All right, now everything has to work. Does it? Let me check Check me double triple check Let me quadruple Queen tuple check Let me check. Yes, it works. Hey, welcome Hello, everybody. It's an fall live. It's a monthly live stream time for Sunday 8 p.m. Central European time. I had some Audio issues because I like had some network issues So I thought well if I have some network issues, I'm gonna install a new kernel and maybe that's gonna fix itself but no and So I'm now running a newer kernel 5.1 You know, so my face is a little bit small My face is on the small side. I'm gonna enlarge my face. I think enlarging faces is an important thing. Oh Man, where is it? Okay? Enlarging faces in progress. There you go bigger faces burger faces Okay, I'm really glad to see all of you here. I really hope everybody's watching.  Duh Okay, I Oh, I made a little song today. I wanted to play to you. Uh today Morning, I was like taking a shower and I would start it singing I'm just figuring stuff. I've been figuring out stuff. Yeah, and then I thought hmm. Let's record that so I sat down and Let me just add a limiter here cuz I don't know how loud this is gonna be Yep, let's do it that. Oh Man The and also I need to connect this cuz you know, sorry, I had this all connected but now Let's try it out three two one. And so that's a song This is basically about my networking. Oh But now it's also about audio. However It it works for now. So hopefully it's gonna stay that way because I don't want to redo that I was thinking I was thinking about what work you can do today One thing I was thinking let's work on that dubstep track. We've been working on for the past three live streams And I thought uh Maybe not I don't like feel super excited about it. But I made the song today. Maybe I'm gonna show you how I made it And then we're gonna maybe work on it and do some more things So I started with the vocals And recently I figured out some stuff um How to record vocals or any other instruments through um through microphones or line inputs using big big latency in jack and still have everything in sync because I just figured it out after like using this stuff for 10 years already that hey jack has some ways to calibrate the latency uh, so What you do Is you take a cable You plug it to the output and to the input On your audio interface So you're making a loop a feedback loop and then what you do is let me just check What you do is you open up a terminal on your linux machine and you run jack i o delay And what that does it's creating A little um Like jack program with one input and one output you route the output to your Soundcard output you route the input that you have plugged the cable into to the input of the program And then you just need to dial the levels And it sends some weird tones And it can measure the latency Super precisely and then it says what you need to do What values you need to put into your jack configuration to have perfect sync If you're recording, what is that black thing? So there's a bit lighting or is that what what the hell It's a wrinkle on my green screen dammit I whatever you can live with that So I did that and I got like for um, I'm not gonna do this right now or actually I can do it So yeah, it's it's creating a new jack client and it's waiting for the signal to to become uh visible I'm gonna open kathia kathia, which is a jack signal routing program And you can see here is the jack i o delay. So if I took a cable And like plugged a mono lead into my headphone jack, which is a big jack And into my mic input And then, you know, I can route this output to my playback To to one channel just one channel And then the input from my mic preamp back here And it creates a loop. So jack i o delay can measure what's the latency, which is the delay And I did that because um I was working. I was trying to record trying to record. I was recording vocals for a project I've been doing I could play that project also It's a pretty cool track, I think But the project was very complicated and I couldn't just, you know, it it might see My system couldn't handle it at Low latencies because it was all crackly because I had too much plugins So What I had to do is set the latency to a big one this buffer size 2024 this is like 23 milliseconds of latency In 48 kHz sampling rate I usually record vocals at 128 or 256 max because if that's the case the latency is too big I can't hear myself properly and I just can't sing And I can't catch sync with the recording, but after I did this Cadence cadence cadence.  So here is my cadence window And you can see I'm running a 224 sample buffer Which is 21 milliseconds of latency and if I go configure Here is the I don't know why this is called extra latency because this is actually latency compensation And I thought oh, I can insert extra latency. Why would I want to make my latency higher? No, it's not for making the latency higher It's for making jack aware of the latency The the processing and the hardware all does so when you record your clap with the metronome like, you know Your metronome goes and you go Then The recording will be on point In time and not Because that's gonna drive you insane if you try to record something and you have to set your latency higher than say A few milliseconds and that's what I have to do. So I figured this out I've plugged in these two numbers like 322 and 322 for both for input and output latency And it works I can record vocals in our door having a huge latency and it is in point But I cannot use the software playthrough anymore or software monitoring because that would make myself here Because that would make me hear myself With tremendous latency. So what I did is good. I got to edit preferences audio No signal flow and here is a setting monitoring record monitoring handled by audio hardware before I used ardoor And that's using software playthrough I've talked about all of that in my Initial configuration video on the ardoor channel. If you haven't seen that maybe I'm gonna drop a link maybe not now Yeah, and I've been using this software playthrough all the time and now I'm using hardware playthrough because I can have high latencies and I can just you know record vocals and then use my hardware monitoring in my audio interface or even just take out one Headphone from your head and you can hear yourself singing It's what I did before I had such hardware that has Covered monitoring and I can just record some vocals. Let's make another take Man, do I remember the line? Yeah, I need to turn down the volume of the whole thing because I can't really control the hardware monitoring that easy. I need to turn out my headphones and Yeah, because I want to record with some some dynamic range and now I can record the vocals I hope that's helpful I've been figuring out stuff Let's try it I've been figuring out stuff Yeah I've been figuring out stuff. Yeah I've been figuring out stuff. Yeah I've been figuring out stuff. Yeah. Yeah Whoo And it doesn't work. Oh, no, it doesn't work. No, no And it doesn't work. No No, no, it doesn't work. No, no And it doesn't work. No No, no, it doesn't work. No, no And it doesn't work. No Oh fail Okay, I don't remember you see I had to record these in multiple takes often especially the second part because I like First I just started improvising this Let's see. Now we have playback from the disc with Like this auto tune here is not actually correcting anything. You see the correction. Oh, can you see it? It's too big It's too big This correction knob is on zero. So it's not actually tuning anything It's just showing me How in pitch am I When I'm singing this is super useful if you're singing and you don't know if you're on pitch Or are you sharp or you're flat or whatever this Shows you if you're singing then I would you want to sing and if you're On point, this is very useful for monitoring your performance when you're singing Like a guitar tuner plugin ain't gonna cut it Hmm and then actually all these tracks get sent to this bus which has a compressor and then reverb And then any cue I hope I should have put this before the compressor actually Yeah, I don't know why it's after compressor I should remove the low frequencies before Uh the compression because otherwise the compression may react to some frequency content that is here Which we don't really want because we don't want to hear it. So it doesn't make sense for the compressor to react to it and attenuate the sound Rob van der Berg says me sees dragonfly. Yeah I started experimenting with the second dragonfly reverb plugin, which is called the drug and fly room reverb It's a little bit different I'm sorry.   I need to blow my nose. It's gross.  It's unfair life. Anything can happen All right, we I think we want to have some some cool sounds.  I think I'm gonna Uh I'm sorry. This is so ridiculous, but I'm having fun. I hope I hope you're not grossed out and Hope you haven't left yet. I need to check Because then maybe five people left. No, no, you're all there. That's good Oh, I really uh You know, I had I had a long pause from singing Because I got so so just you know overwhelmed with all different work and stuff, but I so enjoy singing. It's so relaxing and Yeah, I I really want to get to sing more. I hope hope maybe I'm gonna release some something Let's see if that sounds any good Gross I need to blow my what the hell Okay, the pitch isn't perfect at times, but it's almost pretty sweet. I think Okay, we had some fun with this I think because it's uh So the cool thing is you see I recorded this. I have a huge latency of 21 milliseconds Probably even bigger like the systemic latency, which is 21 milliseconds is just the jack latency, but there's also latency of the sound card Uh, sorry of this of the of the audio interface of everything. So that systemic latency, which is the total latency Or round triplet. It's higher probably, but it's measured and jack is calibrated for it. So what I recorded Like if I try to clamp along with the metronome Can you hear it?  