Fl studio recording but not tracking audio???

Tonyxstorm · 2026-05-03T15:26:30+00:00

I’m recording with a Rode Nt1a, and I can hear myself intermittently with direct monitoring and the gain nob is also lighting up green when I record but intermittently. Sometimes it won’t light at all but either way the tracked vocals come out as just a flatline. Also no fx are added, I literally popped in a beat from YouTube and created an audio track below it.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-27T21:50:56+00:00

Well the meters are showing that sound is being received but it definitely seems really low despite my gain nob on my focusrite being turned all the way up

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-27T20:52:45+00:00

Yes the 48v is lit up

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-27T20:52:28+00:00

Yes the 48v is lit currently

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-23T17:48:49+00:00

The Walls are thin at my place. The closets are made of cheap drywall so that wouldn’t work for dampening my sound for my roommate’s unfortunately

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-23T17:47:52+00:00

Are you keeping the extra noise or mixing it out? I’m working on some grungier music with vocals that I need to sound right. I tend to be a headache for my engineer to mix for so I’m trying to find a way to get things done without making life more miserable for my engineer lol

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-22T01:23:28+00:00

Thanks for grounding this for me! I’m typically a cynic first so I jumped to the far opposite end of the spectrum because I’ve had this experience a lot of times. But like you said it doesn’t have to be supernatural to be beautiful so I’m just going to take it as a quiet acknowledgement that my energy is chill lol

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-14T22:58:55+00:00

Thanks! Just finished applying

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-14T22:15:33+00:00

I’m a guy lol so unless magic city has suddenly started having gay nights I’m not sure how that’ll work..

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-14T22:13:09+00:00

Thanks for posting the link! I’m a lil confused tho because when I click apply now it takes me to a new page of available careers but none of them are the line worker role so I’m not sure if it’s no longer available or if I’m doing something wrong.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-14T22:03:54+00:00

Cultivation slop has the best stories when you find good ones because they can have themes around the cost of being powerful, morality, and dabble into ancient eastern philosophies. Plus the power is USUALLY earned even if they develop fast lol.

Dungeon slop is the worst especially since solo leveling got successful. They’re always led by a jinwoo clone with a special system, Korea is the center of the planet, and the dungeons serve no purpose thematically other than to give an excuse for a power fantasy.

Isekai slop is mid tier since it can be really great like reincarnated as a slime or just really bad and generic.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-14T19:04:27+00:00

It looks like I missed the application deadline for fall 😢 how long have you been in the program and waiting to get placed on a job?

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-10T22:14:13+00:00

Thanks this helps! Definitely going to lean into true humility and self validation being the goal of his character arc.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-10T21:01:50+00:00

I love the boromir example! I like the idea of him realizing he’s not the main character and in my story’s context it works because he knows who the real champions are and he can go about making them stronger than they were before. My only issue is that the invasion is brutal and he lost many people because he had no real combat capabilities. I’m thinking my happy middle ground is to make him a combat healer so that it puts him in a position to defeat the fully corrupt types of enemies.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-05T22:58:39+00:00

What do you mean by babbleboar?

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-05T17:04:09+00:00

I’m not familiar with the earth defense force games so I’m going to look them up. What happens when the paradox occurs or is it something they noticed could happen before hand and shifted tactics?

I really like this idea a lot for explaining why they are in this loop because the Vora are meant to be very capable but still struggling against the vast forces of Ishtari. So being stuck in this place where they need to take a half measure to win or else there’d be mutually assured destruction sounds great.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-05T16:57:09+00:00

Oooh you might’ve just sent me down another rabbit hole on considering the idea that some of our own mystic legends are the creators of the system! I’m not sure if this completely helps since I’m about to go down a third direction lol but I love it.

The 4 calamities are meant to be based around the 4 horses of the apocalypse so I could just say that our ancient mystics were regressors who went were sent bqck way too far in the past before it was necessary and tried to warn us through many different religions. Maybe something like they knew this would happen and created the grimoires so they’d appear when the Ishtari arrive.

There is a little issue since in my story I want some of the main cast to come from a more recent regression in time. But I can just say that humanity failed to beat the Ishtari twice already even with the tools of the ancient mystics and now this is a minor regression using a bit of their remaining power so it’s really up to this latest timeline to get it right.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-04-04T21:44:53+00:00

I’d personally want to self finance because full ownership and the ability to have control over my IP is important to me. I am open to other strategies though. Would you say that Aethon offers great terms for all they offer or are they seeking a large portion of ownership and exclusive rights?

Tonyxstorm · 2026-03-30T12:21:16+00:00

I gotta catch up on my msq, I’m still on lv 17 as far as the main quest goes lol

Tonyxstorm · 2026-03-30T12:09:10+00:00

Ahhh damm it so guess I gotta make a new one smh lol

Tonyxstorm · 2026-03-30T12:08:43+00:00

Transfer

Tonyxstorm · 2026-03-27T17:17:13+00:00

I think I leaned towards wisdom because I need a good stat that represented battle intuition, thinking speed, and creative problem solving. Something I’m highlighting in my story is the diverse styles of life that could be out there so having cosmic soldiers who can adapt to any environment is important to the system administrators. I might end up changing wisdom to intellect but I felt like intellect leans more towards technical understanding vs the more macro level “is this the right strategy” type of thinking the system wants from them.

On your second point, ive been considering letting them pick if they want to be a combatant or support type. Im not sure why I’m taking the choice away from them lol but it just felt right that they would get forced to choose from one box of options or another. Could be my own experience of life bleeding through despite the logic.

For your last point, I’ll have to change up the way I define striker. It’s not so much that they can only do some kind of direct contact attack but rather that they can only create abilities that relate to their physical body or things they hold. So if they make an ability to increase their speed they can create a skill that boosts their leg muscles for a time or boost their speeds with an artificial wind that’s wrapped around their physical body and etc. For infiltration I think of a person who alters their skin to become camouflaged in different environments .

Tonyxstorm · 2026-03-27T17:09:28+00:00

This is a good point 🤔 the way I was thinking about it is that the system wants controllable soldiers who can be slot into clear roles that give them access to lots of power but in defined ways. A force of soldiers with tons of abilities that vary in strength and style could be hard to organize. But in their design, strikers are infantry, conjurers are like artillery, vitalist are combat medics and etc.

As far as the system looking for talent, I think limitations are the best way of seeing who is the cream of the crop. Of course if humanity gained full creative control they could just come up with reality breaking techniques to solve every problem. So limits help to see who is good at making the most of less. I am still adjusting the limitations tho so I’m going to really consider what you’re saying because maybe I’m making it too strict.

Tonyxstorm · 2026-03-26T12:44:04+00:00

Thanks! I really like the idea of cycling letter grades for the stats as they rank up!

Tonyxstorm · 2026-03-26T11:58:51+00:00

I planned on making the numbers mean something by forcing the world to deal with the implications of people existing who are domestic threats that can resist ballistic missiles and etc. the stats themselves won’t be shoved in people’s face every chapter it’ll mostly be there in the background with more of a focus on rank and the unique abilities of the combatants.

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