almost always improvising

he/they, 30s / queerio, lads / canadian prairies

[chillyfeetsteak]

there should be more options than suffering via employment and suffering via unemployment

[homoeroticjunoincident]

people NEED to stop gatekeeping making music like ohhhh i don’t have an instrument ohhhhh i don’t know music theory ohhhhh i’m not gonna pay for some program. SHUT UP. take my hand.

you need NONE of that shit!!!!! there’s a website called beepbox.co. literally all you have to do is press things until it sounds a modicum of nice. it’s easy it’s free and it works on anything which has a browser because it’s a website.

if even ONE person starts making music bc of this post it will be worth it.

making bad music is just as important and okay as it is to write badly or draw badly or sing badly. you AREN’T BEHOLDEN TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC. making music is not utilitarian HAVE FUN. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!

[homoeroticjunoincident]

love how people will encourage people to just start making shit and see what happens when it comes to drawing and writing but when it comes to beginner musicians (music makers if you wish to be less formal) it’s just COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE. it feels like no one even knows you MAKE music it just sprouts up from the ground one day and some guy picks it up. am i alone in this dark cave

[godofautism-deactivated20240303]

Fuck it

I'm gonna try and make music

Call me betovan bc I'm deaf as fuck /j

[terri-theslime13]

HELL YEAH!!!

[unhinged-popsocket]

Alternatively if you wanna get into music producing in a more “proper” way, you still don’t need any money.

Ableton has excellent free websites to learn the basics:

Learning Music

Learning Synths

You can learn basically everything you need on YouTube. I recommend:

Mercurial Tones Academy

Dan Worrall

Bthelick

A lot of your favorite artists, mainly in electronic music, likely have done track breakdowns, you can watch those to learn how they do things.

DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) ultimately all do the same things, and Cakewalk is a great FREE fully fledged one. Sure it has some issues, and doesn’t have many plugins included, but it works just fine. All the music I released so far was made there, before I made the jump to Ableton.

As for VST plugins:

Vital is an excellent free synth

Native Instruments Komplete Start is a good free collection of plugins

TDR Nova is a great free EQ

There’s a lot of others and I don’t wanna name everything I’m aware of here, but feel free to DM me for more (Or if you have any other questions and stuff too).

And as for samples, you can get a bunch of free ones at:

Cymatics

Ghosthack

Having good headphones is nice and what I’d recommend you invest in first once it comes to it, but even your current ones will probably be fine, mainly if you slap AutoEQ onto them to flatten the frequency response. And ultimately, music isn’t all about the mixing, the most important part is conveying an emotion.

I know this goes against the spirit of the original post a little, but I want people to know that getting into music production also no longer costs thousands, you can just do it at home on your computer without no money.

[unhinged-popsocket]

Yeah, there is still quite the learning curve, I get that, though it’s also why it’s managed to hold me as a hobby for so long.

I do however have something of the exact opposite variety too, the most simple way to make music I know of, and a wonderful little semi-social experience, along the lines of the game Journey:

The New PLINK! is the long overdue update of #plink by @DinahmoeSTHLM. Jam with friends and strangers all over the world.

[plaguery]

hi op i think you should know that i did indeed make a song for the first time because of this

Visit Original Link

[bird-gifs-collection-agency]

While its eyes are not as big as its mummy's, this baby tawny frogmouth is still using its beady peepers to see the best it can

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

PoweredByWho — Who's Building Data Centers in Your Backyard?

Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

[blessphemy]

gotta say I’m a fan of Wells choosing to not only have canonically non-white central human characters in her Far-Future Space Sci-Fi, but also choosing to give them ethnically specific names

Dr. Mensah, Dr. Bharadwaj, Dr. Ratthi, Pin-Lee, etc.

there’s often a bit of a tendency in speculative sci-fi for humans to be “ambiguously brown” cuz of “idyllic cultural melting pot” and that’s ~fine~, and that’s often what makes sense for certain types of setting/story but... i like this better. makes it more real. feels a bit more respectful. and it suits her worldbuilding better.

[streetkit]

it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"

no more being polite about it fuck the USA

[dionysiaproductions]

Tumblr should never have given us polls. Everyday I have to see years-old polls cross my dash proudly proclaiming past-me's vote which I now disagree with. Let me change my vote!! I have rethought which Tetris piece is the sexiest.

