{"id":475,"date":"2025-01-01T23:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2025-01-01T23:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:33:42","slug":"start-the-new-year-off-kinda-lame-and-unmixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Start the new year off kinda lame and unmixed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ItsWhateverWhenYoureBetter by Will Kolb\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1998734671&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I started today trying to look at more legit known decent chord progressions, then I realized I never learned roman numeral notation (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activemelody.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/The-Chord-Numbering-System.pdf\">https:\/\/www.activemelody.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/The-Chord-Numbering-System.pdf<\/a>) but I got distracted and just kinda started throwing crap into abelton until something sounded coherent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1024x304.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1024x304.png 1024w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-768x228.png 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-500x148.png 500w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image.png 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bass sounds alright but it still is midi-ified because I opted to use a sampled bass rather than being less lazy to use my bass. I&#8217;m also moving down the path of using the arrangement view to handle making these loops from now on. It forces me to think of anything I make as a whole piece rather than a collection of loop states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1.png 711w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1-296x300.png 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">All work and blank scenes makes will indifferent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also finished the blade itself (book one of this series <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_First_Law\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_First_Law<\/a>) which I enjoyed (also it was pretty much the only book I read in 2024) but it ended kind of abruptly. Felt as if the whole series was written at once and then arbitrarily chopped. I found out today that one of the side books is getting made into a movie so maybe I&#8217;ll try to read that before it&#8217;s made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}