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    Better Call Saul (spoilers ahoy)

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    It feels like this universe is winding down doesn't it? Like Breaking Bad burned 70% of the fuel over 5.5 seasons, and BCS has burned 28% of it now over 6 seasons, kind coasting the whole time from season 1 till now, but especially now and it's winding down to a close. The black and white episodes mixed with all the scenes with shadows and the characters still insisting on taking their time, it's like a car that was speeding, ran out of fuel, and is just coasting to a stop now. And Gene is in the last coast thinking he can get more mileage out of this thing, and he steps on the gas and will in a few short episodes discover that no, he can't. It's over. Like Walt with lighting the matches and throwing them in the pool signifying his last year of life burning bright yet ending quickly. We are watching Gene in the pool trying to light his match, and it's just sad and pitiful at this point. 

    Jesse is the only one who will get a 'happy' ending because he was the only one that wasn't doomed to need the excitement of a criminal life.

     

    jordan b peterson

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    On 7/8/2022 at 12:01 AM, Alcofribas said:

    does he? he comes off as very insecure to me. just like on a gut level he radiates little bitch energy. 

     To us yeah he has a bundle of problems. But to many of his supporters he radiates the "strong father figure" they never had. Collectively, he is their surrogate parent. It's a role he plays for them. So they connect with him emotionally like that. He is totally aware of it going by his "clean your room" and making books about "rules". Even ties into those archetypes he can't stop talking about.

    Then when he says something racist or sexist or whatever, the evil liberal internet collective comes to crucify their dad for just "telling the truth" (YEAH I GUESS WOMEN DO WEAR MAKEUP BECAUSE THEY WANT ME TO BE SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO THEM), and they have to defend him no matter what he says. Same with Trump. And probably Reagan.

    Dude's their dad. He knows it too, and he for the past few years has been spoon feeding his base his bullshit. And this is conjecture, but because it probably DOES improve their lives in an emotional sense, they believe what he says. Because it serves them like a parent would. And if they believe it makes them happy, they will inevitably mistake that for some kinda objective logic leading to happiness. So they defend him and prop him up, and the people who see through that make memes out of the absurd shit he says sometimes.

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    jordan b peterson

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    On 7/7/2022 at 9:41 PM, chenGOD said:

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    Thoughts aren't a thing he is very good at. The only thing he knows how to do is to build up a strawman for his supporters, then knock it down. Then they clap, clean their rooms, and eat raw meat from Burger King.

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    jordan b peterson

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    Honestly the only way he will go away is if you stop paying attention to him. He thinks he is some kinda Philosopher/Martyr/lobster person obsessed with archetypes in literature. The best thing that can be done for his mental health is for him to stop getting so much attention. He seems to be unable to handle it these days in a semi-sane way, if he ever was able to handle it.

    OR he is doing a bit and playing the bad guy as it's made him money in the past. That tweet thing got him 3 million views. Yeah lots of people are dunking on him, but these days certain figures are happy with any kind of attention. It will reenforce his audience, and remind people who already don't like him that yes he still exists.

    Shit, maybe I'd be up for becoming Jordan Peterson 2.0 if it'll make me money. Time to read up on archetypes and mix them with science-babble. And lobsters or whatever.  I will Practice complaining about wokeness and cancel culture and saying "Trump was right about everything but I don't support him, even if all his critics are wrong and have no morals in attacking him over everything."

    I will straddle the political fence because I believe in nothing but your money and attention. I'm gonna be so rich.

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    The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention

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    This album is great. The Same is like a part 2 to 2+2=5 where Thom is just like "Okay no more theatrics, time bomb is about to go off, it's getting ridic, I can't make that more explicit with this song".

    "Thin Thing" is great. Definitely one of their best guitar oriented tracks. It feels like a hybrid between 2+2=5 and Paranoid Android. I kinda like it better than those both. I think due to how raw it is, and the guitar solo is more appealing than Paranoid Androids somehow. The simplification of their band has been good for this album. I do hope radiohead comes back, but the fact the other 3 aren't here means you hear Thom and especially Greenwood's influence even more as he has to fill space he normally doesn't have to fill.

