On a side note, this was written (partly) in Elm: https://twitter.com/abletondev/status/861580662620508160
I'm fairly sure Elm was ripped out and replaced with TS later on.
Get Started Making Music
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#82Ableton is top notch but for me nothing beats coming up with melodies in FL Studio's "Piano Roll", a lot of fun times spent in that program.
FLStudio has a great community and Image-Line deserve kudos for their "lifetime" license model. I used it extensively for a few years and found it solid and productive. It's maybe closer to Ableton than Cubase.
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#83It's really awesome Ableton is going in this direction. Live is a beast, but it's a quite intimidating beast if you don't have experience working with DAWs and music software in general. I worked there for three years, and couldn't bring myself to learn the basics. Tutorials like these will definitely make it easier to pick the basics and start off with Live with more confidence.
how was working there? I did a code challenge there last year but I didn't make it to the next round. Still kind of bummed about it.
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#84I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll launch soon http://ngrid.io .
Is there a way to try it or learn more before signup/email list sub?
I started composing about a year ago using general tools like CuBase and Garage Band and wow, it's tedious, even when the initial sketch is worked out before hand on a keyboard.
There are just a ton of ideas that come to mind on how it could be an order of magnitude more efficient. Maybe there are apps that don't focus so much on production, that do a better job solely for the writing music part?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you are looking from the wrong way. Imagine there is a language you don't speak but you get a phrasebook with 100 useful sentences. Like general experssions what to say, how to ask etc. Now if you visit a country where they speak this language it will be very useful. You don't know the grammar, you don't even know the proper pronunciation. Yet you already have a base to build upon and express yourself. This s…
I have been playing and writing music for 20 years and learned by ear. I have minimal theory training and really have to look things up to tell you theory behind anything I’m writing unless you just want to know chord names. Your description is one of the best analogies I’ve heard. I can jump into a foreign country and learn the language through immersion, and I’ll pick things up and learn by trial and error, slowly…
>Ultimately, I think playing on his iPad or Nintendo DS was just easier than learning something like electric guitar which requires patience and some pain for a beginner.
I picked up guitar a little later than you, but what turned it from passing amusement (took some basic lessons) to lifestyle (still play almost two decades later) for me was forming a band with a friend who happened to be decent at songwriting and figuring out accompaniments to his songs. Much like with other things, a good social experience significantly improves the overall experience.
I still write music solo, but I personally don't find it nearly as rewarding without a partner to bounce ideas off of and give/get ideas/critique.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with you but I would put it differently. The notion that music is at all a grid is just ... not true. It’s true of a tiny subset of music. I use ableton (and grids) all the time but this way of thinking about “music” is just reinforcing a weird picture of what it is. Even scales and theory and even music notation enforce a confusing deconstruction of what music is. But it’s really hard to articulate this.
> The notion that music is at all a grid is just ... not true. Nevertheless you can still make some music with a grid.
Of course you can. But if you can only make music with a grid - in fact if you can only imagine music with a grid - that's not necessarily ideal.
Ableton is actually textbook modernism - mechanised regular repeating patterns, both in the GUI and in the kind of music it encourages.
Which is fine as far as it goes - as long as you realise there are other possibilities, and that that kind of modernism is more than a century old now.
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#87On a side note, this was written (partly) in Elm: https://twitter.com/abletondev/status/861580662620508160
I'm fairly sure Elm was ripped out and replaced with TS later on.
Yeah, not sure if this is the same but here's a tweet about some recent tech usage https://twitter.com/AbletonDev/status/1143880805317525506
"Running on Web Audio, WebAssembly and WebGL. Made with three.js, Tone.js, anime.js and React using TypeScript and much "
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#88Talking about synths, I can definitely recommend VCV Rack [0], an open-source virtual modular synth! What I mostly love is that through plugins you can find virtual versions of existing hardware modules! [0]: https://vcvrack.com/
Looks like many of the modules need a purchase.
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#89I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll launch soon http://ngrid.io .
Is there a way to try it or learn more before signup/email list sub? I started composing about a year ago using general tools like CuBase and Garage Band and wow, it's tedious, even when the initial sketch is worked out before hand on a keyboard. There are just a ton of ideas that come to mind on how it could be an order of magnitude more efficient. Maybe there are apps that don't focus so much on production, that do…
I am not sure how familiar you are with notation, but you might wanna consider Dorico, it is focused more on writing than on production bus still has a lot of features to make it sound pleasant (as opposed to other notation programs like Finale or Sibelius.) It is a sort of notation program / DAW hybrid that I think is a really interesting crossover / niche. Another suggestion might be to check out Synfire. (I have no experience with Synfire though, yet)
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#90I've been noodling with iOS music apps and MIDI hardware as a sort of ramp-up, and tried Ableton 10 Lite for a bit this summer. Really cool.