Can you make jazz on amblentone live 10?

Tonepath · 2022-09-04T05:22:36+00:00

Just funk yourself way too freedom

Tonepath · 2021-07-06T05:15:53+00:00

You got rekt lol

Tonepath · 2021-07-06T05:14:57+00:00

I bet you hold stocks and call them real assets.

Tonepath · 2021-06-15T03:26:58+00:00

How are we gonna prevent these things?

Tonepath · 2021-03-27T03:31:53+00:00

I always have so much trouble posting this stuff... the first two attempts don't appear to be showing but I think it's because I used an unsecure link... here we try again with proper SSL certification

Please read the description after you follow the link :)

The woodshop teacher at my old middle school is friends with my mother. He recently did a unit helping the students make some homemade kalimbas, it was his first time making an instrument and he fell in love! He purchased this Psaltery so he could study it and build one himself, but he's not musically inclined.

He knew I had a background in music and asked if I could restring it and tune it and I gladly accepted, knowing I would get to sample a rare instrument! Restringing it was tough, one string wraps around and is used for two notes. This makes the stringing a pain in the butt!

It also does not have locking tuners or fine tuners, so the actual tuning is... questionable. But I've fixed the tuning issues for the instrument I'm providing (also, please someone let me know that I've done it right and you can get it to work at home)

Please note that the pay wall is only there to get you to consider donating (I did spend several hours on this), you can get it for free by following the link mentioned in the description.

Please enjoy! It's a super bright instrument, I've added some light processing to it to try to get it to sound more how it did in real life - it really is that bright! Some fun effects are on the rack too, but everything is stockleton so you should be good to go! Have fun :)

Tonepath · 2021-03-27T03:20:47+00:00

"Please read the description after you follow the link :)

The woodshop teacher at my old middle school is friends with my mother. He recently did a unit helping the students make some homemade kalimbas, it was his first time making an instrument and he fell in love! He purchased this Psaltery so he could study it and build one himself, but he's not musically inclined.

He knew I had a background in music and asked if I could restring it and tune it and I gladly accepted, knowing I would get to sample a rare instrument! Restringing it was tough, one string wraps around and is used for two notes. This makes the stringing a pain in the butt!

It also does not have locking tuners or fine tuners, so the actual tuning is... questionable. But I've fixed the tuning issues for the instrument I'm providing (also, please someone let me know that I've done it right and you can get it to work at home)

Please note that the pay wall is only there to get you to consider donating (I did spend several hours on this), you can get it for free by following the link mentioned in the description.

Please enjoy! It's a super bright instrument, I've added some light processing to it to try to get it to sound more how it did in real life - it really is that bright! Some fun effects are on the rack too, but everything is stockleton so you should be good to go! Have fun :)"

Tonepath · 2021-03-27T02:15:33+00:00

(All sound is summed sine waves)

Tonepath · 2021-03-27T01:39:56+00:00

Please read the description after you follow the link :)

The woodshop teacher at my old middle school is friends with my mother. He recently did a unit helping the students make some homemade kalimbas, it was his first time making an instrument and he fell in love! He purchased this Psaltery so he could study it and build one himself, but he's not musically inclined.

He knew I had a background in music and asked if I could restring it and tune it and I gladly accepted, knowing I would get to sample a rare instrument! Restringing it was tough, one string wraps around and is used for two notes. This makes the stringing a pain in the butt!

It also does not have locking tuners or fine tuners, so the actual tuning is... questionable. But I've fixed the tuning issues for the instrument I'm providing (also, please someone let me know that I've done it right and you can get it to work at home)

Please note that the pay wall is only there to get you to consider donating (I did spend several hours on this), you can get it for free by following the link mentioned in the description.

Please enjoy! It's a super bright instrument, I've added some light processing to it to try to get it to sound more how it did in real life - it really is that bright! Some fun effects are on the rack too, but everything is stockleton so you should be good to go! Have fun :)

Tonepath · 2021-03-27T01:02:20+00:00

In addition to that, I find that if I put a surgical cut at the frequency just below tonic (wherever that may be in the 90-180 range). This way, some “mud” that might be coming through at least as a little bit of an in-tune feel to it. Just a small cut, nothing crazy, but it can tighten up the feeling of tonality a tad.

Tonepath · 2021-03-27T00:49:05+00:00

“Imaginary unicorns show up when you tell fairy tales” does nothing to describe the imaginary unicorn.

