Skip Navigation
Snitch-o-matic rule
  • I hear people are doing such dishonest things as flooding the ICE Tip Form with false leads.

    The fools. Hope they've got a VPN, or whatever it is they need to stay anonymous and untraceable.

  • Snitch-o-matic rule
    perchance.org Snitch-o-matic ― Perchance Generator

    A purely theoretical example of how easy it is to automatically spam up government snitch lines.

    Snitch-o-matic ― Perchance Generator
    2
    Whats it like dIstributing a very long song? (15+ min)
  • Based on my experience, there shouldn't be any difference between distributing a long song vs. a short one. You may not have come across them in the wild because algorithms, like radio, tend to favor 3-4 min songs.

  • Never meant to go this long
  • Still amazes me to this day that they were able to render such a faraway horse in 128-bit...

    I think there was a ROM hack that solved this floating-point error. If I can find it, will post link.

  • Noob question: where can I download FLACs/music?

    I've been building up my digital music library again after giving music streaming the boot. I was going to attempt to digitize my CD and vinyl collection, but I frankly don't have the time for all that. So I thought I might turn to file-sharing and download digital versions of my physical collection. I prefer FLAC or WAV if the former isn't available. Can you recommend good places to get started?

    31
    AI Music Cannot Replace the Joy of Making Music

    Mikey Shulman, CEO of AI music generation startup Suno, actually thinks people don’t enjoy making music anymore. “It’s not really enjoyable to make music now,” according to him.

    14
    Live updates: Netanyahu says an Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal is still not reached
    apnews.com Israel's Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza

    Israel's cabinet meeting comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said there were last minute snags in finalizing the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

    Israel's Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza

    Multiple officials say Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages after more than 15 months of war.

    5
    CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments
  • This is how I understand what you're saying: Over here we have the "musicians," a title reserved for only those who play an instrument. On the other hand we have the "producers," who make music on a computer, without an "instrument."

    But I say both make human music. And a computer can be an instrument. Drawing notes in MIDI is not much different than composing in Musescore. The producer is not unlike the classical composer, and I say both are musicians. And in a discussion on AI music vs. human music, why should we make a false dichotomy within human music anyway? "All models are wrong, but some are useful," said George E. P. Box, statistician.

    I think people have taken you as arguing in bad faith. I, and I assume many others, would agree with you that Suno AI is bad. I think AI is ethically uncouth. But your original comment seems to be making a false equivalency between AI music and sampling. I think I understand what you mean better, but I still disagree with your premise and think it's a weak argument for fighting AI.

  • Connecting Acoustic Instruments and Modular Synthesizers: VCV Rack Tutorial

    I've been pondering ways to run my guitar through VCV Rack or Cardinal, and of course Sarah Belle Reid had this inspiring demonstration.

    1
    CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments
  • Maybe you're right, and as for people like yourself, who already know the emperor has no clothes, you don't need to have to look at his nakedness. Others need to see him make a fool of himself. As for me, I like galvanizing people around these issues.

  • CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments
  • Dude, you're the one drawing the lines at who gets to call themselves a musician and who is just a "different kind" of artist. As an "akshul" musician, by your definition, I think you're mistaken and parroting some reactionary takes.

  • DAW options?
  • A few years ago, I switched from Logic to Reaper and haven't looked back. Reaper may not be particularly pretty, but it is incredibly powerful. If Reaper's look is a drag for you though, try out some different themes, like the Reapertips theme. Reaper is also cross-platform, so you aren't beholden to macOS or Windows, and it runs on Linux.

    Every now and then I feel a bit of envy for the modular sound design I see people do in Ableton or Bitwig, but there's very little that I haven't been able to replicate in Reaper, and when I need to, I use Cardinal for more intense modular sound design.

  • futurism.com CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments

    Mikey Shulman, the CEO of AI music generator company Suno AI, argued that most people don't enjoy the "majority of time" making music.

    CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments
    13
    CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments
  • Boomer take. I'm a musician of two decades, got my degree in music. Sampling is as much an art and practice as playing a "traditional" instrument—I do both.

    Are there lazy samplists? Sure, just as there are lazy guitarists. But watch this and tell me this isn't musicianship. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=sKMDP-vDsTU

  • Each Engineer Has a Touch with a Mic

    Another cross-post from my blog.

    There is much ado about fancy mics among musicians and engineers, just as there is much ado about fancy guitars among guitarists. And don’t get me wrong, these instruments can certainly sound inspiring. However, any guitarist worth trusting will tell you that so long as the instrument isn’t unplayable, you can make great music with it (and some have written and even recorded with beater guitars).

    It’s not so much about the mic as it is the engineer. Having been through a handful of mics so far, I have not been rid of my “touch” with a microphone. It always sounds like me, whether I like it or not. I’m choosing to let myself like it.

    I once heard Tina Weymouth share at a Q&A, “If you have ears, you can make anything sound good, if you’re enjoying it.”

    0
    Random MIDI Mutes and Semi-Generative Drums

    Cross-posting this from my blog. You can hear an audio demo of the technique there.

    I've been thinking a lot about the importance of silence in music, and I dreamed up this technique, using a sequencer to more-or-less randomly mute a signal. The idea was to program a beat but then have the sequence be periodically interrupted by silence. I was partly inspired by this tai hirose track.

    Now you could just as well make cuts by hand, in post, with the mouse. But where's the fun in that? As the title suggests, I wanted something more generative.

    In Reaper, we can use Gerraint Luff's MIDI Gate plugin to trigger mutes or gates. Insert it on a track, feed it some MIDI, and depending on the mode, it will mute the channel whenever it receives MIDI information (or whenever it doesn't, if it's in gate mode).

    To set this up, I followed Reaper Blog's MIDI Gate tutorial. In short, I programmed a kick drum part, then sent the audio only (not MIDI, which is important) to a receive track, and muted the former track's master output. On the receive track, I inserted a sequencer plugin and the MIDI Gate, one after the other. I made a simple MIDI sequence to trigger the gate. Since my original kick drum pattern was in 4/4, and since I wanted a semi-random sound, my gate trigger sequence was a 3/4 loop, which resulted in polymetric mutes. (Next time I experiment with this, I plan to use a truly random sequencer from Cardinal or something.)

    The result is a groovy kick drum part that doesn't finish its sentence sometimes. I did the same on the tops percussion part, experimenting with MIDI Gate in mute mode or gate mode to see which I liked better. For added polish, because I noticed that sometimes MIDI Gate would let just the tiny blip of the first transient through, I inserted a plain old gate plugin next in the chain to cut out any tiny blips below a certain volume threshold. I then added a hi hat loop and played some nylon guitar over it so the track would feel a little more tethered to 4/4.

    The neat thing about this semi-generative approach is the element of chance. Sometimes the kick plays where I programmed it to, sometimes not. The trouble with making music in the DAW is having too much control. But the joy is when you can find ways to forfeit that control in ways that are unique to the DAW workflow. Electronic musician Jlin says in an interview, "Not having control and not knowing what I'm going to create is the beauty of how the track is made. Not only the beauty of it, but the, also is the necessity of how, and why it gets made, because I don't have control."

    0
    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)BE
    BerenstainsMonster @kbin.earth
    Posts 30
    Comments 40