jperturbal website

Sections:

• Introduction
• What I know about some stuff
• What I've made recently
• Videos
• Songs
• Files
• Links
• Extra Blabla
• Sweet websites list

Word list:

• Ableton
• Aphex Twin
• Audacity
• Car Music
• Composer's Desktop Project
• Don't pay for shit?
• FL Studio
• List fo good and free vsts, just for you.
• Pure Data
• Reaper
• Renoise
• Squarepusher
• Supercollider
• Trugictra
• Web 1.0

Introduction

Jason Olson Perturbal, more likely known as jperturbal on various platforms such as Youtube or Soundcloud, makes music influenced by Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and other artists from the electronic scene.
For music production, I use programs such as Reaper, Renoise, Pure Data, Supercollider, Audacity, and Composer's Desktop Project. You can find me on some of their forums.
I'm trying to make music everyday, regardless if it's a whole song or a tiny sample.

What I know about some stuff

Reaper

I've used this program before, back when I wanted to start making music. If right now you're as lost as I was trying to find a free (and hopefully good) DAW on the internet back a few years ago, then Reaper is a pearl. I feel like it's not as known as FL Studio or Ableton, and it technically makes sense, but god this is insanely great for a beginner. I think it's pretty easy to get used to the UI and everything, pretty simple to understand. Three things you gotta know before getting it is that first, they have a license where they let you choose to pay or not, so you still can use it perfectly fine with all the features it has without having to pay for it. Second is that they don't include much vsts, compared to Ableton or FL Studio, so you gotta have a list ready of free ones, and then lastly I wish they had a slicer sampler like what FL has, something like slicex. It's pretty difficult to find some alternatives so I prefer to do my drums on a tracker like Renoise.

FL Studio

No wonder why people like it so much. It just feels good to fiddle around with. They not only offer you a bunch of very good instruments and effects, as well as a bunch of samples. You know that on this program it's way more focalized on the sampling side of things. You could get around with it pretty easily too, maybe not as much as Reaper, but it's well enough, also great for a beginner. It was pretty slow for me to do the switch between the two programs but it's okay.

Ableton

I wish I had more time to play with it. If you told me there was a rhodes vst with it, I would've bought it a long time ago already. It is really really good, they have a lot of different synthesizers, lots of effects that are really good for drums, but I feel like this program might frighten some beginner at first because of how cryptic some stuff looks. The UI is slick, nice and clean, but you gotta have some experience before using this hell of a machine.

Renoise

Do you know about trackers? Music trackers, cause it's a whole new damn world. It's like a sort of niche? But it's really good. Looks complicated though, and it is! But go dive into that world if you're not a fan of DAWs and want something more old, retro. Renoise is like a tracker from today. It supports VSTs, has some effects, the demo is nice too. I found it pretty versatile for drum splicing, which trackers are also good for, at least like OctaMED or ProTracker.

Pure Data

So what is all that pure data thing? A visual programing software, that uses blocks to make a whole buncha stuff. Maybe an FM synth, maybe a complex drum machine, or an algorithm that generates a whole song. When you think about it, it just is like eurorack synths, connect modules with a buncha cables. I've heard that Rich some other software that goes along the same lines as Pd, Supercollider.

Supercollider

Goes along the same lines as pure data, a programming language. I'm also trying to learn this, looks a bit hard though.

Audacity

What the hell do you want me to talk about? It's just good, like the only amazing open-source free recording program everyone uses. Don't pay for shit, I tell you.

Update: Audacity has been bought by some company I don't know about, apparently there are other "clones" of it by it's creators out there, like Tenacity. I'll take a look at it.

Don't pay for shit?

Yeah. There's always going to be good alternatives to everything. You can work around anything. And if you don't find your happiness with the free stuff out here, might as well just pirate shit. Make powerful tools at least cheap, at best free and open-source, because you shouldn't put a damn paywall in front of someone who's just trying to get creative. Hell, it's why Blender works. It's why Godot works.

List of good and free vsts, just for you.

