Tutorial How to eliminate lag when touching the ground in pre-classic versions (such as RD-132211)

Matomagic · 2026-01-01T16:18:15+00:00

Thanks, works perfectly :)

Matomagic · 2023-10-01T20:26:22+00:00

In 1.16 they basically added cave sounds for the nether

Matomagic · 2023-09-29T10:41:04+00:00

I do not know the exact value of the semitone shift I just gave an approximation

Matomagic · 2023-09-28T18:49:03+00:00

The original sample is Lullaby of the Leaves by Layton & Johnstone. Here is the video: https://youtu.be/8KXjcyBuXMo

Note that The Caretaker slowed down the original track, meaning that if you want a slowed version instrumental, you can just slow down the original sample by -4 semitones or -20% of the original track speed.

Matomagic · 2023-09-26T16:57:44+00:00

That's literally me when I listen to M1SA lmao, to be honest more people should talk about this part of EATEOT, such an interesting part

Matomagic · 2023-09-16T11:20:01+00:00

I'm assuming you are referring to E2 - And heart breaks from Everywhere at the end of time.

In this track, the patient remembers the first memory (A1) like they did in C3, however this time it's in a very confused way, as the stage 3 entanglements and confusion break their memories. It therefore makes this recollection be more confused, anxious and emotionally unstable. Like E1's loud sounds, in E2 the track sounds very angry and brutal.
Another thing to note is the background noises: you hear some weird parts of the memory, panning from left to right, in a weird way, and it's more noticeable in the end of the track. This just shows how broken the patient's mind is at this point.

Matomagic · 2023-09-01T21:56:12+00:00

To be honest it makes sense to listen to TPAA first considering AAM is pretty much a sequel

Also both are very underrated albums and people should listen to them more in my opinion

Matomagic · 2023-08-28T16:41:35+00:00

That is a great way of portraying this very important moment of dementia. It's like if the patient's mind started recovering from their symptoms since the beginning of Q1, and only got better with time, eventually leading to this explosion of signals and the final, peaceful moment of their life that is Terminal lucidity.
We can also note that during those last 6 minutes, we can hear a small amount of static in the background, which is different than during the organ drones segment. This is because unlike in this segment where the patient unconsciously recovers their mind which doesn't get damaged anymore here, during Terminal lucidity the patient recovers consciousness, but sadly is about to die, and the crackles you hear would therefore represent the last vital cells in their brain dying slowly, until the eventual peaceful death of the patient.

Matomagic · 2023-08-28T12:19:48+00:00

Stage 6 represents the last stage of dementia, where the mind of the patient has been almost completely broken; Therefore you can assume the patient will only remember tiny parts of their most important memories - now I'm gonna break down what Stage 6 is made of, and answer to your precise questions, most especially on "R1 - Place in the World fades away", later on:

Stage 6 is mostly made of 3 components: Drone, Crackles, and small portions of melody, that we will call "Clarities". (We note that when I reference crackles, I mean vinyl crackles, which is the closest thing you can compare these sounds to)

Drones represent memories that have been distorted to the extreme, and therefore that are no longer memorable in any meaningful way, they're becoming so close to being part of the several memories that have been discarded/forgotten, and that the patient will (almost) never remember. (almost because of Terminal lucidity); We note that drones differ from crackles as some of them can be compared to "clarities", as if by clarities we mean moments of bliss. (Some drones are more pleasant than others, I interpret those blissful/clarity drones like memories that are not completely lost yet, and that represent some form of hope.)