Oh my goodness Whiplash, I think I was I was rushing Whoa, that's weird I was rushing more and more Holy crap, that's weird. Oh, you whoa, let's check it out Hmm Rowland bergs says that the volume is too low. Yeah It is, you know what? I'm gonna compensate the volume. Oh, yeah. Yeah Is it good now? gross I need to blow my nose Okay, I think it's gonna be better Yeah, the latency calibration is good. Okay, you know what I'm gonna do I need to somehow control the volume in my headphones So, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna open also mixer I need to make this smaller Let's press f6 go to the UMC 202 HD, which is my audio interface and I'm gonna attenuate the playback Say by 12 decibels. Let's see because I need to hear My if I don't do this The hardware monitoring is going to be too quiet for me to hear myself Ah, yeah The loudness is good Something wrong with playing Glitch those samples. Please lifeline says All righty, we need to do stuff with this stuff because it's fun However, maybe I thought Okay, do you want to see Do you want to have a rundown of how I synthesize all this stuff? Or do you want me to just go on with it and Uh, play with these samples Let's maybe start playing with these samples And if you want to see how I synthesize all these sounds Let me know in the chat. I'm taking a look at the chat. I'm constantly watching the chat Okay, what do I need? I need ninjas too. I just updated it today Because I wanted to get the best And the latest and greatest awesomeness from a rob van den berg Who's coding this plugin and he's right now on the chat Uh, it fits if I say everybody Please give a round of applause to rob van den berg for creating ninjas too, which is a awesome something slicing plugin So this is ninjas too. I need to first make some samples.  I need to blow my nose I wonder what can I do? Uh, is it lv2? I believe the ninjas too And plugin is lv2 I don't know if it's also available in vst Maybe it is. Yay. It's pitch band. I mean pitch band Power. Yay. I asked rob for this feature. So it because It like there is an option to have The pitch wheel changing the pitch of the samples played, but I don't know and he'll just like I think I discovered this by accident or He just hinted me somehow on this and this yeah, you can change this now. It's octave Ah, we need some samples I need to blow my nose Let's just take this one. I'm gonna s tap s to slice And now I'm going to basically export this one file Let's browse Maybe I'm gonna export make a sub folder here called samples And let's call this okay. This is the location now the name of the file is I need to blow my nose timestamp name Time span name Now that's the just the name of the region. We don't really need that. It's not gonna help us anything I need to I want to save this as 24 bit flag Because I have I want Maximum fidelity I hope the audio works. It could have dropped out because rendering samples All right, let's drop this sample into ninjas too Let's click load sample. Okay. I need to get to my can I type here? Oh, okay data Data oh man data project project Oh man, you're seeing my whole This freaking the structure Uh Last modified, please I'm giving out. Yep export samples. I need to blow my nose. Hey, I would automatically chop this so now Let's you know what I'm gonna plug in my midi keyboard and this is a good segue to show you how to plug in your midi keyboard I have a little aka akai mpk mini Someone says no audio No sound Is this sound working? Let me just check Yeah, let me just check. Yeah, there's sound if if there if you have no sound If you have no sound, it's your problem, dude So now Let's okay, so if you connect your midi keyboard to your pc It should be Detected in jack. I'm gonna show you cat. Yeah Katja Is a nice program that shows you stuff The connections jack connections patch based style. It's it's just easier that way than just having Multiple long lists and just clicking this like this and connect Somewhere here. Oh there there's midi input. What is that? This is a spaghetti This is a real spaghetti That's like wow That's a real spaghetti monster. Yeah, that's what you get if you have lots of stuff Okay, no, that's just a part of my of my midi setup So that's not that that's not it. Okay. Anyway, you should like if you have it all Just works well, then you just select it and you should have this on the list But you don't I don't So I open cadence Here is cadence Oh my goodness, please don't Don't you hang on me? Oh no. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, there it is So we have cadence And here it has very useful tools like also midi bridge So when you run jack you go export hardware, which means you need to enable it to export parts from your hardware controllers and then you start the bridge And now if I click here I have midi through and I have my mpk me Keyboard so I can just select it And if I press record I should have my my midi input going. I'm not sure if I I'm not sure if onsets slice slicing and dicing I need to figure out Okay, is it getting I need to blow my nose Okay, it's working It is working We just need to figure out Okay, so c4 is the first like slice Let's see Let's just place a lot of slices And play this in loop Let's figure out what the hell. Oh, I just gave it one. Okay. Let's give it multiple Wow, that's so fun Okay, we actually um, we don't need the first note because it's just nothing This is awesome. It actually spliced it semi correctly regarding Like The parts of the words or even words Oh, yeah, we can also use these A combustible lemonade says this sounds kind of like some sevens tracks Yeah, I got the same thought like wow, maybe that's how he's doing these all amazing vocal chops Oh my goodness, this is awesome. Okay, let's give ourselves some some kick bass maybe I think we might need to like, okay, let's un-solo things No Okay, maybe let's make this um I don't like these vocals here right now. I don't need them. So let's just maybe copy this um kick pattern Yeah, okay, we can have this Now let's give ourselves some hi-hat We can just reuse the pattern we have here The interesting thing about this hi-hat part is that it's not metronomic You can see We can hear it's kind of drunk um And that's because I just took every other note And I've just offset it by a small amount that was like, I don't know one 30 second or something less and gives us this weirdly Kind of funky laid-back feel Do we have more slices up there? Nope No That's so cool Let's you know what we could kind of make this like a synthesizer I think that's a great thing Right now is that I am discovering things and you're discovering things along me and we're having fun together It's not just like I'm showing you stuff that I know in and out and it's boring and it's like You know to me it's at least boring, but it's something new to me. Also Why the plugin not out wait a minute Mr. TXT asks why the plugin not out. Hmm also, um Like reading reading or reading Kick it's kind of interesting has been based behind it Okay, so there are some Cool ideas we could try using band pitch pitch bands So let's try okay eight 192 is the middle value, which is no effect I'm gonna check how is my uh Don't bur bur bur bur Bur buh uh Oh man, where is that editor? Oh, yeah ignore Ignore y-axis click position when adding new automation points. That's what I want I can just what the it's not doing that Liar no, okay. That's probably just only works for you know, real automation because How about I can make this longer awesome, and I can make a pitch band here flip an egg You know I've made I made entire some I talk about orders automation and that it's Allowing you to do cool. I Can basically do scratches with this thing because you can go Here yep, let's go back to Because this like is independent of the actual sample you're playing However, I'm not sure I want that extreme weirdness Maybe just a little bit of it So I'm gonna try to like snap it to neutral values and That's cool. Let's see if I can use some other slices Sweet I Could just Huh, this is not neutral. Yeah, like editing this pitch band automation had needs needs some work in order It's really really not user-friendly It's a pain to just work with this That's why I don't use it much like the regular automation is easier to use but This is this is the worst Oh, it didn't refresh because I have like You see it didn't register this point because it was right on top of the other point Oh, it's still didn't register use son of a Okay, so we need to give it a bit a bigger slope because it doesn't as a refresh so It's pretty sick I'm gonna call this vocal chops Well chips one cuz we we want to do some more.  