 Stay home. Welcome to another monthly ANFA livestream. Can you hear me? Can you see me? Everything working okay? Last second. Oh man. I hope the audio video sync is okay cause that was the thing that I was correcting in last second and I'm not sure if it, oh, oh, the web, oh, the web browser with my chat kind of doesn't wanna, oh, now it cooperate, okay? Just disable this thing. Syncs perfectly, okay, if I clap, does it sound like I'm clapping when I'm clapping or does it look like I'm clapping before I clap or okay, never mind. Let's not dwell on that too much. B music says, hi, ANFA, with or without Ardor. Today we're gonna be using Ardor. Yes. Vassal Saftiuk says, hey, to ANFA and hi to your transparent hair. My hair is transparent or is it the mind? My mind is transparent because this t-shirt has green and I'm using green for the green background. So the green doesn't exist, it's vaporized. All right, welcome. It's great to see everyone. There's 34 people watching right now and if you don't know me, if you're watching for the first time, I am ANFA. I am an electronic music producer and sound designer. I've been working in video game industry making sound effects and I'm making music. And all that I'm doing is I'm doing that with free and open source software and Linux, which is kind of unique. Not many people on YouTube do that. Oh, 37 people watching. So welcome to my show. This is a monthly live stream. I do these every first Sunday of the month at 8 p.m. Central European time. And we're gonna be doing some music today. We're gonna make some music with free and open source software and I'm going to also answer your questions about making music with free and open source software because you may have some trouble or questions or stuff and I'm like all over this. So yeah, I'm gonna just try and read your chat, and answer any questions. Chetchu asks, no kick. The tradition is that I start every stream by synthesizing a kick drum. No, we're gonna make a kick drum. Don't worry, there's gonna be a kick. I'm sure we're gonna make a kick. Okay, and after that, the last half hour of the stream, I always play your music submissions. So I take music from my viewers. There is a Google Form. For now it's a Google Form. In the future, maybe I'll find something open source to replace that Google Form, but for now it's a Google Form where you can upload your music file. You need to tell me something about yourself. And also that music piece has to be made with free and open source software, at least partially. And I also ask you to disclose what software did you use because that's important for this show. Because on every other music production YouTube channel, most people use proprietary DJWs and sometimes they use open source plugins. Many of them don't even acknowledge that plugins are open source and not just freeware. One honorable mention is the channel called Venus Theory, where the guy doing this channel recognizes which plugins are open source and he's made great videos about Surge and Odin 2 and other awesome plugins. Yeah, I'm doing only open source software. So everything you'll see is free as in freedom and it runs on Linux. Yeah, that was a mouthful. Vastil Savtuk asks, Anfa, is it hard to find job as a beginner sound designer in the industry? I think it's very hard. Honestly, I recruited as a 3D artist, but it turned out the company really needed a sound designer because they don't really need a sound designer, but they didn't recruit for a sound designer. They recruited for a 3D artist. And so for like at least three months straight, I was doing nothing but sound effects when I came to work there. So that was fun. In Poland, for example, and I'm like right now looking for a job as a 3D artist, hardly anyone is recruiting for sound designers in game development. And I think that's because most game developers, at least small game developers, realize that sound is important when they send like the beta to their publisher and they write back and say, okay, this game is pretty cool, but it sounds like total. And then they go, oh damn, we need to figure out some sound effects because this is our total crap placeholders or something. And then they just find a poor guy and tell them to find some free sound effects and put them into the game. So that's how sound designers usually are done in small studios. So I'm not actually seeking a job as a sound designer because nobody looks for sound designers. Only AAA companies are looking for sound designers, at least from my experience, and they're looking for seniors and people who have worked 10 years in the industry. So that's not me. B-Music says, ha, Anfa has got a beep now. Yeah, I've implemented a semi-automatic system for bleeping words. I just need to hold a note. I can show this to you. You know what? Let's switch to the working layout. So, this is my MIDI controller and I've made some things. I made a button. If I hold it, it'll produce a, it will activate an oscillator producing a tone. And then a couple of side-chain gates do something that the tone only plays if I say something loud. So it's not like the tone is gonna be there all the time. And then when the tone plays, it cuts off the actual speech. So that's a fun thing to do. I'm really proud of that one. I think I should do one time do a video explaining exactly how my live streaming setup works because there's quite a lot of inspiring, interesting things I think people could learn from that. I think I didn't put it on GitHub, but just poking the files and reading scripts isn't gonna really teach you much. You need to get an explanation. All right. Oh, it seems that my screen keys are really in a weird place. So let's move that. In case I should be better. All righty. One interesting thing about my live streaming setup is I've done, sometime when I was doing a, when I was doing a Z-Rhythmz live stream, I've made a little tool in Godot game engine, which is a fantastic open source game engine. Godot as in the play, well-known play. And I programmed something that will account crashes of the software. And yesterday I've modified it, so it also recognizes Ardor and it now like understands, it checks for what piece of software I'm running and it also changes the layout. So unfortunately the text here, it's not perfectly laid out. I need to fix that. But well, I didn't have time to do that. So in case Ardor crashes, at least we're gonna see something funny going on. And yeah, that's gonna be a little bit of a consolation. Genvoid asks, hey, Anfa, what version of Ardor are you running right now? This is the official stable 6.9. After back. This is the version that I'm running right now. Reread, reread asks, is your coffee open source? You got me. I don't think so, unfortunately. Oh no, my coffee isn't open source. What a shame. My coffee isn't open source. I've just not realized I didn't plug in my headphones. Oh, I did. Just muted everything. