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Cory F. Jaeger @Quarl

Age 34, ♀ she/her

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Alfred University

Groundhog Lake, Colorado

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Posted by Quarl - February 23rd, 2021


In light of recent news and not wanting to feel overshadowed, I have decided to break up myself into two separate organisms.


Good ol' Daft P has been making music for almost 100 years now if you include all the artists they have played in their famous DJ sets. They had a great run and it's always a sad day for fans when a band or act splits up and goes their seperate ways. In fact, it's kind of a cliche. That's why starting today I am going to seperate all of the atoms down the middle of of my body and become two functional chibi versions of myself.


It is something no other artist has attempted intentionally. Creative purists can bask in my originality as my left consciousness continues to make music while my right consciousness starts a family and runs a farm. This was decided to be the best course of action for Quarl moving forwards. It's an open secret that the two halves of Quarl have been having mild disagreements relative to how the singular organism has made decisions in the past. Fans are hopeful that despite the breakup Quarl will continue to feed her cats.


In other news, I am momentarily breaking down my life for a cross country move. I've previously lived in New York, California, Tennessee, and recently Georgia. Colorodo will be the next homestead. For those that pay attention to politics I will be moving from Marjorie Taylor Greene's Georgia district into Lauren Boebert's Colorado district. I'm stoked I've been given the opportunity to vote against both of them.


As usual I will link to my bandcamp page, go give Almost Orgasmic a listen. Still got plenty of 2Q4U hardcopies. I had thrown Among The Stars up on youtube for some odd sub reddit. It is now being included here for no relevant reason.



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Posted by Quarl - February 2nd, 2021


Just uploaded four audio loops. If anyone uses Reason, hit me up. It's a cold lonely DAW.


The Darkness [LOOP]

Piano Dribbles [LOOP]

Little Ditty [LOOP]

Churry [LOOP]


Part of me regrets getting exclusively into Reason. So many audio producers use FL. Over the years people have asked me to collaborate with them and I've asked others. It usually doesn't go anywhere but there's never any harm in asking, right? I managed a decent cross platform collab in 2010 with Sessilenomad and it worked out splendidly. We were exceptionally lucky, we only sent files back once or twice. Basically I wrote the intro, sent him a sample folder, he wrote that incredibly juicy climax, and I wrote an outro. Finished in two or three days, it was a perfect no hassle collaboration.


I wish everything was as easy as that one was but we are all artists and we all have strange work flows. Some people need to have someone stand on top of them to get off, it's just how we are. I only function in Reason, sue me. If anyone out there wants to try something, let me know if any of the four above loops sound like something you could poke around with and I can organize some sample folders.


Peace and love,

Quarl


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Posted by Quarl - December 28th, 2020


I do these every so often to get a check up for some of the cooler things I've been listening to. Enjoy a few new tunes :)




Ok, this Aphex Twin track is an old favorite of mine but it's a cool video.



YokoBono. This doesn't belong here but I laughed at it, so have it.


Throwback track. Is ska classic rock at this point?




and finally 30 minutes of beardy man doing his improv schtick


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Posted by Quarl - December 24th, 2020


So, my last track "No Boundaries" got some positive attention and I decided to make available the drums via google drive. Someone asked whether they were a "Reason preset drum kit" or a "custom kit." Technically the drums are a complicated amalgamation of sample layering, signal processing, and fidelity units. Skip straight to the bottom to download a zip file containing a RSN file for Propellerheads Reason version 10 and a drum sample folder. I deleted all the irrelevant instruments from the No Boundries rsn file but kept all the drums unchanged. You people can have these files and do whatever you want with them. Let me know if you use them for something, or plan to. This is meant to be a learning tool for any interested parties but you can create straight off of it because I'm so giving.


The remainder of this post is copy and pasted from my response to Qshunt.


The snare is actually four separate drum samples, two of which are rsn factory and the other two came from a Pendulum sample pack downloaded over ten years ago (it's included in the zip folder at the bottom of the response). The amen break was in that sample pack so technically one layer is just an amen snare. The rsn samples are Sd_Tressor (don't confuse with Sd2_Tressor), and Sd_Brat. The ghost snares are just Sd_Brat but it's signal gets merged with every other snare drum and processed in the same fidelity units. The sequencer lets you pick and choose which drums to solo in MIDI for easy ghost snare rhythms but again, it gets sent through the same fidelity units and is a layered part of the main snare drum too.


