### What is your artist name? **Autumncheney** ### Could you tell us something about yourself, whereabouts, etc.? As you may have guessed, my real name is Autumn Cheney, and I live in Durant, Oklahoma, in the United States. I have a bunch of aliases for different kinds of music! The ones I'm currently using are: - **DREADNOUGHT** – for conventional EDM - **1thermidor226** – for what I like to describe as vaporwave-influenced IDM - **axeph-null** – for industrial breakcore ### Tell us an early memory about software & electronic music. I've been listening to electronic music since I was born! I have too many favorite artists to list here, but listening to them from an early age has had a massive influence on my music. Among them is my dad, who used to produce DnB with Sony Acid (I believe) and let me listen to his music. As for software, I had this program/game on my Nintendo DS—I think it was called **Rhythm Core Alpha**—and it was pretty much a MIDI sequencer for the DS. I had a blast playing around with it, though I don't think I ever made any complete songs. ### Why did you start using SunVox, and what did you use before that? I first started making actual music with **LMMS**, though I didn’t make anything good with it. I was really into IDM at the time and wanted to find a good tracker to sequence those crazy drums with (which was basically impossible with LMMS). I experimented with **Renoise** a bit and even made a decent-ish song with it, but I accidentally discovered **SunVox** shortly afterward when I was looking for something cross-platform and easier to use on Linux. ### Morning-person or Night owl? I wish I could be a morning person, but I’m definitely a **night owl**. ### Any particular inspiring SunVox song (by someone else) to mention? I really love **NightRadio’s** and **SawZer’s** music. They’re so good when it comes to sound design and melody. Some favorites: - **"Siberian Beauty"** and **"088 [aka Cat. Window. SunVox. Pt2]”** – by NightRadio - **"Alpha Centauri"** and **"Reminiscent of the Yesteryear (Remix)"** – by SawZer ### Which keyboard shortcut is your favorite or most used? **Ctrl+D** for duplicate! I use it all the time when I’m writing patterns with slight variations. ### Dark, light, colorful, or default SunVox color scheme? I use one of the **dark gray** schemes because I like dark color schemes. Though I’m thinking about using a custom scheme with **more purple**—I think some accents would be nice. ### SunVox contains some of your effects/synths. Which do you use the most? Honestly, I like to use my own. Most of the default effects don’t do exactly what I need them to or lack certain features. - I put my **Master FX module** before the output so I can easily master my songs. - I put my **Bus module** at the end of all my instrument chains. Modules from other people I like include: - **SawZer’s Gated Reverb** - **NightRadio’s Electric Sax** ### Do you have new effects/synths in the making? Yes! There are a bunch I’ve finished but haven’t released yet. Some that come to mind: - A **new version of the Master FX** - An **upgraded saturator** ### Tell us a good book, article, or movie that inspired you. I really love **Douglas Hofstadter’s** books, especially: - *Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB: EGB)* - *I Am a Strange Loop* His fusion of mathematical musings and personal exposition is brilliant and beautiful. His writing has inspired a lot of the aesthetics of my music. This isn’t a book or a movie, but I used to watch a lot of **creepypasta videos** on YouTube when I was younger, and I loved them. Creating that same feeling—familiar things twisted into something horrible—is what I want to achieve with my **axeph-null** project. ### Do you use MIDI a lot for SunVox? Why (or why not)? I used to just use my **computer keyboard** for sequencing. But recently, I got a **MIDI keytar**, and I’ve been using it a lot to play out melodic lines or chords. I still suck at it, but I’ll improve with time and practice. ### Do you still use audio samples besides synthesis? Not really. I mostly use samples for **vocals** or as a reference for synthesized sounds. I try to make **all of my sounds with synths**, even acoustic sounds (which is both fun and frustrating). ### Which SunVox feature introduced over time made you the happiest? I haven’t been using SunVox as long as others, but my favorite updates include: - **Multisynth Channel Divider (1.9.6)** – made it much easier to make polyphonic synths. - **ADSR** - **Delaying note commands** - **Cyclic shift tool** ### 5 years into the future: Which features would you like to see in SunVox? Honestly, the only two things I want: 1. **SunVox to go open-source** 2. **More features for the MetaModule controller** (more controllers, controller groups, possibly actual GUIs) Other than that, **NightRadio can do whatever he wants** as far as I’m concerned! ### What are your plans for the future music-wise? Shh, can’t say. 😉 But I will say that I am working on: - **An EP** under **DREADNOUGHT** - **An album** under **1thermidor226** and **axeph-null** ### Which musical genres do you like / are influencing you? A lot! My influences include: - The **EDM scene on Newgrounds** (artists like **Xtrullor, Creo, and Acid-Notation**) - EDM artists outside of there (**Skrillex, Deadmau5, Tiësto, Run DMT**, etc.) - IDM and Progressive Electronic (I listen to anything from **Jean-Michel Jarre to Bassnectar** and everything in between) A **special mention** to **Cacola**—a Newgrounds artist who has massively influenced my melodicism and aesthetics, especially for my **1thermidor226** project. Her music is very important to me. [**Comment on the forum**](https://warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5815) [**Check out AutumnCheney's forum activity**](https://warmplace.ru/forum/search.php?keywords=Autumncheney) sunvox forum:  read more comment