Pardon me if I'm not the most knowledgeable in this field. I do make quite
a lot of music, but I'm not very technical when it comes down to it.
So on to your q's:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/ is the best place to find any audio
shareware.... They'll give you the down-low on all the progs...
As far as sequencing goes, I'd say cakewalk if my favorite, but I don't like
to sequence so that's not saying a whole lot. Cubase is nice, but I think
the interface is terrible so I never use that. Those aren't cheap though,
so I guess that wouldn't help you.
Fruityloops isn't a sequencer, and midi has very little to do with the way
it works. I use this prog for all my beats though, so if you're looking
into making some tracks, I'd suggest this. It goes far beyond ReBirth,
Hammerhead, and Rubberduck. In my experience at least.
Making the jams: I don't think any two artists go about making their tracks
the same way... That's probably why there are so many unique styles.... Most
artists try to keep their personal technique to themselves, but I don't
think mine is any secret.
How to create a foambee song, by foambee:
1) Usually I'll spend some time with my synth, by a fire, sipping some hot
chocolate. I just play whatever comes to me, and eventually I'll come up
with a melody that I like.
2) I always start the recording process with a beat. Most artists do. It's
the easiest way for me, so off I go. Fuityloops provides everything in a
drum machine I could need and more. I'll work on a beat for an hour or so,
playing along with my synth to see if it sounds good. I'll usually have a
drum loop consisting of about 15 or more separate tracks...
3) Next, I create variations of the drum loops for fills and such, so the
listener doesn't grow too bored with the same driving beat, with no change.
Some fills consist of taking some tracks out to make a more dry fill, and
some are adding snare flams and all that.
4) Cool Edit Pro is my choice for multitrack recording. Like I said, I
don't like to sequence, so I play all of my synths etc. live over a drum
beat and then chop them in to the appropriate loops.
5) Then you need to arrange all of the loops into a song. Most musicians
use multiples of four in their arrangements, otherwise it sounds a little
silly.
6) I usually take a few loops into a wave editor and add effects or chop
them up (Cool Edit Pro has a built in editor, but I use Sound Forge because
it has a few more effects that I like.). This adds flava to the song.
Again, it keeps the listener from growing bored. Man, I sound like a
fucking teacher, shit.
7) Mix it all down. At the end of all of this, I mix all of my tracks into
two stereo tracks and burn it to a CD or encode it to an mp3... and I think
that's all.
Like I said, different people do different things....
foambee@splink.com
http://www.splink.com/punkrag/bzrec/ (my record label)
-----Original Message-----
From: GWEINSTOCK@HWS.EDU <GWEINSTOCK@HWS.EDU>
To: idm@hyperreal.org <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 10:55 PM
Subject: (idm) Synths, MIDI, music
quoted 28 lines I'm researching MIDI for a class, and I'm looking for either a good
>I'm researching MIDI for a class, and I'm looking for either a good
>shareware sequencer or a cheap real one. I've looked at Tekknobox
>(shareware is crippled), and Fruityloops (looks good from the demo, but
>I'd like to keep this as cheap as possible). I know alot of folks on
>this list create music, some tips would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah,
>I hate to say this, but if someone could send me the post about how to
>create a by the numbers IDM song using (I believe) Fruityloops, that would
>be great.
>
>Secondly, in the paper I talk a bit about DSP, and I thought I'd include
>a CD with the text containing some canonical examples, or just interesting
>examples of MIDI programming. Any suggestions welcomed.
>
>Finally, I was listening to Inaudible tonight and I heard a song with a
>synth that sounded similar to the one used on Pink Floyd's "On the Run"
>off Dark Side of the Moon. I was curious as to what exactly makes that
>kind of a sound.
>
>Hoping this message somehow pertains to IDM,
>Gabe
>
>One last thing, any good sites for information on MIDI, if they could be
>sent this way I'd appreciate it.
>
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