I'm in a ttrpg group that plays Pathfinder about once a month. We had a session yesterday, and with where we left off I've got some cool ideas for some synth scoring for the next session. I haven't written for the group before, though I've been invited to by the GM since he knows I'm into synths and he usually uses dungeon synth as the background music during play sessions. Planning to get to work on this later today, and I've got probably 5 weeks to get things wrapped. Our sessions usually run 4+ hours, and I think aiming for that run time is overly ambitious, but I'm thinking maybe roughly an hour is the goal. We'll see how easily things progress since what I have in mind is stylistically quite different from what I typically do. Maybe things will flow gang busters and I'll get a lot more out than what I'm anticipating. Hoping this will be a cool surprise for the group.
Is this actually a "Quiet down about being exploited by a known bad actor!" post, or am I missing something?
Also, why should discussion stop concerning a current, ongoing development in a space where how we choose to interact with that development hasn't yet been set by many on an individual and a community level? Just because you're tired of seeing it, and some people are arriving at a conclusion that may be different than yours?
I personally haven't decided where I stand 100%. Nor have I seen this addressed by the person running my instance on what (if anything) they are considering concerning the entry of Meta into this space. Why on earth would it be warranted for discussion to cease and everyone take it as fate that the behemoth be allowed to roll over a reluctant userbase? This is absurd.
Maybe a Waldorf Quantum MK2? I don't know, I'm not going to think about this too long. Never interacted with one, but I'd be aiming for something that's flexible with deep sound design capabilities, and wavetables are mandatory. The sounds are good from what I've heard. Voice count is probably adequate. Excellent variety of filter options. They haven't skimped on envelopes or lfo's. Fatar keybed with polyphonic after touch (which I haven't any experience with, but I'd need channel aftertouch for sure). Being a theoretical exercise I don't have to worry about the price, lol.
My local grocery store carries an alternative, Lee Kum Kee brand, that I've found to be adequate. There's some stuff that I eat regularly that sriracha flavor profile works better than anything else, so I'll take what I can get for now. Not having tried the Lee Kum Kee brand before the shortage, I'm eager to actually do a side by side once I can get a bottle of Huy Fong.
Dark Ambient/Gothic Doom from Hungary. Incredible album with quite a unique ambience. Simultaneously melancholic and stoic. The textures between the chorused guitars, the synths with their emulated strings, brass, and piano, and the narrated vocal stylings vacillating between baritone spoken word and whispered rasps weave together an aural image of a remembered sorrow or a persistent longing for something always outside one's grasp. Slow and entrancing in its approach, not shy of sparse arrangements and repetitive passages.
It may suffer slightly from underproduction and less than perfect performances, but if you are so inclined you may find this to add to the character of the album. This was never destined for expensive studio time nor broad commercial appeal. This is niche music to fit the drear of the dark nights of a soul. A real gem for those receptive to its aesthetic.
Your post bolsters what I've taken away from the looking I've done so far. The feature set seems robust, to the point it's recognizably intended to be the place to set up shop for a central experience amongst different platforms; hence the name I guess. That's probably according to taste though as well. I never had a problem with the type of UX Facebook offered, but I got far away from all that long ago for all the obvious reasons.
I didn't know that creating an account allows for login access onto different instances, but I guess that makes sense and is probably required in order to setup your mirrored/synced account. I may be twisting that around into a way it doesn't actually work, but I'll figure it out. I think I'm going to set up an account between tonight and tomorrow.
I saw that plugins were available. Curious to see how broad and varied the options are for these. I have to imagine there's some good stuff developed that I'll be pleasantly surprised to find.
This is good to know. As long as the use of the second server profile was temporary due to something like server downtime my understanding is that any activity taking place on the second profile would sync to the primary profile once it comes back online. So it may mean delayed receipt of any of this activity to anyone not connected through Hubzilla, but it'd get there eventually upon syncing? Is this correct?
If the primary profile were to go down permanently though it sounds like it'd be a good idea to have a list of existing contacts backed up somewhere else to be able to duplicate on the secondary server profile if necessary.
The way I've been going about it is keep two tabs open. One with my home instance on its search page, the second browsing the communities on another instance. If I find one I'd like to sub to it's easy to copy and paste between tabs. Everything posted to that community from there on will show up in my subs on my home instance for browsing and interacting with.
Power metal isn't my vibe 99% of the time, but when I heard this band I was all about it. They strike just the right chord for me.
Showed up as a random YouTube suggestion for me. Not sure what that may say about any potential for broader international recognition for the band, but it got to a random American via the algorithm for some reason.
If you're not already familiar, you should check out Entropia's Vesper album. They diverge a bit from this sound after that, but it's still very good, just a bit of a different flavor.
Into all sorts of extreme metal, which was largely my gateway into more noisy stuff. I highly appreciate the weird, the unique, the dark and esoteric. Willing to weather the inaccessible as long as it brings something to the table.
As far as noisier stuff is concerned... power electronics are good for me, a fair amount of ambient noise and ritual ambient. All of this is dictated by my mood as I hop all over the place when it comes to what I listen to. Always looking for new and different stuff as well, in all genres. The search and when it rewards is a highest pleasure.
Namedrops = stuff like Murmuüre, Theologian, Gruntsplatter, Yen Pox, Funerary Call, DNA, Mars, Swans, Sutcliffe Jugend, Brighter Death Now etc., etc.
Even with an element of loneliness/isolation being central to its plot, the storytelling, visual presentation, and performances make this an interminably uplifting movie for me that soothes even on the worst of days.