Hi hi! I'm still looking for a link for week 39, and unless I have a technology miracle in the next 7 minutes, I'm gonna need on for week 41 too...
1 October 16, 2016 11:54 pm
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
2 October 3, 2016 9:11 pm
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
I messed up. Rendered my track before heading out in search of wifi, didn't realize I'd highlighted like a 32nd note, so the file I had was less than a second long. Didn't have time to go home and back out before the deadline...
Oh yeah, week 39
3 September 19, 2016 12:32 am
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
Blessings upon you, kind sir
4 September 19, 2016 12:12 am
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
Holeeeee... I had a full 15 minutes to spare, luxury! Then FireFox locked up for a very reasonable reason-- I made a typo and hit the backspace a few times. Foolish me to demand so much of FireFox! Didn't I realize that hitting the backspace more than once completely and entirely reasonably pins the CPU AND the memory?
One restart later, with minutes to spare, hit the BROWSE button and got spinny circle for the duration minus ten seconds. I ALMOST made it all the same...
My kingdom for a link before I smash this junky laptop with a giant hammer
5 April 25, 2016 12:38 am
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
Phil Harmonic wrote:
CrazyBob wrote:Oh, the MP3 is 18MB? Let me recode it at a lower... AGH! TOO LATE!
(Week 16)
Thanks!
6 April 25, 2016 12:29 am
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
Oh, the MP3 is 18MB? Let me recode it at a lower... AGH! TOO LATE!
(Week 16)
7 April 5, 2016 6:48 pm
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
little-scale wrote:
CrazyBob wrote:Week #13, I missed the upload deadline by somewhere between 30 and 90 seconds... help a cracker out?
here ya go
Thanks!
8 April 5, 2016 5:39 am
Re: You are missing a song? You messed up? We messed up? (1,813 replies, posted in Site Help)
Week #13, I missed the upload deadline by somewhere between 30 and 90 seconds... help a cracker out?
9 April 4, 2016 12:06 am
Re: Happy 1/4! (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Aaaaaaaagh! Missed the deadline by THIRTY SECONDS! Curse the render for running so slow!
10 March 13, 2016 11:21 pm
Re: 3 Hours Left! (11 replies, posted in General Discussion)
[internal dialogue ~20 minutes ago] Where are the uploads? Oh, I guess GMT doesn't do Daylight Savings... HEY! I get an extra hour a week now!
11 March 7, 2016 12:51 am
Re: Brackleforth's scale booklet PDFs - free download (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I've been feeling so melodically uninspired! Hooray for new scales to shake my brain loose...
12 February 7, 2016 11:19 pm
Re: the state of music 2016 (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I'm still catching up on 2015 music... though this just came out:
13 January 18, 2016 1:00 am
Re: Brackleforth's scale booklet PDFs - free download (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Brackleforth wrote:
Thanks, I'm glad you all like it. Let me know if you use one of these scales - I'd love to hear it.
I'm currently planning to release another volume March 1.
I've used this for both my pieces so far, and named them after the scale. First week Niaventi, this week Sengiah.
Looking forward to the next volume!
14 January 16, 2016 11:25 pm
Re: Your process right now (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
My process so far:
1) Start making sounds on Operator, usually bass first, then experimenting to find other stuff. Once I've found sounds weird enough, I'll start working on what to do with them... I hope after enough experimenting I'll be able to hear something in my head and go from there, but for the time being it's fun twiddling the (virtual) knobs and seeing what happens.
2) Pick a key. I've been going through the Greek scales PDF to find weird tonalities. This week I settled on one that is entirely ambiguous as to major/minor, despite being officially major it has an augmented 2 and a flat 6...
3) Mess around with scales, arpeggios, motives, sculpt a melody and derive the chords from it. I suppose something more interesting could come from starting with a progression, and in the future I'll probably experiment with that... for the moment, just experimenting with the weird scales is enough to keep it from being too generic
4) Figure out a BPM/beat pattern that works with the sounds. If I start with a beat, it usually ends up getting tossed out because it doesn't fit...
5) Structure-- how and where does it start, how and where does it end, and how do I get from A to B and make the journey interesting?
I might just try reversing these next week, see how that works...
15 January 5, 2016 4:08 am
Re: Weeklybeats Training Manual / Zen-mechanics / Maintenance Guide (23 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Jim Wood wrote:
vinpous wrote:My advice to everyone, ever: get over preciousness and just MAKE stuff.
Yes, yes and yes again.
My mantra at all times: "It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be DONE!"
A deadline is an excuse to suck: "If only I'd had more time..."
It's a lie. If I'd had more time I'd've pissed it away just like I did every minute leading up to the last one. But it's a good excuse. It works.