I love this spicy take on Rick Rubin from Jacob Collier:
“Rick says things like ‘art is only pure if it’s made for only art’s sake’. Absolutely false.”
Thank you for saying it out loud! I hate collaborating with people when they get all precious and start spouting this nonsense. Rick’s cool AF, but his ideas on creativity are nothing more than fun theories. They aren’t rules at all, they don’t apply to every project, and you can definitely ignore them. https://musictech.com/news/music/jacob-collier-rick-rubin-disagree-creativity/ #MusicProduction
This ended up in my feed, and I've heard it and many like it before, but I'm always overwhelmed by things like this because, combined, the individual tracks, warts and all, create this incredible, enduring work of art.
No save/save as. No grid. No copy/paste. No "undo" button. No auto tune. No beat detective. No plugins. Etc.
Editing decisions final.
Good lord.
Deconstructing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Isolated Tracks)
Question for you computer based music producers and virtual instrument collectors out there. If your have a couple of free beastly synths like Surge XT and Vital in your collection, what are the benefits of adding more, and seemingly simpler ones, to your collection?
My own plebish instinct is to download them all to expand my arsenal, but I'm starting to wonder what the benefit is over learning to actually fully master something like Surge. #musicproduction#synth
Today, I'm making a track from scratch again. I'm building a small, dirty roller loop within an hour, all from the ground up without using any loops or final samples. As usual, you can find the project on my Patreon.
Studio Update: A few weeks ago I was soliciting opinions about whether or not to get a Mac Mini to replace my ailing, nearly decade-old PC.
Opinions differed, leaning toward "yes but get more RAM than base model" and I had just about decided not to do it when I stumbled on a good video from a music tech vlogger I really like (video here: https://youtu.be/obkCMxaIIFM) who did exactly what I was thinking and had great results.
I didn't get to test it quite as thoroughly as I'd hoped but preliminary testing was incredibly positive. It runs #Ableton Live Suite 11 without a hitch, as well as #Pigments and the #Korg#Wavestation plugin, which is pretty much my entire computer setup.
(Note: I went #DAWlessright around the time Live 11 was released, and while my old computer's inability to run Live 11 well wasn't the reason why, it didn't exactly push me to stick with the DAW-based world.)
The goal at this stage of my life is to just not look embarrassing when I leave the house. Any hopes of looking cute or cool or fashionable have long since been abandoned. :AAAAAA:
I just want to live in a tasteful little castle along the Irish coast with all my cats (and my spouse ofc) and somehow never tour or do any shows yet still be a wildly successful musician. You know, like Enya. :catjam: 🏰 :scremcat:
Today is a special day for me and I think for all #linuxaudio#musician (s).
Sinevibes, a true innovator in the field of unique yet easy to use #audio#effect (s) #plugin (s), joins the #linux#musicproduction family by releasing Integer, their new digital-analog buffer device, as their first native Linux plug-in. 🥳🥰
Get it here: https://www.sinevibes.com/integer/
PD: They created their first plug-in almost 20 years ago and were all in on Linux at the time. So in a way this is like "The Return to Linux"! 🤓