pebbles
Here is my music resume:
- I did near all of the bands in school: concert, marching, jazz, symphony, indoor percussion.
- I took a music theory elective in college.
- I know my scales, basic functional, and a bit of modal and axis harmony stuff.
- I play keyboard, brass instruments, and a bit of percussion (not drumkit, more like bongos and cymbals, tongue drum)
Awesome sounds good!
Ooof it can get pretty techy. Once you get it set up you likely won't have to mess with it again though.
I've done that set up many times, so if you want help I'm happy to answer questions.
I use a pipewire w/ qjackctl to connect Ardour to my speakers and midi keyboard. I do this on fedora Linux.
Definitely watch some gameplay. The super early game is quite self explanatory, but noita quickly escalates to puzzles so hard a community needs to get together to solve them.
Playing Noita with all the knowledge of the wider community has made so many cool bosses actually beatable, and made the whole game a lot more fun for me.
Its great! It will not hesitate to kill you until you learn it.
Binding of Isaac has a bit of invincibility after every hit, and that works for the game really well. You need to be able to recover and not die immediately.
Noita has no invincibility frames like that. You need to be able to die immediately. An instant death is essential for the game tone and balance.
Surge XT can do 98% of everything I need. It has a ton of waveforms, filter types, and modulation options. It's a great synth.
In the rare case that SurgeXT can't do what I want, I turn to zynaddsubfx. It is complicated, but really one of the wildest synths out there.
Last resort is this open source fork of VCV rack I found. So at the end of the day if you need to you can just build the synth you need.
Noita!: I agree with many in dubbing it my favorite single player game.
It is a pixel art alechemy and magic roguelike where every pixel is physically simulated and destroyable. Find spells and wands and combine them in programmer like ways to multiply their power. Many tricks in the game are so strong they feel like cheating, but the game has been built with challenges that surpass every trick.
It is the epitome of endlessly repayable. Especially switching between the few mods that drastically change the map.
I can easily have a god run last me 5-10 hours. But I still have a lot of fun with the more common 30min-2hr runs.
God tier game. I've never even been close to beating it.
Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):
Core software:
- Ardour as my DAW.
- Liquid SFZ as my SFZ player.
- SurgeXT as my soft synth.
For SFZ instruments:
- Virtual Playing Orchesta (free full orchestra)
- Versilion freeware instruments (mostly orchestra)
- Blonde Bop drumkit
Raw samples:
- samples.kb6.de for drum machine samples
For effects:
- LSP plugins for my basics (eq, compression, etc)
- Airwindows Plugins for fun effects (and some basics)
Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.
From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I'm quite used to those two.
For set up you'd just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.
Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.
I cannot belive you have this many
Self defense can apply to systems. Insurance for example. From what I understand United Health Care did change some policies because of Luigi.
