Tim Smith

Random. Yes I'm random, how about you?

I bought room/speaker equalization software matched to my headphones and mixes we just ok. Then, in a studio move I stopped using equalization software temporarily and mixed mainly on headphones.

To my surprise the mixes translated best without the EQ stuff mixing mainly on headphones. Go figure. I found that if the mix sounded bad it was something I either should have done or didn't do to the mix. 

They never tell you when coffee is inorganic.

Yep that's similar to the Aldi brand. Oh wait, you went dark roast. 

Let me see if I have this right. I bought their software instruments so I would not need a new keyboard and now they make a keyboard. 

I should look at the vids before commenting further.

I prefer really coffee tasting coffee.

When I made espresso a lot I used Lavazza. It was messing with me, so I went back to brewed coffee usually with a sugar free creamer that looks like milk but isn't.

I haven't been roasting my own coffee and eventually ended up making coffee I bought at Aldi. Generally a medium roast arabica. 

If you knew me, you would know that's stooping pretty low since not too long ago I roasted my own fresh Yirgacheff beans. Now I'm trash.

I heard there ain't no flo no mo.

The ones I played correctly? Which amounts to about 1% or less.

Please don't answer that last one.

34 minutes ago, craigb said:

Some Prog can keep my interest but, to be honest, a lot (as well as Classical which I listen to quite often) acts as perfect background music while I'm programming.  They both help me focus.

Back ground is different. Like when some people talk to me. I could get on with that all day.

Sometimes my wife will be talking to me and say "6000 dollars". Then I'll be like what? Up until then I didn't hear a thing she said.

27 minutes ago, craigb said:

**** YEAH!!! 😆

Oh yeah, there is that one. 

27 minutes ago, Grem said:

γαμώ yeah!!

I didn't know you were Jewish. Sorry I can't understand that. I'm southern.

24 minutes ago, craigb said:

As if ANYONE has the attention span for me talking!!! 😂

It all depends I guess.

That always makes for a great escapist comment.

Generally free and Behringer go well together. This looks like a nice synth. Not to be associated with that other line of thinking.

On 4/7/2024 at 1:48 PM, pwal³ said:

Fart vs trump

That sounds reasonable, who is Fart?

Thumpety bumpety walllladawalo. Wawawawa depo beppo blingedy blong. 

How did that sound? Can you guess the instrument?

I don't know if I have the attention span to watch that. Can you just tell me what he said?

2 hours ago, craigb said:

😆

You know I thought I was having a baby, and I seen something like that yesterday.

2 hours ago, craigb said:

Yes!

If you listen intently all the way though some of it, you have refined listening skills. The interest holds you, I get that.

If you listen to 1 hour of classical music intently, you would be a nerd. I say that in the most respectful way possible.

Haven't looked at the definition of curse words. Things we say that add force to our conversations?  Like negative verbal art maybe? I dunno. 

I can't say it's positive. Any happy curse words out there?

Never mind.

14 hours ago, Grem said:

“the first 10-15 seconds are highly decisive for whether we skip the song or not"

Quote from the referenced article.

Two things contribute to the issue IMO- Caffiene and sound byte chunks of data.

I like 10 minute YouTube videos. 30 minutes is pushing it. Does that translate to music? 

Any prog rock fans out there? 

On 4/4/2024 at 4:14 PM, craigb said:

Yeah... Whatever.

After my drink here I want to go lick all over my master.- thinks exhibit a.

Cheese and crackers you guys when is this ever going to end

On 4/5/2024 at 5:21 PM, msmcleod said:

Anyone who has had to study Bach chorales will have had the "classical rules of harmony" ingrained into them, e.g.  don't double the 3rd, don't move intervals of 4ths or 5ths 'cos it sounds modal (so power chords are out), 7ths have to be prepared and must be resolved... there's a bunch of them.   Then there's rules of counterpoint harmony... again a bunch of them.

Knowing these rules can actually be advantageous, as applying them, say, to a string quartet sounds way better than not using them - assuming of course you want a "classical" sound, and by that I mean both classical genre and classical period.

However like any rules you need to know when and how to break them, and more importantly you've got to let yourself break them too.  If you've had strict classical training, this can be difficult as some people really do see them as rules.  Certain chord progressions can sound wrong because you've been taught to recognise them as wrong, and this can kill creativity (I'm speaking from personal experience here).

The way I got around this was to apply the same analytical techniques to modern pop/rock music (as well as jazz fusion and more modern orchestral music) as I did in my classes when studying classical music.  Anything that sounded cool that was "wrong" according to my training, I analysed and worked out what was going on.  It then got added to my toolbox.

However I suspect the vast majority of people don't get forced into harmonising several chorales a week for years on end, and for those learning more theory can be a huge benefit to creativity.  Just knowing scales, keys, how chords are formed, relative major/minor keys, different modes etc can broaden your understanding incredibly.  Simple things like changing modes, or chord substitution can make your music way more interesting.

 

Rules? You mean there are rules?

In years past I just habitually bought updates to all my DAW software. If it's new it must be better right?  SO was no exception, and I would do that not even knowing what was new.

I must already have like 10 subscriptions to various services and I'm finding I don't use most of it. We really don't 'own' software in the sense of true ownership. Gone are the days of having that disk there on my desk that felt to me as if I would have it for life, and yes  we still have those disks, but many generations of it have followed it. We sort of gave up that  "it's mine for life" idea before subscriptions. It was even fun to buy the new stuff. Not a chore. It's fun to build a new computer too, so it all kind of goes together and then you think. I'm going to kill it now lol. I think it's a part of the hobby for those with GAS.

But for me, I'm beginning to watch things more closely and sure I'll update still but I am more reluctant to do so if the new features really aren't something I see myself using, and which would not be the same for everyone. I might wait two or three generations of a product now.  TBH most of us are loaded to the gills for pretty much anything with what we already have, so I think there is a "shiney new thing" factor in all of this or we would just wait until the next computer OS or major update to consider it. And sure they could miff us all by making the old version unfunctional after two years.

That's really where I see subscriptions eventually ending up. It's fun if I WANT it, but if you tell me I am forced because if I don't you'll take my goodies away that's different. 

We aren't there yet, but getting close. I guess some of that GAS has worn off. I'm like meh. Sorry, but my tude is changing probably because A. New stuff doesn't ever make better music and B. The novelty is wearing off. When has anyone ever said "Oh no, I am still on version 5, I can't make music"? 

So there it is, what there is of it. Call me passive to the max. 

There is surely some consideration as to the learning curve coming into or out of anything else. None of that has ever held me back or I wouldn't have like five DAWS. In fact I encourage at least trying demo versions of others to see what fits you. I found one I like, so it's going to take a lot for me to buy an update so I can stare at it and say I updated.  Or at my funeral noone is going to say, " Well at least he upgraded to 6.6" If we do it, it's for us, and if you enjoy it I will be the last to try and steal that or suggest anything negative.

It really a way of rewarding the devs for their hard work and continuing to help the industry. That's how I sorta seen it.  I say that tongue in cheek because I don't think any of us will get thank you letters. Probably not a good reason to buy anything you use on a regular basis. You have to like using it. Maybe similar to my garage which is littered with stuff I thought I might use lol.