How I Started .bsking
Channel: 007bistromath
Date: 2021-10-11

I made music. I'll probably do it again sometime, too. I couldn't do that before, and Bespoke Synth seems to have fixed that.

I still don't really have anything approaching "skill," and I'm pretty sure any of the stuff I said about what I was doing musically isn't even using the right terminology for anything, so this video is more to say that even if you're as dumb as I am, you can make music with Bespoke.

Mainly, I wanted to show the dev what a neophyte could do with his software, and talk about some snags I ran into so that the software and its onboarding can be improved.

While the main issue I had is discussed in the video, there's another smaller one. Just like the main one, I have no idea if the problem is me or the software, and because I don't know what I'm doing, it's probably somehow me.

Signal generators and sometimes oscillators don't seem to want to output both stereo channels. This was happening before I got rid of the splitter and the second output; it's one of the reasons I tried that, and that didn't fix the problem. That "fade to noise" group is as complicated as it is partly because when I tried to do it with a simpler patch, the signal generator making the noise would only play in my left ear, no matter what I did to it. With oscillators, I think it may happen because I tried to get them to play by some method other than hooking an instrument to them. A send or something like that, I think? All I remember is that I didn't have the issue with the oscillators until I was trying different methods to make that fade at the end, which was the first time I tried to do anything without an instrument. Since the signal generators can't (as far as I can tell) be controlled by an instrument, they do this regardless of how I use them.