Music Hacker - Audacity and vocals

This is NOT Sunday, and I totally did NOT forget to post here about the next episode of music hacker. At all.

Music Hacker - Final Hardstyle

Yay!

2011 retrospect

I was going to do a write up about site stats. Then I decided to turn it into a 2011 retrospective. Then I noticed that this will be the 100th post on this blog, posted on my birthday. Crazy how things work out huh?

So what did I accomplish this year? I finished a 3D screensaver, reviewed a number of games, started a webcomic, created two music albums, started a webshow and finished the first season, moved to this new blog, and made quite a bit of headway in a new game project.

Now the stats are interesting. Things started pretty slow, with a normal build. Then, two months ago, traffic started climbing like crazy. I have about 1000 views a month now, and still climbing. The one thing that orks me, is why I have so many silent viewers. I get comments from time to time, but yeesh. Talk about the silent majority...

Now I have to look back and see what I learned I guess. After all, what is age, if not a measure of experience? No, I don't make resolutions. I'm already more awesome than the average person the way I am.

So, I learned many things. The first thing I learned is not to start a project without being willing to commit serious amounts of time to it. Something that just takes an hour a day is a huge investment. Secondly, try to make very specific goals about the end product of any project at the beginning, to avoid confusion later on. Third, try to be realistic about what projects you choose to start. It's okay to be ambitious, but make sure you have the time, skills, and resources to complete your project before you start. It seems generally  best to choose a project that's just a bit out of your comfort zone. Something where you'll have to learn new things, but something you can still finish. Fourth, school should NOT be taken for granted. It's not safe to assume that your school will take care of itself while you work on something else. Last, under promise and over deliver. I've never been 100% accurate on how much time or other resources it would take to complete a project. It's much better to assume it will take more than you think. That way if it does, you''re ready for it, and if not, you just come out ahead of schedule(which is a good thing.)

I'm sure I've learned plenty more, but these five seem to stick out the most. Anything else I need to mention that's important... Oh yeah. Start writing blog posts early so they don't have to cut o-

    --LazerBlade

Music Hacker - S2E2

Unfortunately, the audio quality is mucked up pretty bad. Can't really find a way to fix it,

Music Hacker - Season Debut

This episode ended up running a lot longer then I originally thought. I think it turned out for the better though.

Advanced LMMS - Season Finale

Shut up. Plenty of shows have 15 episode seasons.

Advanced LMMS S1E14

Here it is:

Early bird gets the worm...

..but the late worm survives for the next episode. Which is why this week's episode is going to be up about a day late. Sorry.


        --LazerBlade

Advanced LMMS - dubstep

So, I finally started my dubstep tutorial. This is the first of a three part set, this one covering the beat.

Advanced LMMS - Keyboard tips

I was originally planning on a twenty minute episode about trance music, but some last minute "technical difficulties" forced me to resort to throwing together a few tips.

I also announce the release of my new album. Go download it. Right now. Right here: http://www.mediafire.com/?5ldo8md8h6mc2zc

Advanced LMMS - VST galore

A new episode of advanced LMMS:

Advanced LMMS - Episode 10

Here is the new episode:

Where have you been?

So before I explain myself for almost a week of absence, here is this week's comic:

Okay, now for the explanation. My schedule went into chaos mode while I tried to deal with some personal things, still keeping up with school and other stuff. When Thursday came, I basically had one long crash until yesterday. I barely had time to post an announcement that Advanced LMMS would be delayed by a week. And yesterday I was lazy. ;)

So anyway, I'm back now and should hopefully be able to return this blog to it's regular posting schedule.


        --LazerBlade

Advanced LMMS - Basshunter style

In the latest episode of my webshow, I take a look at how a Eurodance sound can be created with LMMS.

Enjoy the episode!

Advanced LMMS - another week another episode

Here it is:

After this episode, I go to an every other week schedule. The next episode will be two weeks from today.

New episode of advanced LMMS

This episode almost wasn't released on time:

Advanced LMMS - Episode 6

Well anyway, this weeks Advanced LMMS has been up here on youtube:

Advance LMMS, episode 5

Well here it is:

Advanced LMMS - Episode 4

Yay for another episode without incident. Let's see how long this lasts. ;)

Advanced LMMS episode 3

Despite a rather chaotic week, I still managed to get this week's episode together in time. I'm covering a hardstyle screech:

This is actually the first recording, I didn't have time to re-shoot at all. You'll have to live with it and ignore the mistakes. This time. ;)

Enjoy!