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KoRMaK posted:not gonna proselytize to those that dont care, so dont take this as such, but i had a similar experience a couple weeks ago - playing in a scale, getting familiar with it intutively, pushing it into muscle memory, then discovering certain notes i werent supposed to play (because they arent in that scale) felt really really good to play if i played them at the right moment. It's always interesting to see how other musicians see this sort of thing — I would just see it as either as "a diminished fifth sounds dark and sometimes bluesy, and that sound works here", or as "borrowing from the closely-related B Locrian mode" if I was feeling fancy.
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VikingofRock posted:It's always interesting to see how other musicians see this sort of thing — I would just see it as either as "a diminished fifth sounds dark and sometimes bluesy, and that sound works here", or as "borrowing from the closely-related B Locrian mode" if I was feeling fancy.
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me? I just play the right note at the right time
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echinopsis posted:me? I just play the right note at the right time
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KoRMaK posted:100% agree, im so curious why did you frame it as b locrian? like, what criteria went into deciding that? The locrian mode is just the phrygian mode with a diminished fifth. So, when you lower the fifth of a phrygian scale, you can view that as dipping into locrian for a moment
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bending notes and transporting from one mode universe to another
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echinopsis posted:me? I just play the right note at the right time
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VikingofRock posted:The locrian mode is just the phrygian mode with a diminished fifth. So, when you lower the fifth of a phrygian scale, you can view that as dipping into locrian for a moment
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echinopsis posted:bending notes and transporting from one mode universe to another
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locrian mode is just all the leftover notes at the end of the party
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Silver Alicorn posted:locrian mode is just all the leftover notes at the end of the party That's definitely the Altered Scale (aka locrian flat 4) (aka the most cursed melodic minor mode)
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because I have no sense of self control I got myself one of these https://www.epiphone.com/en-US/Electric-Guitar/EPIFE1144/Yellow-Tiger-Aged-Gloss poo poo I love it. I've wanted an explorer for a very long time. it does stick out a bit, but this sounds good and is fun to play, it's metal enough while still being dad appropriate selling a bunch of synth gear to pay for it now I already have it lol
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did you seriously spend nine hundred freedomdollars on an epiphone i mean, thats awesome, i'm glad you like it
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in addition I had to pay kiwi-tax coz everything over here costs more anyway. and I am way too impatient to like scour second hand or whatever it's pretty nice though. never had active pickups before, and they sound good. the pots are very nice which is a first for me, and they are push pull with one activating a single coil tap and the other some kind of PAF sounding thing which I am sure you know mch more about than me and the sustain is extremely good, it's one huge chunk of wood down there, unlike my jackson with the floyd rose straight up clear finish over the wood would have been perfect but I am not rich enough to have just everything I want. now I need some kind of amp rather than guitar rig 6 or whatever the only other "nice" guitar I had was a PRS tremonti (I was into church and creed at the time ok) SE and that was actually quite nice and good, but idk, this has a big chunk more character Jonny 290 posted:did you seriously spend nine hundred freedomdollars on an epiphone despite my impatience I did a fair bit of scouring the net for reviews and I just found so much positive response, it just made me want it more. I don't love the headstock shape but oh well echinopsis fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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My cockatoo bit my finger, so I couldn't play guitar today. Then after recording drums and a track of Minibrute 2, I noticed that my cat had moved the tuning knobs on the Minibrute 2 earlier, so the tuning was all messed up and I couldn't use other instruments. I recorded a track anyways. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/01-09-2024a
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I learned what a parallel key is
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reading more about music theory and I think I’m figuring this stuff out. it’s all just notes
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 and when it comes to timbres, it’s all just frequencies and harmonics!
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We've got frequencies that will blow your mind.
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the Mods, they knew!
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Thought I would post my spare time music project here, in case people are interested. Last year, I composed theme music for all of the characters in a Pathfinder campaign that I'm GMing. I revealed the songs to the players during our Christmas session this year, and then uploaded the songs to bandcamp. This was a super fun project, and I learned a ton about composing and orchestration along the way — I had never attempted either before, or even really messed around with a DAW besides a bit of GarageBand back in the day.
