I worked on my dnb ep. All made from scratch including live instruments band ana synths no loops or patches etc.
First two seem worthwile listening. Have to think a little about arrangements as I find the buildups a bit annoying these days. Heard a dj set recently where they just put one buildup and drop right to the one of the next song. So its a constant break and drop :D This is shit.
Pigments is pretty nice even alongside vital. Haven't used it much but the additive stuff and granular was fun. Filter and effect section is nice too.
Its not that bad but the most time you spend on installation is opting out of services. This takes up like 75% of the install time :D
Joplin works well for me.
Thats a cool path for sure.
I havent even considered working for other projects except the last few years. Made a jingle for a podcast and some advertisment tracks, some for me, some for clients in other directions.
Fun experience to bring something on point along guidelines but I rather prefer the musician as an artist kind of thing where I just put out albums. When we released our album over 10 years ago we werent aware of all the sales channel that exist today. We hoped for some label that picks us up or something. We didnt even make CDs or vinyl I thin despite many people seem to like it and the forbidden and wild live impro recordings even more :D
Allright,
I´ve been making for 25 years now. Began with 16 and drumming on Dejmbes in tunnels broughtme initially in before I continued with Reason were I just mixed loops together and than began diving deeper into music after a friend tought me the first pieces of music theory.
After some training years I tramed up with local MCees and we had a first band called Quintesense with pretty smart story based texts and all. We had a few live perfomrances and its was huge fun.
Most of the time I spent with the next Group called Spruchpiloten and we released an Album and had a few hits like "Zurück zu Hause" ind Bombe. We had plenty of local club appearances sometimes completely improvised into electro or Drum n Bass territory comibined with rap vocals. A concept that later on Deickind started to make popular :D https://knsm.cc/kpmp3-015-spruchpiloten-starke-turbulenzen/
Maybe two hours a week is for producing if at all currently but thats fine as I prepare a massive solo comeback if all goes well.
Primary listening genres are HipHop, Drum n Bass, Electro, Deep House as well as Jazz and classic indian music or anythin that has rhytm.
Artists: Tribe called quest, Bad Company, Noisia, Misanthrop etc but also Khruangbin, Laufey, Lianne La Havas, Michael Kiwanuka on the softer side.
Random stuff, sometimes, music theory for weeks than a little mixing or stranjah for DnB stuff as I never had much ressources along the way except try and error and friends here and there.
There are some commercial soultions as well. I had to compare the results a little and then made an EQ+ preset in Bitwig that was plausible and fitted one of the measured curves as there are newer models from my headphones that are different in response. (AKG K240 Studio)
Parametric EQ worked better than convolution IR.
I just made a EQ preset in Bitwig for thr master channel with a proper correction for my akg k240 studio. This helps immensily with mixing. Or at least it sounds more balanced now. Cant verify if this is super correct but you may want to check out this page and throw the data in a eq. Found yours listed in the app too.
Yes thats definitely a point. I think I was there at some point and deliverd a few hits locally and that was a pretty long period that had just that one goal. Not as extreme though as that wasn´t necessary at that time :D
I agree that the core motivation is how you identify with your music and if you live in it and know not much else that pushes you into the extremes. What I also noticed yesterday was definetly inspiration. Not only tutorials and books for knowledge but real live, non music drama and moments that act as a unimagined source for it. Like emotional material and soul battery power that gets the spark lit again. I forgot that a little and thought you can make great art while living in a white room with nothing else happening. You cant. Music is transformed energy from somewhere.
I see, I think 24 years of producing should be kinda enough to find your musical purpose but it got worse over time. I used to make just short loops for my mcees and we went from there but they are are older and much busier. So now Iḿ pretty much standing there and thinking about solo takeoffs like a really good Drum n Bass album or electro ish kinda deep house groove loaded stuff with real instruments or sthg. But Iḿ really lakcing in patience, I mostly start stuff, got a solid core but struggle to get it going from there despite plenty of knowledge. I just enjoy plain loops, I dont need a story to tell, the loop it self is the story.
Also. there is so much stuff out there and I rarely find anything new that impresses me so I dont really see my own stuff as impressive either and got the feel it doesnt have anything of worth after the initial novelty effect.
Best thing is to just keep it as a day in the skatepark kind of thing. Go in there, pull some tricks, sweat a little, have fun and then let it go.
Just freeflow thoughts
Interesting, I don´t really think people will understand what Iḿ trying to say in my music. Or lets put it that way, I couldnt even express it. All I do is start somewhere and have fun along the way. Its not me, its a self establishing organism that is shaped through my perception. Its an adventure but without any target really.
The other thing is just writing a song that works as x or y.
Thats unfortunate but very understandable. Thanks for your effort!