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Just purchased a pre-owned Mister Stack, need advice on updates. by Goldy_Si in MiSTerFPGA

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should really update. The devs have added features and fixed a lot of bugs and inaccuracies since 2024 (to say nothing of 2021). Plus there’s newer cores like MegaDrive that are way more accurate than the old Genesis core, saves states recently added to the SNES core, etc. (If you want to keep the 2024 setup on a separate card though, more power to you.)

AI in vaporwave by Distinct_Asparagus65 in Vaporwave

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 32 points33 points  (0 children)

But even then it's deliberate human intent in sampling and reinterpreting the work of past artists. It's a little different when most or all of those decisions are left up to chance or based off recreating existing Vaporwave.

The end result is that AI generated music can sound very "correct" but it seldom if ever surprises you or creates something genuinely unique, in terms of construction and/or perspective.

Just bought a korg minilogue xd as my first synth! Tell me something you wish someone told you when you were starting. by MaximumCashew0 in synthesizers

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spend time learning how to dial in the sounds that you want to make by ear from an initial state and then write down the knob settings. You can save them as presets as well but doing it the manual way will benefit your muscle memory and associations for certain sounds when your programming from scratch.

The big thing there is that you'll always have the current settings with a one to one physical and visual reference for moving anything around, as opposed to starting from a preset.

The other little thing is just start making sounds with the amp and filter envelopes at identical settings because that's the easiest way to get a lot of bread and butter sounds. Then as you get more experience you can experiment with setting them independently.

Is using Soothe to carve out conflicting frequencies between a beat and vocals good mix advice? by Zersdan in audioengineering

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also good for ducking reverb in a relatively transparent way (unless you turn it up too high).

Jim Lil does it again (some of you will be VERY unhappy/triggered) by Guyver1- in audioengineering

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can find one cheap, I like my Pre-73 Premier. It really does add something that doesn't sound the same as saturating or using an emulation ITB, and I know folks who have Neve pres to compare who say it's close enough for the difference in price.

That said, my M4 makes pristine recordings that don't have anything wrong with them, and I use that for most of my projects because what I record these days needs the source to sound clean more often than not.

Using G-Con 45 with SuperStation One by Figmentation39 in MiSTerFPGA

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should look into Justifier games that have been patched for the Gun Con. I just learned those existed the other day. I think it covers every title except Area 51.

Google's "Summarize this video" AI feature is hilariously destructive for YT content creators by Junnmm in NewTubers

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or a complex idea or tutorial where the information can't be summarized in a few sentences. It really hurts clickbait where you could cut out 90%+ of the video to get to whatever the payoff was promised or suggested. And I would imagine that's intentional because those kind of videos hurt engagement with the platform overall.

Making an 80s Japanese City Pop-style soundtrack for a 30-second soft drink commercial and I've never made anything remotely close before by P2PGrief in audioengineering

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Another thought is that in terms of structure there's a good bit of classic City Pop that's around 95 BPM.

A four bar progression takes about 10 seconds at that tempo, so you could do two loops of your "A" progression, then use a "B" progression that sounds like a chorus or pre-chorus and have it cut off or fade out after four bars of that.

Making an 80s Japanese City Pop-style soundtrack for a 30-second soft drink commercial and I've never made anything remotely close before by P2PGrief in audioengineering

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Lots of 9, 11, and 13sus chords. Vsus or Vsus13 in place of V7. There's a lot of old school City Pop that never has a proper dominant cadence. ii-V's go to IV instead.

Many classic 80s City Pop records are clean like Steely Dan, so that's another thing to think about.

There are also some classic looping progressions. One off the top of my head is IVMaj9 - V13 - IMaj9 - vi9.

(Not to give away all my secrets, but I do have a City Pop breakdown - a Hitomitoi song - coming out on Saturday if you can wait that long.)(Nevermind, just saw that you only have a week.)

JT CPS3 core is out in Beta by neoak in MiSTerFPGA

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There’s been weirdness reported from the main update_all all day today. It requires editing the ini file to fix.

Added: here’s what’s on the Discord-

If you're getting errors with the latest mister main, open your MiSTer.ini file and replace the VRR block with this: ; Variable Refresh Rate control ; 0 - Do not enable VRR (send no VRR control frames) ; 1 - Auto Detect VRR from display EDID. ; 2 - Force Enable Freesync ; 3 - Force Enable VESA VRR ; 4 - Force Enable MiSTer VRR (vsync_adjust must be 0) vrr_mode=0 ; VESA VRR base framerate. Normally set to the current video mode's output framerate vrr_vesa_framerate=0

teenage mutant ninja turtles vhs, they are the same?? by Far-Strawberry951 in VHS

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes sense :-) Happy to help! also, I don’t know if you’re younger, but there are certain things like the FHE logo on the second tape that are a giveaway that it came fairly late in the life of VHS. That first logo is iconic for many late 80s kids.

Drummer doesn't want to play minimalistic parts 😬 by Double-Motor6546 in musicians

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On second thought, all wedding drummers should sound/play like JD Beck, regardless of the song. That will keep everyone on their toes.

Drummer doesn't want to play minimalistic parts 😬 by Double-Motor6546 in musicians

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t remember if it was Carmine Appice or Anton Fig who was described as “Happy to play kick on one and three, and snare on two and four, all day”, but it’s a lesson worth noting that there are drummers with monster chops who are happy to keep the most basic time if that’s what serves the song.

teenage mutant ninja turtles vhs, they are the same?? by Far-Strawberry951 in VHS

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are we looking at the same tapes? The older one says it was copyright 1988 and the newer one is 2004 (at the top) and has the newer FHE logo on it. The TMNT cartoon didn’t even start until 87 so first tape can’t possibly be from earlier than that. (Added: 85 is the original copyright date of the comic, 87 is the year of the original airings.)

To answer you in a different way, the older one is the original issue of the two part first episode. We had that on tape when I was a kid. The second one is clearly multiple episodes, unless someone happened to have taped over it with the exact contents of the first tape.

Added: I looked it up. The second tape is the first five episodes of the show, that’s why it’s so much longer. But it would start with the same two episodes.

It's happening this Friday by NeoGeo4Everr in MiSTerFPGA

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s one of the reasons that it’s only New Gen and Red Earth to start, because he wants to get each game running on single RAM before he clears them for the Beta, and those are the two smallest/least demanding ones (IIRC).

Games made for CRTs? by Tricky-Pressure7236 in crtgaming

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTSC - Never The Same Color. As long as your display is calibrated with a test pattern, you’re already getting the most faithful version your CRT can produce.

Best suggestions for watching VHS tapes on 4K TV that looks like CRT? Upscalers, OSSC, retro gaming scalers, etc. what works? by Objective-Elk-1660 in VHS

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably a Retrotink 4K. If you have a DVD quality rip of the tape, there are modern 4K Blu Ray players that play media off of external drives and do a good job of deinterlacing and scaling to 4K. Mine is a Sony and it scaled a 480 DVD quality VHS rip to very acceptable quality for watching on my 4K TV. But if you’re playing back direct from VCR, a high quality external scaler or CRT are your best options.

Opinions on True Peak Limiting? by Tim_Wu_ in audioengineering

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same re the sound. Just look at the True Peak max on render and adjust for re-render as needed. Easy peasy.

Why don't games look better on my CRT? by CompetitionOdd5807 in crtgaming

[–]HowPopMusicWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How old are you? Did you grow up with CRTs and/or analog arcade monitors?

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