 Welcome back! How's everyone been? Hope it hasn't been too long. This is part two of the monthly live stream where we play viewer submissions. And we got some tracks that we're gonna play. Oh, yay! What is this? Let's see the... Yeah, okay, the analyzer works. I wanted to test that. Yeah, I wonder how Robert was making some changes to the way Mix works, because he was playing around with it. I wonder how that's been going. To make scratching and stuff better. He was annoyed with the way the jog wheels worked, so he was pushing changes. Well, I updated my Arch Linux right before the stream, so if there was an update to Mix, I got it. So now, if anything goes wrong, we can blame Robert. Bro, my stream, man! It worked perfectly until you pushed your update. Totally wasn't grab-breaking. No, no. It sure is not my bootloader. Of course not. It's this pesky Mix. This is the fun part of talking to the devs, as I'll just personally blame people for random issues they had nothing to do with. PipeWire versus Jack. I actually had to switch off of PipeWire back to Jack to specifically do this stream, because Firefox just keeps creating outputs. I don't know why. It's been a problem in multiple distributions for forever, but it just keeps adding outputs and connecting them to the main. They don't have any audio coming from them, but it just keeps growing the PipeWire graph longer and longer and longer. Maybe it's a test. It tries to see how much can PipeWire handle. How many pipes can I stack? In theory it should be fine, but I didn't want to just leave it sitting there adding new connections for the three hours while the stream's running. Something would happen, I'm sure. I guess at some point it would run out of memory, because every connection takes some resources, I think. Yeah, probably takes like two kilobytes. I just watched my RAM counter slowly, Phil. Yeah, the latency adjustment's weird. You have to do it inside of the PipeWire configs. You can't just do typical Jack config stuff like you would. It's called the Quantum instead. It's weird. I don't know. Probably deserves a video. Yeah, so I'm not super versed in the workings of PipeWire. Yeah, we really need a UI for controlling it for pro audio. A bunch of studio people were working on that, I think, but they didn't finish it in time for the 2210 release. So maybe 2304 will come with some great stuff. We'll see. Anyway. Let's play our first track. It's called Entry Point, appropriately, as a first track. It's by TransWolvy. Let's... It was made when LMMS, plus its built-in plugins, Synapse of Effects and MTA piano. I'll turn up the music and turn down my session compressor. Right before, I mean, we actually... There was like a tiny bit of the next section. That was really cool. I like how... I don't know, the super cells are very smooth and pleasant. Yeah, overall, very good track. It felt like a lot of care went into it. I liked all the layering. I liked the piano a lot, for sure, too. The kick had a good transient to it. It's also really soft. Nothing that makes bit me, or like... It was very smooth and pleasant, I don't know. Yeah, I don't have any... It's aggressive, but still powerful. Yeah. Interesting. Very uplifting. I'm sure that's in the uplifting trance genre, but very uplifting. Yeah, very retro, too. Yes. Especially the kick and bass, I think. It sounds like proper analog since, though. It doesn't quite sound like lame, cheesy retro. It's good retro music. Someone was saying it sounds like a banger from 20 years ago. It sounds like... Yeah, 2002. That would be accurate. That's probably about the right year. I think that's pretty accurate, yeah. You'd be opening for bass on it with that one. Transport writes not the same kick this time. Oh. I guess... Good transient on that kick. It came through the sub pretty well. I could have used more proper sub bass, but that's all right, that's easy to address. Okay, so that was Entry Point by Trance Wolvey, and now we have a track titled RGB Exciter by SG75. And this track was made with Ardor, Vitallium, Odin 2, Geon Kick, Airwindows Production Drums, Drum Hi-Hats, and a couple of CZ-03 sound samples. For example, the slap. Chris isn't here to hear his drums. Ah, and a bunch of Airwindows plugins like Big Amp, Bass Amp, Exciter, 2-Tape 5, and Purist Game. Lots of Airwindows in there. Chris, I hope you're still here to hear this. Maybe Chris got back to me work. Probably. He's gonna drop us another plugin. Yeah, he's too busy releasing a plugin every two days to hang around, chat that long. Yeah. All right, let's go. There's the