jimmarchi1's forum posts 8022

how different is the minitaur from a Model D or a Phatty? I understand its got what's supposedly a Taurus saw oscillator, which should make it quite a bit different from the other stuff I have... but I'm just curious. Being a module its not like I can try it out in a store with any ease....

sounds about average for a finished vocal mix when soloed... you would eb surprised how much treatment is on even stuff like Nirvana.... I think Kurt really disliked ALbini's mixes of in utero because the vocals were originally pretty dry, uncompressed and lowish in the mix even by 90s standards... he got used to the butch vig processed vocal after nevermind

right, so if you set the agenda you'll be happy? you know what, you win dude... I am sure I cannot possibly cast any doubt on anything you can say, man

I'll see if I have time for some sophistry before bed.... how long's your film?

here's some similar single-serving stuff on the science and history side of things:

https://youtu.be/Gfd4kFPWjzU

https://youtu.be/jipEUPCai90

I'm sure I could dig up some more if I had time, but I don't.... and lts face it, movies ain't books https://youtu.be/B1uc7ohS7cU

I hope nobody notices I just went youtube diving on company time :-(

also, the title of your film is a take off on Richard Dawkin's extremely famous best-seller "The God Delusion" which is not really a particularly great book or anything, but this film is pretty much like Julius Caesar writing "Anti-Cato" to show up Cicero...

my only claim is that you are awfully sure of yourself, particularly for someone so young

do you know much about the Socratic method?

if not, look it up

ttyl

no, I am working, its not even lunch here... I had time after work yesterday but I guess you were asleep so I made some turkey corn chowder and got off the internet -- you really don't want to do this anyway, you're just going to get mad at me

but I am planning to be home all day tomorrow and if I get enough work done between now and tomorrow morning I will mostly be kicking my feet up, so if you want to chase our tails in your chatroom tomorrow night (for you) then I can do it starting around 7pmish your time which will be 9 or 10am here I think

try programming an basic synth sound ground up tomorrow and work on getting it to respond interestingly to your playing on your USB controller using its velocity controls.... just start out by susing out what everything does with your ears before looking anything up or watching any tutorials....

how ya makin' out musically?

I think I was 14ish for blind mellon, the video brings back a lot of memories of the era because of its icnic image.... kinda like November rain, teen spirit etc where the song has been overshadowed by my nostalgia and I can abrely hum it anymore but I recall the silly mtv spots like it was yesterday!

for me my #1 nostalgia album is Depeche mode's violator as it came out right when I was getting more into buying records, got a tape boom box and I think my 1st sony discman around this time abandoning my 45 collection and baby record player nd it was also the 1st electronic record that didn't sound wimpy to me (though there was stuff out there, not a lot of 10 year olds knew about skinny puppy)... it had been out for awhile when I bought it the 1st time (I have owned more copies of this album than anything else save Ziggy stardust)... every time I listen to it (which is a lot lately) it takes me back to some great times I ahd all through the 90s 'finding myself' as a teen and young adult! Yet as nostalgic as it makes me feel it still sounds fresh and interesting to me even though I know every note by heart.... I can't say that of other albums I bought around the same time like Metallica's Black Album or Use Your Illusion 1&2 that sound hopelessly out of step with what came before and after. This was a little before Nevermind and like that record it got me really interested in SONGWRITING over just bashing all the time....

here it is, listen to its glory... the intro to world in me eyes gets me every time.... so cool

https://youtu.be/kJQ9KoxS40g?list=PLPwPdfsfcDCWasKgwEQ6vj6_p9aFdrfar

this is album to me is OF its time but not defined by it and it takes me back while carrying me forward whenever I listen to it

that's what I'm sayin' -- I'm seriously middle-aged even compared to you and I lead an exhausting life, I smoke, eat lots of rich food and sometimes I drink too much (maybe sometimes is putting it gently), but I don't find myself wanting to complain about exhaustion unless I'm also feeling depressed (and I have a lot to feel down about) and even then finding more to do and shaking the clouds off is usually the answer to that. Honestly there is just nothing better than pushing yourself so hard that you pass out the minute your head hits the pillow! When you feel you are completely out of energy and the to-do list doesn't look any shorter that's when you add a few more items and really start crackin'....

