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anthromusicnote Aug 4, 2023

When is combining cross-posts in feed feature coming?

When is combining cross-posts in feed feature coming? - waveform.social

I’ve noticed that some users block other users and communities when they see several posts appear multiple time in the feed. It kinda sucks, because I x-post to 3 communities on 3 different instances to have some more reach and redundancy. Unfortunately it means that users otherwise interested in my content filter me or my communities out because it clutters their feed. It also means that other people posting in the same community are losing audiences. And the platform grows slower as a result. Everyone loses. The often proposed (and inefficient) solution is to post to just one instance and one community, but that brings its own set of problems with opening content from other instances being wonky, server outages, bugs and potential for an instance to go down for a long of period of time or permanently due to various reasons. Not feeling particularly excited about piecing it all back together from the fediverse. Anyways, I think if users keep blocking whole communities or subscribe to only one version of it just because of crossposts wreaking havoc it will ultimately inhibit the platform’s growth. This should be easily fixed by filtering out duplicate posts that are already properly x-posted from the feed, and I’ve checked GitHub but it feels like similar issues have already been created in different wording. So when is this functionality coming?

anthromusicnote Aug 4, 2023

90s sampling technique. Learn how to make rich ethereal pads! Sampling pitch shift dynamic can create cool textures! Video by Thought-Forms!

https://waveform.social/post/273816

90s sampling technique. Learn how to make rich ethereal pads! Sampling pitch shift dynamic can create cool textures! Video by Thought-Forms! - waveform.social

If you’ve listened to some 90s and early 00s ambient-oriented tracks and tried to recreate their sounds with just a synth, you’ll notice that downsampling and bitcrushing won’t get you the same kind of sound you hear in there. It will sound dull(er) and less… complete, lush, rich? That is because back in the day artists sampled their synths and the technical side of that process had some cool side effects. You can sample in two different ways. You can sample whole chords, where your parallel harmonies and frequency stretching will combine into a weird but cool sound. Or, on the topic of this video, you can sample an individual note from a synth and have your frequency stretching happen with different magnitudes for every note of the chord. That will create an interesting and rich sound! This Thought-Forms video will show you an exact how-to with some tips on how to develop that sampler sound once you get the basics. It’s quick, concise and really informative. I hope you find this technique useful. AMN out! cross-posted from: https://waveform.social/post/273815 [https://waveform.social/post/273815]

anthromusicnote Aug 4, 2023

90s sampling technique. Learn how to make rich ethereal pads! Sampling pitch shift dynamic can create cool textures! Video by Thought-Forms!

https://waveform.social/post/273813

90s sampling technique. Learn how to make rich ethereal pads! Sampling pitch shift dynamic can create cool textures! Video by Thought-Forms! - waveform.social

If you’ve listened to some 90s and early 00s ambient-oriented tracks and tried to recreate their sounds with just a synth, you’ll notice that downsampling and bitcrushing won’t get you the same kind of sound you hear in there. It will sound dull(er) and less… complete, lush, rich? That is because back in the day artists sampled their synths and the technical side of that process had some cool side effects. You can sample in two different ways. You can sample whole chords, where your parallel harmonies and frequency stretching will combine into a weird but cool sound. Or, on the topic of this video, you can sample an individual note from a synth and have your frequency stretching happen with different magnitudes for every note of the chord. That will create an interesting and rich sound! This Thought-Forms video will show you an exact how-to with some tips on how to develop that sampler sound once you get the basics. It’s quick, concise and really informative. I hope you find this technique useful. AMN out!

anthromusicnote Jul 29, 2023

Voxengo SPAN and MSED. Simple, free and customizeable tools for stereo-imaging, loudness and spectrum analysis!

https://waveform.social/post/241395

Voxengo SPAN and MSED. Simple, free and customizeable tools for stereo-imaging, loudness and spectrum analysis! - waveform.social