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my cat got 2-days-hospitalized sick while i was planning my mostly new-to-me music room over the last few months, which means my initial plan (lots of hardware and DaWlEsS) got sidetracked for budget reasons. this means I now have an unplanned computer in that room for rhythm/sampling, sequencing and recording/looping. at least i got a nice interface to appease the gas goblins... no experience with any modern daw, any reason not to go with ableton live for that kind of in-the-moment jam stuff? i only have two synths and stereo mic'ed guitars for the moment
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ableton rules i often use it for just recording into, E Z P Z
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so I've come into ownership of one of these: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1140280-REG/novation_launchkey_25_mk2_usb_midi.html?fromDisList=y my music making experience so far is using reaper and an interface to record and loop guitar to play over, any quickstart guide for what i can or should do with this thing? i've got zero idea what any of the knobs or switches do or how to set it up lol
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I'm having that dumb thought I get once in a while about trying to make a track or EP using just one sample pack or sound source
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Plank Walker posted:so I've come into ownership of one of these: nice, I have the 5 octave version it’s designed to be used with ableton, and the pads are actually for launching clips and etc. (can be used as midi signals too I think) but I just use it as a keyboard
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Plank Walker posted:so I've come into ownership of one of these: i have two launch key-like products, i use fl studio but you can use whatever. the pads can be used for drum machines, or step sequencer, there's lots to explore with them the fl key made by novation is very similar, and if you watch vids for the fl key it may give you ideas of what your launch key could be used for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_xoS-lHzIk or maybe a more direct route would be to watch vids about the launch key you have to get an overview
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i got one o the lil novations. its nice to doot out riffs also the arpeggiator is kinda cool
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I needed five octaves to play the intro to jump because that oberheim roar is the goat
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the pads on those launckeys double as a keyboard, so you can dual wield on one device, and the pads can be at a different octave than the keys, both have octave selectors i havent done it yet but if i connect the bigger launckey at the same time i can quad wield
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wait until you see what the catholic church did with this power
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on a launchkey mini, you can only change the pad octave if you mess with the software. the keyboard has a normal button like you'd expect. idk about other launchkeys. i got my keystage. it's fun. i am having a heck of a time getting aftertouch to actually do stuff in ableton, though. it's cool as hell in wavestate, though Achmed Jones fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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I got a nektar impact and the aftertouch worked right out of the box with zenology
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yeah it's not a keystage problem, it's a software problem
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I just wanted to brag about my new inexpensive midi controller
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the hydrasynth has polyphonic aftertouch and I think the technology to do so is getting cheaper to implement into new keybaords so we’ll see more going forward so with the polyphonic aftertouch you can make it so the parameter it affects is just per that voice/note things that were fun to do with it : change the rate of an lfo, such as on the filter or a vibrato. it’s an interesting effect because usually all the notes you’re playing are at the same rate but slowing one down or up on its own makes it stand out amongst the rest. idk if it’s good tho or pushing the pitch up slightly for that note. a bit like a string bend. I’d often combine this with extra drive so that note stands out more. or open up the filter a bit more for that note those are some worthwhile things. shame I am not a worthwhile player
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Pollyanna posted:always hold off on releasing something until you’re reasonably ready to call it done. once something is out there, you won’t have the same drive to continue iterating on it and will be ready to move on. ^ somehow the first post i saw since not checking the thread in months was directly related to my personal experience from today. it is now my personal belief that songs are never really done. ever. heres why. there was this one song i posted a couple years ago when i thought i knew everything there was to know. today i went back in on said song. the mix was garbage, but it was too goofy to not finish. i approached it with the knowledge i have now, after two-ish years of experience between the old version and now, and holy poo poo. i mean the difference between these two versions of the same song is just nuts: When I Thought I Knew poo poo (Before): https://soundcloud.com/5plat/february-17th-feat-superfly-joe-cartoon When I Knew I Didn't Know poo poo and Took Action to Know poo poo Instead (After): https://soundcloud.com/5plat/triple-pillow Silver Alicorn posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJbFMpiVPRM killhamster posted:i have this stupid idiot project since like 2020 where i've been remixing nu-metal songs and it's been fun but i'm running out of steam. anyway here's probably the last one for the foreseeable future im_sorry posted:Yay it's done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSS9lsi10Jc echinopsis posted:one of the better things I've done Pollyanna posted:
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I didn't think about it until I saw them but the MIDI ports on the Live! Drive are actually these little 5-pin mini DIN sockets. apparently the same as the Atari STBook! not impossible to find but annoying
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