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Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by S_A_P »

fenwick67 wrote: post #26
S_A_P wrote: post #23

I really tried to get into Ableton. I found a Push 2 at a pawn shop and while I can say that the push 2 controller is pretty damn amazing and turns Ableton into a pretty cool device, I can't get the arrangement to feel natural to me. I am a long term linear sequencer user, and Logic is pretty much muscle memory to me now. However, Ive used FL studio since version 1.x and that also feels much easier to use than Ableto…

Wait, were you arranging in the session view and not in the arrangement view?

No- It seemed that when I would try to use arrangement view to string sessions together, they seemed disconnected from the session I was just editing. I basically just end up using Push to sample chop and then move what I find to other software or hardware.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by S_A_P »

rock_hard wrote: post #29
S_A_P wrote: post #23

I really tried to get into Ableton. I found a Push 2 at a pawn shop and while I can say that the push 2 controller is pretty damn amazing and turns Ableton into a pretty cool device, I can't get the arrangement to feel natural to me. I am a long term linear sequencer user, and Logic is pretty much muscle memory to me now. However, Ive used FL studio since version 1.x and that also feels much easier to use than Ableto…

I came from CUBASE and it took me a couple attempts to get used to ableton Frankly thinking of it as a sequencer is a limiting mental model. Think of it as a instrument to jam with. When I used cubase I spend about 20% of the time with jamming together a basic idea and then 80% with arranging. Ableton flipped that for me...now I spend 80% of the time jamming (and loving it) and only all the way at the end I quickly c…

Ive heard this from quite a few folks. I dont do a lot of ITB recording though, so that may be my problem. I mainly use my 2 SPs (SP-1200/Sp-16) for the jamming part along with keys/guitar/bass. By the time I fire up software the idea is already there, and I want to arrange it.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by chevas »

There's a delay when trying to hit stop on any of the boxes. It's really quite frustrating.

I really like this idea. This is something I want to explore as a non-music person.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by readhn »

cubano wrote: post #3

Oh my...this is hardly "making music". Is paint-by-numbers making art? I sure don't think so, so neither is this. What would have been way way better is a brief introduction to music keys, major and minor, then basic chords, then progressions, then melody, with each section having a few examples of each so that the person going through the article could have some understanding of how music is really made, and how mus…

> Is paint-by-numbers making art?

haha is this art? Do you really need to go to school for a decade /study art to be able to paint this?

https://shorturl.at/krYZ4

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by jedimastert »

big_chungus wrote: post #19
johnhess wrote: post #18

Ironically for the name, ableton turns out not to be accessible for the blind.

It's not exactly easy to make an "accessible" DAW. Especially not when you consider that there probably isn't a huge market of blind music producers relative to the amount of work it would take to, say, make a somewhat-sane interface for a screen reader for a program as complex as ableton. The interface is very complex as is, and would almost certainly require some re-jiggering before it would work well. I doubt enou…

I just did an interview with a (blind) professor from Berklee that run an assistive music technology program and lab that has been using Pro Tools for quite some time. He's released a pile of scripts called "Flo Tools"[0] to assist with visually impaired use.

[0]: http://flotools.org/

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by seph-reed »

cubano wrote: post #3

Oh my...this is hardly "making music". Is paint-by-numbers making art? I sure don't think so, so neither is this. What would have been way way better is a brief introduction to music keys, major and minor, then basic chords, then progressions, then melody, with each section having a few examples of each so that the person going through the article could have some understanding of how music is really made, and how mus…

Just want you to know someone else agrees.

Re: Get Started Making Music

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Post by badfrog »

chevas wrote: post #34

There's a delay when trying to hit stop on any of the boxes. It's really quite frustrating. I really like this idea. This is something I want to explore as a non-music person.

> There's a delay when trying to hit stop on any of the boxes. It's really quite frustrating.

They all start and stop at the beginning of a measure so that it sounds natural/intentional no matter what you click on and when.

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