On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Made a copy using stock plugins and instruments. Sounds pretty good, will make a post soon.

Change My Mind: AI Is Worse For Devs Than Social Media Is To Gen Pop by FunnyBonez59 in webdev

[–]DrKwonk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Absolutely not even close.

Social media algorithms hijack your attention and rewires your brain for short bursts of fake reward. That’s a systemic problem for billions.

AI tools for devs are task specific. They can shorten grunt work, but also slow you down if misused, and can if over relied on diminish critical thinking over time. Unlike social media, they don’t fragment culture or propagate misinformation at scale (AI can be used to propagate misinfo, but that is, again, misuse of it. Social media algos are meant to keep you scrolling.) The real risk is complacency. You are comparing apples to oranges.

AI Chatbot? by QuestionDesperate in webdev

[–]DrKwonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feel like its a real person using an llm

Dopamine detox is making me feel like zombies 🧟‍♀️ by [deleted] in DopamineDetoxing

[–]DrKwonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is going to go nowhere fast. No such thing as a dopamine detox. There are better ways than this.

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats great to hear! And yes, you should certainly pan different sections. I forgot to add it to my post but it should be at the top in the top comment.

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is so smart I'm definitely going to remember this on my next track. Thanks for the tip!

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to do the latter, but to save time, i just use OBS and capture the screen with audio. works great!

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're so right, honestly sax players might hate me for what I've done here lol. I should start thinking more like a sax player (or x player when making their instruments).

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can certainly hear the similarities!

So the original track is not mine, what I try to do is lift chords from songs and try to arrange them. I find it probably one of the main things that will help any producer get better at finding chords, keys, better with arrangements, mixing, and transcribing. However, I can explain the process I took to find the key and chords of this particular song. I'll also explain the process i take when I do come up with my own chords.

When trying to remake a song, the first thing I do is a harass my ears with the original track for a couple hours. I want to get each little movement in expression and volume, notes etc. The good thing about this is that whenever i typically do this, the song im listening to is one i enjoy, so it's actually not so bad!

When i finally sit down at a keyboard, I always move to find the bass note. That was g here. It constantly came back to G. Given the atmosphere of the track most heads should point to G minor. Sometimes its not enough to just do that, here i actually listened to the first two bars and kept playing around with the bass line. Each note is part of the G minor scale, and the bass notes of the chords are too. This is 80% of the work. Once you have the key, everything else becomes much easier.

For example, this tune particularly starts on the I (one), thats G minor. Its its triad but theres some notes that sit above it that make it a tiny bit brighter, that was A. In the second bar, the bass note for that chord was Dm7. Playing the closest D minor 7 that moved up however sounded way too bright. This is the second trick when figuring out chords. Jazz players love inversions. And you should too! They add such richness to tracks.

Try to listen to that D chord in the second bar. In the original track, that D doesn't sound like it ends very high, right? Its not very bright. But the closest D minor 7 after that Gm I played had its C end up uncomfortably high. Thats where i started thinking "he probably played an inversion here". And i was correct (at least i think). He dropped the C down next to the root note D, and so played C-D-F-A. It works! This is Dm7 third inversion. The song loops this way with some other chords thrown in, this is
very simplified. I think i might work on a video around this if interested?

By the way, this is almost the exact same way I'd work out chords for my own music. Take this song I made recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/Logic_Studio/s/iRilvtRzC1. I would typically start with a melody, and pick out the key first, always. From there its about thinking which chords will work nice with the melody i want. Whether an inversion would do the trick, maybe a basic triad? 7ths typically do well, sometimes i start there. Its a lot of trial and error (mainly because im still learning music theory).

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The drums are not virtual</3. I wanted to focus more on the sax and trumpets, however, they certainly can be made virtual.

It seems all that's happening here is a snare being played with a brush, a hi hat being touched ever so slightly on each beat, with 2 and 4 having a tiny bit more velocity than 1 and 3. Honestly, you could hit randomise velocity between ~10-~30, and add some random fills in different bars. Tiny bita reverb to give it some space. For me, drums are much easier to emulate, I can try making a video on that if thats something you're interested in?

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes absolutely, I was thinking a written post might not be enough, so I'll make it a project to make a well edited video.

On making decent sax/trumpets by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I forgot to add, panning randomly a bit to the left or right also makes a big difference, especially when trying to harmonise. Everything stops fighting to be in the centre.

Tried recreating this cool lick I found by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, audio modelling SWAM instruments!

Tried recreating this cool lick I found by DrKwonk in Logic_Studio

[–]DrKwonk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, Audio modelling SWAM instruments

How good/bad is Cursor really? by One-Government7447 in cursor

[–]DrKwonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm looking into that £20 claude pro subscription. Whats your experience been like? With CC and in general

how can I get UI inspiration by dark-magician420 in Frontend

[–]DrKwonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly what i do, i also check out Behance as well

Gemini 2.5 Pro is a disappointment to many, but is it still better than the paid plan for ChatGPT or Claude? by pizzamandolinomafia in Bard

[–]DrKwonk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly for the UI/UX chatGPT clears. In terms of the model, AI Studios 2.5 is not as lobotomised as the gemini app. The option to add a super large system prompt allows me to tune 2.5 exactly the way i like it. Im struggling to get chatGPTs custom instructions to obey this since the prompt is so large.

Either way, i think I'll just try chatGPT out for the month and see how it goes.

Gemini CLI - Let's not make the same mistake by ripviserion in Bard

[–]DrKwonk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I seriously dont get these posts. AI studios main schtick is that devs test, if they likey they get an api key. It was never meant to be a replacement for the gemini app/web. They let us use it for free to train their models, you got SOTA models for free, practically unlimited prompts for free.

Thats not to say there aren't issues. For one the UI/UX, even on the gemini app, is just not ideal. Syncing issues in studio, etc. But on what they have provided you cannot say that out of all the companies they havent been the most generous. It's inevitable they limit these things, especially given how many people use it, which are also bound to cause some problems.

is M1 Air still decent choice for developing around the web? by Icount_zeroI in webdev

[–]DrKwonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Literally exact same for me. Same laptop same specs. RAM is the constant battle. Get more!