What's up lads and ladies?

I apologize that I could not respond to your heartfell reviews, PMs, comments and leave reviews in the goddamn AIM, :(. Works now occupied up my entire life. It's a pain in the butt, but hey, better than homless again! :/

It doesn't mean that I didn't read all your comments and messages!!! I READ THEM ALL :)

I dropped by 5-10 minutes every 3 days to check msg. But no time to reply tho :(

See ya all soon.

This is not a shitpost but neither a serious post. It's merely to complain about the thing I have seen amazingly and heard disappointedly across many movie and game soundtrack. That's right. I'm a Sample Justice Warrior, here to shit on the famed and the lazy in the industry. From a self-deprecated POV.

There is a thing in among film composers, that you would dissect a movie based on its sounds instead of the story or visual. Ain't it a thing among y'all? Anyway, the other most well known thing among composers is that the most overtly overused sample libraries are Hybrid Tools (1,2,3), Damage and Project Alpha & Bravo. But there are another, and there is this new trend of composers using it over and over again until your ears bleed.

Heavyocity AEON.

That's right. If you close your eyes then listen to the soundtrack of Emmy award winning Mr. Robot and blockbuster The Foreigner sound exactly the same, and vice versa. Why is it? That's because Mac Quayle and Cliff Martinez used the fucking same presets with slightly different EQ (of fucking course) and different keys. No fucking talent required to use AEON. In the old days, years ago, I often jokingly told Lich that 90% of my "synth" came from AEON. Because you don't need much skill to use it. In fact it takes more skill for preset pusher Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 to use Massive.

Now when I moved to Serum and Zebra I found out how many of these presets were made in shit like Zebra and Serum. I deeply disappointed.

Then Gravity. Thank goodness Mac Quayle moved onto Gravity and NOVO so Mr. Robot doesn't sound like a preset dumpster, judging from the fact that his toolbox is only Heavyocity or 8Dio preset "synths". Martinez is the worst. His entire creativity is focused on loops of Damage, Master Sessions and AEON. Especially AEON. What the fuck yo.

There is also a thing among composers tried to justify that they don't have time to make synth. I mean like how the fuck don't you have time when you spent 10 hours on a fucking string mockup that could be done in half that time and still sound realistic.

I'm not complaining about the quality of Mr. Robot soundtrack. I love the show. I just feel like it was Ari Winter and Neil Goldberg (Heavyocity creators) that won Emmy and not Mac Quayle.

AEON ages well tho. It's still usefull when you make glitch shit if you know what you are doing.

In art, music, acting or literature, there are the scenes which consists of three walls. The Fourth Wall is the audience. To break the fourth wall is to directly communicate, relate and invite the audience into your art form. What is the Fifth Wall? It's the filter that you live by your creation. You become what you made. Often creating an art or music form only stop there when the artists themselves stepped outside their creativity zone. But to be the Fifth Wall is not just to talk or act, but to live, serve and teach people about your way of life.

I am to break the Fifth Wall, and leap into the Sixth Wall.

The Sixth Wall is when you don't have to live like you meant all the time, but still able to influence and educate people about your way of life, through your art form. The Sixth Wall is to communicate your way of life so that your audience can live that way and continue to influence the same to other people.

Making music, art, or literature should be a way of life, and not about money or fame. You guys taught me this on the last posts. You guys remind me that I have been doing these for the past of my life without realizing it until now, thank you for the kind words. I shall continue to create music for life until my dying day.

Take care.

Writer's block? Work? Procrastination?

I just don't know what direction I'm going to take with my music. I suddenly ran out of ideas, passions and interests for music. Yep, they bled dry. But one thing I didn't have the guts to admit, is that I'm left behind while all my friends and fans surpassed me. Many followers and friends of me were really good people, now they are awesome people. Good for them. But I can't help my feeling of super low self-esteem in addition to sadness, that I could never be like them. I feel like an old person trying to walk up the hill but keep falling back.

And... I hate the new emoticons, they are just hideous.

