 It's Anfa. Welcome to another monthly livestream. In case you're new here, I am Anfa. I'm an electronic music producer and sound designer and the unusual thing about me is that I exclusively work with open source software and Linux. That is quite rare in the audio production space. Most people use Windows or Mac and if they use open source software they often are not even aware that it's open source and certainly most people are not aware of the immense power of open source software. So I do lots of stuff to show that off and tell people that hey you don't need to buy plugins to be able to do great things. Sorry I'm just correcting my exposure. Also I'm going to close my window real fast because it's hot, really hot. And also today I have a co-host, co-host John and John just turned green. Wait a second I need to, there we go. The picture is pretty bad. Oh that's quite an image. Yeah that's quite an image. Oh wow that's interesting. That looked way better when we prepared. Yeah I'm gonna try the rainbow puke fix. Not sure how, oh wait I know I can change your exposure and stuff or can I? It seems I can't. Huh yeah I don't have control over your exposure and stuff usually I, yeah last time I was able to tweak that but this time I'm going to just tweak the chroma key. Yeah sorry I've spent the entire day preparing for the stream and oh now your white balance is changing. Now it's changing again. I don't think I have any auto stuff on. Uh well okay you're gonna be not the best looking. Oh wait I have an idea. I've been called worse. Alrighty so John do you want to introduce yourself to people who don't know you? Sure I am John the Bard. I've been making music for a long time under a lot of names. Um but yeah most recently John the Bard you can find me over on Odyssey. I have one tutorial up there now and a lot of rack videos but uh I'll be making more shortly. I have some ideas in mind. I have one prepared. I just need to now record it. Nice. And for those of you who haven't been around John was managing a album collaboration, an EP collaboration in this community, the ANFA community and he was making sure things get done because I was not able to oversee that myself for the most part. So without John there wouldn't be the SVS secrets EP created by ANFA Terrians. We're still mixing that though aren't we? It's true I was gonna say you said uh was doing but more like is doing. Yeah it's an ongoing process. True. I've never done a really heavy metal mix before. I listened to lots of metal but I mostly do stuff in like drum and bass, neuro, a lot of house, things like that. So yeah approaching a metal mix. I've done rock before but I don't know all the distortion on the guitars and then lots of guitars it's a lot. Getting everything clear is yeah it's a process. Yeah though it's it's getting together. It's starting to sound better and better. All the drums and stuff synthesized yeah it's a so we have a vocal part to redo in one piece entirely. Alrighty so today's topic is zero rhythm. We want to dive into zero rhythm and see what we get. Zero rhythm is not the most stable of softwares but it will be definitely interesting and that is what is important. That's why we're here because things are interesting. Zero them. Let's create a new project. Yeah let's make a blank project. I'm gonna call this ANFA Live 2020-07-03. Okay. Well you get started. I'm gonna change light and see if it's better or worse for the saturation because I just look so bright. Yeah you're overexposed. That is true. Crash counter galore. Okay green screen so I'm just gonna go back. HS Music underscore DNF says yay crash counter galore. Yeah there's gonna be crash counter. I've been working on the crash counter and I've extended it for to include more audio as well and oh I've automated lots of things to to make the streaming smoother because last month it was a real stress fast getting everything done last minute. Yeah hour of preparation but yeah this this month I started yesterday I've done a lot of work and today I just finished up but there's always things that don't get perfect. Alrighty. I forgot my laptop so I don't have chat open so I'll go grab it in a minute but okay for example you know I have a bigger screen now so maybe I can follow the chat. I hope you can see it now. I'll get it open still in a second but I'm gonna wait till we're. So Z-Rhythm. Z-Rhythm is an open source DAW not unlike Ardor so Z-Rhythm is very new. It's been going around for a couple years. Wait a minute my cat wants to come in or he doesn't want to come in he wants me to come out. No way. Yeah that was true your audio was crackly John so you're off you don't have headphones so you may not hear me. Yeah I noticed I noticed that just started um I'll relaunch let me look at my settings here and now it's better but it's like sometimes we get bursts of clicks like you know 100 clicks per second like 500 clicks per second. That may that may just be let me see if I can change the buffer without killing everything. My CPU is whacked. I think it's yeah I don't know my CPU hates low latency audio so one second. Oh is my audio clicky too so is everything clicky when I started our Z-Rhythm everything got clicky? Oh that could be I hadn't considered. Yeah that could be that would be interesting because I'm not seeing X runs. I was just going to reset it anyways but I'm not seeing X runs so you should look if you are. Yeah my audio is clicky as well so Z-Rhythm managed to make things bad. Very impressive. When you talk at the same time it is glitchy so you know what one one thing to always try is to just restart it. Thanks to uh oh yeah I don't know I don't think it's because of some um I have zero X runs in Karla okay I have 51 but definitely not enough to facilitate this. Yeah I can hear it um in your voice as well but if the viewers can hear it it probably isn't my end. You see I'm not overloading my CPU yeah maybe I can just restart OBS and we'll see I don't know or restart if it doesn't help I can always restart everything. So we can try and make some sound from Z-Rhythm and see if that has issues as well that would be interesting. I'm going to use Helm because it's a small plugin. Why am I inputting emojis? I didn't want to input emojis I wanted to search for a plugin. Oh yeah I can hear that it's terrible. Yeah that's amazing we've been doing so much work preparing and um like we've been a couple of hours uh pretty much live testing everything and never this didn't happen so uh that's live streaming for you no matter how much preparation you do it's always going to surprise you okay maybe I'm gonna just reboot my entire machine that would be the if that doesn't help nothing else will so um we might as well just just go on with that but it's gonna take a couple minutes. There's a minor I suppose you could kill you should just close through them and see if it's still crackling just to know if it yeah maybe I'll do that oh no poor Z-Rhythm that wasn't a crash that's not fair I gotta reset I no longer hear crackling no no longer crackling so I guess it's Z-Rhythm. Yeah we'll have to see what Chad says I am fortunate I can look on my phone maybe if he can't yeah I'm I don't hear anything uh any crackle so it seems like Z-Rhythm is trouble it's doing it's problematic Karloff assertion failure let's try again all right I can see chat now I can't send message yeah let's try and restart Z-Rhythm and see is that the best advertising campaign of all time or what give your takes and chat would you look at that I don't hear trouble all right yeah it seems like it's working all right so good thing we didn't go with the reset everything method I don't want arpeggiator I also don't hear your output but uh you're not crackling so I think it's fine oh no who made this default patch so complicated the default patch should be simple sine wave with hard sustain no default patch should be a massive FM grow oh okay I see I'm not sending Z-Rhythm audio I know why because I didn't actually rerun yeah I didn't I need to run some scripts because then restart my audio