Oh, please hello, we have audio we have audio I Think it's the first crash of art or today Or is it? Oh, it's not just something weird I don't like this because it just breaks the tonality. So I want to man. I want to Bring this to the whole octave so it's Well, this doesn't sound good They're weirdness I like this oh Rob van der Berg says you can automate play direction to forward backward, but be careful when playing multiple slices So we can ah, this is play modes forward backwards Oh We can change the play modes of individual samples that is I think yeah or slices Holy slap this this wow also is there a loop markers or am I just Am I just imagining things? No, no, no, okay. Oh It's good that they like hold against each other so I can't overlap multiple because that would be bad Whoo, that's awesome. I don't want to give this a little bit of attack and release. So Oh, it's also per slice I Awesome Wow That's really cool because you can just You can just now this is this would be perfect for drums If you also could like, you know change the pitch of individual slices because I think it's not possible right now, but Still it's wow. This is cool What cool things could we do with this? Let's give give it some snare by the way, maybe this is a good time to maybe this is Let's talk about the kick the kick bass as I call it and the snare I'm using my mouse wheel to change the velocity of this note. So there it's let's see If the notes overlap or touch sometimes Ardor will glitch out and whoa, I Deleted the whole region. I didn't want that. That's okay. I don't like this I had a roll there and the end. It's maybe trying to do something opposite that is Whip. Oh Wow, that's weird. I don't know what to do that Yeah, we need more of that. Good thing about bender automation is that it's it's embedded in the media region So you can copy them and move them around and it follows unlike the plugin automation, which is Just separate and you to take care of it separately I think I wanted to do some variation here To do Wow All righty, that's something Okay, let's take a lot. Let's take a look at the kick bass and just figure out how it works because that's pretty simple and pretty It's that's fine. Also the snare Let me just plug in my meter keyboard into it. Yeah, I have to low What what note am I playing here? Okay, it's D sharp So the kick bass is super simple was disable DQ. It just boosts low end and Is boosting the low end because I wanted the low low bass Louder than the higher bass like, you know, this one because this one like didn't Didn't go through so loud on my speakers So when I turned up the whole thing This was too loud. So when I turned up this they felt more in line So let's mute that EQ and let's open Zenfusion. I Think for some reason things are Loading for a long time. Let's just Hello you there It'll never happen before looks like something's not working as expected That's expected. However. No, that wasn't expected. I didn't expect things to it'll work to not work.  Oh now it shows good So we have the EQ disabled. We have the first voice, which is a sine wave There are two voices and there are also effects Distortion, let's disable it and Reverb so this is without any effects. It's just a sine wave of oscillator Just a sine wave and It has a frequency envelope. Sorry on the global a global frequency envelope That adds I'm gonna copy this so I can paste it back It's a freeform envelope. So it's not controlled with these knobs Because I wanted to give it a more custom slope and you can see we are just creating a drum like transient by Manipulating the pitch envelope and paste what I had before. Yeah, and that's it Basically, then it has an amplitude envelope Which is slowly decaying making this you know for a real for a normal regular kick I would use Something like this but for this kick bass, I'm using a longer one and also, you know The sine wave just keeps the frequency that I play at as long as this Envelope has this point of rest. She may be I could do it like that at this middle line And that's the first voice the second voice As disabled the first one it's a little bit of It's a sine wave modulated by an earth sine wave With a weird frequency so it just creates a noise like sound There's also a like an amplitude modulation here Just to play without with it and here the envelope to envelope That makes this really really quick and together they give this oh They don't wait a minute oh I think I changed the wrong today, oh Yeah, I changed the wrong amplitude Now there is very important distortion. You see It's it's mixed in In a in a ratio, so it's not all the way so this gives us some high frequency higher frequency stuff and next is reverb Which is just high passing all the bass. I just want to give this him some ambience So give some space. So that's the kick bass. I hope that's helpful Let's try it That doesn't fit this prayer part of the song at all and snare snare is super simple However, somehow it just sounds like the Roland 808 TR 808 snare, which is really funny. Oh, I also forgot to enable the EQ Okay for the bass so You see the snare is pretty much the same thing It's a simple sine wave oscillator with a frequency envelope which is again done by hand and And it has a short amplitude envelope you can see here If it's too long it's gonna feel weird and then it just has two Voices of white noise with One of them has a band pass filter I need some snare sample material Yep So this is it. Mm-hmm. Whoa, never mind. It's it's disabled either way So that's this one voice layer noise layer and our noise layer and with the sine layer Just a sign there and then together somehow the tuning of this sounds perfectly like the Roland TR 808 snare, which is very much used in Trap music and then a little bit of distortion Tap to warm Which is really really tasty and then in Q I will see the TRR 808 has this property that has two body frequency resonances One and about the other and somehow I think the pitch envelope is of such a shade It also creates these two tones. So I emphasize them and then I used a Low shelf to like turn this all down because it was too much and then bring up some highs Because it was too dark Then some reverb Dragonfly reverb And there's the snare I think we need some sneezing sorry the blowing nose samples used we could make a snare out of that I think also if we pitch it to this we could use make this to a kick I think Let's try it A little bit shift let's go three octaves if you know exactly what I expected but No, no, that doesn't sound very good How about reversing it because that's fun alt Alt 2 alt 4. Yeah Yeah, this is always this is this is always fun This never gets old Maybe let's I'm gonna middle-click and drag this sample down Down down down down down Down on its own layer and Ardo creates a new layer. Sorry a new track now. It has its own track. I Don't know with that now we can Yeah, I want to use this like Just some reverb Sweet Let's go drug-and-fly room ever again.  It's useful for Give me some more. Oh nice Oh Nice This is sounding like classic EDM more and more. I don't know. Yeah, this is so cliche man First it's trap like second. We're using vocal chops third. We're using whoo whoo This is like EDM 101.  That's weird and I want to reverse this so it's Man, I think I think that even like the art of noise was doing something like this Yeah, it's actually this is super old. This is nothing new. It's like the oldest stuff Me and Feels weird to be doing stuff. Oh this old. I'm like there's a little bit of there's a little bit of Room reverb just captured on that sample Well, we can't do anything about it really. I want to do something to add taste make bees spice it up So let's use a flanger But disable the LFO Flanger is actually just a delay line that's using variable delay and It's controlling the delay amount with LFO. So and it creates phasing effects, which are here showed on the spectrum graph But we can automate Mod the depth and we can basically do stuff like that.  We can try and make some weird weird stuff. Let's solo it I Yep, this is fun with phasers Let's try and do this like reverse it and then go back I need to blow my sauce whatever that means I don't know I Need to blows weird But that's the fun of vocal chops You create sounds that don't you could create words that don't exist and Never existed Okay, I'm using the range tool to select the whole thing with module of automation and just copy and And paste it with my playhead position. Maybe yeah, let's do some playhead position. It's gonna be easier And let's paste this four times and just Know All right, I made a mistake I copied one one too much I need to be Thomas Yeah, we don't actually have to use if we were just having a single sample like this Actually, we have multiple and well, let's combine them. Oh now I need to change this to mouse. I'm gonna combine these samples Oh, no, it's getting better all the blown nose all the nose blowing Gross gross I need to Maybe that's laughter. Yeah, that's I want to have this. Let's use that. It's weird. It's weird. It's great Could pitch it down or something. Let's make it louder Where is blowing? Yeah, there's blowing nose That's three also pretty good I Need to blow my nose. I need to blow so I need to be Thomas. Yeah I I'm gonna rearrange this so we have three nose blows Free nose blows. Yeah, come by your free nose blows fantastic Let's just you know have select those range and right-click export range and exporting to the export samples and Okay, I'm gonna call this nose blows One maybe because my we might have more. No, no, let's just go nose blows not just not so yeah, I won't 32 Okay, export it blow the base It's mute this track Bloss and I want to do another chopper chopper choppy choppy Buckle chops to whoa, I should have type it to okay one is already there So it made two on its own. I wonder if I press this again. Do I have to yes? I do You know what? I'm going to copy this Base it here. Wow wrong wrong place Replace it and hopefully it's gonna Remember the place. No, it doesn't Rob we need a better file selection dialogue. This is not very useful. Oh Maybe I need to oh There's oh now. Oh, yeah, okay places help me out No problem, man, this plug-in is awesome. It could be better Is this is this it it's the nose blows. Okay, let's open. Let's plug in the keyboard Where is C4 can't find it man Mmm, all right, let's just draw something C4 ah, this is cool perfect Fantastic and another one like I want to kind of play two at once Or three at once. Can I stack them? Let's save the session in case something Breaks I can play all of them. Wow You can play 128 at once. Oh good. That's good My this is so ridiculous. Also fun slice one or 28 times After what the hell? Oh, this is perfect. What what's going on, man? This needs to be its own thing like let's maybe Now I will Let's mute the Let's mute these Make room for I'm just gonna delete them It's gonna be easier on the eyes to tell what's going on and now let's put this here And I also want to compress this to even out the loudness of different chops and ah Man, okay, select right square bracket I can tell my music is evolving into something really deep Also bent pitch bands is I think pitch band is mandatory here Let's let's do a