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Maybe I should have compressed this a bit more

Its cold and I’m unhappy so you can join my in this cacophony of GENERATIVE AUDIO! (Please turn your speakers down, this is the loudest thing I’ve put up and I don’t wanna re-upload) “How did you achieve this musically inclined symphony??” I’m glad you have asked this: 1.) Operator 2.) A Clipping and distorted […]

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Table Part 2

Remade the table this morning: The “Tris” number is something I forget to mention yesterday which is the thing that directly correlates to how hard a renderer (such as Unreal Engine) has to work to render something. Note the number is around 500 (which honestly might still be too high). The table yesterday: Hopefully that […]

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How to not to Model a Table

Look at this table! Seems good right? …Right?……RIGHT? I can promise you this is not good, you see when you make 3d models you can’t just “Make” the models. You need to plan and thing it through, the big things are:1.) Keep the model as many simple shapes as possible2.) Avoid complex faces that are […]

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This time with less computer

I swear only the 808 was from abelton Green track is the kaoss pad (https://korgusshop.com/products/nts-3-programmable-effect-kit?_pos=3&_sid=9d3d6f0c3&_ss=r) , yellow is my bass, brown is from the po-20 (https://teenage.engineering/store/po-20?srsltid=AfmBOopbNWwmoK9D7lDfaQzFf8onkUlwYCFjm5SLCwQ32HzNQitBiizg, gift from my brother) , peach, tan and pink are all from the horner instructor 32 (https://hohner.de/en/instruments/melodica/student-melodicas/student-32-melodica I can only find the student version I guess I got a […]

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Start the new year off kinda lame and unmixed

I started today trying to look at more legit known decent chord progressions, then I realized I never learned roman numeral notation (see https://www.activemelody.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Chord-Numbering-System.pdf) but I got distracted and just kinda started throwing crap into abelton until something sounded coherent. The bass sounds alright but it still is midi-ified because I opted to use a […]

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This might be better if I didn’t make it on a computer

I dig the vibes from this but there’s a few big issues: Maybe I’ll go grab a crappy guitar and re-record this with real stuff to see if the problem is the lack of humanization or if it’s just a poorly thought out song in general. My bet is that once I try playing it, […]

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“We have several items for purchase!”

I made a store stand that I’ll put a bipedal robot behind to be a shop owner. It’s currently not scaled or setup right to work. I think I’m going to make the lightbulb it’s own object that way I can swap colors on the fly. Right now I kept them in because I wanted […]

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Grenade and stealing music to make more music

I have a few cassettes of older music that I wanna sample and put into something in Abelton. Why use cassettes? They’re cheap as hell, this one was $4 from my local record store. I also made this guy: Simple enough, getting it in game went smoothly. I don’t think I want to make this […]

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