Bosanske karaoke i midi fajlovi
Looking for Vietnamese expert in digital music (MIDI) creation/conversion
2024.05.15 01:08 lnong Looking for Vietnamese expert in digital music (MIDI) creation/conversion
I'm starting a personal project and I need to have 10 to 15 Vietnamese songs (FLAC, MP3) converted to MIDI files. Note that I'm not looking for the MIDI files that is used for karaoke where there is no foreground melody. (Those I can find easily online everywhere). I need it to include the full melody. Just think of it as how a song is heard from a mechanical music box. I need the full song (vocal, foreground, background) converted to a 1-track MIDI file
I'm posting in this forum instead of a music forum because the songs are mostly traditional Vietnamese folk songs (e.g, Bolero) and it's better to have someone very familiar with Vietnamese music.
Does anyone here have (or know someone that has) this expertise?
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I'm posting in this forum instead of a music forum because the songs are mostly traditional Vietnamese folk songs (e.g, Bolero) and it's better to have someone very familiar with Vietnamese music.
Does anyone here have (or know someone that has) this expertise?
2024.04.04 04:50 MCATU3 Ranking Every Effect in Soundtrap! (Except for Sidechain cuz my version doesn't have it yet)
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- - REASONING FOR RANKINGS BELOW - -
This list is soley based on my own experience. I've been producing with soundtrap for about three years, using it to do music, podcasts, film sound design, etc all throughout my highschool career. This is my personal opinion of each effect.
S:
Clipper: Solid effect that I always find use for. One of the lighter distorts, but very useful for saturation and making a sound cut more through the mix, or sound more aggressive, and it can easily get loud if I want it to. I put it on almost everything when I'm looking for a good, intense sound profile that isn't too grating.
Stereo Chorus: Also an effect that I find myself using almost every project. I always reach for this effect when I want something to sit back in the mix, and have an increased stereo width at the same time. It really helps blend everything together and make certain sounds more subtle and spread into the sides of each ear without losing their influence.
Visual EQ: One of the best recent additions Soundtrap has made imo. I do wish there was options to make more bands or change the band's types, but even in its current state I feel spoiled with this utility. It's by far the best way to EQ and I don't think it should be premium only.
All of the Modulation Effects: Let's be honest, it sucks that we can't modulate every dial on any effect (or ESPECIALLY modulate pitch without doing some weird mono sampler stuff). However, the utility that modular volume, panning and sweeps provide is still invaluable and worthy of S. One of the best pieces of advice when it comes to producing is that your volume panners are your most powerful tools.
Reverb: This is such an incredible improvement over the default reverb dial in the Instrument settings. The fact that you can tweak the mix of the reverb with the raw sound, low pass/high pass the reverb, and that there's so many different reverbs to choose from is just excellent. The room reverbs are also good for making a sound wider or step back in a mix. Shoutout to anyone who remembers when this effect was just called "room."
Dynamics Compressor: Compression is very important, especially when it comes to vocals/podcast or narration recording, something I use Soundtrap for a lot. Normalizing the volumes of the voice goes a long way in making it sound professional. Dynamics Compressor is simply a better version of Compressor One, I just do not FULLY understand it yet as compared to its simpler counterpart lmao. Still S because compression is really good.
A:
Mod Delay: I'll say it: this is simply a better delay effect than any other delay. Sure, stereo delay can do panning that Mod can't, but being able to modulate the delay, increase the brightness to make the delay cut more, and even increase the stereo width is reaaaaally fun. Still, I don't find myself using delays very often in my own music, just rarely in sound design, so it gets an A for utility from me.
Brighter: Another effect I find myself slapping onto anything I want to cut through the mix more, almost like a saturation effect. Very similar use case to Clipper, just a less "aggressive" alternative.
Tape Wobble: I loooove this one. In regular music it might not find the most use, but when I want that old distorted tape/ghostly/antique vibe I always reach for this. My favorite novelty effect simply for the vibe it produces.
All other Distorts: I actually put all of the other distorts on the fence between A and B. While they are each excellent for what they do, I don't often find myself needing the shreddy, gritty and crushed sound many of them provide.
Chorus: Also a solid effect for making something sit back in the mix, however without the stereo-width benefits of Stereo Chorus. It's still useful for when I want something to have the chorus effect while remaining limited in terms of stereo, but I always find myself using this one less than its stereo counterpart.
Parametric EQ: Excellent EQ for when you want to more generally cut out certain ranges of a sound, however, like all other EQ effects, it is overshadowed by Visual EQ.
Compressor One: A very simple alternative to Dynamics Compressor. I find myself using this compressor when I need compression for an instrument instead of the Dynamics Compressor, as I am afraid of the Dynamics Compressor and only know how to use it effectively for voice mostly lmao.
Equalizer: An excellent EQ that you could only justify using if your subscription does not offer Visual EQ. Still, an OG effect from the good 'ol days that serves its purpose well. I personally think Soundtrap should rework this one to at least include a display to show the sound frequencies in real time like the Visual EQ, to let it compete at least a little.
B:
Filter: Simple and great at what it does, with solid applications. Wanna cut out that bit of piercing top-end? Wanna make something sound muffled? Wanna make something sound as if its coming through a radio/walkie talkie? Filter, Filter, Filter. Idk why I didn't give this an A, I just don't use it the most when compared to other effects and it doesn't stand out as much. I can also accomplish the same thing with other EQ's.
All other delay effects: Delay, Stereo Delay and Slapback are all fine and have their very justifiable use cases, but they're quite similar. If you don't want to get overwhelmed with options with Mod Delay, they serve their simple purposes.
3D: A really fun trick that just doesn't have much use in actual music, unless you're trying to create some weird, hyper-immersive soundscape in the middle of your song, which more power to you if you are. It's better for sound design, but although its novel, it isn't the most useful in practice especially since you cannot modulate it and it slightly dampens any sound you put through it.
All default Amps: The amps all do what they need to, and they're great! I personally just don't find myself using them often as I don't work with guitars much. Vocal Pre Amp is still quite useful though for getting a closer voice tone, and its the one I use most.
Phaser: I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of weird phase-y or flange-y effects. When I need it though, Phaser always comes in clutch. Fun to add to a lofi snare to bring some variation to those midi percussion instruments, so that they don't sound so artificial!
Tremelo: This is just a great effect for its use. The fact that you can change the shape too is soooo good. Personally I just don't find myself using it the most, but when I need it, it does exactly what I need.
Auto-Wah: Again, another pink that is great at what it does but I just don't use that much personally. I had great fun putting this on some hard-panned tambourines for extra, record-scratchy texture in a song one time!
Auto Pan: Once again, a pink that excellently does a job that I don't need often. When I do need it though, Auto Pan is great. Idk why the name of this one doesn't have a -dash- between the words like "Auto-Wah" though.
C:
Volume: Fine, I guess. Only useful when the default volume knob reaches its limits though. Easy C-tier effect; not good or bad.
Vocal Doubler: Thinking more, I'd actually bump this one up to B, as I have found some uses for it, specifically in making a sound feel more artificial/computer-generated. Could probably also be applied to other stuff like lead melody instruments, it's just new so I haven't had enough experience to get a feel for its full utility. As for putting it on ACTUAL vocals, I'd much prefer to double my vocals by simply doing a second take personally. Still glad we have this one now.
Karaoke: What does this even do? I think it cuts out the top frequencies and leaves only bass?? I have no idea. At least it isn't egregiously bad at doing something that would otherwise be useful unlike De-Esser.
Flanger: I just prefer Phaser usually. Still, a fine effect.
Rotary: Haven't found many uses for this one, and its lack of adjustability is a little jarring. Maybe with some more time I could bump my rating up, but at the moment I can simply replicate many of the qualities of this effect with other effects.
Vibrato: Yet ANOTHER pink that does its job fine but I just don't use commonly. This one's in C though because I just prefer Tape Wobble.
2-Band EQ: Real ones remember when the Bass and Treble knobs were just in the Instrument settings. They were convenient for when I was too lazy to EQ with a proper effect, but now that they're in the effects tab I don't often bother with them.
D:
De-Esser: The ONLY effect I'd ever give a bad rating. All other effects serve their purpose, no matter how uncommon that purpose is. De-Esser simply does not do a job that WOULD be REALLY useful, especially for my AT2020 that has really defined "s" and "t" sounds. Instead, we have an effect that doesn't even work 75% of the time. And when it does, it does its job POORLY by ducking out all the top end WAY too much. Maybe I'm inexperienced, and this is actually somehow a perfect De-Esser that I just haven't figured out myself. Well if that is true, PLEASE! TELL ME!! I would LOVE to be proven wrong and have an actual De-Esser that works!!
Anyways, that's the end of my list, thanks for reading if you gt this far! I hope this was fun and/or could provide some knowledge for anyone new :D
I'll leave you all with some possible suggestions for new effects that I've had for a while:
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- - REASONING FOR RANKINGS BELOW - -
This list is soley based on my own experience. I've been producing with soundtrap for about three years, using it to do music, podcasts, film sound design, etc all throughout my highschool career. This is my personal opinion of each effect.
S:
Clipper: Solid effect that I always find use for. One of the lighter distorts, but very useful for saturation and making a sound cut more through the mix, or sound more aggressive, and it can easily get loud if I want it to. I put it on almost everything when I'm looking for a good, intense sound profile that isn't too grating.
Stereo Chorus: Also an effect that I find myself using almost every project. I always reach for this effect when I want something to sit back in the mix, and have an increased stereo width at the same time. It really helps blend everything together and make certain sounds more subtle and spread into the sides of each ear without losing their influence.
Visual EQ: One of the best recent additions Soundtrap has made imo. I do wish there was options to make more bands or change the band's types, but even in its current state I feel spoiled with this utility. It's by far the best way to EQ and I don't think it should be premium only.
All of the Modulation Effects: Let's be honest, it sucks that we can't modulate every dial on any effect (or ESPECIALLY modulate pitch without doing some weird mono sampler stuff). However, the utility that modular volume, panning and sweeps provide is still invaluable and worthy of S. One of the best pieces of advice when it comes to producing is that your volume panners are your most powerful tools.
Reverb: This is such an incredible improvement over the default reverb dial in the Instrument settings. The fact that you can tweak the mix of the reverb with the raw sound, low pass/high pass the reverb, and that there's so many different reverbs to choose from is just excellent. The room reverbs are also good for making a sound wider or step back in a mix. Shoutout to anyone who remembers when this effect was just called "room."
Dynamics Compressor: Compression is very important, especially when it comes to vocals/podcast or narration recording, something I use Soundtrap for a lot. Normalizing the volumes of the voice goes a long way in making it sound professional. Dynamics Compressor is simply a better version of Compressor One, I just do not FULLY understand it yet as compared to its simpler counterpart lmao. Still S because compression is really good.
A:
Mod Delay: I'll say it: this is simply a better delay effect than any other delay. Sure, stereo delay can do panning that Mod can't, but being able to modulate the delay, increase the brightness to make the delay cut more, and even increase the stereo width is reaaaaally fun. Still, I don't find myself using delays very often in my own music, just rarely in sound design, so it gets an A for utility from me.
Brighter: Another effect I find myself slapping onto anything I want to cut through the mix more, almost like a saturation effect. Very similar use case to Clipper, just a less "aggressive" alternative.
Tape Wobble: I loooove this one. In regular music it might not find the most use, but when I want that old distorted tape/ghostly/antique vibe I always reach for this. My favorite novelty effect simply for the vibe it produces.
All other Distorts: I actually put all of the other distorts on the fence between A and B. While they are each excellent for what they do, I don't often find myself needing the shreddy, gritty and crushed sound many of them provide.
Chorus: Also a solid effect for making something sit back in the mix, however without the stereo-width benefits of Stereo Chorus. It's still useful for when I want something to have the chorus effect while remaining limited in terms of stereo, but I always find myself using this one less than its stereo counterpart.
Parametric EQ: Excellent EQ for when you want to more generally cut out certain ranges of a sound, however, like all other EQ effects, it is overshadowed by Visual EQ.
Compressor One: A very simple alternative to Dynamics Compressor. I find myself using this compressor when I need compression for an instrument instead of the Dynamics Compressor, as I am afraid of the Dynamics Compressor and only know how to use it effectively for voice mostly lmao.
Equalizer: An excellent EQ that you could only justify using if your subscription does not offer Visual EQ. Still, an OG effect from the good 'ol days that serves its purpose well. I personally think Soundtrap should rework this one to at least include a display to show the sound frequencies in real time like the Visual EQ, to let it compete at least a little.
B:
Filter: Simple and great at what it does, with solid applications. Wanna cut out that bit of piercing top-end? Wanna make something sound muffled? Wanna make something sound as if its coming through a radio/walkie talkie? Filter, Filter, Filter. Idk why I didn't give this an A, I just don't use it the most when compared to other effects and it doesn't stand out as much. I can also accomplish the same thing with other EQ's.
All other delay effects: Delay, Stereo Delay and Slapback are all fine and have their very justifiable use cases, but they're quite similar. If you don't want to get overwhelmed with options with Mod Delay, they serve their simple purposes.
3D: A really fun trick that just doesn't have much use in actual music, unless you're trying to create some weird, hyper-immersive soundscape in the middle of your song, which more power to you if you are. It's better for sound design, but although its novel, it isn't the most useful in practice especially since you cannot modulate it and it slightly dampens any sound you put through it.
All default Amps: The amps all do what they need to, and they're great! I personally just don't find myself using them often as I don't work with guitars much. Vocal Pre Amp is still quite useful though for getting a closer voice tone, and its the one I use most.
Phaser: I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of weird phase-y or flange-y effects. When I need it though, Phaser always comes in clutch. Fun to add to a lofi snare to bring some variation to those midi percussion instruments, so that they don't sound so artificial!
Tremelo: This is just a great effect for its use. The fact that you can change the shape too is soooo good. Personally I just don't find myself using it the most, but when I need it, it does exactly what I need.
Auto-Wah: Again, another pink that is great at what it does but I just don't use that much personally. I had great fun putting this on some hard-panned tambourines for extra, record-scratchy texture in a song one time!
Auto Pan: Once again, a pink that excellently does a job that I don't need often. When I do need it though, Auto Pan is great. Idk why the name of this one doesn't have a -dash- between the words like "Auto-Wah" though.
C:
Volume: Fine, I guess. Only useful when the default volume knob reaches its limits though. Easy C-tier effect; not good or bad.
Vocal Doubler: Thinking more, I'd actually bump this one up to B, as I have found some uses for it, specifically in making a sound feel more artificial/computer-generated. Could probably also be applied to other stuff like lead melody instruments, it's just new so I haven't had enough experience to get a feel for its full utility. As for putting it on ACTUAL vocals, I'd much prefer to double my vocals by simply doing a second take personally. Still glad we have this one now.
Karaoke: What does this even do? I think it cuts out the top frequencies and leaves only bass?? I have no idea. At least it isn't egregiously bad at doing something that would otherwise be useful unlike De-Esser.
Flanger: I just prefer Phaser usually. Still, a fine effect.
Rotary: Haven't found many uses for this one, and its lack of adjustability is a little jarring. Maybe with some more time I could bump my rating up, but at the moment I can simply replicate many of the qualities of this effect with other effects.
Vibrato: Yet ANOTHER pink that does its job fine but I just don't use commonly. This one's in C though because I just prefer Tape Wobble.
2-Band EQ: Real ones remember when the Bass and Treble knobs were just in the Instrument settings. They were convenient for when I was too lazy to EQ with a proper effect, but now that they're in the effects tab I don't often bother with them.
D:
De-Esser: The ONLY effect I'd ever give a bad rating. All other effects serve their purpose, no matter how uncommon that purpose is. De-Esser simply does not do a job that WOULD be REALLY useful, especially for my AT2020 that has really defined "s" and "t" sounds. Instead, we have an effect that doesn't even work 75% of the time. And when it does, it does its job POORLY by ducking out all the top end WAY too much. Maybe I'm inexperienced, and this is actually somehow a perfect De-Esser that I just haven't figured out myself. Well if that is true, PLEASE! TELL ME!! I would LOVE to be proven wrong and have an actual De-Esser that works!!
Anyways, that's the end of my list, thanks for reading if you gt this far! I hope this was fun and/or could provide some knowledge for anyone new :D
I'll leave you all with some possible suggestions for new effects that I've had for a while:
- Tape Stop
- Saturation that can be applied to any instrument
- Maybe a vinyl sound effect with a cool record player as an interface idk!
- Just let us modulate pitch pleaseeeee
2024.03.22 02:06 Dangerous-Sweet-1274 LA/Orange County Cal but Wanting Remote Musicians Worldwide
Looking to make an Americana Singing Group.
If you love singing and you enjoy Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul music from the 20th Century to Present, I’d love to make your acquaintance.
I’m currently living in Southern California and I’m looking to perform and make some new originals in the style of Americana Roots Music. I play guitabass/piano and even some brass instruments. But best of all, I can write MIDI tracks and make my own karaoke-style backup discs. If you love to sing and are interested, I’m open to a wide variety of styles. I love harmonies and music that is not just rhythm tracks. I want to make and share great music with and meet new friends.
Feel free to email me at info@betterbrains.net – if you tell me a bit about yourself and what you’d REALLY like to do MUSICALLY I’ll trade links to some of my online sound clips.
I’ve collaborated with musicians across the USA as well as in Canada, Australia, and Italy. I’d like to make online videos and make audio releases on all the major music sites.
I’m looking forward to getting a bunch of like-minded creative people together. Am I speaking to you?
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If you love singing and you enjoy Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul music from the 20th Century to Present, I’d love to make your acquaintance.
I’m currently living in Southern California and I’m looking to perform and make some new originals in the style of Americana Roots Music. I play guitabass/piano and even some brass instruments. But best of all, I can write MIDI tracks and make my own karaoke-style backup discs. If you love to sing and are interested, I’m open to a wide variety of styles. I love harmonies and music that is not just rhythm tracks. I want to make and share great music with and meet new friends.
Feel free to email me at info@betterbrains.net – if you tell me a bit about yourself and what you’d REALLY like to do MUSICALLY I’ll trade links to some of my online sound clips.
I’ve collaborated with musicians across the USA as well as in Canada, Australia, and Italy. I’d like to make online videos and make audio releases on all the major music sites.
I’m looking forward to getting a bunch of like-minded creative people together. Am I speaking to you?
2024.03.17 16:46 gerbetta33 Total production noob here. I've got a small playgroup and we plan on playing in our living room over recordings of songs. Is it possible to get fully premade mixed and mastered songs into ableton and just mute the parts we plan on playing?
We've got a singer that can play bass (but not both at the same time), a pianist, and myself who plays guitar and bass. We don't have the means to play multiple guitar tracks at once, and since our singer can't play bass and sing at the same time, we're kinda limited to what we can perform. I'm currently using guitar pro 8 hooked up to a TV so we can all see our parts and have a drum track and correct backing tracks, but the midi sounds are kinda limiting. Just curious if there's a way to do a similar thing in ableton to have more of a "real deal" sound as opposed to basically a cheap karaoke sound.
We've had okay results just youtubing backing tracks, but its very hard to get tracks that have just the specific parts we want. Would be more ideal to mute and unmute tracks on the fly.
We don't plan on playing live or producing anything to make money. Its just a fun thing for us to do. Eventually, I will record guitar and bass background parts on my own when work and school calm down, but that's in several years and even then we wouldn't have a drummer to make drum tracks. I'm interested to see what options we have.
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We've had okay results just youtubing backing tracks, but its very hard to get tracks that have just the specific parts we want. Would be more ideal to mute and unmute tracks on the fly.
We don't plan on playing live or producing anything to make money. Its just a fun thing for us to do. Eventually, I will record guitar and bass background parts on my own when work and school calm down, but that's in several years and even then we wouldn't have a drummer to make drum tracks. I'm interested to see what options we have.
