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After 14 years.. A new tune amerges.
I haven't really made any real music in like 14 odd years and the stuff from 14 years ago was probably strange and unusual at best.
But today randomly I just spun up Magix music maker and went to town with it. 3 hours later I had something that sounded in my opinion pretty cool.
So here it is over on sound cloud for you ears to enjoy or despise which ever it is.#
It's DnB??? maybe. I've never been good with genres all I care about is it sounds nice.
https://soundcloud.com/itsshmoogle/some-dnb-nonsense-01
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Nice. I really don't know how to make that sort of music. I probably have all the stuff I would need, but I'm a bit old school and use things like guitar and drum kit. I just got a little MIDI keyboard that I need to explore.
!BEER
This was made entirely out of premade loops and some software wizardry. I'm usually one to do a mixture of soundloops and midi fed through VST plugins of various kinds.
It gives me access to many forms of instruments without actually having to own the real thing granted making it sound genuine this way can take a bit of skill. :D
I've also got an ancient Casio keyboard that I use as a midi keyboard for the midi stuff, comes in handy when I want to use my hands to play a part.
The tech people have available now is amazing. I was playing with some software synths that came with my Ubuntu setup and there's lots of options there. I want to find time to explore that are more. I was chatting to @nicklewis yesterday and he's into synths.
Thanks for the shout @steevc must chat some more about these things, we can do that at a future event but I’ll start posting more on Hive again pretty soon. There are a collection of plugins I’ve got my eyes on for the iPad, my favourite device for this kind of stuff besides the Ableton Move.
I tend to use Linux, but there are various music creation options. I've tended to use Ardour that can do MIDI and they now have some looping facilities. I will look into how you build a song with that.
Another multi platform DAW is Reaper. I’ve heard of Ardour and tried it out briefly on an Ubuntu laptop I’ve got. Trouble is I’ve ended up with many and for awhile I suffered from analysis paralysis. Have now settled on Ableton because I’ve got the Move, a great piece of portable hardware for laying down tracks with and when plugged into Ableton Live, it’s just magical.