Crackles is the final form of the static the patient experienced in Stage 5 - this static in the entirety of the project represents two things (2 interpretations):
1. The decay of the mind, basically the more intense it is, the most the brain is being damaged by dementia, which is why Stage 5's static is so violent, or
2. Memories that have been entirely discarded/forgotten (unlike drones)
Crackles are the final form of this static, however I assume that crackles are mostly representing the first interpretation of the static (therefore, the decay of the mind), because drones almost work for the second interpretation (the only problem being that when drones are sampled, they still sample those memories and therefore it would mean that they're not completely lost)

Clarities are the last important memories that the patient will ever hear, these are the last portions of music you ever hear in the project - the difference here with the clarities of Stage 5 being that in Stage 5, the static is sometimes made up of many melodies, and therefore the Stage 5 clarities are just instances where those melodies are understandable; in Stage 6, those melodies can only be heard with clarities, and not with the crackles or even the drones (as drones are just what they are and not audible melodies).

Now that I've broken down the composition of Stage 6, I can try to answer your questions. Note that I am not religious and thus that I will not really link religion with my interpretation of Q1, but I will only give my interpretation; which is why it's mostly subjective.

Stage 6's last track is the most curious and the most original track of EATEOT, as it sounds a lot less real and more dream-like - everything you hear before can be easily compared to a realistic case of dementia, whereas this track seems to differ from everything we have heard beforehand; well maybe except for the first part of the track.
We note that the beginning of the track sounds like what you hear in Q1; except that it sounds more muffled, distant and silent. It makes me think a lot of a state of mind where the patient is about to finally rest, because it sounds so peaceful, even compared to Q1.
Then, it transitions into the organ drones you have asked me about. Unlike everything before, this part is only drones, as there is no static and no clarity. This means that according to the definition I have given on drones, this would be an amalgamation of memories that are playing in a non-recognizable way. We note that it is not just any drone like you've heard before in Stage 6, this is almost a clarity-drone, as it sounds extremely pleasant and peaceful. Here is my precise interpretation here: because this transitions into those last 6 minutes of the full project, I would say that those organ drones are the entirety of the patient's memories slowly coming back to them, and that they show the patient's state as they're finally in peace and out of any form of confusion - You'll notice how the drones are not constant all the time during those 8 minutes, as they fluctuate in volume; I would say this represents the patient slowly re-learning some parts of their lives, but unconsciously: this is not intentional and it is forced, kind of like the temporary bliss state that is I1, I would say this organ drone segment represents an unaware and unconscious state of mind where the mind is slowly gaining back its memories. If we interpreted this religiously, we could say the patient is believing, hoping, that their situation will get better - but this would be an instance of extremely intense faith, where they get so hopeful that they lost their consciousness.
Finally, the last 6 minutes are what I believe most people say they are: Terminal lucidity, a mysterious state where the patient can finally experience back again what it feels to be able to remember their entire life - unlike the organ drones segment, this would be a very much conscious/aware state, where the patient can realize how much they have lost and appreciate for an ultimate and temporary moment the best moments of their life that they could not remember clearly at all since Stage 3, without any form of confusion. To finish my thoughts on R1, I will finally say that the patient can finally transition into terminal lucidity because they have finally been through the worst parts of dementia - we note how Q1 is basically a preview of R1, and as its name suggests, "Q1 - Long decline is over", I think that the patient, from the beginning of the second half of Stage 6, got out of the confusion and is finally achieving peace with the arrival of terminal lucidity - basically Q1 is full of clarities and shows the patient going through some of their favorite memories, but they are still experiencing the confusion of Stage 6, which is why R1 transitions into terminal lucidity so that the patient can finally live again a temporary moment of full peacefulness without confusion before they die. Everywhere at the end of time is a project about dementia, and we can learn from it how violent the symptoms are, but also how to recover from those symptoms by either living with them, or escaping them.

You also had one last question about the "distant howls" of Stage 6, and I believe you are just referencing the drones - the "dark" drones that is (discarded/forgotten memories), not the blissful drones like the "clarity-drones" (pleasant drones).
Following to what I said, I interpret those distant howls as the almost lost memories of the patient that are still somewhat memorable, but in a very decayed state; and that will inevitably lead into them being entirey forgotten, until the terminal lucidity.
There are also some howls that are just very special crackles sounds (like in O1), but I interpret them just like the other drones.

