Saint_Dee
The Phantom Poet
Hmmm... That's a good question, I kind of went in head 1st but I'm going to go scrounging around for some tutorials that would be useful to beginners, hopefully that should get you on the right track
... Dee is on it ASAP 
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Hmmm... That's a good question, I kind of went in head 1st but I'm going to go scrounging around for some tutorials that would be useful to beginners, hopefully that should get you on the right track
... Dee is on it ASAP 
Edelweiss
New member
Hmmm... That's a good question, I kind of went in head 1st but I'm going to go scrounging around for some tutorials that would be useful to beginners, hopefully that should get you on the right track
thanks buddy! been downloading youtube tutorials as well
DCWarhound
Dakka Dakka
Juice
New member
Please can you clarify the meaning of the first mage?
DCWarhound
Dakka Dakka
Saint_Dee
The Phantom Poet
I wrote this piece back in Jan/Feb, it's the last piece I've written (no motivation for more pieces yet)
Loud Silence
Here I am, there you are, and here WE are.
What do you and I, what do we have to say? Nothing.
We say nothing when the warmth of dawn envelops us as the sun rises; we say nothing when the chill of dusk nibbles into our spines as the sun sets.
We say nothing when the seasons turn and conditions undergo the smallest to the painstakingly dramatic metamorphoses.
We say nothing when the calmest of lakes pull a Dr. Jekyll and Hyde and show us their hidden array of raging seas.
So what do you and I, what do we say? We loudly say nothing, because nothing is our anthem, our global anthem.
It is the one thing that we truly revel in as we globally do it in tandem. It is the loud proud song of our world that connects the dots you and me aligned in the grand picture that is only a mere lie. It does it so elegantly, you can’t deny.
We are prodigies of this great song. It is so heavily embedded in our nature that it wouldn’t be a stretch to dub us connoisseurs of this anthem, masters of a loud silence.
I hear murmurs from all corners, one murmur in particular asks, “What’s wrong?â€
It’s instantly answered by a heavily disgruntled whisper that says, “Everything is wrongâ€
But we carry on and sing our great anthem.
I hear a barely audible cry in the periphery of my ear, a cry fighting to be heard over the totalitarian voice of The Anthem.
The Cry sobs of injustice; it tells sad tales of pain riddled changes it sees in the world; it speaks of intolerance, it harps on about the ignorance of people who would rather sing the anthem and say nothing. I lend The Cry my ear and it says to me,
“This is a beautiful world, a world I love to the death of me, but there are things fundamentally wrong in this beautiful world. Humanity carries on with life in a hive mindset, a hive mind governed by society. We in turn, slur, judge, and curse. Thereafter we redefine beauty and intellect among many other things through the eyes and whims of Society, the Dictator of this Hive Mind, and the cycle goes full circle, we once again slur, judge, and curse. This is all a…â€
What was that? I say as I fight to hear its last sobs, “This is all…â€
The Cry is finally drowned out by the loud silence that is our anthem.
The loud silence is broken by a scream that grabs hold of my ear and yells out a burning question that brands itself deep into my mind, spirit and heart,
“How do you bear this loud silence?†I have no answer, so it carries on,
“Do you not understand what this blaring silence is? Each one of you sees the small and larger wrongs of your world, you each have murmurs, you each whisper, you each cry about one thing or the next, and you do so in unison, which is all good and well, but you see a neighbor struggling, and you say “I wish I could help†then you turn around and probably do nothing as if you’d never even made notice of your neighbor’s trials, you see a child begging in the street and subconsciously you weep, but then you turn around and say “He’s probably in the streets for a reason, damn troublemaker, in fact I think he’s faking that limp, just to squeeze a little more out of my sympathyâ€. Maybe you’re right, because you’ve lived his day, his month, his year, his lifetime, right? You know better, don’t you?
You each see the error of your leaders, yet you carry on with your silent anthem, as long as your immediate need or greed is satisfied, it doesn’t matter what your leaders do for the others around you, right? Because its each man for himself, go on correct me. Some of you may be willing to break out of this loud silence, but is it enough? You remember that guy who went hungry for the wrongs he saw in this world? I think he was Indian, Anyway that was saying something. What about that other guy who had a dream? Or even the guy who changed his last name to a single letter just to point out that Society shouldn’t really govern us? They had quite a lot say and they said it, didn’t they? The footprints of their words are still remembered as an inspiration. You… â€
Once again The Silence proves its strength as it devours The Scream.
As I consider the stab wounds so brutally administered by The Scream, I realize a dreadful truth. Our true words are not the ones we mold with our mouths; they are but murmurs, whispers, and mere shadows in light of our true words, the words we act out. These words are what we do in spite of what we say.
I painfully realize that we can’t regret the words we’ve never done, we can’t take back the words we’ve never done, and the grimmest of them all, we can’t reap the rewards or any resulting happiness of the words we’ve never done.
So, here I am, there you are, and where we stand, what do we have to say? We say everything.
What do we do? Nothing, as we shout out our loud silent anthem.
_____________________________________________________________
I know it's kind of long
Loud Silence
Here I am, there you are, and here WE are.
