I'd like to second this request - I'm interested in sculpting sound and doodling tunes with my computer, but I don't quite "get it" yet. I've played around with sequencing waves in Cool Edit Pro's tracking feature, and I've played around a little with Buzz 2, but I'd really like a response to Ben's email just for the explanation of it. Particularly I'd be interested in how easy it is to do what he described re: setting up a keyboard to control sounds on the computer, since I know piano but not my computer keyboard :P
any suggestions? or should I just suck it up and learn the keys for buzz 2?
or should I stop struggling to learn buzz 2 and learn some other program since buzz 2 seems to no longer be in dev?
or should i write some other list? (what was that music-making list people have written about?)
-adam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Knowles [mailto:knowles@Colorado.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 2:20 PM
> To: intelligent dunce music
> Subject: [idm] help me be aphex twin
>
>
> sorry if this is a little OT, but i need help, and the
> question is simple
> enough that i don't really want to bother the kind folks on the music
> makers list with it.
>
> basically, i would like to begin making electronic music on a pc. i'm
> gonna go out on a limb and wager that i'm not alone in this
> desire. i've
> been looking around online for a resource that will tell me
> exactly what
> kinds of things i need to start out, but i'm not finding much. (i am,
> however, finding lots of technical documents about Csound,
> DSP and MIDI
> this-and-that, etc.) is there a site out there along the
> lines of "so you
> want to be an idm musician..." which gives you a rundown of the bare
> necessities? all i know is that i need something that will
> make noises,
> something to manipulate noises, and something else that will
> sequence the
> noises. i assume that things like Max/MSP, Reaktor and Csound
> are in the
> making/manipulating category, but what about sequencing? and
> is there a
> simple way to hook up a keyboard to my PC, but in a very
> flexible way so
> that it is just controlling the note but the computer is
> making the sound?
> is that what MIDI is? sorry if this is all very "duh," but
> i'm looking for
> a place to start here.
>
> alternatively, you can ignore the above paragraph and just
> send me a list
> of what you think is necessary hard/software for making
> electronic music
> on a computer. Example (which i'm making up, since i don't
> know what i'm
> talking about): Max/MSP with _______ sequencing software and a _______
> midi cable connected to a _______ keyboard. or something.
>
> thanks,
> nub
>
>
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