If you want to make music, and you are trans and/or gender-diverse, this comm is for you!
Wendy Carlos is now 85, pioneer of synths, microtonality and also trans. Thanks for creating this comm.
An icon.
She was talking about her continuing to closet herself and release music under her dead name after she’d undergone sex reassignment for fear of public backlash. She said of that closeted period, “It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life." And like… mood.
Make sure to take a look at the rules on the sidebar, and let me know if there’s anything else that should be mentioned!
Happy Posting
now if only you could have audio only embeds so I didn’t have to link vocaroo or something every time I wanted to share my WIPs
This would be awesome but I hope it wouldn’t be abused. Also I didn’t know you did music! You’re talented in so many different ways!
You could upload private/unlisted videos on tankies.tube maybe?
YES! FINALLY SOMEWHERE FOR ME TO RANT
This is the exact comm for me!
I’m super excited about this! It’ll help me not procrastinate as much on my projects too. I’ll fire up the DAW tonight!
Yay!!
does anyone know about any trans rap
I know there’s enough of a scene in ABQ that they’ve had multi artist nights at venues with 100% trans rappers. Sadly my friend in that city has deleted me from their life. But just saying that might be a place to start looking for names to search up.
Other than that, there’s no way I’m sharing mine until I re-find my voice. If I even try to spit again. Maybe it’s time to expand my genre boundaries. Or at least figure out how to use my synths’ modulators to fux with it enough that I don’t die of cringe and shame when I listen back to it lmao.
Check out DAMAG3
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Check out atlas: https://soundcloud.com/ATLAS
This is probably their most popular song: https://youtu.be/d5bFsOVxMpU
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Would this be the right comm to ask about setting up for simple recording at home? I can do the physical stuff but the software stuff is really confusing, as are ADCs and getting input to the computer. Somehow Jack is involved, but last time i tried to set it up i broke pulse somehow. I want to try again come the new year tho
I want to try again come the new year tho
Might be good timing for me too. I have a bitwig license and a lot of hardware, and an intention to keep my production on linux. Perhaps we will figure it all out together.
I might be able to give you a hand. Pipewire makes everything way simpler and easier nowadays.
Wonderful! I havent sorted pipewire, but i can install it ^^ im using a 2019 thinkpad with void linux on it. I remember trying to get my midi controller working but it just would not (tho i also dont have a realtime kernel installed so even if i got it working i have no guarantee that it would be playable
You should be able to install it through your package manager and it’ll just replace pulseaudio and jack. You may need pipewire-alsa though depending on your setup and distro.
Wow, a comm just for me? This has to be the day I start posting
I’ve been working on a pretty elaborate (for me anyway) project/album for the past over a decade. The finish line is almost in sight now and I hope that having music peeps to chat with will make it easier and more exciting to work on music! I struggle to find time for it in between all the being disabled
inb4
Hope I don’t jinx myself and don’t finish the album for another few years lol
its happened before
cool comm! I super recommend omfg_astrid my current favorite trans musician.
Can’t wait to hear what beautiful sounds y’all make!
O lawd don’t make me get back on my bullshit. I have been putting off re-cabling my whole fuckin studio since I moved. So. Much. MIDI.
I have had a continual nagging feeling that it’s time to get back to making beats n shit. This further pushes the desire.
Reaper gang rise up!
Reaper is so good. I’m still holding out hope that Justin Frankel will open source it once he finally gets tired of maintaining it.
Yo, thanks so much for making this comm a thing, I’m really happy that it’s already taken off! If you didn’t see my post in c/commrequest, I wanted this to be a thing because I made a Trans Synths starter pack and feed on Bluesky and wanted to have that community be multi-platform for those who no longer feel safe on Bluesky with their recent bs. So there may be some folks that come over here from Bluesky now that they know this is a thing.
If you haven’t seen the video by Red Means Recording from last year “Your Synthesizer is Trans (and Other Stories)” I highly recommend. Was the inspiration for making this community a thing.
I’m glad you’re happy, and I’m glad I could, at least in part, work to provide a safe place for other trans people 🙂
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
ooo this is extremely my shit!