What do you and I, what do we have to say? Nothing.
We say nothing when the warmth of dawn envelops us as the sun rises; we say nothing when the chill of dusk nibbles into our spines as the sun sets.
We say nothing when the seasons turn and conditions undergo the smallest to the painstakingly dramatic metamorphoses.
We say nothing when the calmest of lakes pull a Dr. Jekyll and Hyde and show us their hidden array of raging seas.
So what do you and I, what do we say? We loudly say nothing, because nothing is our anthem, our global anthem.
It is the one thing that we truly revel in as we globally do it in tandem. It is the loud proud song of our world that connects the dots you and me aligned in the grand picture that is only a mere lie. It does it so elegantly, you can’t deny.
We are prodigies of this great song. It is so heavily embedded in our nature that it wouldn’t be a stretch to dub us connoisseurs of this anthem, masters of a loud silence.
I hear murmurs from all corners, one murmur in particular asks, “What’s wrong?â€
It’s instantly answered by a heavily disgruntled whisper that says, “Everything is wrongâ€
But we carry on and sing our great anthem.
I hear a barely audible cry in the periphery of my ear, a cry fighting to be heard over the totalitarian voice of The Anthem.
The Cry sobs of injustice; it tells sad tales of pain riddled changes it sees in the world; it speaks of intolerance, it harps on about the ignorance of people who would rather sing the anthem and say nothing. I lend The Cry my ear and it says to me,
“This is a beautiful world, a world I love to the death of me, but there are things fundamentally wrong in this beautiful world. Humanity carries on with life in a hive mindset, a hive mind governed by society. We in turn, slur, judge, and curse. Thereafter we redefine beauty and intellect among many other things through the eyes and whims of Society, the Dictator of this Hive Mind, and the cycle goes full circle, we once again slur, judge, and curse. This is all a…â€
What was that? I say as I fight to hear its last sobs, “This is all…â€
The Cry is finally drowned out by the loud silence that is our anthem.
The loud silence is broken by a scream that grabs hold of my ear and yells out a burning question that brands itself deep into my mind, spirit and heart,
“How do you bear this loud silence?†I have no answer, so it carries on,
“Do you not understand what this blaring silence is? Each one of you sees the small and larger wrongs of your world, you each have murmurs, you each whisper, you each cry about one thing or the next, and you do so in unison, which is all good and well, but you see a neighbor struggling, and you say “I wish I could help†then you turn around and probably do nothing as if you’d never even made notice of your neighbor’s trials, you see a child begging in the street and subconsciously you weep, but then you turn around and say “He’s probably in the streets for a reason, damn troublemaker, in fact I think he’s faking that limp, just to squeeze a little more out of my sympathyâ€. Maybe you’re right, because you’ve lived his day, his month, his year, his lifetime, right? You know better, don’t you?
You each see the error of your leaders, yet you carry on with your silent anthem, as long as your immediate need or greed is satisfied, it doesn’t matter what your leaders do for the others around you, right? Because its each man for himself, go on correct me. Some of you may be willing to break out of this loud silence, but is it enough? You remember that guy who went hungry for the wrongs he saw in this world? I think he was Indian, Anyway that was saying something. What about that other guy who had a dream? Or even the guy who changed his last name to a single letter just to point out that Society shouldn’t really govern us? They had quite a lot say and they said it, didn’t they? The footprints of their words are still remembered as an inspiration. You… â€
Once again The Silence proves its strength as it devours The Scream.
As I consider the stab wounds so brutally administered by The Scream, I realize a dreadful truth. Our true words are not the ones we mold with our mouths; they are but murmurs, whispers, and mere shadows in light of our true words, the words we act out. These words are what we do in spite of what we say.
I painfully realize that we can’t regret the words we’ve never done, we can’t take back the words we’ve never done, and the grimmest of them all, we can’t reap the rewards or any resulting happiness of the words we’ve never done.
So, here I am, there you are, and where we stand, what do we have to say? We say everything.
What do we do? Nothing, as we shout out our loud silent anthem.
_____________________________________________________________
I know it's kind of long
Wyvern
Khaleesi
Dunno if you consider this a kind of art, I do tho since I have no talent fir writing or sketching 
I do aquatic scapes in small tanks - 30L up to 70L and I use a low tech method, aka I do not rely on fancy goodies or CO2 to boost plant growth - most of my tanks take about 6 month or longer to grow into the look.
Final results on a few scapes before I restarted them.
That is a 40L tank. That was last years look.
Currently it looks like this: (this scape is about 3 weeks old)
My 70L before I rescaped it this weekend :
After the weekend's work:
The fun part is waiting for it to grow in, changing the look slightly, changing the plants if they don't work.
I do aquatic scapes in small tanks - 30L up to 70L and I use a low tech method, aka I do not rely on fancy goodies or CO2 to boost plant growth - most of my tanks take about 6 month or longer to grow into the look.
Final results on a few scapes before I restarted them.
That is a 40L tank. That was last years look.
Currently it looks like this: (this scape is about 3 weeks old)
My 70L before I rescaped it this weekend :
After the weekend's work:
The fun part is waiting for it to grow in, changing the look slightly, changing the plants if they don't work.
