So who here makes music?
 

So many people virutally base their life around their music, but I fid that so little ever attempt to make it on their own!
Lets hear it! Do you make your own music? Do you like to jam with any friends? Just how into it are you? What are your favorite instruments and role-models? I'll break the ice ;)

While you can find just about any kind of music on my Ipod, I would say that I'm an electronic-music kind of guy, which can include anything from underground techno (ritchie hawtin), to drum and basss (kenny ken), to experimental weirdness (aphex twin, squarepusher, plastikman), to hip hop (Big, Dj Premier).
I recently finished getting my studio all up and working. It's in my house with my parents, and my long time buddy also has a mini studio at his place and we kind of go back and fourth.
I've chosen to not fully study music, IE a music recording school
like some of my friends are. Rather, I'm about to go for a minor in Business and a major in some kind of music industry if I can find it.
Here's what my studio is based on. I've been collecting instruments for a few years now. I really started with nothing and slowly got more and more. I'm genuinely interested to hear what you guys have to say. Speak up, whether you've got a full-blown digital/audio recording studio, or if you simply "use two sticks to make [music] in the nature"-chilli peppers ;) I spend lots of time on recording forums and many of the people simply aren't...well, they aren't TFP'ers! I'm just looking to strike some conversation, technical or not, with people 'more close to home', if you know what I mean ;)



Windows XP
Echo Mia soundcard
Mackie 14ch analog mixer
Steinberg 8x8 MIDI interface
Mackie HR824 monitors
Tascam 302 dual tapedeck

Nord Lead 2 synth
Korg MS2000 synth
Roland Alpha Juno 2 synth
Roland TB-303 synth
Roland TR-909 drum machine
Line6 Bass Pod effects processor

Technics 1200's turntables
Rane Mp-22z dj mixer

Cubase VST 32 midi/audio sequencer
Sound Forge Acid 4 audio slicer/arranger
Steinberg ReCycle audio slicer (for .rex files)
Steinberg Reason for tons of things. Drum track/bass track writing/arranging.

I sing in a very good local chorus, about 90 voices. As an engineer/consultant, I NEED to also make music to keep my balance. If I had more time and flexibility, I'd be singing modern a cappella (see The Bobs, or Spiralmouth).

Whoo, great thread. Music is a huge part of my life, all kinds of music, different moods, different melodies, different rhythms.

I have just started scratching the surface of making my own music. I am hoping to put together a small studio of my own, however at the moment, I have my main workstation and some software. I * wish * I had the money for one of those Rolands :)

Before I get too carried away, I'll let this be my bit just by saying that it's certainly something I've always wanted to do, it's just hard finding the time and the energy to shape the dream into something real.

I have one 10 min mp3 that is made up of things I just "threw together". Anyone have anything to share ?

I have sang with one group or another for the past 25 years or so, I'd have to say that the most fun group I performed with was a local barbershop chorus.

im a producer/song writer/singer i do have my own studio but alot of my work on reason
im in a band(Hardcore)
and im in the industry worked with lots of artist's

Men's chorus and marching band here at school, nothing too exciting, but it's fun.

I'm a singer, keyboardist and guitarist. I was in a band in high school. I still get together with two of the members and we do mini acoustic "concerts" whenever we all get together for a party. It's informal and a lot of fun.

I also played piano in a jazz band, and was a member of the choir and chamber singers in high school, and sang in an acapella group in college.

In my small apartment, all I have is an Ibanez acoustic that I've owned since 1996, a Fender Strat that I inherited from one of my band members, and a Korg X2 that I bought in 1994. With the advent of GarageBand, I've finally started to try and create a very small, modest recording setup, using the aforementioned instruments and a Shure 57 mic. All I gotta do is buy a USB interface for all these suckas.

I don't write a lot of my own music. I was raised, pianowise, on Billy Joel, and guitarwise, The Who for rock and Indigo Girls for folk. So I play a lot of that stuff. But I'm always noodling around, playing whatever comes into my head, so with GarageBand, I'm hoping to more efficiently and spontaneously capture that.

i'd say music is a great part of my life...without it, i'd be lost sometimes. i myself dont play an instrument, but i wish i did.

what i have realized though over the past few days or so is that when i'm dreaming or something, and the dream gets pretty intense, music will start playing. not music that i've heard that day, or anything that i've ever listened to. it just comes from my mind, and i think its some pretty amazing stuff. mostly classical or instrumental, but still, i think it sounds pretty fucking good.

