I just make loops on a cheap £20 music program called Techno 5 - and I make songs out of them...
I lost my older equipment. I used to have a £300 program called Ableton Live, a relatively small £70 keyboard, a software sampler + synth called Proteus X and Cubase.
Oddly though because everything moves on so quickly these days - new cheap stuff can be kind of on par (but in a different way) with older but more expensive it seems..
With hardware vintage retro synths - whether they are expensive because they're hard to get hold of, or if you find a cheap one either way they can be very nice. Well at least for me. I love 303 TB Roland basses and 909 TR Drum machines
I make kind of experimental Electronica or whatever you call it.
I have 4 tracks up at my Myspace atm: http://www.myspace.com/zealotsoulmusic.
My newest and I think favourite of my tracks is 'Space-Fort'. Since then I have been working on a track but experimenting rather a lot with (software) mixing desks and the like. They're interesting but if you use scratchy or DJ loops effects off some kind too much then the track lacks melody and is a bit repetitive - so I'm going to have to incorporate the DJ stuff with balance of course.
I often have what I think I should do musically that I already know how to do in the back of my mind but I often go against it deliberately to explore new areas. I sometimes do a bit of what I think I shouldn't do and then try and make it work. See if I can make stuff work that I wouldn't normally try.
That was I get to experiment to explore new areas, etc.
I frigging love music - and I find making it dead fun whether others like it (or even whether I like it) or not.
I can't play instruments - I just used to pick a musical scale and use the keyboard to record 1, 2, 4 or 8 bar loops and quantize them by 8th or 16th notes. It's all about the composition, the structure of the sound and the sound itself for me...
But mostly I love the structuring. I used to use Ableton Live to play my musical loops live on the keyboard so it was all spontaneous and organic when I recorded songs. And then IF anyone ever wanted me to perform my songs live for them then I could - and I could also change it up a bit and change the order or the loops and the size of the song - keep it going it people like it or make it shorter if they're not bothered and want to hear something else, etc.
EvF
I lost my older equipment. I used to have a £300 program called Ableton Live, a relatively small £70 keyboard, a software sampler + synth called Proteus X and Cubase.
Oddly though because everything moves on so quickly these days - new cheap stuff can be kind of on par (but in a different way) with older but more expensive it seems..
With hardware vintage retro synths - whether they are expensive because they're hard to get hold of, or if you find a cheap one either way they can be very nice. Well at least for me. I love 303 TB Roland basses and 909 TR Drum machines
I make kind of experimental Electronica or whatever you call it.
I have 4 tracks up at my Myspace atm: http://www.myspace.com/zealotsoulmusic.
My newest and I think favourite of my tracks is 'Space-Fort'. Since then I have been working on a track but experimenting rather a lot with (software) mixing desks and the like. They're interesting but if you use scratchy or DJ loops effects off some kind too much then the track lacks melody and is a bit repetitive - so I'm going to have to incorporate the DJ stuff with balance of course.
I often have what I think I should do musically that I already know how to do in the back of my mind but I often go against it deliberately to explore new areas. I sometimes do a bit of what I think I shouldn't do and then try and make it work. See if I can make stuff work that I wouldn't normally try.
That was I get to experiment to explore new areas, etc.
I frigging love music - and I find making it dead fun whether others like it (or even whether I like it) or not.
I can't play instruments - I just used to pick a musical scale and use the keyboard to record 1, 2, 4 or 8 bar loops and quantize them by 8th or 16th notes. It's all about the composition, the structure of the sound and the sound itself for me...
But mostly I love the structuring. I used to use Ableton Live to play my musical loops live on the keyboard so it was all spontaneous and organic when I recorded songs. And then IF anyone ever wanted me to perform my songs live for them then I could - and I could also change it up a bit and change the order or the loops and the size of the song - keep it going it people like it or make it shorter if they're not bothered and want to hear something else, etc.
EvF
