Part of me has wanted this for a long time. The other part of me wants to forget I now know about it.

At least the handful I checked seem to be random, so likely accidental, but I can see this driving me crazy.

I’m down with this. I generally leave any spider smaller than a nickel remain where it’s at, and the others are placed lovingly just outside the door.

Can confirm. The smell level is equal to the cute level.

But on the other hand…

I’m sure a good deal of it is just that like being lazy and complaining. 😁

I got some good posts added to the queue today and planted some more stuff in my container garden and made some bread, so now to clean dishes and laundry and try to focus on some piano.

I think I’ve been lost since the gf has gone to a very fluctuating schedule, as it really throws off my routines. It’s like if the sun came out at a different time every day. There’s still the same amount of time and opportunity to do stuff, but you’d feel off after a while doing stuff at what feels like the wrong time of day. I dunno. I’m weird. 😝

My pleasure!

That’s the drawback of there being so much great free music stuff these days! You can get lost playing and never actually finish anything.

I haven’t used Cakewalk. It seems very powerful, but I see people say it’s one of the harder DAWs to learn.

I also hear Sonar discontinued Cakewalk Free and is moving to a paid license, though that was 2 years ago and Free is still available I think, but I don’t know if it’s being maintained any longer.

As hard as it may be to imagine, I feel I’ve been getting a bit behind from where I’d like to be with owl stuff. With so many owl babies right now, it’s been hard to get some of the variety I’d like, and between being sick and depressed, it’s hard for me to focus on owls or music the way I’d like.

But between all those links I’ve shared, you should have years worth of experimentation ahead of you. I hope you find lots of good stuff.

Gotcha, now I have a better idea of what you’re trying to do.

Watching this video about looping in LMMS shows it can sorta be done, sometimes with some help from Audacity.

If you’re adding in more stuff like VST plugins and vocals, you may want to try out Waveform Free, which I checked is for iOS also, so you get a full modern DAW. It’s the same product as their paid full version, just like 2 updates behind.

For more premade loops, check out Looperman if you haven’t already.

It’s not free, but I think I under $20 for the program and all the upgrades, if looping and sampling is something you want to focus on, check out Koala Sampler. I downloaded it the other week and have been sampling vinyl recordings from YouTube, it has an AI stem extractor to separate the instrument tracks, and then chopping and looping that.

It has a built in simple synth now as well, and you can use a midi controller with it. Lots of videos are out there if you want to see how that works. You might be able to incorporate that into your setup.

I do have some other hobbies! 😁

If you’re looking for instruments, effects, etc, the YouTube channel elektronickmusick demos a few each day and many are free or free trials and they run the same midday track through all of them to give you an indeed what they sound like.

I don’t think they’re the best demos because it’s a generic track through all of them, not necessarily something that fits perfect with each unique instrument’s strengths, but it gives you some ideas of the sound before you search for it, download it, and find out it’s not for you.

If you want some nifty and weird sounds with fun back stories, David Hilowitz searches out obscure old instruments, fixes them, and samples them in his Decent Sampler plugin and rotates giving away different ones for free.

I’m still really bad at making my own music, but I like experimenting while I’m learning to do better.

Like in this video?

I haven’t used LMMS in a long time, but he’s manually editing the piano roll (where the notes are stored) but I see a record button here where it should record what you play on the keyboard.

Oh, glad to help! Any other music tools you’re looking for? I’m not good with any of them, but I like testing them out. I’m still just learning and experimenting.

I get a little sad when I don’t see anything new for me on threads like this, but then I’m a bit grateful since that means I’ve already spent a long time enjoying all these things!

And if you need some free virtual instruments, Plugins4Free and Vital.

Other free, though not FOSS DAWs are Reaper and Waveform.

Yay! ☺️

I get what you’re saying. I’ve made that mistake before.

We were a remote team and never even got a new manager when the old one left, and me and the supervisor are friends IRL.

Good times.

I’m not a programmer, but I learned how to write a number of Excel macros to automate repetitive and tedious tasks.

There were quite a number that really saved a ton of time, but the best were a pair took about 3 full days work for 3 or 4 people and made it into 10 minute jobs for 2 people.

It freed up so much time every month, and the job went from miserable and error prone to being much more reliable and let us spend time improving related processes rather than trudging through piles of data to get it formatted and sent to the right people.

I don’t want to have to deal with the mod stuff, exactly like OP said. I’m just here to promote owls, conservation, and wildlife rehab. I do have a great mod that lets me do pretty much anything I want and will do stickies and banner changes and such for me, and I just keep giving good content.

In Stephenson’s “Diamond Age” novel, even the super poor had basic access to in-home replicators. They were limited to pretty basic items, but they were available.

With everyone having access to basic goods, the rich people would go to villages of artisans that would hand make items to get unique, one of a kind things, as most crafts were now basically lost skills to most of society.

Throughout the story, the tech is explored and eventually hacked to upend society by removing limits on what can be generated by the replicator.

I do look to have made it to your feed now! It deleted my 3 posts that were photos with short blurbs and kept my news article that is mostly text.

We rarely get the meme type posts, but if your setup is looking at anything like text:photo ratio, that could be doing it.

I have most meme communities block myself, so I understand how overtaking they can be to a feed. 😁

I’m interested in what you’re doing because I am interested in news and politics, but it would be nice to get rid of most of the garbage US news and the dupe posts, and let a better variety of news come in. I’ve gone to keyword blocking, but while I have “Trump” blocked, I’d still like to see things from other countries about their responses to his actions., for example.

Lol she was very secretive!

She had a husband supposedly, but she never really talked about him other than saying he existed. She came over for the paprikash dinner, but he did not. She supposedly came to America as a child. Her and some others were supposed to be here for some sports tournament thing, but whoever had the money in Romania stole it ,so they were stuck here and most of them just stayed.

We joked in the office she was in some weird kind of mafia situation, and then one day we never saw her again. Her whole situation was mysterious and fascinating from start to finish.

There are worse spirits I could have encountered and a hungry Romanian one! 😆

I had never made crepes until I met a Romanian at work and once she found out I cooked, she encouraged me to make her some things to remind her of home.

We had clatite first, with nutella and preserves. Now I usually think of crepes as clatite since that was what I got familiar with first. 😄

We also had Parprikash with mamaliga, and my favorite of the bunch, cozonac! I made 2, one with the nut filling, and I want to say the other was poppy. The nut one I have made a few times since. So tasty, and the rum flavoring makes it so unique!

She just randomly disappeared on day, so I don’t know if she quit or what, but I will always have fond memories of my bried education on Romanian food!