u/amethyst353

Ive tried three USB hubs and the one I currently have is powered to the wall too but I can't get them to not cut in and out when it's full. I only have one working usb port on my laptop so I have to use a hub and even if the others worked there's only three ports. For making music I need my midi keyboard, and my audio interface plugged jn plus I have my USB headphones, mouse and keyboard. Since no USB hubs will work good enough, and I can't afford a new computer, am I out of luck? Do I need to stop making music even though I was in the middle of an album? Do other computers even have more than 3 USB ports?

I want to go out into the real world and record ambient sounds for my lofi music but I'm not about to lug around my laptop, interface, and mic. What's a good small Bluetooth mic that's good for capturing soundscapes?

I am going to start a new youtube account for lofi featuring a small group of lofi producers including myself. It would be a collaborative project with permission from everyone. All of the music will be original compositions with no AI use, so each track will be owned by the specefic person in the group who made it. I have a couple people so far but we are all new independent producers so none of us know how to allow eachother the rights to use our tracks.

Personally, I use distrokid as my distributer but I am not sure what the other producers use, I can ask but I'm still looking for a couple more people and I'm not sure what the next people will use as a distributer.

Also, if the channel ends up generating revenue ID like to split it between all of us evenly but I'm not sure how that works.

Any advice will be appreciated :)

I'm new to music production, and don't know anything about hard drives. I only have 5 songs so far but I realized quickly that storing the WAV files as well as the daw projects onto my laptop isn't a good idea. It's going to take up a lot of space

So I need to buy a hard drive but I don't even understand the different sizes. I don't know how to comprehend the differences in gigabyte and terabyte even.

I use a gaming laptop because that's what I have, and it works just fine so far. Only one of my USB inputs work though so I use a USB hub is that okay to plug an external hard drive into?

I feel really dumb asking these questions but I really don't know. So please be kind. Also by budget is less than $100 so there's that too

By sideways, I mean when I wear pads or period underwear, i leak down my thighs and it never goes up or down the actual padding. It's hard to explain I hope that makes sense. I leak out left and right to my thighs while all except the middle of my pad is dry.

Why don't they make period shorts? I've seen perion boxers and I'm trying out disposable period diapers for the first time today but it's all the same. It all is a vertical strip so I'm just always going to leak on my thighs. If there were period shorts with padding on the entire thing, including the inner thighs, I'd be all set and wouldn't ever leak.

Does this exist, or do I have to make it myself?

I am a white local of muskegon. I was born here and this is my home town forever. I have been noticing the signs of Gentrification here and around like to battle that. Wealthy non-residents buy up our housing and our businesses while barely (if at all) even stepping foot here. Large corporations use our cheap labor to extract money from us and from wealthy visitors coming to see our beautiful beaches and parks, I can go on.

That being said, I don't have much money to spend but I would like some of the staples, consumables, and even just fun products I do buy to be from local business from the people that are actually from here. Preferably, I would like to support black owned business but also non-black locals as well just not the CEO'S from out of town.

Please leave your suggestions or your business in the comments below, sorry for the rant but at my job I witness these kinds of things daily and it's getting to me. I'd rather act in a more positive way but supporting eachother

I just started making lofi recently and make three songs that are around 3-4 minutes each. I've been posting them on YouTube but my goal is to do the 1 hour+ long ones for people to have on in the background. So should I not be posting single tracks in the meantime until I have enough for at least an hour? I'm worried the single tracks will clutter my channel and people won't see the long ones

My channel meets all the requirements (I checked over and over again) and I even tried the renaming hack but still nothing. I waited 2 days and still have the error when I try linking it. I have two music videos for the songs I uploaded on distrokid, and have a topic channel with those same songs. My names match exactly. idk what I'm missing here.

Edit: I'd like to apologize if I seemed negative in the comments. I was just frustrated with my own confusion. I appreciate all the advice💕

I want to make lofi songs (mostly using piano as the instrument) from scratch but I'm stuck at writing melodies. I have a grasp on the chord progressions now but I'm struggling to understand how to create melodies on top of them.

I tried searching the internet for how to do this but I'm not finding anything helpful. I just get results for other things like how to make chord progressions or the "how to write a song" results will just tell you to come up with a chord progression and then will say "then you just make up a melody". Lol but how?

I understand to keep it in the same key as the chord progression but how do I make sure it sounds good with each chord besides just doing arpeggios?

If it helps, the chords I have for my current work in progress are Am7 Dm7 G9 and Cmaj7 but I want to understand the theory on how to make melodies with any chord progression

I tried using my piano keyboard with bandlab for the first time. Just bought a midi USB cable and it recognizes the notes I play no issue but not the sustain. The notes are very short. This happened when I used noteflight to transfer the notes from there too (but only sometimes?) when I had half notes it played sticado. How do I get my notes to not register as sticado?