To help compartmentalize the project, the drums all get their own 14:2 mixer. Mixers are easily daisy chained so between the main instrument mixers and the drum mixer you can insert a filter. Bypass it or just set the knobs to min/max, you can automate the filter to turn itself on or off for classic jungle drum fills.


Again to clarify, the MIDI sequencer can solo each of the snare drums for texture diversity but the signals all go to the same mastering suite combinator which includes the entire sub folder of MClass fidelity units. That includes an equalizer, a compressor, a stereo imager, and a maximizer. To be honest, some of them are bypassed in this rsn file, I just like having the fidelity units there as an option. If you're not sure what something does, trust your ears.


Before the snare drums go into the fidelity units, the signals all get merged with a Spider merger/splitter. You can then take the merged signal and send it to the other side of the Spider unit which can split the signal to side chain instruments that have a compressor on them. FYI, everything I've said so far is applied to the bass drums as well. Sometimes I only sidechain with the bass drum signal, sometimes I add the snare signal. Depends how I'm feeling that day.


Now the fun stuff, download the RSN file and drum samples here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uwWiQsRN9Xniix8IxS-KnAGPF6VXLB-t/view?usp=sharing


It's google drive, you might need a microsoft account to download the files. The main file was created for Reason 10. Let me know if you have any problems, I can send the zip file via email. Go nuts with the RSN file and free samples. They're yours now, please use them responsibly. Happy holidays you rebel scum.


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Posted by Quarl - December 7th, 2020


I'm sorry, this blog is not yet wheel chair accessible. To make it easier for everyone else I have tabulated an index for your convenience.


Section I. New Album [Almost Orgasmic]

Section II. Moving To Colorado

Section III. Cyberdevil Collab

Section IV. Geometry Dash

Section V. tldr


Section I.

I always pine to write new albums. I've lost a few to the ages and have no interest in reviving them. This was a particularly good year though so this album got crammed together quickly for the holiday season. I guess I'm trying to recoup my funds for all the Christmas socks I bought people. If you can't afford the album you can always just download things for free here on newgrounds. You're welcome :)


I've updated most the song files on newgrounds to correspond to the album versions. I think the biggest change is with Written Reminder, losing the DNB section towards the end. I'm debating if that was smart or not, shrugs. The cover art was almost this bullshit. Lucky I remembered this old illustration from 2016 and used it instead. Visual arts don't come to me as intuitively as they used to. Maybe in 2021 I'll slow down the music and focus on some digital drawings again :)


Almost forgot, I fixed the shipping cost on hard copies for 2Q4U. I have no idea how I got that messed up, shipping was $10 so people were paying $20 for paper CD cases. I was tossing in an extra album and drawings to try to compensate for the cost. Hardcopies from now on will probably not come with drawings.


Section II.

This one is taking up all my real time. Tom and I just got back from a cross country drive. We rented a moving truck from Budget, drove it from Rising Fawm Goergia to Dolores Colorado, and flew home. We got a ton of our toys out there. We moved two motorcycles, an astronomy dome, a drum kit, hang gliders, paragliders, a paramotor, furnature, a cat tower, and some other things. The house is a tiny cabin on top of 35 acres, altitude approx 8,600 ft. We're gonna build a large garage for a backhoe tractor, three cars, two motorcycles, and three cisterns. We're also getting two sheds for work offices. Power moves, Tom has put together plans for a large solar array. The house is already off grid but runs on propane.


Section III.

This came out of nowhere. I was going to move on from this project file and leave it unfinished but Cyberdevil asked about rapping on something. I tossed him the file to see what he could put on top of it and the rest was history. Took me forever to mix and master the final version though. Was playing Genshin Impact in my free time instead of making history. Sorry about that.


Section IV.

Just thought to go through my albums and make all the songs available for use in Geometry Dash. It's a nuerotic chore to go back and change everything so if you're into this kind of thing, let me know if I missed any. I can change any old tracks GD status. Huzzah!