routing thingy what about now all right now I hear it okay now it's just bad attack that's why the click is there yeah that's on every there we go perfect I'm waiting to see I'm waiting to see if chat now here's output from Z-Rhythm yes okay I mean yes we're waiting yeah yeah so as soon as you guys hear this let us know it's just music says yeah okay excellent oh it's monophonic I can't play excellent wow already it works so we just had to smash Z-Rhythm in the face and it got working again okay let's delete this uh helm track because I want it blank slate yeah okay we're ready to go right then I'm gonna put my phone up there is chat and instead of grabbing my laptop I'm just gonna grab my phone charger and then I will be good I won't be able to send messages in chat but if you have a second screen I'll let you know okay okay so uh we're gonna make a track in Z-Rhythm or at least attempt to make a track in Z-Rhythm because I haven't tried it in long time when I tried it last time it was in alpha and now it's in beta this version of Z-Rhythm is called I don't know where do I show uh okay I don't know how to get it to show its its version but it's uh 1.0.0 beta 2.1 I think yeah 2.1.1 actually I remember I'll look at my download so try to make a piece of music I see people are already dropping some suggestions scared dog says funk please and obi says electro swing yep 2.1.1 and asius music says left click on the logo I'm left clicking on the logo control right click middle click doesn't want to click oh I think wait uh oh I think it's happened this time is it's no joke oh I am afraid we have legit Z-Rhythm actually it's froze but I had to kill it so the counter is there yeah it's V it's a version 1.0.0 beta what 2.1.1 you are correct John congratulations you win I win but we have a backup nice so I have set auto save to one minute interval let me show you I click here and there is this looks different oh no it's just scrolling okay oh yeah the oh and at the bottom there's more oh no so we have projects also save interval one minute yeah unfortunately it doesn't let you set seconds or milliseconds save every millisecond okay let's try first we need to of course make a kick drum as returning viewers already pointed out without a kick drum there's nothing we can do so here is gion kick my favorite drum synthesizer it's open source it's only on the next and it's absolutely amazing by default we have a sine wave oscillator let's turn it up let's enable the frequency envelope I'm gonna make it shorter so that's like a super basic let's double click and insert a point I inserted one too many I'm gonna move it around so the amazing thing is that I can see what frequency in hertz and also what note midi musical note every point on this curve have has and that is absolutely amazing for making kicks I'm gonna turn up the snob to up my highest frequency 2.5 4 kilohertz that's a snappy one okay what are we making funk or electro swing I don't know I was thinking maybe breakbeat well we have another vote for d and b so that's pretty close also I have a quick question about gion kick it's less the pitch do you know if it'll tell you if it's in tune yeah I mean you can use this to tune your drums for example if I know I'm my shoulders gonna be in D I can just make sure my kick ends in D you know yeah but I mean it couldn't be like 73 to 75 hertz like is there a way to tune it specifically do you know that it's exactly D and not like D plus a couple cents oh it's not that precise but you know if I was wondering but by a question it doesn't matter yeah I think it's it's well enough precise for that yeah if I move by a pixel I've already shifting to a different note so and the low frequencies also the pitch perception is so diminished that I don't think anybody's gonna notice especially on a short sound but I I've been tuning snares to to my musical tracks I've been playing melodies with snares we have a suggestion it's cardinal for the kick we tried that last time and it took two hours you can go watch it's very interesting we could use the kick we made that time to save some time it was a joke in reference to the last screen I think we would just start tweaking it and that would take another hour I'm adding some noise that's too much band pass maybe lower also I can make the cutoff change with time so my noise can sweep I don't think we can hear it anymore I at least cannot oh shoot you are right okay let me hack this together real fast because I I should have restarted my entire streaming script to um update it because this normally runs in loop and it restores connections automatically but I forgot to do that so I'm just gonna make a a loop clinic on the and just after this one damn that should do it yeah okay I'll just add a little sleep one second and it should yeah try to reconnect zero of them every second and if it doesn't it's gonna be connected awesome great normally this runs in the background nobody needs to know about it my secret sauce but now you know oh that's filter sweep is pretty pretty funny no noise noise it's very trans sounding very side trans I'd say noise I think it's not clicky enough for side trends that may be alright let's sequence some of that I'm gonna double click to create a region and yeah this is one bar I think whoa space starts and stops my goodness I had some trouble where space bar would just activate recently clicked buttons and not move the transport that was a very bad time okay so I've selected this region already we have a piano roll editor in this bottom panel so I can just double click to insert and quarter notes that's such a punchy kick oh yes it sounds nice and you know the amazing thing about gion kick is you don't even need compression any cue because you can tweak it it's so precise it just I mean you can use it and add some saturation there's even some built in just the compression at least the compressor is totally broken inside it's it messes up the sound doesn't really work the distortion works but yeah oh wait a second these are not quarter notes these are bars all right I was looking I was watching this in a different timescale let's zoom in I'm using control mouse wheel by the way do you guys can see the the mouse indicator or maybe I should make it I don't know maybe I should make it a little bit more maybe I can move it would that be better yeah maybe if not let me know okay let's move this ah so this is it that is the thing now we should be having four on the floor there's also a drum mode so I like being able to control the the length of notes because that's important okay what do we know what do we make we can make a snare now also we could maybe rename the track I'm also gonna hit control s I know there's auto save but I think I'm going to disable okay double clicking doesn't let me change the name of the tracks I think I need to right click whoa what did I control z okay I think I I think I click to delete thankfully there is undo is there undo for deleting tracks in arthur I don't think there is I am pretty confident there's not I think it warns you when you delete it that you screw it if you do yeah that's that also I wonder if there is undo for deleting plugins I'm just gonna drag in any plugin and let's do things yeah it works I could even use that so guitarics plugins sometimes get rowdy and now I'll just delete the plugin and see if I can control z that no I cannot undo deleting a plugin we're better than our door but we're not perfect yeah so we're a little bit better oh no that's not that great a little better but still can be better right click and what is it I want to rename the track I can change the color maybe I need to go to the mixer view I'm trying to remember oh right okay that works okay I swear you could just double click it normally so I think that's just not working right yeah I don't know why I don't think I've ever used the mixer view I think I use it I like that the colors of the tracks are now um more more visible that's that's nice I think that helps you can duplicate our kick to make a snare out of it all right silly