There are a lot of great stereo imaging tools and spectrum analyzers. Most of them aren’t free though. Having a good way to visually analyze loudness, frequency distribution and stereo image is incredibly important. Unfortunately, it is often the case that most default or free solutions are barely functional. They don’t provide you with enough information to shape your mix or don’t present it in a simple, clear and understandable format. (I’m looking at you, FL studio visualizers!) SPAN is a spectrum analysis tool that will let you monitor your peak volume, RMS and LUFS. It shows you the frequencies that are passing through the plugin and you can customize the spectrum view by changing time, frequency and level ranges. If you want even more precision and control, you can adjust the fast fourier transform sample size, it gets that technical! You can also compare channels, left and right of the same channel or two different ones. Two channel comparison is the limit of the free version, SPAN Plus allows you to display as many channels as your DAW will allow. It also features a correlation meter that measures your phase alignment (1=fully aligned and -1=completely misaligned). It can also track your loudness stats thoughout the playtime to iron out any kinks. Handy, functional and no-nonsense tool. MSED is a stereo analysis and encoding tool. It can help you manange your side and mid channels: your stereo image. It comes with a basic set of tools that allows you to pan, change levels, swap left-right channels and flip phase 180 degrees. The visualizers are pretty simple, you have your correlation meter from before, stereo pan meter and plasma-style vector scope. You might think you don’t need it if you DAW provides stereo imaging functions of its own, but often times you’re going to be playing guessing games in terms of how that audio will actually get processed: some DAWS merge your stereo tracks to mono, some don’t. MSED takes care of that ambiguity and puts all of the necessary tools and monitoring in one spot. These plugins are available in VST, VST3, AU and AAX for free! I really can’t recommend them enough if you’re starting out producing or are in need of simple tools that won’t take a toll on your CPU with fancy advanced processing. SPAN Product page: https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/ [https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/] MSED Product page: https://www.voxengo.com/product/msed/ [https://www.voxengo.com/product/msed/] cross-posted from: https://waveform.social/post/241390 [https://waveform.social/post/241390]

anthromusicnote Jul 29, 2023

Voxengo SPAN and MSED. Simple, free and customizeable tools for stereo-imaging, loudness and spectrum analysis!

https://waveform.social/post/241373

Voxengo SPAN and MSED. Simple, free and customizeable tools for stereo-imaging, loudness and spectrum analysis! - waveform.social

There are a lot of great stereo imaging tools and spectrum analyzers. Most of them aren’t free though. Having a good way to visually analyze loudness, frequency distribution and stereo image is incredibly important. Unfortunately, it is often the case that most default or free solutions are barely functional. They don’t provide you with enough information to shape your mix or don’t present it in a simple, clear and understandable format. (I’m looking at you, FL studio visualizers!) SPAN is a spectrum analysis tool that will let you monitor your peak volume, RMS and LUFS. It shows you the frequencies that are passing through the plugin and you can customize the spectrum view by changing time, frequency and level ranges. If you want even more precision and control, you can adjust the fast fourier transform sample size, it gets that technical! You can also compare channels, left and right of the same channel or two different ones. Two channel comparison is the limit of the free version, SPAN Plus allows you to display as many channels as your DAW will allow. It also features a correlation meter that measures your phase alignment (1=fully aligned and -1=completely misaligned). It can also track your loudness stats thoughout the playtime to iron out any kinks. Handy, functional and no-nonsense tool. MSED is a stereo analysis and encoding tool. It can help you manange your side and mid channels: your stereo image. It comes with a basic set of tools that allows you to pan, change levels, swap left-right channels and flip phase 180 degrees. The visualizers are pretty simple, you have your correlation meter from before, stereo pan meter and plasma-style vector scope. You might think you don’t need it if you DAW provides stereo imaging functions of its own, but often times you’re going to be playing guessing games in terms of how that audio will actually get processed: some DAWS merge your stereo tracks to mono, some don’t. MSED takes care of that ambiguity and puts all of the necessary tools and monitoring in one spot. These plugins are available in VST, VST3, AU and AAX for free! I really can’t recommend them enough if you’re starting out producing or are in need of simple tools that won’t take a toll on your CPU with fancy advanced processing. SPAN Product page: https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/ [https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/] MSED Product page: https://www.voxengo.com/product/msed/ [https://www.voxengo.com/product/msed/]

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anthromusicnote Jul 19, 2023

I’ve been making music for roughly 8 years now, starting at the age of 14. No, I’m not a child prodigy! I made some really crappy music right until I hit 18 since I didn’t really care about being good (which may have been a great thing!) I guess I’ve only been seriously producing for the past 4 years. I normally spend about 6-10 hours a week to produce, and if I’m doing a project I really like, that time can fly all the way up to 20s and 30s!

I really liked Jungle and DnB for as long as I can remember. Broader EDM was my bread and butter in my teens and I’m into electronic rock and metal these days. I suppose all of those genres are really high in energy, that’s what I enjoy about my music and the music that I listen to.

I really like Professor Kliq, he makes some great albums and soundtracks. His rhythms and arrangement are top notch, he never made a dull production. ALEPH sound is one of those producers that make you question the limits of the musical medium. He manages to make near-noise productions that sounds satisfying and don’t grate on the ears. Combichrist is great at dark moods, their lyrics are really densely packed with literary devices and their industrial (metal?) sound is something you can’t get from any other band.

You guys should know my resources by now, I’m an avid youtube learner and whatever information I can dig up, I use. Most of my recent learning was focused on vocals since I was trying to improve my voice for my metal and rock productions. If you care about that, I really like Sibila Extreme Vocal channel, the info is well condensed, nuanced, and you’ll start growling and screaming in no time. I was watching Chris Liepe for a while and I must say, his extreme vocal videos aren’t good for learning but when it comes to clean vocals, he does a great job at getting you into the right mindset of experimenting with your voice and finding out how different ways to sing feel. He helped my clean singing immensely, but if you’re just starting out, a more orthodox teaching method is definitely better.