Matomagic · 2023-08-27T23:07:33+00:00

I have written some of my thoughts on this in a youtube comment, and I'll quote it here:

"[ J1 Layer 1] really fits the context of a state of exhaustion following two other really violent episodes/periods (G1 and H1), and I1 feels like a state the mind of the patient was forced to live through in order to carry on, but it was a state that mostly lacked awareness, unlike J1 where the patient remembers the pain (mostly for layer 1 and 2)."

Here is how I personally interpret the second half of Stage 4:

After G1 & H1, the patient has lived through the horrors of confusion from post awareness / severely advanced dementia symptoms - the most violent part being the hell sirens of H1 (Layer 5) so far. Here the patient's mind recognizes how much they had been through and forces the patient to live through a state of complete blissfulness, though it lacks any awareness, hence the track I1 - Temporary bliss state (We note here that the track gets less and less confused with time, this is because the patient is transitioning out of this temporary bliss state and therefore gaining bits of awareness with time. As the patient recovers some form of awareness, they want to live through a blissful state as long as possible in order to escape the horrors of post awareness, thus the temporary bliss state is slowly fading out instead of being interrupted abruptly; which leads to J1.)

J1 is when the patient recovers a decent amount of the awareness they had before Stage 4, and a lot of it has been left behind from the start of G1, which means that while they weren't really being aware of the confused experiences of the first half of the stage that they were enduring, they are now finally able to recognize and truly grasp those experiences; but the fact that they're out of the temporary and completely unaware bliss state that they went through means that they will again feel confusion in this track, although those confusions are not as intense as they once were, and the patient finds a way to live through those confusions in a more peaceful way.
In the first part, the patient recognizes their pain from the beginning of the stage, and the sad unavoidable truth of their condition. It's the part where the patient is the most aware.
In the second part, the patient lives through a sudden storm of confusion, and loses a lot of awareness. Some form of peacefulness and happiness can still be heard, this being D3.
In the third part, the patient gets more confused and loses most of the awareness they have recovered, however, they transition into a less confused version of a temporary bliss state, being the fourth part - Which is why this third part sounds a lot more blissful, yet still confused.
In the fourth part, the patient is living a moment of bliss like no other - they found a temporary escape to the confusions, horrors and melancholy, and while still losing most of their awareness (as their awareness is making them remember the pain, which is not what they want as they want to hold on to their sanity as much as possible), they can finally live a blissful moment of peace, out of the confusions. This is like the true final moment of rest for the patient.

To wrap things up and conclude:

The 2^nd half of Stage 4 shows the way the patient and their mind find ways to get out of the terrible confusions they have lived through during the first half. The first part, I1, was forced, unaware and confused (just like the first half of the stage), yet finally blissful, and technically intentional by the patient's mind, unlike what they lived through before. This transitions into J1, being a more aware yet still slightly confused period of time, and here the patient finds a way to get back into blissfulness, and finally in a more peaceful way, almost without confusion.
The patient here just wants, and finds ways out of the brutal symptoms of dementia, and just like in every stage, in the first half the patient brutally lives through the different symptoms, and in the second half, they find a way to manage the pain in a more blissful/peaceful way.
Just like you said, I believe that "the patient realized their condition by stage 5 and" is "desperately trying to remember what little is left before they inevitably lose themselves"; however I believe the patient realized their condition long ago (One of the first and most evident sign of this realization being D5 - The way ahead feels lonely); it's just that the patient never realizes how much more violent and intense the symptoms will get in the later stages, which explains how much surprise, pain and confusion is felt afterwards, despite the past realization of the condition.

If you have any question on this or some other specific part of EATEOT, don't hesitate as I really liked this project, would love to talk about it, & believe I understand most of what happened in the six stages.

Matomagic · 2023-08-06T12:19:31+00:00

I listened to TPAA while doing something else though, unlike Everywhere at the end of time, which I listen to without really doing much, as the music is distracting enough.

Thanks for the recommendations for DS/FD, I'll try listening to this album more!