classic, you know Pitched crash simple crash like in like the Prodigy did back in the day. Yeah, let's go this Sweet sweet perfect. Maybe you know what I should rearrange this. Oh, no, that's gonna not that's not gonna Yeah, you know what I'm gonna just do this and this now for some reason this doesn't That's interesting pretty pretty sweet Case all why arey arena says, okay, don't be a tour. I just woke up from my siesta greetings from Berman. Hello Also, you can auto snap to onsets. Don't forget that auto snap to onsets What is that I did I can also resize this You know what we need more slices Why can't it? Does it say I want more I want this to be separate slices Can I have that? Hello. Oh, how do I do this? I don't know It's just insanity in pure form well, but it feels like something and now it's time to sniff it all Sniff No When I exported the range it exported with the reverb tail Wow, that's weird or did it? No, no, it does it needs to be a little bit syncopated. So let's do it like that. Maybe Classic that's pretty decent. Let's give it a second Oh, it didn't didn't reset to to the pitch which we Can play both at the same time. That's deep That's just just you know, that's that's that's really relief. That's a thing. Yes, that's You know what makes me want to record some beatbox slice that up and do something from this So let me record a beatbox. Sorry. I need to blow my nose. I think the acoustic guitar resonated with that Maybe it's recorded Okay, let's let's give some some one shots. Okay, I think we have plenty of material Let's turn that into a brass instrument. What do you think? We can do it and this This too Now maybe first just take care of this one I want to make this like into a brass instrument, but I Don't want to use a sampler. I just wanted to be a one-shot So I'm gonna drag this into its own Call this brass. Oh Man, I could okay. I'm gonna just cut this X Put it here V and now we have both Now I will auto tune this to a desired pitch Which note do I need? I think I need the sharp Yeah, the sharp So it's disable all the other notes Basically, so what it's left is just the sharp. Let's make it fast Where is that it jumps between octaves so we could try of course we need to pitch shift it before Let's use MA pitch shift. It's really weird and glitching. It might give us three cool results Let's go ratio half.  It's weird and Okay, that's not a problem. Let's use cullf multi bond enhancer. It's actually multi bond saturator. I would say or harmonic exciter Let's see what we can do with this. I Want to give it some more high frequency Oh Yeah, nice nice, I love it. I Thought maybe we could use some granular processing, but I don't want to like lose the Lose the texture of it, you know, I mean, so I'm gonna just add some reverb No, no, no compression compression. We need compression Cullf compressor. Cullf compressor. It's a running no suppressor Whoa, that's loud, sorry That's blowing my eardrums Okay, let's give it some reverb OTT Multi-bend compress it. Oh, yeah, sure call multi-bend compressor Ah man now there it is It's just on Bipers everything I'm gonna turn down the output gain turn on Yeah, and just this is the simplest form of multi-bend compression. I know Just just crush it. It's funny. It's it's yeah, it kind of has that OTT sound. That's also That's perfect. Could someone tell this is made from me sniffing Doing things with that tissue that is really sweet 32 decibels Are we peaking at 32 decibels? Over the top 32 decibels. I don't have OTT. I use only open source stuff Sorry, but No, I can't say that There's something coming. Let's use the whole one because holes Holes are awesome.  I I can imagine that there should be some part where the bass drops And it's like and this just this thing goes So maybe let's go and just put it on the beginning of the track. I'm gonna copy track this Also, how about reversing this? I hope that's helpful. Let's try it Oh That's a sim that's an entirely other different take. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna move all that to a different track Lifeline says sounds like a dying monster. That's good like this. Let's call this Draft Okay, I'm gonna recovery go back to the proper vocal track And the speed this another crazy thing we could do is just Time stretch this to some ridiculous lengths Let's use crisp mono following instrumental and just Let's save the session first.  That's beautiful. Oh Beautiful beautiful. I think we need some more river for that Sound of Nessie dying says Robin Marguer. How about reducing the speed of our Auto tune, let's copy this one and I want to time stretch it too. Oh Even longer how about putting the auto tune before a pitch shift is that gonna change how it sounds and Burke says you could Feed the autumn tune with MIDI to pitch the sample. Yeah, I could do that right eye keeps blinking is that a secret code? I don't think yeah, I've been doing this with auto tune. It's really cool You can give it a MIDI input. What? Let's do this too. Oh, how to rip them Wow I need clusters of four bars. Okay, let's let's go like this bars 1 2 3 4 Control C Mouse here control V mouse. Oh my goodness Okay, I think it's this I think it's good. I want to put some weird vocal chops in here Can I do that? Oh this this one is empty? There's nothing here I think it's too fast. Oh, no, that's about right Yeah, I think they're spicing it up with such things this really And it doesn't work Case all why arena asks, how did you level up the gain of a region without the right click origin's name gain boost gain? There are shortcuts for this alt Basically alt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 do weird different things. So alt 1 mutes regions alt 2 Looks like deletes them.  Sorry alt 6 makes 1db louder Give it 1db of gain and alt 7 gives it 1db less of gain. So It's getting some flow way. Oh, man, this alter return is really I Need to add these extra 8122 8192 Yeah, they're missing and that makes the automation not reset 9 1 8192 By the way, do you know that? Linux has a PC speaker sound driver and you can install it and you can use it to output arbitrary Audio just just feed it through that I tried it and when I enabled it It sounded like frying cables. So I turned it off real fast But you can do it and maybe with some hardware. It's gonna use the right right Work I think this doesn't sound good. This sounds okay. This sounds lame Let's let's just leave it Figuring out Hey Russell Barton is on the chat. Hi Ross. Oh, it's been so many years I've been in contact with rest Barton since I released backside front album if anybody remembers that I Was in 2012 I guess I Think life line says No, it's Robert by Rob. Thanks for the plug-in. I Want to copy this stuff So I have it One two three four five. Well, that's weird One two three four. Oh my goodness. There's something weird about this Bum bum bum. I think I broke the pattern Did I I did I? Need to use a crash. I Don't want to use a crash.  Let's try and go with this pattern I Yes, we're making it it's like it's becoming a build-up You know what let's make the base hit more often. Hopefully it's not About this Can I use C? Let's try to see if it works bum bum bum The problem with very low bass lines is that it's really hard to tell if they are in pitch And you can see it's not in pitch it should have been C sharp Yeah, we have three minutes left until we are going in and figuring out Taking a look at your submissions your music submissions. Yay Now let's I can see some notes didn't play because our door just got lost and Sometimes, you know, there's small errors in timing when notes touch There are situations where Sometimes our door like, you know process the MIDI and receives I think it receives a note off after the note on on the same note on the same MIDI channel And the result is one note is not playing at all. Okay, this should be good One problem I see is that we have this our Nose blowing is very much much more loud than the rest. So I'm gonna use a KATSR plugin called the SR to mitigate that To equalize that So let's let's play a loop of this Yeah, that should help now I need the snare to also ramp up like Something like this You can see you can hear that we have these double It's just you know, let's just oh, I didn't make a drum boss for this track I usually do that for heavy sounding tracks to you know add saturation and compression for the drums only I didn't want this track to be heavy sounding That's why I didn't do that. I'm scrolling this should provide a buildup Yeah Yep and Here control clicking will be another section and I think I want to do another another verse which will be just like I'm still figuring out stuff And then a chorus will be it and it doesn't work. No, no, it still doesn't work No, kind of like this, but I think we're gonna do this during the next live stream. I'm gonna save this out Or save this down We have 100 X runs total sweet. Let's minimize this and It's time to play your music. I'm gonna just open up my Almighty field of knowledge. Oh man and Just play it So the first one is called card tick By RS. It was done with Ardor and that's all I know Some really good bass Says life like churrits all Lot of drum part this reminds me of the unreal sound of the original one You can see the pan automation of the sample It's going. I like this little resonating resonance base This is strange because it's both soothing and Insane at the same time. Yeah, so that was card tick by RS and it was done with Ardor and now is Track called Oceanic by Kilgore. I like this bass here. Super simple, but light line says that sampled You mean I mean he this is taken from a different piece of music. You mean that this whole bass part This was done in LMS Okay, the guy said that The track is clear from any possible cover like copyright.  