My new "site" on Soundclick to share my music

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:14 pm

My brother started it. He has a page on Soundclick "Delmarj". I have all these midi files lying about that I haven't done much with in a while. Recently I had to reinstall Garage Band v1 and Reason for another audio editing project. This got me jonesing to do some music. So I whacked out a couple of old tunes to start and then just now did a new one in Garage Band. It's cliché and derivative but it works for me.

This is great. I can finally make some half way decent music pretty easily and quickly for animations or whatever.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... dID=872491

If anyone has music they like to share or a band to promote, Soundclick is free and has unlimited uploads. For the free account you are limited to 128kbps mp3's, 10mb each. If you pay the $29 for the year you can upload high quality mp3's.

-vern

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:06 pm

Hey I actually kinda liked 'Bang' and 'Agent theme'. They were both better than I expected. But I guess that may also be poor indicator of my musical tastes.

I've been thinking I need to start looking for some good music software (for Windows). Basically same as you, just need background music for animations.

Edit: Just found a decent freeware app called FractMus. Here's a sample I just did.

dsaenz825 · Post by **dsaenz825** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:41 am

This is great! I especially like the secret agent one, nice job.

I use Nuendo for windows but it takes a long time to record every single instrument.

Do you use a Keyboard?

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:05 am

dsaenz825 wrote:
Do you use a Keyboard?

In the past I had a Yamaha midi full sized keyboard (huge) that had really high quality musical instrument samples built in. It is about 10 years old now. It was considered "pro-sumer". Not good enough for a pro, but more than a cheap consumer keyboard.

At that point I did all my own music. I can't play piano. I don't read music. The only instrument I can actually play is a clarinet and I haven't touched that since high school. I just know what I like and this was all just a fun hobby. I would very slowly tap out parts on the keyboard, quantize in the midi software and then speed up the tempo.

A few years ago I bought an Oxygen8 usb midi interface. Little tiny keyboard. I bought it in a bundle with Propellerhead Reason. Reason is very... cool... and weird. It's form and function in software. It has "real" components with knobs and sliders that you place in a vertical "rack". You change the view to the back and have to connect the components with actual cables. The cables even wiggle and sway when you move stuff. It even has those electircal shock hazard warning stickers. Very realistic and elaborate. I use it mostly for the huge library of real instrument digital samples. I could load my old midi files and apply all kinds of real instruments to the tracks. Add components for distortion or reverb, completely change the sound. However it was VERY complicated. The interface is not scaleable and the knobs and sliders are so tiny it's very hard to read on a high res monitor.

Then I got Garage Band when I bough iLife.

The "Secrete Agent" song was done entirely in Garage Band just yesterday. It was the first time I didn't "tap out" my own music. I only used Garage Band loops. I wanted to see what I could just whack together really fast. I found a drum loop I liked, added some congas, stuck in a base line, then synths, added some horns. Then went back in and moved things around added some other loops stretched and fiddled. Spent about two hours.

Garage Band works with bunches of small loops that you can string together and repeat, mix and match. Very easy to use, very cool. And very satisfying for someone like me who can't program a decent drum track or play "live" well enough to stay in tune with out painstakingly moving midi notes one at a time (my first song was done on an Apple II typing by hand one note at a time... no mouse back then. They hadn't been invented yet).

-vern

dsaenz825 · Post by **dsaenz825** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:55 pm

Yeah, I know what you mean. Recording can be very complicated and time consuming, especially when your equalizing. But after a while you get used to it, just like any other program.

When I first got my Mobile Pre audio interface it came with drum loops and midi samples too. I had fun making some music with it, but recently I accidentally erased some background audio files I had. I did not know that those audio files were what I had recorded because the program saved them there without me knowing. I erased all 900 of them and did not realize my mistake until it was to late

So now all I have is the final product or rendered files to make it more understandable. I lost so much work there that I never mixed to a single audio file. . .

Oh well, at least I learned from it