DCWarhound
Dakka Dakka
BlackSwan
New member
After a week of slaving, I was finally able to complete our submission for WildStar's "Pay It Forward" competition. If you're a member of WildStar Central, feel free to "Like" our contribution post on the WildStar Central forums and show your support (but only if you do actually Like it, of course!) here: http://wildstar-central.com/index.ph...18#post-111051
Here are the images sans the post (for interest's sake, each character is comped out of minimum 5 separate images):
http://i.imgbox.com/acfcmKUN.jpg
http://i.imgbox.com/aci1Ymqx.jpg
R-L: Peshet; lordhi; Toki; Unsane; BlackSwan; Rehab; Banelight; Stanley; Jakke31; RedRavenSA
Here are the images sans the post (for interest's sake, each character is comped out of minimum 5 separate images):
http://i.imgbox.com/acfcmKUN.jpg
http://i.imgbox.com/aci1Ymqx.jpg
R-L: Peshet; lordhi; Toki; Unsane; BlackSwan; Rehab; Banelight; Stanley; Jakke31; RedRavenSA
Wenzdayz
Thread Killer Mk III
Thanks DC, i will go have a peekCool art.
You should check a manga called BLAME!,your art reminds me allot about it
to0kenZA
New member
Hey dude, I decided that as someone who loves music and played an instrument for many years I'd like to get back into it and start delving into the depths of electronic music production.
Started with FL Studio and it seemed to work well for me until I became a bit more familiar with the technicalities. It's not bad, but there's limitations and once you start experimenting with other DAWs you realize that FL's workflow progression isn't as intuitive as you'd think.
Don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant starting point, but once you familiarize yourself I'd strongly recommend trying Ableton Live. Pretty much shat myself when I saw all the possibilities
.And yes, electronic music production has a steep learning curve, but it's just like everything else. Dedicate enough time to it and you'll start progressing slowly but surely. It's of a very technical nature, involving much about the science of sound and how to manipulate waveforms for a wide variety of different sounds and elements and that's what is so appealing about it because the sky is the limit. And if you love music, you'll love every step of the way
.Not sure how familiar you are with music in general but good starting points for complete strangers would go something like this:
1.) What is music? Chords, timing, harmonies, melodies- you will have to go read up on all of that on your own. Luckily, the internet is a free source of abundant information and tutorials. Brush up a bit on your musical theory before attempting anything else. Learn some scales, learn how keys work, 5th chords, 7th chords, how different genres use different musical devices to portray a musical picture.
2.) Select a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and just start messing around. FL is a good starting point as it is very easy to understand and familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of electronic music production. Try constructing a basic song from the beginning to end. Write a structure and start with the basics like an intro, verse, chorus, bridge etc. Try using different instruments and elements as you progress to come to grips with how each works, how their sound is different from each other on the frequency spectrum.
3.) You'll soon start noticing all the small things like which sounds are best in which frequency, which elements fit together, how to not take up too much of one frequency with an instrument conflicting with another's sound space and so forth.
4.) Learn about how soundwaves work, how to manipulate them with the basic operators such as attacks, decay, sustain levels, releases, pitch, LFOs, automations and much more.
5.) Start playing around with equalizers, limiters, compressors, multiband compression, sidechaining, and the list goes on...
6.) Learn about how sound is process through a stacked chain, which is pretty much adding effects to sounds and filtering through to the next device. For instance, if you have a synthesizer emulating an atmospheric or lead instrument, you'll have their basic operators manipulate the soundwave, send it to an equalizer which sends it to a compressor etc.
Don't let it daunt you though, it's a slow and enjoyable proccess, and as I said, if you love music, you'll be loving every new thing you learn and being able to apply a new technique to a song you've been working on is always awesome because it may have just been the thing you needed to make it sound just right.
Hope this adds some value. Happy music making
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Saint_Dee
The Phantom Poet
Hey dude, I decided that as someone who loves music and played an instrument for many years I'd like to get back into it and start delving into the depths of electronic music production.
Started with FL Studio and it seemed to work well for me until I became a bit more familiar with the technicalities. It's not bad, but there's limitations and once you start experimenting with other DAWs you realize that FL's workflow progression isn't as intuitive as you'd think.
Don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant starting point, but once you familiarize yourself I'd strongly recommend trying Ableton Live. Pretty much shat myself when I saw all the possibilities
And yes, electronic music production has a steep learning curve, but it's just like everything else. Dedicate enough time to it and you'll start progressing slowly but surely. It's of a very technical nature, involving much about the science of sound and how to manipulate waveforms for a wide variety of different sounds and elements and that's what is so appealing about it because the sky is the limit. And if you love music, you'll love every step of the way
I remember saying the same to a certain someone
to0kenZA
New member
I remember saying the same to a certain someone
Well let's just write that one off to me being a complete noob at that stage hahaha! Didn't know of any better to be honest. Before then I have only ever heard of FL Studio and I was like "Wtf is Reason?" and I though it was Q-Bass and not Cubase
to0kenZA
New member
Haha. Throw me a friggin' bone here dude. ._.