So I don't get Stuff like that, which would be a bad thing But I hope this is original well orphans are 18 minutes long so for me to check it It's gonna take a while. I wonder if this is a single synthesizer because it sounds like it's a single Maybe there are two synthesizers Super minimalistic Maybe I'm gonna have to maintain a black list of people submitting, you know music that that that has a lot of samples I have to check that out sounds like someone playing out with a modular a bit Yep, so that was probably Oceanic by Kilgore, but we'll need to verify if it isn't actually a fixed win and now is Conspiracy by spicy chicken studios That one was made with Alma-Mess And the guy says I decided to be a bit more spooky this time I see you fix the spelling of pancakes. I'm proud Had a mistake a typo in my submission form It was packing cakes or something. That's some really decent sound once in what work. I think I wonder what did he use For the strings what sound funds that he used and are these free or commercial ones? I'm gonna ask him because I don't think we have spicy chicken studios In the chat right now how to remind says now my turn Yeah, that was conspiracy by spicy chicken studios and now is coming up a track by Outer Mind called pixel magic from his upcoming upcoming pastel party for track EP Or is it out already? This is a VIP WAP He says this is chilled down hardstyle this time Yeah Yeah, he's been using SFXR for the chip tuner sounds. It's built-in and on a mess. So that's a nice thing Kick is really crunchy Outer Mind says that the riser is made with two balls later And the chip cord is free boy It's really like the rhythm of the snare roll And that's the place where the DJ drops the second track exactly on that last kick. So it's smoothly goes From one to the other so that was Outer Mind pixel pixel magic story and this is a track called Helios click the guy's name is Klax something really insane Break core, but it's not broken enough Like this part, but it sounds microtonal at parts. It's weird. It kind of reminds me of x2 and he's been doing stuff like that Lifeline says kill and base Stop sir break or more focus on the hi-hats. I like the rhythm of this and I'd like to see the guy making this at work Helios click by Klax and was made with Ardor really glitchy stuff Sometimes I wish I could see the project for these tracks because there are some insane things going on I don't know what it is something we've already heard but now improved By Xavier training off ski tea that home It was made with Ardor. I think you might remember this part, but there was nothing more than so Xavier is doing Consistently very short very memorable pieces. I like that He says it's not the newest version So he might have been confused Because he submitted it twice for this live stream one by one by this forum Better luck next time man and this is called part 6 6 6 0 8 by Korea chorea No elements, sorry I Think I have heard this before I Don't know someone submitted it before to the live stream Under a different name and a different version. I don't know Yeah, I think I remember it, but I couldn't find the names anywhere in the live stream in my Colk I think it's a Big problem. I hear this is really over compressed Valley over compressed. There's something called the crest factor meter. It says you how much dynamic range you roughly have in your track. I Think I should have pushed everything through this so we can see It shows you the peak the RMS And basically difference between peak and RMS is your headroom So if you're all square waves Your headroom is zero Your seven is really really not a lot But you can hear how the leads Get on the way from So it's weird because the feel of the strike is very very chilled down chilled out pretty Easy, but so compressed that It kind of poses that feeling which was weird. Oh now we're now we have better stuff. Let's let's measure this again Now it's all that has more air. Yeah, dear nine It was one decibel better. It was already sounding way better And that's all the submissions I have today And we still have nine minutes eight minutes to go so lifeline asks, can you please explain what headroom is? I heard it multiple times, but never understood what it is so I'm gonna Show you what headroom is Using the track we've been working on So, you know x42 is a great great He has a really good pack of meter plugins and There is one called dr-14 Which is the crest factor Meter and let's just drop it in and I'm gonna show you and tell you what is doing and what it means Wish I could make this bigger, but you got to use your zooming capacity to zoom in on that Alrighty, so we have a limiter That's maybe Yeah, let's maybe have these plugins I'm gonna force them all to stay on top Yep, if I crush this really hard And I need to turn it down because we're gonna it's not gonna be pleasant You see the difference between the peak value So the highest Values the samples all your samples have and the effective loudness, which is here approximated using RMS Is the difference one decibel means it's freaking crushed It's a sausage mix. That's what it's called And it doesn't work it's bad So if we back off You can play this louder You see we have much more difference between the peak and the RMS We have the R of 8. It's still not that high But we're not like see our limiters is only working when the drums hit and this is basically To me this means the limiter is doing its job Well, if it's hitting on the base notes, that's too much So with this cough limiter if you limit it's actually applying input gain Against the limiter which has a fixed Now I'd lower this so we are at lower threshold You see we have It's compressing when the bass plays that's a bad sign If you have this it means you're just crushing your mix and you have the R of 2 which sucks It's still sounds way better than what then that Last truck I played from your submissions for some reason, but the crest factor is really low Crest factor is exactly the difference between peak and RMS It's it's some indication of the headroom. It's not the headroom itself like it's some indication but usually headroom is when you think about headroom is the amount of Volume you have left However, sometimes the truck is just not dynamic not too dynamic and it's not that it doesn't have any Any micro dynamics which is short-term dynamics like you know a transit of a snare Just you know if you have a piece where there's just A string ensemble and it's there playing like that all the time Now the crest factor is probably gonna be pretty low because There's not gonna be much peaks to just jump off and rise the peak value So then you need to use this as an indicator that something might be wrong. It doesn't mean it's it is wrong Like right now we are measuring the R4 which is super low We're not even limiting this Almost Fucking also says what is meeting measure measuring So it's measuring the peak is decibels to peak And the RMS is top 20 RMS So I guess it's top 20% RMS measured across the last three seconds It's a useful plug-in to have especially if you're mastering and you can compare the dynamic ranges of tracks All righty, we have three minutes left Actually now that's two minutes 30 seconds. I wonder if How are you guys hanging out there? Yeah, it's still 25 people watching. Wow All right, you have I hope you found this live stream useful I Must say I didn't have a really solid idea what I'm gonna be doing today. I made this track and I felt like let's just go in and Get the feel of it and figure it out on the spot. What are we gonna do? And I think we've been doing really awesome things. We figured out how to Slice samples with ninjas, too We've been playing with samples like recording some weird stuff that in facts Digging into some synthesis of the drums Whoo, yeah, and we've heard some interesting music from you. So big thanks for that. I'm still gonna check this a fixed win possible sampling make sure and Yeah, maybe I'm gonna have to start a blacklist of people can summon music Say do that stuff. I don't know. I hope not. I really don't want to do that I wonder I could upload this project and Give a link under the live stream archive. Also, I'm gonna upload it to patreon So you can download it and play it around and maybe you know use the samples to your own music Do some stuff if if you use my samples, just please like Leave a note somewhere that used on first samples or something whatever Anyway Yeah, I Want to give huge thanks to all the people who support my work with their money Because that's really what lets me doing to do this stuff over and over Because you know, I've been in a place in my life Before when I could do whatever I wanted. I didn't have to care about, you know Feeding people and now I have a wife so I need to do that So it's really great that there are people who find True value in what I'm doing and they want to give their hard-earned cash to me so I can Keep doing this. So I really want to thank you all you guys. I was thinking if I maybe should like I don't do a payroll, I don't know a list of people who support me on patreon to like Pay respect to them and show my appreciation But I thought that maybe that's not necessarily a good idea because that was gonna be padding the videos with Content that is not very interesting to anyone Apart from the guys who are on the payroll. I Don't know what you think Let me know if you're a supporter and you would like to see your name shown on the end of the video Maybe I'm gonna start doing that. I Don't want to do that because I thought maybe it's just diluting my videos with Like non-content, I don't know. By the way, I've been designed some t-shirts.  I'm also gonna make another another t-shirt with I think with the artwork for my latest album suppressed and Probably with the track list on the back and the band can blink so I can just show it to people I know it's gonna be interesting. I don't know if you'd like to buy some t-shirts. I I think I'm gonna be doing also some designs with Open source audio projects like Ardor Zinfusion helm Yeah, this kind of stuff I'll my mess. Maybe I still need to contact on my mess guys if I can do some teachers for them I Don't know. I was thinking I maybe you know Maybe I could just put them up on the internet and you know just Get minimum income from them. Just you know one dollar. I don't really want to make money on that I just want to put it out there so people can get them and just you know show their Appreciation of a open source audio community and the developers and like show the world. Hey, I'm using open source software I don't know if you have any ideas for t-shirt designs or what you would like to see on a t-shirt And if you would like to wear that t-shirt, I don't know. Let me know Maybe I'm gonna do that stuff Anyway, big thanks to everyone who came to see this live stream to attend this live stream everyone who submitted their music and Yeah, thanks for Thanks for being here and Helping me doing that do this helping me help you Yeah So that's all What's left is to just send you on your way home And I think my um My additional camera didn't just shut down so I need to use my main camera All righty I'll see you soon. Bye