piano. Really picked up towards the end. I think the piano's a bit weird. I'm thinking it's because it's very stereo. Like it's a pro- it's like a properly recorded stereo piano, so it was really in my left ear, and that kind of felt a bit strange in the mix, I think. So it's like a focal element. But it's really cool. I liked the track, especially as it picked up later in the track. That really good. Yeah, Chris, you missed it. There's a ton of Airwindows plugins if you just dropped in. And the Airwindows drums too. Yeah, the hi-hats. I assumed the cymbals too. Seemed like it, yeah. There's a good kick drum, lots of bass on that. I don't know if that was the Airwindows kicks or anything, but whatever it was, good kick. I really like the synths. Very synth sounds, a lot of kind of soundscapes, musical, but still. And yeah, Quantizer wrote that it has a Half-Life 2 vibe, but yeah, I see that. I hear that. It's very interesting. A little bit of Kelly Bailey vibe in there. SG75 writes, Discovery of this project, Arps in Odin 2, sweet. Cool, Frank. Also, Chris, while you're here, thanks so much for Galactic. I've been using it on everything. And thanks for the bass. I'm using it on everything. From vocals to drums to just random sound design thing. It's a perfect de-harsher for high frequencies. It's like a file. It just evens out the highs so they don't bite. I love it. Okay, so now let's hear another track. This was RGB Exciter by SG75, and the next one is titled, Malfunctioned Carousel by Ovi. And this was made with Ardor, Vitalium, Airwindows, again, LSP, and the Nutsub FX, from Experience. Yeah, that was crazy. I tried to remember my thoughts through it. So the intro, very almost too stereo on headphones, kind of disorienting. I love that. Then next section, crazy. I think the first drop was hard to hear certain elements. I think there was a lot of mud building up, but it's really, really cool. I'm trying to give good feedback, because this is like almost an amazing track. Well, it is an amazing track. It's just, I think there's minor mixing issues that make it hard to hear certain sections of. Otherwise, it's incredible. I really liked, in the build-up, there was a lot of dynamics in the drums, and I was hoping that it's going to be kept, but they were smashed. I think there was a saturation, instead of limiting on the master. And the trumpets, I think the trumpets suffered from it. Like the brass in the last section, I think it would sound a bit better if it wasn't saturated along with the other stuff. But I totally loved the composition and the sound design, especially in the intro, mind-bending noises. Yeah, did you use mix or something? I don't know if he's always in chat. I think I saw him earlier. Did you use mix or something to get those record scratch noises? Because they're... Maybe be oops or something. Yeah, it might be. That could be. Because they're really cool. They work really well. I absolutely lost it when there was like a jazz interlude. Just one bar. That's right. This is my kind of humor in music. I absolutely love this kind of stuff. This reminds me of Mr. Bungle, which did that kind of thing a lot, but more acoustic rock metal than electronic music, but they also did lots of electronics. Yeah, remember I saw forever ago, someone posed the question, can you make an instrumental song that's funny? And obviously you can, but what a fun thing to try and do. Yeah. I think that's a great prompt for a challenge. Make a funny instrumental song. Glenn Shifter was the intro. Thanks, Ovi. Thanks, Chris. Chris from AirWindows, you're hearing lots of your plugins in action. I think that must be a nice thing to see how people are using these. Thank you so much for making them open source and giving them away. I'm really happy that you can do that. Yeah, crazy trick. Thank you, Ovi, as always. Oh, nice, Ovi is here. Yep. Excuse me, quantizer. Can you check your mail? Quick? The volume is still down. Oh, thanks. Right click. Nothing else written. That was Malfunctioned Carousel by Ovi. And that was awesome. Oh, man. The next track is titled Heaven and Hell, Work in Progress Preview by Outer Mind. And this one was made with LMMS as a DAW. LMMS isn't really a DAW, but it's more of a sequencer. Since ZenatsuBFX for lead, surge for pad, E-Piano, Celeste, High Soap, for orchestrals, all from High Quality Orchestrals, Soundphone Collection and something else. 3.0, samples, own kicks and a bunch of free stuff. All right, quantizer, sell your message. Nice. Maybe we can send me a fixed track because I have three seconds of your