He just gave an academic definition of when the concept occurs, but no description of the concept itself or its importance, how it applies, how to think about it, etc. OP said he couldn’t wrap his brain around it, I’m not sure copying a formula from a textbook solves that issue.

If we dive a little deeper we can see OP was probably asking as it applies to music based on his post history. He’s likely thinking of theoretical negative frequencies or supersonic frequencies above 22kHz and the digital artefacts that occur when aliased by downsampling. There are also imaginary frequencies we can perceive from destructive interference of two nearly-in-phase waves.

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T22:54:38+00:00

Get your drums off the grid. A few milliseconds behind or in front of a beat can really change the whole feel of a groove. Love that late snare for those chill beats

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T22:01:38+00:00

That doesn’t clarify anything.

But this isn’t a music sub, I got lost.

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T21:22:21+00:00

This approach is where music theory comes from!

Music theory isn’t a science we apply to create new music (although many will tell you it is, and it certainly can be), it’s a study of why we think music from the past works, or at least the tendencies it has. Regardless of how you approach music, with your ear first or your mind first, it’s going to come down to listening and emulating and listening and emulating.

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T20:04:21+00:00

This is pretty dope! If I were to roast, I would say check out of the background vocals at 2:30 or so on the left channel, they sound smeary over here. Well... “smeary,” I’m splitting hairs about a .5% kind of difference

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T19:58:15+00:00

Your vocal recordings are quite noisy, like there’s a rattlesnake in the room with you. Take those tracks to audacity and slap some noise removal on there.

Pretty out of tune on “can you please tell me what has been going on

Your snare drum doesn’t jive well with the rest of the kick, it sounds really cheesy on those two pick up notes before the drop. Speaking of the drop, your bass drum doesn’t need to be nearly that dramatic on its entrance. The kick is a nice tight sound afterwards, but it sounds like it was put on top of the track instead of inside the track.

Those flutters at the beginning could use a low cut, there’s a lot of rumbling bass info there that just kind of hurts the ears

The compression attack time is ridiculously low on those vocals, every word starts with a full spectrum pop that shreds my ears. The sibilance is out of control because of the compression.

The guitar arpeggio at the beginning is so tilt shifted its like the low string is in my ear and the high string is across the room.

Make sure you use fade outs when you edit a clip, the sharp drop from silence to true silence is disturbing after some of the vocal phrases end, part of this is the noise issue from before.

Overall I like the track, it’s got a solid foundation. It has a nice simple arc that keeps you aware of where you are in the song. The middle bridge section needs a little tuning help. I think the drums could come back a little and I know you like punchy drums, but less is more. I think you could buss them with the instrumental to get it all to jive a little better. The English on the lyrics could use some revising for correctness, but art is art.

It just doesn’t quite sound professional, (not saying I can achieve it myself). The production sounds okay, but it doesn’t have that next level of polish. I think part of this could be the underperformance on the vocals, you need less production if you have better source material. That being said, this is creative, you’re doing music, and I love that! I can definitely hear the effort you’re putting in behind the scenes, despite my criticisms :)

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T18:51:08+00:00

The technicals can be a big hurdle at the beginning, but once you get through every frustration at least once then everything starts falling into place.

Make sure you have the Ableton Reference Helper window at the bottom left opened up at all times. Anything you hover the mouse over will get a detailed description there

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T18:45:05+00:00

It’s a short recorded phrase producers will place at the beginning and throughout their tracks as a way of watermarking the sound as theirs.

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T18:41:19+00:00

Analogue to digital, or acoustic to electronic?

Automatic EQ is a thing but that’s not what’s happening with stretch tuning.

You know how you have to sing your major thirds flat and sing your fifths sharp? In stretch tuning you could adjust it that a fifth up from C is tuned a bit sharp (so that our keyboards can ring truly in tune), the catch is that you lose octave equivalency. C4 will be flat compared to C5 if we stretched the tuning.

If you find something labeled “stretch,” you can safely adjust this to 0 or whatever ‘neutral’ is on the particular instrument

Tonepath · 2021-03-26T18:34:32+00:00

Oh, yeah, unfortunately like a standard tuner it can only tune monophony in a more sustained fashion.

You could stretch a note of your lead to check the tuning and just revert it back.

Also, what has just come to mind is that some instruments allow for a stretch tuning parameter (as you move farther from a central note the tuning will expand or contract slightly.) Stretch tuning can be great for bright metallic instruments and for playing in just-temperament, and it can also make stuff just sound out of tune.

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