uchiwebersi na mozekhu, wna kwa yungu mw리, iakhiweza uchiwebi unsiwaa apalina wara ya nika hospitalan mouenda wakadilia, bat Hartiga mwriwa wakadia wakadilaій na wakadia wakadila, wakadia wakadila yungu mwriwa, autona wakadila kwa mwriwa wakadilaida. Kirigameza, mwriwa mwriwa wakadila ni mwriwa wakadila wakadila ni mwriwa, kwa inu wakadila rinu wakadila He has mobilized the party. Can innocent tell us what he's mobilizing? Is he mobilizing comedy or the people on the ground? Is he mobilizing? Honore Boboma Nusamba is mobilizing the party. He goes there and insults Honore Boboma Nusamba. He disrespects Honore Boboma Nusamba. He goes to Kenneth Kamba. Kenneth Kamba is our interim provincial secretary, a very senior position. Whether you've got differences, you can't go on insulting someone in the media because someone is cheating to you to say, look, gama amu tukana baramfu niya punwa. It doesn't work like that. Now it has taken, it took him to Honore Bobo Steven Kampyungu. Honore Bobo Steven Kampyungu, even if I was to ask you a question, comrade, who been problems if P.F. was to lose tomorrow to UPND God forbid between Innosent Kalimansh and Honore Bobo Steven Kampyungu? It will be Honore Bobo Steven Kampyungu. Who left the part between Honore Bobo Steven Kampyungu and Innosent Kalimansh? It was Innosent Kalimansh. So Innosent Kalimansh cannot come and say he's more loyal now than Honore Bobo Steven Kampyungu. Innosent Kalimansh cannot come and say he's more loyal now than Honore Bobo Manusambu. Innosent Kalimansh cannot come and say he's more loyal now than a comrade can it come. And Innosent Kalimansh cannot come now and say he's more loyal than Max. Because we have never left the party and the president. We have always been here. We've never gone out to other political parties to insult the president. And if we will come you in the party, behave like one of us.


We're in the Prairie Pothole region right now. This is our number one priority area because of the importance for breeding waterfowl. Incredible densities of small shallow wetlands surrounded by grasslands provide the perfect combination to raise over two thirds of all the continent's waterfowl. Right now we're sitting in the heart of Edmunds County, kind of north-central South Dakota, just perfect prairie pothole habitat. We have hundreds of small shallow seasonal wetlands around us. The snow has melted here recently in just the past week or two so all of that runoff has pulled into these basins and pervaded the perfect habitat for birds as they're migrating through on the first end of the migration here and as they start to settle and form breeding territories. We have a unique mix of grasslands in the area that provide the adjacent habitat that ducks need to set up their nests adjacent to these small shallow wetlands. So it's pretty neat you know in this part of South Dakota and the migration doesn't all happen at once you know it staggered out throughout really you know weeks long depending on how the weather progresses you know typically as the as the snow starts to melt we'll see those first the first few birds, canada geese, mallards, and northern pentails really pushing the push in the snow line as the as the spring progresses and as the season goes along more of that snow starts to melt and see just the incredible diversity of species that come through this region. More species of waterfall you get your gadwalls and blueling teal. You see huge concentrations of snow geese that are in this area for a long period of time. A unique mix of habitat that helps these birds as their incredible migration north of the spring. Changes on the landscape that we're most concerned about of course are continued loss of grasslands and wetlands that these species need to survive really. The migration is incredible distances for some of these birds literally you know thousands of miles. We know a blueling teal that were banded here in this area that spend their winter as far down as northern South America and they have to come all the way back here to put their nests in the spring so they need habitat throughout that entire migration corridor in order to refuel if you will to continue to fly those long distances. So really habitat is important in the breeding areas but also wintering areas and everywhere in between. So in this part of the world you know the water cycle is really dynamic. Some winters are wetter than others, some summers are wetter than others and how we manage that water really depends on how we manage our entire landscape. Grasslands that have been converted into crop real agriculture may not retain the water that they used to. Wetlands that have been drained facilitate the flow of water down hill so as we continue to kind of change the landscape we are expediting the flow of that water down hill. Small wetlands become large wetlands, large wetlands become lakes and we really kind of change the dynamic of the water cycle across South Dakota which impacts both the migration, impacts agriculture, impacts our infrastructure at the same time. You have roads that blow out routinely because the water accumulates in our riparian areas much faster and longer than it used to. A big part of what we do is find ways to work with farmers and ranchers to keep those habitats intact on the upper reaches of the watershed. It helps the landscape manage the water when we get heavy rainfall events or heavy snow melt events. It also makes better habitat for all sorts of species of wildlife and birds. In this part of Edmunds County you know much of our grasslands have been converted into row crop agriculture. But there are still fragments remaining. This is a particular project that Ducks Unlimited has been working on in Edmunds County. Approximately 320 acres of really pristine prairie habitat. Lots of wetlands that are still in their natural condition. We are restoring approximately 30 acres of grassland that was being used in row crop agriculture and we are going to protect all of this piece to make sure that we have grasslands and wetlands intact forever and just a small part of the area. Now around us we have a lot of agriculture as well but much of those crop fields still have intact wetland basins. Even though some of the grasslands have been lost those wetlands still have value for wildlife at the same time as you. Drive around the landscape right now in the migration. Those wetlands in crop lands are still very productive for wildlife. Provide food sources in the migration and even help provide during the breeding cycle and the brood season as well. So it's important although they can be difficult to manage in a crop land setting we want to keep those wetlands in crop land intact as well. These ecosystems were designed and evolved with the influence of bison herds across this landscape. If we want to conserve these habitats and improve soil health and have the biodiversity we want to achieve out here we have to be using livestock in these systems and improving rotational grazing systems, incorporating livestock in the cropping systems and really we found a great connection with farmers and ranchers to integrate livestock and improve the conservation value of these resources. South Dakota is really an amazing place and it provides value for a lot of people and there's a lot of entities that are interested in protecting those resources. Ducks Unlimited is one of those but we work with a whole host of other partners in order to get our projects accomplished. The goals are huge nothing that Ducks Unlimited can do on our own so we work with federal agency partners like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service. We work with our state partners at the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks. We work with a lot of other different you know non-government agencies like the Nature Conservancy and Pheasants Forever and Audubon and all of these groups, the Grassland South Dakota Grassland Coalition and the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition. If we want to have an impact across this landscape we have to be working with farmers and ranchers and finding ways that both of us can benefit. Let's find ways to raise food, fiber and fuel but keep our wetlands and grasslands intact at the same time. Let's raise some wildlife and raise money at the same time. So a lot of what these partners do is work collaboratively to find ways to incentivize practices that are good for our natural resources and good for the sustainability of those agricultural systems at the same time. So really we've taken a strong effort to meet them in a way that benefits both sides. If we want to have a landscape scale effect on this region. All of these groups are interested in protecting our resources because we understand what we have is really remarkable and we have to do what we can to protect it and make sure that it stays intact for generations to come.