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I was buying fair trade coffee. Unfortunately, they pulled it from the store shelves and I can't get it anymore. So I'm drinking something else. And I think I should start drinking decaf because sometimes I make myself the second coffee of the day before midnight. And my doctor told me that's bad because I may not feel a high or rush, but the caffeine is blocking some neuro receptors in my brain and making my sleep not as refreshing as it should be to put it mildly. Shabab Hosseini says open source auto-tune. Of course, I made a video about it. Open source auto-tune. Now I can't sing. It's not that I can't sing. I just don't know what the key is. So I'm just singing notes between the notes of the auto-tune. Barbell Warbles, what a name, awesome. Asks, are you still using PipeWire ANFA? I am using PipeWire. In fact, I can show you that I'm using PipeWire by, because I have PW top. Let me close it and show you again. PW top is a program that shows you what programs are using PipeWire sound server. What is their sampling rate? What is their buffer size? Which is called quant, quant. And some other things, like how heavy is the processing they're doing? And also there was any X-runs or which is called errors in here. So yeah, and you can see my setup here. Actually, this is playing the JSTDI in, is playing the background music for the, for the, this is a script that just randomizes music files and pipes them from, pipes them to Jack. Yeah, I should redo this one time in Godot, probably the music player as well. Just, yeah. So yeah, I am using PipeWire and I've had some trouble today. I like everything finally worked because I'm doing a lot of troubleshooting. For example, today I've been working on this live stream for six hours already preparing and that wasn't all. Like I've been working on it yesterday as well. So yesterday I was kind of sick and didn't feel very well. Yeah, so I had some trouble with art or crashing every time I insert a plugin. Hopefully that's not gonna happen because I think I figured it out, I think. VassalSaftyuk asks, Anfa, do you code? If so, which language is, which language do you use? I write some software. I wouldn't call myself a programmer because that would be an insult to actual programmers. So maybe software developer would be an insult because I can like, I can write, I can program some code but I am not great at figuring stuff out. Yeah, I do program. I mostly program in Godot, making a game. Is the auto-tune still on? No, that's just how I speak. Reso says, just arrived. How things going? Oh, brilliantly. Nothing crashed yet. Oh, man. Oh, by the way, I need to send the Ardors Outputs to. Anfa Studio, that was one and two. I'll do one on the Output 2. I don't know why they are not in order. This is some quirk of PipeWire that, or some quirk with PipeWire and Ardor that the ports are not ordered correctly, which is weird. Okay. Lots of questions, I want to answer them all. If RG kernel won't help with many, by extra on every time two minutes, I think I'll switch. Dolgov user says, said. You know, I've been recently testing some different kernels, different versions of the Linux kernel, optimized for different stuff to find the one that will give me the best latency. Also, I think I want to move this little thingy here. Right there, yeah. I want to be able to cover the keyboard, yes. What I was saying? What was I saying? Ah, yes, I tested different kernels. I'm right now using the Lyquorex kernel. If I type uname-a, you can see it's L-Q-X. It's also says Zen. I think because Lyquorex is some version of Zen kernel. But Zen kernel didn't give me as good of a latency as Lyquorex, and Lyquorex gives me as good of a latency as the real-time kernel. But real-time kernels aren't safe because real-time kernel means it will allow a process that needs that 100% of the CPU time. Normally that's impossible. Like every process, no matter how much it wants to do, it's gonna be told, okay, hold your horses. Now it's time to run some other processes. So if that process hangs, there is some bug in the software and it just goes in an infinite loop, it's gonna just freeze your computer forever if you are running a real-time kernel. And it runs with the real-time privileges. Thwoth asks, ever thought of defining your own kernel? Wait. Oh, no. I don't think my auto-tune is running. I'm gonna turn it on and you can hear the difference. Now the auto-tune is on. Now the auto-tune is on. Now the auto-tune is off. Can you hear the difference? Yep. So I'm running Licorix kernel right now because I was, actually I was benchmarking some audio interfaces. I was benchmarking the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 for generation and the Behringer UMC202 HD because thanks to a generous donation from one of the viewers and supporters of my work, I was able to purchase free, popular, two-in-two-out USB audio interfaces for testing. One is Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 for generation. One is Pre-Stone Studio 24C and another one is Stainberg UR22C. But the Stainberg one is like out of stock in the whole entirety of Poland. Like it's nowhere to be seen. It will arrive by the new year. So like I'm waiting for it already like a month and it's gonna be another month. No, two months. So that's pretty crazy. They had the slightly older model but I specifically want the 22C. Version. So yep. Okay, I've been talking on about different things. Okay, please let me know. This auto tune can't be running because I'm monitoring my voice and I can hear it's not there. You get it? It's not there. I could so. Maybe lower the stereo mess a bit because noise. The most problematic part of recording sound in this room is my computer because it gets very warm and it's quite loud even when it's closed and now I just removed all the side panels from it so it can cool down a little bit because I don't want it to throttle and cause performance issues on the live stream. So I'm using noise removal. I've also made a video about noise removal, a real-time noise removal with open source plugins. Okay, I think I answered all the questions right now. If you ask a question, please tag me at ANFA so I can find you easier in the chat. What CPU cooler says? Oh, this user has no name. So a user without a name asks what CPU cooler? I'm using a stock, a stock cooler for Ryzen 39, whatever. Be top. Ryzen 3900X, I'm using a stock cooler for that. Oh, I'm running Olive Editor. I could close it because I was just testing latency and correcting it, but that's not gonna be useful anymore. So let's just close it, gonna free some memory. Jakub says, hello, ANFA. What headphones should a normie like me get so that I wouldn't offend sound artists? That's a good question. It really depends on, really depends on what is your budget. If you have under 60 euro budget, then I think HyperX Cloud 2 is a really nice headset which is comfortable. It sounds pretty good. It has a detachable microphone so the microphone isn't in your way all the time. And it comes with an USB audio interface, actually, which is pretty interesting, which also acts as an extension cord and a volume controller. And it's a very nice thing. I got this headset for my wife and she's using it and she likes it. I haven't used it much because it's hers and I have my Audio Technica ATH 50X. M50X BT, I believe. Yes, but these are expensive, at least more expensive. Like, to me, they were expensive. Some people may think that that's slightly more expensive, but these are excellent. And I also got the Bluetooth version so I can listen from my phone and I'm ingesting all music for these headphones and I'm mixing through them. So that kind of helps me learn how they sound and how should I mix my music. Because I have reference tracks everywhere I need. Zard says, stock cooler, yikes. You know, but the stock coolers for Ryzen processors are deemed to be pretty reasonable. And they've got RGB. But I think I probably should upgrade. I don't have a budget for that right now. But I think I'm gonna start saving up for a new case and figure out some really good cooling, hopefully as quiet as possible. Yeah, I'm not overclocking my computer and I never want to do that, but just running it on 50% load on a CPU like that plus 50% load GPU at all times, it just makes things hot. Like there's 67 degrees on the CPU right now and that's with open