2024.03.11 19:47 LNL_bass Decisions! Time for a pedal culling? Advice needed
 | submitted by LNL_bass to basspedals [link] [comments] Legacy Board on top, Newly Procured Board on bottom, Beat Buddy separate Hey y’all! I am lucky enough to have procured a new, fully assembled pedal board recently (with a great deal on a Noble DI!). Now that I have all of these pedals, my back is already cringing at the thought of carrying them all to the show. I am looking for advice - how should I set up all of these pedals into a coherent board (or multiple boards)? For a little background, I play in a couple of cover bands, I have my own bass ‘solo’ project, I have an original progressive jazz fusion band that I play in and love the most, and I run a home-based studio. From my perspective there are a few options (...I am running into decision paralysis... and sorry for this weird formatting):
Noble DI Eventide H9 Harmonizer Dunlop JCT5 Justin Chancellor Cry Baby Wah Pedal MXR Bass Compressor Dunlop Volume X Mini Source Audio C4 Synth Source Audio EQ2 - ordered Boss BF-2B Bass Flanger Way Huge Swollen Pickle Fuzz MKIII Darkglass Vintage Microtubes Boss DS-1 Distortion Boss BC-1X Bass Compressor Microthumpinator Boss OC-5 Octaver Boss AW-3 Dynamic Wah Micro Q-tron Envelope Tech 21 Sansamp Boss NS-1X Noise Suppressor Boss LMB-3 Bass Limiter Enhancer Ditto X2 Looper Ditto + Ditto Radial JDI Passive Direct Box Shure GLX16+ Zoom B6 Multieffects processor ARTcessories Tpatch eight point balanced patch bay Thanks for taking a look! |
2024.03.05 10:06 Dustyrnis Anyone else here own a Wondermega?
 | I am one of the few I know of that own a Victor Wondermega. It's an officially licensed hybrid of a Japanese Megadrive (Genesis) and Mega CD (sega CD) all in one with the ability to function as a Karaoke device or Midi music creator (via with right Software and needed accessories). It has game stereo sound enhancement and a Bass enhancement settings via an added Digital Sound Processor.Using good quality speakers (such a BOSE Speakers with a 3.5mm audio plug cable) and the "game" setting on, one can make games like Streets of Rage II, Revenge of Shinobi, Thunder Force III & IV, Street Fighter II Hyper Edition (a ROM hack of SF II Championship Edition with corrected voice audio and improved colors) sound like arcade games from classic arcade game cabinet, I recommend a decent genesis arcade stick such as the Fighter Stick SG-6.here's a pic of my Wondermega, it's got a few small dings and scratches but it works really well submitted by Dustyrnis to SEGAGENESIS [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/vd9m0jzjehmc1.jpg?width=2592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2be7798c77c30ab0ea724cb420514f81e7654ab |
2024.02.22 15:03 Peachntangy I am a solo musician. I can’t play any instruments besides my voice, and I’ve never performed my music before. What advice do you have for me to begin performing?
I have an independent music project for which I write, produce, master, and provide my own vocals. Last month I released my first record. I’ve wanted to perform in front of an audience for a while, but never knew where to start as I’m not very involved in the music scene in my city, although I know a few people. Yesterday I received an inquiry for me to open for a small band that will be touring in my city in the summer. I told them I was super interested but have never performed before, which they didn’t seem to mind. I’m very excited and grateful for the opportunity.
However, this presents a load of logistics issues I have to work through. It’s just me, the singer, and I have no instrumentalists or band members. I produce with a lot of vocal layering as well. I’ve literally never done any kind of performance in front of anyone besides karaoke nights. How would you suggest I move forward? What kind of equipment or setup would you suggest for a solo beginner?
edit: I see there’s a lot of confusion surrounding my ability to make original music without playing an instrument. I’m a self-taught singer and understand notation enough that I compose works in notation software (I use Noteflight), I export it to MIDI, and then I work through it in Logic. It’s all virtual instruments that I program basically. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on writing music. All of my music is entirely originally written by me, minus one song that uses drum samples. Being a vocalist should be enough to deem myself a musician, and certainly having a published music record would be a categorical definition. Never heard about any music being made by a non-musician.
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However, this presents a load of logistics issues I have to work through. It’s just me, the singer, and I have no instrumentalists or band members. I produce with a lot of vocal layering as well. I’ve literally never done any kind of performance in front of anyone besides karaoke nights. How would you suggest I move forward? What kind of equipment or setup would you suggest for a solo beginner?
edit: I see there’s a lot of confusion surrounding my ability to make original music without playing an instrument. I’m a self-taught singer and understand notation enough that I compose works in notation software (I use Noteflight), I export it to MIDI, and then I work through it in Logic. It’s all virtual instruments that I program basically. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on writing music. All of my music is entirely originally written by me, minus one song that uses drum samples. Being a vocalist should be enough to deem myself a musician, and certainly having a published music record would be a categorical definition. Never heard about any music being made by a non-musician.
2024.02.14 10:04 jackey_dtm_12345 Please tell me how to play "*.KCY" files on Vanvasco Player.
hi?
I've been looking for information through Google searches for months, but haven't been able to find anything.
I was also scammed by a specific person who provided data as bait.
It's too bad to just throw away the time + money + effort I've wasted so far.
I'm frustrated that I couldn't solve it in the end, so I'm asking for help here.
First, look at the video link below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lw90yFcfUQ
You can see *.KYC files played on the Vanvasco player.
So I downloaded the player from the Vanvasco website and installed it, but
It didn't work.
I succeeded in finding out that I needed to import something called the KCY converter.
Later, I found out that I needed a KCY file converter.
But I have no idea where to get it.
I sent emails to several people who seemed to have it and even sent small amounts of money, but it was all a scam.
Wouldn’t it be possible if Reddit were a paradise for intellectuals? I am posting this here as a last hope.
Please help me.
submitted by jackey_dtm_12345 to midi [link] [comments]
I've been looking for information through Google searches for months, but haven't been able to find anything.
I was also scammed by a specific person who provided data as bait.
It's too bad to just throw away the time + money + effort I've wasted so far.
I'm frustrated that I couldn't solve it in the end, so I'm asking for help here.
First, look at the video link below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lw90yFcfUQ
You can see *.KYC files played on the Vanvasco player.
So I downloaded the player from the Vanvasco website and installed it, but
It didn't work.
I succeeded in finding out that I needed to import something called the KCY converter.
Later, I found out that I needed a KCY file converter.
But I have no idea where to get it.
I sent emails to several people who seemed to have it and even sent small amounts of money, but it was all a scam.
Wouldn’t it be possible if Reddit were a paradise for intellectuals? I am posting this here as a last hope.
Please help me.
2024.02.10 06:06 Ballistica Easy way to add vocals and lyrics to a chart?
Essentially I am building my collection and its 99% complete, theres just one song that is charted (Rusted from the rain), lacking vocals (which is important to me because the game to me is half a karaoke machine too).
I was considering trying to reach out to the creator to see if he could add it (the rest of his has vocals) in exchange for a pizza or beer for his time, but cannot find a way to do so on rhythmverse.
So its up to me to learn, I have the latest C3 tools but im not sure what functionality lets me edit the files (midi?).
I have googled it but it seems a lot of tutorials start at the point you already are familiar with chart editors and what not, so I am looking for an easy to find "modifying my first chart for dummies" guide.
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I was considering trying to reach out to the creator to see if he could add it (the rest of his has vocals) in exchange for a pizza or beer for his time, but cannot find a way to do so on rhythmverse.
So its up to me to learn, I have the latest C3 tools but im not sure what functionality lets me edit the files (midi?).
I have googled it but it seems a lot of tutorials start at the point you already are familiar with chart editors and what not, so I am looking for an easy to find "modifying my first chart for dummies" guide.
2024.01.30 23:15 drfsupercenter Does anyone know where the instrumental of "I'll Make a Man Out of You" comes from?
Been binging this song lately, and I was looking up instrumental versions.
As far as I know, very few Disney movies have ever gotten instrumental versions released, with The Lion King being one exception thanks to this CD. There is also the Disney Karaoke Series, but at least according to the "Fandom" article there isn't one for Mulan.
There are some various Mulan songs featured in there, but not I'll Make a Man Out of You (it wouldn't really fit on one of the Princess compilations, would it lol)
So looking at YouTube...
There's this upload which I immediately recognized as simply muting the center channel of the 5.1 surround track, as I've tried to do this myself too. It doesn't work to well, as you can still hear all the various sound effects and it's missing some instruments (the center channel isn't just Donny Osmond's vocal, there's instruments mixed in too). FWIW I checked what I believe is every English language release - the original 1999 DVD, the special edition DVD, the Blu-ray... all of them have the exact same 5.1 surround mix, there was never one of those "Disney Enhanced Theater Mix" versions that might have 7.1 or something. So this isn't the most viable option...
But then there's this one. I've heard this before too, I think I have a mp3 of it somewhere I got off the internet years ago. It sounds like the official backing track, but it's based on the album version (e.g. no sound effects like the movie has). However, there's an instrument (sounds like a tenor saxophone or trombone) playing the vocal part instead of it being a pure instrumental.
Does anyone know where that came from? It's obviously not fanmade, I'm curious if there's some obscure CD I'm not aware of, but I want to obtain a higher quality rip of this. It's still not great (would love to not have the "be a man" backing vocals) but it's the best one I've found to date.
I'm aware there is a piece of software called "Disney Hotshots" and there is a Mulan CD-ROM, I found one for sale on eBay - but the Internet Archive has a bunch of other titles besides Mulan and they all seem to be using MIDI audio because they were made for Windows 95 computers - so I don't think that's the source either.
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As far as I know, very few Disney movies have ever gotten instrumental versions released, with The Lion King being one exception thanks to this CD. There is also the Disney Karaoke Series, but at least according to the "Fandom" article there isn't one for Mulan.
There are some various Mulan songs featured in there, but not I'll Make a Man Out of You (it wouldn't really fit on one of the Princess compilations, would it lol)
So looking at YouTube...
There's this upload which I immediately recognized as simply muting the center channel of the 5.1 surround track, as I've tried to do this myself too. It doesn't work to well, as you can still hear all the various sound effects and it's missing some instruments (the center channel isn't just Donny Osmond's vocal, there's instruments mixed in too). FWIW I checked what I believe is every English language release - the original 1999 DVD, the special edition DVD, the Blu-ray... all of them have the exact same 5.1 surround mix, there was never one of those "Disney Enhanced Theater Mix" versions that might have 7.1 or something. So this isn't the most viable option...
But then there's this one. I've heard this before too, I think I have a mp3 of it somewhere I got off the internet years ago. It sounds like the official backing track, but it's based on the album version (e.g. no sound effects like the movie has). However, there's an instrument (sounds like a tenor saxophone or trombone) playing the vocal part instead of it being a pure instrumental.
Does anyone know where that came from? It's obviously not fanmade, I'm curious if there's some obscure CD I'm not aware of, but I want to obtain a higher quality rip of this. It's still not great (would love to not have the "be a man" backing vocals) but it's the best one I've found to date.
I'm aware there is a piece of software called "Disney Hotshots" and there is a Mulan CD-ROM, I found one for sale on eBay - but the Internet Archive has a bunch of other titles besides Mulan and they all seem to be using MIDI audio because they were made for Windows 95 computers - so I don't think that's the source either.
2024.01.19 05:08 redditduk [MEGALIST] SG Concerts, Gigs & Raves: Late Jan Art Week (19 Jan - 1 Feb 2024)
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19 Jan, Fri
Main: 🎨 Singapore Art Week till 28 Jan or IG, Telegram @ t.me/SGArtWeek
Side: 🎇 Light to Night Festival till 8 Feb and 📖Textures Sing Lit till 28 Jan
- JAMES MURPHY of LCD Soundsystem / DFA, Hawaii Nite Club @ 200 Jln Sultan, Textile Centre L4, $68
- SEARCH (MY-SG rock kapak icons), The Star Vista Theatre, $88
- LEO KU 古巨基 (HK), Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom, $68
- Priscilla Abby 蔡恩雨 (MY), Gateway Theatre Bukit Merah, $98
- 🎨 SG Sonic Sessions at Tg Pagar Distripark Day 1: THE OBSERVATORY, I AM DAVID SPARKLE, NADA + RAJA KIRIK, TINGGI LAYANG, Tanjong Pagar Distripark,free
- DON LEGO (IDN) - Dansa Lai! ft Banana Foster, Gruv St Runners, Marching Julys ft Niah, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3, $27
- YES933 x TGIF Music Station 周5音乐站: Through All Times 跨时代 • 跨世代 - ft Desmond Ng 黄振隆, Celest Chong 张玉华, Sherly Devonne Ng 黄艺萱, Aggylow, Jordin Tan 陈卓琳, SCCC Concourse @ 1 Straits Blvd, free
- Esplanade: Bakers in Space (indie rock, psych, acoustic set?), indoor, free
- Esplanade: Nick Zavior (pop-soul) , outdoor, free
- 🎨 ARTWALK Little India Opening Night with Poncho Music (YRFN, Rekker, P_NEDA), free
- 🎇 Light Night: SNYO Percussion Ensemble: As One, Victoria Concert Hall, $10
- SSO: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 and Symphony 3 - LAST, ESPLANADE, $15
- 🎻: Red Dot Baroque Ensemble: No Trebles Allowed, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $10
- Chinese Orchestra: 31st Spring in the City : Spring Harmonies---Heaven & Earth 第三十一届春城洋溢华夏情：龙腾四海天地和 - Day 1, Capitol Theatre City Hall, $20
- NAFA: Nanyang International Music Competition 2023 Chinese Division Prizewinners' Concert - Day 1, Lee Foundation Theatre @ 151 Bencoolen St, free RSVP
- Maduro Jazz: JAZZ BRASILEIRO by Aya Sekine Trio, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
- Jazz Loft: Dan Hartig Quartet - blues and Latin-tinged jazz fusion, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), , $24,
- 🎨 Electronic / DJ , ZLOX (CN IDM/AMBIENT TECHNO) Live DAY 1, as posted in this subreddit, Highlight Art Gallery 海莱艺术 @ 72 Club Street, free
- DJ Dance Party All-Ages: One Night in Seoul - SG's Biggest K-Pop Random Play Dance ft DJs Clammr, brizzy, HUND, Ngee Ann City Orchard, free
- DJ, High House: SG ART WEEK AFTERPARTY with MANNFRED (aka Myrne) & Zushan, HighHouse Lounge @ One Raffles Place Lvl 61, $38
- DJ, LOCO PARTIES: Ragers Only ft DJ Chervy, SOS, Bigdbandgla (rage hiphop), Projector X Golden Village Ruby Lounge L6 @ Cineleisure Orchard, $28
- DJ, The Last Ever Toska and Friends 360 - EDM Night ft DJs Four Teh (GothMysteryMafia, Rekker, Viticz, JumboGoatXXL), Toska, Kaeiz b2b blvckvox, electro house, dnb, techno, hardstyle, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk,$22
- DJ, Vertigo 26: Westside Muzeeq's Singapore Vinyl Tour (70s indonesian funk and rare groove), listening bar @ MINT Museum City Hall 26 Seah St, free/bar
- DJ, Unmute Invites: MOGWAA (KR electro acid house, electronica) ft loyboy, jas, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $30
- DJ, LUCIA LU (GER house, techno, pop, hip-hop, disco), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36
- DJ, Kings of Bass 012 - MAKOTO (JPN liquid dnb icon), TPI Building - MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $30
- DJ, Marquee: DJ HYO of SNSD Girls Generation, club @ marina bay sands, $70
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- COLDPLAY: DAY 3 of 6, Nati0nal Stadium, from $68
- PENNY Tai 戴佩妮, The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $98
- 🎨 SG Sonic Sessions Day 3 Rock: taledrops, Iman's League, Fool's Decade, George Chua on electronics, Closing Time, Tanjong Pagar Distripark ( temporary Singapore Art Museum), see schedule,free
- ARTBOX Street Food & Market - Day 1 Weekend 1 of 2: Sarco, Mister Spruce, The Mad Trio ft Khim Ng, Singapore Expo Hall 2, aliwal chess club $6
- Twilight Flea & Feast Market Day 1: zzzat, Suntec City Convention L4, free
- MOOD DESTABILISER VOL. 2 - Second Chance (emo), Ruckus Invasion (punk), Four Daze (indie), Kudis (punk), Velvaet (classic Rock), Strndead (metal), aljunied, $20
- Shuttersonicon - Night Shift Edition ft wat3rfl0wer (LAT), smomid (US-NYC), fictional character, auji x sn, w@nderfool, circuittrip, experimental electronic noise gig, Post-black metal, rad studio 345 sq, $15
- SUTD Bands - Spring Heads Concerts - Rock, Metal, Jazz, Pop, Indie, Singapore University of Technology & Design (upper changi), $8
- Wheeler's : Maia Lee (rock), Wheeler's Estate bar grill @ Seletar
- Small Goodbye Party at Second Story: Peace Edition, Peace Centre Selegie free
- Esplanade: Absence! (indie synthpop band), indoor, free
- Esplanade: Reintroducing Me by Bernice Ong (singer-songwriter, folk soul rnb), outdoor, teaser free
- SSO Pops: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Film with Live Orchestra - Day 1, ESPLANADE, $20
- SCO: Rhapsodies of Spring 2024 春花齐放 2024：祥龙吐珠庆丰年 (G), Singapore Chinese Orchestra @ Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
- SOTA: Celebrating 125 Years of Francis Poulenc, SOTA Concert Hall (Dhoby/Bencoolen), chamber, from $15
- Jazz @ SCO: Music Tapas: The Jazzlings - Day 1 630pm, Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, free
- Intercontinental Hotel Jazz Fridays: Jacintha, @ 80 Middle Road (Bugis), $38
- Cool Cats: Evie Feroza & band (MY R&B, Soul, Funk) - Day 2, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $38
- Simply Jazz: The LITMUS Jazz Ensemble ft Nyali & Sam Cheah, Simply Jazz Bar @ CHIJMES (city hall), free/reserve/lounge
- Maduro Jazz: A Pop Jazz Night with Mila Vidanovic & Richard Tombs, maduro bar @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
- Jazz Loft: Arnold Pontoh Quintet, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis) $24
- NLB: LimTayPeng (singers + composer-pianist) - Open Stage Originals, National Library Building Lobby, free rsvp
- 🎇 Light Night: The Odditorium @ asian civilisations - circus acts, traditional martial arts etc., Asian Civilisations Museum Foyer (city hall) , free
- 🎇 Light Night: Also on Sat Gallery Gigs - LASALLE Interdisciplinary Festival Performance), national gallery supreme court foyer (city hall), free
- 🎇Light Night: Also on Sat - Gallery Gigs - Varsha (Carnatic-jazz)
- nkei (jazzy folky duo), national gallery padang atrium, free'
- 🎇 Light Night: DJ at Museum, Gallery Gigs — Tropika (930pm, world eclectic disco ) - weekend 2, national gallery padang atrium, free
- DJ, CULTURE X Who Hurt You pres Iconic Anthems with Mr J (Pop-Punk Emo Alt Rock Metalcore), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk, $31
- DJ, YES YOU presents Dance for Humanity ft DJs, Amir, HBN, Beat Usagi, Taaka - funraiser for ConnectingHumanity (house n techno), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $20
- DJ, SUBPLOTSYSTEMS: VOLUME 4 - dreamkiller, mattyjudah, tikkoii (bali), turbo boyfriend, 918.kiss.jackpot (kl), hard techno, HexD Trance, ghetto tech, post punk electro, baile tech, funkot dangdut, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (city hall), $20