Good afternoon. Welcome to ProductCon. I'm so excited to be back in person, but I hear there's also thousands of people online. So I'm sure it's an exciting blended experience. So thank you. I'm here to talk to you about learning and innovating at every moment. Through some of what my parenting and product stories I hope to entertain you and inspire you to pick up that lifelong learning strategy and apply it and find it in your your own life as well. I'm gonna be breaking this this talk down into basically two parts. The first part will be owing over a few behaviors that I've found with my kids that we need to either encourage or control and then I'll go over the techniques in which I have channeled our curiosity, which is the first behavior I found and research have shown this is like the innate behavior for every child. And we need to really encourage this. In fact, my mother used to tell me I was like this this fountain of questions, including the annoying ones like are we there yet when we're on road trips? And thanks to COVID, I've been hearing that a lot from my kids as we had to drive a lot of places. Anyway, but questions is one of the great way for you to learn and learning is really rooted in the ability to ask questions. But unlike my mother as a parent, first-time parent, my mother would send me to the library to find the answers for myself. Because it was a great way, a great life lesson in how we research and figure out how to learn to learn, right? But as a first parent, I actually fell into the trap of another behavior that is common among product managers. Instant problem solving. This is a behavior you should, I'm sure I see a lot of nods. So I'm sure people are like that's me and that was definitely me and it's still me. So it's one of those things that I am learning to control that Hey, let's not jump to conclusions. Let's really learn together and explore together. Go back to those questions and use your problem-solving, but in a controlled way. Let's look at the third behavior that I think we should also encourage. Here's a quote from Winston Churchill. A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity while an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. So guess what? The way, the way in you want to ask those questions, finding those moments, be that optimist. That's your third behavior that I would encourage you to really cultivate in yourself, in your team with your kids, in my case. This is where I really came to understanding the importance of learning at every moment. So let's break that questioning part down a little further. How can we channel that in such a way that it's not just asking all the questions all the time? I actually draw this from a journalistic approach. They call it 5Ys and an H. So in the first part of my questioning is really about establishing all of the facts. So I recently just supplied this with my daughter who's a high school senior trying to make us her selection for college. So our first set was really establishing the facts. Then the second part was looking for those insights on the answers to those facts, right? Why are we interested in those facts? What did we learn from those questions, those facts? And then finally making, turning those questions into a hypothesis that we can then test and repeat this set of questions. So let's dive into what happened with my daughter. She was going through her recent college selection. So this is the first four W's in that journalistic approach. Who are we dealing with? So it was for us going, okay, what's the list of schools that you actually got accepted to? Where are they located? When do we need to make a decision? So we kind of drew out exactly what were the facts that was driving this question, this opportunity for us to learn. The second approach part of this is really drawing the insights. And this is that fifth W on the questions. Why? Why were we interested or why would you rank the set of schools that gave you that acceptance? What were why, why was, why did you choose a school in Massachusetts versus a school in California? So we went through a lot of these questions and and this actually applies directly to some of the product work that I've been doing recently. At Salesforce, there's a thing that we have called profiles. It's been around for 20 years, but it's actually a very limited feature. So we've been trying very hard to get like it end of life, to get it moved into a new set of replacement features that we've built. But we were getting a lot of messaging from our customers that no, no, you can't take this away from us. In fact, I stood on a stage very similar to this in in a in announcing that that that eventual future and I immediately got Twitter stormed with no, you can't do this to me. So that was when I also had to really apply this why aspect of why? Why is why are you so tied so emotionally tied to this feature that's in this system? That's actually very limiting. It turned out that it had some benefits that I wasn't aware of like it it made things a lot easier for some of our administrators and we turned that into our next set of questions, the hypothesis and that's where we turned into how might we make it so that it's less emotionally attached? What if we created a bunch of new features or we turned the new features in a different way so that it solved the same set of problems that was making our administrators so connected to that feature that we think is needs needed to be replaced, right? So This is how we we we can break it down And this was also the same hypothesis Part that I applied with my daughter once we got to why was she interested in going so far away? Because you know as a mom as a parent I really wanted her to stay in state I mean I'm at some of you might might be parents and understand But she says no no no that top of my list is someplace on the other side of the country and it turned out she had Very good insight. She's like mom. I need to live outside of the state So I understand when I come back It's because I want to come back that this is the right place for me, but without having Experienced going to another state. She's like I wouldn't know I would always be questioning that that was very very Intuitive of her it was also very intuitive for of her to say well mom. I think I need to actually go visit the place so we took a trip and visit at the school and That was kind of the best Ceiling and she was she was just going through this this set of questions on her own Asking the teachers and the professors that were in the open house the same set of questions And then at the end I could see that she was applying this all on her own And I have to tell you that is like the best feeling for a parent to see the that lesson just Manifest over in in and learned So With that let's look at how we might map The same set of sequencing of questions to your product designs So and what tools you might consider and look at during each of these phases in your question phase of facts where we're trying to look at What you know what who when where? This is where you can really leverage the tools around journey mapping user research interviews and product metrics as I mentioned that big product profile End of life project that I was trying to get off the ground We ended up doing a really big journey map on what are the problems? What were the sticking points? What were those? Opportunities that we needed to go investigate and say how should we change it? we interviewed a about Probably 50 to 100 admins through different communities to say what is it that made you? So attached to that profile and what were the things that you wanted to be able to do With it or you think you can't do with the features that we've released and we also Use metrics that we put in the system to understand where were items that the the teams and these customers were using more with the new features that we we provide it and Driving into the insights and answer and the whys behind that you continue to use your testing and interviews you we Prototypes and showed prototypes of how we might change the flow and we started to incorporate some in-app feedbacks and and created in it actually led us to build a Separate application called a helper app so that we were providing analytics separately to our admins and having them be able to Provide us in-app feedback on how the analytics were driving the way that they were building the the permissioning models and and and the profiles themselves and Lastly we really just rinsed and repeat with what if we change certain things and we doubled down on our prototyping and Using of a B testing to be able to understand how these these changes will Enhance the experience for our for our customers And then for me personally in my life. It's like what if I try my new process or my my Approach with my younger daughter now. I am learning there is a lot of difference in personality between two people I know it's probably duh, but anyway My older daughter was really able to get to Self-promoting of that of those questions Whereas my younger daughter was at is actually getting a little bit more stuck in that optimism She was more on her innate personality is such that she tends to shut down on The quote when the difficulty comes in so we're working with her on building the behaviors around Finding those opportunities to improve And finding questions that make sense in those Verses it's too hard So I'm gonna close with Actually, I'm gonna also highlight a few things to