https://plasterbrain.com/ Latest posts from plasterbrain en-US hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) © 2013-2025 plasterbrain, all rights deserved. Logo design by Rubri. https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/before-funeral/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/before-funeral/ I was in some kind of lake-house apartment with my mom and women who were vaguely either her friends or her relatives. It had open windows to gardens yet was on the floor of a high-rise.
 https://plasterbrain.com/news/overhaul-2025/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/news/overhaul-2025/ Also I’m leaving WordPress now, goodbye https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/world-percussion/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/world-percussion/ Every human culture: haha percussion instruments go brrr https://plasterbrain.com/guides/free-music-utilities/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:53:31 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/free-music-utilities/ Free tools to convert between audio formats, edit MIDI files, and more. https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/cell-phone/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/cell-phone/ I was 5-7 years old and in my classroom from first grade, with my seventh-grade English teacher. I think she was mad at me. She suddenly began getting taller until her face could no longer be seen, only the ribbon around her neck.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/costume-boss/ Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/costume-boss/ I made a banger tweet about how my mom was really good at Smash Bros., because after a lot of time studying, she could now put seven CPU Meta-Knights in a match against each other.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/secret-names-bats/ Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/secret-names-bats/ There was a mobster-like family running a large business that exploited bats. The business relied on a 70-million-dollar loan from my uncle that he also somehow invested in Ethereum at the same time.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/pokemon-bus/ Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:54:00 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/pokemon-bus/ I was on a bus with a bunch of people. We had to balance the bus to keep it from falling off a bridge.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/ceramics-ramsay/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/ceramics-ramsay/ I was at a relay race between two teams of three girls, each riding either a bike or some kind of sit-down skateboard on a narrow, windy track.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/white-day/ Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/white-day/ I was lying in the middle of a big round glass room with a window showing the surface of the sea. There was no furniture in the room, and the floor was steely white.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/chicken-duck-dance-kimblee/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/chicken-duck-dance-kimblee/ I was on an adventure in the Midwest. I went down a dirt driveway in some empty field and was apprehended by a big henchman who took me to a witch named Morgana. Morgana sent me on a mission to find something to help blackmail her rival. In exchange, she would give me a sack with my heart in it.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/rebelspunk/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 02:25:00 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/rebelspunk/ My fish started a band! https://plasterbrain.com/news/overhaul-2021/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:20:36 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/news/overhaul-2021/ "You use too many fonts." – My college graphic design professor https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/human-factory/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/human-factory/ I was with some other people in the middle of the street outside my house.
I had some important cosmic role™, so I could summon these star entities to help me. I summoned this brother and sister who each played one half of a magic flute. They existed on top of each other in space, but in separate planes. By “half of the flute,” I mean there was only one flute in the various planes, but each half of the thing existed in one or the other. It alternated between one sibling and the other playing their part, which sounded, as expected, like air coming out of half a metal tube.
 https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/drums/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:13:10 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/drums/ Drums! Drums! Drums! https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/brass-horns/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:15:49 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/brass-horns/ Channel your inner Louis Armstrong in a safe, virtual environment. https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/vocals-choirs/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:21:14 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/vocals-choirs/ Can’t sing? No problem! https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/woodwinds-reeds/ Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:22:10 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/woodwinds-reeds/ Virtual flutes, now available in seven flavors. https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/strings/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:45:10 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/strings/ Get your violins and whatever else an orchestra has! https://plasterbrain.com/guides/music-daw-glossary/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:27:51 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/music-daw-glossary/ Learn the basic terminology for making digital music https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/guitars/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:27:03 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/guitars/ Anyway here’s Wonderwall https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/lutes-harps-zithers/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:27:03 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/lutes-harps-zithers/ Zzz boring Renaissance instruments where are the guitars https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/pianos-organs-keyboards/ Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:55:12 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/pianos-organs-keyboards/ Pianos – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. But did you know there’s another way? That’s right. You can replace them with robots. https://plasterbrain.com/guides/kontakt-full-vs-player/ Wed, 03 Nov 2021 07:03:47 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/kontakt-full-vs-player/ What’s a Kontakt library vs just an instrument, and which ones can you use in the free Kontakt Player? Find out in this helpful comparison post. https://plasterbrain.com/guides/vst-articulations-list/ Sat, 30 Oct 2021 06:24:10 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/vst-articulations-list/ Legato, staccato… and all the virtual instrument-based terms computer people made up. https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/idiophones/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:40:50 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-free-vsts/idiophones/ Bells, xylophones, and household objects suffering musical abuse. https://plasterbrain.com/guides/audio-plugin-formats/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:19:46 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/audio-plugin-formats/ VST? AAX? What is this alphabet soup nonsense!? https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/radio-wire/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/radio-wire/ Everyone came to life and a statue of them appeared on some board like a smash bros trophy. (This is what was in my notes verbatim. I remember nothing else about it, so good luck to anyone deciphering that.)