side panels. With closed side panels, it's like eight degrees more. And the CPU load isn't that high, it's like 50%. We can go up to 100 and then things will get interesting. But when I close the panels, I just feel like the hot air blowing from under the desk. Dolgov user says, Anfa, hey, you got Ryzen too. Have you experienced the fat X runs every some minutes? I have not. I've been testing it like, I don't pay so much attention to X runs. Like we can see in PW top. So pulse wire, yeah, pipe wire top. There were furry 139 X runs, but they were on the audio interface. Like everything got this. Not sure why. You can see that I'm running a really big buffer size of 1024 which gives like 21 milliseconds of latency. This is high. It's not suitable for like recording live instruments or at least monitoring your input through the computer because the delay is very distracting. But I do that so that I don't have any X runs when I'm streaming because the streaming and recording also puts a high strain on my computer. Anfa, even multi-threaded CPUs real-time kernel can look up system reread. I am not sure. Maybe it's not gonna lock up the entire system. Maybe it would only lock up the core that the locked up thread is running on or the locked up process. I am not entirely sure. Did not test that. So sometimes I got in my D-mesg which is a tool to D-mesg. Oh, no, I can't show you D-mesg. Okay, here I can show you D-mesg. This thing on top is D-mesg. Maybe it stands for debug messages. I don't know. It basically shows you all the information that the Linux kernel spits out. When you connect a USB device, you'll see it. When you connect a disk drive, you'll see it. When you, something goes, you'll see it here as well. If your file system is corrupted and it has bad sectors, you'll see it. I recently saw some errors on my BTRFS file system. And why the hell did I bring that up? Oh, and sometimes I saw when I was using the other Ryzen processor that was running, which was, huh, Ryzen 7 1700, no X. That was the first generation Ryzen processor. Sometimes one of the cores would just freeze, look up and then crash. Maybe that was something to do with that. I don't know. Sometimes ago I had real trouble. I have swapped the CPU. I have swapped the motherboard. I have swapped the power supply. Yeah. And that fixed some problems. My CPU just went bad. I sold it used explicitly saying that it has issues. And I, yeah, someone bought it really quickly. I hope it works good for them. Seven Morel asks, Anfa, would you recommend PipeWire when only doing audio? What do you mean only doing audio? Like not doing video production? The video aspect doesn't really change anything about PipeWire. I mean, PipeWire supports video. In theory, you could, like I could gather my process, my USB video captures basically this camera and this camera through PipeWire, but it's not, I don't think it's like finished yet. I thought I thought I thought that I thought therefore we're gonna make some music tonight. Yes. And we'll start with a kick. Let's insert a MIDI track. G-on kick single is that for the I promise I didn't stage that I really wanted to make music all right let's do it again order six what okay segmentation fault all right that was a good start let's try again yes we're gonna make some music absolutely and x says the biggest problem is buggy software yeah the thing is that on some hardware things work perfectly and on some hardware they don't and sometimes you just can't figure out why and like there are like some people say that hey come to Linux it's just it just works you'll never have to touch the comment line tum tum tum you'll never like wish you didn't come to Linux it's not that simple maybe if you're doing like very basic stuff like just browsing the internet watching videos playing games hmm playing games playing games isn't that easy as always okay let's try again I really think that should not happen yep I mean we have probable okay let you tip oh shit I have a good idea now I don't hmm okay what if I just disable this all right I don't want you to hear this double this okay so we either give up side-chaining or we give up the explosion sound when order crash it's having I'm gonna give up the explosion sound yeah we got a good jump kick single can synthesize a kick gion kick is a fantastic open source drum synthesizer plug-in the worst thing about it is that it's not available for windows and the thing everything else is just awesome about it like I know a lot of people like are bound to windows and they can't really leave that because I don't know they need some software for work or something and I get that like if you're doing cat work maybe you're depending on some specific software so like you probably would need to even either install Linux alongside windows on your computer or have a different computer or whatsoever or install Linux on a USB stick and run it off of that but it's not very convenient I've been doing this be music says not for Windows why is this is bad well I don't care cuz I only run Linux and I promote Linux but I know some people use Windows and it's like it sucks to be you cuz you can't use this awesome plug-in and I don't want to be nasty like I don't want to bully anyone into using Linux it's not a simple thing sometimes you have issues and you have no idea what to do with them an example is that recently for some reason my computer decided I'm not gonna suspend anymore suspending doesn't work it it suspends and it keeps spinning the fans and it keeps the RGB inside the case on and like it works it's just like half suspended but it never actually suspends and then I just hit the power switch and it resumes so I figured the only way I can actually make my computer stop without turning it off completely is to hibernate it and that thankfully works most of the time but not always sometimes I need to do it twice or thrice and why no one knows I can't figure this out so Linux is not simple but Linux is a trade-off you get fantastic powers you get true freedom you get the true you can do anything with your operating system anything really super crazy stuff like I had a small SSD I have a small SSD and a large HDD and like neither will work for my system but thanks to something called Bcash I was able to put the two together and now I have a fast and large storage made out of these two when the SSD is is acting as a cache device for the large disk so I no longer have to worry about running out of space on my system partition on my for my system so-called root file system and it's super freaking fast so yeah I don't think you can do stuff like that on Windows or even Mac but with the power comes responsibility you're gonna need to spend some time learning things and sometimes things are just gonna give you a headache but there's a great community of people around it that will help you so things take time on the next they don't just work every time sometimes they do more often than not they do and it's it's getting better and better but sometimes they just don't and the good thing is that most most likely someone already had this problem they solved it and they posted a solution on some forum or it was immortalized on the Arch Linux wiki which is the source of all the Linux related knowledge grand void says on for you should go with at least the very least with endeavor OS instead of manjaro though I mean manjaro does some stuff suboptimally unfortunately you know I have actually converted my manjaro installation into Arch Linux at this this system is now considered Arch Linux I've removed all the manjaro packages all the manjaro repositories all the manjaro configuration and switch them