look for in terms of warning signs so when I Had mentioned my first warning signed earlier. We're leaping to solutions. So when you ask questions Like I said, we all have very good problem-solving skills So we tend to lead with solutions and I've had to find partners in My collaboration and my teams to say you call me out when I'm actually not asking enough questions To get to that solution and just leaping to like just assume that we can go to one direction the second though is You can take that too far You don't want to get into analysis paralysis either So while I think you should absolutely ask as much questions as you can You have to time box that and this is where agile and lean really helps Because you can time box your discovery phases you can time box what When and how much you want to spend on these analysis phase and lastly Avoid perfectionism this is where my younger daughter is also something that we're working on She won't turn in an assignment until she feels is a hundred percent perfect But that meant she was like a week late on the assignment So we tell her you're actually leaving points on the table here. So turn in what you have, you know It's it's it's better to get it done than it is to be perfect And this goes back to ship it and ship it fast and we can iterate it So I'm gonna close with reminding you to Really stay curious And encourage and ask more questions so that you can get to that solution in a controlled way Thank you very much and hop over to Hoplind for our Q&A. So thank you


Ranking all six P.E. Blinders seasons. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here. Today I wanted to do a little ranking video on all six seasons of P.E. Blinders. Now P.E. Blinders is a show that everybody seems to like but for some reason this show just resonates with me so, so well and I enjoy it. It's probably one of my favorite shows if not my favorite show right now. I just really, really enjoy the style. You know, even though I finished it, I wouldn't mind putting it on. I just love just the whole vibe and the whole stoic nature of this show. I absolutely love it. So let's jump into number six. And number six is season three. Now season three just has a lot of weird stuff going on. You have like the death of Grace, which is kind of like what we've been fighting for for the first two seasons. It's kind of just, they don't really use the P.E. Blinders. That this was like the weakest we've ever seen the P.E. Blinders even after this. They kind of become a little bit more aggressive. I remember there was one point where like the Duchess makes them undress and things like that. I'm just like, not P.E. Blinders. I'm sorry. You know, I understand why they're doing it for entertainment. You know, and some people probably want to see them naked, whatever, but just not P.E. Blinders, you know what I mean? So, and then on top of that, the ending of this one was just kind of so-so. I felt like a much weaker retread of the ending of season two. They meet in almost the same spot. You know, Tommy does some deal. I mean, it kind of makes sense. Almost like the Duchess was screwing over her family, but I don't know. It just was personally the worst season for me. Number five is season six, the newest season. Now there's a lot of stuff that I liked about season six, but then there's also a lot of stuff that I'm just not so sure about. They don't really have Pauly in this one. Tommy doesn't have his signature cut. If things aren't really resolved with the whole Oswald Mosley guy, you know, they leave it on a cliffhanger in season five and you're thinking, okay, we're gonna fix him in season six. They don't really do that. This is like the most amount of bad villains that are just let go. This season was okay. And on top of that, Michael's in this, but he's kind of like barely not in it. He kind of goes to jail. Like most of the time he's not even really in it. So it just doesn't really have too many of the classic Peaky Blinders, but it was still pretty solid, really enjoyable. And I felt like it had more character than season five, but I do slightly prefer season five. So now let's go into number four, and that is season five, speaking of the devil. So this season was pretty solid overall. It did feel like a little bit of a return to character. You do get Paulie in here. You do get a lot of Michael. You get the whole stock crash. I thought that was pretty realistic. I just felt like overall, this was a pretty complete season. I do feel like season five and season three were the most generic. I think Oswald Mosley is the worst villain for sure. He gets left alive in this one. So I wasn't really too happy about that. It was just a very, very solid middle of the pack season. A lot of little stuff that I liked about it, but at the same time, like I felt like it didn't do enough in my opinion. All right, number three is season four. Now season four was pretty good. I really enjoyed Adrian Brody. I've talked to some people who really, really did not like him. I thought he was good. I wish he was utilized a little bit more. I really hate that John was killed in this one. We needed John to last a little bit longer.  Killed off Michael. I just think John was like, you know, if you're gonna let Arthur get all the way to the end and let Arthur live, at least let John go.  So that was just probably the number one reason I didn't like this season was John dying, but you know, what are you gonna do? I feel like this was probably one of the better endings of Peaky Blinders. The actual ending of season six is pretty good as well, but they kill Adrian Brody or they handle him like in the middle of episode six. And so the last half is this whole story of Tommy goes and meets with Tom Hardy. I forget what Tom Hardy's name. They have some duel on the beach that was actually really good. It seemed very realistic. I liked it. You see Tommy kind of spiral out of control and then realized that there was no end game for him. He always has to keep working. I thought that was a great ending, probably one of the best endings. This one, I, this season, I do remember being a little bit slow. And I don't know if it's because I was watching him back to back to back, but I do remember this was the first season when I watched it, I was like, wow, this probably has the most slow moments in it, but overall really enjoyed season four, putting it at number three. All right guys, number two is season one. Now season one is very, very, very simple. It has like the least amount of sets, pretty much in all of Peaky Blinders, probably for sure the least budgets. Like all in all, I just really, really I like this season, you know, there was no big main character deaths. I'm not really a fan of, you know, past season three, Tommy's just kind of like this devil villain. Like, you know, nobody really cares about him. They just kind of need him to fix things. Like in seasons one and two, it's like everybody wants Tommy to succeed and like wants Tommy to be happy and then get out of it. And then once a certain point, they're just like, they give up on him. They just label him this terrible bad guy, basically past season three. But first season's one and two was kind of perfect. I thought Grace was pretty good. Not really my absolute favorite, but I really liked her. Sam Neal was great. I really wasn't that big of a fan of Billy Kimber, but everybody's in it. It's just an amazing, amazing first season. It just is a little bit simple. And that's why it's number two. All right. And I'm pretty sure this is everybody's season. I'm pretty sure this is everybody's number one because it's just hard to not say it's the best one. And that is season two. Now, I remember when I first watched season one and season two of Peaky Blinders, they were so like nerve wracking.  And I remember after season one and two are over, I actually didn't want to watch season three for a long time because I was like, there's no way that they're gonna keep. How good season one and two are, there's no possible way that they can continue this into season three, four, five, and six. And as I expected, season three ended up being the worst one. They shouldn't have killed off Grace, at least the way they did, but whatever. But this season's just perfect. Savini is a great villain. You just, Savini is a great villain. You have everybody alive here. Everything's just kind of amped up to 10, really aggressive. And again, we're at that point where everything's amped up and good, but it's not like the Peaky Blinders are just like burnout, losers, aggressive men that are just like throwing the whole families away. They're in that kind of building stage where things only get better. And I just really liked it. I love Tommy with the horse trainer girl. I always say that, but I absolutely loved her. I almost wanted Tommy to get with her more than Grace. I loved Sam Neal's part in this one. I just love everything about this season. This is Peaky Blinders firing on all cylinders and as close to a perfect season as you can get. Absolutely loved season two. So anyways guys, what was your favorite season of Peaky Blinders? I'll be very interested to see down below. I loved all the seasons, all the episodes. I already said that though. So anyways guys, let me know your thoughts down below and we are on the road to 50,000 subscribers. I couldn't do without any of you guys' help. You guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully I'm having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.