I need to go to mixer just to rename a try that's kind of there's three votes for citrant so it looks like uh three votes for citrants yeah all right I guess side train side strain side trends it is by the way are the cameras not obscuring too much view maybe I should move you John to the left a little bit yeah I was thinking to the right I was uh thinking now I'm in the way of the mixer a little output but I guess that's less important ends and that are probably less important than the first MIDI note so I can do this so then you're not obscuring much just inserts yeah yeah that's probably I also can extend that so can I so I'm not obscuring much but the plugin lists we have less less workable area but I think we'll manage yeah I think that's enough space people used to make music on four by three screens yeah I used to make music on the like 1360 by 780 or something only LMS was usable at that resolution I tell you it was made for that resolution but it I can't imagine using LMS in a 4k screen for example all righty let's rename our snare we now renamed it let's make it snare-ish oh so all right so it automatically toggles recording which makes input monitoring work so MIDI input that is nice so sometimes it gets confused and I had to click a bunch to get it to do also the plugin windows are staying on below the zero of a main window and there is an option in the user preferences where you can there is a key window on top show plugin UI so on top of the main window if possible and I think it's not possible because it doesn't work so I will just force the zero of a window to be below other windows and this way we'll actually have our plugins on top of zero of them okay let's make a snare out of this kick how do we do this well we can up the frequency so this is around 200 and maybe not make it fall down so much now we can shorten the tone actually we could pitch it up even more oh that's a bit too clicky that's painful and now we need more noise longer noise and higher frequency noise so our band pass isn't gonna be that great here the filter behaves really strange I've noticed yeah the filter can like break everything so I think I need to turn down the global um general envelope loudness and now I have some more room with the filter I'm gonna do a high pass nice and noisy yeah nice and short we can also use the general amplitude to give it a nice clicky transient maybe more can't hear it and if we do this we're like emulating compression which ducks under after the transient and then goes back up okay that's nice do we have a pattern I think we do oh and now I press space bar and doesn't play it just shows me preference because I clicked there what if I click okay it's 140 a good tempo I think side trans is 135 if we are doing that yeah let's do it all right then yeah I think 135 is pretty typical 130 is like slower I could maybe go even slower and do something slightly different okay I think I can just use my mouse we can do something weird and do like side trans at 110 yeah I have a really slow groove someone was mentioning swing we could even try and swing it but that might get weird with rolling bass lines oh I think we can feel this I think this is gonna be nice so a nice feature of zero rhythm is that if I select regions I can just loop them or can I I can just I think it depends where you grab it oh I need to hold I need to hold alt so yeah by default if you just grab the end of a region you can extend it but if you hold down alt you can no oh that's a link to duplicate oh oh my goodness it's better than order it shows an icon it shows the chain link icon that wow holy frick someone tell paul someone actually ball I've been asking for this crap for so long so now if I change one pattern yeah everything changes it updates everything nice great undo fantastic so if I just control click control drag it makes an unlinked copy oh my goodness that's so cool I'm not I'm still not sure how to use this I guess the last question is can you unlink it all right oh now I'm trying to drag it oh wait a minute it's not alt I need to click on the lower yeah that's what I thought initially so if I click and drag from here it's extending if I click and drag from the oh you can see the bottom corner there's a tiny loop icon oh that's the thing okay now I understand ah can we unlink okay so alt drag makes a linked copy right click well there's no obvious way yeah but I don't see an option to unlink it loops no I don't see anything here that shows that it's linked to anything what if I just control drag the linked copy oh it creates an unlinked copy so I guess if you want to unlink something you just need to delete it and copy it again oh I'm gonna spam alex yep I don't know include include suggestions with every bug report great let us unlink regions but doesn't actually do that you'll annoy developers just telling the chat okay oh man there's the second one I think the media region became overlapped and that's that's the problem but they can overlap and that's not a bad thing I mean it seems to be allowed oh my goodness what what the hell this is amazing visual effect I don't know how it looks on your I think it looks just as trippy what fatal error 98 okay yep keep them coming okay so yeah uh alex please fix I think I need to kill it I don't see a way to proceed well second crash of the day okay we managed to make a kick on a snare and learn something about looped and linked regions that's good that's that's okay that's progress we can make one element per crash also according to people who know more oh lord avoid the people who know more about trance than me in chat side trance is around 140 to 150 it seems all right yeah it felt a little bit slow at 140 oh look we're in the place where we were before when it started oh no please don't can't delete that region maybe I know can I close it I can't I can't delete this region it's just oh man I this is a cursed snare strip on the on the timeline it just won't go away oh I love the project yeah how do I delete this region without blowing everything I maybe I'll try to delete the other one what if you duplicate the tracks all right this is probably way more complicated and more likely to cause a crash than what we're trying but what if you duplicate the track and delete or and remove the midi and delete the old track and then remove the midi from the new track I'm not gonna send another one our chances are slim let's duplicate the track and see how broken this project can become yeah let's see let's see how broken we can get this okay no crash no crash with this right uh I don't know if there is an option to like clear the track I don't think that's a very usual thing to do no midi yeah I'm I think if I'll try to delete that it's gonna just crash again so maybe I won't just keep it oh yeah it's this modified version with the swinging snare we need a hi-hat oh oh now okay now I can't even play I was worried this is exactly how the rhythm would go this is how my testing went yesterday but it was better I'm gonna not recover the backup I'm just gonna say no and I'll hope I have my snare there oh instantiation failed for plug-in gion kick single disabling Karla plug-in instantiation failed failed to Karla state state doesn't exist oh maybe because it was an older version okay we don't have our kick probably because we deleted the track oh but I bet it's a backup I bet it did though okay there is nothing here there isn't even a kick our other one isn't loaded either nothing I'm gonna try and see if maybe okay what is that is there like a browser of at one point we'll just be gone in our door stream yeah at one point I think if I remember correctly you have to take these backups and copy them to the main directory in some way you can try and open this but I'll just try and open it maybe I'm remembering a different we look like it worked all right good it worked we'll take it something something happened hey kick and snare back we did it cool I'll try to delete these nothing happened I mean nothing bad happened that that was expected to happen okay all