Ask HN: Do you create music? Let's hear it! • Hacker News Board

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I started the first part of 2008. I don't have any musical training other than playing saxophone for a year in the 6th grade. It's all been trial and error for me. Youtube has actually been very helpful in learning FL Studio. There are a lot of great howto videos out there. I also try to imitate parts of songs I really like. A drum loop, a melody, or a particular effect. I also think one of the biggest factors is the…

thanks. i've noticed a greater number of artists using thesixtyone to test/iterate on demos...one is even financing his entire canadian tour from tips on t61 (bankai). i suspect basic track analytics on t61 would create a lot of value for artists -- this is why we're hiring. http://www.thesixtyone.com/static/jobs/

I'm glad to hear about the analytics.

Funny you brought up the Bankai tour. I'm planning on driving to Vancouver myself to see it.

A little background on the tour. Bankai is an electronic artist from Australia. He puts out some awesome music. A bunch of people from the t61 group Electro Freaks live in or around the Vancouver area and they decided to put together a series of shows featuring Bankai and other t61 artists. Bankai is crowdsourcing his trip to Canada. So far he has raised $1450.

Check out his progress here: http://www.bankai.fm/vancouver/

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Post by mattdennewitz » Mon, Sep 21, 2009, 1:33 AM UTC

kyro wrote: post #13

mattdennewitz wrote: post #9

http://myspace.com/motion two of us, both in chicago. npr says we "reinvent phil spectors wall of sound as a 50 foot tall electric fence." software-wise, we use ableton live for loop control. will be headlining our label showacse @ midpoint music fest (cincinnati, oh) on sept. 27, then pop montreal (montreal, quebec, canada) on oct. 3, if anyone wants to swing in and geek out!

Awesome. I've tried getting into Live before, but the interface was a bit too different for my tastes. Everyone I speak to says great things about it though, and how it handles sampling/audio really well. I should give it another go. Congrats on the shows!

thanks!

live makes loop construction and synchronized playback as easy as clicking a mouse. its just plain amazing. everything from there on is icing on the icing on the cake.

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Post by Khary » Mon, Sep 21, 2009, 1:36 AM UTC

Check out my site twiturm.com. Its sorta like a twitpic for musicians.

this is some of my music on it as well. http://twiturm.com/profile/blackcortez

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Post by lux » Mon, Sep 21, 2009, 2:00 AM UTC

lux wrote: post #61

Yes! I'm actually working on transitioning in the next year to a technomad/touring lifestyle so I can focus on music more. I'm at http://thesixtyone.com/johnnybroadway or http://www.johnnybroadway.com/

To also mention what I use:

- GarageBand for recording through a Tascam US-122 (keep looking at higher end ones, but keep putting the purchase off... :) - Guitars mostly direct input w/ GB's built-in amps. My stage amp is a Fender Blues Jr. + jamman looper and a few other pedals... - Vocals through an Apex 460 condenser mic - Drums mostly electronic or sampled, with a V-drum lite for playing

I've also got a bunch of random stuff I can break out as needed, shakers, tambourine, ukelele, banjo, harmonica, etc. I also got a little nanokey keyboard recently and wanna get the nanokontrol next since I bought Ableton suite recently to play with more electronic sounds.

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Post by JakeIsAVirus » Mon, Sep 21, 2009, 2:14 AM UTC

JakeIsAVirus wrote: post #23

I'm a CS student, a hobby programmer/very-amateur quasi-hacker, and a musician. I'm the lead singer and guitarist of a band called Martyr Your Muses. We are really just getting started, and our myspace page is still pretty ugly, but you can listen to some of the music at http://www.myspace.com/martyryourmuses

Oh, and for writing the music, I utilize Cubase (I think I am using LE right now) for sequencing, I will use one of the few synths I have as a midi controller, and Kontakt or Reason for samples. These things get me by for writing.