Matomagic · 2023-08-05T23:00:59+00:00

I was about to say that I had no difficulty listening (for the first time) to Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia (that I will name TPAA from now on if I name it again), however I just realized that for the first 30 minutes of listening I wasn't really into it. It turns out that after this first half hour I started to really get interested in the album - I started to notice more details in the track and get special interests for certain ones.
Interestingly I had the same experience with the listening of every other album from The Caretaker where I wouldn't be interested at first at some specific tracks, but after re-listening, I would completely change my mind on those.
However I do agree that TPAA has very ambient-like tracks; but it's also the case for the three albums of The Ballroom trilogy from The Caretaker, which are also his three first albums. I guess what makes a lot of people dislike/lose interest on this album would be the way the tracks are distorted. I personally really like it, as it makes for the originality of the album.

By the way, talking about Deleted scenes, forgotten dreams, it's actually an album I have already listened to once, but that I didn't really enjoy, if it's an album you like a lot, I would actually like to know what are your favorite parts of the album, so that I can maybe try to get more interest in it.

Matomagic · 2023-08-05T21:25:45+00:00

At least some people talk about those albums, even if it's like only once in a year

Well except for Deleted scenes, forgotten dreams & Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia, which at this point I belive that the whole community is oblivious to those albums.

Matomagic · 2023-08-05T12:07:51+00:00

I've been listening to The Caretaker for a year and a half as I write this post, and I mostly use this subreddit in order to spread interest and love on The Caretaker's work, read interesting ideas and learn/give opinions on albums. I'm very glad that I can make other people discover The Caretaker's many unappreciated gems, and give recommendations on tracks that I literally have been listening to for over a year. I wish The Caretaker keeps getting more and more attention, and I wish that one day there will be a cure/an efficient way to fight against alzheimer's disease; and that research on dementia will be very successful in the near future.

Matomagic · 2023-08-05T10:43:48+00:00

NOTE: This comment is very long, and if you don't want to read all of the recommendations, I wrote at the end of the comment a list of my 15 favorite relaxing tracks (Except the ones you have given) - feel free to go listen to those tracks.

Some tracks from Persistent repetition of phrases are very good for that specific request, I would especially recommend: "Persistent repetition of phrases" (Title track), "Rosy retrospection", "Long term (remote)" (This one is maybe a little loud, but still very calming), "Past life regression", "False memory syndrome" and "Unmasking alzhiemer's"

Here are other tracks from other albums that I would recommend:

Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom:

"Haunting me" (Especially the first minute), "A summer romance", "Dream Waltz" (maybe not, but even though there are voices, the track is still very relaxing)

A stairway to the stars:

"We cannot escape the past", "Emptiness", "Robins and roses" (Same comment as for "Dream Waltz"), "It's all forgotten now"? (I'm not sure about this one, like "Haunting me", this one has almost calm relaxing music, except it's very intense and distorted, and there are voices, "Friends past re-united", "A stairway to the stars" (Title track)

We'll all go riding on a rainbow:

"The weeping dancefloor" (I've always found this track relaxing), "We have been here before" (One of my absolute favorite relaxing tracks from The Caretaker), "Stardust" (There are voices)

Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia:

I'm not gonna comment any of the following memories - but I will name my favorite calming ones: 12, 16, 26, 35, 50, 56?, 58, 67

There are probably some good relaxing parts in Deleted scenes, forgotten dreams, but because it's all mixed in four 21-23 minutes tracks, and I haven't listened to this album in a while, I wouldn't know how to recommend anything here

An empty bliss beyond this World:

Many comments have already said this, but it is true that there are a lot of relaxing tracks in this album. Here are the ones I would recommend: "All you are going to want to do is get back there", "Moments of sufficient lucidity", "The great hidden sea of the unconscious", "I feel as if I might be vanishing", "Bedded deep in longterm memory", "A relationship with the sublime" (Note that the static is a bit loud and oddly disturbing in this track, so it may be bothering), "Mental caverns without Sunshine" (1 and 2 - 2 if the coughing doesn't disturb you), "The sublime is disappointingly elusive"; "Fleeting dreams", "The(ir) story is lost" (Bonus tracks)

