Do you write your own music?

i used to be part of a rap ensemble. i did beats and crap like that. i wrote 2 songs, which i will admit now suck massive balls.

i’ve been orchestrating/composing/arranging for 6 years. its only 3 years ago i even started making electronic music

my god. i wanted to get the cypha going again, but then i realized i would actually have to think. and i really cant be bothered doing that.

Indeed i have and it is indeed much easier but when you spent your first few years on this planet writing scores by hand it doesn’t really make that much of a difference.

Besides i already get free upgrades on Sibeluis and it seems to talk easily enough with Logic

dj only.. love to learn to read and write music though 🙂

I usually make my tracks from scratch beat and all – samples and synths though, all software.

Sometimes use loops, but rather build everything up. Its a hobby for me, and I dont think I’ll be maknig anything truly serious.

Dont really play any instruments good, but can strum a little and can pick up a tune on an irish whistle. Can’t read music, but can play things by ear. I’d love to learn the sax, and believe I will have a go one day.

hi all,

im a producer from germany and i usually record my own songs with cubase. I work alot on midi base which means i play the melody, drums and even anything you hear in my songs. I’ve sampled once or twice maybe just to give it a try but as i said i like to play it how i want. That way i have full controll of the base. Thats how i work normally.

Yes, I actually do have a couple of compositions.

I write a lot of song lyrics too. Most of the stuff I just keep to myself, because to be honest, I’m never ever really happy with it, but I have started putting some stuff into production. So, we’ll see where this goes.

I write and produce my own stuff, with help of keyboards, voices, some guitar and, of course, a computer. For a tutorial, if I might say, I would love to read some tips about actual production skills, i.e. how to improve sounds, fatten up basses, bounce the beats etc. I dj rarely, but sometimes do remixes.

I have an MPC, but I find it a bit limiting- the samples don’t always sound right to my ear- to do with the MPC’s "voicing" and the fact it’s 16-bit. So gonna start doing music on my computer, but my budget’s limited, any suggestions? Was thinking about getting a USB keyboard and some either free or bundled software. Still want to make sample-based stuff, and to be able to be creative without too much fiddling around.

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Hey! sounds like a lot of work went into that…cool drum/beat section. Also , I like the note choices on the end of some of those piano riffs, somewhat chromatic I guess is how you’d put it(?) …toward the end it really started opening up and I could definitely hear an orchestra! I can see what you mean and hear what you were striving for. Very rich. It reminds me of the awesome "deep breakfast" album by Ray Lynch – waaaay back…I know you have much going on but you should keep doing your own stuff.[/quote:28u7aau2]

Indeed, there are big Ray Lynch and Steve Reich influences in my background. I’ve got another track i did, influenced by Rob Dougan’s Flying Angels (i think…it featured in Matrix Reloaded soundtrack anyway). Again another ‘orchestra’ of sorts, when i can find it on one of my external HD’s i’ll upload it onto that myspace page as well.

You got any stuff up to which i may have a gander at?