back to pure Arch Linux so this is Arch Linux former manjaro I've done that because I've learned about some weird things that was happening with manjaro like a guy who was responsible for like managing community donations was just fired because he objected a purchase of a laptop that was like unjustifiable at like and I read about some security fuck ups oh forgot to do forgot to use the the bleeping thing never never ever available asks is the conversion stable or did you notice any impacts I don't think I really had much problems after converting manjaro into Arch Linux it like I don't know like I missed the hardware the kernel management GUI because that's nice and I missed the manjaro hardware driver manager because that's also nice I like these two programs they are really really really good because you just can do some things which are hard to do in the terminal without the terminal and that's really cool so on the upside I get updates for software two weeks earlier like yesterday no two days ago there was a new version of Godot engine released 3.4 and today there was a Arch Linux update for Pac-Man s why you can see there is a where is it oh there is Godot 3.4 oh covering it up with my head yeah there's good there's good though so they're pretty fast nonetheless I was thinking about endeavor but it doesn't seem to be like a super simple Linux distribution I've loaded a bunch of them on a USB stick to try them out like a few user a few list of distributions I have never tried before like elementary OS which I must say was very surprised elementary OS worked very nice on this thing this is ASUS T100 HA it's a convertible tablet with an intel icon inside and it was shipped with Windows 10 I don't know how can they do that when Windows 10 eats so much RAM and this thing has like enough for gigs or two gigs I was crazy how could they do that I think it has two gigs of RAM and and and elementary OS was the only thing that properly recognized the touch screen and didn't have the touch inputs 90 degrees rotated in relation to the display and also like properly handled rotating the device I think yeah like no maybe not rotating but the touch input worked and that was amazing but I think this this device is already fucked because yeah it it just freezes after some some time you run it and it runs for 10 minutes and it just freezes only doesn't freeze on Windows 10 but I don't want to have Windows 10 on this crap it's it's it's too slow anyway to use it for anything okay you know what I think mmm I think it's time to actually make some music what do you say do you have any suggestions for what should we do today like I'm open for your ideas of course I'm gonna start with synthesizing a kick but what type of kick you know the kicks can be varied reso asks music is that is this a distro I think I don't understand maybe I should read some context citrons dude citrons two people say citrons never available says retro wave and synth metal which is two different things so you have like half a vote for two things guitar say plugins maybe hmm other mind says hardcore minimal I'm quite what if we mixed okay another peep some another person says retro wave psychedelic trends to be understood maybe we should go like psychedelic trends but retro wave be music says I can't hear sine waves anymore start with a square wave oh sphys sample manipulating and access oh that's a good that's a good topic we could try and tackle that I haven't prepared for it but we could do that I want to put a pin into that all right you know what let's maybe do like a retro wave citrons and then add in orchestral elements onto that we have an hour to go I think we should do it okay let's first do the kick I'm gonna change the amplitude let's change the frequency citrons needs a very plucky kick so when we I'm gonna turn up the frequency so we can start with a nice short plucky transient okay that's too low the awesome thing about Geon kick is like I have never been able to do good okay we're using g sharp we could do g sharp g sharp could be our key gion kick is amazing because it allows me to so quickly tune my envelopes and even like seed and musical notes for the frequencies that is so useful no other open source plug-in let's be synthesize kicks so quickly so precisely really I love gion kick it's amazing unfortunately the development is paused for now the developer is no not working on it at the moment but still it's just it's an amazing plug-in you could add a noise component let's see what that does I'm gonna turn it down because it's pretty gonna be loud we need to make it short Jeffrey all red says all red says how about some arpeggiated synth stuff oh I've recently found an arpeggiator plug-in that actually does what I wanted to do with an arpeggiator plug-in there's so many ideas I should start writing them down hold on I'm gonna open up a Kate session sesh yep you write down some things ha eat up okay side trans side trans plus retro wave plus orchestral plus rp synths okay reread says reverse kick can we reverse stuff in no we can't reverse I think I don't think we can reverse it in gion kick to use a hi-pass filter or bands pass we could change the cutoff frequency of the filter I think we need to really lower the amplitude because the filters have this problem that's sometimes a that's an interesting that's weird we have a resonant kick Steve Pixar says oh shrooms in the making yeah I'm not I'm not a psychoactive substance proponent but I like psychedelic psychedelic trance music the probably the only psychoactive substance I'm doing ever is coffee maybe tiny bit of alcohol sometimes but I'm really not that drinker that's a very weird kick maybe it's a good night good good night that's gonna be a wet kick oh wait I'm tweaking things that are not relevant all right we can use some distortion or maybe not cuz we can use Cho Chow tape afterwards okay you can see that we have a quite a transient here I think this kick is a little bit painful so we need to EQ it I'm gonna reach out for x42 EQ stereo I've been using x42 plugins more and more because they are very optimized for quick we're doing things okay these are in resonance I actually like the air that this gives us I think we need to multiband compress it LSP multiband compressor I have made some presets for LSP multiband compressor because setting it up takes some time I'm a 2 slam and soft let's hear slam I can't believe it did that how is gonna soft sounded that soft is better oh wow okay the only thing that these two presets really do is up the ratio so this is 2 to 1 on the soft preset I made this is ratios are 2 to 1 and at tax I usually like do everything from scratch but I think what if I move this oh okay okay so that's a pre-emphasis let's add another EQ afterwards as a D emphasis oh afterwards it whoa we have a lot of peaking let's use a limiter or clipper we could use wolf shaper to clip this what I like to do like wolf shaper is one of the few plugins that actually provide over sampling that works however only on two times because the higher I heard actually broken and two times over sampling gives the best results so I right click to insert a point and then I move this thing so it flattens out now we should have clipped the top but we did not so let's use tamper no not tamper I want to use chow tape where is it there it is that's taking a bit too long okay I was a bit worried it may crash so chow tape also features over sampling up to 16 times and it does a great job chow tape is actually the cleanest distortion plugin I found a cleanest open source distortion plugin it can saturate very cleanly like no aliasing that's quite loud I want to turn it down