Honourable mention: Kilohearts plugins "Essentials", like it says, they got everything you need. EVERYTHING (It's not like special delay or anything, it's like the bare minimum. Haas effect, distortion, bitcrush, pitch shifter and more. They also have other paid plugins.)

Aphex Twin

Huh? RDJ? Aphex Twin? Who's that? It's an Irish-British IDM composer, a pioneer of his time. I was born a year after Drukqs came out, what a banger. He'll start making music at around 14 years old if I'm not wrong, being the DJ at some raves I think, and release albums like Selected Ambient Works 85-92, which I have on vinyl, SAW Vol.II, then go on some more weirder stuff like the Richard D. James Album, ...I Care Because You Do, I think it's my favorite of em all, then Come To Daddy, those were his peak times with the Windowlicker EP too, then Drukqs, then come back 13 years later with Syro. He releases EPs from time to time, Collapse EP, insanely good, he released recently BBLR suprizingly great, kinda like the child of the previous one, and some other stuff like Cheetah EP, Donkey Rhubarb, Girl/Boy EP, etc... You might think that with all of that it's already a lot but he has not finished at all cause he got a bunch of other aliases, I'll let you find them by yourself. He's simply a legend that's hopefully still alive, he's like more than 50 years old. And that's how I started getting into IDM and generally electronic stuff. Then I got to know Squarepusher, then Autechre, µ-Ziq, and some more in the future. He might scare you at first with his grinning face, but don't be afraid. That's also how I got to know about CDP!

Trugictra

What a funny name. You definitely won't know about them, but today's your lucky day cause you'll discover one more artist that you should listen to (at least if you like drum n bass and also jungle)! I found them on youtube, they were showing some music they've made on a tracker! All of that got me interested, so I subscribed to them. Few months later, they started growing a Spotify, releasing more and more stuff. I took a listen recently and my god is it sometimes beautiful. It's that good, you won't regret it. I specifically downloaded a windows port of ProTracker so that I could listen directly to the module files they had put up online. They deserve a lot of visibility and recognition for what they make.

Squarepusher

His stuff is really awesome. I didn't listen to his whole discography yet, but from the multiple EPs and albums I listened to, the mix between jazz and electronic feels so good. Sometimes it's a mix of the two, sometimes it's gonna be pure acid, and sometimes it's going to be some weird acoustic experimental shit. Most of the times I prefer when it's a mix of the two genres, big fan of Feed Me Weird Things, some tracks just feel right to be considered "electronic jazz" (Like Windscale 2, GOD I LOVE THIS TRACK SO MUCH.) Go take a listen!

Car Music

Wtf is car music? It's a very specific feeling I have with some songs. It's like driving a car at night, a car that bounces to the bpm of the song. I can talk about Fenix Funk 5 and My Red Hot Car all day because of the fact that they're in the "car music" genre of mine.

Web 1.0

I like all this hosting service. It's very reminiscent of the old whimsical web there was back when it was first made. It's pure customization here. They offer you other services for the ones who don't know how to code in html and css so that your website looks how you want it to look like.

Composer's Desktop Project

This thing is amazing. Once again, it's a free program. What does it do? It processes sound with a wide variety of effects, and spectral effects. I've heard about it on a Benn Jordan video talking about the shitload amount of softwares that rdj uses for his stuff. It's theorized that this one was used to make Bucepahlus Bouncing Ball. I use the Soundshaper gui but I think I can easily get around the original version of this amazing program.

What I've made recently

One drum break...

...mutliple CDP effects!

Videos

This is a 7-voices drone sythesizer I built on Pure Data.

A video on my early stuff with pure data. I followed a few tutorials before this. I'll learn more in the future. Expect computer generated songs in the times to come.

I like what I've made yesterday. Decided to upload it. Had to learn a bit of PD to make the visualizer, wasn't very difficult.

Songs

Files

Extra Blabla

Sweet websites list

I don't know what most of these say, because I haven't learned much russian.

Links

Come talk to me on Discord

Listen to my stuff on Soundcloud

Watch what I'm doing on Youtube