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The quieter you become, the more you can hear is one of my favorite Ram Dass quotes.
True, but drugs will only get you part way there, all you need to journey, you already possess, just the will is needed and of course then understanding.
I’ve thought about this subject since it was posted. I have to admit my knee jerk reaction was wtf and who cares, anyway.
To put that in context, my own personal experience…
I joined ABF in April 2018 (while living in Istanbul) as a result of looking for a keyboard workstation (silly me) and coming across Jordan Rudess demoing the Korg Kronos. Searching Rudess I found videos of him playing G oShred. That led to my discovery of iOS music production. Fortunately, I had an iPad and, thinking there were only a few music apps (Au what?), and mostly by Jordan, I bought his stuff to some disappointment except for Geoshred.
Not sure how I found ABF but I had questions that needed answering. I was delighted to get them on ABF with no kink shaming (what an absurd age for vocabulary we live in) and really sweet souls (@samu @Cracklepot @aaronpc @wim and others who really helped me out and encouraged the effort to learn something new.
After getting up and running with Cubasis I started posting tracks and got the tiny endorphin rushes from folks positively commenting. This was my first and pretty much only social media experience. Not on Facebook and only contributed for a short time on dull as dishes PianoWorld with its mostly sand in the mouth dry as dirt interactions (though useful info re digital keyboards). So ABF became my personal social media experiment. I met characters like @McD who seemed to also want something more from this place, like a virtual public square to talk philosophy, spirituality and the dreaded politics.
I became known (somewhat to my chagrin) as a polemicist, pot stirrer and egocentrst…. Labels I actually enjoyed except for the loss of wah it often caused me. But, hey, it was my own social experiment and I was isolated in Turkey at the time. I was curious about my impact on a virtual community and its impact on me.
There have been great benefits here, including correspondence with @michael and many others I now consider my friends. Five years later I have pretty much learned all I need to know for my nonperfectionistic iOS production needs and, again, that is thanks to the wealth of collective information gathered here in the minds and hearts of generous contributors. My social media experiment is over (I finally saw the light or tired of the unnecessary emotional weather political discussions caused me). I stopped contributing for several months after the death of my partner, but now I’m back posting and commenting on the tracks of others. I probably won’t buy another app ever as I have it all for my needs (well, if SWAM comes out with horn and string ensembles I would snap them up in a second).
I’ve posted about every philosophicospiritual subject I can think of so it’s only the creative result aspect of ABF I’m interested in now as well as, of course, the occasional personal experience, good or bad, that someone expresses with a need to be heard and responded to.
Bottom line, any forum, I think, satisfies the changing needs of the participants including non participation. This forum remains the same… a platform for different types of expression (within stated bounds). We get to participate, lurk and learn according to our needs at the moment.
Thanks, as always, to all who make a difference here. It’s comforting to know that while the discussions are amoeboid in their shifting nature, the platform and it’s care is very stable and in good hands, IMHO.
I don't intend to upload my music here, I don't create alone and I don't have the right to do that.
Some people play instruments but never record their output, I see that a lot with people who are players.
I don't think forcing people to do things they may not want to do is a good solution to creating harmony here. I actually don't think there's a problem to be solved.
I joined more recently but I was reading posts here once in a while as early as 2015. This place was much more heated and contentious back then, which is why I didn't join sooner. This thread is based on a false premise, imo, I believe the AB forum is kinder than it used to be. The mods are doing a fine job.
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Calling out blatant racism would definitely help. Called out a recently banned member a while ago and no one said a dicky bird. Same as when no one commented on a thread until Michael got involved and the same person was actually banned. Rare occasions but It’s good to speak out.
This resonates with me. Just cause we all have the ability to record and upload, doesn’t mean we should. This thread is beginning to feel like, Hmmm… if it aint broke, then let’s break it!
(Edit) With all due respect @dreamcartel of course. No doubt your intentions are great 👍> @abf said:
I’d like to apologize for being a full-on dik
People have always shared music here at least for as long as I’ve been around. The flip side to the ‘just because we can doesn’t mean we should’ argument is ‘why not let people hear the music we create?’
If you want to contribute there’s a ‘Creations’ forum made just for that task.
If you don’t want to contribute nobody is ‘forcing’ anybody to do anything here that they don’t want to. I can’t see a problem. Nobody is making lists of forum members that don’t upload their music. With the greatest respect nobody notices. There’s no pressure either way.
Nobody is forcing anybody to listen either. Or comment on music they might listen to.
And to be honest from personal experience, not many people ever actually do listen to the music shared here.
I would very much hope that there is no pressure to share. If you use your iPad to play music and never record it, that’s just as valid as if you are a singer songwriter, or like to make generative patches for 8 min ambient tracks it’s all cool.
And it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your music, favourite genre or favourite iOS app.
It’s all cool. Just be confident in what you do.
My listens/ comments on other people’s creations far exceed that of my own creations 😂
And I am definitely cool with that 😎
This is the only forum that I frequent and actually like. I don’t mind a few disagreements because some of those lead to brilliant discoveries. It’s a MOSTLY positive place in my experience.
Thank you for understanding me
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Man, you are on a roll today!
This forum was a very important part of my life some 6-10 years ago with 5-10 daily visits with numerous posts etc.
