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  • Yeah, I can understand how some people just wouldn’t like Skrillex. Chaos is kinda the point and groove is probably not on the list of description words I would use for it. Alas, it’s actually not my thing either. On occasion it is, but not always.

    FM stuff is weird at first. Depending on your tool, just start with small changes as you build up a waveform, dust off your knowledge of harmonics theory and dig in. It took a day for me to make some noise that didn’t sound like a knife scraping over a sheet of metal, and two more days of tinkering to make something cool. It’ll probably take another month before I can design something more complex, like a cymbal. It’s technically additive synthesis, but it’s not actually? I dunno.


  • I don’t think that bit hasn’t changed either. I think Putin made another one of those “Ukraine is historically Russian” statements, while completely ignoring the time when it wasn’t Russia.

    Part of the game is to put out many conflicting statements attached to as many opinions from state funded talking heads as possible.

    I believe that when I researched last, the statement about Russia being able to take Ukraine “in three days” actually came from propagandists and I never found an official statement about it. Regardless, the point is that is gives the government plausible deniability with any statement if it was “accidentally taken out of context” by the state media.


  • So, over the last two weeks or so, I have listened to a lot of dubstep. The more I listened to brostep, the worse it got. For post-UK dubstep, the only two I can stand are Skrillex and Subtronix. The rest is just heavily distorted samples jammed together with what is basically static, all while trying to keep rhythm with a poorly sampled hip-hop drum loop. (I did listen to a bit of traditional UK dubstep, but it wasn’t what I was after from a technical standpoint.)

    But yeah, I think older dubstep has kind of been merged into modern EDM and brostep has just dissolved into some kind of strange noise that gets drunk frat boys to headbutt and jump through plate glass windows. (I only did a quick search, but I think even Skrillex has been moving away from brostep in some of his later work.)

    I did find what I was originally looking for in FM synthesis. Once I discovered how easy it was to get self-oscillation going between a couple of waveforms, it became super easy to replicate a ton of old school house bass and some early Skrillex-type stuff. (If you cared, it seems a ton of old bass lines are based on a sine wave carrier with square wave modulation. You toy with the phase and harmonics a bit, and you can probably replicate 80% of 90’s-00’s bass lines with different envelopes.)

    What I did learn from this adventure was worth the time: Every single video I watched on YouTube about designing sound for that genre was just bad, in hindsight. Excluding pure creative sessions, if you have to layer a fuck ton of wonky settings on an instrument and put it under 200 layers of an effects chain to get a specific sound, you are probably doing something very wrong. (I also learned that I absolutely hate “garage” brostep with a passion now. Sorry to kill the dreams of any 18 year old aspiring DJ’s that might be reading this, but it’s complete trash.)



  • Make note of the instances you are on. Communities with the same names can be radically different across instances.

    Each instance may have their own collective view on what is right or wrong, good or bad. For example, I saw that you mentioned the “T” word (or was in a discussion about it) on .ml the other day and that is a recipe for an interesting discussion. You do what the heck you want, but each community will have their own special reaction.

    I stumbled into lemmygrad a couple of years ago, somehow. It didn’t take but about 5 mins for me to be labeled a fascist baby killer.



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    I suspect many people aren’t talking about this because many Lemmy users don’t use the platform.

    Just use an alternative service instead of trying to find more ways to use Musks personal propaganda platform. Honesly, It makes more sense to open up apps like this again, quietly, since it was was a serious strategic flaw to block it in the first place.

    I don’t disagree with the concept of this front end, but there are just better options out there.




  • I asked for the push and you delivered. My Proton should be here tomorrow, along with a Beatstep (non-pro) midi sequencer. (I am already invested in the Arturia “ecosystem” anyway…)

    The plan is to use a DAW whenever I feel like it, even though it lacks the allure of going DAW-less and has a different layer of complexity in itself.

    Sigh. This is only synth #3 with a dozen more to go… ;)

    Edit: Oops. Replied to the wrong comment, but whatever!


  • I recently watched a documentary on the history of the original UK dubstep and how it transitioned into the more commercialized brostep. It did a good job of pointing out a lot of a absolutely distain for the newer genre brostep, actually. Hence, I really tried to focus my questions on the technical side of things and avoid anything that would even resemble Skrillex-worship. When it comes to raw sound design, there is still a ton of interesting nuggets in both styles that are super interesting to learn.