#jupiter-6

[pekuto]

ヴィンテージ・シンセに鞍替えした話

シンセですが、以前の状況からはガラッと変わり、現状はヴィンテージシンセと Random Source Serge 4U をメインにやっております。4年前までは自分がヴィンテージ・シンセやモジュラーをやることはないだろうと思っていたのですが、結局それまで使っていた A4mk2 や Hydrasynth などの現行シンセでは自分が上手く音を決めることができずに、その後Moog Grandmother などを買い足してみたり色々やってはみたものの、出来上がったトラックを3ヶ月後に聞くと「やっぱり違う」という感じになってしまい、そこで困ってしまった訳です。

楽器のせいというよりは自分のウデなんだろうなというのを分かりつつも、自分としては当時の自分の力でやれる事はやり切っている感覚はあり、となると自分がまだ気がついていない感覚があるんだろうと。そうなると自分が気がついていない事にどうやって気がつけるようになるのかという話でしかなく、こうなるともう機材に頼るのが一番という感じなので、そうすることに。

もちろん他にも色々な方法はあるでしょうが、単純に自分のような「つまんない奴」は、例えばインナーサークル的なコミュニティーに所属して情報を得たりのようなことはとても難しく、仮に運良くインナーサークルに所属できたとしても、そこで必要な情報を得られるようには物事が進まず、結局最後は一人で頑張るしかなくなってしまうのです。

若い頃ですが、インナーサークル的な人間関係の中でいじられキャラを一生懸命演じても自分がいじられキャラになり切れずに人間関係で損ばかりしていた頃、「可愛がられる才能のない奴は飛び抜けるしかない」と自分にアドバイスをくれた友人がいました。要するに自分にインナーサークル村社会の中でいじられキャラをやっていく資質がないのは自他ともに認める所で、そこを克服することは、結局自分には叶わなかったのです。もっとも自分に飛び抜けられる才能があるとも全く思えませんでしたが、どちらかしか道がないなら、自分は飛び抜けられるようにやっていくしかないのか？という。男社会は残酷だなあとその時、思いましたけども。

それはそれとして。自分は今気が付けていない事に一人で気が付けるようになるしかありませんので、とりあえず突破口を求めて YouTube で、例えばシンセのデモ動画も漁ってみる訳です。そしたら偶然 Korg の Polysix のデモ演奏の動画を見つけ、それに妙に自分が引っぱられてしまうのでした。自分、ヴィンテージシンセやるの？という躊躇が全くなかった訳ではありませんでしたが、それでも何かが引っ掛かるのです。なので少し調べたら、丁度原宿のお店に中古が出ているので、これは行って実物の音を聞いてみるしかないでしょ、という事でお正月休み期間でしたので、翌日開店と同時にお店に行きました。音を聞いた瞬間、もうこれですよこれ的な音が鳴るので、音作りの幅は狭そうだなと思いつつ、当時はまだお手頃なお値段でもあり、とりあえずこれで一度作ってみようとその場で買いました。

3ヵ月後、Polysix の整備が完了したとお店から連絡が入り、受け取りに行って、平日の夜でしたから帰って部屋にセットして電源を入れて音を聞いてウットリして、その日はそれだけで終わりましたけど、やっぱりワクワクする音なんですよね。そして週末にいよいよ自分の曲で Polysix を鳴らしてみるのですが、鳴らしたらなんと自分のアレンジに全然合わないのです。愕然としてしまう訳ですが、そこでミキサーの solo ボタンをクリックして Polysix だけを鳴らすと、これがまたウットリするような音が鳴る訳です。ああ、そうかと。そういう事かと。

結局、今まで自分が作ってきたシンセの音が全て自分が思う所とは別の重心で鳴っていた訳です。自分はシンセの音に関して「にわか」ですから、その微妙な違いに気が付けていませんでした。アコギの EQ も、そもそも録音の際のマイクの立て方すらも、その別の方向を向いたシンセの音に合わせてしまっている以上、ウットリする Polysix の音と揃うはずもなく。そこで、アコギの音を EQ で Polysix の重心に揃うように仮で位相をズラして、エコーも同じように位相を回してみたら、もうこれが自分の作りたかった音ですよ的な仕上がりの方向性が広がるのです。この時点で今まで2年かけて作ってきた3曲、全部シンセの差し替え、ギターの録り直しが決定してしまう訳ですけども。

結局、昔のシンセはコンボ編成のギターバンドと揃う音の重心を出せない限り、当時の軽音楽で使ってもらえる事はなかったんだろうと推測できますし、なので昔のシンセで作れる音の重心は、そもそもギターバンド形態の音楽に、新しいシンセよりも適性があるのだろうと。自分の作ろうとしているシンセの音は、その古き良きコンボ形式のギターバンド編成にある重心に揃う音だった訳です。

