now i'd never advocate software piracy. but if i only had $10 to my name
and an irrepressable urge to make h07 73cHn0 7r@cKz i'd be scouring the
internet in search of "free trial" copies (wink wink) of various software
synths/samplers. no i do not know where you can find them, or even where
to start looking so please don't ask me :) things you might want to
search for (oh and you'd better have a Mac... ) Koblo, Rebirth, Reaktor,
Pro Tools, Peak, SoundEdit 16, Metasynth, Xx...
but if the gear is what you desire, keep a few things in mind...it's never
going to happen overnight (especially with only $10). the way the process
worked for me:
1) I played in rock bands for like five years
2) One day my dad decided he wanted to learn to play piano on his computer
so he bought a Yamaha cheapo MIDI "home entertainment" synth featuring 128
very lame general midi sounds and a rather counter-intuitive 8-track
sequencer.
3) Over the period of about two summers home from college I learned how to
sequence lame-o little riffs on the Yamaha, and finally my dad, sensing
that I was more interested in the synth than he was, offered to let me
borrow it indefinitely.
4) Took it to my apartment and annoyed my roommates by trying to re-create
every Aphex Twin song I heard on the stupid thing.
5) Realizing that this would never happen, saved up my paychecks and
bought a crappy drum machine.
6) Took it to my apartment and annoyed my roommates by trying to re-create
every Aphex Twin song I heard on the stupid thing.
7) Realizing that this would never happen, saved up my paychecks and
bought a crappy sampler.
ad infinitum...
now it's five years later and I guess it's paid off in some ways (record
deal, vast back catalogue of awful Aphex Twin tributes) but also it's cost
me somewhere between $6,000 and $10,000 and I'm still not satisfied with
95% of the music I make.
basically, be patient. and go to your neighborhood music shop and play
with the gear, figure out what seems like something you could experiment
with and save up the money and buy it. learn how the instrument works
in depth, let it become an extension of your mind/hands. this takes at
least a year in my experience.
be ready for frustration because no matter how good you get, you are
always going to flip on your record player one day and hear the sound you
wish you had invented come out of some other jerk's rig ..
--
String Theory : Digital Music for Humans
http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Eyal Dechter wrote:
quoted 32 lines ok... this is the thing:
> ok... this is the thing:
>
> I want to make music. I got so many ideas crammed into my thirteen year old
> little brain of main I could drown all of the worlds population twice with
> them (exageration). So... I've been looking for equipment and I run across
> an interview with AE where they talk about there Gear. I try to figure out
> what type of equipment they use so that I can get some backround on the
> names of the machines and what I need and other stuff. I read the names and
> I can't make anything out of them. R7890178 + roland 247938 and sequencer
> 7890234 and crap like that. I don't even know what software is and what
> hardware is. I'm no computer genius. I can't take any equipment right now
> and turn its internal circuits upside down. All I am is a crazy kid who
> wants to make music. All I have right now is Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and I
> can't use it effectively because the cheap MIDI sounds on the instrument
> sound so damn cheap. How do IDM muscians get the cool sounds they have?
> How can you make your own sounds? What should I buy? What the hell is a
> modulator, synthesizer, controller, and all that other shit? Could some
> please help me? Does anyone know of any tutorial or essay on how to work
> all this electronic gear? Where do people learn about this? By looking at
> a rock band I can tell waht instruments it has... but by looking at a
> picture of Orbital (or any other electronic music for that matter)
> performing live all I can make out is a bunch of electronics, but I haven't
> the slightest idea what? Any help would be appresiated.
>
> BTBTFFCR
>
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