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/look-its-hotdog/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/look-its-hotdog/ I had to kill a little girl in a blanket fortress. I think I smothered her. I was on the third floor. There’s no way to explain this in a way that doesn’t sound terrible, but that little girl really needed to die.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/sleepy-whiny-muppet/ Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/sleepy-whiny-muppet/ I was at open dress for a play that might have been Seussical. There was a B-plot about this group of moms singing a cabaret number1 about how they’re just seducing all the men everywhere.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/rabbit-workout-app/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/rabbit-workout-app/ I was at a family party in a dark room full of tartan-patterned furniture, giving everyone a Christmas gift. I was not allowed to play the bassoon.
 https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-6-piano-vsts-free-paid-download/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:58:35 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-6-piano-vsts-free-paid-download/ You won’t believe number 7! https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/detox-red/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/detox-red/ I was on a street, maybe at night. Something stared at me from inside a taxi parked on the side of the road.
 https://plasterbrain.com/blog/4-lessons-making-indie-game/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:39:23 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/blog/4-lessons-making-indie-game/ A year ago, I released a visual novel on Steam. Here are four lessons I learned in the process. https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/red-robes/ Fri, 22 May 2020 20:13:26 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/red-robes/ I was part of a cult for a god who wore a mask and robe.
Fifteen minutes before our church(!) service started, all the cultists had to form a line and do a mandatory dance. Then we were pitted against each other in a series of group games. Depending on how well you did, you got a robe that was either red, green, or white.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/favorite-things/ Fri, 22 May 2020 20:09:40 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/favorite-things/ God, like the Christian one, trapped me and various other people in a mansion. He said He would let us go if we could hide an object somewhere He would never find it.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/harry-kidnapped-magic/ Fri, 22 May 2020 19:57:19 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/harry-kidnapped-magic/ I was at a party. There was a stage on the left where The Lion King was being performed, though it had a lot of extra elements, and Mufasa was played by a bad actor who looked like Morpheus.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/murdered-by-sweetheart/ Fri, 22 May 2020 14:53:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/murdered-by-sweetheart/ A love story ends in tragedy! https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/dropping-a-pen/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/dropping-a-pen/ I was a senior at school, I think, where people regularly dressed like statues. Despite being a senior, I had no idea how one got into the statue business.
 https://plasterbrain.com/guides/should-newbies-buy-kontakt/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 05:45:27 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/should-newbies-buy-kontakt/ Getting the industry-standard sampler seems like a no-brainer – until you see its $299 price tag. https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/uninvitation/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:06:05 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/uninvitation/ She ruined my life. She owes me. https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/jhin-professional/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:35:43 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/jhin-professional/ Jhin had to give me a surgery while trying to ignore his erection, and Surgeon Shen was just like, “Jesus Christ, could you please try to act like a professional?”
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/suspicious-meat-pies/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:34:00 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/suspicious-meat-pies/ I was at some party with my extended family. We were eating meat pies.
They asked me to grab these two little dogs that were running around and put them in the basement so that they would stop bothering people. When I got to the basement stairs, I realized they were not stairs at all, but a chute descending into an oven. They wanted to turn the dogs into meat pies.
 https://plasterbrain.com/news/overhaul-2019/ Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:35:30 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/news/overhaul-2019/ Moving away from freeware indie game reviews https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/human-recycling-plant/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:15:00 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/human-recycling-plant/ I was going with my family to a human recycling plant, a facility for human disposal, euthanasia, and grief counseling. Everybody had to go help out at the factory sometimes in order to help save the planet.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/flower-girl/ Mon, 06 May 2019 10:17:54 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/flower-girl/ I was making a third-person 3D game about a flower who loved humans so much she became a girl in a dress.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/nose-what-nose/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:30:05 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/nose-what-nose/ My old internet friend circle was planning to overthrow some evil group. To do this we had to sign up for summer camp at a golf course/weapons range exclusively for skeletons, which required convincing everyone there that we were also skeletons.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/nobody-comes-back/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:32:02 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/nobody-comes-back/ My brother died from a kidney stone.