    Best Interviews with Artists who go into detail about their approach to making music (preferably electronic)

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    I have been reading Tim Hecker interviews recently and it's impressive how much he goes into his process and I have a list of ideas to try out from them. I wish people were this open on how he makes music instead of keeping it close to your chest. Good technique and sound design is required to make good music, however the most important part is what you do with the sounds and that's where he excels . His music isn't good because he has hidden sound design secrets or whatever. He could teach someone everything he knows but they won't be able to emulate that kinda creativity. That is generalizing a bit but you get muh point.

    https://www.factmag.com/2016/03/31/tim-hecker-interview-love-streams/



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    Drukqs is truly a modern masterpiece.

    in Aphex Twin

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    On 4/28/2022 at 2:24 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

    This album prob inspired me more than any other to make mental drill 'n' bass type shit.  Perfect time to jump on that train, right as it was going out.  Was fun though.

    I remember really liking Daft Punk as a teenager, but thinking Electronic music is fun but there is no way it can capture the emotional depth of acoustic instruments. But no turns out if you know what you're doing it can capture emotional intensity even better than acoustic instruments. I am generalizing but there is truth to that i think.

    First 2 songs I heard by Aphex Twin were 4 and Vordhosbn. when I heard those 2 I immediately decided I wanted to make electronic music and then I sold my guitar. It was as if the music I had been making up and hearing in my head since I was a kid was actualized and obtainable.

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    Meltface 6 reaction video

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    I never understand why most of these youtuber music reactors will listen to a song for a minute, talk for a minute about, listen another minute, talk.. etc. It's your first listen so pausing it will degrade it's effect somewhat.

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    Any software/plugin where you can give it say.... a folder of 3 minute drum playing, audio, and it will automatically determine where drums are and cut them to turn into One-Shots?

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    On 4/11/2022 at 1:46 AM, Silent Member said:

    Maybe this? https://web.archive.org/web/20170622191859/http://www.spacetaxi.de/sf/waveknife.html

     

    Edit: I haven't used it in a million years, I see now that it doesn't support 24 bit files if you need that.

    oh man that interface makes me oddly nostalgic for the mid to late 90s.

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    Any software/plugin where you can give it say.... a folder of 3 minute drum playing, audio, and it will automatically determine where drums are and cut them to turn into One-Shots?

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    THX for the replies peeps. I made a list of things to check out.

    On 4/11/2022 at 8:35 AM, TubularCorporation said:

    SWS for Reaper will automaticlaly slice at transients, or you can take a little more time and tab to transients manually, since you're going to want to check the auto slicing anyhow, and that's at least as much work as manually slicing.

    Yeah I know there are plenty of vsts that will slice audio you give it. But I'm talking about being able to drag 20 audio clips, and then have them turned into one shots to be dumped in a new folder. That's what I am really asking for. I am looking to get a ton of one shots to be able to use in drum machines and such.

    On 4/11/2022 at 1:46 AM, Silent Member said:

    Maybe this? https://web.archive.org/web/20170622191859/http://www.spacetaxi.de/sf/waveknife.html

     

    Edit: I haven't used it in a million years, I see now that it doesn't support 24 bit files if you need that.

    Looks promising. At least I have a starting point.

    On 4/10/2022 at 11:27 PM, nikisoko said:

    you can do this in Logic Pro by turning on flex mode,  detecting transients and then option-clicking and then click slice by transients in the menu.  From there you will have a bunch of regions. You can open the file browser and select all the regions and then option+click and save each region as its own file. As a side note, with the text tool in the arranger you can select all the regions and then name the first one something like "drums-001" and it will rename all of them sequentially following the number pattern you set up.

    There is lots of software that will do some version of this, Recycle was the the classic one in the late 90s. I've found Logic's transient detection to be really top notch for this kind of stuff though.

    I know that kinda stuff is abundant. IDK if I wrote my original post well, but I would love to be able to throw like.. 20 breaks in, have it automatically. make one shots without me having to manually go in. Would save a lot of time even if there inevitable will be wonky sounding one shots litered thruout.

    Linear vs Non-Linear way of making music

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    On 3/18/2022 at 2:14 AM, cern said:

    People like Sean from Autechre always seem to bash on people that making music in a Linear way.
    It is extremely limited compared to making music In a non-Linear way according to him.

