carved_beats

joined 2 years ago
[–] carved_beats@waveform.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yes but let me finish DS2 first <3

[–] carved_beats@waveform.social 6 points 2 years ago

Havent tried Lutris but had success on some games outside of steam with bottles and the proton environment there.

[–] carved_beats@waveform.social 1 points 2 years ago

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@waveform.social 1 points 2 years ago

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@waveform.social 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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@waveform.social 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Joplin works well for me.

[–] carved_beats@waveform.social 2 points 2 years ago

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@waveform.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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@waveform.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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@waveform.social 0 points 2 years ago

Opera one has messengers integrated in the sidebar. Really nice concept but PWA and masto lemmy etc are missing as an option.

[–] carved_beats@waveform.social 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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@waveform.social 4 points 2 years ago

Spend 10 minutes tuning the drums on a really promising DnB track.

 

Might be a good idea, what do you think?

 

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.

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Should we move to KBIN? (waveform.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by carved_beats@waveform.social to c/waveform@waveform.social
 

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.

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