That's pretty intersting ASU. I had a similar experience once. I woke up about three weeks ago with a song stuck in my head that I was positive I created in my sleep. Weird huh.
Kind of off topic, but one time when I was coming down off of a pretty hard drug (I'm straight now... ;) ), I was lying with my head on my girlfriends lap while someone was driving home. Every time I closed my eyes, a ceramic pot would pop into my mind. It changed every time I did it, but it was always on display on some kind of black, square musuem podium with an overhead flood light on it and a completely black background. The pots were spinning, as if on display. They were fully detailed, with different glazes and shapes. I'd never seen them before, I was just creating them on the spot. I was really into ceramics at the time. Boy that was interesting :D

Well I'm a music major at IWU studying vocal performance. So obviously, I sing, a lot. :)

Because of the nature of the degree, mostly I do art song and opera, but I love musical theatre, and so usually I try to sneak one of two of those into my semester repertoire.

I also play trumpet and piano, but the majority of my time and energy is spent on singing.

Bascially, I just love to perform on stage, and hopefully will be able to make a career out of live theatre one day, be it musicals or operas, or something inbetween. I don't really have a desire to be a recording artist or anything. I know I don't want to teach music.

So, I'll be one of the starving musicians always auditioning and never finding work, wish me luck. :p

I would like to have something like this on my computer. I get lost on "this site" for hours when I go to it. Other than that I have never been in a band. Dated a few band members that have made some of their own music . That count?

we make music at the fly household on an almost daily basis.

some stuff i have in this thread.
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=35927


and more stuff in this thread.
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=40028

lottsa good times down in the jamroom.

just purchased an old 4 track fostex that a bud and myself are gonna start playin' with.

i also grabbed a yamaha keyboard,that has a drum machine in it as well.

we've got prolly 30 tunes written between us in the last 15 or so years.

wish i knew how to put 'em up on TFP.

keep on rockin' man:D

I'm an electronic musician, perhaps more accurately a computer musician as I use no other hardware but my computer for composition and production. I'm into the more experimental end of the music spectrum often playing with microsound and glitch techniques but incorporating them into more 'listenable' genres such as ambient and idm.

played in clubs in various bands from highschool through college and beyond. started on drums, then singing and guitar, have played bass for beer too many times to count, filled in with keys during recording. i've played everything from jazz to hardcore to alternative dance to classic rock to R&B to country to... well, whatever got me work on a given night.

don't gig anymore now that i am a toddler wrangler. it's tough just to get together with buddies to pick and grin.

i recently got cakewalk and am just starting to mess around with it. i'm dinking with guitar tracks 2 now, but haven't figured out how to hear what i am playing as i play it. the effects only come through when i playback the track i just laid down... needless to say, this is a pretty big handicap with delays and distortions. anyone know what i'm doing wrong?

that tascam interface is pretty sweet looking. i've been checking this lexicon unit out. it comes with software too. i've got a roland midi stage piano i'd like to get into the mix along with my guitar playing.


lexicon specs and price

article about omega studio

I probably don't know how to fix this so don't get your hopes up, but here's a shot. Unless cakewalk simply can't "preview" as you play, there must be some recording setting somewhere. Just browse the options and pulldown menus for something having to do with recording, previewing, playback, or whatever...Or browse google for a Cakewalk forum (which definitely exist) and ask there. You're sure to find an answer for something like that.

Here's a great place to start :

CM / FM Music Technology Forum

Does Any one use
Trilogy - Total Bass Module By Spectrasonics
Atmosphere - Dream Synth Module Also By Spectrasonics
im thinking about buying them or even downloading them
i hear there good

yeah, i have armed the track and hit the record button, but i still just hear the guitar playing through the speakers straight, no effects. it puts a lot of guess work into putting down distortion or delay or reverb tracks because i don't know when i am stepping on the sustain.

nice link mephex, thanks. there's a lot there to dig through.

hey, for anyone scoring at home, it looks like i found the answer to the ^above issue and thought i would share.

i found it in the cakewalk forums (http://www.cakewalk.com/forum/tt.asp?forumid=17). it looks like guitar tracks (2 or pro) do not do real time effects. the users in the forum suggest that in order to hear effects real time, you need to be using either their sonar or home studio products in conjunction with guitar tracks. both of those are more expensive.

if you ask me, that is insanely lame.