    I wonder.. In what way is it more limited? Linear-music making is also created with sounds/noise made in a amount of time right? Do you unlock more time if you get it done in Non-Linear way?

    What way is the best way to sequence music ? 

    How do you sequence your music if not the traditional way?

    Peace 
     

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    So this is just my philosophy on this. But how you choose to approach a track greatly influences the end product.

    If I make it with mostly midi and parameter automation, then it's more likely going to come out as VERY melody driven. 

    HOWEVER my prefered way of making music these days is instead to make lots of cool sound design. Find bits I like the most. Lump them together. And FOCUS on what composition types would allow me to BEST USE the sound design. The two types of ways of making music sound almost like another artist made them

    And this also applies to choosing to start a song with a chord progression, or a bassline, or the drums. They all feel like different styles when I listen to them. 

    For example, a song that is built around vocals means the instruments are there  to strengthen the vocals. There;s a reason why guitar solos are a thing in rock music. So the guitarist can do his ownthing without needing to support the vocalist. 

    If you make a song with no vocals, suddenly that opens up a TON of things you can't really do with vocals. Now any instrument can be the 'focus' instrument where everything is built around. Same thing applies to music with drums, and without. It's much easier to make lush ambient music when you don't have to conform to drums, which in turn frees up the ambient music to do more things.

     

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    Any software/plugin where you can give it say.... a folder of 3 minute drum playing, audio, and it will automatically determine where drums are and cut them to turn into One-Shots?

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    Any software/plugin where you can give it say.... a folder of 3 minute drum playing, audio, and it will automatically determine where drums are and cut them to turn into One-Shots?

    Only way I really know how is just to input one thing at a time. But if there is a much faster way to do it, and have it export one-shots into a folder or something, that would be great.

    ‘This is not music’: 30 years of Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works

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    On 3/24/2022 at 3:26 AM, Richie Sombrero said:

     

    How can someone's opinion an album is their favourite be wrong?

    I never said wrong, I said less accurate. BIG DIFFERENCE. And I didn't mean it negatively but i guess dry online text means everything seems like someone's super duper serious opinion.

    You can hear half of someone's discography and have a favorite, but the guy who has listened to everything and has a favorite probably has a more wholistic view yeah? That is what i mean by 'accurate'. It's not wrong to have a favorite while only listening to half of a discography. Never said that. I guess I can see why you read it that way, but it's not what I meant.

    More people listen to his older stuff than his newer stuff overall. When I run into another person who likes AFX... on the internet and IRL, not on WATMM. They will often love his 90s stuff, but listened to Syro and Collapse like twice and conclude he sucks now. Too much dad funk. OR they will have not listened to the new stuff at all.

    It doesn't apply to everyone. It's just a trend I have noticed.


     

    ‘This is not music’: 30 years of Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works

    in Aphex Twin

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    On 2/17/2022 at 2:09 AM, wa11heaven said:

    It's one of my favorite albums, mostly due to the fact that I have a lot of very fond memories associated with it. At the same time, it's honestly pretty dishonest and shortsighted to point at an album and claim it as an objective best of all time award just because of its cultural significance. It deserves the reputation it has, but leveling it to this divine status kind of undermines the significant progression in his discography, let alone the genre as a whole.

    That is usually a sign that the person claiming it hasn't listened to the other stuff in the discography of the artist they are claiming it of. Because it is just so wrong about Aphex's music. You drop caring about the effect of the album on the wider music industry, and that album is to me... not even in the middle of the list of his best albums. Probably toward the back. He just made so much more interesting stuff after that it just doesn't seem like an accurate observation.

    For every track on that album he has since made ... 5-10 better tracks in that style when revisiting them.

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    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

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    On 2/23/2022 at 2:05 PM, chim said:

    Is this another cern troll post? What kind of people use it as a reference? 

