this is very nice
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wow yes i love this
9-11 groovy music stream, this is the best part!
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one of the things that makes writing music so hard is that i think i get fatigued by/desensitised to audio far quicker than any other medium. so there may be elements to the sound that i take for granted or even intend to downplay as my focus shifts to new changes i’m making, but then if i listen back the next day or get someone else’s opinion, it seems to hit in a completely different way. i can’t think of another creative pursuit that requires this much “cooldown” to be able to evaluate something clearly, it’s very frustrating!
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i made a mix for my friend’s beyond / below series about a month and a half ago
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console bootup sound
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yeah I’ve definitely found this to be the case and I don’t really know how to deal with it outside of just keeping my writing process such that I leave the track open to fill in the way I originally intended to the next time I come back to it
so in practice this means setting up the main synth patterns I want, usually just the bass or low pad and a lead line, and then literally just stopping after that and filling it in later
I also do a lot of mini-sessions (like, literally a minute) where I just turn on my devices, listen to the track, and then turn everything off again. it’s kind of a “sanity check” thing where I make sure what I thought I made was actually what I wrote down in the device
I’ve also set up my desk so that I can use my computer to listen to other things at the same time, which sounds wild but it actually helps to reset once you’ve done that desensitization after working on a looping pattern for too long
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here’s a preview of a little EP release i’m probably putting out this next friday (presuming i get the last piece done in time). this was commissioned for an interactive fiction/game project
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this is lovely! thank you for sharing! curious how you made this. i’m guessing this is all in-the-box DAW? ableton?
i love the timbres and melodies and the mix and the reverb
yeah i just used the same old version of Reason (Reason 4) that i almost always do. the lead synth i think is basically the same synth patch i have even used before in one or two pieces. also one of the ambient noises in there is a freesound sample of restaurant noise that i think is also used in the Dys4ia soundtrack, lol. like most stuff i do it’s made of some random samples lying around that i downloaded from random places and some stuff that came with Reason by default.
edit: oh one other funny thing is the little subtle pulsing drum thing is actually a slowed down sample of the opening of “Get Got” by Death Grips that i fucked with, not that one would ever recognize it.
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oh Reason! reason is cool. i briefly dabbled with it a few years ago, i like a lot of things about it, including that you can import reason basically in full into another DAW as a VST… i’ve been extra curious about working processes lately. i’ve used fl studio for years and years and i would really like to use something else… try and make a fresh start with DAW stuff… i know the real answer is probably to limit myself to only a few instruments and effects because i keep hitting blank canvas syndrome/choice paralysis when i open fl studio lately, instead of trying to learn a new paradigm. still… i want to learn ableton because the live stuff you can do with it is neat
eager to hear the rest of your EP when it comes out! as an aside and fyi you are a massive musical inspiration to me lol, some of your work has really affected me - scraps, in particular was kind of mind-blowing when i first heard it.
actually… i am embarrassed to admit i still haven’t listened to ep year zero with any intent - i might have streamed a track or two but haven’t given it a meaningful listen. have been saving it for a rainy day i suppose - i’m going to fix that now
oh, LP zero!
yeah go with LP Zero if you’re going to listen because it’s basically the same thing just with more tracks (the one track i excluded from EP Year Zero is also a bonus on it). those tracks were made over several years, between 2013-2016, and sort of cobbled into a release later so it’s likely you heard some of them even before EP Year Zero came out. the origin of that is some small record label guy i followed on twitter heard EP Zero in 2016 and was like “can you make an LP version of this?” and i was super excited because nothing like that has ever happened to me before then or since so i did a few more tracks and made it into that. and then he turned out to be a low-key Nazi Trump guy and also possibly a scammer among other things so the actual LP release didn’t happen and i just put it out on bandcamp later that year.
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yeah Reason is fine. it’s just what i’ve used since like 2002 or whatever (gosh i’m old) when i moved on from anvil studio/modplug and tried to learn a real DAW. i have some complaints but i’m used to it. i also did the ReWire thing for some stuff of mine, especially back in the day (i think the Dys4ia soundtrack has some of that for whatever reason… also some of my old “songs” i did that pretty much all the time). newer versions let you use actual VSTs and recording audio with it is easier but those versions aren’t the one i pirated like 10 years ago lol. i actually have Ableton on my computer but i’m so used to Reason that i’ve never switched over. so i’ve pretty much been in the same place as you with FL Studio.
streaming my weeklybeats recording here: https://www.twitch.tv/spacetownsavior
EDIT: It’s over!
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aww dang i missed it
you should turn on stream archiving in your twitch settings!
ahh sorry! I wasn’t even planning on streaming today until I realized how easy it was to get everything working so I’ll inform everyone next week and ALSO turn on stream archiving
until then this was the result:
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impromptu cover of “searching for friends” from final fantasy 6 as requested by proswell on my stream
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It’s Bandcamp Friday again and this month I worked on a couple of spooky stochastic tracks https://danagosto.bandcamp.com/album/stochastic-jams-vol-i
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