I have personally found it fantastic as a programming aid, and as a writing aid to write song lyrics. The art it creates lacks soul and any sense of being actually good but it’s great as a “oh I could do this cool thing” inspiration machine

I work at McDonald’s, it is not good and is best avoided.

Mines is still going quite strong, paired with a 5 5600x and runs well for (almost) everything I want at 1440p more-than-60-fps

3060 ti I bought during the shortage, overpaid soooo much haha

When I’m writing, if I just listen to the songs I want to take inspiration from the day before a few times (properly listen, with intent) the main ideas/vibe of the songs are far more present in my writing then usual

I predict this will be quite tame compared to the rest of this thread but here you go anyway:

Our scene opens on a person with a bass guitar, practicing some sick slap bass perched upon an IKEA office chair. The player is lost in the zone, all mental facilities put to work making every strike with the thumb is accurate and powerful, and every pop of the fingers sends the strings into the fretboard with a gorgeous thwack! The sound is heavenly, a deep, rich, cutting tone- full of appropriate levels of CLANK and SNAP. The short riff being performed to a concert of no-one reaches its magnificent height, a slammingly heavy riff sounding like a funky machine gun, the bassists hands become a blur, the strings vibrate with precision and power, a glorious cacophony of ma-

kkrrmp.

Oh crap, I broke my lowest string.

Dude I can’t thank you enough this is incredible! Seriously this is really useful :)

I’m a computing/music student thinking of getting into plugin design and similar stuff, I’m curious what plugin design is like and what it consists of. Is there any like quick tips or bits of information you could give me about the field?

YEAAAHHHH OPTIMISTIC NIHILISM MENTIONED

Upisnotjump. It’s just not my thing anymore

WE FIGHT FOR ROCK AND STONE!

Yeah, just do a little piracy

I play bass in a few bands, rhythm is tough but learnable. Easiest way to get good timing fast is:

1. Listen to the music you want to play first. If you only have the sheet music, Musescore is a fantastic software to hear sheet music.
2. Keeping the rhythm that your heard in mind, play what you want to play. Once you get it, it will feel right. If not, play the music VERY slowly, slow enough that you can do it quite easily. Set a metronome to this slow speed, then increase the BPM by 5. Find your limit, back off the BPM slightly, then practice at that speed until you can nail it.
3. I cannot stress this enough, record your playing! Knowing how you sound is so so so helpful, it lets you hear what your playing without the distraction of actually playing. Super helpful to see exactly how and where your out of time.

How people fight the hexbears lol

This is the best comment I’ve read today

50/50 this is incredibly homosexual, who’s placing bets

There’s that sub-octave bass guitar that might be close? I’m not really sure

Or, any Hound with sharpshooter and fine pistols haha

I would have never thought that NIN could be calming, to me some NIN stuff feels like I’ve got blood poisoning or something haha

Dude that’s sick! Out of curiosity do you also play any instruments? I’m neurotypical but learning bass aswell as trumpet really made a bunch of theory stuff click for me

(Feel free to ignore this if it doesn’t work ADHD wise) Also a quick note on composition- if you hear something in a song and go “oh that’s a good idea” totally steal it, or a bit of it and repurpose it for your own songs. The best songs I’ve ever written were a bunch of cool bits from different songs and my own ideas. For example on a piece I’m just finishing I stole the chord progression from a j rock song I like (changed it a bit to make it better) and I stole a bunch of chord structures from a guitar solo, and stole a bit of the drum pattern for a bunch of different songs all mashed together. Robbery is cool