The average person likes sex, but probably doesn't care about the specific artistic ideas you care about and put into your art.

Netflix bought a first class ticket onto the train of businesses that will run the earth into the ground. Cancel your Netflix subscription, cancel your Hulu subscription, cancel all of your subscriptions (except your Newgrounds subscription of course).

STOP PAYING FOR MEDIA THEY DON'T ACTUALLY LET YOU KEEP!!!

I've been writing music for 16 years and I can count on one hand the number of times I've recorded my notes in. I always click them in. With that said, every other producer I talk to thinks I'm weird for this, so take it with a grain've salt.

There is no such thing as a "beginner" DAW. Music is complicated, and to let you be able to do whatever comes to your mind the software has to be very freeform and unguided.

The brass tax is: you're going to suck, for a long time. Just rip the bandaid off, get expert software, and be crap at it for a while like everyone else.

Seconded. Advertising is fine if it's people doing it, but if it's companies... block block block!!

Truth be told in all the years I've been making music I have not once been inspired by a picture to create art. I have realized this and thought about it a few times. I really would like to.

As Twitter continues to axe adult art, I wonder if we'll be seeing a 3rd wave.

So my main thought is, that kick wants to be SO HUGE!!! It wants to dominate!! The energy of the song is so high, you really need that super thumpy pulsating beat to push the song along. Find room in the mix for it!! Sidechaining, cutting the low end on things that don't need it, and organized multiband compression are the key to the mix you're after.

Also tip: if something just inexplicably sounds vaguely "too loud," cut at 500hz. Pretty good chance it sounds better.

I would argue that the opposite is true. If you understand the principles behind the abstractions formed by music theory, then you will understand all of the control that you have over every aspect of every note and forms of notes you write. If you don't understand the theory, then you're blindly throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks.

It's very hard to create art if you don't feel a need to. It's helpful if there's a kind of art you want to see that you can't find - suddenly, you're the only one you can count on to make it!!

So, my advice is to try to figure out what art you want to see that you don't see.

Just indulge me here. Say I didn't want people to see what I'm favoriting. Can I do that?

I should emphasize for everyone readingthis that you shouldn't just go wild compressing the ever loving fuck out of everything. Sometimes your drum bus might only need a little.

Electronic music is what I grew up with, thanks to Newgrounds. It's my default, and acoustic music is the "other" to me. Asking me why I prefer electronic music is like asking a gay guy why he prefers the company of men... I don't know, I just do. It's my normal.

Congratulations to the legendary @ZonkPunch for being today's user of the day!!

He is most well known for his animations, although unfortunately it doesn't seem like he's posted his primary body of work here.

Just fuck around with a synthesizer of your choice and make something that sounds fucked up. Then, make a song with it, no matter what!

I've drawn this comparison repeatedly in the past and I will do so once again. Long before the advent of AI, lazy "musicians" who want the product without the effort will run to melody loops and drum loops and MIDI packs. Newgrounds is actually an anomaly among websites for computer musicians; sample-based music is the norm everywhere else.

Why? Because it's easy. You get an appealing product with a millionth of the effort. Easy things are easy, and can be done by many people. Hard things are hard, and cannot be done by very many people. It follows that more people will do easy things than hard things. This is all to say that while AI is making the problem worse, it isn't fundamentally the problem behind anticreativity in art creation today.

Stripping as art as a means of expression? Sure, anything can be art if you want. Have at it. But stripping as art as a piece of media to be consumed? I don't think it would ever be scrutinized very rigorously.

I remember it relatively well for how young I was, which was probably 9 or 10. I saw a video on YouTube which was watermarked with a website called "ThatVideoSite," which led me to a place called "ThatVideoGameSite," which led me to here.

Phase Plant is fucking amazing. I use it for everything, because it can basically do everything and intuitively too!! And the company is so great, such wonderful people. I'll simp for them any day of the week. If you can afford it, get it.

Okay, my misunderstanding here was that third party samples are okay if you have permission to use them. I forgot about that possibility.

This has confused me ever since I came back to Newgrounds for real. From my understanding, third party samples are just a complete no-no on the audio portal. Drum samples are good, but vocal samples from video games and whatnot are a no go.

With that said, why is there an option to declare that you have third party samples in your song when you upload it? Is it a trap that will immediately ban me if I select it? Or is there some amount of acceptable third party sample usage?

Hey you! Yeah, you! Your music SUCKS!!!

But there explicit, tangible reasons why your music sucks that you can learn about, understand, and fix!! You can ALWAYS be better!! You CAN always be better!!

Quick scouting question: how good is music I'm scouting expected to be? Am I gonna get yelled at if I scout a musician who's trying but not good?

Thirded on Chibi Robo. What an an absolutely astonishing game. 10/10.

It blows... but I don't really blame you. RateYourMusic semi-sorta solved this issue by putting a semi-sorta general forum behind premium membership. I guess that's also what SomethingAwful did now that I think about it. Maybe that's been mentioned in the last 19 threads but I can't read.

Food for thought I guess. I'm just glad the rest of them are still open. I promise I'll be good!

Hi! I am a musician, and I'd love to make good cover art instead of just fumbling around in GIMP hoping I happen across a design that looks good by pure coincidence. Are there any good study materials for someone like me? I have no clue where to start, especially because there's a lot of quackery surrounding graphic design these days.

COMPRESSION COMPRESSION COMPRESSION!!! Compressors allow you to control and shape the transient of your drums (transient = the click at the beginning of the sample that make it go boom), and you're going to have to do a lot more of it than you'd think to get that really professional-sounding dubstep drum mix. Compress all of your drums individually to taste, then route all of your drums to their own mixing bus and compress that.

If you don't know how to work a compressor, look it up. It's seriously night and day when you learn how to finesse it.

ALSO!!! If you're gonna compress the shit out of everything, be sure to cut the low end in things that don't need it (i.e. everything except the kick drum and bass). There's a lot more low end in samples than you'd think, and it'll muddy up your mix real quick if you compress the fuck out of everything without fixing this.

THIS ONE!!!

It was obviously not very good.

This all seems very gay.

Okay I usually get a lot of shit for this but fuck it. I hate it when electronic music is in C major. When I first started out a long time ago I was scared of the black keys because I knew no music theory. Everything sounded relatively good when I stayed in the white keys, but I had no idea why.

So, every time I hear a song in C major, I immediately think the song is bad unless it does some wild stuff.