okay I think it's time to make a pattern what tempo should we go so this is going to be Psy Psy Psy wave orchestral Psy wave that's what we're going for hey 120 let's go 123 huh because lol because lol okay I think that the highs are a bit painful I think I'll need to turn this noise component down because it's just not very great but I'm gonna hit the right square bracket to loop the selection and then hit L key to start the blue playback and I think it's quite loud I'm gonna turn this down yeah that's it's a bit more manageable also I think we're getting X runs or maybe it's just hard or not being able to loop this cleanly it's weird yeah it just craps out on the loops okay okay Cretzi Morrison says 138 and rerad says we're on 30 BPM okay so maybe I can average this out to 134 what do you say it's gonna be good kick oh no I'm gonna I'm gonna meme it out that's gonna be this alright now we need a base we could use surge an excellent synthesizer plugin open source the only downside of surge okay you can find many but one thing is that it only works as a VST free plugin and I'm gonna insert actually for instance of that Psy base Psy base okay and the simplest way to create your pattern is just get your kick extend the notes and there you go oh well let's also check what is the pitch of the note we have so it was G sharp okay well that's let's tune our base to G sharp as well just to make sure the kick and the base are playing in the same team G sharp I think G sharp is a good wait that's too slow I need to speed it up okay let's go T to for stretch and now okay okay we need to change this patch to actually hear what we're doing this is surge a fantastic open source synthesizer plugin very powerful let's go retrigger so we have a nice even okay let's go in low pass and let's use the filter and the loop generator let's just apply it to the what do we have here nice we have what if we make it follow the keytracking yeah keytracking Steve Picks says if Psy trans in 142 at least or won't be Psy enough Kimo time music says try the surge XT I don't think I know what that is Lucy loose mean acts says Serge is only VST free I'm pretty sure I had it as Lv2 as well yes they had an Lv2 version before but it didn't work it had bugs okay let's try this thing I don't like this filter or we can saturate it can also apply the filter envelope generator to the saturation yeah I think I need to make the notes this is too loud oh I haven't tried surge XT also they've made some major strides okay I think what we need to do is sidechain this base with the kick so ace compressor stereo this is the stock auto compressor let's enable side chain input from the kick let's take it into account and let's play the loop yay yeah starting bounce Zard says use auto in two for something out in two would be very nice for these bases because it has nice analog field but I didn't use surge for quite a while so why not use that all right now we need some retro wave stuff retro wave lead I think we just need a lot of unison filter use an LFO make it make it sink to tempo that's too fast it's playing a lot higher octave oh if I retrigger if I retrigger then the unison voices will start in phase and then drift apart which is a very interesting effect that reminds me of old-school analog synthesizers could add some effects like a chorus want some more stereo width also a delay would be nice and would be a good thing to high pass this and conveniently surge has a high pass filter just built into this specifically for this let's try and come up with some melody okay that's 4b for bars I think that's a good foundation see the good fondation okay now let's see if order the timing or not of course it does that's what it does that's what it's for so order has these problems with rounding errors and it makes notes shorter or longer whenever it feels like it just quite quite problematic and sometimes I find myself really lost and not knowing why the heck my beats are not aligned it's usually not audible but it can be problematic you know what I'm gonna see if I can first thing is I would merge this whole baseline consolidate range uh yay into a single region so I can just easily copy and paste it and also easily transpose this let's see what plays higher Christian Treldahl says Anfa why are the backgrounds blurry today it's impossible to read text in menus I think this must be a problem of lower of low quality of you you you must be watching this in low quality because I'm sending I'm streaming clear sharp 1080p 60 so please check if what is your resolution of playback maybe you're playing 480p or 720 because that must be the reason the problem must be on your side I think I'd also like to make a melody and maybe a snare or a clap or whatever you could do a snare I'm gonna duplicate our kick with a new playlist so we don't have all the notes come in I'm gonna call it snare and I'm gonna turn our kick into a snare turn your kick into a snare with this easy trick it's gonna change these I'm gonna make the filter very uh it's a nice thing yes I wish there was a way to clear this envelope envelope oh I could just remove all the points can I remove all the points remove all the points okay so a snare doesn't need to have a such a long tone wow I think our I think our multi-band compression just take rings out a tone that isn't there all right now this noise noise volume oh I'm playing both at the same time that's the reason all right that's that makes sense I like this it's a look how quickly we made a snare out of a kick if only everything in life would be this easy yeah now we can make a half pattern and of course the snare is too loud I need to I'll need to turn it down because in side trans I don't know if they even use like kicks and snares in side transitions now we could do the rp stuff oh that's loud it's kind of weird I'm playing 16th but okay this is difficult I'm not terribly confident with this oh I just transposed one note I wanted to transpose the entire midi region again I'm using I'm selecting the region not the note okay that's just harder being being itself okay alt shift and up actually just alt okay yeah actually it doesn't make sense for me to put in the first notes because they are going to be side chained away anyway okay I'm going to use this pattern maybe I'm going to put them there because they kind of like add a little bit of flow try this I think we'll we could use some reverb on this snare I am really liking the reverb plug-in ether of course it's open source it has some random seas you can tweak it has a lot of settings I wish I why does it always play the kick as well oh why does it take so long to click on this track I have a bad feeling about this huh well that doesn't look good okay I think we need to do this again let's see yeah so recently Ardor wasn't perfectly stable for me let's see if I have any questions to answer thankfully the crash recovery have been fixed after me nugging the the developers a lot about it let's see do we lose anything yeah this snare is way too much I like the the reverb but I think I should gate this afterwards and there's a nice plug-in called gate by steve harris it's it's a ladsba plug-in very old but it really does the job so well that's where we're inserting the retro wave because the the gator reverb on the snare oh we can also record some samples some vocal performances because why not 90s back to the 90s okay this is a bit quiet I'm gonna use alt and six to make it louder back to the 90s I think I want to just keep the second version because the first one like my my pronunciation was weird can mark myself this is the like point b of course we need to process this thing huh