10 years after initial release "The Zone" EP is now available on Bandcamp in lossless formats. Enjoy!

https://unfa.bandcamp.com/album/the-zone-ep

Eras of Life: a short symphony in four movements

https://makertube.net/w/2KHHjGvBKUW1AC3AGpVZHQ

https://xymmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hospital-reverie

Sounds for when you are lying down while dissociating in a hospital bed.

Tracks from 1 to 3 are are in custom scales that i made based on my personal perception of the tones and timbres found in the hospital environment.
Track 4 uses Wendy Carlos Super Just tuning.
Track 5 is in 24 EDO.
I used only the #LMMS Triple Oscillator and free samples as well as my own recordings.

A list of music genres and inspirations: #KateBush #FreeJazz #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #Radiohead #Filter #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees #disco #HouseMusic #DeepX (defunct electronic label) #XraySpex (no relation to DeepX) #UA #punk #postpunk #techno #Zeuhl #GusGus #MatthewDear #HenryRollins #Mallsoft #Audacity #LMMS #sampling #Noh music #能 #intonarumori #MauriceRavel #JohnAdams #gamelan #SafetyScissors #Perfume (list will be expanded as I think of more!)

My first baby : Confluence

https://midnighttotem.bandcamp.com/album/confluence-veinte-33-records

Training #AIs, whether #LLMs or #LMMs, is all about data.

They perform tasks within the distribution of their training data, and in the same level of competence.

This also applies to reinforcement learning; if you look behind the scenes, what happens is supervised learning with extra steps. The error is still backpropagated back through the network, but the objectives are slightly different. Instead of direct task performances to imitate, we'll get the feedback from exploration and rewards, basically the most successful explorations can be understood as the data.

So, the data is where the buck stops when an #AI makes a misjudgement. When designing data pipelines, refinement processes and exploratory games for your AIs, you can forget about everything you know about the mechanistic aspects of Transformer architectures, and just simply focus on how to improve the data.

The data is better if it can be used to train better models. Better models have higher competence in skills, higher volume of relevant knowledge, and higher coverage in task generalism and flexibility. Hence the best data represents exactly those aspects maximally.

Human level is not the gold standard and neither is raw real-world data. We can design processes which refine the data without apparent limits, and make that data alive through AIs trained with it.

A random stranger arranged my work for orchestra for some reason. Thank you! :>
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5wwrJS72g5g

Check out Seth Wilding's (Fissure Music) other sheets here:
https://musescore.com/user/47532530

Battle of the open source synths on Linux: #Vitalium, #SurgeXT, #Synthv1, #Dexed, #ZynAddSubFX. There's also #Helm, but it's just a precursor of Vitalium (by the same developer). There are a couple more, but these are the most common or capable ones.

I wish there was some more development of Vitalium. The creator of #Vital dropped the v1 as GPL, and then he closed sourced it. The community didn't really do much with it.

#Switch to #opensource solutions:

Windows: #Linux
Photoshop: #Gimp 3.0-rc
Illustrator: #Inkscape
PremierePro: #Kdenlive, #Shotcut
Office/Acrobat: #OnlyOffice, #LibreOffice
Maya: #Blender
Media: #VLC
Unity: #Godot
ToonBoom: #SynfigStudio, #Pencil2D
InDesign: #Scribus
Nuke: #Natron
Procreate: #Krita
After Effects: #Friction
Mathematica: #SageMath, #SymPy
MatLab: #GnuOctave
Audition: #Audacity
Autocad: #FreeCAD, #QCad
Ableton: #Ardour, #LMMS (daily build)
Lightroom: #DarkTable, #RawTherapee

I guess I'm biting the bullet and I'll try out #Ardour. there are tutorials for it out there (thanks, @unfa ) and well, learning just one more software is not the end of the world :D

Let's see, how it goes! If I can't handle it, I can still go back to #LMMS I guess.

I think I got an A-B problem on my hands

I plan to make music for my next YouTube stuff, so I was looking for electronic guitar samples for @LMMS , and a forum suggested to get Unreal Instruments Metal GTX, and to find something that can load an #SFZ instrument. I found that Arch #Linux has #Carla in the repos. So now I have Carla in #LMMS and the instrument opened in Carla but have no sound...

Do I troubleshoot the sound, or look for a different instrument?

Did you know? Delta Kayak has native support for #Linux

even more, is 100% made with free/open software!

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/avoid-a-giant-creepy-boat-stalking-you-in-your-kayak-in-this-retro-horror-game/

Made a theme for a game for the first time. Still needs a lot of work, but I'm happy!

It's a simple looping menu song with horror vibes.

#lmms
#kdenlive
#softwarelibre