Wow, thanks, I didn’t know about that one so I didn’t even include it in my post so you stop saying it!

That’s not a solution. That’s a workaround for another workaround. If we want to make Lemmy become a useful resource, communities need to grow. And there is no better way to promote content besides posting it on other relevant spaces. I don’t run a shitposting space, it’s educational content and I post stuff once in 3-5 days, so I’m not spamming anything. If you have an alternative method for growing a community, I’ll hear it out.

Fun video and great analysis from squash! I think nobody was under impression that type beats were there to stay, but we see a lot of sentiment nowadays how “music gets easier and cheaper to make” and how “the artist market is oversaturated”. It applies to visual art, animation, film etc. And every single time that sentiment is used to say that there is a lot of bad [form of art] out there now and how it’s hard to make money from [said art].

Here’s the thing, yes the market gets oversaturated with amateur producers doing the easy and simple things to get cash. But music being easier and cheaper to make means more opportunity for people to develop their skills into something unique. It also makes it easier for you, if you take a bit of time necessary to learn better tools.

The monetary value we try to put on art is unhealthy because art will never fit into economy on it’s own merit as art, since economy puts value on things based on immediate demand. People who make their self-esteem based on the value of their art set themselves up for failure and complain about it instead of adapting to it. We have natural needs like food, water, shelter, sleep, etc, but when we go further away from that our desires start becoming influenced by society. Sometimes people can’t know they want something if they never experienced it. Music can often be like that and this is the key to creating value in music.

For example, diamond is a rock most people don’t have a practical use for and it’s actually quite abundant. It’s value was created by limiting the available supply and creating a mostly artificial demand in form of the wedding ring and expensive jewelry as symbols. This surface-level useless thing is desired because people have attached it to their relationships and interactions with society. You can say that this is where the real value is created. A lot of people listen to music in the same way. Sometimes, the quality of the music itself as art is secondary. The opportunities it creates for bonding and topical discussion is what really makes it worth it for most people.

What I’m trying to say is that no matter how great the music is, it’s only worth as much as you successfully market. Marketing low-effort music and having great success is kind of a feat on its own, there are tons more type beat tracks that didn’t get almost any traction. And a good track might market itself and it will definitely make your other marketing efforts more effective… but we shouldn’t bet everything on just having a good song/album. Almost every successful niche artist is doing some stuff behind the scenes to get their music out there and seen. Playing that game well is what brings you fame and money. Whether you consider it success or a part of success is entirely up to you!

Thanks for sharing, it’s been an interesting addition to my day!

That’s true, I wasn’t advocating for putting a combined plugin on everything for any other reason but workflow, the memory concern and effect additions are a really good point! That said, AFAIK SPAN shouldn’t cause any effects and being an analyzer plugin you can always disable instances you don’t need. MSED is a bit different, so no comment there. I use MSED and SPAN on pre-master channel buses so I can monitor groups of instruments and I really need all of the measurements in there to make some judgements and adding 5+ plugins to emulate their combined function will only add more surface for potential effect additions and clutter my screen. That’s where I was coming from. Maybe I’m wrong about it, let me know

I’d argue the speed reduction to your workflow from having to manage multiple overlapping windows is a significant drawback and there is nothing that stops free software from embedding other projects as a dependency with some user discretion. Unless you don’t have to manage the windows because of how much screen space you have or because of how those plugins work around that, I’d say having all essential stuff in one place (window) is better. I worked in FL for a long time and I’m not sure if it gets better in other DAWs. Trying out new stuff soon though

I used to have a friend back in middle school who was getting a music education at the time. That was right around the point when I just started producing and he mentioned that my music sounded like it was from a videogame. And well I kinda took that to heart and looked up a bunch of itch.io games. I found a cool project and they were just in need of a soundtrack, so I said “let me give it a go”. They liked my drafts and the rest is history. I’ve learned so much since then. Working on the game for the past couple of years boosted my skills into something release worthy. I even rewrote the whole thing twice because the skill gap was so massive between the first and the last track in the playlist. This last rewrite is gonna be final, and gonna become my portfolio in case I want to hit another studio after this. Hope it works out!