{"id":520,"date":"2025-01-07T20:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2025-01-07T20:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:07:02","slug":"maybe-i-should-have-compressed-this-a-bit-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I should have compressed this a bit more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Its cold and I&#8217;m unhappy so you can join my in this cacophony of GENERATIVE AUDIO! (Please turn your speakers down, this is the loudest thing I&#8217;ve put up and I don&#8217;t wanna re-upload)<\/p>\n\n\n\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=\"ItsUnderstandable 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%2F2003730083&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;How did you achieve this musically inclined symphony??&#8221; I&#8217;m glad you have asked this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.) Operator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"117\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-30-1024x117.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-30-1024x117.png 1024w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-30-300x34.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-30-768x88.png 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-30-1536x176.png 1536w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-30-500x57.png 500w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-30.png 1617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2.) A Clipping and distorted 808<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-31-1024x135.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-31-1024x135.png 1024w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-31-300x40.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-31-768x101.png 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-31-500x66.png 500w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-31.png 1508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>3.) A sub sound (Which is also operator I guess)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-32-1024x185.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-32-1024x185.png 1024w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-32-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-32-768x139.png 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-32-500x90.png 500w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-32.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>4.) A hit of that SWEET SWEET Compression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-33.png 693w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-33-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-33-500x149.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(also an LFO to play with the sub sound)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to scream into a microphone about my commute and complain about needing to drink more water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also found an old kindle (like a HELLA old kindle 1) and tried modeling it in substance and blender. Spoiler: it looks HORRID<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-34-1024x702.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-34-1024x702.png 1024w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-34-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-34-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-34-438x300.png 438w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-34.png 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I could be lazy and not model buttons and just throw them in a bump map. But the geometry lords laughed in my face and made everything terrible (also I spent way too long making this color map in gimp):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-35-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-35-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-35-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-35-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-35-1536x807.png 1536w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-35-500x263.png 500w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-35.png 1795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Which honestly this seems simple but I spent atleast like 30 minutes before figuring out that gimp added tiling symmetry editing (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.gimp.org\/2.10\/en\/gimp-symmetry-dialog.html\">https:\/\/docs.gimp.org\/2.10\/en\/gimp-symmetry-dialog.html<\/a>) which is AMAZING! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-36.png 212w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-36-93x300.png 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But lessons learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its cold and I&#8217;m unhappy so you can join my in this cacophony of GENERATIVE AUDIO! (Please turn your speakers down, this is the loudest thing I&#8217;ve put up and I don&#8217;t wanna re-upload) &#8220;How did you achieve this musically inclined symphony??&#8221; I&#8217;m glad you have asked this: 1.) Operator 2.) 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