I don't understand why you're so worn out all the time.... your coworkers are not angling for your job, you aren't married to a lunatic who goes on occasional heroin binges, you don't have kids..... we all did school and work, now is the time to do it when you're young and spry! I get tired THESE DAYS.... when Iw as 22? not so much.

have you considered getting a blood test to make sure you're not tired from a debilitating disease?

ach, alas -- I was on the fence as I kinda wanna try thunderbolt so I can use it with an iPad as well as my laptop

yeah, that was me this morning when I realized its a Monday I actually get dressed and go to the office!

oh man, darth fader... use the schwartz, luke, but stay under budget or uncle irving will disown you

ahm gunna keel yoooo!

its unfair, absnetwalrus will beat us all on points even thogh he has never woned much of anything

zang

still looking to have your faith examined micospically under the lense of historio-archreology? I have chatroom debate time for a few hours, super-chief!

the screeching halt (and similar gadgets) rocks in 1k seat theaters, less than and your guitar sounds like a toy!

yeah, you got it, the parallel blend control will be with the blinking lights but my lisghtsaber wiii be controlled by MIDI velocity data...

yes

yesss my master...henceforth I shall be known as Darth... COMPRESSOR

preserve your precious ears, lay off of headphones

you could but q 10 dollar of heroin for a sad junky to keep him or her well for a day or two

I don't see why grilling beef and sippinf sherry and smoking cigars should be mutually exclusive propositions! excelsior! so many levels of enjoyment and we can pass some down to those in need too, love for everyone!

I was just reading and nearly decided to get Ron Zacapa 23 Solera.

You know... Cuban cigars are not illegal anymore I'm fixin' to go get that Bodegas sherry if the local store has it. I've been craving beef all day too. I think I'm going to grab some ribs or my new favorite cut, the, "Poor Man's Fillet" otherwise known as the Southwest Griller. I found one the other day for cheap and brought it home. I really enjoy this cut. It puffs up 3 times it's size in the broiler.

they

legal cubans are still unavailable in Philly... not that that has ever stopped me! but anyway! fire up the grill (or broiler), grab some flat iron cut on the cheap and have apersonal man-feast! sherry guitars/basses cigars and a meal make DUDETIME

vst2 format works with everything vst

good luck my young friend, you will need it! this is a rabbit hole of questions and possibilities that devours many

http://www.wine.com/v6/Bodegas-Dios-Baco-Elite-Amontillado-Sherry/wine/39469/Detail.aspx?state=NY&warehouse=NY&s=GoogleBase_CSE_&cid=GoogleBase_CSE_39469NY_Beta&s=psca_google&cid=psca_google_keyword_PRODUCT+GROUP_campaign_Google_Shopping_NY_Beta&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=PRODUCT+GROUP&utm_campaign=Google_Shopping_NY_Beta&gclid=CjwKEAiAvZTCBRDvnoOaoa2j3xISJABxPjN9w-GbYITDXaGjv-A75eu5ws-Y_2XVh7VQch-wNBziEBoCI2jw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

and I am smoking a smuggled Havana el president

but you may want to purchase soething from the Dominican republic.... your goal is to nurse 1 glass of sherry or brandy while dipping the mouth end of the cigar into it so you suck alchohol in while inhaling fine cigar with potent nicotine and fine flavors likelether and sandalwood that accent the beverage you are drinking... I don't know ho exas is for the good life but where I live I can literally walkto a smoke shop that smuggfles Cubans and get myself whatever I desire.... the same owner runs a lovely liquor store

EDIT: by the way I am 'working' now charging billables, I arrived home from a tense fiduciary meeting and decided I needed some wine and cigar to relax and be effective in AP concerns under the tight constraints presented earlier... I am currently handling payables for a drug rehab/halwayhouse(s), looking after the wellbeing of my people

there's no such thing as a diatonic chord, a chord is 3 notes or more, but any chord can be divided into diatonics across polyphonous isntruments, on 3 note chords (triads) you can duplicate the root across both sounds but on more complex harmonies one can divide them 2 notes ata time like a hooligan and also add additional melodic touches inbetween changes

this is way more intricate than you thought it was, but someone is ging to tell you about it and it might as well be me

take your time, be patient and let the rt of it overtake you

I made this in fl studio but also use protools for mostly live performances without midi sequences... I have also donesimilar stuff in Cubase, sonar,logic... atever works over the years! I am almost 40 so I have been around my young padawan

I just gt home from a meeting and Lucian's at school and I am having a glass (or 3) of fine sherry and a cigar... its 5 oclock somewhere!

seems crazy but people may want to know how I do what I do in a corner of my son's playroom.... maybe you have a point!

now on arrangement I am going to use one of my more developed pieces that's all MIDI to illustrate a number of prnciples not because I am the best at anything but because I am intimately familiar with every nuance of its musical underpinnings

