RIP kbin.social. We hardly knew ye.
Honestly, it’s probably Little Nicky for me. I do enjoy the movie myself, but back in my highschool days my main group of friends I would hang out and smoke weed with could always agree on this movie. If anyone would complain about what someone else wanted to watch too much, or none of us had a good idea for anything else, we would usually just throw Little Nicky on and be happy enough. I’ll still watch every now and then even though I could recite the thing by rote.
It’s Scary Movie 2 that really tickles me with its good hand.
A couple YouTube channels I regularly turn to:
The Exploring Series - He does read throughs of SCP files and Lovecraft stuff, as well as other things. His voice and inflection are excellent for being calming, but not hammy like a lot of sleep story channels.
Astrum - Astronomy and physics related material. Also an excellent voice for this purpose.
Otherwise I sometimes just pull up a dungeon synth album that has the right mood that I’m feeling for the night.
It’s the best remedy I’ve tried insofar as it’s the only thing that has worked as any type of preventative, and the only thing that has disrupted a cycle for me. It doesn’t work as an abortive, in my experience, but it beats every pharmaceutical I’ve tried in every other way.
Sourcing it has been an issue, and it sucks to open yourself up to criminal offense for not wanting to live in pain, but we do what we have to do.
I’m an episodic CH sufferer. No other pain comes close in comparison. You’re not alone, brother (if I can make that gender assumption given your user name).
Depends on how good they are at it. If pedestrian drech is all they have to offer I’ll spin 'em dizzy and set 'em straight. If they’ve got art, game recognizes game.
Taking SSRIs, I feel like I’m living with an anvil strapped to my back.
Before I started on them, I felt like I was wrapped around the singularity at the center of a massive black hole. Utterly, utterly crushed; reduced down to the size of something that may as well be nothing. So far past the event horizon that I couldn’t even see it anymore.
At least an anvil can be useful for smithing something practical, hearty, and if one has the skill, something artful.
So you’re saying Akira wasn’t based on a true story?
Absolutely. I’ve had two episodes of sleep paralysis in my life that we’re accompanied by some intense dream imagery and audio hallucination. And I’ve had one extremely potent nightmare that easily could have otherwise passed as an alien abduction incident.
Those three were a rush to fully awake from. The abduction one woke me from a dead sleep as they were inserting an instrument into my navel. 10/10 would do again.
One is never satisfied, as I’m assuming you know. I have plans to swap some out, but my current lineup includes:
Novation Peak Casio CZ-1 Novation Ultranova Radikal Technologies Delta Cep-A Dreadbox Abyss Polyend Tracker and a couple other supplemental pieces
If you’re a gearhound yourself I wouldn’t mind a look into your setup if you care to oblige.
I have a mile long document of yet to be used ideas for song titles, synth patch names, lyric ideas, what have you…
I just harvested from that. It works.
Bandcamp, 100%. I’m under the impression that it’s the best third party platform for forwarding the biggest percentage of sales to the actual musicians. If there’s a better one I’d love to hear about it. That’s the most important thing to me before anything else.
Mostly what I see with any level of frequency is troll posters spamming intentionally inflammatory memes in apparently random communities. I’ve reported and blocked every post like this that I’ve come across.
A lot of times when learning about synthesis it can be more useful to have a visual guide as to what’s happening to your signal. Instead of a song have a look at this video. The first 5 minutes goes over what I’d gone over in my first post, and he goes on a bit about a few other things after that. Give it a look.
And to amend something above. The band of frequencies doesn’t narrow per se as you increase the resonance, but the band of frequencies affected by increased resonance can be adjusted (narrowed or widened) in many filters. You’ll typically see this referred to as the Q factor of the resonated signal.
So, this won’t be the most scientifically accurate description of what’s going on, and my own understanding and word usage may be imperfect, but hopefully it gives you at least some idea of what’s happening.
With your low-pass filter you’re making your signal reject frequencies any higher than the cutoff point that you have set. All it does is eliminate those higher frequencies without modifying anything about the frequencies lower than, or at your cutoff point.
When you begin to add resonance, what you’re doing is accentuating the frequency that your cutoff point is set to. So not only are you rejecting the frequencies higher than your cutoff point, you are making the frequency at the cutoff more prominent in your remaining signal. The frequencies below the cutoff point will remain unaltered other than at a lower resonance value you will see a bit of emphasis at frequencies immediately below the cutoff frequency as the signal is drawing those frequencies up sympathetically with the boosted resonance frequency. As you increase the resonance you are further accentuating the frequency at the cutoff point to where the signal will show more of a spike at the cutoff frequency rather than the slight rise seen at lower resonance values. This narrows the band of any sympathetic frequencies that may have been previously affected at lower resonance values. While the lower frequencies are still present and unaltered in your signal since they are below the cutoff, the prominence of the frequency at the cutoff point is being amplified so drastically in comparison that your signal is dominated by the resonated frequency.
I hope this makes sense. I found it difficult to know if I was saying things in as clear a way as needed.
Titanosaurus. The one from the Showa era, not the one from the Cretaceous.
Ah, it was the opposite for me. Might be because I enjoy the type of movies SC2 riffs on a lot more than NATM.