- DJ, Mad & Midas pres. Tekno Therapy (techno edm trance) ft DJ Andrew Tang, mad & midas cocktail bar @ 39 Ann Siang Rd (maxwell), $53
- DJ, KPOP REWIND by K Space ft DJs Javier, Ling, Sharkboy, hard rock cafe orchard cuscaden, $18
- DJ, Flashback Friday by UnfilteredPresents (2000s top hits), Projector X Golden Village @ Cineleisure Orchard, $30
- DJ, Element X Mortar & Pestle - Hip Hop, Mortar & Pestle - rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, $32
- DJ, SPINFINITI TURNS 1 (English, Tamil and Hindi tracks!, dirty blonde @ suntec city L3 sky garden bar, $20
- DJ, Behind the Green Door, ART Week Thank God It's Over Friday - DJs Raaj, Ya5th, Leland, James Selva, & more(house), 97 Duxton Road (fmr Kilo Lounge)
- DJ, Trifecta: UK Ting INNIT - DJ fatcatheartattack v Rush b2b - Garage, Grime, Jungle, DnB, Bar @ TRIFECTA Surf, Snow, Skate (orchard somerset, bs skate park), free rsvp
- DJ, Untamed: Pure Bollywood Hits - Filmfare, magic carpet, $35
- DJ, High House: Shaun Nocturnals & Andre Marc (prog house techno), HighHouse Lounge @ One Raffles Place Lvl 61, $38
- DJ, Moonstone: ONE wth Aldrin Disco 70s to 80s Party, Moonstone BAR & Restaurant @ 103 Amoy St, free/bar
- DJ, Offtrack: Bongomann atmospheric set, bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
- DJ, Bayside Drinks & Eats: IMX, Dune45, Aeden, One Fullerton - beside the Merlion (raffles place)
- DJ Izakaya: Tomo Tokyo DJ Kennerve & Skang, tomo tokyo restaurant bar @ clarke quay
- DJ, Members Club El Pico: Totally Wick'd - DJs Kylie Nicole, RPDM, Krio, 6 Hongkong St, lounge, $25
- DJ, Cherry: 10 Years Ago Throwback by Posh Singapore - DJs Dom J, Tajima, WhotheKyng, 133 cecil st (cbd), $22
- DJ, Potato Head: Mica (PH-UK disco-house), 36 Keong Saik Rd, free/bar
- DJ, CÉ LA VI: SAM DIVINE (UK house), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club, $38
- DJ, Thugshop Presents - LUCKY DONE GONE [NL dreamy house, 90’s techno trance], SLOWLYGREEN [BKK Detroit & Chicago house, disco, jazz, African, dub] & PROTO-EXOTICA [AU Balearic beats, atmospheric], headquarters techno club @ 66A boat quay, $36
- DJ, TROPIKA x 100% - MINA & BRYTE (UK-GHANA afrobeats, dancehall, UK funky & everything in between) ft swtlkr, kiat & arunditha, ramesh, The Projector Intermission Bar @ Golden Mile Tower, see teaser, $35
- DJ, Thugshop Presents - XXL Series feat. FATIMA HAJJI (hard techno), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $47
- DJ, ZOUK: Zouk SG presents CARLITA (TUR psychedelia, indie, rock, electronic DJ), zouk club clarke quay, $48
- DJ, Marquee: TIMMY TRUMPET (AU edm bounce, happy hardcore, hard psy), club @ marina bay sands, $90
Arty Weekends
- 🎨 20-28 Jan: S.E.A. Focus 2024 Art Fair, beside Singapore Art Museum @ Tanjong Pagar Distripark, $10
- 🎨 19-28 Jan: ARTWALK Little India and also ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat + Website, Lembu Road vs Joo Chiat Road
- 🎨 18-28 Jan: Art Exhibit The Sound of Sound - Colours in Dream, Telok Kurau Studios Open Hall @ 91 Lor J Telok Kurau, free
- 27 Jan Sat: Sound of Sound Performance, same, free
- 📖 26-27 Jan: Textures Sing Lit - Cherita Hantu: Herror Reimagined, The Arts House, $25
- 18-28 Jan Musical: MADAGASCAR The Musical (kid friendly), ESPLANADE, $48
- 24-28 Jan: Gasho 2.0 Releak -Cross Over- ft Japanese Creators (anime ish art), Visual Arts Centre @ dhoby ghaut green (bs mrt), 10 penang rd, info
- 27 Jan Sat: Poetry: Sploosh Magazine: Vanashing issue 2 Launch, Book Bar @ 57 duxton rd (maxwell), $10
- 27 Jan Sat: NAFA Dance: Within and Without - 2-part movement inspired by Nanyang Art at NUS Museum, NUS Museum @ 50 Kent Ridge, free rsvp
- 27 Jan Sat: SCAPE COMMA Fest: HOMEGROUND 2024, Dance Party, free
- 27 Jan Sat:🎨 Art week video installation: OBSESSIONS ft some local indie names , Beauty World Centre (same mrt, bukit timah), free talk
- 26 Jan Fri: Comedy: Abishek & Nirmal: Crowdwork World Tour, ESPLANADE, $60
- 26 Jan Fri: Migration Input Output - Talk, exhibtion till 28th, ultrasupernew @ 168 tyrwhitt rd, free/rsvp
- 🎭 M1 Fringe Fest Play: Here Where You Were till 27th Jan Sat, NAFA Studio Theatre (bencoolen), $35
- 🎭 M1 Fringe Fest Play: Oo-woo By The Necessary Stage till 28th Sun, ESPLANADE, $35
- 26-28 Jan: Chinese New Year CNY Family Fun @ Singapore Chinese Cultural Center, SCCC @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), Festival free and ticketed
27 Jan, Sat - Aliwal Urban Art Festival & PeaceOut - Farewell to Peace Center & ARTWALK
- DOMi & JD BECK (US nu jazz fusion), ESPLANADE, $99
- COMBUST (US NY hardcore crossover thrash) with Bleach (IDN) & Mystique, 2DK, Radigals, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (city hall), $58
- RADIA X ARMADA - Dua jiwa satu pentas (IDN Rock Icons), The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $108
- COLDPLAY - DAY 4 of 6, Nati0nal Stadium, from $68
- 2023 Yuewen Global IP Awards 2023 阅文全球华语IP盛典 (G), Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom, $368
- Wima Geylang Serai Turns 5: RAHIMAH Rahim, DAYANG Nurfaizah (MY), The PinHoles, Wisma Geylang Serai CC, Persada Budaya Level 1, free
- ARTBOX Street Food & Market Day 2 : The Parkinson (THA), Joceyln, Sam & John from SGag, The Mad Trio ft Khim Ng, Mister Spruce, Singapore Expo Hall 2, $7
- Twilight Flea & Feast Market Day 2: Dansen John & WhyLucas, Suntec City Singapore, free
- 🎨 Aliwal Urban Arts Fest, Aliwal Arts Centre @ Kampong Glam (nicoll hwy), free
- Music: URBAN SOUNDS by Linch ft YAØ, Khally, Akeem Jahat (rnb city pop, neo-soul, hip hop), 6 to 9pm Aliwal Arts Centre, free
- Dance/DJ: RE:Union Block Party, Aliwal, free
- 🎨 Art After Dark Gillman Barracks Day 2 mini INDIE FEST: SOBS, SUBSONIC EYE, BLUSH, Indie Rock & Alt Pop DJs EatMePopTart , 6to10pm Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free
- 🎨 Singapore Sonic Sessions Day 4 Experimental: Mervin Wong, sl_owtalk, NUS Electronic Music Lab, Bongomann, Tanjong Pagar Distripark (aka temporary Singapore Art Museum), 5to930pm see schedule,free
- DOMINUS REBELLIS CHAPTER 1 - Zackfire (thrash metal), Nuurisk & Welkin (black metal) & Unusual POi!RⒶtⒺs (crossover hxc thrash), Rad, $20
- Bar, Sorta DJ but its metal - Hellcohol, Drinq Bar @ Grantral Mall (tai seng)
- SYNTH Commune - Open Synth Jam & Meetup, Tanglin CC @ 245 Whitley Rd (stevens), free
- Esplanade: A Durian Date by Alicia DC x Sherwin Lam (jazzy eclectic alt pop, acapella @ 645 745pm), free
- Esplanade: LAYYI (pop-R&B singer-songwriter 715 845pm), free
- Blackbird: Rock Rosettes, Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/bar
- 🎨 ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat : Block Party at Picotin with Poncho (YRFN, Rekker, P_NEDA), and DJ set by viticz, rekker, jumbogoatxxl, gothmysterymafia (baile funk, rave, techno) Outside Picotin Restaurant @ 382 Joo Chiat Road , free
- 🎨 ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat : Poetry Performance Open Mic by dink collective, lgbt friendly 340A Joo Chiat Rd, free
- 🎨 ARTWALK Katong Joo Chiat: Bazaar Gigs Bear The Remedy (alt rock), Genesis Keefer (lofi hiphop, electronic, & guitar), Hazel and Haziq (singer songwriter acoustic), see profile info, gigs start at 4.30pm, free
- 🎇 Light Night: Gallery Gigs - LASALLE Interdisciplinary Festival Performance (5-630pm), national gallery supreme court foyer, free
- 🎇Light Night: Gallery Gigs - 730pm Varsha (Carnatic-jazz)
- 9pm nkei (jazzy folky duo), national gallery padang atrium (city hall) , free'
- 🎇 Light Night: Gallery Gigs — BBbaloo and Friends (930pm hindi, tamil film songs x electronic) - weekend 2, national gallery padang atrium (city hall), free
- 🎇 Light Night: Wishful Thinking ASMR Performance (630pm gone 8pm slot available), national gallery ngee ann kongsi auditorium foyer (city hall), $5
- Skate SG SideWalk Fest - exhibition, film screening, dj sets (DJs Ruxta, Drem of choice cuts), market etc, 45 sultan gate (kampong glam, nicoll hwy), free
- SSO Pops: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Film with Live Orchestra - Day 2, ESPLANADE, $20
- Chamber Music Fest: Concert I: Aoi Trio, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $15
- Chamber Music Fest: Chamber Academy - Coaching Session I & II, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, $10
- Ministry of Bellz MOB-17: The Pinnacle (Handbell), Victoria Concert Hall, $25
- Choral: Voce Vibrante Musical Visions: A Journey In Sound ft NUS Temasek Hall Vox, Armenian Church Hill Street (City Hall/bras basah), $27
- SIM Esprimere's 2024 Almost Musical Production: Into The Land Of zO in Concert, SIM Campus @ 461 Clementi Rd, $12
- SCO: Rhapsodies of Spring 2024 春花齐放 2024：祥龙吐珠庆丰年 (G), Singapore Chinese Orchestra @ Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
- CNY Family FUN by SCCC x SCO: Diale-cacy Opera Reunion FUN 戏曲团圆FUN - Day 1, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $12
- Jazz @ SCO: Music Tapas: The Jazzlings - Day 2 630pm, Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, free
- LatinFest at Intercontinental: Live Music and Sultry Rhythms of Latin America - Last Weekend, Hotel Intercontinetal @ 80 Middle Rd (bugis), $44
- Cool Cats Jazz: Evie Feroza & band (R&B, Soul, Funk) - LAST, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $38
- Jazz Loft: URBAN MANOUCHE - Karen de Silva and Alvin Wong reinterprates gypsy jazz, The Jazz Loft @ Blu Jaz, $24,
- Hero's Bar: The Black Dogs (classic rock), 69 Circular Rd (boat quay), after 10pm has cover charge, free/bar
- Rocks In Singapore Day 1: Pyromania, Rouge, Seven High at Ipanema World Music Bar, YSY Building L12 @ 139 Cecil Street (CBD, telok ayer), $30
- Peace Centre DJ & Arts Fest, BRING THE ROOF DOWN PeaceOut Festival - Farewell to Peace Center (everything from techno house to latin afro to k-pop), Peace Centre @ Selegie (bencoolen, mt sophia), website 🎟 $48
- Techno, House: Blackout Agency Peaceout - DEMI RIQUISIMO (UK), Beat Usagi b2b Loyboy, LeLand b2b Koonz, peace center, tix 🎟
- Drag & Circuit: Unleash the Underground with House of Heals BKK, peace center, tix for all 🎟 $68
- Experimental: CÛN: The Second Signal Day 1 - art installations - performance by SMOMID (USA midi guitar), wat3rfl0w3r (LAT), Cruise Chen , peace center, tix here 🎟, $14
- Open DJ & Cleanup Morning, Wild Pearl - DJ and Ocean Purpose Project Beach Cleanup at Pasir Ris Beach, the OPP Beach Hub @ Pasir Ris Beach Carpark E, free
- DJ, 195 Pearl's Hill: 2-5pm Community Garden - curated by Wild Pearl - DJs Jenn Chunes, Proto Exotica (AU, Slowly Green (TH), 195 Pearl's Hill Terrace (chinatown), free
- DJ, 🏖 Manifest Pool Party - House Edition - DEAN Chew, JONNY Purelove, JAS + LELAND + ANWAR, 1-Altitude Coast at The Outpost Hotel Sentosa, $36
- DJ, 🏖 Sand Bar: Throwback Time Machine 80s 90s Revival - DJs Daryl & Chris Seow, DJ The Partyman, Sand Bar @ Siloso Beach Walk Sentosa, free/bar
- DJ, EATMEPOPTART E/M/P/T: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT ft DJs fantastic dinosaur & ya5th (unapologetic pop night), Projector x GV No Spoilers Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard, $12
- DJ, LAST Saturdays - Keep Coo! daytime basement party ft DJs Kylie Nicole, Prem, 3MZY, Residents Haili HZQ HBN Sho&tell (house, eclectic dance), THE COUP by BUNKERBUNKER!! bar @ 7 Ann Siang Hill (chinatown/maxwell), tix 🎟 $20
- DJ, 🏖 Caribbean Vibes Pool Party: VOL IV - (Dancehall/Reggaeton/Afrobeats/Ol' Skool Hip Hop), Sofitel Singapore City Centre 9 Wallich Street, $27
- DJ, CHAMBERS + SPADES ft DJs Joon, Keagan, Tajima, JumboGoatXXL (hiphop rnb house rave), SPADESROOM (tai seng), $30
- DJ, Wallich Manor: TRANCE4M at Wallich House Party (trance), Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel / Guoco Tower (tg pagar), free/reservation
- Drag, Gay event Man About Town - Bingo Edition, 87 Club Street Bar
- DJ & Drag, RIOT! cum Baby Boy Becca's Birthday Bonanza, hard rock cafe orchard cuscaden, from $30
- Just the party, BABY BOY vol 31: ASSPIRATIONS, $20
- DJ, Club Hell: Kpop in Hell, gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st, $30 door
- DJ, Neil Conversion: Swiftie in Hell, 43 Neil Road (maxwell), lgbt gay bar-club
- DJ, Silent Disco: Pelago's Silent Disco Full Moon Party at Marina Bay Sands Skypark, marina bay sands roof, $38
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2024.01.04 01:18 p3ep3e Black Midi Karaoke Machine
does anyone have the link to where i can buy the black midi karaoke machine
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2023.12.25 18:14 lawriejaffa The Legend of Black Santa
Back in 2017, I spent Christmas Eve with my old high-school friend, Michael, who I hadn’t seen for some years since we’d graduated. I’d left to go work in the city, and he’d stayed behind in our hometown where he lived in the suburbs with his girlfriend, Nicole.
We enjoyed reminiscing, joking, and drinking, but after a while, Michael started to seem a little… off. He was agitated, nervous. He kept looking at his watch. Thinking that this was my cue to leave, I said my goodbyes, but, as I headed to the door, I noticed Michael in the kitchen, initiating a rather peculiar Christmas ritual.
Most of you will be familiar with the tradition of leaving a snack out for Santa Claus, perhaps a mince pie and a carrot for his reindeer, but this was something… different.
Instead of carrots or mince pies, Michael had placed a large chunk of meat, raw and bloody, on the kitchen table. When he saw me, he quickly kicked the door shut. As it closed, I could swear that his hand was dripping blood. Had he cut himself?
I caught Nicole’s worried glance to the clock. It was 11:45 pm, just fifteen minutes before Christmas Day.
I had two choices; I could simply leave them to it, or I could interfere. Now, I am a naturally inquisitive person, and of course, I’d been drinking all night, so I chose the latter.
I gently nudged Nicole aside and made my way into the kitchen. She protested at first, then relented, with a peculiar hesitation. Perhaps she wanted me to investigate or challenge Michael’s strange behaviour.
The door opened to reveal Michael hunched over the kitchen table, fist clenched as he eked out some extra drops of blood onto the meat. He looked at me with an expression that lay somewhere between embarrassment and fear, before wiping his hand with a kitchen towel. Nicole darted past me and opened a cupboard door to fetch a Band-Aid for the fresh cut on Michael’s palm.
I was stunned, but, forever arrogant, I demanded an explanation. Michael smiled sadly at Nicole, a sign of resignation. She left us to it.
“I’m sorry, I know it looks weird, but it’s a tradition. I’ve always done it, ever since I was a kid.”
I couldn’t take my eyes off the raw meat soaked in animal blood, and in my friend’s blood too.
“But… why?” I asked.
“I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Let’s just say I do this because… I have to.”
I laughed at him.
“Is this for Santa? Is he a hardcore carnivore?”
Michael didn’t laugh. He looked around the room anxiously, as if he were listening out for a sign. He trembled, startled by something, and with an urgent expression, declared;
“I think you should go. Now.”
In defiance, I folded my arms and explained that I wasn’t going anywhere, not until he told me the truth. To this day, I wish I had heard him out properly, or just minded my own business.
But perhaps you would have laughed too, and trust me, you’re about to laugh, just as I did, when I tell you exactly what came out of his mouth next.
“Since before I was born, my family has offered our blood to Black Santa.”
In the hall behind me, Nicole shook her head, disappearing into the bedroom. Clearly, he was serious, and while I understand that now, at the time I could only ridicule him.
“Black Santa? What the hell’s Black Santa? Is he like James Brown? Will he come down your chimney tonight?”
I rushed out of the kitchen and sang ‘I Feel Good’ into the fireplace, before turning to Michael with a condescending grin, a look that screamed its demand for a real answer.
But that was his only answer.
It was 12:05 am, making it Christmas Day. Frustrated by his obstinate refusal to answer, I decided that I would force a change in my friend’s tradition. So, I went back to the kitchen, and before Michael could react, I grabbed the bloody steak and threw it into the fire.
In the process, I hadn’t realised that the meat was skewered on a spike, and I had managed to cut myself, adding my own blood to his. Mesmerised at the sight of the meat sizzling on the fire, Michael stepped up beside me.
In a frightful tone, he whispered;
“What have you done?”
I turned to him.
“Fuck Black Santa.”
He noticed the blood on my hand, and his lip quivered. I realise now the importance of the ritual, but at the time, I thought I had liberated my friend from an odd compulsion.
Michael tried half-heartedly to detain me with promises of an explanation about Black Santa, this strange boogeyman that he and his father and his father’s father had appeased over the decades. I was having none of it. I say ‘half-hearted’ because there was a new-found relief in Michael, which I sensed from Nicole as well, as if I had lifted a great burden from them, for reasons I would soon discover.
I sped away in my car, disappointed to have left in such weird and unsettled circumstances, but also amused at the oddness of it all. I laughed as I drove, recalling the ridiculous name of Michael’s boogeyman. The unexpected events of the evening had left me alert and very much awake, so I decided to head downtown, where I hoped there might still be bars open.
Black Santa indeed…
I can’t remember the name of the bar, but it was surprisingly quiet, comprising mostly of middle-aged loners, the town’s leftovers. Despite being from there, I had always retained a certain aloofness, which I guess made me stand out. A bristly-faced man with a plaid shirt leaned over his stool at the bar to sneer, while a woman with pock-marked skin paused in her negotiation with the karaoke DJ to shoot me an inviting smile. You might wonder how I can recall all these little details, but trust me, the events of this night are forever imprinted upon my mind.
I went straight to the bar and ordered a drink, then chatted idly to the man in the plaid shirt, doing my best to ignore the caterwauling of the woman singing behind me.
The midi-electric music of the karaoke had a distinctly retro feel, as did the songs sung by the drunken siren. Then, quite gradually, I realised that the woman was no longer singing. Someone else had replaced her mid-song. It was a booming man’s voice with a deep, gravelly resonance that imbued the lyrics of T’pau’s ‘China in Your Hand’ with a strange fury.
I turned quickly to see who it was, almost knocking my drink in the process. As I did, the tune broke into the ‘saxophone’ solo, played out in staccato bleeps via the midi system. The performer danced slowly, sensually, swaying their hips in time to the music. This was not the drunk woman, but a large, bearded man in a Santa Claus outfit.
At the climax of the chorus, he reached out to me with the same dramatic flair one might expect from a performer before an audience of thousands. With unblinking eye contact, as a tear rolled down his bright red cheek, he blasted out the lines;
“Don’t push too far; your dreams are china in your hand…”
I suddenly felt a nervous urge. My hand tightened around the glass I was holding. Why were his eyes so tiny, like shining pins?
“Don’t wish too hard, because they may come true…”
Why is he now smiling so strangely at me—just me and nobody else? I was irritated by this, but no one else seemed to care or even acknowledge the outrageous scene.
“You don’t know what you might have… set upon yourself.”
I clenched my drink so hard that it shattered, showering me and the burly, plaid-shirt-wearing man with glass splinters. He pulled me off my stool, ready to punch me, then hesitated and let me go. With great relief, I patted myself dry and realised that the song had finally ended. I looked back at the stage and could see no sign of the peculiar performer, only the woman and the DJ from before.
I turned to the bartender, intending to order a Black Russian, but instead the words ‘Black Santa’ came out. He looked at me strangely and suggested that I should perhaps go home.
“You don’t know what you might have set upon yourself.”
Why had the words the man sung sounded so threatening?
He had resembled an idealised version of Santa Claus, like you might expect from an old-fashioned Christmas card, or the Coca-Cola Christmas commercials. He would have looked perfect if it weren’t for some subtle, sinister imperfections that produced an instinctual sense of repulsion. His cruel, cherubic grin and pinprick eyes somehow filled me with dread.
I fled to the restroom to steady my nerves. As I sat in the cubicle, taking deep breaths, I became aware that the cubicle next to me was not empty.
I can be a little self-conscious in public toilets, but the man beside me was decidedly not so. After producing a great volume of noise and smell, he made an outrageous, uproarious laugh.
