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I've been out of touch with my musical creativity for quite a while now; 2 years, 14 days, 4hours and a few minutes to be exact, which just so happens to correlate with the exact age of my son, weird! Having a child really put the brakes on my music making (just as I was starting to get good!) and now after all this time I am thirsty for it again and now that I have a bit of spare time I really want to get going! It is light of this that I am starting this blog, I have grown so much in the past two years and want to approach my music making in an entirely different way. I have a few ideas but I'm eager for more fuel to be thrown on this fire so I'm asking everyone to sum up their core music making process in a few sentences....  | |
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11/03/08
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Spark
sample, sequence, play+record, edit, repeat. But it always ends with an editing together of multiple recordings.
11/03/08
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everamzah
i like to find interesting combinations of sounds and slice them up and incorporate them into one sound. that's always fun. ya, sample, sequence, play+record, edit, repeat - sounds about right.
OHHH RIGHT that whole, writing music thing. pfft, i don't do it anyway. i heard something about it tho....
11/03/08
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EsromCole
Depends on what I'm using to make the music. If I'm just using my laptop (i.e. Renoise) I just grab a drumloop and start sequencing, everything stays in Renoise. If it's hardware I usually start with a loop on the drum machine. I'll sample that in parts (hats + snare, kicks, etc) into my sampler and add fx. From there I'll either find more samples or tweak around on both machines until I feel like I have enough to arrange. Finally I'll build up patterns from the loops and track it all out to the laptop for mixing.
Or at least that's how I'd do it right now.
11/03/08
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bla
choose equipment for liveset (based on portability + looks), work out limitations/capabilities, come up with a plan based on those and set length, write a load of patterns/patches, try out different combinations of patterns/patches, piece together a set, improvise while playing
not finished yet
11/03/08
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mookid
bla, you know everything about portability. :ast time I went to one of your gigs, I seem to remember you need a Bedford Van(a large truck) just for all your power adapters.
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bla
yeah well i usually start off thinking all i need is a sequencer and a synth then i think i need fx and ive GOT to have at least 1 compressor... and they all have seperate power supplies...ends up being more bags than hands and i cant walk
11/03/08
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dkarma
congrats on the kid...I completely empathize. When we had our daughter I was/am a stay at home dad and the kid basically takes all your time and energy up. Even if I did have the time to make music I didn't have the energy after a full day of chasing her around and cleaning up after her...or the motivation for that matter. Now she's almost 3 and can use the computer which gives me some more time to do my thing.
As for my music making, I use many different processes depending on what media I'm using. If I know the track will be mostly audio loop based I'll just open Acid Pro and start dropping loops in until it sounds good.
Lately however I've been using Acid Pro to do midi only. I take a midi track or bang one out quick and then just send it out through my bcr2000 to my: ea-1, xl-7, & ms2000 then route the audio into another computer and record.
11/04/08
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pierlu001
bach had 20 kids
go figure
good luck on starting again, hope you manage to keep it fun
to let me more into it i asked a friend to play together and i went back to studying pure data and synthesis
it works
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