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MSPain
Jul 14, 2006
I've been playing around with bitwig studio and it's pretty great. Like Ableton, but designed with a lot of modular synthesizer principles. Like instead of drawing out an automation curve for the volume of your high hats you can just throw an lfo on there.

MSPain fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jul 12, 2020

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MSPain
Jul 14, 2006
check out LMMS on linux. it's like a free lovely(er) fruity loops.

If you want to spend money then bitwig is a very good cross platform DAW.

I made a music recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5nGD2Ep-w

MSPain
Jul 14, 2006
A friend of mine built one of them open source TR-909 clones for me.

https://voca.ro/1mCd2K4B8EV8

MSPain
Jul 14, 2006
do whatever you find fun. plenty of artists just transpose stuff so they only have to worry about the white keys. learning a few different scales can be real nice though. most techno is phrygian because it sounds atonal and one of my favorite artists does everything in mixolydian for reasons I don't entirely understand but it sounds cool

MSPain
Jul 14, 2006

this is lovely! <3 me some krautrock

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MSPain
Jul 14, 2006

Pollyanna posted:

much like you, i’ve basically become afraid of making music :ohdear: whatever confidence i have in my creative output is directly dependent on how much i understand what i’ve done and what i’m trying to accomplish in the first place. i’m a problem solver, not an artist. i’m not good at open-ended questions with no expectations or end goals.

something that helps me with this is coming up with well-defined projects that don't have very much psychic weight. this way I can practice the craft without worrying too much about the art.

for instance, I recently made a quick bumper track for my weekly poker night. It had to be less than two minutes long because somebody else will make a video to go with it and it had to be hype, low IQ edm. And the whole thing is a joke so my ego doesn't hinge on whether or not the final product sucks.

https://soundcloud.com/mbordenj/six...=social_sharing

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