track. No more. I have this one. And I'd like to hear the rest of it. Please. I think we all would like to hear the rest of it. Yeah, I think just a little bit or slow it down. I'll pull stretch it. I'll pull stretch it. There we go. Maybe that was the point. Yeah. I shouldn't write them email. I should silently just do that and pretend like that was how it was sent. Awesome. Okay, so let's hear Heaven and Hell by Outer Mind. That was crazy bass. Yeah, that was stereo bass. Very gripping. Starting out very softly. So that was Heaven and Hell by Outer Mind. And he writes this track is 8 minutes long. It's about 50-60% done. It's really cool. That's the way you walked up into the drop melodically. I thought that was really good. The melody is a lot of fun. The sub bass is good. The kick doesn't really have a transient. It's audibly got a transient but feeling wise it doesn't really hit very well. Yeah, I miss a transient on it. I think that was a bit of a loss. The sub bass is really solid. That comes through nice. It just needs a transient on the kick. Yep. Yeah, I think the kick was a little bit tiring because of that. There's a real lack of dynamics in the drop. But there's lots of dynamics before that. There's a very nice very dynamic build up from pianissimo to fortissimo. It's just that I would back off the limiter a bit. So the kick could punch and not just squash and just push me in the face. So is the intro do you have a time signature change or did you just write it with triplet grid? Because feeling wise it's definitely not 4-4. But it could still be just on the triplets. But anyway, he'll let me know in a second. Alrighty. So that was Heaven and Hell by Outer Mind. And now let's hear a track titled Unfinished. Good name. In the form there's more. The title is An Unfinished Unnamed and Unfinished Work. So I guess this track has no name and is not finished. And it's by Lifeline. Oh man! That waveform tells a story, doesn't it? Yeah. Let's hear it. Let me read out what it was made with. LMMS. Some Cardinal. A Soundfont piano from VSCL. Erwin does again. Lots of nuts and effects. Two instances of BYOD. Oh nice. I wonder where did you learn about BYOD, huh? Let's go. I'll turn it down a bit. Because it's clipping. I'm in a horror film. Yeah, this is... Is something behind my green screen? This reminds me of Nine Inch Nails Ghosts. This piano is... The EQ on it is just really scary. What a crazy track. I think that was like the most... the highest musical contrast we had between two tracks. Like in a movie where the character leaves a party and then something really bad happens. The piano was like very beautiful but very inhuman at the same time. I wonder if Cardinal is controlling it or something? It sounds almost random but not quite. Yeah, the note timing was really strange. But in like... Yeah, Tomer type beat. Good God. Yeah, the timing was really strange. But in like a very good way. Like, notes just didn't occur when I expected them to. But it gave it a very... It made it very interesting. That can be banned but it really plays to this track because of how eerie it is in the first place. Yeah, it was a very interesting... A very interesting composition. Lifeline writes, I tried exploring spectralistic composing techniques at least in regards to arriving scale modes from approximate piano partials in the spectrum analyzer. Huh. I don't have many ideas on where to take this piece further. Any ideas are more than welcome. Thank you. Suggestions. You could for this... I think it works really well as is. You could add like ambient drones or something. Just like big dark pads with tons of distortion going like and kind of moving around. Lifeline also linked the piano. I'm going to paste it into the chat. It's on GitHub. So I assume it's something... a free license, open license. CC Zero General Purpose Sample Library. Me likey. Nice. Four years old it looks like. Five years old, five years old. Been around a while. Alrighty. That was an unnamed and unfinished work by Lifeline. And now let's hear another chance by Jobin Rezai. Rezai? Or Jobin Rezai. I don't know how to pronounce it. Sorry. And this one is made with LMMS 1.3 Alpha and Ubuntu Mate 22.04. Let's go. I'm enjoying your checking your sub. Is it still there? Because this kick is fat. I don't have the full context. I think it could be wider in the intro because now it fits perfectly. MDE piano again. Jobin or Jobin, I don't know. writes, this is my attempt at making a progressive house track that has a calm piano using LMMS in the next. That's some effects. Triple