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Music Technology - Dec 1992

Finally got a pair!

Got myself a pair of HD600s from my local CEX for not a huge amount of money and they sound gorgeous! Really happy with them and they're in such good condition for second hand headphones

The Story: How to Start a Cassette Collection in the 21st Century

The Writer: Orlando Mendiola

(photo by Matthias Wonderlich, gif by Jahobr via Wikimedia Commons) 

Get to know what music for bars and pubs you should play to create an awesome atmosphere, encourage desired customer behaviors, and drive sales.✅

"We have enough knowledge here to be dangerous now" -- My Music Technology Professor, seconds after teaching us the basics of Adobe Premiere Pro

Within the Field of music technology, what has my interest is the skills and techniques that many experienced or even non-experienced performers, composers, sound engineers, DJs, or record producers have to manipulate sounds into the songs they hear in their heads. Many believe that music is simple to make, simple to understand and that everyone can do it…well they are wrong to an extent. On the surface level, I agree that anyone can make music, especially with the resources we have online in this day in age such as YouTube, SoundCloud, and many more but after you write that song to a beat you found on YouTube or wherever, what is your next step? Surely you won’t make it far by posting your music like that and I’m sure that you hear things that you want to fix or tweak but you don’t know how to go about it because you can’t install auto-tune to your natural voice God gave you. The point I’m trying to make is that those who know similar or the exact techniques and skills even a speck of it can take their music/craft to new heights with a unique sound that could be considered timeless, inspiring, impactful, or flat-out just extraordinary. These skills and techniques vary as well: things like reverb, delay, doubler, how to properly use an EQ, and many others. As I mentioned above some of these basic skills or techniques can take your music to new heights or make your time making music a struggle you never knew existed, for example, if your track sounds muddy, nasally, and dry, how would you tackle this obstacle? Yes, you could go to YouTube and look for “tutorials” but the information could be so vague or confusing that you might not want to even keep going. But within the field of music technology you get to learn about those same issues and get to develop not only a solution but a new found understanding of that skill or technique that is needed(in shorter words you learn how to use those tools and create a stable foundation that many new music creators lack).

serum's delay was just gaslighting me and being slightly slower for no reason. how is that even possible. it's bpm synced at left 1/8 right 1/4 and yet the delay is playing each slightly faster which tricks your mind into thinking the next chord is slightly late so i've sped up the delays to 1.012x normal speed and they're finally on beat close enough that a 2 bar delay feedback doesn't make the next chord sound horribly out of time despite EVERYTHING BEING GRID ALIGNED!

FabFilter – Timeless 3 Version full 100% free download

Plugin Overview: FabFilter Timeless 3

Version: 3

Developer: FabFilter Developer

Website: FabFilter

Format: VST, VST3

Bit Depth: 64-bit

Tablet: Cured (Install and Run) | FLARE

System Requirements: Windows 10, 8, 7, or Vista 64-bit VST 2/3 host

FabFilter Timeless 3 is a highly flexible tape delay plugin designed for versatile sound manipulation. From simple echoes to intricate modulations, it offers a range of features to cater to your creative needs.

Key Features:

Vintage Sound: Delivers a vintage tape delay sound, satisfying everyday audio processing needs.

Effects and Filters: The stereo delay signal passes through five unique effects and up to six analog sound filters before returning to the input with adjustable feedback.

Interactive Controls: Well-thought-out controls and interactive delay and filter displays make programming custom delays straightforward.

Modulation System: Unique drag-and-drop modulation system allows easy adjustment of effects like ducking, wah, flutter, dynamic diffusion, and more.

Versatile Modulation: Create new modulation connections effortlessly by dragging and dropping with the mouse.

FabFilter Goodies: Includes FabFilter's signature features - perfectly tuned knobs, MIDI Learn, intelligent parameter interpolation for smooth transitions, interactive tooltips for help, CPU optimization, and more.

Ultimate Sound Processing Machine: With its unique effects, filters, patterns, and unlimited modulation possibilities, Timeless 3 can transform into the ultimate sound processing machine.

Verdict: If your plugins folder has been missing a delay effect, FabFilter Timeless 3 is the perfect solution. With a verdict of 10 out of 10, it's praised for its vintage sound, versatile modulation system, and the inclusion of FabFilter's signature features. Whether for simple echoes or intricate modulations, Timeless 3 is a highly recommended addition to your plugin arsenal.

