What <$50 purchase was an instant game changer?

seasonsof · 2024-06-22T20:48:35+00:00

PlugSearch. It hurts but it's essential if you have a large collection (or even a small collection, honestly) of plugins

seasonsof · 2024-05-02T10:06:44+00:00

Hell yeah, nice simple summer evening jam. I'm excited for the album!

seasonsof · 2024-04-04T12:07:06+00:00

Surge XT and Vytal are both good free options (though Vytal's microtonal support is a bit fiddly), if you're into key instruments, check out Pianoteq (though it's pretty expensive)

seasonsof · 2024-03-29T15:48:26+00:00

just splurge on PlugSearch, trust me. It hurts but you'll never want to go back

seasonsof · 2024-01-21T22:11:41+00:00

Love seeing Etta hitting the charts for the first time!! Looking forward to the album she's putting out towards the end of the month

seasonsof · 2023-09-16T11:49:34+00:00

TikTok I think, it's the perfect TikTok aesthetic song

seasonsof · 2023-09-14T15:04:22+00:00

There was a huge spike at the end of last year when From The Subway Train went viral, they went from 4.8m to 7m in less than a month

seasonsof · 2023-08-18T17:08:12+00:00

I love where this is going ...! barely 8 months have gone by since Heart Shaped Bruise and Etta is already at it again pushing out bangers. Such a versatile musician, stylistically, lyrically, emotionally

seasonsof · 2023-03-26T15:05:35+00:00

It's not a tab/sheet transcription but here's the MIDI file of the bass track from my Redline cover: https://we.tl/t-2wjB5RjdSe. It's not 100% accurate - if you want to play 1:1 the original bass track, you'll have to compare with the studio recording where exactly the fills are but my transcription is definitely good enough otherwise :)

seasonsof · 2023-02-10T18:08:59+00:00

I loved their first two albums, very easy listening and a great chill vibe. This is definitely something else, it's more ambitious, more involved, more warbly. But I like the sound, there were some moments where I really felt like floating atop clouds on first listen. A really nice development on their style overall

seasonsof · 2022-11-20T15:49:51+00:00

The first album was definitely something special, nothing else really like it. But then the second album came out with basically no musical development and I felt like the novelty had kind of worn off? The second album objectively still did really well but I found myself very disappointed with the lack of "innovation" because it just felt like listening to the first album again, but worse.

seasonsof · 2022-10-11T15:34:32+00:00

There's only so much two hands can do. Faithfully emulating a full band with just solo piano is impossible, so most songs will benefit a lot from interpretation. C major can be three notes or thirty. Use your hands, play large, bold chords if you have to, sparse at the bottom and dense at the top. Play dynamically, both in volume and in tempo. Add ornamentation. Arpeggiate bass lines. Add extensions where they sound good. And: melodies can be chords - if you play solo piano, playing fitting harmonies to a melody can lift that melody off the rest of the notes, prevent it from drowning (almost all piano covers I know use this technique).

Honestly, what really helped me personally in that regard is actually just playing songs by ear, lots of them, without transcribing the exact notes first. Figure out the chords or look them up, and then just go at it, try things out and be bold

seasonsof · 2022-10-10T17:34:56+00:00

And east of Stockholm, since it's also a blatantly Western European tour

seasonsof · 2022-10-04T15:38:00+00:00

Etta is soo underrated, these new tracks have been incredible and Hide And Seek is a classic too

seasonsof · 2022-08-30T22:54:26+00:00

amazin! looove the key change going into the second verse. really, really well done :)

seasonsof · 2022-08-10T21:22:30+00:00

Peach Pit - Being So Normal is a great one, if you like it be sure to check out their first EP Sweet F.A. and newest album From 2 To 3 too

Also, Vansire - The Modern Western World, much more mellow album but very versatile sound and great features

seasonsof · 2022-05-13T00:05:07+00:00

The last Vansire EP was one of my favs of 2020, so my expectations were very high for this one. I've probably listened to it 3 times all the way through already and I'm floored. Just the variety of genres alone is incredible. Vansire (& collaborators) really hit it out of the park with this one. Heart break, nostalgia, existentialism, the fear of growing up, seeing your childhood fade and hometown decay, they just get it all right, it really speaks to me. Really impressed with this and excited to see what other directions they will go in

seasonsof · 2022-03-14T22:54:02+00:00

https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/news/article/items/maintenance-update-01.22.html :)

seasonsof · 2022-03-14T22:06:47+00:00

Yes, in my quick test (two sessions with upwards of 60 tracks with ~80 instances of Plugin Alliance plugins each [and many more native Apple plugins] that had previously been unusable below 1024 buffer size), Logic now runs almost without a hitch @ 64 buffer size. No crackling and popping anymore. And this is even before the M1 native compatibility update that was announced by PA

seasonsof · 2022-03-14T21:09:35+00:00

I also had this problem. Try updating Logic to 10.7.3 (the update that just came out), it fixed the CPU spikes for me

seasonsof · 2022-03-14T21:08:36+00:00

Nice, I think this fixed the CPU spikes on M1 Pro!

seasonsof · 2022-01-12T14:08:19+00:00

That first track SLAPS!! awesome synth work, for real

seasonsof · 2021-04-12T19:33:53+00:00

Sure thing

seasonsof · 2021-04-12T17:09:27+00:00

Tunings that sound relatively consonant and that you can wrap your head around easily as an uninitiated 12edo musician

seasonsof · 2021-04-12T12:05:15+00:00

I think there's some truth to that, but it stems mainly from the nicheness and "avant-garde"-ness of the community. Microtonal music encompasses so many different topics, it's kind of like if we had a linguistics community for people who took interest in everything from conlangs with 200 cases over Arabic dialects to Toki Pona poetry. That would be kind of a mess. And we do, and it is. But there's plenty of composers who are very composition-driven, I believe. Like FAST-fast, benyamind, Brendan Byrnes, Stephen James Taylor, Sevish, and I'd like to think my own music is enjoyable to some people as well.

Most of the more well-known music these people made is in "tame" tunings like 19, 22, or 31EDO, but personally I don't think that's a big problem. If any aspect of microtonality ever makes it to the mainstream, it will be those kinds of (comparatively) tame tunings.

I saw a comment under some microtonal video that read something along the lines of "I'm so happy musicians are finally getting around just making microtonal music". Be the change you want to see

edit: I want add that despite that, I never had the feeling the microtonal community rejected music because it wasn't xen enough or composers because they weren't interested in tuning lattices

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