right let's loop these down chance talking about all the crashing to be fair this is a very I guess it's technically beta now but this really is pretty alpha software yes it's got the features but it is not bug tested at all I mean it is bug tested but dolls are complicated so there's a lot going on and a lot of different things the user can try and do in a lot of different orders oh I'm saving the backup now I'm gonna save over the project save a loaded backup over the main project file um yeah the thing Alex is gonna hate me after this can we go on oh okay spacebar clicks the button I last touched with my mouse that's amazing I hit that okay hey but we did save it's saved it just showed an error did we close and reopen Zerlund for safety or just fight through it I think we just should work until it crashes or freezes or throws a hundred error in those yeah this is a very beta software it probably still alpha but it's considered beta yeah it's called beta just wanted to chat this is like you know kato live is called stable but it's less stable than olive 0.1 alpha that's kind of you know yeah let's make a hi-hat it's got the features but trying to use them is a different story it's difficult okay so for hi-hat one good thing is to use square oscillators detune them that's very loud oh that's very loud I'm gonna turn it down then or I can turn down the whole patch there we go quiet now okay I just gonna close that nothing happened everything's fine this is fine everything's fine that's gonna be our next crash screen we need the dog randomly detuning things layer free again that already sounds very uh metallic randomly detuning things yeah and now we have six square waves playing at different pitches and then what we do is we hype as the whole thing I think we need to turn it down as well can I has resonance yeah this is right in crash oh hello no no it's fine our old friend all friend crash that's not crashing it's just throwing errors we're not making a crash or then we're making a hi-hat crash is gonna come later also we can spice it up with a tiny bit of noise we can hype as the noise separately at higher oh I think that's a hi-hat let's double click let's oh oh okay I clicked the wrong place so at least it's very visual about what you've done you can tell instantly you clicked the wrong thing there if you made a link yeah it's very nice um sure grid length I want 32s oh yeah okay right I'm not sure how that's gonna groove I don't know I'll try there is an option to draw a where is that tool there's a tool that can draw the envelope I think I can only select it and yeah I've actually used rhythm for a few tracks and I think it used to be a bit more stable but uh certain features were just guaranteed to crash so it was a it was like a minefield but now I mean the project's still blank oh that could work if it was a not off beat all the time yeah that's exactly where I was thinking and then you should remove the last one every other you know there'd be one I'll copy oh oh that's so weird oh that didn't get weird yeah it shows you the full timeline huh yeah but how do I scroll this I can't middle click and drag can you shift girl oh yeah I can shift okay I can use the mouse we will shift oh righty so now I or I couldn't yes of course we should probably save just oh I'm saving every minute man oh yeah that's true that's true automatically I think maybe it's the same show maybe it's showing this crash screen every time it just saved also saved crash I mean it's not it's not a crash it's something else uh this is some hefty swing though oh okay 128 uh yeah I don't want as much maybe I should enable adaptive but what does it mean I think when you scroll in oh well oh maybe this is that no I don't know I don't think anything then can I control drag notes yes yeah we are doing sigh uh well we're kind of doing sigh we're making side trance at 110 gonna be interesting something weird there will be rolling baselines okay this isn't particularly working that's feels like a triplet so it isn't that's cringe that's weird oh that's nice that's some swinging we're marrying the funk and an electro swing elements with side trance we're doing everything that was demanded at once I wonder if I can merge oh yeah I wonder if we can merge media regions we'll try and use um what is it uh that drum kit red zeppelin or whatever it's called try and turn that into a breakbeat kit that should only take a few seconds if we get far enough we gotta yeah we can just use a red zeppelin drum kit or something okay I think we should I think we could do the bass with that pattern start with the bass line now I mean go for the bass right yeah maybe we can do vitalium which one was it oh vitalium worked fine with vst3 and lv2 so I'm gonna go with lv2 but we've tested surge and surge in lv2 caused a huge framerate drop but not in vst3 vst3 surge was okay cat says that the air screen lines up with the backup notification so it seems like you're right oh we didn't get up there it is ah oh we just get a crash every minute that explains it I wonder if I closed it I wonder if we restarted zero of them it would like stop doing that I wonder if it's breaking anything I don't know what's happening to the project file yeah does it actually create working as backup files or not is this the last we'll ever see of the project you know everything we'll have will be there live stream as an archive of the sad story okay if I create a new alright so it seems like uh nitrance at 110 is a genre called goa okay so when people ask can you make goa trends that all they wanted me to is to do with side trends at 110 I guess so well that will let me know if I'm wrong okay I don't know if this is makes sense what I'm doing I think it does I'm gonna see what happens if I try to open oh wait it makes a folder oh that's okay so I wanted to do something else fine I can I retain that yeah let's do that I okay let's save as once again and I'm just gonna call this call this this holy snap yes of course what okay oh there's two of these okay all right this is showing the wrong directory this should say o3 and says o2 so I'm not sure if it's saved oh there we go again now that's an error you can't ignore that one well there's your problem oh okay today's episode is sponsored by the number six I think we'll go better than that Christy marisa says just don't make blues we need to stay upbeat with this thing sorry like if we're gonna start making blues it's not gonna go well I want to add a little bit of no it sounds bad shift it sounds like stuttering okay that's kind of sort of something a plot twist it's glitch hop now sure I think that's pretty cool let's try and make a baseline I don't remember what stopped us from making the baseline the last time I think it was time I think we spent legitimately 45 minutes creating a kick in cardinal and then no I mean I mean right now oh last time oh yeah we're about to do the baseline but something happened maybe a sea of errors my brain is just full of error messages so I want to make some I know a sort of is a base for everything but I want to make something a little bit weirder I like really like drawing these shapes like harmonic series and vitalium and then fading between them I like I'm sure it does like it does all this mixture warping stuff here right you can make a whole monkey in between those are good hold if I hold shift and move this oh it's too low we can such a talky tone the throaty it's awesome I would just like to invert that so reverse this this all right and now let's have another whoa not this one so that's the classic bass pluck now give it some drive can change the the filter type could try dirty oh nice man I like the filters and vitalium let's disable phase randomization so it starts the same way every time now it's better maybe you use vital as an effects processor I think so with the sample in right yeah probably there is a vital effects plug in I think but it's not in the open source vitalium that makes sense I believe I'll see if I can figure out how to do that as a user maybe there was