New vid I’m proud of!!!! Me showing u my music set up!!! :)

Unveiling the Theremin: A Timeless Instrument of Ethereal Melodies

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Behind the scenes…Studio 1 rig for Yungblud - Amazon Music 👊

Hhh being in a music composition class is so chaotic

I’m currently making a remix of Goodnight Moon inspired by the special effects in The Mind Electric, and last assignment I made a song inspired by the 🫣 emoji

Why can't I write music in html?

I shouldn't have to make a video, record sound, or faff with images to write a simple internet message about western music, which has a widely-used standard notation system, and make it accessible.

I feel like I should be able to type something like this:

<western music notation>    <staff-group type="grand staff">       <staff>          <clef type="G" position="2"/>          <key flats="1"/>          <time quantity="4" value="4"/> 8. 8d4 [8f48a4] [8b48a4] [8f48d4] | 8. 8d4 [8f48a4] [8b48a4] [8f48d4] | 1(d4f4a4)       </staff>       <staff>       <clef type="F" position="4"/>       <key flats="1"/>       <time quantity="4" value="4"/> 4d3 [8e38f3] 4d3 [8e38f3] | 4d3 [8e38f3] 4d3 [8e38f3] | 1(d3a3f3)       </staff>   </staff group> </western music notation>

and my browser should be able to parse that and display it like this:

It seems to me that Musescore, which I use, and all other notation software, must be already doing something very like this, under the hood. So we should have it in the browser.

I know there will be lots of difficulties as soon as it gets more complex, but a lot of music is just not all that complicated, and a lot of the things we want to say about it are really simple. Multiple voices could work like an ordered list. Tuplets could be handled, I'm sure: I've only been thinking about this for a couple of hours and I've come up with the above, using symbols that are on everyone's keyboard.

Even just that, with no sound, would make writing about music 1. much easier to do and 2. much easier to use because you'd be able to adjust the size and colour and whatnot, and assistive technologies that the blind and hard of hearing use would probably be able to parse it easily into different forms without losing the important information.

The next step beyond the minimum viable product would be to have some common basic downloadable sound fonts so that the browser could sing you the music on command. This would be step 2, making the idea being communicated more accessible to people who don't already read it, without the need to make videos.

So you'd have some property in each staff like "sound-family=bowed". I think we'd probably want a minimum of seven font classes, not representing specific instruments but classes of sound: pitched percussion (probably just piano), bowed strings, plucked strings, reed, flute-recorder-family, voice, unpitched percussion. With sensible fallbacks and defaults, that would be enough for a LOT of communicating ideas about western music. You could have fancy fonts as well, but a handful of basics would take you a long way. This part is already solved by the MIDI standard: it's just that we don't have a sensible way of using MIDI in the browser for communication between humans.

I don't know why this doesn't exist yet. I'm sure I could write up some decent use cases in JIRA or something for a first pass, if anyone is interested in building an XML standard and/or a browser extension.

[RLND TR-808]

DYLAN - THE GREATEST THINGS I'LL NEVER LEARN TOUR

15.02.2022 @ O2 Institute, Birmingham (2000 Capacity)

Written Feb 2023

This was my first concert of 2023. We were up on the balcony, so we were able to see the entire stage, and it's set up.

Having seen her a little under a year earlier, I knew what to expect - not only for the concert style but for some of the songs that were previously unreleased at that point. Dylan has slowly become my new favourite artist with her pop lyrics so explicitly influenced by old school rock. Having toured with the likes of Tate McRae, Bastille & Ed Sheeran since last year, she and her band have grown so much, and it's been fun to watch. It's crazy to think that only 360 days before this concert, I saw her perform at a venue with a capacity of 250 and now, at one with a capacity, exactly 8 times that.

Her mixtape 'The Greatest Thing I'll Never Learn' was among my top 10 of 2022, even though it was only released in October, so it was exciting to hear some of my favourite songs live for the first time in person such as 'blisters' and 'lovestruck'. I particularly enjoyed her cover of Harry Styles' 'Kiwi', which she and other precious concert attendees managed to keep a secret from everyone so no one was expecting it. Additionally, one song I was looking forward to, one that everyone expected to hear, was a song of hers that came on 24.02.2023 alongside an extended version of the mixtape called 'Every heart but mine' which I had already heard in 2022 at the other show and it had become not just one of my favourites l, but her whole fanbase's meaning that it was highly anticipated within her community. Moreover, in its recorded studio version she gathered a group of pop musicians composed of Cat Burns, Rachel Chinouriri, Mae Muller, Sody & Beren Olivia to provide many backing vocals and compose a choir in the background of the song.

Overall, this has been my favourite concert to date, even though we weren't in general admission. I loved every second of it and can't wait to see Dylan grow even more as an artist and as a person.