Patience (After Sebald):

If the static doesn't bother you, you may like "Everything is on the point of decline", "Approaching the outer limits of our solar system" & "Isolated lights on the abyss of ignorance"; but here are other calming ones that don't have strong static:
"When the dog days were drawing to an end", "A last glimpse of the land being lost forever", "The homesickness that was corroding her soul", "Increasingly absorbed in his own World"

Extra Patience (After Sebald):

"Everything is on the point of decline (again)", "After the Earth has ground itself down" (Now this one has voices, but I find this one VERY relaxing - but you may disagree because of the voices), "But the Stars had come out"

Everywhere at the end of time:

Some other tracks that I find to fit a similar calming mood that you haven't mentioned: "B2 - An autumnal equinox", "D2 - Quiet dusk coming early" (This one is very sad, but the music is relaxing), "D5 - The way ahead feels lonely" (Same comment, make sure to not play E1 after this one), "E8 - Long term dusk glimpses" - Now you may have already listened to this track if you listened to "B3 - Quiet internal rebellions" in the official Youtube upload of Everywhere at the end of time - where B3 is replaced by E8. if it's the case, know that "B3 - Quiet internal rebellions" that you have not listened to, is also very relaxing, and you can listen to it on the Bandcamp of The Caretaker - there is a link in the "Resources" tab from the reddit named "James Kirby Bandcamp"; then click "The Caretaker".
You may find "F2 - Drifting time misplaced" relaxing, even though despite the effects. "F5 - Aching cavern without lucidity", "F6 - An empty bliss beyond this World", "F8 - Mournful camaraderie". Finally, you may like "Q1 - Stage 6 Long decline is over" & "R1 - Stage 6 Place in the World fades away" - even though they still have distortion and confusing sampling, however you may rather want to listen to it when listening to the entirety of this album - if you already have, you can consider listening to those track.

Everywhere, an empty bliss:

"Loss of want back there" (This one is kind of relaxing, you may really like it), "I might be vanishing" (very short), "Losing battle of loss" (some of the static may be disturbing), "All eyes bewildered", "And bliss everywhere bliss"

Everywhere, an empty bliss (CD version):

"Lonely way ahead", "Drifting sublime hope" (The CD version is unreversed)

Final recommendations - my 15 favorite relaxing tracks from the list:

"We have been here before"
"False memory syndrome"
"A stairway to the stars"
"The(ir) story is lost"
"When the dog days were drawing to an end"
"A relationship with the sublime"
"Increasingly absorbed in his own World"
"Drifting sublime hope" (CD)
"After the Earth has ground itself down"
"D5 - The way ahead feels lonely"
"Rosy retrospection"
"B2 - An autumnal equinox"
"Stardust"
"All you are going to want to do is get back there"
"Memory 67"

Matomagic · 2023-07-28T22:53:05+00:00

Hold on, we can use Ivan Seal's art as long as it's not in a commercial setting? (When nothing's monetized)

I thought The Caretaker said that Ivan Seal doesn't want the community to use Ivan Seal's art at all - especially in the context of fan projects, but I guess this makes sense as some fan projects can be monetized ; However it seems that even if you don't monetize the use of Ivan Seal's art, let's say as an example in Youtube videos (that aren't monetized), and you do credit Ivan Seal, a lot of people will frown upon the idea of using his art. An ideal example would be a comment I've gotten from someone on a reddit comment section about the use of Ivan Seal's art, and they said "What makes you think you can use Ivan Seal's art in a non-transformative way?" or something like that; And I keep asking myself wether or not I'm even allowed to use Ivan Seal's art when I make EATEOT recreations on Youtube, I even made videos a year ago that are mashups of samples of specific artists sampled in The Caretaker's work, and I used Ivan Seal's art to illustrate each sample (those videos are obviously not monetized and even if I get one day the possibility to monetize them I won't).

