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Re: Get started making music

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Post by omegote »

danielskogly wrote: post #20
radiorental wrote: post #15

Related, this is trending on reddit this morning. Just fascinating to watch someone build a catchy track up on such a (apparently) basic piece of equipment... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5cU9qWRg0

It's a cool video, but not really a very basic piece of equipment. > That's actually a $900 synth/sampler/effects processing unit called the Op-1 by Teenage Engineering. From this thread on /r/ArtisanVideos: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/comments/6a2yq4/guy_m...

Not to mention that OP-1 stands for overpriced-1, you can do much more with way more affordable gear.

Re: Get started making music

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Post by veli_joza »

psyc wrote: post #255
puranjay wrote: post #211

I'm an amateur musician and one of the things I hate about electronic music is how "distant" it all feels. I'm used to picking up the guitar, playing a few chords and writing a melody. Ableton (or any other DAW) feels like a chore. I have to boot up the computer, connect the MIDI keyboard, the audio interface and the headphones, then wait for Ableton to load, then create a new track and add a MIDI instrument before I…

I've used all the software DAWs. They are a chore. They're all terrible. Extremely cluttered UIs, and way too much to learn to do the simplest task. By contrast, I always found hardware DAW touch-screen interfaces a joy, because they strip it down to entering and editing notes, everything is tactile, and they sound great.

I found Multitrack Studio to have better UI than rest of DAWs, but it's not so geared towards eletronic music. They also have pretty good support for touch-screens. Too bad there's no Linux version, but that's hardly surprising for multimedia software.

Re: Get started making music

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Post by ipqk »

laurentoget wrote: post #403
ipqk wrote: post #392

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For instance, while Imperial units aren't without some advantage, they are pretty generally inferior to the Metric system. You say this pretty matter of factly, but I actually vehemently disagree. Many imperial measurements are better than their metric counterparts for day-to-day lay usage. - Fahrenheit is a better scale than Celsius - Inches, Feet, & Miles are very practical units. Centimeters, and Meters much less…

Inches, Feet, & Miles are very practical units. Centimeters, and Meters much less so. Really? Do you know how much easier it is to compute surfaces and volumes in metric systems compared to imperial? Concrete example. Figure how much soil you need to buy to fill a box knowing L, W and H. In metric it is a 10s process. In imperial i do not even know how you are supposed to do it. Does anybody even know how many quart…

No, I don't know the number of quarts in a cubic foot, but no one does because they're two different measurements for two completely different uses.

Re: Get started making music

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Post by was8309 »

pklausler wrote: post #459
pcsanwald wrote: post #458

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Wes Montgomery, Erroll Garner, Django Reinhart and obviously Roland Kirk are probably the most well known that couldn't read at all . There are many, many more jazz musicians that were/are very poor sight readers.

Sure, but those guys are all (sadly) long gone, and the parent comment said "don't", not "didn't".

agree that probably all currently popular jazz musicians read music, but is this necessarily an improvement?

https://www.amazon.com/Erroll-Garner-One-Hear-Read/dp/B00AZ4...

Re: Get started making music

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Post by hashmal »

Applejinx wrote: post #420
hashmal wrote: post #358

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Computers are powerful but boring as hell when it comes to creating music. Lately physical machines have been getting popular again (drum machines, modular systems like eurorack, etc). The computer is then used to glue everything together (mixing and mastering) You can do electronic music without a computer and with the immediacy of an acoustic instrument : pick up a Volca or an Analog Rytm and you can go a long way…

No reason they have to be. I recently ordered a couple 'Bastl Kastles' to use as oscillators and LFOs (patching them into Xoxboxes and/or each other). Part of the reason some of those old things like DINsync hardware are prized is retro nostalgia, but the other reason is they're using primitive timing systems that have less jitter than the more sophisticated centralized MIDI systems. If you're using DINsync, all your…

I only have basic knowledge about these old things, so thanks for the info. While MIDI endured the effects of time quite well, as a developer it is a pain in the ass. Every device (or DAW) handles things a bit differently.

Re: Get started making music

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Post by Marazan »

cmelbye wrote: post #208
komali2 wrote: post #190

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Is Apple's Garageband free? I thought you need to own an OSX device to run it? (my understanding is OSX only runs on Apple hardware and also is not a free OS)

Yes, it's "free" (not open source). It's included with the purchase of a Mac.

Not any more.

Re: Get started making music

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Post by TuringTest »

ipqk wrote: post #452
landmark3 wrote: post #413

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“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie1 of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-te…

That's great. When is that EVER useful to the layperson?

Cooking

Re: Get started making music

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Post by TuringTest »

ipqk wrote: post #463
laurentoget wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Inches, Feet, & Miles are very practical units. Centimeters, and Meters much less so. Really? Do you know how much easier it is to compute surfaces and volumes in metric systems compared to imperial? Concrete example. Figure how much soil you need to buy to fill a box knowing L, W and H. In metric it is a 10s process. In imperial i do not even know how you are supposed to do it. Does anybody even know how many quart…

No, I don't know the number of quarts in a cubic foot, but no one does because they're two different measurements for two completely different uses.

No wonder that you miss the point of metric units if you don't get why doing such transformations is useful.

In the metric system, converting between length, volume and weight is trivial and straightforward. This comes into play neatly whenever you need to pile up a precise amount of batter or liquid from containers measured with a different unit.

Re: Get started making music

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Post by hasbroslasher »

soundwave106 wrote: post #289
almonj wrote: post #169

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Also people who have really hot Sound Tips generally don't want to give them away. If you can make a unique sound with some special trick you will have an advantage over your enemies (other musicians).

One problem is that every machine tends to be designed just a little bit differently. Therefore, tips on exactly recreating the sound might not necessarily translate well from one machine to another. For instance, the "Blade Runner Blues" patch as I understand it is actually one of the brass presets on the Yamaha CS-80. (Bad recording but here: https://www.firsthomebank.com/personal-banking/deposit-produ... ) The CS-…

I really like that you just went off on a huge tangent about this, no sarcasm. I really agree with your last line too, Kevin Shields is another example of this. By perfecting a unique playing style (holding the pitch bar while strumming) he was able to come up with a sound so unique that it spawned a subgenre
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