Making Music!

[Scouse]

Well, probably not, but I just hooked up my new stage piano to my laptop and I'm looking for some good software to work with it.

I'm no musician (had lessons till I was, like, seven) and reading music still poses a problem (sooooo slow) and I've not had regular access to any kind of keyboard since I left home 16 years ago but I would like to fuck about and make some choons

I presume all I need is some sequencer type software but if anyone here's got any tips...?

 

[Tom]

Reason 4. One of my last:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tom.jeffs4/B3ta/piano echo.mp3

 

[Scouse]

Cool Tom. What did you use to put it together?!

 

[bob269]

Cool Tom. What did you use to put it together?!

Reason 4

Propellerhead Software | Reason Version 4 Trailer

Great program for beginners and those who don't wish to spend £1000's on a studio setup

 

[Guest]

Steinberg Cubase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Scouse]

Oops. Didn't spot it - mildly intoxicated.

I ruptured the medial collateral ligament in my knee before Christmas and I've not been able to walk since - so my days currently are a very sedentary mish mash of games/tv/films/music/feeding the cat and getting mashed.

Can't be good for the mental health but as of tomorrow I'm allowed to crutch around properly- a valentines trip to Amsterdam with the girlfriend, a few doobies and a handful of mushrooms and I'll be right as rain! All primed for the massive detox that starts next week...

Ta for the tips.

 

[Tom]

Since we're in the habit of resurrecting old threads, here's me and a track I just completed. I intend it to be one of 3-4 on an EP I want to put together. Hopefully anyone in the bath with the lights off will enjoy it

http://soundcloud.com/tom-jeffs/just-messing-final-ish-version

 

[Scouse]

Very Jarre-esque. Cool

 

[Lamp]

what stage piano do you have? I have a Kawai MP9000

 

[Tom]

Hopefully nobody will notice that toward the end of the track, I stole a chord progression from Jarre's "Ethnicolor", on Zoolook.

 

[Tom]

what stage piano do you have? I have a Kawai MP9000

I only have two keyboards at the mo, an old Casio HT3000 that I bought for sentimental reasons, and a 49-key Novation SLII.

I was seriously close to dropping £2,500 on a Roland V-synth GT but I came to my senses. God that is a sexy beast.

 

[Scouse]

No such extravagances here. Just a Roland RD-300SX. Set me back about 700 quid IIRC.

 

[Tom]

I'm afraid my acoustic piano has had it - to be retuned it needs to be restored, and it just isn't worth the expense. So it's essentially pikey-treasure. I intend to replace it with a nice digital piano, possibly an upright, maybe a mini-grand if I have the money.

But then again, I also want a recumbent bicycle this year. And I'd also like a Renovo bicycle too.

Who knows, with this industry I might not have a home in a year. You never can tell.

 

[Lamp]

My next major purchase will be a grand piano. But they're not cheap.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Hopefully nobody will notice that toward the end of the track, I stole a chord progression from Jarre's "Ethnicolor", on Zoolook.

And you uploaded it? SOPA WILL RAPE YOU