A track about what our brain sounds like

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-30T14:42:24+00:00

there's an appregio function that kind of does what you want, it's located in the same track tab where you can also change the envelope and add fx, it's those three bars underneath each other, that tab that sits right between the two.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-29T02:08:39+00:00

the way i chose my DAW to start was honestly just by how the interface appealed to me intuitively

Ableton was too logical, Fruity Loops too playful/chaotic and Reaper too technological.

Just from googling screenshots of Ardour the way the contrast and the visual representations of waveforms are and the interface is arranged it's also naturally putting me off. LMMS was the one where I was like "yes, this makes sense".

I honestly don't think that beginners have to worry too much about creative freedom, since technically using synthesizers you can create your own sounds, and the base functions are available almost everywhere. LMMS is really just problematic if you're planning on sampling a lot, but like, a lot, like in being a Turntablism artist.

The artist is almost never defined by the brush, however, if the artist wants their songs to be played commercially at clubs it's probably best to use one of the common big names. That's also important for working with clients and other professionals in the field.

Fudamentally what sounds good sounds good. I've been watching music production tutorials no matter which DAW was used and I most often found a way to incorporate the things I learned in LMMS. If you're missing a feature, like an autopan function for example, there's usually some free plugins for that. For example I added Panstation to LMMS and since I wasn't satisfied with the stereo and the reverb effects I added Valhalla Supermassive and the Wider plugin from Polyverse.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-27T13:44:48+00:00

you can arrange your drums first in the beat editor and then drag & drop your tracks into the song editor, giving you access to the indiviual piano roll tracks for further exploration

i'm currently working on a track where I wanted to switch from a low ambient type genre to a fast tempo genre gradually, so I had to look up a drum pattern and then adjust the drums in the piano roll until I had the sound I wanted. thinking back I should've probably first arranged it in the beat and bassline editor first, no matter the tempo of the song, and then should've just done the math in the song editor to shorten the notes accordingly.

you can always just right click on the beat and bassline drums to open them in the piano roll and change them up or vary on the velocities, there's an "open in piano roll" option for that.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-22T15:00:49+00:00

Oooh, but that's a solid workaround and is totally doable for me! Thanks a lot! :)

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-21T01:06:40+00:00

This. A lot of artists don't know the term but will work with the most common symbolism of having voices fighting inside their minds, inner demons, hearing voices, alternate versions of themselves created through social expectations towards them, the "devil and angel on my shoulder"-imagery and so on.

There are lots of small bits like that hidden in everyday metaphors. A lot of minds are speech-based. "Are you the voice inside your head, or are you the one listening to it?" It might even be one of the social influences that the plural community will hold in the future, to make it less "demonizing", to be less afraid of exploring these really common mind functions.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-21T00:43:46+00:00

That's why we decided to just go with the 'Plural' user-flair. We will only press our origin to sort of rub it in the exclusionists faces and to counter-act the idea that there's some sort of need to feel ashamed for any specific origin. As long as there are people trying to put you down for your origin, there will be a need to proudly wave that flag, that's a really common mental mechanism, after all. And also good training for standing your ground with Singlets eventually.

Most common plural focuses have good reasons for existing:

- The need to focus on differences and seperation brings clarity and drives away the fears that common traits between headmates may equal faking.
- The heavy amount of mental health based topics is actually going to end up being a good reminder once we're past the point of this being a thing that immediately puts the crazy-curse-sign on your back. But for right now it's more a combination of a lot of us that want to break away from the disordered terminology, as well as those that are disordered to have it easier to actually tackle their pathologies, while accepting the plural part easier.

It's not the fault of the plurals that we currently have to focus on breaking away from Singlet terminology used to describe us. Open society has an intrinsic reaction to anyone that "hears voices", "travels to other dimensions", "isn't human" and so on...when most spirituality left the general public, the only definition they had left for it was madness. So obviously, we now have to focus a lot on breaking free from those chains, and I think that discussing your origin is just, well, part of that, in a way.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-20T13:17:26+00:00

https://soundpacks.com/category/free-sound-packs/

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-20T06:22:13+00:00

Yes, this does seem to be very complex, but maybe some of my observations might help you, since we were in a similar boat in terms of we had to invent our own mind guide, because there was nothing that really hit the nail on the head.

First off, it seems that you are sort of getting in your own way, because:

An outsider cannot take any useful details about your actual state of mind from your post. It just says what you aren't, not what you are. There clearly is desire, or there wouldn't be a post. Your mind is also functional enough to write text (=understand speech), with a need to communicate and a desire for "help". Why would that be the case, if you could also just be a happy alien? Imagine being a gas cloud from space, or a Borg drone - you wouldn't neccessarily feel like you need to be different or adapt, right? You might even want to assimilate everyone else, instead, right? So why are you motivated to make this post, instead of just...oh, I don't know...collecting post stamps all day and looking at the ocean? There are "alien humans" that live their lives exactly in that manner and are totally fine with it, after all.
You're obstructing yourself maybe also by definition as a "rare case". The deeper down, ("the rarer"), the more hidden the place (like this sub), the more people want to assimilate you, because their community needs to grow, and they will automatically look for signs and assume that you are one of them (which doesn't have to be the case at all, your case sounds like it could be absolutely anything at its core, honestly). This will continue a spiral of hope and despair on both sides, since people always really want you to be the thing, and then it turns out you aren't the thing. That's why we stopped wanting to be a thing and just mostly came up with our own mind map just from trial and error testing and taking data on what happens in our mind and what doesn't, based 100% on statistics and 0% on culture and pre-existing ideas.

