Hey guys just want to let you know about a new site I just stumbled on. I have tried my hand at, and failed miserably at music production. It’s difficult there’s a very steep learning curve but it is FUN. You can check out the site by clicking this link: dubturbo review site.

The page in question that I have linked to is a review of a piece of music production software entitled dubturbo. According to the sale page it drastically reduces the learning curve when it comes to production. I’ve tried it myself and found it useful, although I should mention it is designed for beginners. A novice or pro would find this software incredibly simple.

If you know how a compressor works and how to mix and master a track then I would recommend you avoid dub turbo. Software such as FL Studio and Ableton are much better suited for a professional producer. However if your just starting out then I recommend you give it a whirl. I spent a few hours on it last night and had a heap of fun making beats and melodies.

I’m not a professional producer whatsoever, bear that in mind and take my recommendation with a pinch of salt. Let me know your favourite music genres in the comments below. I prefer to produce hip hop. I find it the least serious and most enjoyable genre to produce.

I personally found FL Studio to be too complicated. With the hundreds of plugins and settings, thousands of options it was just overwhelming. I checked out a few tutorials on youtube but just couldn’t grasp how to do what I wanted to do.

Seriously too much.

If you want to learn more about music production check music radar. They are the authority on this subject and have a great deal of articles, videos, info graphics and other content for you to browse through. You can visit the site here

Well that’s it for another rambling incoherent article from yours truly. Until next time blogger land people.

Ps. If your interested I found another review of similar software called dubstep turbo.

Hello to all you happy people in blogger land. Today I’m going to write a rather random blog post on my new pretty random blog; Just a collection of thoughts and ramblings from an unemployed computer science graduate.

So where to begin. I could talk about the gaming industry or perhaps the state of modern education. Maybe the economic and social changes brought about by rapid advances in technology and science.

However I think today I will talk about society’s incessant need for every person to have a job. Our entire system of education, economy and society values seem rooted in the notion that having a job, a career a path rooted in work is the ultimate goal in life and should be pursued relentlessly.

Why?

It’s clear that during the days of industrial revolution and low output, before machines and computers those jobs were vital to any nation’s survival. Increased productivity = increased output = better national strength. Fair enough. In this world every person having a job makes sense.

However in a world where machines carry out 99% of the important work in regards to production, manufacturing and agriculture, and a single advance in technology by one person can supplant 10,000 workers. It seems ridiculous to demand everybody find a job in order to support themselves.

It’s got to the point now where we just invent bullshit jobs, just to give people something to do. So we have inspectors of inspectors. We have people who create technologies, tools and techniques so the inspectors can do a better job.

As a nation, as a species I think we seriously need to revaluate our values, and having done so make changes to our systems to reflect these values and the new world we find ourselves living in. 70% of jobs today in the western world, primarily the US and Europe are service related jobs. All of which could be made redundant by service based machines. Most industries that employ vast numbers of people add 0 value to our society. Industries such as investment banking and marketing could be completely removed, without any detriment to the average person’s life or prosperity.

Of course none of these facts will really matter until a majority stand up and demand radical change; the current system benefits those in power. As a result these powerful people, politicians, business leaders, the extremely wealthy will never take steps to make any significant changes. They have no incentive to do so. They love the status quo.

Anyway that’s enough rambling from me I’m going to go and apply to some more jobs

What is the meaning of life? What’s the point? What’s the goal or achievement I should be aiming for? It’s a deeeeeeeep question it really is and I have spent a great deal of time thinking about it. I studied philosophy, science, mathematics, psychology, marketing, and the social sciences to try and figure this out. This article will be some random thoughts of mine on the topic hastily jotted down on an idle Thursday afternoon.

According to Wikipedia the meaning of life is:
a philosophical question concerning the significance of life or existence in general..

Ultimately I take the position that the meaning of life is the accumulation of experiences. While I typically take a nihilistic perspective on life, life is without inherit meaning; I prefer to think of experiences in life as the peak of purpose. That time you visited Amsterdam got high and visited a sex show. That experience or at least your own personal memory of that experience had meaning.

That’s not to say an experience such as an Amsterdam adventure has objective purpose. I mean to say that it is impossible for me to distinguish the actual events from my perspective of the events and as such the meaning and purpose of those events are invented by my own perspective of them. Therefore my perspective of an experience gives it meaning. So without experiences there is no meaning and thus the meaning of life is experience.

I don’t believe in an objective world that we all share. I believe we share unique perspectives created by our consciousness. These individual experiences can be woven together to create what we collectively refer to as reality. Of course it doesn’t seem possible to conclusively prove this and science does it best to point to an objective reality that we all experience. It seems fair to say that there is some objectivity to it all, some collective woven cloth of reality.

However I believe this objective cloth of reality is shapeless. Without form or function just energy without the function of time. If you take the collective experience of an ant for example and refer to that as reality. I would differ greatly from the human collective experience.

So a universe without form, without objective meaning, without time. Only the experiences of the individuals within create meaning. Not through discovery but through invention. Purpose is the accumulation essentially of memory’s to shape a single form reality that you can experience in order to create new memory’s and experiences.

Anyway on that note ill end my ramblings and let you get back to reality.

If you want to read from wiser and better paid people than me on this subject check out this article from the Guardian.