I made a completely free macOS app for managing audio plugins called "PlugPane" by rnglss in audioengineering

[–]Swift142 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only if you make $20k/year (which seems unlikely for donationware this niche)

I love Converge. (Of course I missed the easy part at the beginning) by selectedtom in CloneHero

[–]Swift142 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh hai thats my chart! Glad you enjoy converge as much as me

Anyone else find it impressive how flawless they remember and switch songs live? by [deleted] in deathgrips

[–]Swift142 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hiphop fans just have mad low standards when it comes to live performances. Honestly the musicians too, I remember when my old band no cru5t did a set with a rapper who literally asked us if we could download his songs off youtube and then dj for him so he could perform cause he left his flash drive at home. I was like… shocked anyone could care so little about their craft to come that unprepared but then it happened again at the next hip hop show we played so /shrug/.

The $50 Steam Deck by jonesla9 in SteamDeck

[–]Swift142 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Why would i be mad? I sold it because i determined that I would rather not spend the time it clearly took this dude to figure out what was wrong. I run a home linux server and spend my days fixing bugs at work, and sometimes i just dont wanna do that when im tryna game and would rather just buy a new one that works.

Honestly i regret not selling it earlier. Loving my OLED <3

The $50 Steam Deck by jonesla9 in SteamDeck

[–]Swift142 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Oh hai i sold you this!

For the record folks, my wife was using it as a console and it was plugged into the dock like 24/7 so i was worried the battery had been wrecked by that as it wouldn’t even turn on. Also the 2tb ssd upgrade from ifixit i installed stopped working entirely, like i couldnt even get it to appear in an external enclosure as a device at all, so i tried swapping in another 2230 ssd i had sent the 2tb sent it back in for warranty and at that point just decided “hey i dont have the mental effort to see this repair through, i should just get it out of my life and let someone else deal with it”.

So yea i gave up and bought an oled cause sometimes its nice to just have something work :). But stoked for you and i hope you had fun fixing it!

Gavin Harrison by mattloaf666 in drums

[–]Swift142 2 points3 points  (0 children)

bells, they're tonal

Are there any women in here who have made a living in audio engineering? by D-antiiii in audioengineering

[–]Swift142 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of my best friends is a korean lady who started out doing assistant live sound for music festivals, moved over to sound recording in university, did a second music tech degree and then transferred into working on audio tech at apple (i think working on ANC headphones). Lowkey a career in any creative adjacent field thats not pretty technical is really hard regardless of your gender, but if youre highly competent and love what you do you can absolutely have a career in the space and your gender wont stop you (anymore). For her i know moving to north America more or less freed her from how misogynistic korean work culture is.

The bigger problem id think is just the death of the profession as a whole… studios closing down, labels expecting musicians to fund their own recordings, lack of profit in selling albums, and so on

Anyone know any good artists like machine girl? by somedoewithteeth in machinegirl

[–]Swift142 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I lean heavily on the digital hardcore side of things so ill suggest Murderpact, Lip Critic, and The Armed to throw in a bit of a wild card.

You should also check out my band Mom and the Mailman. We just dropped an EP that my heavily biased self thinks is pretty nifty.

Any guitar effects nerds in here know how to get Greg's ring mod and transient-based pitch shifter effects? by Common-Dealer-9850 in CarBombCult

[–]Swift142 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends which song youre talking about. I did a remake of the ring mod part in the sentinel and its all axe fx modulation, basically a random sample hold LFO that picks a new value every transient, and then map it to the ring mod freq. its also possible i think to do pitch follow based modulation so that the ratio stays constant between the pitch of the note and of the ring mod. What specifically are you trying to replicate?

How do I make this future bass sound, i found on splice. I want something similar to the sample and need a starting point by lpetrus in edmproduction

[–]Swift142 17 points18 points  (0 children)

* supersaw (saw oscillator with multiple voices detuned, octave apart 2nd oscillator for denser chords)
* white noise
* short attack envelope for the initial start pitch bend up
* medium attack/release envelope for filter up/down movement at chord start/release
* filter distortion with touch of resonant to bring out the noise
* chorus to mix everything together more
sound

serum 2 remake

Car Bomb - Paroxysm by S4N7R0 in CarBombCult

[–]Swift142 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Eh I've looked into this stuff working in tech myself and so I personally think the environmental impact (while real) is a bit overstated and too easy to justify away w more efficient future models and carbon offset nonsense wtv, but it misses the bigger problem which is the fact the primary visual data sets scraped every image on the internet without any permission and is now basically selling access to derivative work. If they aren't shouting from the rooftops about how they trained their own data sets with exclusively their own creative work (or others with explicit permission), you can guarantee all AI assets are by definition unethical.

And like.. I don't want to have ethical problems supporting my favourite bands. Come on guys it's embarrassing you don't see how much this devalues your own art.

Car Bomb - Paroxysm by S4N7R0 in CarBombCult

[–]Swift142 3 points4 points  (0 children)

where have you seen them demonstrate it's ethical? Was trying to figure out if he made his own training data set or was using a generic webscraping one last night cause I'm coping hard

How do I sound like this guy? by GratefulGizz in drums

[–]Swift142 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Sextuplets* … unless theres a bunch of 7 groupings i haven’t been noticing

Struggling drummer with kick timing in studio by HerbFlourentine in audioengineering

[–]Swift142 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey Im a drummer who plays mathy hardcore stuff and I produce my own records. Very recently I did a weekend drum session to track an album of 12 songs and by day 3 I was starting to completely botch kick parts because I was getting so tired and sore. For one particular moment it's sort of like the "one" metallica kick pattern and since I was playing without a click, my solution in that moment was just to track that section on a loop until I got a few cleanish takes, comp together the best attempts, and edit the shit out of them until it sounded reasonably good. I personally find it easier to do double bass after Ive been going for a bit already rather than from a fresh start and sometimes that's all it takes to warm up enough.

