I try to find BRIAN fanart, and I get a bunch of pinkie and the BRAIN fanart mixed in. I try to find ZORAK fanart, and the search returns mostly ZORA from Legend of Zelda.

Is there any way to make the search only return exact matches?

I recently published a song that features one Newgrounds user and one goober who doesn't use Newgrounds yet. Is there any conceivable future in which I could put that guy's name in the top left anyway just so everyone who's in the song can have their name up there?

This thread is for based rappers, based freestylers, based producers, and anyone making based music on Newgrounds. Let's link up, work, and talk about our work.

Honey that's the entire genre...

"It's supposed to sound like that!"

It is to Newgrounds' extreme benefit that they're so strict about copyrighted content, samples, loops, etc. from a legal standpoint as well as a creative one. I love to hear the results after decades of a community of people who create music completely from scratch. You want to talk about innovation in music - who else is doing that nowadays?

I've had this problem before. If you keep practicing, a year from now you'll look back and feel silly for thinking that was the best you can do.

Also keep in mind people are idiots who know nothing about music. You know everything about your song, but the average person can't tell their ass from their elbow musically and will accept whatever's put in front of them.

I know Newgrounds has an album feature, or at least a playlist feature you could use for putting together an album. Is there any way to find these? I like albums and I want to find albums by Newgrounders.

The internet never took off. Everyone thought it was a waste of time. So, use of the internet was always a quirk that laid in the background, and Newgrounds continued to remain integral to the culture of the internet as a whole. As the years go on, music posted on Newgrounds has a larger and larger influence on the music of the overall internet.

So, here we are. What is music like in 2024 now that the internet stayed nice and small? What would we see? What wouldn't we see?

Remember: AI data generation is based on creating data based on the training data the software is trained on. It is an error if it generates data unlike what is in its training data. So, that means... it is literally programmed NOT to innovate. It is programmed to take a running leap towards the most generic, crowd-pleasing answer it can give you. And do you think these idiot programmers are studying music?

This is only a problem if you think you have nothing left to learn. Want to beat AI? HIT THE BOOKS!!!!!

This is a question I spend hours and hours thinking about. Why even make music at all?

Don't convince me why I should, I know why. But tell me why you make music at all. Why not play video games, or go out to the bar? What is it about music that really gets you going?

Music is just entertainment with theory. You work with someone by having fun with them.

How do you find someone who thinks music is fun in the same way you do? That's just socialization and you'll have the same problems with it as you will with just finding friends in general.

Seems like your standard electronic pop music with a hint of future bass. The big question is, what do you want it to be?

The average person likes sex, but probably doesn't care about the specific artistic ideas you care about and put into your art.

Netflix bought a first class ticket onto the train of businesses that will run the earth into the ground. Cancel your Netflix subscription, cancel your Hulu subscription, cancel all of your subscriptions (except your Newgrounds subscription of course).

STOP PAYING FOR MEDIA THEY DON'T ACTUALLY LET YOU KEEP!!!

I've been writing music for 16 years and I can count on one hand the number of times I've recorded my notes in. I always click them in. With that said, every other producer I talk to thinks I'm weird for this, so take it with a grain've salt.

Seconded. Advertising is fine if it's people doing it, but if it's companies... block block block!!

Truth be told in all the years I've been making music I have not once been inspired by a picture to create art. I have realized this and thought about it a few times. I really would like to.

As Twitter continues to axe adult art, I wonder if we'll be seeing a 3rd wave.

So my main thought is, that kick wants to be SO HUGE!!! It wants to dominate!! The energy of the song is so high, you really need that super thumpy pulsating beat to push the song along. Find room in the mix for it!! Sidechaining, cutting the low end on things that don't need it, and organized multiband compression are the key to the mix you're after.

Also tip: if something just inexplicably sounds vaguely "too loud," cut at 500hz. Pretty good chance it sounds better.

I would argue that the opposite is true. If you understand the principles behind the abstractions formed by music theory, then you will understand all of the control that you have over every aspect of every note and forms of notes you write. If you don't understand the theory, then you're blindly throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks.

It's very hard to create art if you don't feel a need to. It's helpful if there's a kind of art you want to see that you can't find - suddenly, you're the only one you can count on to make it!!

So, my advice is to try to figure out what art you want to see that you don't see.

Just indulge me here. Say I didn't want people to see what I'm favoriting. Can I do that?

I should emphasize for everyone readingthis that you shouldn't just go wild compressing the ever loving fuck out of everything. Sometimes your drum bus might only need a little.

Congratulations to the legendary @ZonkPunch for being today's user of the day!!

He is most well known for his animations, although unfortunately it doesn't seem like he's posted his primary body of work here.

Just fuck around with a synthesizer of your choice and make something that sounds fucked up. Then, make a song with it, no matter what!

I've drawn this comparison repeatedly in the past and I will do so once again. Long before the advent of AI, lazy "musicians" who want the product without the effort will run to melody loops and drum loops and MIDI packs. Newgrounds is actually an anomaly among websites for computer musicians; sample-based music is the norm everywhere else.

Why? Because it's easy. You get an appealing product with a millionth of the effort. Easy things are easy, and can be done by many people. Hard things are hard, and cannot be done by very many people. It follows that more people will do easy things than hard things. This is all to say that while AI is making the problem worse, it isn't fundamentally the problem behind anticreativity in art creation today.

Stripping as art as a means of expression? Sure, anything can be art if you want. Have at it. But stripping as art as a piece of media to be consumed? I don't think it would ever be scrutinized very rigorously.

I remember it relatively well for how young I was, which was probably 9 or 10. I saw a video on YouTube which was watermarked with a website called "ThatVideoSite," which led me to a place called "ThatVideoGameSite," which led me to here.

Phase Plant is fucking amazing. I use it for everything, because it can basically do everything and intuitively too!! And the company is so great, such wonderful people. I'll simp for them any day of the week. If you can afford it, get it.