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I'm glad to have found this site, via MetaDronos's Soundcloud, actually. This sort of music is right down my alley, as far as both listening and creating.
Production-wise, I'm partial to the drone/noise region of the ambient spectrum of music, personally. But I listen to all sorts, and certainly delve beyond drone/noise music in my own work.
Currently I use Reaper with a plethora of plugins -- I kinda went crazy with downloading free stuff when I discovered everything last year.
Altho I've been making music, of sorts, for many many years (I started plinking on the house piano as a kid, started with trumpet in 6th grade, learned how to improv in my early 20's (i'm now 44)) I only REALLY started getting into music making more seriously over the last couple of years -- particularly last summer.
In the past, I had simply used my computer keyboard for playing music on my machine. This, of course, got frustrating. Last fall I finally acquired a MIDI controller, second hand, for free, from a friend who no longer used it. It had been sitting in his garage gathering dust (and a couple cockroaches) and when I got it, few of the keys worked and the knobs and sliders were scratchy. I cleaned it up as best I could, and tried to fix the keys. The knobs and sliders now work, but the keys are still frustratingly sporadic, at best. That one is an old Roland Edirol PCR-30 32-key, with 8 knobs and 8 sliders.
After experiencing how wonderful actual knobs and sliders are, and an actual keyboard (the few keys that work) I just had to have a MIDI controller with fully functioning keys. After looking around and reading some reviews, I decided on an Arturia MiniLab 25-key controller, with 16 knobs. I am absolutely LOVING it now. And the Analog Lab software that comes with it makes the whole package well worth the money.
A couple weeks ago, I also bought Arturia's V Collection, because they offered me a deal I simply couldn't refuse. I'm still exploring these synths. They are truly awesome. Particularly the Moog Modular V, the Arp 2600 V, and the Jupiter 8V -- tho I need to do considerably more exploring with all of them in general.
This has led to a huge increase in my creativity and musical output -- which had faded over the long dreary winter, to my frustration.
I live in Wisconsin, and also enjoy astronomy, mtn. biking, frisbee, model rocketry, games (video and board -- anyone wanna play chess?), painting (traditional and digital), and various forms of art in general.
Anyhow, that's about it from me for now. I feel a need to go explore some ideas I've been having for the Moog Modular V and Arp 2600 V.
I look forward to my time on this board.
For those interested, here's a link to my work on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/vox_sonitus/sets/my-tracks
l8r,
artao
I'm glad to have found this site, via MetaDronos's Soundcloud, actually. This sort of music is right down my alley, as far as both listening and creating.
Production-wise, I'm partial to the drone/noise region of the ambient spectrum of music, personally. But I listen to all sorts, and certainly delve beyond drone/noise music in my own work.
Currently I use Reaper with a plethora of plugins -- I kinda went crazy with downloading free stuff when I discovered everything last year.
Altho I've been making music, of sorts, for many many years (I started plinking on the house piano as a kid, started with trumpet in 6th grade, learned how to improv in my early 20's (i'm now 44)) I only REALLY started getting into music making more seriously over the last couple of years -- particularly last summer.
In the past, I had simply used my computer keyboard for playing music on my machine. This, of course, got frustrating. Last fall I finally acquired a MIDI controller, second hand, for free, from a friend who no longer used it. It had been sitting in his garage gathering dust (and a couple cockroaches) and when I got it, few of the keys worked and the knobs and sliders were scratchy. I cleaned it up as best I could, and tried to fix the keys. The knobs and sliders now work, but the keys are still frustratingly sporadic, at best. That one is an old Roland Edirol PCR-30 32-key, with 8 knobs and 8 sliders.
After experiencing how wonderful actual knobs and sliders are, and an actual keyboard (the few keys that work) I just had to have a MIDI controller with fully functioning keys. After looking around and reading some reviews, I decided on an Arturia MiniLab 25-key controller, with 16 knobs. I am absolutely LOVING it now. And the Analog Lab software that comes with it makes the whole package well worth the money.
A couple weeks ago, I also bought Arturia's V Collection, because they offered me a deal I simply couldn't refuse. I'm still exploring these synths. They are truly awesome. Particularly the Moog Modular V, the Arp 2600 V, and the Jupiter 8V -- tho I need to do considerably more exploring with all of them in general.
This has led to a huge increase in my creativity and musical output -- which had faded over the long dreary winter, to my frustration.
I live in Wisconsin, and also enjoy astronomy, mtn. biking, frisbee, model rocketry, games (video and board -- anyone wanna play chess?), painting (traditional and digital), and various forms of art in general.
Anyhow, that's about it from me for now. I feel a need to go explore some ideas I've been having for the Moog Modular V and Arp 2600 V.
I look forward to my time on this board.
For those interested, here's a link to my work on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/vox_sonitus/sets/my-tracks
l8r,
artao
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