Anyway, I've been experimenting with different types of music, including anime-ish vocal manipulation, and nightcored my old tracks. They sucks in many ways. Why am I even trying at all?

I felt like a piece of shit complaining about my shitty stuff...

Maybe I should give up on music all at once. Maybe, it's never intended for me. I've been trying for 10+ years while my best friends went from zero to famous in 2-3 years.

Fuck it all.

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My music, especially in the composition and arrangement have improved greatly ever since I took music class last 2 months. So whoever told that theory can improve your production, well, you win, I lost! So yay! I have been able to write more complex methods, at least more than the usual stuff I did in the past. It's actually gotten quite addictive to learn theory somehow.

Some the people I owe a thank and a big kiss for this: Samulis, Soundchris, CloakedSoup, Tyguy80s, BlueOceans and LSD. Y'all got it all right. I'll go hide in the corner...

Happy holidays, Hanukkah and Merry Xmas.

@Troisnyx is a long time contributor on NG Audio community and done many amazing things that helped to keep this community going! However she have had very bleak tragedies with abusive family and the system in her past, currently facing deportation because of the shitty immigration laws in UK.

SIGN THIS PETITION.   

Grant Annette the visa she is entitled to.

My fiancée, Annette, came to the UK in 2010.

She is originally from Malaysia, a country where she is legally a second class citizen as she is not a Malay Muslim. As a teenager she wrote articles criticising the authorities on websites that were later blocked. She was chosen for National Service during which she was sexually abused. Seeing the way things were going, her father sent her to study in the UK against her own will.

She has achieved a 2.1 Bachelor of Law from the University of Hertfordshire. She is also an extraordinarily talented musician, who has been played on BBC Radio. She is very active in the local community lending her skills as an artist and multi-instrumentalist.

I suffer from from functional neurological disorder, which causes me to shake badly, and gives me difficulties standing up and walking. Annette is my carer, and without her, I would struggle to live a normal life. I would not be able to accompany her, because I would not be able to meet the costs of healthcare in Malaysia, and would have no legal right to stay there regardless.

If Annette was forced to return to Malaysia she would not be truly free to practice her own Christian faith. A church she attended was bombed by fundamentalists while she was still in Malaysia. She would not be allowed to proselytise or speak openly about her faith, she would not be allowed to sing about it in public (because it gives her so much joy), and any slight action seen as undermining Islam as the official religion would have her fined and imprisoned.

While at the University of Hertfordshire, she heard from her father how hard things were getting. He was sacked for no reason other than not being a Malay Muslim, and left without any means of supporting himself. People of her ethnicity have been shot in the streets. Her lecturers (one of whom was from Malaysia) told her that "there is no rule of law in Malaysia," and that if she were to continue singing openly about her faith and writing subversive articles, she would face dire consequences.The lecturer from Malaysia who told Annette this asked not to be quoted or contacted, for fear of reprisals.

Music production on iOS and Android generally cheaper than on PC. With a decent tablet you can make decent stuff. Example of musician using only mobile apps to make music is @jessieyun0404. Go and check out her music!

DAW

Caustic (Android)

GarageBand (iOS)

Music Studio (Android)

FL Studio Mobile $15.99 (Android/iOS)

SunVox $5.99 (Android)

PixiTracker 1Bit (Android)

NOTATION

MuseScore (Android/iOS)

Notation Pad (Android)

INSTRUMENTS

iSymphonic Orchestra (iOS)

Syntronik (iOS)

EFFECTS

AmpliTube CS (iOS)

AmpliTube Acoustic (iOS)

If you know more apps please add below in the comment, I'll add them here and credit you!

Happy music Making!

SYSTEM Basic is a modular plugin with 22 modules that can be patched together to create a variety of multi-effect setups. The plugin comes with delay, reverb, compression, EQ, distortion, panning, gate, gain, and other FX modules, along with a set of tools to enable multi-band processing, parallel processing, M/S splitting, etc. The interface can be resized freely, providing enough space to accommodate complex patches with more than a dozen individual effects.

This is a huge news to those who's into modular DSP programming in audio production. VCV Rack is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Have fun!