you can saturate it for the beginner to begin with back to the 90s I don't know why I'm doing that it's kind of silly but I don't know never done that back to the back to the 90s back to the 90 yes I know it's terribly loud back to the 99 luck minnex says oh hello right here I thought it was only me having these crashes with ardo recently just started playing with with it again mmm good good void asks any idea if those crashes are due to pipe wire or not I am really not sure I think they could be because um ardo was more stable for me when I wasn't using pipe wire okay I'm gonna disable strict IO so that the signal path is split into stereo and not just kept mono forcefully which is going to give us nice stereo reverb we definitely need some delay on that and you know what could use delay architect which is a really cool plugin that I've been showing but I've been showing an old user interface for it and how do you do it yeah just click and maybe I'm gonna make this like more spaced out yeah I'm gonna make this like fade out and panning I'm gonna do left right and then less left and less right so they're gonna like converge into center and we have filters filters are freaking cool because you can have high pass sorry low pass and high pass so you can have like a band pass filter on every delay tap separately which is pretty freaking cool let's listen to that and then you can add feedback so the taps are then like I think I need more narrower filtering maybe like negative eight decibels yeah maybe I'm gonna put this before chow tape back to 90s wow like wow it seems to have some problems with clearing midi buffers whatever that is maybe maybe it is a pipe wire problem I think it must be okay thankfully we have good huh good crash recovery so our door also I think we have 15 minutes I don't think if we are gonna make everything we want our delay architect patch is gone shitey oh these are the filters no my beautiful filter things I can also make the resonance these filters resonate resonant yeah which is gonna be really cool and there's also pitch shifting involved which is quite crazy okay let's see Saadiva says uh add some deal add some feedback yeah you're a dub man you like delays with feedbacks let's do that also I want to make this more resonant and see just what happens if these filters are gonna start screaming what it's gonna be seven moral asks if I can you switch back from pipe wire to jack it's not easy I mean I could I could just uninstall pipe wire jack drop in and that should do it pretty much I didn't try it yet because that would be another like I've already optimized my streaming and recording setup for pipe wire so if I now went back on that it could be control s okay let's do that Saad says does order work via alza under pipe wire I think it's circumvents pipe wire if you tell it to use alza and it like says okay pipe wire move out of the way this device is mine and then pipe wire doesn't have access to it so we can like make order only make order the only user of an audio device by choosing pipe wire as the as the sorry alza as the audio back end if you choose pulse audio it shouldn't be different but jack does not allow you to have any midi input or audio input if you use the pipe pulse audio back end okay I think we don't have much more time let's do some orchestral thing or maybe at least an arp arp okay let's do arpeggiator yeah the mod arpeggiator I'm gonna make it is make it a favorite because this is really it's a simple very simple effect but this is all I really wanted and wait that's as fast as it goes all right let's do something then we could do a like a pluck a little bit of a little bit of this a little bit of that re-read asks alpha have you tried windows vista are you joking I actually I did not the last windows I used voluntarily was windows xp and then I found ubuntu and I never went back to windows I mean I had to use windows 10 at work sometimes but yeah I think actually windows 11 might make more people switch to Linux okay like all right let's go this is going to be arp I think this note is wrong it doesn't it's not wrong but it sounds it feels wrong now we can make arpeggios ah our doors awesome snapping doesn't doesn't snap to grid just snaps to whatever it wants you see what you do you see what happens do you see what's going on in here like what the heck is that every single bar is whatever it wants that's just ah that's messed up man okay now we can do like quarter notes I think something is not correct host sync quantized start that doesn't doesn't do anything maybe this is too fast as art says that propagates the error like no tomorrow yeah you just keep duplicating things and they just start having being shorter or longer whichever art or prefers that's really really annoying okay I think I would disable this plugin for I feel like this melody is not compatible with my baseline here g sharp a sharp b can g sharp g oh what I'm starting at d sharp okay g sharp a sharp d yeah yeah what about this back to oh wait it doesn't did I put it in the wrong place I think I must have yeah okay I like oh yeah but lovely it snaps to something that it just misplaced on its own instead of to the grid that's lovely like this simplified this panel you can't um you have less options here and it's like it snaps smartly which means it snaps to whatever the hell it wants to and because it also messes up lengths it just messes up the more because then it snaps to points that are not on the grid I want to have this start oh maybe I can like ARP mode played yes played I can just say it would be probably easier to just do this manually in the gt editor but this plugin allows you to do this kind of stuff live if you distorted this really bad oh temper just make it quieter before and just make it shorter as well let's some resonance resonance whoa I'm gonna enable auto return so when I stop and the transport goes back to where it was before I started playback this way can very easy go back and replay parts you are in minor stick to that yeah I am this is not the usual way I'm doing compositions because I'm kind of like um not spending enough time on certain elements well this is really freaking loud because I don't want to push it forward so we manage to make more s like s s split lovely ah lovely oh it doesn't want to snap to something snap to the f don't snap to the f yeah yeah there's ARDOR MIDI for you I'm so waiting I'm so waiting for our seven to fix all this crap the the rhythm of this is absolutely totally boring so that that's like no good I need to make this more interesting I think our little vocals piece is not really like working with the beat we need to cut it up and like quantize a little bit just grab things and move them to the nearest beat let's do it okay let's see okay I think we're kind of like lagging there should be a pause like back 90s it's a little bit better I think AltarMind says 21 30 yes it's time to play the music submissions all righty let's play this thing one more time and it would have been much much better it would be much better if um I didn't spend half an hour talking before because we only had like 40 40 to 15 minutes my lo-fi says three crashes in 90 minutes is quite good it's not usually that bad but I'm I'm always adopting new software and I think the Christy Mures on says back should be on the first beat back yes that's bad that's I think two should also be on the two the maybe yes shit can also time stretch things if you feel like want to like fill the gaps wait what okay that wasn't time stretching T to time stretch and then you just click and drag maybe it's sounding a little better a little better all right now we can