My parents and I were in a brightly lit attic full of paintings and old furniture. We were making shrines for each family member which would hold all the things we liked for when we died. This would help us come back as a ghost. It was also bittersweet as we reflected on fond memories. Deep down we knew nobody ever really comes back.
 https://plasterbrain.com/guides/patreon-switch-mixcraft/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 03:37:07 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/patreon-switch-mixcraft/ Can this indie DAW compete with industry giants like Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or FL Studio? https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-vst-plug-in-deals/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 01:11:12 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/best-vst-plug-in-deals/ Virtual instruments and plug-ins can get pretty expensive. Use these tips to avoid crippling musical poverty. https://plasterbrain.com/guides/common-music-questions/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 05:27:27 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/common-music-questions/ How do you get from just wanting to write desktop music to actually putting a song together? Do you have to study a bunch of stuff or buy expensive equipment? https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/satans-coat/ Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:16:29 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/satans-coat/ A friend committed suicide, but orchestrated it in such a way that I was framed as her killer.
A tall, horned man in a fancy coat passed judgment on me, summoning a noose made of hands and human spines to pull me into the sky, to heaven I suppose.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/10-floors/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:33:35 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/10-floors/ I was moving into a boarding school that had ten floors. Floors 1 to 3 were open to everyone, but you needed special clearance to reach floors 4 through 10 through the elevators.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/miku-cryptids/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:36:24 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/miku-cryptids/ I went on a field trip to some fancy theatre with my friend who loves Vocaloid.
“I wish I could do a concert with Hatsune Miku!” she said wistfully.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/new-years-eve/ Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:55:53 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/new-years-eve/ My family and I were going home from a vacation, but we stopped to eat soup at a rental house owned by an Asian(?) family.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/wrong-path-mate/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:46:34 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/wrong-path-mate/ I was a detective, I think, interviewing people at a crime scene. A guy was explaining to me how he and his friend had been terrorized the past few nights by a masked killer trying to break in.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/everyone-will-have-the-same-face/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:48:17 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/everyone-will-have-the-same-face/ I was on vacation with my family at an airy lake house on a sunny beach. My dad wasn’t interacting with anyone. My brother was being an asshole, running around naked and locking random doors.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/scary-dog/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:56:19 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/scary-dog/ I dream about my college dorm not infrequently. Like high school, it never looks anything like itself.
Part 1: Scary Dog This time the dorms were large, dark, and industrial. The place was run by cranky old folks instead of the usual friendly staff, and one (1) nice old man working at a smoothie bar that was both retro-futurist and Art Deco. All the menu items were $30.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/animaniacs/ Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:53:43 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/animaniacs/ There was a new Animaniacs movie. Each of them had a shirt with themselves on it so that you knew who they were. It wasn’t a good movie.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/zombies/ Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:58:26 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/zombies/ I was playing tag on dark, cobblestone streets.
The person who was “it” was one of my college media studies professors. She was armed with a wooden machete she called Nonfiction. If she hit you with it, you became a zombie. Zombies could then tag other people and make them zombies too. They weren’t just pretending to be zombies as part of the game, though; they were actually under some kind of hypnotism.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/bad-genie/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:57:07 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/bad-genie/ I was trapped in a castle-like prison with my friends. I beat the final boss of Darkest Dungeon, which allowed us to finally escape. We were in a room that looked like the aftermath of a battle, with dead people frozen standing up and impaled with swords.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/impossibly-happy-scenario/ Sat, 13 Oct 2018 00:03:56 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/impossibly-happy-scenario/ For once, I had a theatre dream where no one got mad at me for not knowing what was going on!
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/nlm/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:15:38 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/nlm/ I was playing some life or death game. It took place at a boarding(?) school in a mountain range, which itself was on top of a second mountain range, making it a double mountain range. The school also had moving mechanical legs that allowed it to walk around, like Howl’s Moving Castle.
 https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/math-skating/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 23:50:48 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/dreams/math-skating/ I was in a math competition. While you were supposed to just sit down and take a test, you were also allowed to go around and kill people on the other teams.
 https://plasterbrain.com/guides/how-find-free-samples/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/how-find-free-samples/ Reader question: “How do I take a sound I like and turn it into an instrument?” https://plasterbrain.com/guides/game-osts-part-1/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:41:58 +0000 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/guides/game-osts-part-1/ Why the instrument choice in video game and film music makes a huge difference https://plasterbrain.com/downloads/frontal-assault/ Mon, 08 Jun 2015 01:47:48 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/downloads/frontal-assault/ An action piece written for RMN’s 2015 Summoner of Sounds event https://plasterbrain.com/downloads/yume-freebie-1/ Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500 hello@plasterbrain.com (plasterbrain) https://plasterbrain.com/downloads/yume-freebie-1/ Free music/SFX pack for <em>Yume Nikki</em>-style fangames