well yeah, that's why i didn't post it

for what it's worth, it derides capitalism for expending so much on the arts IF ☝️ the arts is a commercial, and even then abandoning that. plus there's a whole section titled "dubloons"

TV commercials were a form of beauty we lost and I'm not afraid to say it

not gonna read this post but its wrong

i know very little about music and what i learned was from the backwards so i am reading this with non negligible fascination

I think that's ticks or spasms? Like you would get in your eye maybe?

i'm gearing up to Read Papers and do the work like my livelihood depends on it lol

I wish you the best of luck! I went down the physical modeling rabbit hole a few years ago, though I didn't end up creating anything more than a few test programs.

i have, though i'm looking to build something a little more user friendly than tao haha. something more like phaseplant or a simpler vcv rack

That's awesome! Have you heard of Tao before? It's an unfinished FOSS physical modeling synthesizer that sounds a lot like what you're describing. The UI is... about what you'd expect for it being one guy's college project from 20 years ago, but I've managed to make a few neat sounds with it.

• A plugin that will let you control and automate the Roland Sound Canvas SC-88. This one probably won't be very popular but it's what I'm using to get my feet wet. Currently thinking of pricing it $30. I would like to expand this to a series that supports more hardware too, like the rest of the sound canvas line, and the Roland JV-1080. Maybe also the Korg M1 if that niche isn't filled yet.
• A plugin that will let you apply a curve to any CC, Velocity, Pitch bend, or whatever using a nice curve editing graph UI. Will support 14 bit to 7 bit, vice versa, and same to same. Map any type of param to any other type of param. Probably about $7.
• A sort-of-delay focused on attempting to humanize and "ensemblize" an audio source. Not sure on pricing for this one yet since it needs more design work.
• And the most ambitious: a modular physical modeling synthesizer using an approach that you're "building" a fantasy instrument. Take one or more impulse generators: blowing, a plucked string, etc, and send that through simulated instrument bodies, sympathetic string responses, wind tubes, and/or more digital things like filters and the like. This one will be in the $30-$100 range, ultimately depending on scope once I lock down the design more.

That's great! What plugin ideas do you have so far? I'm not a music professional by any stretch, but I have played around with DAWs before.

good luck

Good luck!!

Yay ^⁠_⁠^ this sounds exciting!! And it seems you've got the right attitude!

Whenever I start feeling this way, I remind myself that people who lived under brutal empires in the past probably also felt the same way. But those empires eventually crumbled, the people started the long journey of healing, and eventually the future was bright again. I very much want a good future, but that future has to be fought for, and part of that means rooting out defeatist thoughts.

I'm a fan of the "revolutionary suicide" concept (by this I mean the original meaning of the phrase as coined by Huey Newton, before it was hijacked by the Jonestown cult). Revolutionary suicide, in its original form, was the idea that it is better to die on your feet than on your knees; that it is better to die resisting the forces that would drive me to self murder, rather than by giving in to them. This is one of the things that keeps me going. If the fascists want me dead, they will have to come and kill me themselves. I won't do it for them.

No matter how bleak things may be, we can't give up hope. Because there is always hope, as long as people are willing to resist.

Yeah.. whenever I try to think about it too much I get into such an... idek, not an existential spiral, just, emptiness. So I try not to think about it too much haha. I'm sure this is great coping

I get you. I'm fully on "what's the next good thing I can do" mode and that's all that's getting me through. I've got my little lifeboat tho so I'll be okay, who knows tho.

Oh absolutely. I am an abhorrent prude and kissing is nasty enough even when people DO floss

i don't mean to humblebrag but i have gotten at least two people to start flossing regularly

That’s ok; it didn’t come across as humble at all ;)

That said, does it make sense when I say this just strengthens my current inclination against deep kissing?

i tell people who ask for the ol "tongue in throat" thing that i can tell if they didn't floss

i don't mean to humblebrag but i have gotten at least two people to start flossing regularly

i hope you'll only use your powers for good

yes!

huh... didn't know people could move their tongues that far back. mine can only go as far as almost to my uvula before it starts to pull at the bottom too much

yay good

but can you pick your nose with your tongue from the outside?

our holy father, hallo be thy name, may holly's tummy blight turn into a tummy bright n happy time. awomen