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Do you make your own music ?

I forgot to add I use my ears and years of experience to make the music too, but that was too cliche! :)

My writing partner has just admitted he has effectively stolen £1000 of gear off me (he used it as collateral for a loan from a pawnbroker). I like(d) working with him musically, and have learnt I can work well with a focused musical person. I am currently in the market for a new collaborator now though, as the current one is going to be kicked out once I get my gear back and he pays me what it's going to cost to get my stuff from the pawnbrokers next week. :/
 
Tarragon said:
I forgot to add I use my ears and years of experience to make the music too, but that was too cliche! :)

My writing partner has just admitted he has effectively stolen £1000 of gear off me (he used it as collateral for a loan from a pawnbroker). I like(d) working with him musically, and have learnt I can work well with a focused musical person. I am currently in the market for a new collaborator now though, as the current one is going to be kicked out once I get my gear back and he pays me what it's going to cost to get my stuff from the pawnbrokers next week. :/
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I wish you good luck with that buddy! I hope you are able to retrieve all of your stuff. I can't imagine someone pawning other's stuff. It's just completely nuts to me!
 
And I didn't read the thread carefully enough and forgot to share my setup:
-Electric guitar
-MacBook
-M-Audio Fast Track mixer/input
-Alesis Q49 MIDI controller
-Reaper DAW
-Over a dozen FX pedals
-Cheap condenser mic for vocals
-Various other stringed instruments.
-Korg NanoPad2 percussion controller
 
mama_lotus said:
This is an itch I have wanted to scratch for YEARS, I used to back in the stone age with software that isn't compatible anymore... Cakewalk was one program but a very antiquated version. This was at least 13 years ago. Now I'm married with children and my husband always says he'll buy me the software for Christmas if I tell him what I want but I'm so out of touch with it now that I don't know where to begin! So I'll just stalk this thread and see what everyone else is using and do that.
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One thing that's different from 13 years ago--there is a ton of help online!

I just searched for "how to use cakewalk sonar" and I got websites (including Cakewalk's), plus a bunch of YouTube videos.

You could probably even search for "how to begin with cakewalk sonar"! Or whichever program you end up with. You could even just search for "easiest digital audio recording software to learn".
 
^Thanks! Does it matter which version? It's a big investment so I have to make sure I devote some time to it. I have a MacBook Air, but some separate drives. That's enough space, yes? (Sorry to hijack! I am sort of creating a subthread here, all about me, my bad!)
 
mama_lotus said:
^Thanks! Does it matter which version? It's a big investment so I have to make sure I devote some time to it. I have a MacBook Air, but some separate drives. That's enough space, yes? (Sorry to hijack! I am sort of creating a subthread here, all about me, my bad!)
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haha no problem, it is still relevant to music :). Depending on the amount of free space on your drives it would be enough. And yes these programs tend to really get expensive, that's what is great about being able to download them for free. :D
 
Any Musicians/Bands/Artists on here?

I find writing and producing music has been a way for me to release stress and tension i get from being socially awkward and not fitting in.

Soundcloud.com/Swnami
facebook.com/Swnami

We write songs in Welsh.
We write songs about heartbreak, Feeling alone, the usual feelings of dealing with being on the spectrum.


Does anyone else here use Music as an outlet?

FYI, I'm the only one from the band that has Asperger's.

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Hey all you computer geeks! Haha! :)

I make noise music with analog hardware - nothing digital until it gets transferred to the PC for uploading. It can be heard here: Music | Modern/Forward/J. Peterson It's my 'obsession to end all obsessions.'

I'm definitely going to have to follow some of those links you fellows posted about software, I'm looking to optimize my soundcard, etc., to make high-quality rips possible without a USB interface or mixing device.
 
I'm still composing, I find it's one of the few ways I can express what I'm thinking. Music is a great outlet for me and it's like therapy. A fair bit of what I produce is instrumental, a love playing a variety of instruments.
 
Yeah. Used to compose and do music a lot when I was younger. Now I'm too busy. Starting my DAW few times a year. Been doing mostly electronic music as I did not enjoy being in a band or performing live. Have done it too though, but as said, not my cup of tea.
 
I don't have anyone to play music with anymore and have serious stage fright so don't play live either. I just play at home and record myself. I'm mostly self-taught so not very good but I enjoy it. I play the guitar, piano, bass, mandolin, violin, cello, tin whistle and drums but don't have my own drum kit so don't get to play drums much. It's really a hobby/obsession of mine and a really useful outlet.
 
I would like to create and record. I did a little bit when I was a teen, about 25 years ago. I wrote, sang, and recorded a handful of songs for (or about) girlfriends or girls I wanted. Just me, a bass, and sometimes a simple drum track from this cheap keyboard I had. Recorded with whatever a broke teenager had laying around, a couple recording walkmans, a clip on mic, Rockman Bass Ace, some headphone cables with volume control used for balance. I submitted one for a college class once, I went out one night to a remote park and recorded it in the back of my station wagon. As I was too shy to sing around anyone except the song's subject, and even that was a stretch. But the teacher liked it.

But since then I just played cover songs with bands, or jam with songs at home. Don't really feel I have any creativity for the most part, just duplicating parts.
 
tlc said:
Don't really feel I have any creativity for the most part, just duplicating parts.
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The funny thing is that I dont like that much playing but can come up a song in 5 minutes. I just "know" what to play, even though I don't even play from notes. It's like I hear what the sounds are supposed to be. This was very hard to explaing while I was in a band. Other members valued my skill but felt it was sometimes annoying that I was not able to make compromises. Because that would have sounded "wrong"...
 
I don't, growing up the only singer in the family was the sewing machine. Still it's a good talent to have for sure.
 
I have released a few songs relating to being an aspie. On my latest album I wrote a song about the difficulties in communication between me and my NT partner.
 
Short answer is: Yes.

I've been writing since around 2005. I do have a Soundcloud page, which can be found at Justin Havu

I mostly write Contemporary Christian stuff, but there's a few crossover pop tunes as well.

I use a combination of hardware synths/keyboards with software instruments. Reason is my main DAW.
 
I try, but I don't have enough musical knowledge to create interesting stuff. Mostly I have used musecore, but I want to learn some ableton to try other kinds of music.

This is the kind of stuff I've written. It's not much, just an attempt at writing music

 
I've got a couple albums worth of stuff now. Link is below:

Buskers

As for what I use - I use GarageBand, Caustic 3.1, KORG DSN-12 for 3DS, an Apex 555 microphone, phone mic sometimes, Bass, Guitar, any other instrument I can get my grubby mitts on, and more. My most recent album used a PNG to WAV Converter I found online to make the "songs", and I've got a song for a future album that was made using an old Fostex X-28 multitracker, which is a 4-track tape recorder from the 90s.
 
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