carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Thats unfortunate but very understandable. Thanks for your effort!
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Yes but let me finish DS2 first <3
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Havent tried Lutris but had success on some games outside of steam with bottles and the proton environment there.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
I worked on my dnb ep. All made from scratch including live instruments band ana synths no loops or patches etc.
First two seem worthwile listening. Have to think a little about arrangements as I find the buildups a bit annoying these days. Heard a dj set recently where they just put one buildup and drop right to the one of the next song. So its a constant break and drop :D This is shit.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Pigments is pretty nice even alongside vital. Haven't used it much but the additive stuff and granular was fun. Filter and effect section is nice too.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 95%
Its not that bad but the most time you spend on installation is opting out of services. This takes up like 75% of the install time :D
carved_beats 1 year ago • 0%
Joplin works well for me.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Thats a cool path for sure.
I havent even considered working for other projects except the last few years. Made a jingle for a podcast and some advertisment tracks, some for me, some for clients in other directions.
Fun experience to bring something on point along guidelines but I rather prefer the musician as an artist kind of thing where I just put out albums. When we released our album over 10 years ago we werent aware of all the sales channel that exist today. We hoped for some label that picks us up or something. We didnt even make CDs or vinyl I thin despite many people seem to like it and the forbidden and wild live impro recordings even more :D
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Allright,
I´ve been making for 25 years now. Began with 16 and drumming on Dejmbes in tunnels broughtme initially in before I continued with Reason were I just mixed loops together and than began diving deeper into music after a friend tought me the first pieces of music theory.
After some training years I tramed up with local MCees and we had a first band called Quintesense with pretty smart story based texts and all. We had a few live perfomrances and its was huge fun.
Most of the time I spent with the next Group called Spruchpiloten and we released an Album and had a few hits like "Zurück zu Hause" ind Bombe. We had plenty of local club appearances sometimes completely improvised into electro or Drum n Bass territory comibined with rap vocals. A concept that later on Deickind started to make popular :D https://knsm.cc/kpmp3-015-spruchpiloten-starke-turbulenzen/
Maybe two hours a week is for producing if at all currently but thats fine as I prepare a massive solo comeback if all goes well.
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Primary listening genres are HipHop, Drum n Bass, Electro, Deep House as well as Jazz and classic indian music or anythin that has rhytm.
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Artists: Tribe called quest, Bad Company, Noisia, Misanthrop etc but also Khruangbin, Laufey, Lianne La Havas, Michael Kiwanuka on the softer side.
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Random stuff, sometimes, music theory for weeks than a little mixing or stranjah for DnB stuff as I never had much ressources along the way except try and error and friends here and there.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
There are some commercial soultions as well. I had to compare the results a little and then made an EQ+ preset in Bitwig that was plausible and fitted one of the measured curves as there are newer models from my headphones that are different in response. (AKG K240 Studio)
Parametric EQ worked better than convolution IR.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
I just made a EQ preset in Bitwig for thr master channel with a proper correction for my akg k240 studio. This helps immensily with mixing. Or at least it sounds more balanced now. Cant verify if this is super correct but you may want to check out this page and throw the data in a eq. Found yours listed in the app too.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Yes thats definitely a point. I think I was there at some point and deliverd a few hits locally and that was a pretty long period that had just that one goal. Not as extreme though as that wasn´t necessary at that time :D
I agree that the core motivation is how you identify with your music and if you live in it and know not much else that pushes you into the extremes. What I also noticed yesterday was definetly inspiration. Not only tutorials and books for knowledge but real live, non music drama and moments that act as a unimagined source for it. Like emotional material and soul battery power that gets the spark lit again. I forgot that a little and thought you can make great art while living in a white room with nothing else happening. You cant. Music is transformed energy from somewhere.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
I see, I think 24 years of producing should be kinda enough to find your musical purpose but it got worse over time. I used to make just short loops for my mcees and we went from there but they are are older and much busier. So now Iḿ pretty much standing there and thinking about solo takeoffs like a really good Drum n Bass album or electro ish kinda deep house groove loaded stuff with real instruments or sthg. But Iḿ really lakcing in patience, I mostly start stuff, got a solid core but struggle to get it going from there despite plenty of knowledge. I just enjoy plain loops, I dont need a story to tell, the loop it self is the story.
Also. there is so much stuff out there and I rarely find anything new that impresses me so I dont really see my own stuff as impressive either and got the feel it doesnt have anything of worth after the initial novelty effect.
Best thing is to just keep it as a day in the skatepark kind of thing. Go in there, pull some tricks, sweat a little, have fun and then let it go.
Just freeflow thoughts
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Interesting, I don´t really think people will understand what Iḿ trying to say in my music. Or lets put it that way, I couldnt even express it. All I do is start somewhere and have fun along the way. Its not me, its a self establishing organism that is shaped through my perception. Its an adventure but without any target really.
The other thing is just writing a song that works as x or y.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Spend checking on a few synth and modular things this week but decided that I already can mimick 99,8% of these sounds with existing gear.
Then I wondered myself why people even do music these days, form an overall motivational point of view.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Found it already sorry, just saw the bittom link at first. All good :)
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Can't listen to it.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Spotify :(
Best mix I´ve found in a long time. Found a few of his tracks years ago and already found them excellent.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Allright! :)
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Spend 10 minutes tuning the drums on a really promising DnB track.
