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    How did you get started with electronics?

    in Music Composition & Production

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    alright here's my success story

    summers ago in the ripe year of 2005, a friend suggested i check out FL Studio. prior to this, my only experiences with digital songwriting involved sequencing my own MIDIs, which at the time was pretty cool stuff. getting FLS opened up my world incredibly, and i remember i'd sit around sequencing and composing all these random songs with no real goal in mind. it was the most basic stuff you could imagine but it blew my mind

    so months would pass and "songs" would be pumping out regularly. i think by the end of 2005, i started to get an interest in putting together actual albums. over the course of about four years, i've recorded give or take 30 albums of music, with about a half of those solely dedicated to electronic music (the rest were on guitar and stuff)

    now you hear a lot about how it's "quality over quantity", and i couldn't agree any less with that saying. however, sometimes when you're pursuing something, it's best to do as much as possible without regards to acute perfection at all. some ambition is key, because it keeps you on the right track. for me, recording full albums of music furthered my songwriting skills tremendously. naturally whenever i'd be finished with one, i almost immediately find it to be subpar and mediocre, because i learned so much more about the recording process in that time. it's something like "alright here's the product of the last few months, i'm proud of it, but i know i can do better and i'm yearning to outdo myself." so you wind up constantly improving. this is one of those rare cases, i think, that quantity benefits you more from quality, because in time you'll gain a natural instinct for what sounds the best

    it's been a solid four years since i got fully immersed into the songwriting biz. a couple dozen albums and undoubtedly hundreds upon hundreds of songs later, i still catch myself improving after each endeavor. practice has indeed helped make perfect, and it's a momentum that really keeps me on track with new material and getting myself up to standards with today's extremely gifted songwriters, producers and composers

    just keep at it, no matter how simple you start out with. it'll be a long process depending on how often you set out to record songs or albums, but the more it's tackled, the more it'll get easier and closer to your expectations. keep an open mind and do new things as they strike you, and most of all, make it fun. if i didn't have fun with writing and recording, i certainly wouldn't have poured a large portion of my life into it

    hope this helps... not sure if this was just inspirational ranting or psychobabble

    Xenogears: Humans + Gears - History

    in Projects

    Posted

    hey avaris what's the status on this? i know i've been dicking you around for a long time now with my track but i'm really trying to get something done and in for this. long story summed up, i have a friend who's a huge fan of xenogears and i've told her about this project album and that i'll try my best to get in on it, and i'd really hate to wind up not keeping my word for taking too long. it's kinda like one of those "man i like this girl and i want to show her my craft by being involved in one of her favorite obsessions" situations, if you're familiar with it hahah

    just throw me some kind of final end date for when you're seriously done taking submissions and i'll get you the grahf remix as soon as i possibly can. you'd definitely be doing me a huge solid, man, and i do apologize for being a procrastinator about it

    final fantasy tactics

    in ReMix Requests

    Posted

    Could you guys at least show a little respect in your posts? The only reason why you're requesting for remixes is because you can't do it yourself, and you're calling these guys lowlifes? You're pretty funny.

    Not to mention this post was formatted incorrectly. Read the sticky.

    lawl take a joke, sonny

    Hawnay Troof's Connection, the nrich remix

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    WHO: Hawnay Troof (aka Vice Cooler) is an artist who twists the "pop" genre around and fucks it up into sounding something completely different from what you would originally hear. Think of a male Peaches on crack

    WHAT: Mr. Cooler hosted a remix project in which fans can remix two tracks off his upcoming album "Islands of Ayle" and submit them to be released on Halloween as a free compilation download

    WHERE: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6547994

    WHEN: ...well, Halloween

    WHY: 'cause he's cool? yeah

    Anyway I submitted an arrangement of Connection in which I scrapped 99% of the original melody and backing track and practically recorded a brand new song featuring Vice's vocals. Half of the people I've shown the remix to enjoyed both aspects (backing track and vocals) while the other half claimed Vice was annoying as fuck, which led me to provide an additional instrumental version of the track to those who can't stand his approach to the mic

    WITH VOCALS: http://xenodesigns.com/uc/nrich/connection.mp3

    WITHOUT VOCALS: http://xenodesigns.com/uc/nrich/connection2.mp3

    Feedback is appreciated despite no further changes will be made to the mix, but I hope those who listen enjoy the arrangement as well as Vice Cooler's music itself

    Seiken Densetsu 3: Songs of Light and Darkness - History

    in Projects

    Posted

    sorry for the double post, but is there a chance that you could hook me up with some guitars too? My political pressure wip is in dire need of decent electric guitars =(

    I can't do complex solos for shit but if you need some general rhythm tracks I'm down for that

    you got AIM? catch me on there sometime and we'll throw some shit together, man. my s/n is vanishdoom

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