nyoom nyoom cat on da move
…man, it sure has Been A While, hasn’t it?
Things I’ve Been Up To
Photos I’ve Taken
...is mister teddy home?
BABY GOOSIES BABY GOOSIES BABY GOOSIES.
- And finally, in the most Important News Event Of The Summer, Captured By The Photographic Lens Of Yours Truly: Polly went to Budacki’s for the first time just a few weeks ago. Truly, a highlights of my photographic career.
Pictures I’ve Drawn
The historical write-ups can get a bit darker than the lighter tone I've had up to this point, but it sure beats looking at how dark a lot of the news has gotten as of late.
my Illustrious Personal Cardio Trainer
Other Stuff I’ve Been Up To
What’s Up Next
that's a lotta Clippins we got there. be a shame if somebody....made alil zine out of em
“Clippings: Year One”! (New Book!)
New Photo Zines As Well? Maybe!
been runnin those toner carts dry to make zines for u
New Cinderella Suicide Demo Progress? Actually Yes, Somehow, But It’s Limping Along
So, alright. I know full well that I’ve been stuck on track one of the upcoming demo for months now. Why, you ask? Well, I’m going to be honest with you, and while I know this is not the kind of statement that usually gets taken as “honesty”, I’m just gonna do it.
i love this software to death. i also hate it with a fiery passion and spend half my time using it wanting to Sparta-kick it into the circles of hell. so, y'know, normal kinda relationship creatives have with creative software
I’m gonna blame the software and I’m gonna blame the controller.
LMMS 1.3 has weird rules about what you can and cannot undo while in the song editor, and most of them are memory-limited. The more memory an action takes, the less likely the undo buffer will accommodate it.
What this means is that, while you can hit ctrl-z and undo a missed note placement or an accidental delete, you cannot do something like “undo cloning everything in the song editor to four bars later when you were trying to move it four bars to the right on the timeline, which results in a jumbled mess of sound because you’ve functionally copied and pasted the whole song on top of itself and now you have to sit there and delete the first copy while doing your damnest to not delete the actual song”.
The cheap shite wireless mouse that I was using, coincidentally enough, likes to drop inputs with the scrollwheel and middle mouse button. And you use middle-click and the scrollwheel A LOT in LMMS.
And, after like eight straight hours of tweaking a track while having to heaavilly rely on ctrl-z to fix misinputs, I forgot to take my fat finger off the ctrl key while moving stuff to the right to accommodate a foley sample.
what it looks like when you fuck up something in lmms...or when you use lmms at all, for anything, really
You can probably guess what happened.
If you want a visual, I’ve got one off to the right here. I’ve been having to go through the whole shebang, instrument track by instrument track and line by line, and baleet everything that sounds four bars off. Those greyed out ones are the ones that I have yet to go through. Does it look like A Headache? That’s because it is.
On that line of thought, you can probably also guess why I caved, dropped the cash, and am rocking a cheap Bluetooth Logitech M650L now. I’ll hopefully have time soon after I stop carting all my stuff over to Chicago to sit there and fix this track, but right now, we are sloooowly chugging along.
lmmsdevs plz patch membuffer tyty
And that’s about the long and short of what I’ve been up to this past month…er, months? two? three?? Possibly. Time is a con job and a weekend in Vegas sounds like a welcome reprieve from the gambling with my sleep schedule I’ve been doing these days.
Hopefully I’ll be caught up with everything sooner rather than later, and next month I’ll have some more good news for y’all. Regardless, until then, I hope you all have lovely days and enchanting nights.
You’re amazing and don’t let anyone tell you that you’re not. Have a good one.
–piper <3
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