Notices by Kye Fox (kye@snouts.online), page 7

It escaped. Say hello and help boost its signal. #Music #CreativeToots https://kyefox.bandcamp.com/album/void-friend

What if I told you you can use all the Serum instruments from my upcoming EP without owning Serum, in your favorite sampler? All for the low, low price of $1.

Boosts welcome and appreciated.

#OneDollarPatreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/void-friend-23510509

:drake_dislike: drum circle

:drake_like: rhythm orb

The fun thing about being nonbinary and bi is I get to fry the minds of people who got their understanding of pansexuality from a Tumblr post in 2011 and think bi means trans/enbyphobic.

I've never seen an example of capitalism working well that didn't depend on public funding. It's almost as if balance works better than trying to go all-or-nothing.

Playing exactly one measure of the Harry Potter theme from sheet music and collapsing from exhaustion

what if dog was one of us
just a blob like one of us

Other fun music facts:

All those lines and spaces on sheet music represent the white keys on a piano. They're sharped or flatted by putting the little symbol next to the note.

The key signature is the pattern of sharps or flats that define a key.

🎼 marks G. Middle C on a 61 key piano is in the 4th octave.

You can have a long music career just playing the white or black keys. Are they popular because they sound good, or do they sound good because they're what 99% of music is made in? Mystery

"Kye, what the heck is the difference between a scale and a key and a mode?"

I'm so glad you asked!

Scales are made up of a collection of notes. Kind of like a painter's pallet.

Those notes--also known as steps or semitones--are found by a pattern of half and whole steps. That pattern is the scale. Where it starts from is the mode of that scale. So D Major is a mode of the Major scale starting on D. Same pattern!

I don't know what a key is, but it's probably another word for mode.

I forgot Studio Ghibli films are anime because they're all good.

This preset came with the "Ashes" pack. #Music

It dawned on me how old my old MIDI keyboard is when I realized the first included song is from Aladdin. The '90s one.

Thinking about blocking mastodon.art out of spite/so I don't contribute to its growth with accidental boosts.

*extremely AI image recognition algorithm looking at a fennec fox voice* "small triangle dog"

When you feel bad about not understanding something, remember: it took tens of thousands of years for human civilization to come up with it. It's okay if you don't get it in one human lifetime.

You can imagine this gets more and more complicated to reason about as your waves get fancier. That's why inverting polarity is good, like an artist does on a painting they've been working at to see the flaws.

Try this on your favorite synth. Helm is free and cross-platform. Start up both oscillators with the same kind of wave and invert one. It'll go silent.

Phasing explained with a sine wave: a sine wave works kind of like the wheels on an old steam engine. The engine (oscillator) keeps going in a circle, moving the wave (the thing that connects to the wheels) up and down in time.

Polarity is where it _starts_. So if you start two engines at the same time moving in opposite directions, they cancel out. Going in the same direction, they're additive: you get a louder signal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4V0b-RLknc

Everyone on producer forums is looking for the hottest new off-by-a-penny plugin to solve all their issues when you can get 99.9999% there just by making sure waves aren't slamming into each other.

Minding panning, amplitude, and phases will get you most of the way.

Reaper has a little button on tracks to invert the phase polarity. The easy button for finding out if you have phase cancellation issues.

Soon. #Music #CreativeToots