My first house track! This might be classified as "Latin Horror House." [mp3 removed]
ADDENDUM: These recent pieces are "hand crafted" in the sense that no existing loops were used (a la Sony Acid or garageband). They're done with a shareware program where you plug in individual notes on staves and choose from menus of low-quality instrument sounds. It should be fairly obvious from the somewhat halting, robotoid delivery but it needed to be mentioned that these are "my" dumb (but hopefully good dumb) melodies.
I know it's pathetic to always be the Apple apologist, but I'll just mention that although Garageband does come with loops, you don't have to use them. You can create anything you want from scratch, either by plugging in any midi instrument, or using your computer keyboard as a very basic musical keyboard. I think you would freak out if you saw how cool it was (my apologies if you've already played with it and didn't freak out.)
Believe me, if I had a Mac (newer than my beloved SE) I'd be fooling around with garageband. The PC-based program I'm using (I'd rather not fess up to what it is just yet) gives you the option to play directly from the keyboard, but I'm literally plugging in a note at a time on the staff ("OK, I'm putting in three sixteenth-notes that go C-D-E sharp"), like composing on paper except you can hear it back in real time. I use a .wav editor (also shareware) for some functions. The synths aren't any better than what my sound card can play. This is like me using MSPaintbrush to make art--there are twisted, complex psychological reasons for it, but mainly it's that I like being forced to work within a narrow range of options (forcing shortcuts, fallbacks and workarounds I find creatively interesting). If I did have garageband, I'd probably be setting all kinds of limits for myself.
This is like me using MSPaintbrush to make art--or doing animations without onionskinning. I'm like Robert de Niro in The Mission, dragging a bag of heavy armor up jungle trails. I'll be converting to Catholicism soon.
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My first house track! This might be classified as "Latin Horror House." [mp3 removed]
ADDENDUM: These recent pieces are "hand crafted" in the sense that no existing loops were used (a la Sony Acid or garageband). They're done with a shareware program where you plug in individual notes on staves and choose from menus of low-quality instrument sounds. It should be fairly obvious from the somewhat halting, robotoid delivery but it needed to be mentioned that these are "my" dumb (but hopefully good dumb) melodies.
- tom moody 7-07-2004 11:34 am
I know it's pathetic to always be the Apple apologist, but I'll just mention that although Garageband does come with loops, you don't have to use them. You can create anything you want from scratch, either by plugging in any midi instrument, or using your computer keyboard as a very basic musical keyboard. I think you would freak out if you saw how cool it was (my apologies if you've already played with it and didn't freak out.)
- jim 7-07-2004 10:32 pm
Believe me, if I had a Mac (newer than my beloved SE) I'd be fooling around with garageband. The PC-based program I'm using (I'd rather not fess up to what it is just yet) gives you the option to play directly from the keyboard, but I'm literally plugging in a note at a time on the staff ("OK, I'm putting in three sixteenth-notes that go C-D-E sharp"), like composing on paper except you can hear it back in real time. I use a .wav editor (also shareware) for some functions. The synths aren't any better than what my sound card can play. This is like me using MSPaintbrush to make art--there are twisted, complex psychological reasons for it, but mainly it's that I like being forced to work within a narrow range of options (forcing shortcuts, fallbacks and workarounds I find creatively interesting). If I did have garageband, I'd probably be setting all kinds of limits for myself.
- tom moody 7-07-2004 10:59 pm
This is like me using MSPaintbrush to make art--or doing animations without onionskinning. I'm like Robert de Niro in The Mission, dragging a bag of heavy armor up jungle trails. I'll be converting to Catholicism soon.
- tom moody 7-08-2004 12:12 am