Section V.

tldr, I had a crack baby. My cat got AIDs. My boyfriend is two kids in a Tom suit supporting one another.


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Posted by Quarl - September 23rd, 2020



I can't stop laughing at this.


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Posted by Quarl - September 21st, 2020


I have theme songs that I sing for my cats. The lyrics are just "meow meow meow" but they understand that the melodies belong to them. It must feel pretty queer to hear a short melody in the next room and have to stop whatever you're doing because it's your own theme music. Cat is probably "fuck, gotta go everyone. Some asshole is singing the song of my people."


I suppose if you're in another country your national anthem becomes your theme music. Do they sing in a negative tone if they hate your country? Is it a bad omen if they refuse to sing your anthem entirely?


I just got back from Colorado, took a few days off from everything drive out to look at houses. The bf and myself want to move into a property just south of Uncompahgre Peak, middle of nowhere. It's a little remote. There's no road maintenance or mail delivery when it snows. Everything runs on propane, we need to put in a solar array. 30+ achres to farm. I'm learning how to pickle foods out of necessity, I'm stoked.


That's all. I really just wanted to talk about my cats but worked in some life details. You have been hoodwinked.


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Posted by Quarl - May 29th, 2020


I know I said I was gonna focus on making new music but I started modding Stardew again. It's my first time playing the game with cheats, I'm running around my marijuana farm with +12 speed and infinite money. I almost completed the community center in one season. I'm debating loading in a polygamy mod so I can mate with every villager instead of just one. I also turned all the bachelors into girls. My farm could be a glorified lesbian marijuana harem.


I've been doing that instead of working on Kindness. I think instead of finishing that track I'll just delete the midi from the song, use the same general melody guidelines and recycle the drum kit. Maybe we'll see comparable devotion to this new song file that I have for Stardew but I'm not optimistic.


edit: four hours later she uploads the finished version of the song because this post was too real.


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Posted by Quarl - April 27th, 2020


Here are some things I find nice. Funny story, I listen to mostly rock, jazz, and metal. Not drum & bass. I really don't listen to much drum and bass at all. I'm a total phony.














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Posted by Quarl - April 21st, 2020


I just got terminated from my job for insubordination.


I currently have what my brother calls a good pile of "fuck you money." It's when you save up enough to money to give your boss the middle finger and leave a job on the spot. I didn't quit though, I refused to do what they asked. I loved my plant beds and put lots of effort into them. I plan beds so that they flower all year. I work the soil so that they foster ornamental cultivars as if they were natural. I'm an artist that calls herself a horticulturalist. I've given that company some of the best work of my life and in response to Covid-19, they told me to just pull weeds. I had recently acquired about 100 uprooted plants and decided to take a break from pulling weeds to make some new beds on campus. These poor babies needed a new home, their roots were all sad and damaged. When they noticed me going ham moving all the plants they told me to stop and I said "nope."


After a few hours of trying to get some work done and throwing words back and forth they finally "terminated" me. Silly reason to lose my job but I'm kind of glad to get out of there. Corporate has taught me that I need to surround myself with similar minded people. I need to be surrounded by people that are passionate about what they do. Management at a place like that is a joke. It's a board of people with huge egos that know absolutely nothing about what they are in charge of. In all my 15 years of working for estate landscaping companies in the Hamptons, I've never had a manicured yuppy neck tie tell me to "just pull weeds." That's like telling a police officer to just stop jay walkers. Yawn.


This isn't a sob story. I'm hella excited to start writing music with my free time. I notice someone front paged my last two tracks so I got a handful of new followers and some steam going here. I'm going to leave this link to my bandcamp page where you can choose to purchase my latest album "2Q4U." I have hardcopies as well so feel free to grab one of those but be warned, I never figured out how to modify the shipping cost. A hard copy is $20 so buy digital if you feel like supporting me on a budget. You can also download all the tracks from Newgrounds for free, check out my previous blog for quick hyperlinks to songs you want. I'd rather people download my stuff for free and listen to it in their free time than force ya'll to pay for this crap.


Much love,

Cory F MacNiven


https://quarl.bandcamp.com/


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