epic blog post, newgrounds rules and so does your drumming!!
My inner nerd is my outer self.
Cory F. Jaeger
@Quarl
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Thank you so much Wanda, happy you stopped in and gave the blog a twirl :3
Going through old stuff can always be so cringe, but I always have such a blast looking back on old stuff to see how far I've come, and I love to see people who really embrace that too. These old cartoons are delightful.
Congrats on the podcast, and it was a good time getting buried by Corey in trivia together, haha. Hope to hear more new music/drum videos from you soon! (And I do hope you'll make us a song for the game too! It's gonna be a good one!)
Right now. I'm going to get out of bed and do some music right now...
The ngp discord is too busy for me to keep notifications on and end up missing episodes as they happen but I'm looking forward to them uploading this one. I was just listening to the Weebl episode yesterday.
Your drumming ain't half bad! I bet Funkbrs could offer tips.
I'll be straight, E-drums don't play like acoustics but they're very similar. The thing I'm having the most trouble with right now is programming the snare rim triggers. I have retrigger set to one, xtalk all the way up, and sensitivity is high but it seems like no matter how I program the rim it doesn't always trigger. Perfect example is at 4:12, a miss fire kills the groove. Other than that I'm practicing everyday.
Telling me to ask another drummer for tips kind of comes across the wrong way...
Winning
Oh wow. I have one of these Alessis kits, or half of one, that someone traded me for a bag of shrooms tbh. Super cool demo. If you're looking for different kits and samples, lemme know to keep you in mind!
Glad to see you're doing as well as can be with all the madness going on these days. It's interesting to see you play, as I had always imagined you programming your crazy breaks. Real nice chops
lmao, shrooms are easy enough to grow. You got a good deal on the drums! They came with the module? I have yet to take the module off the rack to plug into my computer, I'm lazy like that. Got the software to load new samples onto the machine when I get around to it though. Keep me in mind for certain, I need modest peer pressure to do new things.
My youtube channel has other kits and videos, thumbing through my blog will also bring them up. The stock sounds are so much fun to layer and program...
"... with all the madness going on these days," my life is idyllic in comparison. Really can't complain ADR3-N, it's a life I don't deserve <3
that old parkour video is so nostalgic honestly, makes me think back to the days of jumping around like a power ranger until i got injured, i miss that era honestly
lmao, parkour was a lifestyle. Jump off a building, watching your friends get hurt, stop jumping off buildings... the fun never ended until someone got hurt :D
@Quarl Right?! Since it didn't come with the wires, the guy was asking for 300 bucks. I think I got a steal. Module is in there. I was mostly interested in the pads and cymbals since I'll primarily be using it for midi, BUT now that you mention it, the samples will be a boon.
I would love to see what you can do with that Saudade pack I cleaned up. The snare is nicely sampled for ghost notes.
I'm coming out with a cymbal pack as well, not as deeply sampled because I'm extracting a massive library from a drum shop's YT demos and that entails the mercy of the player's releases °w°' but it will be gigantic. As such in the alpha stages. My goal is to get as many splashes, china's, and wild cymbals as possible. Definitely taking requests there.
Likewise! I finally retired at home. I'm stable. I got a tiny hellion child, a nice lady, and a lot of friends. Happy Thanksgiving btw! Hope you have a good one!
The module itself is like $800 new (the one with the easily breakable screen.) I had to fight with Alesis after some exuberant 16th note patterns broke the brand new polyethylene screen. We purchased the kit through Sweetwater so they actually convinced Alesis to pull a module off the assembly line and trade it with us. I now push the screen far away when I'm playing and I have to stand up when programming to avoid the hassle. You'd think they would make the case easily replaceable or indestructible but nope. They tell you in the directions to get that screen nice and close to the hi-hat then tell you to pay another $800 for a new module when you pop it.
Sweetwater > Alesis
In case you don't have the desktop program for modding samples into the Alesis, this is the zip:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y8Co14s5sYOcQAPIYPvUj8KKAlJ-ob1N/view?usp=sharing
Gotta link cable the module to your computer first. Every trigger should be able to load 2 samples from the module but via the program there are three velocity zones you can program into each "sample" giving you a total of six samples. Then you can additionally program the "samples" to play additional samples sequentially to play melodies or sfx which can either play in a set sequence or at random. I haven't programmed my own kit from scratch so I can't tell you how many sounds you max out a trigger at but the machine is so flexible I've just been in love with it. If you have the time, check out a few of my other drum videos!
So happy to hear you've found peace, so many NG users seem to experience some sort of anguish or instability at one point or another or continuously. The artist struggle is so real, even with the poverty warnings so many people seem to chase the life. Only reason why I can do this at 33 is my fiance who makes 5x my salary in a year than I ever made landscaping. I just want to shake all the kids like "YOU HAVE TO SUFFER FIRST. IT GET'S BETTER BUT YOU MAY HAVE TO EAT YOUR PAINT ONCE OR TWICE TO SURVIVE."
@Quarl Aww thanks so much! I'll hang onto that for when the time comes and I need it. I've been waiting to get monies for cables for a minute and was even considering selling the kit due to money issues until recently.
You couldn't be more right! I used to be in that unpaid artist anguish grind, for years. It's hard to make it with no capital. Eventually you have to accept you're just gonna have to get a day job or something, like I did working in the army for a little under 4 years. Now I'm disabled and in constant pain, but I finally got my check started. My partner makes about a third more than I do, and I have been at that point of trying to sell my gear, and I do have to take care of a learning disabled child most of my day, but I personally feel like I've made it. I've sacrificed enough (and still have the opportunity to work a part time or something without losing benefits) that I can pursue my art freely, and that's more than a lot can say. I'm pretty happy. Glad to hear you are too.
Do you you have anything in the pipes to consider going full time into music as a career?
S3C
once again: first
Quarl
YOU BEAT ME TO IT AGAIN, GURD DAMN IT!! I WILL LITERALLY DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT THIS AND LET YOU HAVE THE FIRST COMMENT BECAUSE THIS EFFECTS ME IN NO WAY BUT I'M GOING TO KEEP CAPS LOCKING AS IF I'M ANGRY, EVEN THOUGH I'M TOTALLY OK. SHIT.