Never understood the platform these folks are standing on with the whole arbitrary tuning thing... What, are they trying to get even with all the monkeys with perfect-pitch? As in trying to drive them batty with out of tune shit Same deal with the flat-earthers... No one can really be that dumb, so they must just be trying to purposely piss off clear thinking mf'ers...

 

Yeah, i have neurosis on my work with music, but not on the same league (for example, i don't care that much about micro attack and release values or fader values as OP said). I'm more neurotic with EQ, since i get pissed eveytime i hear one especific frequency range on an especific element that i think it shouldn't be there. Cutting or boosting that range probably won't make the record any better but i start thinking it's flawed because my brain starts ignoring the good things and focusing on 0.5 dB on 300hz of a cowbell. Sucks.

 

 

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I used to obsess over symmetrical and/or visually coherent setups when building my patches on VCV Rack. How it looked visually was just as important as how it sounded, perhaps even more.

When I realized I was spending hours visually arranging modules without even outputting any audio I decided it was a bit too much and stopped doing it. It was hard at first but eventually I got to a point today where I can start visually arranging stuff only after I get something musically satisfying.

 

It is getting more and more difficult these days to push REC button, isnt it?

 

I like compressor release and reverb pre delay/decay calculators. Especially for setting longer releases and decays it's pretty handy. And you can use a single timebase to calculate all the other values. It works.