今の新しいシンセで同じような古い時��のコンボ形式のバンド編成的な重心を出せないのかと言われると、自分はそれができる程シンセの達人ではありません、としか答えられません。シンセの達人ならできるのかもしれませんが。今のシンセを70年代の古いプリアンプを通して音作りをしても、80年代の古いコンプを通してみても、こと音の重心、編成の中で音の座る位置に関して、ヴィンテージシンセと同じ佇まいを作ることは自分には無理でした。

Polysix のおかげで自分の方向性に確信が持ててきたのと、シンセの音作りにもちょっと自信が持てるようになったのもあり、そこから Chroma Polaris、Jupiter6、CS15 と一気に昔のシンセを買い足して、今は後に買った Jupiter6、CS15、Polysix の3台と、その後に買う Random Source の Serge 4U を中心にやっていくようになりました。

古いシンセは今のシンセで当たり前にできる事ができない場面が多々ありますので、道具としての物足りなさはそれなりにあります。でも、とにかくヴィンテージのアコギと音の重心が揃えられる音の佇まいが、自分の音楽には絶対必要なのです。

おかげさまで制作もそこそこ進捗し、自分の作りたい音楽が徐々に形になってきた所で、両親が二人同時に要介護認定を受けて自分が介護しなければならない状況になってしまい、諸々進捗が滞る期間が3年近くも続いてしまいましたが、最近やっと元の生活が戻りつつあり、良かったなと。介護は、まあ、ハードでしたよ。控えめに言って、物凄いハードです。

介護でストレスが爆発したのもあったでしょうか、そこから何を思ったか Random Source の Serge 4U でモジュラーシンセも初めてしまった訳ですが、その話はまた別の機会に。 

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Roman demigods spotted???

Look at the background, two teens running (when no one else is running) wearing matching purple shirts

[arctik-fox]

[coopers-hand]

your 6H and how you find comfort

TLDR: our 6H is responsible for our day to day lives, including our habits and routine. one thing about those is that through these repetitive actions people find the sense of familiarity, stability and comfort. the position of the ruler of this house will show you areas through which you may find this comfort❤️‍🩹 to gain more insight, look at the signs of both 6H and it’s ruler, as well as to your Moon and virgo-pisces axis! ٩(^‿^)۶

~ the position of your 6H ruler and how you find your sense of comfort

1H: pampering oneself, being pretty and comfy, and being well fed and having walked on their little walk, and their skin is moisturized and their nails are groomed — these people need to take care of themselves and their own body to feel comforted🍃

2H: those people may be the type of ppl that have their emotional support stuffed animal, or sweater, or coffee mug — anything, actually, that they can hold and touch and that has some physical weight to it. they may sleep with plushies and wear the same mittens their mom knitted for them centuries ago����☕️

3H: escaping to the books, movies, series, etc. — these ppl find the most comfort in stories and ways people share their thoughts with the world ✏️ so they may have their comfort piece of media that they keep coming back again and again

4H: sense of comfort is brought through the feeling of home and passed childhood. the perfume of their mother? that one sandwich they’ve been eating since they turned 5? that one pair of socks knitted by their grandma? you tell me 🥹 || I have my 6H ruler in here, and I find comfort in eating the same breakfast my mom was cooking for me when I was at school, so yeah…

5H: hobbies!! those people may be the ones that have been doing the same thing since childhood, like they’ve always been drawing with crayons, or collecting stickers, or crafting, or making little silly songs with their old electronic piano. they may find comfort in their old creative supplies, in their ancient watercolors they bought like in 7th grade, or in that one song that makes they soul dance itself out

6H: regime!! those people need to have their own familiar structure of life, even if this structure doesn’t make sense for everybody else. they need their morning walks, they need their sunday movie nights with that one person, they need to do this exact type of exercise bc it’s important for them and only they will get it.

7H: those people are about lifelong relationships, they may be one of the most devoted partners you can find. they find comfort in people they’ve been with since forever, they are feeling sure and good and comfy around their best friend that they’ve known for 20 years, that they’ve grown up with and that they share almost all of their life experiences with👭

8H: those people need their alone time. they need their sacred space, their little castle that nobody can invade and make them put on a human suit again. they find comfort in knowing that there’s completely no one around so that they can be so much and unapologetically alone and themselves.