consolidate this actually not consolidate we can select a range using the range tool and then go sorry for delaying but I need to figure this out it was an option for that combine yes edit combine and now it acts as a single region how and you can edit it further but you can combine and reveal the original edit that is really cool because you can like have layers of chopping recordings and what's good now is I can copy this and just have it all right let's listen to this for the first final time and go to the music submissions three two one go I misplaced this sample sample recording I put this in the wrong spot darn okay well I hope this was a nice nice entertaining demonstration we can hide the crash counter for now let's save this I'm gonna close order and the time has come for the live music submission is already let's start off with a track titled half moon which is work in progress or not by steve pixis and they write it was using it was made with lmms zenatsu effects and a few calf plugins extra comment says nice this is awesome and that flanger and the buildup it's really hard for me to say anything that could be improved about this it's really well done all righty that was half moon by steve pixis and now pink structure over your head by sg 75 a very trippy piece i'm gonna lie this track was made with ardor vitalium gion kick the usual suspects from lsp and the air windows and some noise repellent and ma pitch shift on on the vocal samples and there's a list of vocal samples by catarina rose licensed by license under cc by so that that that credit is important and there's also cc0 licensed women whispering asmr 01 they also write this is the first time i've used asmr sounds i like it for ambience and it even works for vocals i really like the ambient pads in the background and overall synth sounds the vocal samples work really well nice as well but this whisper is very creepy the lyrics don't help it i'm tempted to write to read out comments from the chat but i don't want to talk over the music all righty that was pink structure over your head by sg 75 and now we're gonna listen to dream city by quantizer lovely start very unusual for quantizer i also think it has unusually large dynamic range maybe i'm mistaken this track was made with wait no i'm wrong we're listening to a track titled game over by sahativa who was that it was made with ardor 6.7 os 251 synthesizer air windows galactic flopster x42 did digital big limiter all this weird distorted bass in the end they also write this track came while i was noodling with a synth os 20 251 so for os 251 synths and a flopster just for ambience sound as effects only free air windows galactic these are reverbs were used were involved and a x42 digital big limiter it was overkill maybe the simplest and shortest track i submitted here i hope you'll enjoy it and other stuff from me yeah that's a very refreshing thing very different thank you sahativa so that was game over and now we're gonna listen to dream city by quantizer let's go this track was made with lmms zinnat sub effects vital and audacity i really like this amplitude modulated vocals sample choir they write i'm learning how to mix and master properly thanks to people like yourself thanks having lots of fun trying to improve sound quality nice it already sounds much cleaner than the tracks i've heard from you and i've listened to quite a lot of them because i liked it i like them i think there's much more dynamics and that's for the better the bass no longer crunches everything else and it doesn't overpower the whole mix man i love this dude the mix is much better you're improving the great things about your stuff are there and it's sounding better than ever i love this lead line and the harmony in it this gives me goosebumps that's some interesting atone stuff here so that was dream city by quantizer gohan void asks where could i find those submissions i'm loving each one of them oh god um i'm going to link the public music places of the artists that submitted music that i played so just go to the live stream archive video on youtube and in the video description you'll find links to all the artists quantizer is on audius and i've listened to all their tracks there some time ago yay awesome work i can hear a huge improvement in the mixing really glad there's also more variety previously i um i had a little problem that the bass was like all the overpowering the mixes um in your tracks quantizer and these those also like playing for the whole track and it was a bit getting a little bit stale and it did some changes so that's definitely a move in the good direction that's a good improvement all righty let's now hear a track titled crystal clear work in progress 1a by outer mind this track was made with lmms outer mind also writes work in progress first part of climax so far they use sense of effects sfxr surge baton the kicks are his own as always also some drum samples so that was crystal clear by outer mind that you work in progress track one thing i would like to say is that like as usual this is very well done however i think that the kick or the kick bass is too loud and i think it's not is out of balance a bit overpowering the rest of the mix so i think that needs a little bit of polish but this is work in progress of course all righty the next track is titled we sanguines by an artist named malpheuse i hope i'm pronounced right and that's his first submission to my live stream so welcome malpheuse it's great to see a new artist here we've got some very unique tastes awesome this was made with ardor drum gizmo virtual playing orchestra on ubuntu studio they also write there's also a complete live stream of me playing the drums on my songs on youtube i'll provide the link if you're interested guys are you interested i wonder if i'm hearing distorted guitars in the background i clipping the way i'm negative 10 decibels all interesting composition i think the track is clipped you can probably see it on the vector scope i think the mix requires some work especially the drums they sound like are perfectly mono and quite distorted as well but i love the composition this is very unique and interesting so that was we sanguines by malpheuse and that was an awesome introduction i hope to hear more tracks from you and really cool to hear some uh virtual playing orchestra being used which is a fantastic collection of open source or how do you say it copy lefted orchestral instruments sampled instruments all righty now a track titled for nicole working progress by another first timer on alpha live streams and their name is schlagzeugtier schlagzeugtier i believe is that like a train schlagzeug schlagzeugtier i don't know all righty let's hear it for nicole i love the chords and how they work with the lead i like the drum pattern though the mixing of the drums needs work all these sounds really cool what is that yeah the snare is too loud that's one thing this was made with arthur 6.6 zennatzab fx vitallium sample v1 eq 10q kulf reverb and kulf compressor the author also writes i tried to make an 80s new wave-like track as a birthday present for a singer friend the lyrics are still being written awesome i can imagine a vocal line over this is it gonna replace one of the synthesizer instrument i really like the drum rhythm it's quite quite unique but yes the snare is too loud and i give some more low frequencies to the kick the highest like tiny bit too too loud in my opinion but very nice work welcome i hope to hear more from you schlagzeugtier i hope i pronounced it right all righty we have another submission it's called dance tonight by dnf and i believe i've heard dnf before on this