[unexplained-events]

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in the mountain which seem to have been made about a thousand years ago. People, intrigued by these  silhouettes, gather at the site and that’s when things get creepy.

It’s about a 15-20 min read, but if you haven’t read this before, you’re in for a treat. Link above.

[gnars-house]

i mean it’s not like i can just NOT reblog amigara fault. what if one of my followers is one of the lucky ten thousand who HASN’T been unutturably altered for life by it yet? go read it! it’s creepy, but trust me, it was made for you.

[rate-my-reptile]

Reach WITH IN To your LOCAL dirt and you may find A Friend And Boy…

[lilhoneycat]

[saatkontor]

A river flows in you

[prokopetz]

JRPG where the teenage firebrand protagonist is taken under wing by a wise older mentor figure in their twenties, as one does, except the third party member to join is in their thirties and regards both the protagonist and the initial mentor as dumb kids; the fourth is in their forties and thinks the same of the first three; and so forth.

[alpharaposa]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[0x5742]

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

[chokedqwerty]

Tabloids for the Project Hail Mary mission, c. 20xx. (The Sunday Times, The Times Magazine.)

[sadhoc]

failing Marriage perfec t size for put new baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort pregnancy sleep soundly put baby in failing marriage. Put Baby In Failing marriage. no problems ever in failing marriage because yelling and storming out for baby listening of big baby language learning. Afailing Marriage yes a place for a baby put baby in failing marriage can trust failing marriage for giveing good love to baby. a baby will save this relationhsip

[space-mouse]

i'm rereading the murderbot diaries and murderbot's utter conviction that it and gurathin are bitter enemies is still so funny. buddy. gurathin got over this months ago. he's just a quiet guy.

[theaicollective]

one-sided antagonism is so delicious.  murderbot diaries i also very much enjoy how surreal it must be for gurathin /   to know that the heavily armed rogue secunit holds a grudge against him /  and also know that all it will ever choose to do about this is make frowny faces and flip him the bird. / (tags via space-mouse)

[asimovsideburns]

Gurathin, like three books from now: hey we’re friends right

Murderbot: no. we fucking hate each other.

Gurathin: awesome check this out it’s gonna make you so fucking mad

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

MB: I don’t like you

Gurathin, knowing MB calls its best friend “asshole research transport”: Uh-huh.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

the thing about fandom blowhards is that sometimes they're generally right about things, but so obnoxious that people get mad at them and disagree with them on principle.

so if you try to be a good internet citizen and just block and ignore them, at some point you will miss the memo on why everyone is really annoyed by specific headcanons. or even worse, you're a new fan of the thing and you don't know anyone's history.

like (to completely make up an example bc I don't want this to be about anything specific) maybe I like to headcanon a character as bisexual, bc as someone who is bisexual I think it's fun and sexy to be bi. and because I blocked them two years ago I don't know that Fandom Blowhard has been running around telling people they MUST headcanon character X as bisexual and anything else is WRONG because "one time she dated a man and now she dates women so she must be bisexual, it's like you didn't even watch the show oh my god people are so biphobic." and when people politely tried to tell this person why that's a shitty reason to insist a character is bisexual (comphet exists!), Fandom Blowhard wrote thousands of words doubling down and accusing everyone of having secret biphobic motives, hating character X, and being bullies.

and then either A) an old fan with a curated blocklist who has been kept blissfully unaware of sexuality discourse or B) a new fan pipes up to say "yeah I like to think of character X as bisexual!" and a bunch of people get really suspicious of them, or take what they're saying in bad faith, or outright get mad at them. which is! baffling and upsetting!

and A might be able to check in with fandom friends to figure out what the hell is going on, or just throw up their hands and leave the fandom. which is a huge shame because ideally polarization would not completely ruin the ability to talk about anything. but B is probably going to be approached by Fandom Blowhard who tells them "yeah this fandom has a HUGE biphobia problem, don't trust anyone" and then experience what is essentially a radicalization pipeline but about bi headcanons.

unfortunately as far as I know there are no effective solutions to this because it's an emergent behavior of large groups of people. there will always be Fandom Blowhards and people annoyed by fandom blowhards. the rest of us might just be stuck in the middle.

but it is why I try to approach people in good faith, personally. or avoid them if I don't think I can approach in good faith. and it's why I block/mute as much as I do, because seeing too much stuff that annoys you can fry your brain and make you lash out at people who don't deserve it.