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#11
Free Music Downloads / Re: [pop] callous kevin (mptm)
Last post by n0cturn - April 12, 2024, 19:58:09Luckily my name isn't Kevin, its just my slightly warped sense of humour to make you feel a bit awkward... why do I now feel disappointed that you didn't write it for me?
#12
General Chatter / Re: Making my own music commun...
Last post by Vojvodinosaurus - April 12, 2024, 18:25:39Quote from: Saga Musix on April 12, 2024, 16:55:19People will not just randomly flock around you if you announce that you will start some random community. Most of the time that will result in a handful of people pretending to be interested (or maybe they even are) and then it fades away quickly because there is no momentum.
This happened to my former community. There were only 6 of us but barely any communication, no matter how much I tried to animate, it was just me and only 1 member at a time talking and 2 of them even tho they stayed they almost never said a word
#13
General Chatter / Re: Making my own music commun...
Last post by Saga Musix - April 12, 2024, 16:55:19Not that I want to discourage you to try things out, but it sounds like you are approaching this topic from the wrong side. People will not just randomly flock around you if you announce that you will start some random community. Most of the time that will result in a handful of people pretending to be interested (or maybe they even are) and then it fades away quickly because there is no momentum.
If you want to create a new community, it should address a need (of more than one person). To pick your example, are you part of an existing, active community that runs compos and several people are annoyed that 50% of the tracks in the compos are always brostep? Congratulations, you have found a niche, and those people might decide to follow you to your own community with 0% brostep. However, practically speaking, this is probably not even a problem in most music communities, so you have no universal selling point for your new community. People might just as well stay in the communities they already are in.
If you want to create a new community, it should address a need (of more than one person). To pick your example, are you part of an existing, active community that runs compos and several people are annoyed that 50% of the tracks in the compos are always brostep? Congratulations, you have found a niche, and those people might decide to follow you to your own community with 0% brostep. However, practically speaking, this is probably not even a problem in most music communities, so you have no universal selling point for your new community. People might just as well stay in the communities they already are in.
Quoteis it worth starting my own without prior experience?Nobody's gonna stop you but you really should have a look at how other people do things to get an idea before you decide to start to do anything on your own.
#14
Free Music Downloads / Re: [pop] callous kevin (mptm)
Last post by Exhale - April 12, 2024, 07:17:32Hah... it is an achetype, a combination of a few people i know and none specifically... the abstract idea is that if the shoe fits, put it on, and examine yourself.
The male version of a karen. Could have been kalvin or any other phonetically similar name to karen, but i chose kevin. I doubt anyone should find the shoe fitting exactly perfectly but yeah some thoughts about behaviours we can all do with examining in ourselves.
So yeah it isnt specifically aimed at anyone named kevin
And yes the tonal / logical contradictions of this song have not escaped me. This is a very human song, ai aint gonna write this shit for you.
The male version of a karen. Could have been kalvin or any other phonetically similar name to karen, but i chose kevin. I doubt anyone should find the shoe fitting exactly perfectly but yeah some thoughts about behaviours we can all do with examining in ourselves.
So yeah it isnt specifically aimed at anyone named kevin
And yes the tonal / logical contradictions of this song have not escaped me. This is a very human song, ai aint gonna write this shit for you.
#15
Free Music Downloads / Re: [pop] callous kevin (mptm)
Last post by n0cturn - April 11, 2024, 20:21:51What I'd like to know is... who told you my name was Kevin?
#16
General Chatter / Making my own music community ...
Last post by Vojvodinosaurus - April 11, 2024, 15:51:03So I wanna make my own community of likeminded musicians who use various trackers and DAWs and I wanna make my own themed compos that focus on music that is NOT Trap nor 2nd wave Dubstep/Brostep nor has elements of the 2.
Thing is I never participated in a compo and have no interest in ompt compos bc i kinda suck at making music.
So I wonder, are there any compos on internet for beginners and is it worth starting my own without prior experience?
Also can you recommend other platforms besides Discord and Reddit to create a community?
Thing is I never participated in a compo and have no interest in ompt compos bc i kinda suck at making music.
So I wonder, are there any compos on internet for beginners and is it worth starting my own without prior experience?
Also can you recommend other platforms besides Discord and Reddit to create a community?