show let's go it's like the fourth track of dnf it was made with arthur with surge hell dr mr with the electric empire kit loaded lsp plugins awesome i wonder where the vocals come from are they are original maybe dnf is in the chatting can tell us i'd love to know i love this harmony gives me chills that's an interesting i like this breakdown the kick sounds a little uncontrolled i like the percussion so the bass is quite basic i'd love to have here's something more complete complex about the mix i think the vocal could be a little bit quieter not much the kick could be a little bit louder and the bass needs more bass in my opinion less highs but overall this is really catchy and i love this middle part with the chords awesome stuff the author author writes it's hard to keep working on the music regularly i wish everybody lots of determination and pride for their work in their work also i'm implementing live streams on twitch as a semi-regular basis working on bespoke so keep an eye on that so keep an eye out for hhs music ha wait you're being we're gonna be working on bespoke as a software developer or you're gonna be making music with bespoke since love to know all right that was dance tonight with from dnf the next track on our playlist is called mind control from yet another first timer and their name is classic with a k let's go really cool sounds this was made with ardo 6.9 calf and lsp plugins suit speak geom kick and then just two obxd and vitalium me likey dude this bops honestly this makes you want to record vocals for this like just have a shot at it maybe you'd find them useful if you're interested hit me up the author writes hello anfan chat this is actually my first track i've made using purely fos nice first timer dude i'm loving this let me continue i've recently made the switch from fl studio to trying out strictly fos music production ever since i basically binge watched most of your videos lol and suffice to say i see how much passion you have for what you do anfan and when i see how much fun you have interacting with your community making all sorts of sounds and the mindset of being able to share it so freely is very inspiring and something that i feel encompasses the idea of being a free creative individual and i love this yeah also i guess the bottom line here would be thank you for being you anfa i'm sure i've you've inspired so many people you can include me in that list and your passion clearly shows here's to the future of fos music production thank you so much i love this letter and i love this music make more and if you'd like me to record some voices for this let me know that could be fun okay this is not the end oh no i know we're over time but whatever the next track is titled going upwards by my lo-fi my lo-fi consistently submits excellent tracks and he seems to be a very proficient guitar player as well so that's always very unique and this time i believe it's in seven eights yep let's go one two three four one two three one two three four one two one two three four one two three one two three awesome such beautiful sounds flawlessly blended this was made with ardor, guitarics, drum gizmo and bristol they also write no dubstep drop but seven eight time signature this is beautiful and that bass release an album this is too good this is just too fantastic man you need to release an album my goodness that's just fantastic I I have nothing to say this is flawless this is pure amazing musicality fantastic that was going upwards by my lo-fi and the last track for tonight today to this evening is titled to save the world by Xavier treningovsky I think we've heard this track before so this is probably an updated version it's the longest one yet my jazz bone is absolutely flatter today thank you this is fantastic absolutely this composition also this weird wacky timing I'm pretty sure it's totally deliberate because the playing is too good or this to be random the mix could use some work especially it's pretty much mono yeah it's perfectly mono it would be great to have some stereo field but I love the sounds that was fantastic I'm I'm delighted I get like I need to put on something because I just got chills all over my back wow thank you so much that was amazing thanks to everyone who submitted their music I enjoyed every single track of course we're on different stages of development as musicians some of us are just starting out some of us seem to be seasoned composers and performers and that's awesome that's amazing I'm really happy to have you here I'm really happy to to be able to inspire people and yeah I I love these live streams it's like a party so I'm always stressed before they start if everything is gonna work out because I really want to deliver I don't want to let you down don't know what to say more about this whole thing huh wow I'm I'm kind of stunned by these two last tracks like they're really I just that was awesome thank you all for for joining me today I hope you've enjoyed this live stream I hope you've learned something got inspired I hope I answered some of your questions I'll be I'll be publishing more videos this month I'm releasing them a bit early for Patreon supporters to oh dear to just show them that I really appreciate that so yeah huge thanks to everyone who's supporting my work financially these multi donations are really important and like without them I couldn't justify the time I spend preparing all of that preparing this show and it's a lot of work I love it so yeah thanks for for the support it's really appreciated also anyone if anyone has some issues with Linux or open source software for music production or sound design or just want to hang out with the crowd that is frequenting my live streams or me or just sometime here as I'm working progress stuff or watch some videos early or whatever you can join my community chat at chat dot unfit at XYZ and yeah there's also a discord server so discord is proprietary so I like I'm mostly promoting the chat but you can also find the discord server if you go there you can read everything publicly and on chat that unfit XYZ and you can go to newcomer info channel and there you can find a link to the discord server I believe as well yeah that's really all I have for today I just I don't know I these submissions today were really exceptional I am legit stunned I I just would like to listen to them again and again I'm going to link all the artists in the live stream archive description and if you're making music open source software please go to the link in the live stream description also under every single one of my at least recent videos you'll find the link to the music submission form where you can send your stuff and have it played on my show of course the time is limited but so far I'm not getting too much submissions so there's there's room so please do that everyone will enjoy it thank you especially for the new seminars because that's always difficult to send something for the first time I hope you're you've enjoyed hearing your music played on the show and you'll be submitting more because I loved hearing that and it's awesome to hear new styles of music it's awesome to hear unheard things and see people using open source software in ways I would not imagine and we all get inspired from that that's like partially the point why I'm doing this segment of playing your submissions is to have everyone myself included to just get inspired to make something awesome yeah that's all for today I am for 16 minutes over time so sorry for that but I'm just that was fantastic I have nothing but more to say have a good night and I will see you all in the videos oh yes now go make some music