an idea to make one but it's not actually real bass wait now we can all right it's time to make a baseline ah wrong place to click sounds a little bit like tb 303 what should we do we should do 16s oh that's too too tiny I wonder if like control d yes it copies the note and puts it after oh that's amazing you hit control d and just put it after that's so good ha amazing I'm gonna loop this real quick let's try that okay it's kind of bare and kind of bland but I think we need to sidechain it with the kick someone's randomly stumbling upon the stream yeah we're uh we're testing out some very beta software right now so do not be at all alarmed by dog crashes just expect them to happen we expect them there's been six of them and there's gonna be more oh yeah but everything we're using is open source it's all completely free the plugins are all great the dog will be great as soon as it's stable yeah we're testing it it's kind of early hasn't had a stable release yet but it's shaping up it's it's interesting I think it's going to be really cool once all the problems are figured out because yeah I wonder how to do sidechain compression SP sidechain compressor yeah I know there's a way to just directly expose uh things to jack but I wonder I know there's a way to do it internally too that's very nice so I think you have to go up to the top of the screen I wish I had a better way to point uh on the top left do you see how there's a plugin menu uh higher than that there yeah oh controls audio ends yep there they are and then you can wrap them yep yeah that's how the routing works okay can I like drag it somewhere um I don't remember how you select I'm trying it's silly thing I know it's silly but maybe you have to send uh try right clicking one of the send need to learn what's necessary oh there is that button opens it up to jack and then you can just route it yourself but that's not ideal it does work there was an option I think to route it yeah I just remember there was a menu maybe it's right right clicking maybe it's somewhere okay no oh what is that modulation no maybe there was a special screen for that I don't know does anybody know how to do sidechain and zero with them I've been looking in chat I guess we should just use jack for the moment and then if you I guess those they'll show up as jack ports on Carla ah but I also need to expose my kick as well yeah it should be you gotta go back to the plugin menu on the or back to the full browser yeah and then click on that and then go back up to the plugin yep okay now can and then there's the outs okay yeah there we go then we can see if the other remembers these after a crash that'll be interesting this thing that's a different kind of different kind of it's for pipe wire and it's nice for routing things okay so we have we should have our kick yeah output sidechain input great kick to sidechain there's two of them to sidechain doesn't seem to have to be doing anything okay I don't know that actually does anything it doesn't look like it made the connection maybe we need to maybe we do need the Carla tool yeah I think I'll need to use Carla for that hello Carla oh zero rhythm it's black I think I'm gonna open another instance of Carla just not just to not risk crashing that one oh there wasn't zero if it was okay kick to base okay this works there we go now if we go and open our plugin hello is it behind everything I was just thinking that oh maybe it is yeah maybe it is and we keep closing it I don't know it's inspect hello I would like to open the user interface please I guess you can just do the controls there oh there it is we got it clicked and it opened nice I don't know I thought you double clicked before but that's okay I think I've been clicking double clicking all day but outside okay set I wish I could pronounce names the hat the hassle of sorry for butchering that they're in chat they're in your chat you know them they say that it's exposed as an ox output so if you go to I think if you go to the kick where you're trying to send it out from yeah it'll be exposed as maybe not like yeah uh same person says they remember it being quite stable before the something opened here like a tiny menu a tiny menu appeared oh there it is right click it I think I'm right clicking I'm gonna middle click now I'm left clicking oh it opens once every like 50 clicks and then it disappears maybe just wait okay I'm just maybe it's is it to the right or somewhere in the window you have to click okay I need to double click okay okay we got it we got it oh wait and just allows me to send it into the sidechain group yeah there we go okay so that's how we're supposed to do it the normal way I knew there was a way to do it but all right that's that makes so much more sense I think I can disable this now let's see hey it works oh yeah nice it's already external perfect I'll keep much more of an eye on chant and uh we did it we had so you've made sidechain compression actually it wasn't so hard we just had to figure out how and I I think the problem is that if you double click you need to wait a tiny bit and then it appears honestly still easier than uh FL studio oh man okay now I'm double clicking and it like it needs to be highlighted and then double click and then it appears okay and I think because this is identified then we can disable the jack outputs on everything we can turn those off we don't need I did I did that that's the wrong screen I did that and you can see they are no longer okay the inputs aren't the outputs are okay no matter oh wait so I can I can just hide them on the kick as well or kick maybe the sand is creating these outputs yeah I think we also made them on the kick itself so if you go to the gion kick plugin I believe the gion kick plugin oh yes that's the thing you need to click on the plugin right okay now it should be gone and it is gone so we have vitalium stereo out l and r I don't know why that is here that is weird but we should be able to then disable that oh base I think it should be on base not select base I guess just click it okay yeah yeah I see okay it seems like I can't select okay I can but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't sometimes I click on in the mixer on the track and it highlights and sometimes it doesn't I think it's more reliable to click here by the way I'm going to rename this oh I need to rename it in the mixer I have base vitalium it doesn't have audio outputs set to jack interesting oh it is these are bunch of patches I made for vitalium that's nice look at that I think these are earlier stock or are they I think they are stock okay they sound like stock names what I do I think I delayed deleted my oh what what happened ah I hate that space bar does random things depending on what you've clicked that's so bad you can never know what we should put a limiter on the master always a good call oh yes and we should also make sure this is below others because because of the roll the restarting it keeps it wasn't enough yeah I didn't hear it I didn't hear it master let's do it x42 limiter or dpl that's the one yay I loaded up x42 dps stereo fabulous okay I think we probably uh that'd be the thing we should probably have I don't know if you're calling your name I can't pronounce that whole thing uh saying we should probably have a shorter envelope on the base it's probably right it's pretty it's pretty fast huh got a lot of them we should try it okay I wish I could like how would you modulate that yeah yeah we should modulate that through the track that's awesome so much movement for free that's gonna be the whole track just putting LFO on all those just use another foe it might be the release causing a problem actually oh oh i'm doing something weird ah it's trigger yeah yeah yeah and then we should lay off the release some too look at the snare peaking so the transient's there I'm gonna make it we got put your hands in yeah okay we have something finally going on after one hour and 15 minutes but you know we spent some time figuring out things uh maybe we can just change them bass note and