9H: those people are the greatest optimists, that will not let the humanity destruct itself in the storm of hate and pessimism. those people always know that there’s hope, that the world is a good place to be in, that there’s joy and love and laughter and cool people and also little animals and big animals and flowers and so much more!! I love them so much omg sorry but those people literally save the world by finding their own sense of comfort😭

10H: another type of people that need the structure, but, on the contrary with 6H fellas, this is kind of an external structure. it may be a literal social institute that provides them with it (e.g. school, work, gym membership, language clubs??), or a kind of style of living that they accept to follow. those people may find comfort in knowing that they have their life together, in knowing what will happen tomorrow🏹

11H: those people crave the sense of belonging. they need to know that they are not alone in this world, that there’s at least another person on Earth that can say ‘hey! im here! I know how you feel’. the greatest sense of comfort for those people is knowing that they are understood.

12H: hello my lovely existentialists 🥰 for these people comfort may look like something unattainable, bc they are prone to existential dread every working day and holidays included. however, the sense of comfort is attained through daydreaming, sleeping and meditating — and also other 1000000 things that can be linked to sleep. I also have noticed that those people may need more sleep than others to stay healthy. so, remember — it’s not that the world hates you, maybe you just had very little sleep in the night💤

[inkyrainstorms]

@via-pantomime behold :D thought you'd appreciate a ping

The Burning Maze HURT so bad, but honestly the tragic irony of Jason's character, the way he was raised to sacrifice everything and everyone in the name of the mission, in the name of the honor of the legion, but he died protecting the people he loved. He chose to protect and chose to leave behind a legacy which was nothing like what he'd been born into. He died into a world numb from sacrifice and made it better, made Apollo PROMISE to change.

He's Jason Grace. He's awesome. And he deserves the world. <3

[odbuoyjemmity]

"we all agree that jupiter is a bad parent" i mean. i dont

[aroaceleovaldez]

my hc to ignore whatever's going on with CoTG trilogy is that the letters of recommendation thing at NRU just operates exactly like letters of recommendation work at any normal college - theyre usually going to be from a former teacher or someone unrelated to you who you worked with in the past. Lares are house gods that are extremely populous in New Rome and the legionnaires would work with frequently like teacher figures, plus minor gods roam around New Rome in disguise sometimes as well, not to mention Terminus. So your average legionnaire would just get letters from three lares who can vouch for them or maybe rarely a minor god or Terminus if theyre on good terms, and that's it.

Percy and Annabeth aren't able to do that though cause the lares don't like them cause they're Greek and they're both basically strangers to Camp Jupiter, so them getting letters of recommendation from the lares wouldn't make sense anyways, cause they have no relationship with them. they aren't teacher figures to the two of them. It's still not hard for them to get absolutely glowing letters of recommendation from extremely notable immortals though so poor NRU is left going "Well, shit, nobody's ever gotten a rec letter from Pluto before. That's new. I dont think we're allowed to say no to that."

[starrysnowdrop]

Lalapril 2024 📚 Day 6: Mark

Did you know that Hali attended the Studium at the same time as the Leveilleur twins and Krile Mayer Baldesion? She certainly wasn’t a child prodigy, nor was she as popular or well-known as her friends, but Hali still earned top marks in all her classes, despite her reputation as the class clown. Hali was particularly adept at the same subject her maternal grandfather had taught for decades: Sharlayan Astromancy.

[brainrotroulette]

If Cabin 6 kids are born out of Athena’s brain, they don’t have bellybuttons

No uterus, no placenta —> no placenta, no umbilical cords —> no umbilical cords, NO BELLY BUTTONS 😭

And if that thought woke me up from my nap, I am subjecting you to the horror as well. You are so welcome

[sweetsdereese]

Percy will not share the dolls of his friends.

[kivaember]

Can you do one of those "my ship in 5 minutes" sheet things like you did with Rusty and Raven for Walter and Michigan (no pressure though)?

it took me a bit bc my life is busy at the moment but i did young jupiter version of walt/mich uwu one day, i'll do their old man yaoi version...

[wundrous-nevermoor]

Well I just remembered Jupiter's nickname

the Honourable Captain Sir Jupiter Amantius North, Esquire.

I also remember that Morrigan said "The Honourable Captain Sir thingy takes about a year to say!"

[viktuurishipper96]

Sicilia Rhea Tempest in Sodor Magic.

Sicilia is standing on a platform with Donald and Douglas whistles. It features a Roland Jupiter 6 that was used in the first two seasons of Thomas the tank engine. Plus don’t forget the aesthetics of the music notes in the background. Hope you’ll like it.

here’s the ref I’ve used:

[mangopooding]

[characterswithgodsnamesbattle]

Prelims

Poll B2

8 contestants, 4 spots for the tournament

*as I was kindly informed, Thorfinn's in fact from the CBS version of the show - I changed the tags but can't modify the poll itself

[tisdale-mermaid]

ashleytisdale: Still holding space for Wicked over here