. Most boring what people do with AI video is those fake trailers where they generate image in Midjourney and then use img2video generator to make it move. I hope that was only 2023 thing.

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6 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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My first weeklybeats was 2014 and i played on my New Years liveset two tracks from that year. My ethos have been that i do this as long as i don't miss a week. But now i'm gonna continue even if i miss one week.

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7 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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I have been on WB since 2014 and this year i made major change: Previously, if i miissed one week, i quitted. Every time. Now, if i miss week or two, i just jump back when i have time.

First week was for me a time to get back on producing after a while. I have been loving of doing more funkier stuff, but as i'm having some big live gigs coming this summer, i should really get back on doing psytrance. Half of my set is still 2020 WB tracks smile

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8 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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4 track Psytrance ep. Tracks 1. 2. and 4. are my Weekly Beats tracks from 2020.
https://beatspace-humanspectrum.bandcam … ta-variant

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9 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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Back in the day Roland released Hip-Hop expansion card for Jv-1080 that included non-licensed samples. They had to pull it off market later, but you can still use the samples and then blame Roland big_smile

Early sample cd's did the same: Loads of un-licensed breakbeat samples. These days i use mostly Splice as sample source.

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Original idea was to only use real piano, but that went south from week one big_smile

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11 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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My upload seems to be bad MP3. It has cracks and pops and glitches. I'd like to replace it proper MP3.

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12 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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Djeroek wrote:

For this week I've uploaded something completely made out of my own material, but am thinking of working on a breakbeat heavy track for next week. Would such a track be deleted because it features sampled elements? Probably have to read the guidelines again for the stance on using samples smile .

I’m pretty sure there have been plenty of tracks in WB over the years that have used Amen or other well known break. None of those sample have been cleared.

How about this: One use Roland JV-1080 soundmodule that has the original Hip Hop expansion Card installed. Can that track be uploaded to WB? Joke here is that Roland didn’t clear all samples in that expansion Card and it was pulled of the market. Yet plenty of people still use it.

It’s easy to state that all non-cleared samples are banned, but there is a grey area.

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13 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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For weekly beats: Ableton 10 with headphones.
For my other productions: Ableton + what synths and stuff the studio i work in has.

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14 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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January:
303+808+909=2020
February:
Old upright piano
March:
Psytrance

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15 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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Damn! I missed that WB started 29th and now i have only 4 days for the first track.

2020 is 20’s so we should do Jazz and Swing smile

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16 Reply by BOULDER D4SH

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My each year has gone downfall:

2014: 28 tracks in 28 weeks
2016: 15 tracks in 15 weeks
2018:  8 tracks in 15 weeks

I'm trying to to get a grip in 2020. I'm starting (finally) a piano lessons so i'll apply that to the weekly tracks. I was also thinking of doing first 5 weeks or so with Mashine that i never use.

Oh, btw, I finally released two of my 2014 WB PsyTrance tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/praktika-band-29 … ssa-143bpm
https://soundcloud.com/praktika-band-29 … ulevaisuus

Since i'm not doing any trendy hip music, those tracks written 5 years ago sound still as good (or bad) as they did in 2014. Both have been remixed thou for 2019 releases.

Three of the 2016 tracks are being released as Hip Hop beats in 2020 for local Rappers. Then i sold two 2018 WB tracks to commercials.  So can say that for me WB have been quite usefull big_smile

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