It went like this; “Ho, Ho, Ho,” then changed mid-way into an evil laugh, the type we might associate with a cartoon villain.
“Ho, Ho, Ho… muhahaha!”
The acoustics changed too, from a muffled echo to my left, to a sharp, clear sound right above me!
I jumped with fright and looked up to see, staring down at me over the cubicle wall, the bearded face from before. It was bright red with laughter, glaring at me with those beady, black eyes. Then I saw that he was holding something… a giant, rolled-up ball of wet toilet paper, soaked in urine and excrement.
A second later it was thrown with tremendous force straight into my face. It hit me so hard that it knocked me off the toilet onto the floor. The horrifying object made me retch with disgust. I was so shocked that I couldn’t even scream or shout for help. I wiped the oozing mess off my face and dashed out of the cubicle, ready to punch this vile stranger.
His cubicle door was swinging wildly, but the man himself was nowhere to be seen. I rushed back into the bar, crashing straight into a patron, before feverishly shouting if anyone had seen him? The bartender, who was already convinced I’d drunk too many, signalled to the bouncers to kick me out, all of which played out to Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
Stinking of crap, I stumbled past suspicious passers-by who quickly moved aside with looks of disgust. I must have resembled a vagrant, but nevertheless, I made my way back to the car.
Ah, my beautiful, silver, German-produced Audi A4. My pride and joy.
You can probably tell by those words that some strange fate befell it. Well, you still won’t believe it.
In the window of a nearby department store was a bank of televisions, all set to the same channel. They were playing an episode of an unfamiliar game show, with a hysterical couple jumping up and down after having won the star prize. I stopped for a moment, because the man dashing to the prize podium was dressed in a Santa costume and resembled the man who attacked me. Well, he wasn’t dressed quite like Santa exactly… the colour of his costume was too dark.
With a flourish, the man pulled off the sheet to reveal an Audi A4. The couple ran towards it, embracing the car like a lost child. I smiled, glad that this working-class couple could experience the luxury of a car only people like me could usually afford, but then, I noticed the license plate—the same number as mine!
The man dressed as Santa turned to the camera and began walking towards it until his face engulfed the screen. He was mouthing something through the glass, but I couldn’t hear it. I leant in close until I could faintly hear words repeating over the buzz of the televisions. He was singing something.
“Don’t push too far; your dreams are china in your hand…”
I ran as fast as I could, all the way back to my car, which, as you might expect, was not where I left it. There weren’t even any marks in the snow to suggest it had ever been there.
Still smelling of crap and now without a car, I began the long trudge back to my motel. Despite my soiled state, I tried to hitch a ride, hoping some kind soul would take pity on me.
After about a hundred cars had sped past, at long last, a truck slowed to a crawl beside me. It was decorated in Christmas lights, yet, inside the cabin, it was pitch black.
The garish exterior and unsettling interior discouraged me, but with the snow now falling harder, I stepped up to enter the cabin. That was when the demonic man’s face leered out suddenly from the darkness, the bristles of his beard scratching at my face.
“HOHOHO-Muhahahaha,” he roared, as I tumbled backwards out of the cabin and fell into the snow. As I fell, my ankle struck a jagged rock, hard, shattering it inside. Searing pain engulfed me as I clambered up, hobbling away as fast as I could towards the motel.
The truck continued to crawl along the road beside me, its radio on full blast, playing ‘China in Your Hand’ on repeat.
Try as I might, I just couldn’t go on. The pain had become too great and I collapsed with exhaustion. Looking to my foot, I could see that the injury was worse than I had first imagined. The bone was protruding from my skin, and my foot lay in a thick pool of blood.
The realisation hit me that this could be my final night. I could actually die like this. I was about to lose everything I had accomplished; the city career and the awesome car. I realised then that none of it had ever mattered, for here I was, a humble wretch crying in the snow, covered in blood and excrement.
The instinct to survive is a powerful thing, and I started to crawl once more, fighting to remain conscious.
Finally, my body gave out. I collapsed on my back and just lay there, looking up at the stars and the moon, at the waves of snowflakes spiraling gently towards me.
In the corner of my eye, I could see that the truck had stopped. The man, this demonic Santa Claus, was now effortlessly striding through the snow towards me, clenching a small fire axe.
He leaned over me, sniffing loudly for the scent of blood, which soon led him to my crippled foot. Close up, I could see that this man’s Santa costume was not red… but black.
He loomed over me, staring with those tiny, cruel eyes that shone like ancient stars, his body heaving with triumphant anticipation.
One month later, I awoke in the hospital, where I learned that I had been placed in an induced coma due to the extent of my injuries.
Within weeks, I could talk and move once more. Everything was as it should be… except for my left foot. They told me that it had been hacked off and that something had eaten it, leaving only the bones beside my body.
It’s now Christmas Eve, 2019, and I can get around well enough with my new prosthetic foot. I make my way to the kitchen, where I will prepare two snacks. One is a mince pie for Santa Claus, and the other, a steak tartare with a dash of my own blood, for Black Santa.
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We enjoyed reminiscing, joking, and drinking, but after a while, Michael started to seem a little… off. He was agitated, nervous. He kept looking at his watch. Thinking that this was my cue to leave, I said my goodbyes, but, as I headed to the door, I noticed Michael in the kitchen, initiating a rather peculiar Christmas ritual.
Most of you will be familiar with the tradition of leaving a snack out for Santa Claus, perhaps a mince pie and a carrot for his reindeer, but this was something… different.
Instead of carrots or mince pies, Michael had placed a large chunk of meat, raw and bloody, on the kitchen table. When he saw me, he quickly kicked the door shut. As it closed, I could swear that his hand was dripping blood. Had he cut himself?
I caught Nicole’s worried glance to the clock. It was 11:45 pm, just fifteen minutes before Christmas Day.
I had two choices; I could simply leave them to it, or I could interfere. Now, I am a naturally inquisitive person, and of course, I’d been drinking all night, so I chose the latter.
I gently nudged Nicole aside and made my way into the kitchen. She protested at first, then relented, with a peculiar hesitation. Perhaps she wanted me to investigate or challenge Michael’s strange behaviour.
The door opened to reveal Michael hunched over the kitchen table, fist clenched as he eked out some extra drops of blood onto the meat. He looked at me with an expression that lay somewhere between embarrassment and fear, before wiping his hand with a kitchen towel. Nicole darted past me and opened a cupboard door to fetch a Band-Aid for the fresh cut on Michael’s palm.
I was stunned, but, forever arrogant, I demanded an explanation. Michael smiled sadly at Nicole, a sign of resignation. She left us to it.
“I’m sorry, I know it looks weird, but it’s a tradition. I’ve always done it, ever since I was a kid.”
I couldn’t take my eyes off the raw meat soaked in animal blood, and in my friend’s blood too.
“But… why?” I asked.
“I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Let’s just say I do this because… I have to.”
I laughed at him.
“Is this for Santa? Is he a hardcore carnivore?”
Michael didn’t laugh. He looked around the room anxiously, as if he were listening out for a sign. He trembled, startled by something, and with an urgent expression, declared;
“I think you should go. Now.”
In defiance, I folded my arms and explained that I wasn’t going anywhere, not until he told me the truth. To this day, I wish I had heard him out properly, or just minded my own business.
But perhaps you would have laughed too, and trust me, you’re about to laugh, just as I did, when I tell you exactly what came out of his mouth next.
“Since before I was born, my family has offered our blood to Black Santa.”
In the hall behind me, Nicole shook her head, disappearing into the bedroom. Clearly, he was serious, and while I understand that now, at the time I could only ridicule him.
“Black Santa? What the hell’s Black Santa? Is he like James Brown? Will he come down your chimney tonight?”
I rushed out of the kitchen and sang ‘I Feel Good’ into the fireplace, before turning to Michael with a condescending grin, a look that screamed its demand for a real answer.
But that was his only answer.
It was 12:05 am, making it Christmas Day. Frustrated by his obstinate refusal to answer, I decided that I would force a change in my friend’s tradition. So, I went back to the kitchen, and before Michael could react, I grabbed the bloody steak and threw it into the fire.
In the process, I hadn’t realised that the meat was skewered on a spike, and I had managed to cut myself, adding my own blood to his. Mesmerised at the sight of the meat sizzling on the fire, Michael stepped up beside me.
In a frightful tone, he whispered;
“What have you done?”
I turned to him.
“Fuck Black Santa.”
He noticed the blood on my hand, and his lip quivered. I realise now the importance of the ritual, but at the time, I thought I had liberated my friend from an odd compulsion.
Michael tried half-heartedly to detain me with promises of an explanation about Black Santa, this strange boogeyman that he and his father and his father’s father had appeased over the decades. I was having none of it. I say ‘half-hearted’ because there was a new-found relief in Michael, which I sensed from Nicole as well, as if I had lifted a great burden from them, for reasons I would soon discover.
I sped away in my car, disappointed to have left in such weird and unsettled circumstances, but also amused at the oddness of it all. I laughed as I drove, recalling the ridiculous name of Michael’s boogeyman. The unexpected events of the evening had left me alert and very much awake, so I decided to head downtown, where I hoped there might still be bars open.
Black Santa indeed…
I can’t remember the name of the bar, but it was surprisingly quiet, comprising mostly of middle-aged loners, the town’s leftovers. Despite being from there, I had always retained a certain aloofness, which I guess made me stand out. A bristly-faced man with a plaid shirt leaned over his stool at the bar to sneer, while a woman with pock-marked skin paused in her negotiation with the karaoke DJ to shoot me an inviting smile. You might wonder how I can recall all these little details, but trust me, the events of this night are forever imprinted upon my mind.
I went straight to the bar and ordered a drink, then chatted idly to the man in the plaid shirt, doing my best to ignore the caterwauling of the woman singing behind me.
The midi-electric music of the karaoke had a distinctly retro feel, as did the songs sung by the drunken siren. Then, quite gradually, I realised that the woman was no longer singing. Someone else had replaced her mid-song. It was a booming man’s voice with a deep, gravelly resonance that imbued the lyrics of T’pau’s ‘China in Your Hand’ with a strange fury.
I turned quickly to see who it was, almost knocking my drink in the process. As I did, the tune broke into the ‘saxophone’ solo, played out in staccato bleeps via the midi system. The performer danced slowly, sensually, swaying their hips in time to the music. This was not the drunk woman, but a large, bearded man in a Santa Claus outfit.
At the climax of the chorus, he reached out to me with the same dramatic flair one might expect from a performer before an audience of thousands. With unblinking eye contact, as a tear rolled down his bright red cheek, he blasted out the lines;
“Don’t push too far; your dreams are china in your hand…”
I suddenly felt a nervous urge. My hand tightened around the glass I was holding. Why were his eyes so tiny, like shining pins?
“Don’t wish too hard, because they may come true…”
Why is he now smiling so strangely at me—just me and nobody else? I was irritated by this, but no one else seemed to care or even acknowledge the outrageous scene.
“You don’t know what you might have… set upon yourself.”
I clenched my drink so hard that it shattered, showering me and the burly, plaid-shirt-wearing man with glass splinters. He pulled me off my stool, ready to punch me, then hesitated and let me go. With great relief, I patted myself dry and realised that the song had finally ended. I looked back at the stage and could see no sign of the peculiar performer, only the woman and the DJ from before.
I turned to the bartender, intending to order a Black Russian, but instead the words ‘Black Santa’ came out. He looked at me strangely and suggested that I should perhaps go home.
“You don’t know what you might have set upon yourself.”
Why had the words the man sung sounded so threatening?
He had resembled an idealised version of Santa Claus, like you might expect from an old-fashioned Christmas card, or the Coca-Cola Christmas commercials. He would have looked perfect if it weren’t for some subtle, sinister imperfections that produced an instinctual sense of repulsion. His cruel, cherubic grin and pinprick eyes somehow filled me with dread.
I fled to the restroom to steady my nerves. As I sat in the cubicle, taking deep breaths, I became aware that the cubicle next to me was not empty.
I can be a little self-conscious in public toilets, but the man beside me was decidedly not so. After producing a great volume of noise and smell, he made an outrageous, uproarious laugh.
It went like this; “Ho, Ho, Ho,” then changed mid-way into an evil laugh, the type we might associate with a cartoon villain.
“Ho, Ho, Ho… muhahaha!”
The acoustics changed too, from a muffled echo to my left, to a sharp, clear sound right above me!
I jumped with fright and looked up to see, staring down at me over the cubicle wall, the bearded face from before. It was bright red with laughter, glaring at me with those beady, black eyes. Then I saw that he was holding something… a giant, rolled-up ball of wet toilet paper, soaked in urine and excrement.
A second later it was thrown with tremendous force straight into my face. It hit me so hard that it knocked me off the toilet onto the floor. The horrifying object made me retch with disgust. I was so shocked that I couldn’t even scream or shout for help. I wiped the oozing mess off my face and dashed out of the cubicle, ready to punch this vile stranger.
His cubicle door was swinging wildly, but the man himself was nowhere to be seen. I rushed back into the bar, crashing straight into a patron, before feverishly shouting if anyone had seen him? The bartender, who was already convinced I’d drunk too many, signalled to the bouncers to kick me out, all of which played out to Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
Stinking of crap, I stumbled past suspicious passers-by who quickly moved aside with looks of disgust. I must have resembled a vagrant, but nevertheless, I made my way back to the car.
Ah, my beautiful, silver, German-produced Audi A4. My pride and joy.
You can probably tell by those words that some strange fate befell it. Well, you still won’t believe it.
In the window of a nearby department store was a bank of televisions, all set to the same channel. They were playing an episode of an unfamiliar game show, with a hysterical couple jumping up and down after having won the star prize. I stopped for a moment, because the man dashing to the prize podium was dressed in a Santa costume and resembled the man who attacked me. Well, he wasn’t dressed quite like Santa exactly… the colour of his costume was too dark.
With a flourish, the man pulled off the sheet to reveal an Audi A4. The couple ran towards it, embracing the car like a lost child. I smiled, glad that this working-class couple could experience the luxury of a car only people like me could usually afford, but then, I noticed the license plate—the same number as mine!
The man dressed as Santa turned to the camera and began walking towards it until his face engulfed the screen. He was mouthing something through the glass, but I couldn’t hear it. I leant in close until I could faintly hear words repeating over the buzz of the televisions. He was singing something.
“Don’t push too far; your dreams are china in your hand…”
I ran as fast as I could, all the way back to my car, which, as you might expect, was not where I left it. There weren’t even any marks in the snow to suggest it had ever been there.
Still smelling of crap and now without a car, I began the long trudge back to my motel. Despite my soiled state, I tried to hitch a ride, hoping some kind soul would take pity on me.
After about a hundred cars had sped past, at long last, a truck slowed to a crawl beside me. It was decorated in Christmas lights, yet, inside the cabin, it was pitch black.
The garish exterior and unsettling interior discouraged me, but with the snow now falling harder, I stepped up to enter the cabin. That was when the demonic man’s face leered out suddenly from the darkness, the bristles of his beard scratching at my face.
“HOHOHO-Muhahahaha,” he roared, as I tumbled backwards out of the cabin and fell into the snow. As I fell, my ankle struck a jagged rock, hard, shattering it inside. Searing pain engulfed me as I clambered up, hobbling away as fast as I could towards the motel.
The truck continued to crawl along the road beside me, its radio on full blast, playing ‘China in Your Hand’ on repeat.
Try as I might, I just couldn’t go on. The pain had become too great and I collapsed with exhaustion. Looking to my foot, I could see that the injury was worse than I had first imagined. The bone was protruding from my skin, and my foot lay in a thick pool of blood.
The realisation hit me that this could be my final night. I could actually die like this. I was about to lose everything I had accomplished; the city career and the awesome car. I realised then that none of it had ever mattered, for here I was, a humble wretch crying in the snow, covered in blood and excrement.
The instinct to survive is a powerful thing, and I started to crawl once more, fighting to remain conscious.
Finally, my body gave out. I collapsed on my back and just lay there, looking up at the stars and the moon, at the waves of snowflakes spiraling gently towards me.
In the corner of my eye, I could see that the truck had stopped. The man, this demonic Santa Claus, was now effortlessly striding through the snow towards me, clenching a small fire axe.
He leaned over me, sniffing loudly for the scent of blood, which soon led him to my crippled foot. Close up, I could see that this man’s Santa costume was not red… but black.
He loomed over me, staring with those tiny, cruel eyes that shone like ancient stars, his body heaving with triumphant anticipation.
One month later, I awoke in the hospital, where I learned that I had been placed in an induced coma due to the extent of my injuries.
Within weeks, I could talk and move once more. Everything was as it should be… except for my left foot. They told me that it had been hacked off and that something had eaten it, leaving only the bones beside my body.
It’s now Christmas Eve, 2019, and I can get around well enough with my new prosthetic foot. I make my way to the kitchen, where I will prepare two snacks. One is a mince pie for Santa Claus, and the other, a steak tartare with a dash of my own blood, for Black Santa.
2023.12.23 06:24 weed-n64 I have been playing the f**k out of some Guitar Hero lately
I went on a personal mission to clean and refurbish a lot of pieces of my collection recently, including my Wii, Guitar Hero guitars, and drum set. I first bought games like Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2, and Band Hero at the height of the music game craze, but I haven’t touched any of them since well before the pandemic. I now have a much larger game room than at my last place, making it easier than ever before for me to enjoy music games with full bands.
I’ve also become a lot better at playing guitar, bass, and drums in real life (though worse at singing) since these games were released, which made me feel like I knew more about the songs and their structures. Though I spent more time playing music games back then, I was able to score higher on most songs in this recent playthrough than I ever could at the time. With drums specifically, I have so far managed to complete half of the songs in World Tour on expert difficulty, something I never could have achieved in 2008.
When I was younger, I remember most music teachers I worked with discouraged my friends and I from playing Guitar Hero while learning real instruments as they feared we would rely too heavily on techniques we learned from the game which, believe it or not, are not very conducive to playing real guitar. However, there are some aspects of the gameplay that I do believe teach basic musicality in an engaging way, and give the average player a better understanding of the parts each instrument is playing that make up their favorite song. There is also subtle commentary on the state of the music industry at the time in the games’ career modes, with Guitar Hero: World Tour in particular featuring a pay-to-play model for your band in the later levels at those venues.
If you lived under a rock in the mid-to-late 2000s, Guitar Hero involves players strumming a guitar controller and tapping five different color buttons that correspond to different notes of a song. The drum controller is the same, but with different color pads.
Overall, the charts for the songs do a good job of representing actual fretboard and drum kit techniques musicians use every time they play. However, the developers are occasionally guilty of ‘overcharting’ particular songs, like if a song features a strummed acoustic guitar. This can be made out to be much more complicated than if it were played on a real guitar, since it involves subtle fingering changes that are represented in a more blatant way on the guitar controller than on a guitar. In Band Hero specifically, this makes Take a Picture by Filter the hardest song in the game, while songs like Janet Jackson’s Black Cat, though much harder to play on a real guitar than Take a Picture, are less physically demanding in Band Hero.
As far as the drum controller, the pads are not as bouncy as the average electric drum set or practice pad, so it can be hard for even skilled drummers to perform paradiddles and other common techniques, changing the way they would need to play songs to do well in the games versus real life. Because of this, songs like Everlong by Foo Fighters become unduly hard for players who can not bounce their sticks off the cymbal pad, forcing them to hit every sixteenth note individually; something not even Taylor Hawkins did live.
Additionally, I think certain aspects of the drum parts of a lot of songs were left out or changed, such as ghost notes. The drum controllers don’t take hit velocity into account for the sake of the gameplay, but plug one into a MIDI interface and you will find out they’re capable.
With the vocals, I found that dry, plain delivery of the lyrics without any embellishment of the notes got me the most points, especially on harder difficulties. You have to sing it very mechanically compared to how you would sing it in real life or in karaoke.
Overall, Guitar Hero and the like are still such fun arcade/party games. I have enjoyed progressing through the career modes and unlocking outfits for my characters. I found it difficult to make decent looking Black characters with the customization options available, but that’s another Oprah. I was also surprised to see you can’t make characters particularly fat, either. When you take the music selection in most of these games into consideration, though, it’s easy to see how such options could have been neglected. These games targeted predominantly white fans of mainstream rock and alternative music until around 2011, the year alternative rock began declining in popularity from a commercial perspective. Activision canceled the Guitar Hero game they were working on for that year and put the franchise on hiatus until the release of Guitar Hero Live, an already discontinued game I have never played.
These games may be novel and a bit of a relic, but if you have them lying around they are worth revisiting. If you don’t, they are generally undesired and usually available for very cheap. The controllers are a little harder to find though, and can be expensive depending on the condition and variant.
