Well, instead of using my hardware synths, I decided to crank up the soft synth UVI Falcon thru Ableton Live. I think Falcon is considered a digital recreation. And it has so many settings, it could blow your mind. Anyway, I had a blast fooling around with the controls, and I saved some of them as presets.
I’m thinking that I should break out Pigments by Arturia, which is another soft synth and Serum, another deep and satisfying soft synth.
Maybe I need to take a longer break from using only hardware to make my music, since I seem to be stuck trying to wrap up the album which I had hoped would be a DAW-less creation. It’s proved to be more difficult to pull off than I originally had thought.
On October 21, DistroKid placed 37 employees, roughly 25% of its staff, on administrative leave, pending layoffs. These workers were all members of the DistroKid union, which had won its election in April with strong numbers. The affected employees make up 47% of the union, including 5 of the 7 bargaining committee members. They were given notice of this 1 hour before the union bargaining committee was set to resume negotiations with DistroKid over their first contract.
I have a new tune out (soon). It’s already out on SoundCloud, and dropping October 14 on all platform served by DistroKid. It’s called “Brazilian UK Bass Beat” See my linktree at https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53 for details.
Well, I’m officially tired of Dropbox and their lack of transparency. I have been trying for months to upload some files to my Dropbox account and have been mostly unsuccessful. It seems, if you don’t keep your app open on iPhone, you can’t upload anything. The “app” terminates any uploads and when you “restart” the upload, the file upload restarts from the beginning (and if any error occurs). This, in conjuction with the piss poor upload speed means, effectively, you can’t upload anything. Isn’t that the whole purpose of Dropbox?
Spotify reports bogus numbers to their patners. Here’s an example.
And as you can see, Spotify only reports 43% of the streams to SongStats.
And if you’re an artist looking to be paid more fairly, join http://Weareumaw.org to help a law they’re pushing to get paid 1 cent extra per stream, over and above what you’re already getting paid.
The reason I say BandCamp is sad is the discovery just sucks. I have fewer plays on BandCamp in four years as I have in a week on Spotify, a platform I don’t push. Spotify just sucks, where I’m getting less than 10% of my streams. So if you don’t find my music on BandCamp, it’s an also also ran.
This is in response to BCs selling our music to AI companies to generate fake music and fake streams to enhance their bottom line, cutting out artists from their efforts. After all does BC pay you to sell yourself out?
Well, I’ve decided to keep a journal of the musical ideas I’m working on. During August, I had 7 working sessions where I did recordings that I’m considering keeping. This apparently totalled over 20 songs. And the ideas that I had during those recording sessions have completely escaped me. So I’m planning to record my thoughts in a journal with notes on the details of the recording sessions.
Taking a break from making music tonight. Yeah, it’s 3:20 am, but I’ll get back at it until 5 am. I find my most productive time is after 11pm. And since there a few dogs barking, the vocals I rarely record are without extraneous noise. One mic I have, the RØDE NT-1, can pick up sounds as quiet as 5dB.
Well, I’m probably going to get a full ban on Instagram, due to a reply I made on IG. Once again, I was warned that a comment I made was like ones that have been reported.
The strange thing is the comment was made in reply to a comment by Rudi Meibergen that said by my comments about the Spotify’s reaming of artists were childish. Even those comnents were about Spotify’s unsavory attempt to steal streams from artists with less than 1,000 streams on a song. Nothing in my comments was inaccurate, but Rudi the troll could help but commit character assasination with his ad hominem attack.
And Rudi, the non-musician, claimed to be a musician on the platform, which he’s not. He’s a producer with less than a 100 credits on Muso.AI, and from what I can tell, no output at all on Spotify. So, he has been is a bootlicker hoping to procure some advantage by his kowtowing to the oligarchs.
As stated on another IG post, Daniel Ek, the chief fraudster of Spotify, scored $365 million in a stock sale. An artist would have to accumulate 115 billion streams in a year to get that kind of money. A neat deal considering that Drake has only accumulated 15 billion streams over his entire career.
As an aside, I really don’t care if IG bans me completely. As I keep getting threatening messages from Zuckerberg the Kike, my reach has declined 90% and as you can see from this graphic from Linktree shows that I get almost no traffic from IG.