oscillator. That's a built-in plug-in in LMMS. MDE piano. I enjoyed working on this track. I enjoyed listening to it. Attempt successful. You've made progressive house. Mission accomplished. My shirt says this says I'm officially qualified to determine what's progressive house and what's not. And that was progressive house. Nice. I wonder where the vocals come from. Is that like a bot pack or is that something free and open or something? I don't know. Or is it original recording? I don't know. I'd love to know. Maybe if Jobin or Jobin is here then maybe they can leave us. If you're watching back. Yeah, drop us a line. Okay. The next track is titled Towards You or Towards You and it's by D.V. And it was made in Ardor. Interesting. Because I met D.V. in my community chat because he's a contributor to my game Liblast. He's made the map which by the way is the new release of the game. I'm pretty excited that he's doing that. It's really awesome. So I'm kind of surprised to see him submitting a track. That's really cool. Yeah. Could this be Odding too? This is played on Arturia MiniBrute 2S AnalogSafe. That's sparse. I'm not even sure if it's even. Like... I was hoping to count but there's no snares now. Yeah. I was like really focusing in on the count. That's what the Drone and Bass DJs do, right? Where's the snare? Yeah, on a 3 if it's in the 8-4, right? Well, you could if you high-pass the delay. This isn't high-passed is what I'm saying. Yeah, that's risky. I think it gets a little muddy but it's pretty nice. Probably with lots of multi-band compression you can deal with it. I suppose these strings are Carl-Floid-Synth and Sphys. Drums are played on an Akai XR20. Doing this. There's also a VCV rack used in there. Tight timing if you and Carl plugins. I can't play drums on the controller. No way. Wow. I'm actually pretty good at drums on a controller but I can't hit timing that well. That was... I would never... I mean, I guess maybe it's like he recorded loops. Yeah. I don't suppose he performed the entire track to finish on the controller. That would be crazy. I mean, I'm sure people can do that but... Yeah, yeah. There's a couple crazy... Jeremy Ellis I think is probably the craziest finger drummer out there. If you wanted to look someone up to blow your mind later. But anyway... Nice. So that was Towards You by DV. And now we have just two tracks left. Maybe let's try to play Quantizer's track first. I found out what happened. Basically... Oh shoot. Somehow in my conversion process the track got clipped like trimmed to three seconds. I don't know how. But I have a script that processes the submissions. It cuts off silence from the start, cuts off silence from the end. Normalizes the volume or does it. Maybe it doesn't. But then it fades out after three minutes. So like if something has 303 that means it was faded out by my script. And somehow it messed up and made this track three seconds long. I have no idea how. I don't think that happened before. Maybe it has a threshold for length of time that has to be silent and the track happens to have silence or something but I don't know. Who knows? I don't know the ffmpeg dev so I can't blame him by name. So this track is titled Dusk and it's made in LMMS, Vital, Audacity and Zenats of FX. Let's go. If I can drop it into the deck. Like that side trance please. Oh man. Bouncy. Is that a low-past square? The bass. Yeah it has lots of dynamics. That's pretty nice. Nice to hear. Such a subtle change in the composition that arrangement but such an effect. I like the drum fills. It's for games. Maybe it was just I don't know. Especially if it can be interactive. I want to double in that once Live Last is ready. You get to set moods for environments you would never think to do otherwise it would be like a bog on an alien planet with rain. That's your vibe. Yeah exactly. You would never think alien bog is the kind of song that I'm going to write today. You get really cool results. Quantizer writes was aiming for something clubby. That definitely succeeded I think. I could also see it as a video game music but John you're saying that video game music it is totally like painting the mood. Sometimes the music is kind of the soundscape for example in Half-Life the music is kind of the ambience of the environment. Also if you replaced Kelly Bailey's music from Half-Life 2 with this when you're shooting the combine it would be a totally different vibe. Something I think is underappreciated is how much music sets tones in games and movies. Really if you were to go watch the most dramatic movie with