call that uh like progress oh that's control drag that a cool thing that rhythm does up at the top you can set your key and your chord progression you double click in the chords area at the bottom yeah but the top sets a chord that sets like a chord and then you can highlight your chord in the scale the midi editor and then you can set the scale underneath the chords if you double click the blank space right underneath where you just set that other underneath that one then you can set the scale no back up top where you select it right under there yeah right you double click underneath that and you can set the uh yeah and you can set the scale double click that again and all right and then inside the midi editor you can do scale highlighting and chord highlighting so you know what notes are in key that's nice assuming the user understands what these are because i don't yeah i mean you got major and minor and stuff so you could just do i don't know what did we start on i think we can start on what's the bass note is like a root so it's b yeah so we just do b minor b minor yeah yeah then i'm just trying to show off the rhythm features specifically that i know of so then now it will be for the whole track and if you go see where it says no highlight near the middle of the if you go select a midi track and it automatically does it the whole length of the song until you hit another change nicely i know no highlight yeah you can change that to highlight scale or chord or both okay chord i guess we don't have oh you we didn't set a chord that's why oh yeah okay let's go b minor major okay so this is a set of chords i can customize this oh yeah look at that all right so i'm making my own palette of chords and then i imagine this transfers over into that chord pad view the other one yeah now it's b minor oh that's interesting can i make this i guess i just insert a new yeah this is this is really cool if you like know what you're doing yeah when it comes to music theory and my music theory understanding is not enough to like this isn't going to help me i'm just gonna know the chord view i also cannot use my friends no theory they took years in college they just make me feel like a moron with this kind of stuff they'll be like oh yeah the b major seventh that connects perfectly into an e flat minor ninth and it's like oh okay that's good i mean you say so but yeah i just like the i like the scale highlighting because you can just be brain dead and just know what's in key and being brain dead is always the best that's great i don't think while i'm making music i just want to feel yeah okay i love if i would like it if it would jump to the area where i'm okay that there it is so now if i move oh but i like that note okay okay i'm gonna control drag and make a different you can see it changes color if it's in or out of key and then um yeah i think it would be really useful you could write your four chord progression right if you're doing like a one five six four something really basic and then duplicate it very easy time following that throughout your song because at all times you can see what what chords like will fit with what you've got yeah exactly that's nice for keeping minimal theory knowledge yeah i think that's nice for keeping track of your like harmonic context i'm gonna save and play this and see what happens now we needed maybe a swelling pad it repeats oh it loops yeah it loops automatically i'm gonna disable loop now it won't loop okay i mean that works it's thinking interesting what cytrance needs maybe a chord stab maybe a big swelling pad something in the top register writing a noise low bass noise or band bass noise riser also i would like to make a snare fill oh that'd be cool oh shoot i'm oh those linked notes looping that's what it's saying oh interesting what happened why does it oh because it's the velocity hello i don't know why the velocity of these notes is very small and this one handles velocity really well i think it just does volume but it was great wait could you repeat what handles velocity well oh jean i think it just controls the volume but it works great yeah it just controls volume because it's i can't change the volume of that what the what is this who are you after today our doors midi bugs are gonna look so simple yeah i can't do anything about that what is it yeah that's what i wanted nice and after that a crash symbol would be perfect so we can modify our hi-hat really fast to do that yeah just ship the pitches around a bit and then make it longer yeah make it longer add a calf reverb on to it because it's very metallic i do let's go to mixer to rename it crash symbol and we obviously don't want to have all of that crap can i okay yeah i can drag and where is my snare hit a snare roll okay there is my snare roll but can i color regions i think i can't yeah it would be interesting if we can attach assign colors to regions all right the hello whoa whoa whoa oh it's so strange that you can like you have the intact oh that contain interesting not resized with a looped object that's weird why is it looped it's not looped nothing's looped in here however i could alt track this to have a copied uh length copy oh okay crash symbol let's do it let's symbolize it simple thing we can change the length global length and now i would pitch down various square ways and also lower hi-hats make it longer we don't need this kind of transient okay that's kind of long i think this will do yeah just some eq and some uh reverb inserts let's go small can you hear that go yeah that's weird that is really metallic yep a little bit of eq x42 eq oh oh home doesn't work no i can't jump to start of this x42 uh something is is it in the effects to the right i don't think so it's here okay it's the last one of course it's hidden behind your head i couldn't see it oh sorry let's show the spectrum what i like to do is make big cuts in the noise huh it sounds like a notch yeah here big not quite notches not as all the way down but i tried to find the lower like body of the symbol to give it some apparent weight that's not bad so we're clipping so i think i will open gm kick oh yeah that's much better we're no longer clipping okay i let's see if that works in the context it will be good to have a sidechain on that as well yeah it will probably be good to have a i try and sidechain a hundred percent of things except the kick uh usually not the snare but when i'm making trans tile stuff if it exists in my track it's sidechain okay i want to hear how this snare roll and the crash work together okay not the best it's too loud it's still quite sharp yeah it needs i think more more reverb and it's kind of bright still i don't know crashes can be hard yet maybe i'll go with matrix verb this is air windows thingy i thought the delay matrix that's an interesting sound yeah ah sidechain would be really nice for this i'm gonna try and copy this control drag and now i'm gonna go to kick i can select it in the mixer and i'm gonna click double click here bass crash symbol voila oh look this is turned down that's why i had to turn it out yeah you can adjust the level oh that makes sense that's pretty nice yeah very nice i think that our door does that too but it's good that it does this and this explains why i had to lower the threshold at some point very aggressively you have to change the other one too then yeah yeah yeah just got a sidechain everything and then it makes sense yeah why does loop though that's weird i guess it works better this way huh i think we should be stopping now and moving on to music submissions because we have quite a lot of them and we would like to not talk over them so much and maybe take a moment between the tracks to discuss them instead so everyone can hear them clearly and without our us too rambling on all the time also i think i'm a bit underexposed oh shoot not this one now you're really underexposed oh man is that better it's strange because i've been all overexposed for this entire stream yeah i need to match you i need to you know we need to look alike right now we