I look forward to any feedback.
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I’ve also become a lot better at playing guitar, bass, and drums in real life (though worse at singing) since these games were released, which made me feel like I knew more about the songs and their structures. Though I spent more time playing music games back then, I was able to score higher on most songs in this recent playthrough than I ever could at the time. With drums specifically, I have so far managed to complete half of the songs in World Tour on expert difficulty, something I never could have achieved in 2008.
When I was younger, I remember most music teachers I worked with discouraged my friends and I from playing Guitar Hero while learning real instruments as they feared we would rely too heavily on techniques we learned from the game which, believe it or not, are not very conducive to playing real guitar. However, there are some aspects of the gameplay that I do believe teach basic musicality in an engaging way, and give the average player a better understanding of the parts each instrument is playing that make up their favorite song. There is also subtle commentary on the state of the music industry at the time in the games’ career modes, with Guitar Hero: World Tour in particular featuring a pay-to-play model for your band in the later levels at those venues.
If you lived under a rock in the mid-to-late 2000s, Guitar Hero involves players strumming a guitar controller and tapping five different color buttons that correspond to different notes of a song. The drum controller is the same, but with different color pads.
Overall, the charts for the songs do a good job of representing actual fretboard and drum kit techniques musicians use every time they play. However, the developers are occasionally guilty of ‘overcharting’ particular songs, like if a song features a strummed acoustic guitar. This can be made out to be much more complicated than if it were played on a real guitar, since it involves subtle fingering changes that are represented in a more blatant way on the guitar controller than on a guitar. In Band Hero specifically, this makes Take a Picture by Filter the hardest song in the game, while songs like Janet Jackson’s Black Cat, though much harder to play on a real guitar than Take a Picture, are less physically demanding in Band Hero.
As far as the drum controller, the pads are not as bouncy as the average electric drum set or practice pad, so it can be hard for even skilled drummers to perform paradiddles and other common techniques, changing the way they would need to play songs to do well in the games versus real life. Because of this, songs like Everlong by Foo Fighters become unduly hard for players who can not bounce their sticks off the cymbal pad, forcing them to hit every sixteenth note individually; something not even Taylor Hawkins did live.
Additionally, I think certain aspects of the drum parts of a lot of songs were left out or changed, such as ghost notes. The drum controllers don’t take hit velocity into account for the sake of the gameplay, but plug one into a MIDI interface and you will find out they’re capable.
With the vocals, I found that dry, plain delivery of the lyrics without any embellishment of the notes got me the most points, especially on harder difficulties. You have to sing it very mechanically compared to how you would sing it in real life or in karaoke.
Overall, Guitar Hero and the like are still such fun arcade/party games. I have enjoyed progressing through the career modes and unlocking outfits for my characters. I found it difficult to make decent looking Black characters with the customization options available, but that’s another Oprah. I was also surprised to see you can’t make characters particularly fat, either. When you take the music selection in most of these games into consideration, though, it’s easy to see how such options could have been neglected. These games targeted predominantly white fans of mainstream rock and alternative music until around 2011, the year alternative rock began declining in popularity from a commercial perspective. Activision canceled the Guitar Hero game they were working on for that year and put the franchise on hiatus until the release of Guitar Hero Live, an already discontinued game I have never played.
These games may be novel and a bit of a relic, but if you have them lying around they are worth revisiting. If you don’t, they are generally undesired and usually available for very cheap. The controllers are a little harder to find though, and can be expensive depending on the condition and variant.
I look forward to any feedback.
2023.11.24 15:33 ace-vanitas working midi files for the app midi karaoke?
Hello, I was wondering if there's anywhere I can get my hands on midi files of vocaloid songs for free? I have only ever found one that worked for "midi karaoke" and it was usseewa, I haven't been able to find a single other one, the app says they're low quality and can't detect the vocals, please lmk if they're out there! thank you.
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2023.11.23 20:46 M_joaxx Free Realistic Soundfont preferably in sf2 file format
Hello!
I've been struggling to find free realistic soundfonts for my own music. I do have some sf2 soundfonts downloaded but most of those don't produce realistic sounds like an orchestra or some paid libraries like Spitfire, Native Instruments, Symphony Series, BBC Orchestral Symphony, etc.
Maybe some instruments may sound real but I'm more concerned about the strings as I cannot find a suitable one based on what I always hear from these amazing MIDI mockups and film soundtracks.
Is there any links or sites you can recommend for me to download realistic or orchestral soundfonts for free? I've always been wanted to produce my music with realistic instruments instead of Karaoke-sounded ones.
Thank you!
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I've been struggling to find free realistic soundfonts for my own music. I do have some sf2 soundfonts downloaded but most of those don't produce realistic sounds like an orchestra or some paid libraries like Spitfire, Native Instruments, Symphony Series, BBC Orchestral Symphony, etc.
Maybe some instruments may sound real but I'm more concerned about the strings as I cannot find a suitable one based on what I always hear from these amazing MIDI mockups and film soundtracks.
Is there any links or sites you can recommend for me to download realistic or orchestral soundfonts for free? I've always been wanted to produce my music with realistic instruments instead of Karaoke-sounded ones.
Thank you!
2023.11.22 12:51 VRsculpts (Guide) Custom beginning/end song on A1 mini
I couldn't find an easy to follow guide on how to do this anywhere so since I figured it out I thought I should share. It's quite simple and many may already know this but it does involve editing some gcode (as well as splicing up a midi file to just the part you want) which some may not be easy for some.
Step 1: Create your Midi g-code
Bambu has provided an easy to use tool to convert any midi file to g-code. You will also want to crop to just the part of the song you want to play, otherwise you'll have to sit and listen to your printer hum out a 3 minute song. You can do all of this easily using this online tool available here:
https://midi-to-gcode.bambulab.com/edit
Click file > open and load the midi file of your choice. Midi files have been around since the early days of the internet; a simple google search of the name of the song you want + "midi file" should yield a free download of the song you want. No one pays for midi files so don't go to a site that wants to charge you for one. Since all we want is the main hook of the song, try to find a file that has a clear track of the melody of the song (some midi's are just backing instrumental tracks without the melody - those are for karaoke, not 3d printing) . The A1 can only support at max 3 tracks and you will define each as chord, base, or main theme.
Once you've loaded your midi file, you can listen to it and try to find the part of the song you want. You'll need to navigate between the "Piano Roll" and "Arrange" to properly trim the part of your song. In the "Arrange" tab, you'll see each track that has notes playing. Find the part of the song you want, and click and drag to select the entire section (for more precise selection, you can change how many bars the selection tool selects by increasing the number next to the music note in the top right corner).
Here's where it gets kinda janky - after selecting just hit ctrl + X to cut that section of the song from the midi. Then, whle still in the arrange tab, select all of the remaining notes in the entire song and delete them (hit delete). You may need to zoom out and scroll to make sure you get all of the remaining notes completely. You should now have a completely empty arrangement view; scroll to the beginning and paste your selection at the top right. Then you want to isolate up to 3 tracks that you want to turn into gcode - remember that our printers use their motors to vibrate and play the tune, not an actual speaker so you don't want anything too crazy or it will sound like crap. Switch back to the piano roll to assign up to 3 tracks as chord, base, or main theme for playback on your A1 mini. Then hit file > save as gcode file.
Step 2: Slice your file in Bambu Slicer
Slice your file like you normally would, but unfortunately you cannot send the print to your printer over the cloud like normal if you want to have your custom song play. Instead, you'll need to export the sliced file to save on your computer as we will need to edit it later. File > "export plate sliced file" (if your model is just a single plate) or "export all plates sliced file" if your model is on multiple plates. This will save your file to a .3mf file, but it is really just a zip file that contains everything that gets sent to the printer.
Step 3: Edit exported gcode
Find your exported 3mf file and open it using winrar (other zip programs would probably work too). Unzip all the files to a folder (you will need to re-zip these back together later). In the unzipped files, open the "Metadata" folder. Inside you will find a file plate_1.gcode; it will be the largest sized file. Right click and open using Notepad. Then you just need to find the section where you will paste the midi gcode you created earlier (so go ahead and open that file as well using Notepad, "select all" using ctrl + A and "copy" using ctrl + C. You can then close that file. Go back to the plate_1.gcode and paste the midi gcode in either:
;=====start printer sound ===================(highlight everything underneath and paste your midi gcode)
or
;=====printer finish sound=========(highlight everything underneath and paste your midi gcode, but before the 2nd..);=====printer finish sound=========
You'll see the default tune gcode inside these areas. Just highlight everything in those sections and paste your midi gcode that you copied earlier. Save the file in notepad and close it.
Then you'll want to highlight everything in the folder that you unzipped previously:_rels (folder)3D (folder)Metadata (folder)[Content_Types].xml
Select these 4 things and zip them back together, except when saving change the .zip extension to be .3mf.
Step 4: Save to SD card and print!
Last step is to take your edited 3mf file and save that directly to the root of the SD card from your A1 printer. Put it back in your printer and you should now see your file under the print menu on you A1 mini's screen. Select the appropriate colors (if its a multi-color print), and you should now hear your custom tune at the beginning or end of your print depending on what part you changed!
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Step 1: Create your Midi g-code
Bambu has provided an easy to use tool to convert any midi file to g-code. You will also want to crop to just the part of the song you want to play, otherwise you'll have to sit and listen to your printer hum out a 3 minute song. You can do all of this easily using this online tool available here:
https://midi-to-gcode.bambulab.com/edit
Click file > open and load the midi file of your choice. Midi files have been around since the early days of the internet; a simple google search of the name of the song you want + "midi file" should yield a free download of the song you want. No one pays for midi files so don't go to a site that wants to charge you for one. Since all we want is the main hook of the song, try to find a file that has a clear track of the melody of the song (some midi's are just backing instrumental tracks without the melody - those are for karaoke, not 3d printing) . The A1 can only support at max 3 tracks and you will define each as chord, base, or main theme.
Once you've loaded your midi file, you can listen to it and try to find the part of the song you want. You'll need to navigate between the "Piano Roll" and "Arrange" to properly trim the part of your song. In the "Arrange" tab, you'll see each track that has notes playing. Find the part of the song you want, and click and drag to select the entire section (for more precise selection, you can change how many bars the selection tool selects by increasing the number next to the music note in the top right corner).
Here's where it gets kinda janky - after selecting just hit ctrl + X to cut that section of the song from the midi. Then, whle still in the arrange tab, select all of the remaining notes in the entire song and delete them (hit delete). You may need to zoom out and scroll to make sure you get all of the remaining notes completely. You should now have a completely empty arrangement view; scroll to the beginning and paste your selection at the top right. Then you want to isolate up to 3 tracks that you want to turn into gcode - remember that our printers use their motors to vibrate and play the tune, not an actual speaker so you don't want anything too crazy or it will sound like crap. Switch back to the piano roll to assign up to 3 tracks as chord, base, or main theme for playback on your A1 mini. Then hit file > save as gcode file.
Step 2: Slice your file in Bambu Slicer
Slice your file like you normally would, but unfortunately you cannot send the print to your printer over the cloud like normal if you want to have your custom song play. Instead, you'll need to export the sliced file to save on your computer as we will need to edit it later. File > "export plate sliced file" (if your model is just a single plate) or "export all plates sliced file" if your model is on multiple plates. This will save your file to a .3mf file, but it is really just a zip file that contains everything that gets sent to the printer.
Step 3: Edit exported gcode
Find your exported 3mf file and open it using winrar (other zip programs would probably work too). Unzip all the files to a folder (you will need to re-zip these back together later). In the unzipped files, open the "Metadata" folder. Inside you will find a file plate_1.gcode; it will be the largest sized file. Right click and open using Notepad. Then you just need to find the section where you will paste the midi gcode you created earlier (so go ahead and open that file as well using Notepad, "select all" using ctrl + A and "copy" using ctrl + C. You can then close that file. Go back to the plate_1.gcode and paste the midi gcode in either:
;=====start printer sound ===================(highlight everything underneath and paste your midi gcode)
or
;=====printer finish sound=========(highlight everything underneath and paste your midi gcode, but before the 2nd..);=====printer finish sound=========
You'll see the default tune gcode inside these areas. Just highlight everything in those sections and paste your midi gcode that you copied earlier. Save the file in notepad and close it.
Then you'll want to highlight everything in the folder that you unzipped previously:_rels (folder)3D (folder)Metadata (folder)[Content_Types].xml
Select these 4 things and zip them back together, except when saving change the .zip extension to be .3mf.
Step 4: Save to SD card and print!
Last step is to take your edited 3mf file and save that directly to the root of the SD card from your A1 printer. Put it back in your printer and you should now see your file under the print menu on you A1 mini's screen. Select the appropriate colors (if its a multi-color print), and you should now hear your custom tune at the beginning or end of your print depending on what part you changed!
2023.11.16 01:14 batvseba iOS Music apps deals early Black Friday
| Name | Old Price (zł) | New Price (zł) | Min. OS | DateAdded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4D Music Player | 69.99 | 0.00 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| 4Waves Synth AUv3 | 18.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Akkordeon Trainer | 47.99 | 29.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Albums! - Box your Music | 13.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Alina String Ensemble | 27.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1697720559 |
| alltune - tuner for all | 27.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Analysis Guide For Wavelab | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Appkis Sound Effects | 94.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| ARP ODYSSEi | 139.99 | 79.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Arpeggios on Bass | 47.99 | 29.99 | 7.0 | 1691240810 |
| Audanika | 13.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Audio Course for Reaper | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Audio Unit Player | 8.99 | 4.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| AudioEffX | 47.99 | 39.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| AudioKit Digital D1 Synth | 23.99 | 4.99 | 10.3 | 1699880575 |
| AudioKit FM Player 2: DX Synth | 8.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| AudioKit Retro Piano | 479.99 | 14.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Automation and Mixing Guide | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1690290285 |
| Avec Des Cris De Joie | 64.99 | 0.00 | 16.0 | 1699880575 |
| Backline Rig Guide For Reason | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1686661344 |
| BARBARA the Metronome | 42.99 | 39.99 | 13.1 | 1699880575 |
| Bass Guitar Colour Scales | 23.99 | 19.99 | 14.7 | 1699880575 |
| Bass Leveler - Feel and Flow | 27.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Bass Line Composer | 23.99 | 9.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| BASSalicious 2 | 69.99 | 29.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| BassBox Reflex Pro | 27.99 | 19.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| BassBox Sealed Pro | 18.99 | 9.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Bassman Chords 2 | 18.99 | 14.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Battle Beats Drum Loops | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1694955715 |
| BeatHawk | 47.99 | 29.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Bell Tree | 27.99 | 0.00 | 13.2 | 1699880575 |
| Bheema Tanpura | 47.99 | 29.99 | 5.1.1 | 1699880575 |
| Big old days iPod touch | 8.99 | 4.99 | 12.2 | 1699880575 |
| Blas Folk Radio Cymru | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1698757303 |
| BLEASS Filter | 23.99 | 19.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Blue Harmonica | 8.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Bluetooth Midi Controller | 13.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Bluetooth Midi Keyboard | 13.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Bluetooth Midi Motion | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Bluetooth Midi Pads | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| BossaNovaPads | 64.99 | 49.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| BPM: Percussion Metronome | 8.99 | 0.00 | 11.3 | 1699880575 |
| CalmusPlay | 37.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1697893635 |
| CapoeiraPads | 64.99 | 49.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| CC Harp | 23.99 | 19.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| ChannelStrip | 23.99 | 4.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Chordana Composer | 23.99 | 19.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Chordana Viewer | 47.99 | 39.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Chordion : Musical Instrument & MIDI Controller | 23.99 | 14.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| ChordWeaver | 94.99 | 49.99 | 9.0 | 1686661344 |
| Chorus Lesson | 18.99 | 14.99 | 14.7 | 1699880575 |
| ClassicPod Music Player | 18.99 | 4.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
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| CrossOver Filter | 13.99 | 9.99 | 8.2 | 1686661344 |
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| Dazibao | 32.99 | 29.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| DEADSHOWZ | 23.99 | 14.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Demystifying Course For Diva | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Designing Timbres Guide | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Different Drummer | 18.99 | 9.99 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| Discographic for Discogs | 18.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| DJ SoundBox Pro | 13.99 | 4.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
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| dot Melody | 18.99 | 9.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| Dozzzer: Sleep Better | 19.99 | 0.00 | 17.0 | 1699880575 |
| DrumMapMidi | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
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| Easy Music Maker Drum Beat Pad | 8.99 | 0.00 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| EGSY01 Analog Synth | 42.99 | 29.99 | 9.1 | 1699880575 |
| Electro Drum Groove : Music | 4.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Ensemble Composer | 94.99 | 49.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| F11 | 59.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| FABULUS Guitar Chords learning | 19.99 | 0.00 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
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| Fingering Brass for iPhone | 13.99 | 9.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
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| Fingering Strings for iPhone | 23.99 | 19.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
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| Fingering Woodwinds for iPhone | 23.99 | 19.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
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| GeoShred Play | 47.99 | 0.00 | 11.4 | 1699880575 |
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| Greenwich Sentinel | 54.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
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| Guitar Scales in Colours | 23.99 | 19.99 | 14.7 | 1699880575 |
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| GyroSynth | 13.99 | 4.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| HarpNinja Diatonic Harmonica | 94.99 | 69.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
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| iDousyn | 8.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
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| iFX Rack | 47.99 | 29.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| iLive OneMix | 37.99 | 0.00 | 14.1 | 1699880575 |
| IMPULSation | 59.99 | 29.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| iSequence HD | 47.99 | 14.99 | 9.0 | 1697547794 |
| iSyn Poly | 8.99 | 4.99 | 8.0 | 1697547794 |
| iTabla Pandit Professional | 127.99 | 99.99 | 11.0 | 1699422615 |
| Jamm Pro: Produce+Perform Live | 47.99 | 0.00 | 15.5 | 1699880575 |
| Jamn Multi-tool: | 13.99 | 4.99 | 8.0 | 1692795770 |
| JamUp Pro | 94.99 | 29.99 | 10.0 | 1699707734 |
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| KORG Gadget 2 | 189.99 | 99.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| KORG iELECTRIBE for iPad | 94.99 | 49.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| KORG iELECTRIBE for iPhone | 94.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| KORG iM1 | 139.99 | 79.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| KORG iMono/Poly | 139.99 | 79.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| KORG iPolysix for iPad | 139.99 | 79.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| KORG Module Pro | 189.99 | 99.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
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| LatinPads | 59.99 | 49.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| LayR-Multi Timbral Synthesizer | 124.99 | 79.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| LE01 Bass 808 Synth + AUv3 | 479.99 | 14.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| LE03 AudioTune + AUv3 | 479.99 | 14.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Lead Sheet Project Guide | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| LinerNotes | 59.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Live Chopz (Pro) | 139.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| LoAdKer | 23.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Loop it | 23.99 | 14.99 | 13 | 1699880575 |
| Loopseque | 27.99 | 19.99 | 8.0 | 1699016522 |
| Loopseque 8 — beat performer | 47.99 | 39.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
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| Maestro | 23.99 | 14.99 | 16.0 | 1699422615 |
| Maestro XL | 23.99 | 14.99 | 16.0 | 1697547794 |
| Mammoth - Bass Amp | 89.99 | 49.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Mandolin Scale Essentials | 8.99 | 0.00 | 13.4 | 1699880575 |