Might be a good idea, what do you think?
carved_beats 1 year ago • 75%
I tried quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai but my Server lacks the Cpu instruction set for it.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
I could imagine something with flask- html - css. Ive at least seen a drag and drop component in flask. Iḿ experimenting a lot with webservices lately like my 4-tracks beat site. Not sure if Iḿ up to anyones standrads but I could probably write a working and acceptable looking UI for that.
Problem is that Iḿ currently focused on stuff I need to get down in this month. So maybe in the long run I could help with that.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
- Got synth?
- Just play something
- A preset a day keeps composition block away.
- The answer is hydrasynth.
- Music theory > new synth.
- RTFM
Dunno at least a start :D
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
That would be great.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 83%
In short, there have been key signing issues multiple times in the past that. That were the most notable problems from the user side.
Running three instances with KDE that are unproblematic.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Its a collection of models you can download. It acts as a simple gui entry point into the llm world. Great to test different stuff.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Id say start with basic synth tutorial together with the manual maybe. Sometimes they got really good tricks. Next stage, just program a few sounds by playing around and use them in some songs and then go deeper into sound design with specific classic sounds to learn from. Not sure if there any useful books out there.
Its lots of experience mostly and understanding what happens to the wave when using the parameters.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
I do all of the song structure and stuff in DAW and made most tracks that ended up on a album in it. However I prefer jammng on hardware as I already stare at that screen all day :D Also the limitation lets me focus on one or two machines. DAW is distraction hell for me.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 0%
Especially used once at around 340 are really attractive right now to get the dawless setup going. Electribe 2 is a bit annoying to sample long phrases. I stopped myself by just saying BItwig is totally fine for this with the akai apc mini.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Anyone got a sampletrek? Think this unit is a bit of underrated as a central recording and song composition device. I mean it looks a bit funny but the clips and global tracks and the slicing seems pretty good. Sure switching to an MPC one is not far off but it seems even the small monitor is something that I like.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
GTA 5 runs ont he PS3 and its still the current GTA title. I was impressed recently with the graphics of MGS4. I bought it used many years ago for 120 eur in good condition.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
I found it a really interesting concept too and it looks nice.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Sounds great to me as well.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 75%
Yunohost might be a good point to start? Havent tried it yet but it seems to be a fast and safebway to host.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Errm yeah all good. Crossposting is totally fine. I meant having multiple accounts on different servers and posting the same stuff is a bit redundant. If you post it from here it its all good. Your stuff on just works should be searchable in the communities from here already as I subscribed to you there. But it was defederated from other large instances so you might be better serving from here. True.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
I repaired Electribe SX silcione pads once for a friend at around 50EUR. Its a bit of time, maybe an hour to open it up properly with ESD and check stuff.
I´d say 60EUR is ok even if there is no outcome. Sometimes its just dry capacitors or a soldering bridge etc than it might be a bit more with ordering stuff shipping and soldering etc.
I have no idea what they charge at Korg etc, doubt there are much repairshop as cost is perceived as pretty high and thus not a sustainable business in that niche?
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Seems to work now?
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
If I may add a few cents.
Usually I'd just subscribe and then I have you in my subscriptions. It doesnt have to be local.
Of course this is the best instance to be local on with anything music prod related.
Double triple and cross posting, maybe even with different accounts seems too much to me.
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Hmm on desktop at least not working for me except maybe per gestures?
carved_beats 1 year ago • 100%
Installed lemmy and elk.zone as pwa via vivaldi. Lemmy only misses the back button.
Sounds pretty suspicious to me.
After a delightful information gathering period of mulitple weeks I decided to go for an Argon8. The primary reasons were: - Contrast to the analog gear possibilities in oscillation - Usable 8bar sequencer with realtime non step recording - Solid build quality including nice keys. - Many on top controlls It was intended as starting point for chord progressions and melody ideas. For that it works quite well. The sequence can be easily deleted and rerecorded or entered stepwise. THis works well on the minilogue xD too with the advantage that you can directly access the steps for editing within 1 bar 16 steps. Soundwise it fits in pretty well. The waveform banks are not overly exciting but there is enough modulation with the OSCmod and wavemod possible. Serves well for HipHop Melodys and man DNB leads and pads so far. Epianoesque keys are achieavable as well of course. Iḿ not sure why modal does this but they seem to like shift functions this time in the wrong place. Currently you have to switch one encoder with shift between scanning trough the wavetable and the bank selection. Not sure about you but on a wavetable synth I like these seperate to scan through stuff quickly. Having the OSC pitch on shift would have been wiser. As I usually set this once or at least it is not set in combination with another parameter frequently. Same with spread/ glide, its in the main OSC section and I can´t remember twisting spread constantly during sound design, this could have been a shift thing and been used for the wavemodes instead fe. The menu! While it has a clean structure I often find myself thinking of what I have to push and thats why my sequences are only named with a single letter :D There are supportive modes where it shows actually tweaked stuff and I tried to set it so that I have the menu encoder as the wavetable bank selector but its gone as soon as you turn something else and you have to go back to the menu page manually. Could have been a fix. Effects- I like them, al pretty useful and interesting. Extra digi distortion always handy. Mod - assignment - Fast and easy, never ran out so far. Envelopes - easy to use and direct access. Secondary settings are all nicely presented within the 16 buttons. Quite memorable. Input Output is nice too. I still have the LCD protector on, that worrys me a little and Iḿ not too sure where the journey goes with it. NIce piece of hardware but the OSC thing bothers me as I spend a lot of time there.
It seems everything is doomed these days: [https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is]() EDIT: Looks like lemmy is totally fine and we can feel like home without worrying too much.
Hope this blossoms into a beautiful and interesting community.