are now consistent we are the trans guys okay no i can't do that not okay this is this is better yep so let's maybe hear it one more time and head to the sunset of music submissions three two one go so so i tried to ruin it but i think it didn't work just as bad as it should i'll delete this track to remove any traces of me trying to ruin it fantastic no we made a track in zero rhythm and it just crashed six times oh it's pretty impressive we got eight million error messages but it did so all right the real test actually before we switch over we should close and open the project export to well all right export first yeah and then close and reopen project okay here it is export yes oh that's the thing all right okay okay i think this is it seven crashes it's uh it's it's all the crashes we need for this today yeah so zero rhythm congratulations and now it's time to move on to music submissions oh let's just go this track is by trans walvey it's titled love and yet another cheesy trans song with absolutely no message for from benes three for the whole purple mixing on a mass factory drum samples that's perfect for this pad space lg302 for a sound change so that was love and oh by trans walvey and now a track titled the fairy dance by sicker snapper it was made with ardor using many plugins drum gizmo and zen fusion and thanks for the tutorials you're welcome they also write this is part of an animation soundtrack i think it works in context of the short film but it would like to hear feedback on the music and production as it stands that was very interesting i like the filtering and blending electronic and acoustic elements sorry i'm a little bit distracted because i'm also fixing technical issues in the background there's gonna be less of that all righty let's move on and here a track titled and music by sahativa me free samples and usual bread and butter like lsp suit and x42 plugins eq limiter and compressor air windows two tape ether and also tall dub that was very atmospheric a pleasant piece and now we'll hear a track titled clever carnivore by quantizer and i think this is not going to be as calm all righty so that was clever carnivore by quantizer let me just fetch some details it was made the the track was made with lmms vital audacity and zinnatsu effects nice break beats nice basses basses i really like the sound design and the composition lots of interesting things going on like call and response parts in the in the middle and i like the pluck instruments they sound sound quite like physical not entirely like synthetic like alien instruments interesting stuff and now we'll hear neon cat by ov yomi this track was made with ardor vitalium zinnatsu effects calve lsp and air windows oh so it's ov and yomi like a phantom me that was interesting there was some really interesting and amazing sound design in the middle i really like the oh wait wait i need to copy um sorry i need to copy uh copy the audio item so we can hear you okay now okay all right i hope we can hear me yeah hello chat sorry about that i was all i could hear from the stream was like 10 kilo hertz noise it was terrible you're blasting a sound card it was clipping the whole time i had to figure that out we've solved it it seems yeah anyway so that next time i heard yeah right i heard the last little bit of it um yeah that was really cool i like the uh the speeds a lot of fun the i like the instrumentation all the brass it's a lot of fun the only thing i would say is that the vocal doesn't really seem to sit in the same space uh i don't think it's like too loud or too quiet necessarily but it doesn't seem like it's in the same room that's just a mixing thing yeah it kind of seemed to me like the vocal was recorded completely separately and like even added on maybe like the instrumental was produced and mixed by one person and then the other person added their vocals on top it kind of felt and not very didn't sit very well together in the mix yeah i also wonder what's the language and the lyrics uh i don't know maybe someone in the chat understands the the lyrics you can tell us yeah i just music dnf says ska yeah there were there were parts of ska and they're like instrumentally that's very interesting yeah that's pretty fair yeah lots of brass and a high tempo i listened to a bunch of real big fish back in the day they're blast all right yeah pretty ska let's hear another track uh that was neon cat by ove ove and yomi and now we will hear a track that has no title yet it's called to be announced by advent tuner which is another moniker of outer mind nice lisiju curves this track was made with lmms surge synth one some sound fonts and the samples from tuner writes drone bass as for month was live stream last month this time it's nearly done oh yeah that was the one i said sounded like freestyler i think yeah exactly yeah the bass sounds like from freestyler i would say this time i've been listening to it i've learned that the video gives me way different quality than the stream here so i've been switching between it and the stream so that was to be announced by advent tuner and now we'll hear a track oh my quick thoughts on that it's a very wide sounding um comparing it i believe i'm getting a mono sound from vdo and then it completely in stereo from youtube and just comparing them it's so wide in the stereo version and it's completely missing in the mono i guess it's just i guess that's to be expected but the bass as well seems very stereo it doesn't seem like anything is in the middle so it's it maybe the kick and snare yeah it loses a lot in the mono otherwise it sounds great i really like the the width of the mix it yeah it feels spacious and like not claustrophobic it feels like there's there's room around me i need to figure out how to send better quality audio for you so it's true but we'll start that out later i've just been switching between this and youtube to get a better perspective in the mix okay so now we're here we'll we'll hear a track titled urie i r u y not sure how to pronounce that by lifeline i ru it was made with lmms cardinal and air windows plugins but old cardinal i think you got the crossfader over oh yeah my best of all in my best contest submission but i had a lot of struggles with body and couldn't make it the kick seems like it's fretting around 60 hertz on myself though i was listening to it over my system for a second huh the bass is pretty good down there this sounds microtonal microtonal harmonies i wonder if this is what cardinals used for maybe it's used for everything i wouldn't be surprised i wouldn't either if you're in chat let us know yeah i think the mix works i think there's there's a need for some i think the bass should be much louder and it should be sidechain against the kick and i missed a snare that would balance the kick for a good bounce i think it loses its impact at the end too i think the first drop uh with all the sub bass really enjoyable and then that second the Reese's there's not very much sub under them yeah there were pretty impact pretty weightless i would say yeah i think it's in the right direction though a lot of cool stuff cool yeah i i'd love to know if this uh track wasn't made entirely with cardinal if all the sounds were synthesized using cardinal that would be a fascinating find especially after the last month of stream where we made a kick drum in one and a half hours and this guy made a lot of more uh or gal made a lot more although he said he didn't get it done in time for uh so sounds pretty typical of a cardinal project lifeline wrote they didn't manage to finish it in time yeah i think if i start everything if i started making tracks with cardinal i think i would be having the same problem with everything all righty so that was i re by lifeline and now let's hear a track titled being next to you by Jobin Rezai this track was made with q-tractor steam mariusa masks where is the voice i guess yeah this would work with vocals the title suggests it's it's an off song i guess it could be it's not the first approach in this song i use the