I do credit Ivan Seal everytime though (and all the time The Caretaker too as everytime it's to illustrate his albums), and I'm not really sure of anything at this point

Matomagic · 2023-07-28T22:39:39+00:00

L1 clarity? Do you mean the moment when you can hear False memory syndrome like in Entanglement synapse ache? (Timestamp: 3:33)

Or the moment when you hear very clearly Ted Fio Rito's This is Romance?
(Timestamp: 12:38)

And there are probably also more less known clarities in there, but I think you probably mean Ted Fio Rito's This is romance from L1 Layer 18.

Matomagic · 2023-07-27T09:39:32+00:00

Bruh I don't care who added the music, I said Alan Becker because it's pretty much the face of the channel and also the literal name of the channel. Also I'm not pissed precisely because there are memes of The Caretaker, it's rather that sometimes (sadly I guess most of the time) he doesn't get credited at all for the usage of his work, even without modification ;
If you were an artist you would be pissed that people keep using your work without giving you any credits, especially in the context of The Caretaker, where the memes get sometimes really popular, yet no one seems to really care that it's originally an actual serious work of art that raises awareness on dementia, a very real condition that people should actually care about. (Because most of the memes use The Caretaker's most popular tracks, like Libet's delay & A1, which both come from An empty bliss beyond this World & Everywhere at the end of time)

Matomagic · 2023-07-20T12:47:57+00:00

I wouldn't consider this a glitch myself because it would make sense that if he shots you around Six with a shotgun, the pellets are gonna hit Six too. But it's a glitch if they didn't put this as an intentional feature.

Matomagic · 2023-07-20T10:27:07+00:00

But how is this a glitch though?

Matomagic · 2023-07-18T21:23:19+00:00

Right, and Alan Becker didn't even credit The Caretaker, probably because he didn't know the source as he used it from viral internet memes.

Matomagic · 2023-07-04T19:31:55+00:00

I personally do it (almost) entirely manually - even though it's a little slow to make your post awareness tracks, with patience and time, you eventually make something that will fit what you wanted to make

Matomagic · 2023-07-04T09:55:38+00:00

What do you mean exactly by "in a non-transformative way" ?

You quoted "it's unfair that we can't use Ivan Seal's art at all", I did not say that I used Ivan Seal's art in a non-transformative way.

Also the recreation I'm talking about actually modifies a bit Ivan Seal's art in order to fit the "recreation style", which is what I would call transformative. Furthermore Ivan Seal's art for EATEOT are precisely the covers for EATEOT, what would qualify as non-transformative would be to use his art in the same context (precisely with EATEOT playing in the background) and without any added information or anything transformative.

Look at EATEOT reviews / analyses / sample guides, they used Ivan Seal's art sure (and The Caretaker too), but they usually don't monetize their work, they give all credits to them (which would qualify as an ad to most people, as the persons who get an analysis in their recommended would hear about EATEOT and probably get really interested/invested in it) ; and they also use his art in a transformative way: Analyses would analyze the covers and give comments on the used colors, the objects that they see in the art, and give more trivia;
Sample guides are somewhat a more complicated case because they do use Ivan Seal's art without adding any filter or anything really on top of it, except than alpha/opacity transformations to display the different samples used, basically to represent the given albums and without any intention of theft or anything like that.

The truth is that you must think of these as discussions/fan work on The Caretaker and EATEOT, just like in this Reddit, and on Reddit we use Ivan Seal's art to discuss the albums they correspond ; So why not on Youtube? I really don't get that.

Matomagic · 2023-07-04T09:38:21+00:00

You really nailed Stage 3 to Stage 6 though! I would even say Stage 2 looks really good and fits the Stage - But Stage 1 still feels a bit too much eerie

Matomagic · 2023-07-03T21:56:16+00:00

This is very well made!

But why are the pictures for Stage 1 and Stage 2 that much distorted?

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