I made an absolute dogshit patch, but mastodon is refusing to upload it.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I made an absolute dogshit patch, but mastodon is refusing to upload it. The upload progress bar keeps resetting to zero. Very odd.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@aeva somewhere in Hetzner is a techno fan who was at kraftwerk's first electronic show and they are suppressing this video because it's too dogshit

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@aeva they listen to every file with music uploaded to hetzner and either thumbs up it or thumbs down… this is the first time they've ever gone… no… no not good enough

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

the idea behind the patch was it starts with a pulse generator that generates a single frame pulse every few seconds, and that gets written into a tape loop such that the tape loop starts empty and eventually gradually turns into a wall of static. this is fed into another chain of more different tape loops which approximate resonators and echo. the patch is named "for as long as you can stand it"

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

the patch is a failure though because it starts off sounding somewhere between "weird" and "kind of awful" and morphs into "fairly awful" whereas my intent was it would start off sounding pleasant and morph into unbearable. in retrospect, feeding solid noise into a resonator doesn't result in a self destructing patch. I'll probably revisit the idea another time

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc it is probably for the best lol

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

the stand has a sort of "lavender town theme played an out of tune mandolin and they don't really remember the notes" sort of vibe which is kinda neat though