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!!!!!!!!!
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
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.
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.
fun fact not known to most Americans when they mock us for having deadly heatwaves: ninety percent of the British population live further north than ninety percent of Canadians.
Embarrassing fact about me is that it took me so so long to be able to tell Ross Bryant and Grant O'Brien apart. I'm sorry guys you're both tall white dudes with similar-sounding names and very very similar voices. I would just wait for the first sex joke or Shakespeare reference.
They’re a bit Schrödinger’s white man, I think you have to make a Shakespeare reference or say something wrong about a rollercoaster and fix the superposition before you proceed
I understand that from a glance, one could denote a similar look from both pictures. However, from a close examination, almost every feature on the two indivuals are different.
These pics are taken at different angles under different lighting. When you see them moving around on a consistently lit stage, they're a lot harder to tell apart until you learn to recognise the difference in their voices.
And also the things they’re doing on those stages are high energy gremlin improv for challenges devised by comedic mad geniuses who would be horror villains if this wasn’t consensual with guard rails. It’s hard the differentiate the width of a gangly white man’s nose while flailing like a puppet.
They need to do an episode of Game Changer pitting Ross and Grant against each other on bizarre challenges but using someone completely physically opposite to them as a control - maybe Anna Garcia or Lily Du
I came into TADC late. I was sat down by two of my friends about a week after ep8 released, and binged it all in one go.
And it's pretty good! Honestly I enjoyed it. It's a fun little thing for what it is - it's not super deep, it's nowhere near the dark comedy it touts itself to be, but the characters are kinda interesting and the world is fine and the plot is okay.
But from the very beginning, I had an issue with one of the characters - and if you know me at all, you know who it is. Yep, it's the bunny guy, the asshole-written-to-be-an-asshole, mister fucking Jax.
Actually, no, that's not true. I don't have an issue with him - I hate him. I cringed when he was onscreen, I rolled my eyes at his edgy fucking bullshit, I winced and felt actually very shocked by his treatment of the other characters. Jax is, I will admit, well written - but only through the lens that he was written to be a character that you hate.
For a villain, or at least as close to a villain as you can get without being obvert about it - and no, I don't consider Caine to be a villain, more a tragic antihero/plot pusher, Jax is... fine. A bit over the top on the asshole department; but then, he's antithetical to the show's themes to an absolute T. But what I don't get about Jax is that he is so beloved - even while he's abusing, controlling, manipulating and straight up killing other characters. (No, I don't mean the in sense that they can't die so it's okay to kill, I mean in the sense that he caused at least two of the named characters in the show to abstract - a fate as close to death as they can get - and was working on two more by the time our POV character arrives.)
The show, to me, is about connection. It's about how, even in the darkest times, our connection to others makes us human. It's about how even small acts of kindness can save lives.
Jax is what happens when that connection fails. No, not fails - is deliberately refused. His arc is about how pushing people away and abusing others, even in a misguided attempt to protect yourself, can cause serious, awful harm, even to the point of causing the deaths of others when taken to extremes.
Jax killed Ribbit. He killed her as surely as pulling a gun and shooting a real human would kill them. He killed her by pushing her away and doubling down on his ostracisation of her, refusing to allow even a tiny bit of connection, encouraging and using others to ostracise her, and abusing her so badly she committed suicide by abstraction.
Jax killed Kaufmo. He killed Kaufmo by upending the group's dynamic so badly that he could do nothing else but try to escape from them. That need to escape turned into fixation, turned into desperation, turned into abstraction.
Jax was working on killing Gangle. Jax was isolating her, forcing her to spend time with him, grinding her down into nothing, making her feel subhuman, like a toy. It would have worked if Zooble hadn't arrived - he says that himself.
Jax was working on killing Ragatha. First by the aforementioned group dynamic flip making her unsure of herself and what her place in the world was, and then by abusing and tormenting her, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Jax is not a good person. In a world where the only thing you could be sure of was your own free will, Jax got up every morning and chose to hate, to isolate, to ostracise, to kill. Every barbed quip was a choice, every act of abuse was a choice, everything he said and did was a choice, over and over and over again even after the consequences of his choices kept happening and people were dying around him. All for what? Saving himself a moment of pain at the thought of making a connection to someone? Not letting anyone know his awful, terrible secret?
Also, as to the secret - if Jax is trans, or if Jax isn't trans, it doesn't matter. Jax can be a boy or a girl or nonbinary or trans or cis or whatever and it wouldn't change a thing. Jax's choices are what matter here, and everyone, regardless of sexuality or orientation, has the capability to choose to be an asshole - or choose to be good.
If you see yourself in Jax - or see Jax in you - this is your sign to connect to someone. To get help. To try and choose to be better. To talk. Because if you don't, Goose very eloquently explained what happens.
You die. You might not die quickly, or as suddenly as Jax, but you die. And you die alone. And you die unforgiven. And you leave a string of victims behind you who won't cry for you; if they cry at all, they'll cry for the hurt you caused them and the people you abused.
Make better choices. Don't be Jax; and stop fixating on the things that don't matter. The baggage may inform the choices; but it's always a choice, and it's only ever what you choose in the moment that matters.
I actually think it is still bad even if it is a religious ethnostate for a highly oppressed ethnicity and religion. I just don’t think it’s a good idea
Zionists keep showing up to say that Hamas wants to found a religious ethnostate like I did not just say that religious ethnostates are bad. I also think that some members of a certain ethnic and cultural group wanting to found a religious ethnostate is not justification for the genocide of an entire people. I also think genocide is very bad.
Accidentally bought my cat cantrip instead of catnip and now she’s casting eldritch blast at me from the overlook of her cat tree while demanding wet food only
I honestly think that nonbinary people should be allowed to be mean* about our genders without getting shit for it more often.
*(Read: Assertive of our boundaries and stood firm on the fact that our identities are deserving of respect)
We should be allowed to make a sour face or take a cold tone with someone when they carelessly misgender us for the fifth time in a row despite multiple corrections. We should be allowed to complain about erasure and ask where our needs and experiences come into play when we hear people reinforcing binary normativity in their discussions of gender related issues. We should be allowed to be visibly/audibly angry with other trans people when they try to forcibly categorize us as fem or masc, or imply that our enbyness is a mere phase that will eventually lead to "real/full" (binary to binary) transition.
Nonbinary people should be allowed to take our identities seriously and expect others to do the same for us, regardless of whether or not we will come off as mean for doing so. Because quite frankly, upon seeing how exorsexist the world has become recently, I think we haven't been mean enough.
Links to my free sewing patterns!
- big manta ray
- smaller manta ray
- monster friend (those monsters with horns I’ve been making lately, but without horns)
- pie slice
- Fred, the Fish of Minimal Effort
- tiny cat (aka Jiji)
- mini mothman
- whale shark/donut whale shark
- juggling frog/toad (aka my smallest, simplest frog pattern of the three I’ve made)
- large frog
- tiny hedgehog
- minecraft bee
- minecraft zombie
- blorbo
- Strawberry Hearts quilt pattern
- starfish
- little octopus
- canvas tote (wider than it is tall)
- canvas tote (taller than it is wide, more of a grocery bag)
- basic bat and ghost
- mini mushroom friends
- whale
- hammerhead shark
- simple seal
Tutorials:
- flannel baby blanket tutorial
- onigiri bag tutorial
- tomato pattern design walkthrough (how I design the pattern, not a link to the pattern itself)
Free pattern post, now updated with a link to the seal pattern! If it’s been a while since this reblog when you read this, it’s worth clicking through to the original post, I will update it whenever I share a new sewing pattern
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