now, the 'verse A' section is just 2 chords and the 'verse b' or turnaround section is a couple more chords that introduce a key shift that's a little less modal and justs traight minor to slightly lighten the mood but not too much.... the 'chorus' section is a series of 4 chords followed by a retard utilizing a varied 2nd chord to add tension and demand a return to the initial motif (in the last key changed choruses there is NO retard because the chord sequence resolves onto itself fine for repetition).... note that I establish the groove without drums relying on bass and that the bass sound has no volume dynamics but the dynamics are expressed through changes in note texture and decay even when playing the same note repeatedly, this was achieved by creating a sequence with varying note velocity and then programming bass sounds (there are 3 or 4 layers of bass) that respond to those velocity changes by changing their oscillator shaped, filter cutoff, resonance and other synthesizer parameters based on the velocity nd aftertouch, how hard the note is truck and how abruptly or gently its released... though I quantized the aprt to get tight with the core drum loop, kick and snare programming I DID PLAY IT initially and then set that data as a master sequence for multiple channels of MIDI send info to hardware as well as 1 or 2 virtual synths all carefully programmed to work together and then run thru a songle mixer track to meld them with sympathetic mixdown processing.... you will also note that a strong theme is the DX7 part played thru a guitar amp that is cotantly playing chord arpeggiations at the top of each change even in the chorus, this is the glue, but in the breakdowns you will notice I use other isntruments to answer these arpeggiations either identically or as slight variations to develop that theme and add interest and depth.... also note how I am not slavishly devoted to playing the whole chord on one instrument all the way thru and that instruments that stay consistent might only be responsible for a diatonic portion of each chrd in some sections while other isntruments pick up other elements of the chords.... note the piano's slow 'counter bassline'.... then also note the respone melodies on various synths that contain the same notes as well as occasional diatonic harmonies on sympathetic sounds , that part begins with a soft but percussive key sound but in other parts is represented by sustained sounds that have a slightly horn like or organ-like quality and that's where multing theisntruments pops in because I intiially played the diatonics on 1 instrument but later play it across 2, 1 part per soundthan.... then there's the high whine from the alpha juno following the secondary and teriary notes in the chord with some passing tones but always monophonic..... the glissando effect gives a little more looseness to a song that's very mechanically programmed and was a alte addition designed to reduce stiffness -- also note how all these aprts sit in very different piano registers so with very little mix effort they separated cleanly other than doubled parts and close diatonic harmonies that were meant to gel thru a phenomenon known as frequency masking....

get any of this?

I didn't even finish this mix, its mostly levels, a smidge of subtractive EQ to clear the mids and move sounds back a bit, some boosting EQ on some percussion to brighten it and a little reverb and early reflection on individual FX sends as well as timed echoes on busses to vary how the reverb sits against the drum groove. I can make it sound a lot better than this but I need to get to the vocal part first so I'm mixing 'big picture' -- no buss compression or sidechaining or other endgame techniques to embiggen it, which is why I chose to us this as an example as it sounds quite decent with minimal mixing! the arrangement helpsit shine in a half-finished form despite its utter musical simplicity... really listen to it while considering my comments on WHY I did what I did and HOW! because also in the background of my mind was to mask intent and make it music that just happens to you in an inexplicable way and if people's feedback is any yardstick to emasure my success at that I nailed it with this ne ebcauxe no one has the faintest idea whats really happening or that any planning went into making it happen and they just enjoy the ride and get transported to an imaginary environment of my choosing

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QbZfY28ptv4/maxresdefault.jpg

but he sometimes wears a bandit mask

https://dougernst.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/mr-fox.jpg

I gotta get dressed fo work and hit it.... when you get home download synth1 and tyrell, they are freeware and sound quite good and are VERY complex synths that can be used to inject a lot of variety and dynamics into boring parts when you get your head around the finer points of sequencing and figure out how to exploit the features of these virtual synths

they will help you add more textural variation and interest to individual parts if you spend some time reading some of the beginner articles I posted.... this will take you awhile to digest and apply, don't rush

then what's making your sounds? samples? I haven't used live since it came out, I don't really like it

try this guy too....

https://www.u-he.com/cms/tyrelln6

really comprehensive modulation capabilities and velocity/key sensitivity fully variable for amp, filter etc... sounds damned good in the virtual analog vein but is a big CPU hit

hands off the presets

https://youtu.be/1FQ_Hpyh7rs

I didn't listen to the youtube video.... I posted some beginners articles for you now that I am home that may help you give your arrangement/sequences a shot in the arm when you wrap your head around them and I also hooked you up with a versatile, freeware instrument to work with learning to make different sections of a sound responsive to note velocity data from the piano roll (synth1 sounds decent, is a low CPU hit and the filter and amplifier are both responsive to velocity in a 100% tweakable way via knobs and buttons)

get to work, stop rushing and have more fun

https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/editing-midi-notes-and-velocities/

http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/8-essential-synthesis-tips-for-beginners-245904

http://synth1.com/

https://www.udemy.com/synthesis-101-a-beginners-introduction-to-synthesis/

well, there's also volpus volpus....

WTF? why'd you post a video? and whats this about sidechain compression? its a way to achieve certain effects while mixing, but it ain't got nothing to do with WRITING MUSIC

you seriously don't make sense a lot of the time but I don't think its your English, you're head is just allover the place and you are in a rush with everything all the time.... SLOW DOWN, SPEEDY. Where's the fire? Take your time, enjoy the process (music is fun, remember?) and do the best you can on every part no matter how many months it takes