| Maze Rider - Auto Leveling | 27.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Mazetools Soniface Pro | 69.99 | 49.99 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| Measuring Center | 23.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Mercury Drum Sequencer | 23.99 | 4.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Metron (Pro Metronome) | 42.99 | 29.99 | 12.0 | 1698238959 |
| metronome pro - beats master | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Metrónomo Flamenco Sevilla Soft | 89.99 | 59.99 | 7.0 | 1699880575 |
| MicroGrandPiano | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Midi DJ | 18.99 | 14.99 | 12.0 | 1686661344 |
| Midi DJ remote | 18.99 | 14.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Midi Echo AU | 13.99 | 9.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| MIDIChordy | 13.99 | 9.99 | 12.4 | 1699880575 |
| Mintzer Big Band Essentials | 47.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| mix.tape | 8.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| MixBox CS | 229.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| MKSensation Xtreme | 129.99 | 69.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| moodscaper | 13.99 | 4.99 | 9.3 | 1699422615 |
| moodscaper SE | 8.99 | 4.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| moodunits | 23.99 | 14.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Moon FM - The Podcasts App | 23.99 | 0.00 | 13.6 | 1699880575 |
| MP3 Player Offline My Music | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Binder (PDF & ChordPro) | 13.99 | 4.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Buddy – Learn to read music notes | 18.99 | 9.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Meta Wow | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Practice Tool | 8.99 | 4.99 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Reading Essentials | 13.99 | 9.99 | 15.0 | 1697547794 |
| Music Resources | 8.99 | 4.99 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Stats ▶ | 4.99 | 0.00 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Advanced | 47.99 | 29.99 | 13.0 | 1695474131 |
| Music Theory Advanced • | 42.99 | 29.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Basics | 37.99 | 19.99 | 13.0 | 1697547794 |
| Music Theory Basics • | 32.99 | 19.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Chords | 13.99 | 9.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Chords • | 13.99 | 9.99 | 13.0 | 1697547794 |
| Music Theory Intervals | 13.99 | 9.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Intervals • | 13.99 | 9.99 | 13.0 | 1686661344 |
| Music Theory Notes | 18.99 | 14.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Notes • | 18.99 | 14.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Rhythms | 27.99 | 14.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Music Theory Rhythms • | 27.99 | 14.99 | 13.0 | 1698757303 |
| My Kalimba - Relax Meditation | 13.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Namibia Radio App | 47.99 | 29.99 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| Neo-Soul Keys® Studio | 94.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Note Names & Pitches | 13.99 | 9.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Note Recognizer Analyser | 124.99 | 14.99 | 14.2 | 1699880575 |
| Notion | 69.99 | 0.00 | 11.4 | 1699880575 |
| Open String Guitar Chords | 69.99 | 39.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| oREC | 8.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Orooga | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Percussion Loops HD | 42.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Photon AU | 27.99 | 19.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Photophore Synth | 23.99 | 4.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Piano Chords Dictionary | 4.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| Piano For You | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Piano Scale Essentials | 8.99 | 0.00 | 13.4 | 1699880575 |
| Piano Tabs: Learn & Practice | 23.99 | 0.00 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| pianoscaper | 8.99 | 4.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Picky Music Player | 8.99 | 4.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Pinoy Radyo App | 47.99 | 29.99 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| Pipa Vocal Synthesizer | 94.99 | 49.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Pitch Parade | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Pixound | 23.99 | 9.99 | 12.0 | 1692795770 |
| Play-my-note | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.1 | 1699880575 |
| Player Piano Radio | 27.99 | 0.00 | 16.2 | 1699880575 |
| Playr Audibly | 13.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Pocket Organ C3B3 | 27.99 | 4.99 | 7.0 | 1697720559 |
| Poco a Poco: Music Notes | 13.99 | 9.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| PolyNome: THE Metronome | 69.99 | 0.00 | 15.0 | 1698843713 |
| PowerPlay5 | 8.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| ProRemote | 104.99 | 0.00 | 14.1 | 1699880575 |
| ProRemote Light Edition | 47.99 | 0.00 | 14.1 | 1699880575 |
| Pumphouse | 18.99 | 4.99 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| pyka_loop | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.4 | 1699422615 |
| Q LIVE | 23.99 | 0.00 | 13.1 | 1677502944 |
| Quanta Granular Synth | 47.99 | 39.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Quantiloop Pro - Live Looper | 64.99 | 39.99 | 10.0 | 1698757303 |
| Quantum Sequencer | 47.99 | 39.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Quiztones: EQ Ear Training | 23.99 | 0.00 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Radiolla – Metamodern Radio | 13.99 | 0.00 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| radioNED+ | 18.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| Radyo Bozcaada | 2.99 | 0.00 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| RatshackReverb3 | 13.99 | 4.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Ravenscroft 275 Piano | 169.99 | 99.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Reactable mobile | 47.99 | 29.99 | 8.0 | 1699422615 |
| REAL Shuffle Player PRO | 18.99 | 14.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Reggae Roots Drum Loops | 4.99 | 0.00 | 11.3 | 1699422615 |
| RF-1 Reverb | 27.99 | 14.99 | 9.0 | 1698584565 |
| Rhyme Book | 4.99 | 0.00 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| RhythmiQ Metronome | 18.99 | 9.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| ROTOR - Tangible Music Synth | 54.99 | 39.99 | 8.0 | 1699422615 |
| Samaei - سماعي | 54.99 | 0.00 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| SambaPads | 59.99 | 49.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| SDS-x — Simple Drum Sampler | 18.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Session Notes AU | 13.99 | 9.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| SessionBand Soul Jazz Funk 2 | 54.99 | 49.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Shoom Synthesizer | 42.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Show Ready | 13.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| SimplyFlange | 8.99 | 4.99 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| SimplyLowPass | 8.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| SimplyPhaser | 8.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| SimplyTremolo | 8.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Singing Streets | 18.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| SKIIID | 27.99 | 19.99 | 12.1 | 1699880575 |
| Skym | 27.99 | 19.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Slash Chords on Guitar | 18.99 | 9.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Smart Album Player | 4.99 | 0.00 | 10.2 | 1692795770 |
| SolfeHearingB | 8.99 | 4.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Sonic Loops pro | 4.99 | 0.00 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| Sound Kitchen Pro | 4.99 | 0.00 | 8.0 | 1686661344 |
| Sparkverb | 139.99 | 79.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Spatializer | 47.99 | 39.99 | 12.1 | 1699880575 |
| Steampunk Metronome | 13.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| Steel Pan Tutor Lite | 27.99 | 0.00 | 10.2 | 1699880575 |
| STEPS - MIDI Sequencer | 13.99 | 4.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Steve Roach Immersion I | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Steve Roach Immersion II | 18.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Steve Roach Immersion III | 18.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Steve Roach Immersion IV | 18.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| StreamS HiFi Radio | 23.99 | 14.99 | 14.7 | 1699422615 |
| StringKing | 8.99 | 4.99 | 16.0 | 1699880575 |
| Super Manetron | 32.99 | 4.99 | 7.0 | 1699880575 |
| Synthophone Stylophone clone | 8.99 | 4.99 | 12.1 | 1692795770 |
| TamTam Machine Pro | 4.99 | 0.00 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| Tap 4 BPM | 4.99 | 0.00 | 15.6 | 1699880575 |
| Tap That Tempo plus | 13.99 | 9.99 | 6.0 | 1699880575 |
| TB Barricade | 59.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| TB BitJuggler | 32.99 | 29.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| TB Equalizer | 64.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| TB Flowtones | 59.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| TB Morphit | 54.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| TB ReelBus | 54.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Tera Synth | 47.99 | 39.99 | 8.0 | 1699880575 |
| The Art of Piano | 32.99 | 0.00 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| The Jukebox App | 23.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| The VCA and Other Tools Guide | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1691240810 |
| The Vocal Coach | 47.99 | 0.00 | 10.0 | 1699880575 |
| Tihai Pro | 8.99 | 4.99 | 12.4 | 1699880575 |
| Toeknee Tee | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Touch Metronome | 8.99 | 4.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Touch Notation | 54.99 | 49.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Touch Tuner | 8.99 | 4.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| touchscaper | 32.99 | 19.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Track Course For Maschine MK 2 | 64.99 | 39.99 | 9.0 | 1699880575 |
| Tritone Jazz | 47.99 | 39.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Trompetenfuchs Band 1 | 104.99 | 99.99 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| Trompetenfuchs Band 2 | 104.99 | 99.99 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| Trompetenfuchs Bd. 3 | 104.99 | 99.99 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| True Pitch | 8.99 | 4.99 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| True Strings | 13.99 | 4.99 | 15.0 | 1699880575 |
| Tuner ONE PRO Guitar & Ukulele | 37.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Tuner PRO: guitar,ukulele,bass | 23.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Uke Scale Essentials | 8.99 | 0.00 | 13.4 | 1699880575 |
| Vergehen | 13.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Volumio | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.4 | 1699880575 |
| Vox Unit | 32.99 | 14.99 | 12.0 | 1686661344 |
| Wavejam: Collaborative Music | 42.99 | 0.00 | 12.4 | 1699880575 |
| WaveScope for Logic Pro | 42.99 | 0.00 | 12.1 | 1699880575 |
| Winlive Pro Karaoke Mobile | 139.99 | 129.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| Winlive Synth Mobile | 47.99 | 39.99 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| WizzJ - Music Visualizer | 13.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WoodnGate | 42.99 | 39.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| WoodScaper | 54.99 | 49.99 | 9.3 | 1699880575 |
| Wremote Control | 23.99 | 9.99 | 11.4 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUBandpassFilter | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUDelay | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUDistortion | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUDynamicsProcessor | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUHighPassFilter | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUHighShelfFilter | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AULowPassFilter | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AULowShelfFilter | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUNBandEQ | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUParametricEQ | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUPeakLimiter | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUReverb2 | 8.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| WU: AUSampleDelay | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| X Drummer: Songwriting Tool | 94.99 | 14.99 | 11.0 | 1699707734 |
| XYZ Synth | 8.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| Yukawa - AUv3 Plug-in Effect | 37.99 | 29.99 | 12.0 | 1699880575 |
| Саха FM | 8.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
| القرآن الكريم صوت بدون نت | 4.99 | 0.00 | 14.0 | 1699880575 |
| カラオケで歌の勉強 得意のレパートリーは記憶装置に記録 | 8.99 | 4.99 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| ビギンのうた三線 | 13.99 | 9.99 | 6.0 | 1699880575 |
| 台語聖經watch | 4.99 | 0.00 | 13.0 | 1699880575 |
| 听音识谱 - 乐谱大全 | 4.99 | 0.00 | 12.1 | 1699880575 |
| 씨캐스트 - CCM음악방송국 | 8.99 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 1699880575 |
2023.11.11 22:51 SoundForMore iOS - vocalBeazz - Tutorial 1: Getting Started (Giveaway in the video description)
 | iOS - vocalBeazz - Tutorial 1: Getting Started (Giveaway in the video description) submitted by SoundForMore to iPadMusicTutorials [link] [comments] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/vocalbeazz/id6452385216 vocalBeat is a powerul apo for music & beats producing, making remixes by separating songs into vocals, drums, bass and other instruments or creating songs by composing loops, recording vocals and instruments, sampling, performing live sets with a launch pad and external MIDI controllers and sharing beats within the vocalBeazz platform! Features in the 'sing' and 'remix' modes (included in the base version):
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2023.11.08 00:07 angelrob20 LD-707 digital out, and I/O port
 | I have been searching the internet for a few hours, but can't find an answer. I just bought this pioneer LD-707 and don't know what the digital out and i/o connection is for. These are some type of DIN connections, one 5 pin like midi, and 8 pin. submitted by angelrob20 to LaserDisc [link] [comments] I thought digital audio at first or something for karaoke? Has two remotes, haven't tested yet. Any ideas? |
2023.10.22 08:54 Saraphim663 Terms and Conditions
By Sarah Herbison
Edited by Z. Mann Zilla
The spring growth is the only thing keeping me from tumbling back into depression. While nature awakens and evolves to flowers and verdant greens, my life is falling stagnant. After the theater company I worked for in Texas dissolved, I was forced to move back to Richmond Virginia to get back on my feet. Unemployment sent me a small stipend, but it was barely enough to cover utilities and groceries, let alone rent.
Vibrant yellow forsythia flowers, delicate pink cherry blossoms, and fresh green buds adorning the smaller trees and bushes splash color against the gloomy sky. Finches and robins chirp in the birdbath, their cheerful songs piercing through the sound of the rain. A theater company offered me a gig in Tennessee last week, but the thought of performing historically inaccurate dinner theater for old bigots made my stomach turn.
I moved back to Virginia and applied for my MA. Even if the degree was in English, it was better than nothing. I could at least teach. Still, I would much rather earn a living writing or acting.
Prospects were growing thin unless I wanted to move to New York or Los Angeles and compete with millions of others. I might write a novel, and compete with the millions on Amazon or traditional publishing.
A small shrine sits in the corner of my room. It contains a picture of my grandmother, some souvenirs from a trip to Germany, and the usual witchy items. Incense, candles, and a few crystals. I don’t know if I ever believed in magic, but it helps me calm down and center myself. I light some Nag Champa and sit cross-legged for a few minutes, to clear the grief out of my mind. Afterward, I pull on my trench coat and a wide-brimmed hat and walk into the rain. No one blinks an eye in Texas, but a tall, broad man dressed like Johnny Cash earns more than a few stares in Virginia. My bright yellow pickup sits in the parking lot, one of my few possessions that make me happy. And, like me. It stands out like a sore thumb on this dreary day.
My truck weaves through Richmond traffic towards the Fitness and Martial Arts Center. I go to my MMA class and work through a few katas afterwards. During the poses, I center myself and consider getting the acting gig I want. This is just a setback. I would land some gig or get a book published. I wasn't going to rot away at some government or marketing job in D.C. for the rest of my life.
I stop by the local Game Stop on my way home. I had offered to give my girlfriend, Heather, a ride home from work. Her ash blonde hair just about reaches her shoulders, touched by a streak of violet. Her cute upturned nose crinkles when I enter the store. I met her two years ago online; she had lost direction in her life and began working retail. We were both stuck in the same situation, with nowhere to go but up.
She sets down a stack of games. “Hey, stranger, can I help you with anything?”
“Do you have a copy of Battletoads?” I ask.
Heather rolls her eyes. “Any luck with the 'Wolf Trap' audition?”
“Na, haven’t heard back.”
“There might be some roles at the Kennedy Center. Also, try the Shakespeare Theater.”
“To be or not to be, is that your question?”
She shakes her head and gives a light chuckle. “What about the creative writing program?”
“I’m not sure I want to shell out half a house payment when 50 Shades of Gray is a self-published bestseller. I’d be stuck in the land of adjunct teaching.”
Heather pauses momentarily and places games on the shelf from the stack before her.
“Look, Dave, this might be a little unconventional, but have you considered the internet?”
“Like a programming gig? I haven’t done much since MySpace crashed.”
“No, like YouTube, or Tik Tok. Like, I don’t know. Maybe try playing a few games or singing karaoke or something.”
“I was out with some friends, and one pulled out of singing at karaoke at the last minute. I had to duet myself.”
“Eh, you’re hopeless.”
“In all honesty, I never thought about it.”
Of course, I had watched YouTube channels like Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, but they're gamers, and I didn’t think an audience would pay beaucoup bucks to watch replays of Battletoads, Guitar Hero, and Earthworm Jim. Then again, it might be worth a shot. I didn’t have anything to lose.
I tip my hat to her as she continues with her task. “I’ll keep that in mind.”
“I can help. I have an old ring lamp and some green screen equipment that I haven’t used in ages.”
“You had a channel? Oh, do tell.”
“Eh, it's nothing. I used to do children’s theater in college, the usual fairy tales online. I also did birthday parties. I don’t know, it’s not really me, I’m not much of a thespian.”
“I’m not doing so great as a thespian myself. But thank you for the equipment. Maybe I can write you in as the romantic lead. ”
“ You’re hopeless, but that’s why I love you. Meet me at Denny’s at nine, and I’ll drop it off for you.”
“It’s a date then.” A smile grows on my face.
Her cheeks turn bright red, making her more adorable than ever.
The door opens, and a middle-aged woman walks in, followed by a teenage boy.
“Crap, Mrs. Brimsby is here. I gotta go,” Heather whispers.
“I can’t abandon you-”
“It’s part of my job. I got this. You go. I got this handled.”
The teenage boy drops a stack of old games, and Mrs. Brimsby’s shrill voice carries in the background as she argues about trade-in values. I want to say something, but I'm sure Heather can handle it. I leave the shop, hoping both our days will be better.
#
We meet up at Denny’s after her shift. Heather comes in wearing jeans and a Lamb of God t-shirt. She sits down across from me, and her mouth curves into a kitty cat smile as she grabs a handful of my fries.
“So, I brought my ring light and a green screen curtain and a microphone, it’s not much, but it should be a start.”
“Thank you for everything. I’ll take a crack at it and see where it goes. Do you have any suggestions? Retro gaming, skits. I could write out a few comedy shorts.”
The waitress comes by. Heather orders a plate of cheese fries and a Coke. She lowers her voice.
“Dave, there’s an app you can download on TOR called RYTHM that will help increase your views.”
“Like an ad program?”
“Not really. This program will push your work harder on the algorithm so you can get more traction. “
“But wait, there’s more,” I chuckle.
The waitress puts the Coke and fries in front of Heather. Her blue eyes pierce through me and she folds her hands together.
“Oh, no. It’s free. Just if you use it, be careful what you upload. It’ll push whatever you choose to the top. So make sure it’s good.” She smiles and pushes her hair behind one ear.
“So, no reading furry porn from Reddit, got it.”
She snorts and shakes her head. I reach into my trenchcoat, past my "just-in-case" stack of headshots, and grab my marker. "Riddem?"
"No, RYTHM. Spelled R-Y-T-H-M."
"T… H… M. OK, got it. I’ll check it out. An online gig is better than nothing right now.”
The server returns, and Heather grabs my check from under me. “I got this. Don’t worry about it.”
“You don’t have to.”
“It’s Denny’s. You can pay me back when you’re famous," she says, winking playfully at me and heading toward the counter.
Stopping at her car she opens, her trunk and moves the equipment to my truck. Before leaving, she gives me a light kiss on the lip. My cheeks burn. I tip my hat and walk towards my truck.
“Break a leg for me,” she says softly, before climbing into her car and driving away.
#
After pulling my giant truck into the parking lot, I carefully move the equipment to my upstairs apartment, careful not to get it soaked in the rain. My living room is simple - a couch and an entertainment system with a few gaming consoles. I set up the green screen and ring light in the corner, away from the glare of my balcony window.
Realization strikes me. I need to have this channel take off. Otherwise, I might not have a balcony window much longer.
I take a picture and text it to Heather. She texts back, saying the setup looks good, followed by a heart emoji. She sends me a yawning emoji and texts that she'll come by after her shift tomorrow evening. My chest tightens when I think about Heather, and I don't want to disappoint her.
Looking around for inspiration, I find a small rack of Guitar Hero instruments in the closet. Perhaps I could stream that and have a little retro game channel. I power up my computer and click on YouTube for inspiration. My hopes quickly dash as I see dozens, if not hundreds, of channels for retro gaming.
I remember the website Heather mentioned. The thought of using a TOR browser makes me suspicious. I don't want to become the victim of a scam or have my identity stolen. I acquired a cheap, somewhat ancient all-in-one computer in an auction a while back; my friends and I jokingly referred to it as "Methusebot". It currently sits in the back corner of my closet, unused, gathering dust. Well, if anything did go wrong, I could afford to lose this glorified paperweight. I boot it up to the Windows Vista logo, and it takes forever to connect to my wifi. I type the address Heather wrote down.
I swear I still hear the squelching of dial-up internet in the background as the site loads. After what seems like eons, a violet screen with a search bar appears before me.
So this is it - the supposed website pushing people to fame and fortune? It appears to be another online quiz. Oh well, I only have a cheap potato to lose.
I type “ideas for streaming” into the search engine, and the hourglass figure appears. A blue download bar pops up at ten percent. I sigh and clench my jaw. This is going to take a while.
I make a fried egg sandwich and turn on the TV to Seinfeld. I scroll through my phone, to see if there's any new jobs on Monster or Indeed; the same five posts from the Amazon warehouse, and five temp agencies offering the same ten shitty jobs. I check my email for any new auditions or cattle calls, but none are found.
Returning to my laptop, the bar displaying the search is only at fifty percent. Rolling my eyes, I plop down in front of my altar, grabbing a piece of quartz to concentrate.
“May there be a success in all I do, and can you please load faster?” I chant this over the clear stone before setting it on Methusebot. At worst, nothing would happen, but a little magic couldn’t hurt anything, right?
#
I wake up the next morning and shamble out of bed. I make coffee and check the computer. My stomach instantly sinks - the dang glorified toaster's stuck on a blue screen of death.
The menu options flicker to scan, or ignore & attempt to reboot. Oh well, it was an old piece of junk. What do I have to lose? Rebooting the old laptop, after a few painful minutes, it loads to another blue screen with white writing. With a sigh, I wonder what scrapyard accepts electronic recycling, until I go through and read the screen.
“RYTHM is unable to run on the current OS. Please download to Windows 10 or higher, iPhone, Safari, or Android.”
The computer reboots to the Vista operating system. I sigh again before shutting it off; so I couldn’t sacrifice Methusebot for the cause. I'm hesitant to use my Samsung, a gift from my mother and the only smartphone I own. I don't know if the warranty is even valid anymore.
I turn on my phone to see if I can even get TOR working on it. Before I can even open the Play store, a message pops up: “Would you like to download and install the RYTHM app?”
I raise my eyebrow - how did it know to try my smartphone? Is there some kind of virus or something, tracking my IP address?