SpiderHeck OST, by Professor Kliq

9 track album

Professor Kliq

anthromusicnote Jul 19, 2023

We have crossed 200 subscribers! (some time ago!) Let's do some discussion questions!

https://waveform.social/post/187981

We have crossed 200 subscribers! (some time ago!) Let's do some discussion questions! - waveform.social

Just wanted to write out this post to the waveform community and say my thanks to everyone who’s been participating and lurking in this community so far. It’s amazing to see your posts and projects here every day and it genuinely makes my day a little brighter to know that something I posted helped someone on the other side of the screen! Anyways, I’d like to ask you all to help me bring you better content. I can’t really post Kush, In The Mix, or random youtubers everyday, I find a lot of channels don’t go nearly in-depth enough on a lot of topics and just scratch the surface, and well established youtubers just post the same content and advice over and over again. We should all benefit from different perspectives here! I got a new job (yay!) earlier this week, so I’m gonna be a bit short on free time, which means if I don’t do something about the way I search for content it’ll be hard to make it consistently. Finding noteworthy youtube channels can be quite time consuming. Writing a quality post also takes time: watching, researching, writing, reviewing, all that sha-bang! Takes me on average about 2-3 hours to do all of that. I might have ADHD or some form of inattention so that might explain if those hours seem like a bit too much. So I thought we’d pool some interesting channels and websites in this thread, that way it’ll be easy to reference for newcomers and I’ll be able to curate the best content in here. It will also be interesting to know what your guys knowledge levels are and what areas of production you find most difficult: mixing, mastering, sound design, songwriting, etc. It will help me curate the content better as right now I really have very little idea about all that. And also, your likes in terms of genres and artists would be cool to share in the community. Let’s see what kind of music we like to make! Here are the discussion questions in a nice order. You don’t have to answer every single question and it’s completely okay to answer just one! All of these have full potential to be a really interesting standalone comment! 1. Tell us about yourself! How long have you been making music and how much time do you spend producing a week (roughly)? What made you start your journey? 2. What are your favorite genres to make and/or listen to? What unites them or makes them different to you? 3. What are your most favorite artists? What makes them great to you? 4. What resources (websites and youtube channels) do you use for learning? How do they help you? I’ll start with myself in the comments to this post!

anthromusicnote Jul 14, 2023

Dubstep Growl sound design in Vital, Virtual Riot style! Video by Sounds Good

https://waveform.social/post/154056

Dubstep Growl sound design in Vital, Virtual Riot style! Video by Sounds Good - waveform.social

Dubstep growls may sound like they’re simple, but getting a good growl sound is way more than just distorting some waves to all hell (though it may be a part of it). Using your envelopes and LFOs to shape the sound through filters, distortion and other effects will get quite a bit more complicated. Noah will show us how to get a high quality, clean and powerful dubstep growl in the style of Virtual Riot, so you can put those skills and ideas to use in your own synth patches. cross-posted from: https://waveform.social/post/154053 [https://waveform.social/post/154053]

anthromusicnote Jul 14, 2023

Dubstep Growl sound design in Vital, Virtual Riot style! Video by Sounds Good

https://waveform.social/post/154053

Dubstep Growl sound design in Vital, Virtual Riot style! Video by Sounds Good - waveform.social

Dubstep growls may sound like they’re simple, but getting a good growl sound is way more than just distorting some waves to all hell (though it may be a part of it). Using your envelopes and LFOs to shape the sound through filters, distortion and other effects will get quite a bit more complicated. Noah will show us how to get a high quality, clean and powerful dubstep growl in the style of Virtual Riot, so you can put those skills and ideas to use in your own synth patches. P.S: My posts will slow down from here on out as I have a bit more going on IRL than I did when I started. This one today is a quickie in between my schedule, but bigger posts will still keep coming and I hope you find it interesting nevertheless!

anthromusicnote Jul 11, 2023

How EQ changes phases. Differences between zero-latency and linear phase equalization, and how they impact your latencies and transients. Unexpected Haas effects. Technical deep-dive by Sage Audio

https://waveform.social/post/136533

How EQ changes phases. Differences between zero-latency and linear phase equalization, and how they impact your latencies and transients. Unexpected Haas effects. Technical deep-dive by Sage Audio - waveform.social

EQ is a really simple tool, but the way it works is anything but that. Different equalizers use different algorithms to process your audio, and most of them will affect your sound in unexpected ways. The video will give you an overview on some technical reasons why phase weirdness happens with most EQs and also how an asymmetric EQ setup can give you unexpected Haas effects. And man, does Sage Audio’s video feature some sick beats! cross-posted from: https://waveform.social/post/136498 [https://waveform.social/post/136498]