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i've always loved music. i always thought, god i wish i could just make some music. but i just couldn't.
the programs i've tried to make music with just seemed like overtly obtuse pieces of shit that i just couldn't wrap my head around. i couldn't understand them at all.
i was really drawn to trackers though. the fundamental idea of them seemed really nice, and my brain just somehow understood how to use one of these things much easier than an ordinary daw. alright, so let's make some stuff with trackers then, right?
nuh uh. turns out that i still can't figure them out. i tried a couple, milkytracker, renoise, openmpt, just couldn't really make anything on them aside from a couple second long loops. i've thought, i guess this music stuff just isn't for me then. tried it, but just didn't work out. that's what i thought for a while, that the everything is a sample-based approach in trackers just isn't for me.
then i found sunvox. strangely, i've always really known about it, but never really tried it. it's a tracker program, with an emphasis on creating sounds with a modular synthesis-based system. you place down modules like synths, effects, etc, onto a grid, and then you connect them to each other, eventually connecting it to the output. the concept seemed really cool, but i was worried that i just couldn't get the hang of it, just like how i tried with basically all other programs.
i thought wrong. i downloaded it, looked up a couple of tutorials, and i was just MAKING STUFF INSTANTLY. sunvox makes the act of making sounds so much fun. it's so nice to connect different modules together. it's so fun to experiment with different modules until you either get the sound you wanted, or you'll find something new that you didn't even think about.
I DONT HAVE TO MESS AROUND WITH SAMPLES, I CAN JUST SYNTHESIZE SOUNDS MYSELF WITH MODULAR SYNTHESIS
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a lot of people assume that modular stuff is inherently extremely complicated, and it's true, it can get really complex. but for some reason, my brain just finds a modular approach to making sounds much easier compared to basically anything out there, and it really opened up so much possibilites for me in terms of creating pretty sounds.
i went from struggling how to make basic couple-second long loops to making things i'm pretty proud of. it's fun, i love the process, and it's really nice seeing the end result. might even make an EP with this thing lol
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written on 2024-02-23