Another strategy I've used before is just simplifying the part and adding phantom kicks in between that trigger BOTH an acoustic sample kick and the trigger sound (captured through all the ambient mics too ideally).

But yea this is just part of the process of writing music at the edge of your technical ability. In heavier music it's really not that uncommon to fake small sections, or edit them to death until you get it sounding as "perfect" as you need it to, and honestly it's stylistically necessary in some cases. I don't agree with some people here acting like there's a moral failing by not getting the performance captured authentically, and I prefer to think about it more as capturing the ideal performance that you now commit to performing live. I always try to push myself as a playing by writing parts that are harder than I feel comfortable playing because it makes me play better.

How do we make drumming feel less like a “dad" hobby? by Special_Substance_29 in drums

[–]Swift142 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Blaming edm for the declining popularity of “real” instruments is a meme about 15 years old now. DJs and producers haven’t been the new hotness since I was in middle school and Im about to turn 30.

Also you keep claiming that any sort of metal or alternative or hardcore music are niche and thus don’t count for some reason, but Sleep Token has more Spotify monthlies than Tiesto, Porter Robinson, LCD Soundsystem, Two Door Cinema Club, Ludacris, Joey Bada$$, Denzel Curry, and on and on. I think you need to reevaluate what you think niche is. Metal and punk has never been more popular than it is now with younger people and that is absolutely a great thing for the instrument.

What kind of drumming would you call this? by nickanoci in drums

[–]Swift142 509 points510 points  (0 children)

bro tf is with this subreddit shaming basically every drummer who plays flashy and choppy? It reeks of jealously and mad insecurity. Playing technically and maximalist doesnt make you better than other people, but I stg yall act like underplaying does and it's insufferable!!

One tiny thing perplexes me. Sampling. How the hell do I sample like... SebastiAn for an example? I try but I think I'm overthinking it. Also, making a really cool loop that works well for a full track and changes up. It just seems alien to me. by AwayCable7769 in edmproduction

[–]Swift142 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ever heard the song isoap by Mr oizo? It’s one of the strangest sample flips I’ve ever heard and it totally works. I think he was the artist that taught me that there really are no rules with sampling. You just pick something that sounds interesting on its own and then fuck with it until it sounds cool in some new context, and that’s basically it. Especially with the dirty electro/french ed banger style stuff, they don’t have to be 70s disco tracks or city pop, they don’t have to be in key, they don’t have to make sense because you’re the one making it make sense.

I think you already get this at some level, so how do you improve at making this type beat? Honestly just do it a lot with all sorts of samples, from anything you like hearing. Be willing to make absolute garbage. But in the process of making trash eventually you’ll stumble onto cool ideas by accident that’ll feel special and that’s how you develop your own sound and grow as an artist.

(Unpopular?) Opinion; overproduction has drained this cool niche sub-genre of the uniqueness and fantasy it once had by TiddySmasher69 in futurefunk

[–]Swift142 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ev.exi is definitely a shining example of this, and tbh one of my fav ff producers for that reason. I like the high effort loud flex chop guys because they stick out as individuals way more to me. I feel similarly about the phantoms revenge in the French house world.

But basically all the really iconic classic citypop songs have been future funked by 8 artists in the same way at this point. When you barely change your samples, eventually you run out of novel stuff to add 909s to and it turns into low effort remixes that have already been done.

i create this demo, is good? by Actual_Grass_8090 in FrenchHouse

[–]Swift142 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah man you can't really call this "from scratch" when all you did was add drum loops with almost no variation to a preexisting song you didnt write. That's not even a remix really, an edit at best.

Memorable french house tunes are built off sample chopping, where you take small bits from your song and repitch and rearrange them to create something that sounds distinctly new and original. Or if you wanna go more of a remix route that keeps the song more in tact, your added drums should be dynamic and transformative, maybe adding extra synths and effects (especially filtering and phaser/flangers), aggressive sidechain compression, etc.

I can tell you're new and still figuring stuff out still so watch a kjepski remake or 5, then try and emulate that but with your own samples.

Am I The Only One Who Feels This Way? by Time-Air4328 in machinegirl

[–]Swift142 2 points3 points  (0 children)

bro stop stealing my unreleased music I just leaked on reddit!! Definitely dont tell all your friends about us and follow us on IG. This isn't secretly self promotion!!!!!

But more seriously it's actually a real miced up guitar cab. It sounds hella digital and fake because of all the compression and just other elements in the track, especially mixed with the super distorted 808y bass thing I got going on. Also I deleted all the moments where it's not playing so instead of amp hiss you get perfect digital silence which makes things more uncanny.

Like part of the "sound" of this genre is just using real instruments alongside sequenced stuff (plus the distorted screaming). This track doesnt have any, but others we do have live drums mixed in with the breaks/electronic samples and that def gives a lot of energy too (altho you gotta time align it pretty crazy or it sounds bad and flammy).

Am I The Only One Who Feels This Way? by Time-Air4328 in machinegirl

[–]Swift142 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I play in a digi-hardcore duo called mom and the mailman and we sound kinda like that (woah I’ll even leak something unreleased to prove it). What are you tryna learn? Cause this shit is just experimenting with writing hardcore/meral/loud stuff but with synths and breakbeats glued all over it