making beats
- Started 13 years ago
- Last post 2 days ago
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- mg331
Are any of you guys familiar with this YouTuber / musician?
I can't remember where I came across him, someone maybe shared it in a facebook group, but does he annoy you as much as he does me?
- haha, yep... the worst. pretty much every youtube musician needs a slap.kingsteven
- a great big hard slap @ 4:45futurefood
- This is so painful to listen to. Even him just talking, and all the standard YouTube jumpcuts and flair are outrageous.mg33
- hey, being a fan of his neon hoodies or his cheese flair or not aside, he is working to get the kids into music-making so he gets thumbs up imoprophetone
- ...or would you rather your kids watch, learn life lessons from morgz?prophetone
- but yes, small doses for me now... he was more serious, nerdy in earlier vids, now more nickelodeon performance stuff going on to draw younger crowdprophetone
- yeah, I can handle him in small doses.. not altogether annoying.. just Canadian.. baller studio thoautoflavour
- Better channel https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- Best channel https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- He's a 100% annoying youtuber. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't totally learn a few things from him.section_014
- yea, +1 Noirfuturefood
- kingsteven1
Took me a while to get in to this guy, not at all fussed on his music but after 2 years building this thing I look forward to the YouTube vids going up on Wednesday now.
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I use a program called Mixcraft 8 to make beats on existing sounds..
- prophetone1
- lights shining down onto the ins/outs is kinda genius!microkorg
- this thing is pretty slick, flexible, well designedprophetone
- prophetone0
And this is why I resist eurorack, way too cool, love the missile silo control panel design
- I dabbled in a bit of euro then realised how much of a money pit it was going to be to create a setup that suited what i wanted.microkorg
- prophetone2
Checked Moog Audio to see if Behringer aciid box added yet... almost can’t believe my eyes, and that’s in CAD$
- prophetone5
- 4 voice paraphonic. I'm gonna hold out for the Jupiter they're probably cloning. I play lots of 6 note chords these days.section_014
- behringer literally sayin 'hold my beer', things are def getting weirdprophetone
- god damnitfuturefood
- i'm now half expecting them to release a $300 E-Mu SP-1200prophetone
- Holy shit. I have been getting rid of all of my gear and this could fill a crucial gap. Akai controller, a bunch of analog gear and this would be a fun combo.garbage
- But I'm flirting with the idea of going full analog and getting a piano. Anybody here have 88 keys?garbage
- 88 keys would be wasted on me... jamming with a guy with a nord stage 88, and it takes up the whole room :-/kingsteven
- Considering the rd-8, td-3 and now this... Behringer applied for MONOPOLY trademarks a while back too.kingsteven
- Ha yeah. I'm actually wanting that, but I'm thinking more of a shitty old novelty piano in the living room for friends to play at parties.garbage
- That role is currently filled by a Lowry Teenie Genie, and it's always a laugh when somebody scares themselves with the volume pedal.garbage
- £599 / €699prophetone
- Ianbolton1
Another year, and another finished track: https://soundcloud.com/ianpaulbo…
- mg330
How many of you know nothing much about music theory and have evolved just by ear over the course of making music? I keep thinking it might be helpful to take a music theory course if it simply helps with dexterity and comprehension of the piano keyboard, scales, etc.
I first played trombone in jr high around 1989-1992, knew how to read music and such, but once I got a guitar in 92 I’ve been completely self taught. Had a band pretty quickly in 93 and we were making our own songs and playing club shows in Dallas before we were even 18. Learned to sing and play guitar at the same time during 5 years in college, started doing open mic originals in Chicago in 2001, had a band from 2004-2010. Been doing my own stuff ever since and making progress towards finishing a project and putting new music out there.
All the while, I’ve never known any music theory and have always had a good ear for making songs. Like a lot of you who listened to music from a young age I’ve absorbed so much influence over the years that’s had an impact on what I make.
So I guess my question is, how many of you are theory-based music makers vs. non-theory and just play more based on feel and what sounds good?
I don’t think it would hurt for me to learn some basic theory, especially as applied to piano, which I’m slowly learning more of in terms of playing and my comprehension of more complex and repetitive playing. Thoughts?
- No music theory here. The best art comes from chaos ;) I tried bass lessons when i was 16 and lost interest in doing repetitive stuff over and over ...microkorg
- ...I just wanted to play! so bought the bloodsugarsexmagic tab book and taught myself how to play from there ;)microkorg
- WIsh i could play piano like a pro though. That'd be fcking awesome.microkorg
- I have enough to know the scale I'm playing, what scale degree each not is, and what chords are supposed to be in said scale. The rest is off the cuff.section_014
- i know absolutely nothing. i can hear things being in key/tune etc.. but as for instruments, notation, reading.. nup. 20 years deep and nadaautoflavour
- machines do all the workautoflavour
- BrokenHD2
- voice control midi so i can finally hum my bass lines (!)BrokenHD
- kewl!prophetone
- I'm finally getting mine this week, very interested to give this a gobig-papes
- prophetone0
- I feel like by the time this translates into CAD$ it's getting into Grandmother territory, I'd prob go for the granny tbhprophetone
- mg331
Picked up Addictive Drums 2 over the weekend to use in Logic, and while drums have been my weak spot when it comes to recording, even spending hours figuring out good live drum sounds in Logic just hasn't gotten to exactly the sound I want - mostly due to the lack of brush and mallet sounds for more cinematic and slower stuff.
The UI in Addictive Drums 2 is absolutely heinous, the skeuomorphic elements have their own skeuomorphic elements and the color scheme is hideous. That aside, I'm pretty impressed with the sounds and configuration. Having the right softer mallet sounds and brushes will be really useful.
I almost want to do a conceptual redesign of the software itself just for the fun of it.