Well some people simply don't need things like that so they don't care to shell out the extra cash. However people are paying $500 for Cubase for jumps in simple technologies like that, and even $1,000 for Apple's Logic for even more, plus a little for the name ;)
Insane, yes, but you've gotta respect the crazy programming people do to make these programs tick. If it weren't for people like them, you'd be back to cutting up tape with a razor to do your editing ;)

that's pretty interesting.. I have a friend who lives in here in the states who goes by "Fussik" (similar to your name), who, while he doesnt' really produce, he DJ alot of glitch/idm/microsound, as well as promote events that highlight this music..

quite a coincidence!

So lately I've been using lots of reason, but I'm neglecting all of my hardware so I'm trying to get used to ReWire...Anyone else ever used ReWire?

I make music..... good thread.

I play in two concert bands (French horn in one, Trumpet in the other) and also I play guitar in a jazz trio.

I am a music student about to grad with a diploma this spring, and enjoy composing the best.

I hope to compose music for jazz ens / concert band / grade school bands / orchestral and more.

To date I have composed pieces for jazz combo, I did one piece for full symphony orchestra, and am almost done my first piece for grade school concert band. I also compose trumpet descants to hymns to be played with congregational singin in church, which I hope to publish once I have a collection of a few ready.

Yeah I make madd music. TRUE Hip Hop, R&B, and I experiment with everything else, frequently.

Yeah... I've been making my own stuff since I was 15. I never had the dough to buy "real" equipment, so I had to be pretty inventive. A lot of my stuff has been put together with small keyboards, comps, double deck stereo recorders...very amateur stuff, but also more thrilling in some ways than using software to do everything. I made some crazy shit (and I mean crazy as in crazy, not as in fantastic) before I moved to the States. Nowadays I don't have the equipment I need to make music, and while it has always been the most important thing in my life - aside from my wife - I fee like it's time to consider letting go of the dream. I'm simply not the kind of person who can joggle a 9-to-5 job and still feel creative at the end of the day.

Besides my shit is too unusual and weird for anyone to dig, anyway. Take my word for it.

Very interesting Prince. Sorry to hear that you are considering letting it go. I'm going into my junior year of college and am about to transfer to a four-year school. I've decided to minor in business, but keep my music up on the side and maybe even major in some kind of music industry. I feel that if I don't hold onto it now and keep it in my daily life that I'll lose it sooner or later... :(

Roland MC-303
M-Audio Radium 61 Mide Controller/Keyboard
Jensen Cry Baby Super Pedal

Windows XP Pro Corporate
AMD Athlon XP 2100
512 mb Ram
200 Gigs HD Space
SB Live 5.1 Soundcard OEM

Cubase SX
FL Studio 5
Reason 2.5
Abelton Live 4.1
Rebirth 2.0.1
Sound Edit 7
Audition 1.5
Various VST and DXI Instruments and effects.

2 Stanton Str8 60's
Behringer DJX 700
Sony 600 headphones

my cousin and i make music. it's so freaking fun. between the two of us, we have:

Reason
Cakewalk Audio
FruityLoops
Rebirth

MicroKorg
Roland JP-8000
Korg ESX
Korg EM-1
Behringer 8 Ch. Mixer
Fender Telecaster w/ Champion 30 Amp
Korg Guitar Effects Processor
Numark Axis 9 (CD player) x2
Numark Axis 8
Numark Axis 2
Numark Matrix 2 (two channel mixer)
Numark Matrix 3 (three channel mixer)

it sounds like we have more stuff than we have.

I am a singer with aspirations to become a serious musician some day when I can actually afford to get one, or two, or three and I'm also a rapper.

Example of what I can do eh.. here ya go just copy & paste

singing: http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/thaastaman/ThumbingMyWay.mp3
Pearl Jam - Thumbing My Way (a capella)

rapping: http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/thaastaman/quickspit.mp3
Me just doing a short little rhyme I wrote to a beat I found in the instrumentals section at undergroundhiphop.com.

So yeah that is me.

Asta!!

play violin with my string quartet on campus. we do some gigs (weddings etc.) and we also do some on campus stuff which is alot more avant gaurde.
I also play a little guitar, and I have done some gigs with my gf's band (playing violin, mandolin)

I attempt some composition work, but I am the first to admit, I suck rather badly.