Really like this approach. The rawness of the use of everyday sounds reminded me of Burial - Untrue.
That's one of the greatest albums of the 00s, should be on people's Top 50 if not Top 25
Yes it’s great! I do go back to it quite a bit.
Things I sort of believe about making music
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Also, I'm not sure if all DAWs have always compensated playback latency the way you describe. But I agree that it shouldn't be a problem in general. Ableton definitely does, and that's what they say they were using.
My guess is their low-end usb mic did not accurately report its latency, and so the Ableton wasn't able to automatically adjust. It's still a possible to adjust manually, though.
My guess is inadequate driver support for the USB mic. I'm running a focusrite 2i2 3rd gen, and although I have gripes with the drivers, the performance is miles beyond the default windows drivers and is fairly solid.
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#44> Christmas Music One important skill I've found necessary in both music and my software career is dissociation . By that, I mean the ability to separate yourself from the work that you've created. It's natural to feel that what you have made is a reflection of yourself and your value, but it also leads to a lot of fear. In the music world, this manifests as a fear of releasing music and instead endlessly tweaking kn…
> In the music world, this manifests as a fear of releasing music and instead endlessly tweaking knobs and refining 4 bar loops; This is pretty common, and I’d like to add that there are more reasons besides “fear” for endlessly tweaking knobs and refining four-bar loops. Fear is a good explanation, and it’s not a wrong explanation, but it’s only a part of the explanation and as I’ve gotten older I’ve placed less wei…
One of the things I learned from an art teacher with a PhD that I met without taking their classes was the hardest thing for an artist to learn is "when is the project done?" It's on the same level in software of "good enough". It might not be perfect (by who's definition), it might be able to be refactored and more elegant, but at some point it has to be released.
In software, we have version 2.0 etc releases to keep the tweaking going. In music, there are remixes. In other art forms, the same artist can make new versions. Knowing that you can do that kind of reworking can help get you to accepting done sooner.
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#45The point about equipment is a really important one. A lot of people have a very stupid attitude that art is some kind of special domain where the tools don't matter--a true artist works beauty with whatever he has!
Leave that nonsense at the door. If you were learning how to do landscaping, you'd buy a chainsaw, a shovel, and a blower. Anything less would leave you unequipped to do the job.
I guess some guys have a gear fetish and can't stop from buying their 20th shiny guitar. Well, ignore EVERYTHING they have to say and get yourself the equipment you need. It can make the difference between waffling with no purpose and iterating productively.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is their low-end usb mic did not accurately report its latency, and so the Ableton wasn't able to automatically adjust. It's still a possible to adjust manually, though.
My guess is inadequate driver support for the USB mic. I'm running a focusrite 2i2 3rd gen, and although I have gripes with the drivers, the performance is miles beyond the default windows drivers and is fairly solid.
Right now it seems like that's one of the biggest arguments against USB mics, if not the biggest. Standalone USB audio interfaces tend to have better drivers. AFAIK this is more relevant on Windows, just due to the complete shitshow that is Windows audio drivers, and not really relevant on Macs.
Due to the various problems with USB microphones, I generally recommend something like a Scarlett Solo + SM57 or SM58 as an entry point if you're buying your own gear. This has a price tag around US$250, once you include a XLR cable. Just like there's diminishing returns when you buy expensive interfaces/preamps/mics, there's also a sharp dropoff in quality and experience once you go below this baseline.
Even though you can find cheaper microphones and cheaper interfaces, I haven't found any that I can reliably recommend.
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#47I like the Christmas Music thing. People's expectations are massively lowered.
With respect to putting things out there, a very common question on Quora is "how do I protect myself from getting ripped off?"
I always think of what a fairly well-known web personality at Google said to me:
The risk on the Internet is not that you'll be ripped off. It's that you'll be ignored.
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It’s relevant.
It's not at all clear that it solves the problems being discussed here. All we can see on the site are claims. Makes me 10x more productive in writing music? That's a bold claim to make while absolutely nothing backing it up. Can I import my plugins? What are you doing to aid with recording? Can you even record? Lots of questions. No answers.
Yes, 10x productive in writing music. Yes you can import plugins. You can record midi. Audio recording support will be added later.
It’s very midi writing oriented.
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#50"Making your own work is a good thing to do, even if no one else is interested in what you are making. To create is to be human." Tattoo that on my forehead backwards.
That one resonated hard with me too. I make music purely as a creative outlet that isn't my job, and because my job is on a laptop all day, I've deliberately chosen to produce music purely on iOS so that I can have that total context switch. I release stuff on Bandcamp, and recently on streaming services too (apart from Spotify), but I'm releasing it mostly as an ending, like waving your kid off to university or some…
Are you trying to say that working in a different OS is an enough context switch for you? I also produced a lot of music but when I switched careers and became a developer a struggle to create using a laptop and a DAW.