There was a phase about 3 years ago when the numbers of members shot up exponentially, many old chums as well as content creators, reviewers have disappeared and it just started to feel a bit less interesting
I think it’s also partly due to the fact that there was a iOS music app gold rush for the first few years. Everything was super exciting. Always something to look forward to. Now that I personally have loopy pro and Drambo, suddenly I don’t have to rely on devs to make things for me because I can make them myself.
If there’s anything I’m still passively half waiting for is Samplr AUV3 but I’m probably delusional.
Anyway. Just my 5p
I’ll just comment on “How to Improve” the forum. Give more than you take:
All three of these behaviors represent civil discourse. Be a person you’d respect if you met them or got their input.
It’s really a way of being a loving human. Something most of us forget on a forum where we want to be right above all.
Listening and asking for more context seems to be the best way to avoid arguments.
It’s always seemed a relatively calm port in internet storm. Occasional dramas but rare. Been a useful resource for help and opinions. I don’t seem to check here more than once a week maybe but think more me that changed than the forum.
Yeah I can’t remember the exact threads but I’ve seen some borderline racist comments quite often when rap music is brought up. It’s unfortunate but wasn’t something “ban-able” but also not great for the “vibes” mentioned in the title of the thread.
I’m relatively new around here, so I don’t know if things have changed. I do know that the advice for improvement that I read in a netiquette FAQ back c. 1990 continues to hold in every online forum I participate in:
Post the kind of thing you’d like to read. Assume the best of the writer when reading. Minimize the meta-discussion.
👏💯 Well said mate. This is the best advice.
As a relative newcomer in these parts, one thing i think could benefit this forum would be to have the ability to ‘Like’ a comment without actually replying to it.
As others have suggested, this place can feel rather dominated by the users who are part of the ‘ABF clique’ and a bit like a members club you’re not really welcome at (maybe this is unavoidable though on a well established forum?). Post a few tentative comments as a newer visitor and they get ignored? Well, it’s easy to just think, ‘i might as well not bother’.
Having a Like button wouldn’t eliminate the problem admittedly, but it would at least give a way of acknowledging someone even if you don’t have a specific reply to their comment and could increase a feeling of inclusivity.
It would also give developers an easy way of acknowledging that they’d seen a post reporting a bug, for example, without having to spend the time replying to it.
Ah, that's come up a few times and it seemed that most ppl were against bringing that aspect of social media in here.
About this place being cliquey, I don't think I agree. If questions get ignored it's more likely because no one knows the answer or has an opinion and the once things slip into the second page it's easy for them to get overlooked. Bumping a thread you started that didn't get answers might make ppl pay attention again. But sure people get attached to the people they regularly interact with, and banter with them in a way they won't with strangers, that's definitely normal I reckon!
I think I have to disagree with that too. I find myself responding to people completely randomly and without much concern of whether they have long tenure here or not. It just doesn’t seem like that occurs here, and certainly not compared to other forums.
Yeah, definitely normal and i did say it was maybe unavoidable so hopefully it didn’t come across as insulting, certainly wasn’t meant to be. I do feel it is the case though, sorry.
Plus, to play my own devil’s advocate, cliques are more easily identified from the outside than from within!
Absolutely true, ”cliques are more easily identified from the outside than from within!”
Right. Sorry to spam the forum but I was curious how many zero comment threads there were. I just went through the most recent 100 pages and commented on what I could.
Have a nice day!
Exactly... Tons, and many from very regular posters
As basically a neutral third party who only recently started posting here. I have no horse in this race. But the above post is the best way forward. First steps kind of start.
Another age old rule also applies. If you ain’t got nothing nice to say, don’t say nothin.
Text based communication can come off oddly as well. Make sure to state positives with signs of approval and appreciation in an almost overly nice way. That feels good to read!
Personally, my onboarding experience has been nice! I’ve chatted with a few of you these last few weeks and all and it’s been really cool.
A common thing I see (at all forums everywhere) “I already know this or this has been shared” when someone posts or shares anything. It would be prudent for the comments from “I know” be less dismissive. Assume the broader internet doesn’t know your lived life experience and let others share without that “I know” bull.
That kind of attitude is always not worth typing nor reading and leads to people not wanting to share. I was a lurker on here for a couple years before I even signed up for an account. Then, after getting set up on the account, another 6 months before I started commenting regularly recently, because of not wanting to say something that’s been said.
It can be vulnerable to ask people for advice or thoughts or share things you yourself felt was valuable. Especially online where people can hide behind pseudonyms and not have to be as courteous.
I don’t know! Either way the people I’ve engaged with have been cool and this forum is appreciated. Often times people who share that “people, places, things” change don’t typically self-reflect and with the many variables in all of our lives that it’s have no way of knowing if their feelings are a projection. Even if people in a majority agree.
Being more inclusive and accepting is a way forward.
Side note; When posting new information or new questions. Maybe a checkbox for new posts to have been searched for in earnest. Like a checkbox to state “did you try finding a thread with the above information you’re wanting to start a thread on?” - I’m aware people can just click and not read but a large amount of people will stop and do so.
Anyways. Cheers!
I noticed as you were doing this. Not very helpful, imo. Many OBE (overtaken by events) or just announcements of new (now old) videos. Clutters up the list of actual current or new threads.
‘Tis done!
I agree it was a bit daft. I won’t make it a habit…
Well I did respond to a lone enquiry about Patch Base, so maybe some good came of it.