completely the soundtrack removed it would probably alter your perception a lot. Even horror movies. Yeah you don't get that squeaking violin building up. Yeah it quickly can become silly and funny and yeah. Yeah I think that's a like logo says it sounds like a club song from a movie I think that's the perfect place for it. Now I'm picturing a blade on a vampire rave so that was TB 303 so yeah I can't forget that that was fun. Okay that was our second to last track Dusk by Quantizer and now our final one is Medifobes Phobes I don't know if it's like phobia but differently spelled I don't know Medifobes by Xavier Tainikovsky Let's go! I think it's drifting, very unusual I think that's Xavier's whole whole thing. It's kind of like listening to the same song twice but at the same time Oh well. He's panicking everywhere Yeah right What's mixed like the tempo is 120.75 Oh no I can't beat match this No! How many of the transients do you think actually line up throughout this track? I can see zero so far. I see one. One's in line but then it drifts out. Yeah this doesn't fit yeah no Yeah I would buy that this is played to start to finish a performed life I think that's the whole point of this being so loose and kind of drunk. When DJs hear a flam they die inside basically fring fring My beat matching is destroyed Good God Oh man My beat matching is s*** It takes me to the good old days of mixing house tracks for hours in my bedroom is like a 13 year old trying to get beat matching down fun times That's all That's all we have for today It's been more than three hours including the warm up so I think it's a good time to to stop It's time to stop We can't take it anymore Okay thanks so much for all the submissions I'm really glad that you guys are making music with open source software and Linux and are sending the tracks my way so I can play them and we can comment on them and we can all get inspired and amazed Cyberrains wondering where to submit music Check the description of the live stream or any video that came out in the past two, three years There's a link there Yes, send us stuff, we'll talk about it next month I'd love to hear it Alright It's time to wrap this up If anybody would like to hang out with people who are about open source music production and that kind of stuff There's a community chat that I run at chat.onfa.xyz You can also find a link to discord there because I have a discord a discord server and a rocket chat instance and they like they are bridged so everybody can talk to each other discord is of course proprietary, rocket chat is open source and self-hosted and so that's what liberal loving people like to use and also huge thanks to everyone who is supporting my work financially if you, dear viewer, would like to join these awesome people you can go to patreon.com.onfa or liberalpay.com.onfa and that helps me keep doing this kind of stuff also huge thanks to you, John for being my co-host for doing this with me Finally this time I added a tag to like point out that shit I'm putting it the wrong way so I added this little ant JTB it was the simplest way I could modify the whole visual identity stuff re-rendering a bunch of animations I think it's pretty funny overlaid I found a place where it like fits so this like T crosses the dot in the A and it like it's inside of the whole A and the ant is just like I think it it fits works well and it stands out nice in the red everyone gets to see it otherwise so without the outline it wasn't as visible so I spent some time with the design I think it's working pretty well oh there's a shadow under there too yeah there's a shadow yeah thank you for that thanks everyone for coming in thanks for having me umfa I didn't get to say a bit ago yeah thanks thanks for having me on this blast my pleasure okay we'll see you next month I hope I guess we'll see I don't know I'll need to check the calendar it's probably weird if the first sunday is you know new years then it might be difficult oh yeah this is our new year look at that oh snap is it oh my goodness it is so I don't know we probably will have to shift the livestream maybe a week to the future so it's gonna be in five weeks you can subscribe like follow me on master done I'm gonna be posting about this so we can go to the community chat I will be making sure people know what's up the sunday before is Christmas too so it can't go before yeah wow that's a packed three weeks yeah I guess I guess it's gonna be 8th of January that's it's gonna be first stream of 2023 oh man alrighty see ya well go and make some music you f***