I kept getting weird glitches and other problems that made me feel like uploading this might be a mistake, but then the video ended up being 2.27 GB. Fatalism will be the death of me.

Still, I didn't have time to upscale the parts that were recorded from my DAW at 1920x1080, and the background video was recorded with an "action" camera and had to be blurred like crazy because it had so much noise that the audio desynced when I tried to render it as-is. Good to know for the future, but this probably wasn't the time to put this action camera through its paces.

Some of the sentences are written awkwardly because I did most of this video off of an all-nighter. The one that really bugs me is "appeared to have fell out" instead of "appeared to have fallen out." "Also be randomized too" is another one, though that came from rewording that line and neglecting to remove "too" after it became unneeded. You win again, tautology.

There were a few comments about volume disparities in my last video, so I normalized the volume of individual clips to -13 LUFS. Everything should be much more consistent volume-wise.

MPL Randomize FX doesn't come with Reaper out of the box, but I recommend downloading all of that stuff. There are some real gems in there. I use the MPL script to disable plugins with a certain amount of latency pretty frequently since I mix while writing. Super handy.

You can't buy Absynth anymore. And even if you could, giving Native Instruments money feels wrong now that they got hollowed out by soulless money guys in fancy business suits. It might be possible to get it secondhand somewhere, but I don't know much about the used market for plugins.

It blows me away that so few synths include randomization. Even Absynth's non-NI successor doesn't seem to have it. Clicking randomize until you hear something inspiring is like the universe and fate gifting you a custom preset that no one else has and that you may not have thought to create intentionally.

I know that I said that randomized effects aren't inspiring, but there are some exceptions. Absynth can be used as an effect, for example, and one of its randomized effects is how I turned a pad into the whooshing wind/waves sound during the verses in the song at the end.

Korg stuff is awesome. The Wavestation is great, and I'm still thinking of ways to make a video about the Triton rack. I have a bell preset on there that I've never heard anywhere else and that even the software version doesn't seem to have (from what I can tell of discussions online, at least), but I can't think of a way to make an entire video about a single bell sound, even if it's one of my favorite patches of all time.

About the other stuff: I don't want to talk about it. Pity parties are the worst, and I'll straight-up gaslight anyone who tries throwing one on my behalf. Fight me.

00:00 - 01:28 - How the Korg Wavestation plugin's randomization works
01:28 - 03:30 - Some of my favorite randomized Korg Wavestation patches
03:30 - 04:12 - Tone2 Icarus also has randomization
04:12 - 04:43 - And Synplant 1 and 2 also do randomization, obvi
04:43 - 06:15 - Absynth does randomization better than anything
06:15 - 10:03 - Some of my favorite randomized Absynth 5 patches
10:03 - 12:33 - Randomizing synths with Reaper magic
12:33 - 15:46 - This didn't happen. You're just being crazy and imagining it.