following plugins yoshimi dexed black pearl drum kit kulf equalizer kulf reverb mda piano yeah it's very nice q-tractor is a rare occurrence on this show so it's always great to hear represented really pleasant vibes that's great i can't say anything bad about the mixing are like that the sound design is so coherent like all the sounds like just a perfect match to each other yeah it's very it makes me think of this album um it's by the lady who's macintosh plus uh that weird vaporwave stuff i can't remember what it's called offhand i think it's home yeah home by prismcorp virtual enterprises like 90s midi music but really clean i'll post it in other music later but it's it makes me think of that vibe it's very nice i would actually listen to that yeah weird kind of enjoyable i don't know that was nice let's now hear a track titled so feat jess golden original whatever that means original grand mix is that a kind of remix a remix i guess so because the track is by graham i have no idea what that's gonna be let's go as apparently the artist is named goldam and the type the track is titled graham so the remix of a commercial track or something okay hold on this was made with reaper and it's a remix so i think i'm gonna drop it i don't see any free software being used in the production nothing is mentioned and not no plugins nothing so sorry but i'm ejecting this track it sounds nice but it's uh unfortunately doesn't qualify for this show but yeah yeah so uh also i think i need to add a rule to disallow remixes of tracks that were not made with open-store software because then it's very like you can't really tell what's going on and it doesn't really work as a showcase of free open-store software production because you don't know what's what's made with it and what's not made with it it's definitely not a libre sample that's for sure yeah all righty um we have another truck made with reaper oh interesting it's called dub potism by dnf did not finish yeah and the track was made in reaper but many open-source plugins helm vitalium lsp plugins x42 limiter so that i can play and they also write which is very important i'm actually sorry for using reaper but so far it's been so stable and i've started to really get used to it i accept the apology but you can do better okay let's hear it dnf dub potism let's find out about despotism but the mere form of guptan of itself the pun in the title might be so cool just dropping some truth bombs i feel like i'm playing day sex again right all righty so that was dub potism i guess by dnf so it was made in reaper but he they used open-source plugins and they apologized so it's okay but we're gonna pretty fun yeah i wonder how it was made yeah it's fun dub reggae feel i like it takes me back to like 2010's liquid stranger very bouncy very nice yeah very soft sound bottom heavy but yeah that's pretty much dub all right the next track is titled article 13 and a lot of numbers the politics coming yeah i see we are heavy on politics today uh the author is called digite digital oh that's clever and and uh yeah i don't know what's happened here but this is strange i there's some i don't even know what this is you know the software says key pass and in the fields that should be answered yes or no there's some zero one zero zero one digits i don't even know if this is legit and i don't know the guy digital so we can hear a bit of it and then we can drop it if it's weird um what do you think all right yeah it's um i was yeah i was i was making sure i was right about what article 13 was i thought so i don't know dude stop stealing what just happened i was mentioning good folly work before this is excellent yeah i just wish the author would fill in the appropriate field in the form and actually support supply the required info yeah i guess in the future uh hang on be more stringent with the requirements i guess i must say the editing and like juxtaposition of different things is very interesting yeah these would make many great sections two different tracks i think is one experience it's pretty cool like it's just excellent folly work yeah i think this track goes on longer but i'm automatically fading them at three minutes so they also exceeded the allowed time but everybody does that all right so that was article 13 and lots of numbers by digital and we have no idea if they even used false or is this a bot i don't know uh so next time i won't play stuff like that are they digital show yourself oh i thought this was fall of vanguard not digital yeah okay never mind never mind i don't know if they're in chat chichu is in chat i believe yeah chichu is who i thought you were talking about yeah okay that was weird inspiring i would say i have no idea what was was made with and who made it and why and but somehow it ended up on this show now we are here now we are we'll hear a track titled the fall of vanguard by chichu the track was made with ardor lsp multi sampler with air windows drums vitalium helm delay architect that's one we didn't use in a long time dragonfly reverb ace compressor that's windows sorry that's an ardor stock one air windows galactic reverb i'm listening in mono but i can see on the spectrogram it seems like it's the left one it's not a spectrogram but it's like the whole mix of vector scope like yeah vector scope there we go this is very wide like i'm missing most of the experience so it's not but that was the fall of vanguard by chichu and now the last track of this evening unless it's morning whatever you're watching and the track is titled behind the clouds is peace by xavere treningovsky xavere always submits short but sweet funky tracks so i'm always eager to hear that let's go these are like jingles but so so short but so memorable i love that this was made with ardor by the way that's all the author wrote okay this is this is everything we are done thank you so much for joining this live stream thank you john for being my co-host yeah thanks for having me always been fun huge thanks to everyone who submitted their music except for people who didn't fill the form properly and didn't even say that they're using free software maybe they didn't shame on you who you are yes you know who you are and whoever is using reaper still come on you know you want to use ardor it's great i've been using it i think i'm gonna release an album made with ardor maybe this next year maybe this i don't know if i feel better i'll probably finish it some time okay ardor it's amazing yeah it's very capable sometimes it craps out but what doesn't everything everything crafts out that's why computers exist okay also huge thanks to everyone who is supporting this show uh on patreon and liberape if any of you watching would like to support me and help me keep going with this stuff then you will find all the links and the description of this live stream or you can support me with a monthly donation that helps to pay the bills and and pay for medication to stop getting crazy and stuff also to buy gear as you say more video equipment yeah like equipment's important yeah because of that i can upgrade my computer and like get a new gpu so i don't stream at 20 frames per second so it was close yeah the studio adds up fast though just buy 100 feet of xlr cable and you'll learn oh dear no no never i'm keeping that as as short as possible i'm deliberately not stocking up on xlr cable too much all righty that's worried that you're sick uh i think from the uh yeah i've been i've been under the weather for the past months that's why my video output has been diminished quite a lot but hopefully i'll be better i'm trying to take care of myself thank you i'm here to raise the spirits yeah john is here to supply extra extra energy when i'm down oh yeah all righty thanks again guys thanks for watching thanks again and we'll see you somewhere somewhere next month and hopefully maybe before that as well yeah okay now it's end screen and 20 more seconds to show the links to stuff and then we're gone clicking the stop streaming button go to 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