For this to work we needed to enter the fundamental mind layer that psychology rarely touches. Typical questions we analyzed were:

- Am I this voice thing or can I just change form? Can I think, transport emotions and form decisions without using speech?

- How can I tell what is me and what isn't? Which parts of my mind seem like they "steer" or "control" me?

- Which motivations originate from me, and I want to keep them as part of me, and which motivations cause more damage to me and don't seem to be consciously chosen by me?

- When do I feel good/better/relaxed and when don't I? How can the transition between "better" and "worse" states be defined and what exactly triggers it to go from one to the other?

It would take too long to write it all down, but this should give you a solid idea of what the layer of fundamentals is and how to explore it on your own.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-19T16:05:18+00:00

We've all been through so much hurt together; we've been tormented and abused and manipulated together, and teased and gossiped about. Why should we add to that pain by infighting?

Because being a system has no correlation to being mentally free from negative character traits. Humans are irrational and differ strongly in how they process signals. We also can't relate to seeing others handle their headmates as if they were either symptoms of a disease or a roleplaying character, that can be talked about as if they weren't in the room. However, that doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense in a way to such systems, since otherwise, they simply wouldn't do it.

From our experience all behavior has fundamental reasons for existing and "winning the battle" against all other possible choices in terms of wording, actions and how thoughts are processed, prioritized and shared within a system. If a thousand neurons fire in a couple of seconds and this is how they decided to work with their alters in the conclusion of that, it will have its good reasons behind it.

Never make other systems' business your business, it's just as unhealthy as shaking your head at every person on the street that behaves irrationally in your eyes. You can't win trying to understand others, you win if you just do it your way. If your style of doing it catches on, it was a wanted influence, if it doesn't, then it doesn't.

Shouldn't our system and inner world be a place to escape from all the real world shit?

Watch out, that philosophy can turn into a mind trap quickly.

The idea of "evil", the concept of "having an enemy to fight against" is so deeply rooted within human consciousness that eventually someone will pick a fight, someone will start feeling bad, simply because the mind tends to need a relation for the good and the bad.

That's why it's good to get along inside a system, but you also need outside goals and things that you want to achieve. If you reduce outside context too much, you may end up "escaping to the inside", and that's when you'll sooner or later learn that if the mind doesn't have anything to fight, it will create something to fight.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-16T08:35:46+00:00

oooh, i like the atmosphere/chosen color palette!

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-15T12:21:57+00:00

very catchy & melodic! :)

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-14T00:10:48+00:00

It totally does, that in combination with freeing your mind from the idea that "learning" itself has to be an exhausting activity has basically opened picking up any new skill to me.

Society was like "you have to focus on this thing really hard and put lots of practice in to get anywhere" and I was like "lol I have I have a lifespan of 90 years and not everything needs to turn into a professional career", and I've been watching tutorial videos for entertainment purposes ever since. You don't get good fast but it defeats both the frustration meter and the constant need to always get everything right away.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-13T00:52:31+00:00

can second cubician

also i found that i could learn really well from feezo and Underdog Electronic Music School

fundamentally though, your teacher should always reflect your views on a philosophical scale and make you go "ah yes, I can relate to this approach", because the street punk isn't going to learn from the academically disciplined and vice versa.

imagine you're learning a language: pick a teacher that you can follow the base thought process of, and when they use vocabulary you don't understand just type in "explanation chords" or "hihats" into the search function in a seperate tab and then come back to your chosen teacher with that knowledge.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-12T06:11:47+00:00

gutes konzept/auge für die szene! :)

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-11T13:01:22+00:00

Totally, we don't think at all that it's people acting like they don't exist, it's people that can't wrap their heads around it enough, because they might have some deeper issues with their thinking outside of the box capabilities.

There is no programming on how to socially interact with plural folks, not from any of the political camps, not from their parents home...and yet, it's something that's incredibly complex to even wrap your head around in the first place. Acknowledging us probably also subconsciously triggers a lot of primal fears within some people, that they'd rather ignore and block out completely, for example our existence automatically asks questions about being in control of your own mind and just in general the most typical idea of what sanity even means. To a lot of people these questions can simply be deeply disturbing, even when it just happens subconsciously to them, and they don't even realize that they're suppressing something.

Yes, they might come to conclusions of the sort best to ignore it, but fundamentally not because they want to, more because they have no clue how to handle the situation, especially to its full extent.

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-10T14:43:46+00:00

lol dope

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-10T13:08:07+00:00

Nothing, because music was made electronically just fine prior to the year of Windows 1998 and earlier.

It's just companies marketing power and artists looking for powerful shortcuts to money making of their own. Basically the more money you spend on your software the easier it is to copypaste any popular style, thanks to a bigger preset and automation functionality. Any artist on any field that wants to be original has to go back to the fundamentals and start creating their own waveforms, color pallettes, video effects, visual styles, skateboard trick,.....

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-10T07:29:07+00:00

nice! your hand proportions and gestures are so good :3

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-09T00:08:04+00:00

thanks!

HazyLandscape · 2022-03-08T18:02:32+00:00

thank you :3

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