I decide to hold off until Heather comes over. I review the current job applications once more - nothing, the same garbage. I'm tired of being out of options; I would have to take a shitty job and suck it up until an acting gig manifests. But what if it takes months? Years? Would I waste away here, working myself to death for a company I hate?
I search the web for any auditions. While there aren't any parts at the Kennedy Center, there are some bit parts at Shakespeare in the Park, and a Poe Evermore audition somewhere in Pennsylvania. Jotting down the audition dates, I decide to go to the library and brush up on some plays. I was quite fond of both Poe and Shakespeare, and while the parts wouldn’t pay much, it would at least keep my mind off the current situation.
After the library, I decide to go to the Martial Arts and Fitness Center and train. As I finish up and leave, I see Heather at the gym’s entrance. She's still in her GameStop uniform, her hair in a high ponytail.
“I thought we could go out to a show,” she says.
“I would, but I’m a bit sweaty right now.”
“Most of the people at the show will be sweaty too.”
“Sure, why not.”
Before I know it, I'm at some hipster bar listening to a retro post-punk band. They aren't bad, though the music is somber and fails to lift my spirits. Heather brings me a few beers, and I feel relaxed and tingly.
“I’ll take you by the dojo and bring your truck tomorrow. You're in no condition to drive,” she smiles.
“I’ve only had a couple of beers,” I retort.
“You know how draconian VA cops are,” she says.
“Fair.”
She unlocks her car and drags me up to my apartment. She sets me down on the couch and kisses me.
She glances at the green screen and ring lamp. “I like what you did with the setup. Do you have any ideas?”
“Not one,” I groan.
“Well, we had fun at the show. You told me you programmed Guitar Hero with your songs.”
“I’m an actor, not a musician.”
“You can try it. If you don’t like it, you can change it.”
“Didn’t you say I couldn’t do that with RYTHM?”
“You actually downloaded it?”
“On an old laptop, but I think it’s on my phone.”
“I mean, you can delete the app if you don’t like it. What harm could it do?”
“Fine.” I go to my desktop and open up TabHero, a free program I found that converts MIDI files into Guitar Hero charts. I pick one of my earlier original songs, a garage rock anthem I wrote in my free time. I upload the chart file to Guitar Hero and play.
She smiles and claps. “That’s less depressing than the band we saw. I wish I could do more to cheer you up, though.”
“Just you being here is enough. You’ve done so much to help me already, and I love you.”
“I love you too, you dork.”
She kisses me and leads me into my bedroom. I follow, not noticing Methusebot was recording the entire time.
#
Heather wakes up beside me the next morning, leaning over to lazily kiss me.
“I have to be in for my shift soon. I’ll go make us some coffee.”
Stumbling out of bed, I pad across the floor. Heather scoops heaps of coffee into the French press. She's wearing one of my old tee shirts that drapes to her knees. Her blond hair is messy, and her smile is the most adorable thing I have ever seen.
My phone beeps, and I glance at my notifications to find I have over one hundred thousand views. My email box suddenly overflows with promotion offers. I remember my phone and discover the RYTHM program is downloaded and installed successfully. The interface, a simple graph showing views, ad earnings, and percentages I would receive.
“Wow, I didn’t think it would actually work.” Heather smiles as she sips on her coffee.
My heart falls to my stomach, how did this video even get online? I check the equipment to see that it’s turned off. Methusebot blinks in the background, its camera staring blankly at the corner. The software wasn’t even compatible but yet it still recorded everything I did.
“Wow, the stupid potato recorded everything. I was hoping to edit it before I put it online.” I walk over and switch the all-in-one off.
“It’s not stupid if it works, and you might be doing that for a while. RYTHM doesn’t like to change much.”
“That’s ok. I'll use this app to build a following, then hit the auditions again.”
Heather kisses me on the neck. “Sounds like a plan. I have to head home. I’ll see you after I get off.”
“That’s what she said.”
She rolls her eyes and smiles.
“I’ll keep looking for auditions. I might go to The Martial Arts Center later. See you then,” I say.
“Break a leg.”
She gives me one last kiss before heading out the door. After she leaves, I decide to play around with the RYTHM program. As I look through the various graphs, a box pops up with the terms and conditions. Among the legal jargon and assorted gobbledygook, the condition that catches my eye is the one that says I need to post at least once a day. I have a few more songs on file, so I pick one and upload it. The video's done in ten minutes, no sweat. I record a few more songs to save me some time in the future. My YouTube ad revenue is pretty impressive for one day. If this keeps up, I might be able to afford rent by the end of the month. A cheesy video game vlog isn't exactly what I wanted to do with my acting career, but it certainly beats homelessness.
#
Heather crashes at my place for the next week. She still lives with her parents and three sisters, and while she loves them, they drive her nuts. She barely has any privacy to herself and would crash at my place most nights.
I'm able to make rent and then some. I offer to take her to a nice dinner, but she wants to hang out at 2nd and Charles. She looks through the Sci Fi and fantasy before meandering her way towards the old guitars. I glance at the stats on my phone; they're climbing higher but I need to post more videos soon. I look up to see her gazing longingly at a Jackson Monarkh guitar on the wall.
“Hey, hon,” I say, tapping her shoulder gently.
“Sorry, I was just thinking of getting back into music one day,” she says.
“Why one day? Why not now?”
“I have to work overtime, and I’m saving up for an apartment. And Gas is 3.50 a gallon.”
I check my bank balance; it’s never been higher my whole life. I have more than enough to make rent this month. I grab the guitar off the wall and head over to checkout.
“Are you sure?” She asks.
“Yeah, I can play my fake guitar and you can play your real one. Maybe get back together with the band?” I ask, raising an eyebrow.
“That’s not going to happen, not at least until Dawn is grown anyway.”
Heather had been part of an alternative rock group with her friends in highschool. They were moderately successful and even had a small tour on the East Coast. It was starting to look up until Michelle, the lead singer, got pregnant. Michelle decided to get married and raise her daughter, Dawn. While Michelle and Heather were still friends, the band broke up. Heather settling into a job at Gamestop. It worries me to see her stuck in a dead end job. For once I could give her more, maybe even help her go back to school if things keep up.
Her soft brown eyes blink in shock as the cashier rings up our purchase. When we get to the truck she throws herself on me, kissing me hard.
“You’re welcome,” I chuckle.
“I can get back into playing, maybe write a duet for your channel.”
“Sure, but I think the program is more into fake instruments than real ones, at least for my channel.”
When we get home she unboxes the guitar and begins playing Smoke on the Water. “It’s to knock off the rust, it’s been a while since I played.”
“Knock yourself out.” I begin belting the course out, Heather rolls her eyes and giggles.
“I don’t want to go home,” she sighs.
“I mean, you can make your home with me if you want to.”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea, don’t you need your own space for working online?”
“We’ll make it work. You can keep working at GameStop and I’ll work here. I mean, if you want to keep working. I can help you go back to school with my income.”
“Shh. Quitting my job is a bit drastic, but I can cut it down to part time and go back to school. Or audition for another band after I get some practice. Maybe we’ll go on a tour together.”
“I’d like that.” I hold her close and feel her heartbeat next to mine. Just as I’m about to kiss her my phone pings.
“I’ll be right with you, I just have to load my ten minute video for the day.”
Heather sighs and then smiles at me. “Go do your job hun, I’ll be here when you get back.”
Ten minutes, I was only going to edit for ten minutes. But every imperfection screamed at me, every stutter, every pause. Minutes turned into hours. Birds chirped and the gray predawn light crept through the window. , Heather is under the covers, snoring softly. I lie next to her, but she turns away in her sleep. I’ll make up for it tomorrow, I’ll make her breakfast before work and everything will be fine. My phone dings again, showing that the video uploaded successfully. I’ll just check my stats and everything will be ok in the morning.
The next morning passes, I make her breakfast but check my stats, I’m too busy to see her leave. It’s like RYTHM has a pull over me, where I’m constantly checking my social media stats. The followers have increased and my likes go higher, but the likes and comments all seem hollow.
Is the RYTHM program a scam? Are all my followers' bots? I glance at my ad revenue, and decide it doesn't matter. Whoever they are, they pay the bills. I watch other creators with similar content. Are they doing better than me? If so, how? How do I make myself better than them, how can I get more views to be the best?
I barely notice Heather’s arms around me after she returns from work. She plays Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here on her guitar after setting dinner in front of me. By the time I notice the plate of pasta, it's stone cold. For another night in a row, I go to bed to see her passed out.
Day after day, all I can think is that I have to keep my stats up. And, day after day, Heather would come home and hug me, ask what I'm doing, and I’d talk about my webpage and my stats. Tell her, excitedly, how I'm more than making rent. She spends the afternoons after work practicing guitar, and even auditions for a few bands, but none of them call her back - at least, not yet.
One stormy night in early summer, Heather comes home from work and slams the plate of food down on my desk, a look of contempt on her face.
“What’s wrong?” I ask.
“Nothing,” she says, her eyes downturned.
“Something is up, you can tell me.”
A deep sigh rattles from her chest, warbling slightly. There was a whole lot of things behind that 'nothing' - and all of them clearly hurt more than she let on. “It’s just-" her voice cracks and she pauses.
I swiftly double-tap the "Save Draft" button and, once I see the Home screen, hit the Power button. Heather needs my full attention. I place my phone screen-down and rise to my feet, my hand nervously seeking out her shoulder. "Please, talk to me," I say, softly. I look to where her eyes would be, if she'd just look at me and not her trembling hand.
She regains composure. Her fingers tighten into a grip. Her voice is firm, more controlled. "I feel so lonely since I’ve moved in here. You’re always online, and I know that your doing your job, that’s why I haven't said anything. I’ve been making your meals and cleaning the house. I’m worried that you’ll starve if I’m not here."
For the briefest of moments, I feel my free hand moving toward my pocket - a reflex I've developed; reaching for my phone. A deep pang of guilt finally has the sense to shoot through my dumb ass. I want to speak, but… No, I need to listen.
My brief flirtation with self-control pays off; her eyes finally meet mine, and she can see that I'm giving her my undivided attention. Emboldened, she opens up further. "I thought this was going to be temporary. I thought you were going to still try for auditions. I miss the guy that would come into my store and make horrible dad jokes. It’s like… now that I’m here, I’m being taken for granted.”
It dawns on me, I have been a negligent asshole. I pull Heather to me and she curls her head into my chest.
“You know, you’re right,” I say. "As loath as I am to go back to auditions, I promise myself I’ll try. Online was so easy, so… addicting, compared to the rat race of auditions. But I want to be an actor, not just a pantomime of a musician."
I kiss Heather gently. “Tomorrow, I’m going to go back to auditioning. Wish me luck.”
She exhales sharply; a combined laugh, sob, and sigh. She sniffs, puts on that gorgeous kitten smile, pats my chest, and nods. “Break a leg,” she quips, before leading me into the bedroom.
The next morning, after Heather leaves for work, I put my resume online and check for local auditions. They should have listings for parts, hell, I’d even take a role of an extra or stage crew right now. I decide to go to the local community theater and check for auditions. It’s the bottom of the barrel, practically volunteer work, but I need to get my feet wet again.
I saunter over to the ticket booth and the receptionist looks past me, not acknowledging my presence. Walking down the hallway I notice a poster for Studiowerks DC: "Extras wanted, aged twenty to thirty, for “Congress”, a new political drama, please show up at 415 Walker Court SE."
I show up on the audition date, but there are so many people that I get lost in the crowd, even with my cowboy hat. I stand there for hours, my feet grow sore and the director never calls me.
All of this is more than a bit frustrating. Eerie, I only exist for the one RYTHM account online. Everywhere else, I feel like a complete ghost.
Well, if that's the case, I'll try something different. I create a comparison video, discussing how Breaking Bad is a modern retelling of Macbeth. It garners precisely zero views.
I spend the rest of the day writing a skit about the world being overrun by zombies. Like, a world-ending apocalypse, but you still have to go to work. I read it over to Heather, and she sighs.
“If you think it’ll bring your views back,” she says.
“I’m just trying to be myself again?”
“I mean, you can go back to the formula…”
“I thought you hated the formula.”
“No,” she takes a long sip of her coffee. “I hate it when you become obsessed with the formula. You can put in the video, get your views, get your ad revenue, and still try auditions on the side.”
“This YouTube job is turning into a drag.”
“Like my GameStop job isn’t? “ Heather raises an eyebrow.
“I’m just trying to follow my dreams, you can try to audition for a rockband or have your own music channel.”
“I need more practice. But I promise I will when I get there.” She kisses me swiftly as she heads out the door for work.
The next day I film the skit and upload it into RYTHM for general distribution. But the video doesn’t upload. It sticks on the same page and gets a control time out error. Determined to have my work seen, I manually upload the video directly to YouTube. The content gets flagged for violating community guidelines almost immediately. I’m tempted to throw the camera against the wall; instead, I submit an appeal.
Fine, if the algorithm is going to be that way, I’ll stop posting. I’m too pissed to make a video anyway. I view the analytics the next day. Views over the last 24 hours were zero, and my ad revenue reflects mere pennies.
When I check my mail, there's only a single letter. It's from a casino game I promoted, stating I owe them money for failing to effectively promote their product.
I crumple the paper up and yeet it at the door. This is more than bad luck, the way Heather gazes past me like she doesn’t even recognize I’m here anymore. Whenever I assert my own will, it pushes me into this odd liminal space. No one recognizes me offline and I can’t find work.
A thought occurs to me - magic. A little magic can ruin everything.
I decide to chat with an old friend, Damien. We met online through a group on Chaos Magic. I tell him my struggles since I downloaded RYTHM. After a long pause he answers.
HORIZONSTAR: Dude, I think it’s an egregore.
DAV0R: An egg-and-what?
HORIZONSTAR: Haha. But for real. Egregores are spirits programmed by people to do a specific task.
DAV0R :Well I guess someone could program a spirit to become internet famous, but why is it so limiting?:
HORIZONSTAR :It reeks of the supernatural, but it’s also a computer, and follows computer logic. A computer can only do what you tell it to do, so a ghost in the machine can only handle people that do exactly what it’s attempting to program. You go outside of that and it'll treat you like invalid data..
DAV0R: How can I prove this, or exorcize it?:
HORIZONSTAR: Hang on a minute. I’m going to draw you a sigil and upload it on chat, I need you to grab your amulet.:
I rummage through my desk and pull out an eight-pointed star.
HORIZONSTAR : I’m going to send you some files to help with the banishment. If it’s a simple egregore this should work. This is going to be sent in the old Arr style.
Rolling my eyes I open BitTorrent and click on the torrent. The ticker slowly grows accross the screen. I open the file to find code that scrolls spiderlike down the page. Letters bleeding into each other.
DAV0R : This is insane! This is just a page of Zalgo text.:
HORIZONSTAR :I know what I’m doing and most magic is insane. Do you have an old phone or computer you don’t mind using as a snackrifice?:
I chuckle at the term as I open up the old all-in-one, it’s already warm to the touch and smells of burning dust. The screen for RYTHM automatically pops open; its purple background glows like a blister.
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The spring growth is the only thing keeping me from tumbling back into depression. While nature awakens and evolves to flowers and verdant greens, my life is falling stagnant. After the theater company I worked for in Texas dissolved, I was forced to move back to Richmond Virginia to get back on my feet. Unemployment sent me a small stipend, but it was barely enough to cover utilities and groceries, let alone rent.
Vibrant yellow forsythia flowers, delicate pink cherry blossoms, and fresh green buds adorning the smaller trees and bushes splash color against the gloomy sky. Finches and robins chirp in the birdbath, their cheerful songs piercing through the sound of the rain. A theater company offered me a gig in Tennessee last week, but the thought of performing historically inaccurate dinner theater for old bigots made my stomach turn.
I moved back to Virginia and applied for my MA. Even if the degree was in English, it was better than nothing. I could at least teach. Still, I would much rather earn a living writing or acting.
Prospects were growing thin unless I wanted to move to New York or Los Angeles and compete with millions of others. I might write a novel, and compete with the millions on Amazon or traditional publishing.
A small shrine sits in the corner of my room. It contains a picture of my grandmother, some souvenirs from a trip to Germany, and the usual witchy items. Incense, candles, and a few crystals. I don’t know if I ever believed in magic, but it helps me calm down and center myself. I light some Nag Champa and sit cross-legged for a few minutes, to clear the grief out of my mind. Afterward, I pull on my trench coat and a wide-brimmed hat and walk into the rain. No one blinks an eye in Texas, but a tall, broad man dressed like Johnny Cash earns more than a few stares in Virginia. My bright yellow pickup sits in the parking lot, one of my few possessions that make me happy. And, like me. It stands out like a sore thumb on this dreary day.
My truck weaves through Richmond traffic towards the Fitness and Martial Arts Center. I go to my MMA class and work through a few katas afterwards. During the poses, I center myself and consider getting the acting gig I want. This is just a setback. I would land some gig or get a book published. I wasn't going to rot away at some government or marketing job in D.C. for the rest of my life.
I stop by the local Game Stop on my way home. I had offered to give my girlfriend, Heather, a ride home from work. Her ash blonde hair just about reaches her shoulders, touched by a streak of violet. Her cute upturned nose crinkles when I enter the store. I met her two years ago online; she had lost direction in her life and began working retail. We were both stuck in the same situation, with nowhere to go but up.
She sets down a stack of games. “Hey, stranger, can I help you with anything?”
“Do you have a copy of Battletoads?” I ask.
Heather rolls her eyes. “Any luck with the 'Wolf Trap' audition?”
“Na, haven’t heard back.”
“There might be some roles at the Kennedy Center. Also, try the Shakespeare Theater.”
“To be or not to be, is that your question?”
She shakes her head and gives a light chuckle. “What about the creative writing program?”
“I’m not sure I want to shell out half a house payment when 50 Shades of Gray is a self-published bestseller. I’d be stuck in the land of adjunct teaching.”
Heather pauses momentarily and places games on the shelf from the stack before her.
“Look, Dave, this might be a little unconventional, but have you considered the internet?”
“Like a programming gig? I haven’t done much since MySpace crashed.”
“No, like YouTube, or Tik Tok. Like, I don’t know. Maybe try playing a few games or singing karaoke or something.”
“I was out with some friends, and one pulled out of singing at karaoke at the last minute. I had to duet myself.”
“Eh, you’re hopeless.”
“In all honesty, I never thought about it.”
Of course, I had watched YouTube channels like Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, but they're gamers, and I didn’t think an audience would pay beaucoup bucks to watch replays of Battletoads, Guitar Hero, and Earthworm Jim. Then again, it might be worth a shot. I didn’t have anything to lose.
I tip my hat to her as she continues with her task. “I’ll keep that in mind.”
“I can help. I have an old ring lamp and some green screen equipment that I haven’t used in ages.”
“You had a channel? Oh, do tell.”
“Eh, it's nothing. I used to do children’s theater in college, the usual fairy tales online. I also did birthday parties. I don’t know, it’s not really me, I’m not much of a thespian.”
“I’m not doing so great as a thespian myself. But thank you for the equipment. Maybe I can write you in as the romantic lead. ”
“ You’re hopeless, but that’s why I love you. Meet me at Denny’s at nine, and I’ll drop it off for you.”
“It’s a date then.” A smile grows on my face.
Her cheeks turn bright red, making her more adorable than ever.
The door opens, and a middle-aged woman walks in, followed by a teenage boy.
“Crap, Mrs. Brimsby is here. I gotta go,” Heather whispers.
“I can’t abandon you-”
“It’s part of my job. I got this. You go. I got this handled.”
The teenage boy drops a stack of old games, and Mrs. Brimsby’s shrill voice carries in the background as she argues about trade-in values. I want to say something, but I'm sure Heather can handle it. I leave the shop, hoping both our days will be better.
#
We meet up at Denny’s after her shift. Heather comes in wearing jeans and a Lamb of God t-shirt. She sits down across from me, and her mouth curves into a kitty cat smile as she grabs a handful of my fries.
“So, I brought my ring light and a green screen curtain and a microphone, it’s not much, but it should be a start.”
“Thank you for everything. I’ll take a crack at it and see where it goes. Do you have any suggestions? Retro gaming, skits. I could write out a few comedy shorts.”
The waitress comes by. Heather orders a plate of cheese fries and a Coke. She lowers her voice.
“Dave, there’s an app you can download on TOR called RYTHM that will help increase your views.”
“Like an ad program?”
“Not really. This program will push your work harder on the algorithm so you can get more traction. “
“But wait, there’s more,” I chuckle.
The waitress puts the Coke and fries in front of Heather. Her blue eyes pierce through me and she folds her hands together.