#17
Free Music Downloads / [pop] callous kevin (mptm)
Last post by Exhale - April 11, 2024, 10:41:33Callous kevin - the big boy
Ya think ya know it all
Dreamin you be tall - the gall
Seekin opportunities to condescend Sayin 'i told ya so'
Fuckin confidence Is your fuckin thing Tellin others how they should do everythin
Opinionated, you make nothin new at all
Life is about takin chances
It's risky shit, ceation is also this Coverin your ass often has to fall
Have you really not learned this yet?
So shut your mouth While the adults talk
The teachers teach the new boys
The things you forgot arent really obvious
Ah ok, is it obvious?
Do you want an applause?
Hah, alright, everyone else is an idiot?
Here's your trophy big boy.
Ya think ya know it all
Dreamin you be tall - the gall
Seekin opportunities to condescend Sayin 'i told ya so'
Fuckin confidence Is your fuckin thing Tellin others how they should do everythin
Opinionated, you make nothin new at all
Life is about takin chances
It's risky shit, ceation is also this Coverin your ass often has to fall
Have you really not learned this yet?
So shut your mouth While the adults talk
The teachers teach the new boys
The things you forgot arent really obvious
Ah ok, is it obvious?
Do you want an applause?
Hah, alright, everyone else is an idiot?
Here's your trophy big boy.
#18
Development Corner / Re: Scripting in OpenMPT
Last post by chr15m - April 09, 2024, 00:40:37For me the ideal simple scripting interface for modplug would work like Inkscape plugins.
Inkscape is an SVG editor and when you run a plugin what happens is the entire SVG data is simply passed to the plugin via stdin, which makes its changes, and then returns the SVG data back again. Inkscape replaces its own buffer with whatever the script passed back via stdout (and you can undo of course).
For modplug it could be just this simple. You click a button called "run pattern script" and then choose an executable, or scripting file which is associated with an interpreter by the OS already. The entire pattern data is passed to the script you choose via stdin, which could even be in the same format as modplug copy-paste data (JSON could be nice but it's probably more work). The stdout from the executable/script is then parsed as paste data and pasted over existing pattern data.
In this way the user can use whatever language they like. If .py files are associated with the Python interpreter they can select a Python script. Same for Lua, Nodejs, native exe, etc. All they need to do is parse the pattern data in their language and return the modified data by printing to stdout.
Openmpt could remember previous scripts in a pull-down menu for convenient access.
Stderr could be logged and simply displayed to the user for errors and debugging.
For me an important difference from just manual copy-paste is being able to get the entire song of data not just one pattern.
Perhaps it would be nice to be able to only pass some channels and somehow tell the executable this, but that's not essential.
It could be done in an async way so the script can e.g. launch a UI with options/config for the user if needed.
Inkscape is an SVG editor and when you run a plugin what happens is the entire SVG data is simply passed to the plugin via stdin, which makes its changes, and then returns the SVG data back again. Inkscape replaces its own buffer with whatever the script passed back via stdout (and you can undo of course).
For modplug it could be just this simple. You click a button called "run pattern script" and then choose an executable, or scripting file which is associated with an interpreter by the OS already. The entire pattern data is passed to the script you choose via stdin, which could even be in the same format as modplug copy-paste data (JSON could be nice but it's probably more work). The stdout from the executable/script is then parsed as paste data and pasted over existing pattern data.
In this way the user can use whatever language they like. If .py files are associated with the Python interpreter they can select a Python script. Same for Lua, Nodejs, native exe, etc. All they need to do is parse the pattern data in their language and return the modified data by printing to stdout.
Openmpt could remember previous scripts in a pull-down menu for convenient access.
Stderr could be logged and simply displayed to the user for errors and debugging.
For me an important difference from just manual copy-paste is being able to get the entire song of data not just one pattern.
Perhaps it would be nice to be able to only pass some channels and somehow tell the executable this, but that's not essential.
It could be done in an async way so the script can e.g. launch a UI with options/config for the user if needed.
#19
Free Music Downloads / Re: [Trance] Beyond (mptm/ogg/...
Last post by Vojvodinosaurus - April 08, 2024, 16:56:55This actually reminds me of Ridge Racer
#20
Help and Questions / Re: Where did the extraKeymaps...
Last post by agargara - April 08, 2024, 08:16:07Oh, I see! Thank you so much!!