GET AN AUDIO INTERFACE.
All you really need is an interface.

I'm gonna add to this, any decent PC with enough of RAM and a great audio interface will do wonders for you.

I've been working on the same mid-2012 macbook 13" and only just recently upgraded my ram and hard drive a few months ago from 4GB to 8GB and I've almost never had a project crash on me since then. If you have a decent interface to do all the thinking for your audio apart from just your PC will help a lot too. This is just my experience. Most of my VSTs are very CPU/RAM hungry..

The interface part is really important though.

Quote from: aaron on January 09, 2016, 06:22:30 am

My friends and family.

definitely this for sure!

My friends and family inspire you too? They really are great people. gotta love em.

I try to challenge myself and see how natural sounding I can make a 100% synth noise.

This one sounds like a bad case of diarrhea.

This is perfection. This is what synths were made for. If only robert moog were alive to hear this.

Quote from: arcadic on January 09, 2016, 11:40:15 am

So fucking good. This is my song of the year so far and will definitely end up on my top 10 of 2015. The lyrics are touching, the production is beautiful and inspiring and Ty$ vocals are so fitting to the atmosphere of the music. This is honestly one of my favourite Kanye song in years. As for No More Parties In LA, I need more. What I heard was so good. Hearing Kanye and Kendrick spit over a Madlib beat was unexpected in the best way possible. Kendrick continues to prove that he's one of best rappers of the new school.

Cannot wait for Feb 11 when SWISH is released. He's also releasing new music every Friday like he did back in 2010.

yeezy season in full flow

it's about time

Heyo, coming back since you've updated everything.

So, Kick is still weak. There's a lack of bass in your experimental drop thingy or it's not low enough. Panning snare could be a good idea if snare are used as percussions not as main snares. Sometimes it's confusing to not hear a heavy snare after the kick.

There is cool ideas, need a bit more work and they could be very cool.

I'll have to keep that in mind for the future, I really appreciate the feedback! To be honest though, I'm pretty much over the track now. I wasn't being very serious about it at all, it was a joke for a friend and I think I got far enough with it.

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I mean it doesn't have to be the "hey im better than you" kind of thing. Could be a way of saying thank you to the person for using the site as often as they do

yeah i get that but the whole premise of this site is to have everyone basically be COMPLETELY equal, not putting anyone on some sort of pedestal

Then you should really consider putting the verification marks only on the profile page

The verification marks have nothing to do with that. It's to verify that someone is who they say they are. It's not some VIP deal they have with the admins.

Right. Read the post I linked; checkmark on the profile page = "I can verify this is who they say they are." checkmark on every post: "This poster is notable"

I can respect that. I'm on both sides though. Either way works for me, but I understand where you're coming from now.

A quarter tone is the pitch between what normal pitches we know of in our chromatic scale. Instead of moving notes up and down the scale a semitone at a time (which is half a tone), we move a quarter a tone at a time. Quarter tones have been used in music around the world for quite an impressive amount of time.

My question is this, what is stopping this technique from catching on in western music? Is it because it's to hard for artists and composers to implement today? Is it too awkward and weird for the usual audience?

Bonus points if you can point to some producers using quarter tones now. I'd love to hear it in use, or even how they use it.