im putting a list of my 80 favorite basslines in the comments. i like to have them in a randomizer, then when im starting writing ill often start with bassline. i dont really start with basslines anymore but its still a good randomizer to have when youre bored or need a seed for an idea. i more just start with rootnote of the minorkey at the moment. todays upload the bassline is just the rootnote the whole time
anyway the upload today was alright. i wanna get back to making buildup-drops. caus theres so many layers and theyre fun to make, feel like i could learn a lot. i used to like making short loops more, but now i find making loops fairly dull. i like 1 minute arrangements at the moment. specifically buildup to drop segments are always full of different layers and patterns switching, and you can use different presets for different things.
one thing ive enjoyed lately is taking my favorite pad presets and turning them into 8bar or 16bar pitch risers in serum, then resaving them as a preset tagged with riser in serum 2's new tagging system. eventually ill have some good riser options.
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nah i like this one. pretty shit but itss always nice to get something made, this streak club website helps me to do it
i think reese bass is probably my new favorite instrument of all time
david guetta says music is a lot about tension and release. im pretty sure i agree with him. id like to work more on the tension part and how to make it longer and longer
just a lil loop, i wanted to make some brass trap. i listen to an amount of brass trap but every time i go to make it i have no idea what im doing. much more comfortable with these 3 instruments: piano, reese, hardwave lead. so i went to make brass trap and got this loop instead. nothing like brass trap but ok. serum 2 has a few reallllllly nice piano sample-based banks i like. serum 2 is fucking awesome. free download if you bought serum 1
listened to this too many times, added more details than usual. found it challenging making an intro and buildup for the drop, since the drop was just kind of piano and glockenspiel type instruments.
Drop Layers:
bass layers: reese, reverbed brass stab, slaphouse pluckbass (same midi for all 3)
melody layers: piano reverbed a bit, glockenspiel-type preset that already had reverb, some other reverby sustained lead preset (same midi for all 3 layers)
other: cymbal crash at start of each 8 bar section, some other reverbed+phased crash that does a repetitive 1/4note pattern at -32db (can barely hear it but it sort of maybe adds something), kick, no snare for some reason, string melody in second half of drop (returns from the intro), piano chords playing bassnote+octave above+fifth above
i like this one. i never have really tried to make short things in arrangement. it was a lot of fun though. a lot of eq automation, presets that already had a lot of distortion, volume automation and leveling.
Back making electronic music. Haven't made any arrangements in a while. I thought the first thing back might be cool, sometimes happens but nah this is just okay.
I like the presets and the combination of presets - I didn't make the presets though, so idk if its weird to be happy about. Another thing I liked was not all the melody notes are on gridlines, possibly caus ive been noodling on midi keyboard with a lot of mono presets lately.
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another thing i like with midi keyboard jamming lately. have 4 randomizers now: one for bpm, one for adding a static 0 to 11 semitones to every note played (so that physically playing in any scale can sound like any other scale), one for random preset.
and a new one ive been doing: one that selects one of the 12 minor scales, and then disables all midi notes that dont match the 7 notes of that minor scale. easy enough to do in ableton by using a Scale midi device, only selecting the appropriate 7 notes in it, then put the Scale device into a Group by right-clicking it. then mapping a macro knob to the Scale (you map the macro knob to the drop-down menu that says the scale name, the dropdown that says e.g. "C" - its a bit weird that you're mapping a macro knob to a drop-down menu, but it can be done). then u can send a value of 0 to 11 to this macro knob using AutoHotKey to choose from any of the 12 possible scales.
the reason for this new 4th randomizer is it means when you're jamming and you hit an out-of-key note, doesnt harsh the vibe of the jam. i also use it for left-handed-piano as well.
interestingly, the left-handed-piano scales all match to the same physical notes as some other right-handed-piano scale. A-minor-right-handed-piano is obviously the same physical notes as A-minor-left-handed-piano (all white keys), but every scale actually matches to another scale. G-minor-right-handed-piano has the exact same physical notes as B-minor-left-handed-piano. so learning to play left-handed-piano in B minor helps your muscle memory some amount for playing normal piano in G minor. whether it really helps that much is debatable as you play completely different patterns, but they are the same physical notes.
a bit of a confusing thing about left-handed-piano is the B minor scale starts on what anyone would call the 'F' key. the A minor scale starts on what anyone would call the 'G' key. bit strange to get your head around.
i dont even know if left-handed-piano is what its called. flipped piano, left-handed-piano, not sure theres a good name for it
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and then buried under that is a "duolingo-for-learning-to-memorise-drum-samples" main points of consideration, something ive been working on for a year or so now. then under that is probably more garbage and then a list of 80 basslines i like
buried under this garbage of comments is a possible way to get better sounds out of serum presets. ( a simple hack to get as many Note# or Velocity graphs as you want). Well, at least as many as you have spare LFOs in a given serum preset.
hmmm i thought id watched more shit on netflix
i liked the film Uglies
i am going to make so much money as a film critic
watched first half hour of Freelance, thought it was bad. stopped watching
i watched the first half hour of Thrash. some dumb movie about sharks swimming around in tsunami waters in some small american town. thought it was unwatchably bad about half an hour in. at least if ur gonna go for cheap horror put the sharks on a plane or the snakes on a plane or the sharks in a tornado. idk why anyone would watch Thrash
my review of William Tell is its mostly medieval violence not much story. yea wasnt that what i thought
im scrolling through some list of netflix releases. i havent seen most of these
what the fuck is "Agent Elvis"
didnt like Electric State
boring
300 is an hourlong special fx and slowmotion showreel
except 300
i like any film where Gerard Butler is in it
i liked Supacell season 1. apparently filming has just finished for season 2? or is that an AI hallucination
the second squid game season seemed really boring. i think i made it about half an episode in. and i liked the first season
can you imagine how many bricks the Taiwan Prime Minister was shitting while Alex Honnold was climbing Taipei 101. i would have rather watched forehead-cam of that than the guy climb a tower
yea id recommend Bodkin
i liked Bodkin. saw that a while ago. that was good. - Roger Ebert
i thought Untamed was good, i think. eh. yea
i dont think i can be bothered watching peaky blinders, long
i started watching Black Rabbit tv show, but then i guess i forgot it existed and... i might have watched 2 or 3 episodes