    The Syro master is a mess, RDJ made a hi-fi record that got chewed thru the Warp hype machine who, anticipating the return of a pop sensation, likely demanded the sound of a pop album. Mandy Parnell & Beau Thomas are legendary cats but can't do miracles on a stereo mix recording, they did some great work with the low end, especially the huge near infrasonic sub bass on Minipops. (no surprise Beau Thomas is an old DNB head). The trade off is cutting all the body on a bunch of synth lines. The Arp 2500 and moogs on Xmas got through unscathed thankfully. There probably wasn't much else to do except make the upper mids harsh and ugly, totally defeating the point of running vintage gear thru tape. Dynamics on the busy circlon tracks are inexcusable. RDJ probably couldn't care less what his CD sounds like on Spotify. 

    B Thomas did a great job on Collapse as it's more balanced with woolly sounding mids and again the bass & drums are deep & full sounding, probably due to the mix stage as RDJ must've ran the bass thru some vintage EQ+comp chain - I've never heard a single Pro One sound that big. 

    I think that loudness is because of Richard, not Warp. Well Warp may have been the one to go overboard on the mastering, but Richard I am pretty sure did want that loudness mastering in his record.

    I remember AFX saying in an interview that he was a lil nervous about releasing something to a wider public so long after, and he seemed to imply, but didn't say, that he wanted the master to have more loudness like the trend has been in general, and that before when he was releasing his 90s and early 00's stuff he said he never cared about all the post production after he finished mixing, as long as it still sounded fine. But since then he had changed his mind to some extent and that he felt it was EXPECTED of any release.

    IMO, I personally think that it was because it was focused on the synths more-so than the drums in Syro.  Kinda like what PSN said, So drum transients took a back seat to making the synths as upfront and in your face as possible. 

    By the time of Collapse, again imo, that record had way more emphasis on drums than the synths. So making sure the drums work was the primary concern. Leading to much more interesting drum and drum transients, with the synths sounding more like what we would expect from Aphex Twin. Imagine if Collapse had the same loudness mastering as Syro had. It just wouldn't work nearly as well and would have been the wrong direction. 

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    Looking for additive synthesis plugins/vsts that let you basically draw in frequencies like in Afx's "Formula"

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    I only know of three of these vsts. The one from 20 years ago Aphex used for the above track. Izotope Iris 2. And to an extent Harmor.

    HOWEVER I have forgotten the name of the Formula one, but I remember it was for Mac's Only so I never got it.

    Izotope Iris 2 is really a combination of a typical synth with the additive synth stuff, however the workflow for it isn't as 'free' as what AFX used for "Formula" so Iris 2 is out. It feels restricted. I do own it btw but always disappointed when I try to use it purely for drawing the sound.

    And for Harmor, only way to draw waveforms would be to do it outside of harmor. So again the workflow for doing something like that is inconvenient.

    Any tips for making music with a full time job?

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    1 hour ago, nikisoko said:

    how is making crap music for pennies better than just getting a full time job?

     I just combed all my music, put "could be stock music" in a folder of all the tracks that I don't care much for, but could i dunno, go in some commercial, and then submitted them to two different stock music sites. Now I have made money from music that most people would just keep at the back of their hard drive forever.

    I wouldn't go out of my way to make stock music. Because my stock music is just like... my C and D grade tracks. The only difference is that I would spend a bit more time on some of them, making them longer. Adding loops, etc. Not too much tho.

    And it isn't crap really. More just background music for passive listening. Ergo stock music.

    It's also low effort if you are a decent musician. A while back I saw someone was making $30,000 a year by making just 1 track a day 30 mins to an hour, and submitting it to stock music sites. And now he was sitting on like 300 tracks in these websites and passively making $30,000 a year. Though his music is decent for stock music.

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    ‘This is not music’: 30 years of Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works

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    On 2/13/2022 at 7:53 AM, President Squidward said:

    I'm a bit mixed on this album. On one hand, it's revolutionary for it's time and should be remembered as a classic and an important history piece of not just ambient techno or IDM, but electronic music in general. On the other hand, it's revolutionary for it's time and it's a shame a lot of new fans who are introduced to IDM to ambient techno music as well as critics still put this album high on a pedestal to critique everything to come after, even though a lot of electronica to me is much catchier, more lush, not derivative and better than this album to me. Xtal is cool hearing it the first time, but then I heard hundreds of more melodic IDM songs, and now it's just fine.

    Aphex Twin was still developing his style while making those. I do prefer his music from RDJ Album to Collapse.

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