“Oh, no. It’s free. Just if you use it, be careful what you upload. It’ll push whatever you choose to the top. So make sure it’s good.” She smiles and pushes her hair behind one ear.
“So, no reading furry porn from Reddit, got it.”
She snorts and shakes her head. I reach into my trenchcoat, past my "just-in-case" stack of headshots, and grab my marker. "Riddem?"
"No, RYTHM. Spelled R-Y-T-H-M."
"T… H… M. OK, got it. I’ll check it out. An online gig is better than nothing right now.”
The server returns, and Heather grabs my check from under me. “I got this. Don’t worry about it.”
“You don’t have to.”
“It’s Denny’s. You can pay me back when you’re famous," she says, winking playfully at me and heading toward the counter.
Stopping at her car she opens, her trunk and moves the equipment to my truck. Before leaving, she gives me a light kiss on the lip. My cheeks burn. I tip my hat and walk towards my truck.
“Break a leg for me,” she says softly, before climbing into her car and driving away.
#
After pulling my giant truck into the parking lot, I carefully move the equipment to my upstairs apartment, careful not to get it soaked in the rain. My living room is simple - a couch and an entertainment system with a few gaming consoles. I set up the green screen and ring light in the corner, away from the glare of my balcony window.
Realization strikes me. I need to have this channel take off. Otherwise, I might not have a balcony window much longer.
I take a picture and text it to Heather. She texts back, saying the setup looks good, followed by a heart emoji. She sends me a yawning emoji and texts that she'll come by after her shift tomorrow evening. My chest tightens when I think about Heather, and I don't want to disappoint her.
Looking around for inspiration, I find a small rack of Guitar Hero instruments in the closet. Perhaps I could stream that and have a little retro game channel. I power up my computer and click on YouTube for inspiration. My hopes quickly dash as I see dozens, if not hundreds, of channels for retro gaming.
I remember the website Heather mentioned. The thought of using a TOR browser makes me suspicious. I don't want to become the victim of a scam or have my identity stolen. I acquired a cheap, somewhat ancient all-in-one computer in an auction a while back; my friends and I jokingly referred to it as "Methusebot". It currently sits in the back corner of my closet, unused, gathering dust. Well, if anything did go wrong, I could afford to lose this glorified paperweight. I boot it up to the Windows Vista logo, and it takes forever to connect to my wifi. I type the address Heather wrote down.
I swear I still hear the squelching of dial-up internet in the background as the site loads. After what seems like eons, a violet screen with a search bar appears before me.
So this is it - the supposed website pushing people to fame and fortune? It appears to be another online quiz. Oh well, I only have a cheap potato to lose.
I type “ideas for streaming” into the search engine, and the hourglass figure appears. A blue download bar pops up at ten percent. I sigh and clench my jaw. This is going to take a while.
I make a fried egg sandwich and turn on the TV to Seinfeld. I scroll through my phone, to see if there's any new jobs on Monster or Indeed; the same five posts from the Amazon warehouse, and five temp agencies offering the same ten shitty jobs. I check my email for any new auditions or cattle calls, but none are found.
Returning to my laptop, the bar displaying the search is only at fifty percent. Rolling my eyes, I plop down in front of my altar, grabbing a piece of quartz to concentrate.
“May there be a success in all I do, and can you please load faster?” I chant this over the clear stone before setting it on Methusebot. At worst, nothing would happen, but a little magic couldn’t hurt anything, right?
#
I wake up the next morning and shamble out of bed. I make coffee and check the computer. My stomach instantly sinks - the dang glorified toaster's stuck on a blue screen of death.
The menu options flicker to scan, or ignore & attempt to reboot. Oh well, it was an old piece of junk. What do I have to lose? Rebooting the old laptop, after a few painful minutes, it loads to another blue screen with white writing. With a sigh, I wonder what scrapyard accepts electronic recycling, until I go through and read the screen.
“RYTHM is unable to run on the current OS. Please download to Windows 10 or higher, iPhone, Safari, or Android.”
The computer reboots to the Vista operating system. I sigh again before shutting it off; so I couldn’t sacrifice Methusebot for the cause. I'm hesitant to use my Samsung, a gift from my mother and the only smartphone I own. I don't know if the warranty is even valid anymore.
I turn on my phone to see if I can even get TOR working on it. Before I can even open the Play store, a message pops up: “Would you like to download and install the RYTHM app?”
I raise my eyebrow - how did it know to try my smartphone? Is there some kind of virus or something, tracking my IP address?
I decide to hold off until Heather comes over. I review the current job applications once more - nothing, the same garbage. I'm tired of being out of options; I would have to take a shitty job and suck it up until an acting gig manifests. But what if it takes months? Years? Would I waste away here, working myself to death for a company I hate?
I search the web for any auditions. While there aren't any parts at the Kennedy Center, there are some bit parts at Shakespeare in the Park, and a Poe Evermore audition somewhere in Pennsylvania. Jotting down the audition dates, I decide to go to the library and brush up on some plays. I was quite fond of both Poe and Shakespeare, and while the parts wouldn’t pay much, it would at least keep my mind off the current situation.
After the library, I decide to go to the Martial Arts and Fitness Center and train. As I finish up and leave, I see Heather at the gym’s entrance. She's still in her GameStop uniform, her hair in a high ponytail.
“I thought we could go out to a show,” she says.
“I would, but I’m a bit sweaty right now.”
“Most of the people at the show will be sweaty too.”
“Sure, why not.”
Before I know it, I'm at some hipster bar listening to a retro post-punk band. They aren't bad, though the music is somber and fails to lift my spirits. Heather brings me a few beers, and I feel relaxed and tingly.
“I’ll take you by the dojo and bring your truck tomorrow. You're in no condition to drive,” she smiles.
“I’ve only had a couple of beers,” I retort.
“You know how draconian VA cops are,” she says.
“Fair.”
She unlocks her car and drags me up to my apartment. She sets me down on the couch and kisses me.
She glances at the green screen and ring lamp. “I like what you did with the setup. Do you have any ideas?”
“Not one,” I groan.
“Well, we had fun at the show. You told me you programmed Guitar Hero with your songs.”
“I’m an actor, not a musician.”
“You can try it. If you don’t like it, you can change it.”
“Didn’t you say I couldn’t do that with RYTHM?”
“You actually downloaded it?”
“On an old laptop, but I think it’s on my phone.”
“I mean, you can delete the app if you don’t like it. What harm could it do?”
“Fine.” I go to my desktop and open up TabHero, a free program I found that converts MIDI files into Guitar Hero charts. I pick one of my earlier original songs, a garage rock anthem I wrote in my free time. I upload the chart file to Guitar Hero and play.
She smiles and claps. “That’s less depressing than the band we saw. I wish I could do more to cheer you up, though.”
“Just you being here is enough. You’ve done so much to help me already, and I love you.”
“I love you too, you dork.”
She kisses me and leads me into my bedroom. I follow, not noticing Methusebot was recording the entire time.
#
Heather wakes up beside me the next morning, leaning over to lazily kiss me.
“I have to be in for my shift soon. I’ll go make us some coffee.”
Stumbling out of bed, I pad across the floor. Heather scoops heaps of coffee into the French press. She's wearing one of my old tee shirts that drapes to her knees. Her blond hair is messy, and her smile is the most adorable thing I have ever seen.
My phone beeps, and I glance at my notifications to find I have over one hundred thousand views. My email box suddenly overflows with promotion offers. I remember my phone and discover the RYTHM program is downloaded and installed successfully. The interface, a simple graph showing views, ad earnings, and percentages I would receive.
“Wow, I didn’t think it would actually work.” Heather smiles as she sips on her coffee.
My heart falls to my stomach, how did this video even get online? I check the equipment to see that it’s turned off. Methusebot blinks in the background, its camera staring blankly at the corner. The software wasn’t even compatible but yet it still recorded everything I did.
“Wow, the stupid potato recorded everything. I was hoping to edit it before I put it online.” I walk over and switch the all-in-one off.
“It’s not stupid if it works, and you might be doing that for a while. RYTHM doesn’t like to change much.”
“That’s ok. I'll use this app to build a following, then hit the auditions again.”
Heather kisses me on the neck. “Sounds like a plan. I have to head home. I’ll see you after I get off.”
“That’s what she said.”
She rolls her eyes and smiles.
“I’ll keep looking for auditions. I might go to The Martial Arts Center later. See you then,” I say.
“Break a leg.”
She gives me one last kiss before heading out the door. After she leaves, I decide to play around with the RYTHM program. As I look through the various graphs, a box pops up with the terms and conditions. Among the legal jargon and assorted gobbledygook, the condition that catches my eye is the one that says I need to post at least once a day. I have a few more songs on file, so I pick one and upload it. The video's done in ten minutes, no sweat. I record a few more songs to save me some time in the future. My YouTube ad revenue is pretty impressive for one day. If this keeps up, I might be able to afford rent by the end of the month. A cheesy video game vlog isn't exactly what I wanted to do with my acting career, but it certainly beats homelessness.
#
Heather crashes at my place for the next week. She still lives with her parents and three sisters, and while she loves them, they drive her nuts. She barely has any privacy to herself and would crash at my place most nights.
I'm able to make rent and then some. I offer to take her to a nice dinner, but she wants to hang out at 2nd and Charles. She looks through the Sci Fi and fantasy before meandering her way towards the old guitars. I glance at the stats on my phone; they're climbing higher but I need to post more videos soon. I look up to see her gazing longingly at a Jackson Monarkh guitar on the wall.
“Hey, hon,” I say, tapping her shoulder gently.
“Sorry, I was just thinking of getting back into music one day,” she says.
“Why one day? Why not now?”
“I have to work overtime, and I’m saving up for an apartment. And Gas is 3.50 a gallon.”
I check my bank balance; it’s never been higher my whole life. I have more than enough to make rent this month. I grab the guitar off the wall and head over to checkout.
“Are you sure?” She asks.
“Yeah, I can play my fake guitar and you can play your real one. Maybe get back together with the band?” I ask, raising an eyebrow.
“That’s not going to happen, not at least until Dawn is grown anyway.”
Heather had been part of an alternative rock group with her friends in highschool. They were moderately successful and even had a small tour on the East Coast. It was starting to look up until Michelle, the lead singer, got pregnant. Michelle decided to get married and raise her daughter, Dawn. While Michelle and Heather were still friends, the band broke up. Heather settling into a job at Gamestop. It worries me to see her stuck in a dead end job. For once I could give her more, maybe even help her go back to school if things keep up.
Her soft brown eyes blink in shock as the cashier rings up our purchase. When we get to the truck she throws herself on me, kissing me hard.
“You’re welcome,” I chuckle.
“I can get back into playing, maybe write a duet for your channel.”
“Sure, but I think the program is more into fake instruments than real ones, at least for my channel.”
When we get home she unboxes the guitar and begins playing Smoke on the Water. “It’s to knock off the rust, it’s been a while since I played.”
“Knock yourself out.” I begin belting the course out, Heather rolls her eyes and giggles.
“I don’t want to go home,” she sighs.
“I mean, you can make your home with me if you want to.”
“Are you sure that’s a good idea, don’t you need your own space for working online?”
“We’ll make it work. You can keep working at GameStop and I’ll work here. I mean, if you want to keep working. I can help you go back to school with my income.”
“Shh. Quitting my job is a bit drastic, but I can cut it down to part time and go back to school. Or audition for another band after I get some practice. Maybe we’ll go on a tour together.”
“I’d like that.” I hold her close and feel her heartbeat next to mine. Just as I’m about to kiss her my phone pings.
“I’ll be right with you, I just have to load my ten minute video for the day.”
Heather sighs and then smiles at me. “Go do your job hun, I’ll be here when you get back.”
Ten minutes, I was only going to edit for ten minutes. But every imperfection screamed at me, every stutter, every pause. Minutes turned into hours. Birds chirped and the gray predawn light crept through the window. , Heather is under the covers, snoring softly. I lie next to her, but she turns away in her sleep. I’ll make up for it tomorrow, I’ll make her breakfast before work and everything will be fine. My phone dings again, showing that the video uploaded successfully. I’ll just check my stats and everything will be ok in the morning.
The next morning passes, I make her breakfast but check my stats, I’m too busy to see her leave. It’s like RYTHM has a pull over me, where I’m constantly checking my social media stats. The followers have increased and my likes go higher, but the likes and comments all seem hollow.
Is the RYTHM program a scam? Are all my followers' bots? I glance at my ad revenue, and decide it doesn't matter. Whoever they are, they pay the bills. I watch other creators with similar content. Are they doing better than me? If so, how? How do I make myself better than them, how can I get more views to be the best?
I barely notice Heather’s arms around me after she returns from work. She plays Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here on her guitar after setting dinner in front of me. By the time I notice the plate of pasta, it's stone cold. For another night in a row, I go to bed to see her passed out.
Day after day, all I can think is that I have to keep my stats up. And, day after day, Heather would come home and hug me, ask what I'm doing, and I’d talk about my webpage and my stats. Tell her, excitedly, how I'm more than making rent. She spends the afternoons after work practicing guitar, and even auditions for a few bands, but none of them call her back - at least, not yet.
One stormy night in early summer, Heather comes home from work and slams the plate of food down on my desk, a look of contempt on her face.
“What’s wrong?” I ask.
“Nothing,” she says, her eyes downturned.
“Something is up, you can tell me.”
A deep sigh rattles from her chest, warbling slightly. There was a whole lot of things behind that 'nothing' - and all of them clearly hurt more than she let on. “It’s just-" her voice cracks and she pauses.
I swiftly double-tap the "Save Draft" button and, once I see the Home screen, hit the Power button. Heather needs my full attention. I place my phone screen-down and rise to my feet, my hand nervously seeking out her shoulder. "Please, talk to me," I say, softly. I look to where her eyes would be, if she'd just look at me and not her trembling hand.
She regains composure. Her fingers tighten into a grip. Her voice is firm, more controlled. "I feel so lonely since I’ve moved in here. You’re always online, and I know that your doing your job, that’s why I haven't said anything. I’ve been making your meals and cleaning the house. I’m worried that you’ll starve if I’m not here."
For the briefest of moments, I feel my free hand moving toward my pocket - a reflex I've developed; reaching for my phone. A deep pang of guilt finally has the sense to shoot through my dumb ass. I want to speak, but… No, I need to listen.
My brief flirtation with self-control pays off; her eyes finally meet mine, and she can see that I'm giving her my undivided attention. Emboldened, she opens up further. "I thought this was going to be temporary. I thought you were going to still try for auditions. I miss the guy that would come into my store and make horrible dad jokes. It’s like… now that I’m here, I’m being taken for granted.”
It dawns on me, I have been a negligent asshole. I pull Heather to me and she curls her head into my chest.
“You know, you’re right,” I say. "As loath as I am to go back to auditions, I promise myself I’ll try. Online was so easy, so… addicting, compared to the rat race of auditions. But I want to be an actor, not just a pantomime of a musician."
I kiss Heather gently. “Tomorrow, I’m going to go back to auditioning. Wish me luck.”
She exhales sharply; a combined laugh, sob, and sigh. She sniffs, puts on that gorgeous kitten smile, pats my chest, and nods. “Break a leg,” she quips, before leading me into the bedroom.
The next morning, after Heather leaves for work, I put my resume online and check for local auditions. They should have listings for parts, hell, I’d even take a role of an extra or stage crew right now. I decide to go to the local community theater and check for auditions. It’s the bottom of the barrel, practically volunteer work, but I need to get my feet wet again.
I saunter over to the ticket booth and the receptionist looks past me, not acknowledging my presence. Walking down the hallway I notice a poster for Studiowerks DC: "Extras wanted, aged twenty to thirty, for “Congress”, a new political drama, please show up at 415 Walker Court SE."
I show up on the audition date, but there are so many people that I get lost in the crowd, even with my cowboy hat. I stand there for hours, my feet grow sore and the director never calls me.
All of this is more than a bit frustrating. Eerie, I only exist for the one RYTHM account online. Everywhere else, I feel like a complete ghost.
Well, if that's the case, I'll try something different. I create a comparison video, discussing how Breaking Bad is a modern retelling of Macbeth. It garners precisely zero views.
I spend the rest of the day writing a skit about the world being overrun by zombies. Like, a world-ending apocalypse, but you still have to go to work. I read it over to Heather, and she sighs.
“If you think it’ll bring your views back,” she says.
“I’m just trying to be myself again?”
“I mean, you can go back to the formula…”
“I thought you hated the formula.”
“No,” she takes a long sip of her coffee. “I hate it when you become obsessed with the formula. You can put in the video, get your views, get your ad revenue, and still try auditions on the side.”
“This YouTube job is turning into a drag.”
“Like my GameStop job isn’t? “ Heather raises an eyebrow.
“I’m just trying to follow my dreams, you can try to audition for a rockband or have your own music channel.”
“I need more practice. But I promise I will when I get there.” She kisses me swiftly as she heads out the door for work.
The next day I film the skit and upload it into RYTHM for general distribution. But the video doesn’t upload. It sticks on the same page and gets a control time out error. Determined to have my work seen, I manually upload the video directly to YouTube. The content gets flagged for violating community guidelines almost immediately. I’m tempted to throw the camera against the wall; instead, I submit an appeal.
Fine, if the algorithm is going to be that way, I’ll stop posting. I’m too pissed to make a video anyway. I view the analytics the next day. Views over the last 24 hours were zero, and my ad revenue reflects mere pennies.
When I check my mail, there's only a single letter. It's from a casino game I promoted, stating I owe them money for failing to effectively promote their product.
I crumple the paper up and yeet it at the door. This is more than bad luck, the way Heather gazes past me like she doesn’t even recognize I’m here anymore. Whenever I assert my own will, it pushes me into this odd liminal space. No one recognizes me offline and I can’t find work.
A thought occurs to me - magic. A little magic can ruin everything.
I decide to chat with an old friend, Damien. We met online through a group on Chaos Magic. I tell him my struggles since I downloaded RYTHM. After a long pause he answers.
HORIZONSTAR: Dude, I think it’s an egregore.
DAV0R: An egg-and-what?
HORIZONSTAR: Haha. But for real. Egregores are spirits programmed by people to do a specific task.
DAV0R :Well I guess someone could program a spirit to become internet famous, but why is it so limiting?:
HORIZONSTAR :It reeks of the supernatural, but it’s also a computer, and follows computer logic. A computer can only do what you tell it to do, so a ghost in the machine can only handle people that do exactly what it’s attempting to program. You go outside of that and it'll treat you like invalid data..
DAV0R: How can I prove this, or exorcize it?:
HORIZONSTAR: Hang on a minute. I’m going to draw you a sigil and upload it on chat, I need you to grab your amulet.:
I rummage through my desk and pull out an eight-pointed star.
HORIZONSTAR : I’m going to send you some files to help with the banishment. If it’s a simple egregore this should work. This is going to be sent in the old Arr style.
Rolling my eyes I open BitTorrent and click on the torrent. The ticker slowly grows accross the screen. I open the file to find code that scrolls spiderlike down the page. Letters bleeding into each other.
DAV0R : This is insane! This is just a page of Zalgo text.:
HORIZONSTAR :I know what I’m doing and most magic is insane. Do you have an old phone or computer you don’t mind using as a snackrifice?:
I chuckle at the term as I open up the old all-in-one, it’s already warm to the touch and smells of burning dust. The screen for RYTHM automatically pops open; its purple background glows like a blister.
2023.09.22 22:15 yakvomit Reaper Automated Teleprompter Service (aka Rats) project.
 | I saw another post regarding work being done to solve for displaying lyrics or notes and I figured I'd elaborate a bit on what I've been working on. submitted by yakvomit to Reaper [link] [comments] Using OSC and Reaper's built in web server I have been developing a self contained raspberry pi powered device that wirelessly syncs up to our show computer daw and displays timed notes, song tuning changes, pedal settings whatever I need to make up for my poor memory. It displays the notes/lyrics in a similar fashion to karaoke as well as showing region progress, region names, and region color in the header. The last note displayed remains at the bottom until a new note is pulled up in the sequence. You only need to enable the web browser, and an OSC broadcast port in reaper for it to work. Using lyrics.lua you can easily edit the notes, or you can just add them as events in a blank midi item. The pi also has the benefit of serving a web page which is a mirror of the screen display so you can view it on a tablet or phone or you can run the whole thing locally on the same computer that reaper is on and view it on your phone that way via the ip of the host. I haven't had a lot of time lately to finish this but I will be picking it back up soon and making it more polished. Youtube Demo Screen Shot Neopixel Lights Show Region Background Color View In Browser here's the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTarwmf8kmg link to the very much work in progress git repo: https://github.com/kiisu-dsalyss/rats/ |