A Challenge

[Necrox]

Mute your volume and don't turn it back on until you have written a song. Uploads would be fun, but it's probably not going to be your best work XD

[timaeus222]

Hehe, I think that would actually be pretty fun. I almost always mix and master visually, and I sing quite a lot. Obviously if I do like how it goes I'll polish it up later with the volume on. BONUS: Try doing it without playing an instrument in real life. You may not know what key you're in, but knowing your intervals, it shouldn't be all that bad!

 

Before or after picking out sounds, though?

[Necrox]

Before. How about volume off before opening daw? No playback while trying to record and sync vocals either

[timaeus222]

Alright, yeah. I'll make a short, maybe 1 minute song later tonight or tomorrow and we'll see how it goes. xD

[Esperado]

This is actually a pretty amusing idea. You choose a preset and have no idea that it sounds like a dying whale, but you write a whole mellow piece thinking that it sounds like a synthesized flute lead.

[Necrox]

This is actually a pretty amusing idea. You choose a preset and have no idea that it sounds like a dying whale, but you write a whole mellow piece thinking that it sounds like a synthesized flute lead.

I think I'm better at coming up with stuff like this than I am at actually making music XD

[timaeus222]

I technically got done with something in 28 minutes. Now if I can successfully post it here, that would be great (been getting Internal Server Errors)

 

EDIT:

https://app.box.com/s/1il3nbc3myyvuye0nbkgjowe97w2e64u

[Eino Keskitalo]

That was remarkably good. Some of the harmonies were a bit on the murky side, but with a little tweaking they'd be all nice and jazzy. Reminds me of the mellower Nintendo stuff on the DS. Well done!

[Chernabogue]

Pretty sure I can write something so wrong it'll summon Satan if I do this.

[timaeus222]

Thanks, guys! I used presets I made before, and I used the "Recent files" folder in FL Studio to pick samples I used yesterday. With my volume on though, it was improved for about 30 more minutes:

 

https://app.box.com/s/s9qoxr6rkdbeflqo1qtd728cppn0y8vm

 

So that's what I would have done with my volume on for an hour. (didn't really think about what I wanted to write though; I just let it flow out)

 

I'm stopping this song there though, but it was a fun experiment!

 

EDIT:

Now that I think about it, it kinda reminds me of this feel:

http://zirconstudios.bandcamp.com/track/oasis-epsilon

mixed with this melody:

https://soundcloud.com/zircon-1/no-regret-ft-chris-gordon

[AngelCityOutlaw]

Here's my attempt at a "Drum N' Bass" style 30 second tune composed and mixed with the volume off. I just used a preset slidey-synth lead I made with Sylenth a while back, a sine wave for the bass and a supersaw for the chords. Drums are just a random loop I had sitting in a lonely folder somewhere. A flanger on the lead as well and cutoff filter intro always sounds cool. 

 

https://app.box.com/s/mtjtbfecd9q3wjwjccag1it07kpk52zx

 

Prepare yourself for suckage, but to be fair that's the same line I use on music I made when actually listening to it.

[Chernabogue]

Guess I couldn't summon Satan in 16 sec. LOL

[AngelCityOutlaw]

Guess I couldn't summon Satan in 16 sec. LOL

 

Worked for me when I played it backwards.

[Jakos]

Great, this post could be take as a tribute to the last years of Beethoven's life

[Necrox]

Great, this post could be take as a tribute to the last years of Beethoven's life

Haha I never even thought of that. I think I will make a piece for this thread maybe