Re: How Music Is Made (Re: (idm) Ae new lp - a quick mention

From The Rare Guy
Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 01:06

On Wednesday, 20-May-98, xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx wrote [about Re: How Music Is
Made (Re: (idm) Ae new lp - a quick mention]:
>On 05/19/98 23:15:37 you wrote:
>>It really depends on the composer.  Step time isn't any more tedious than
>>playing live if you're experienced (I find that older people have more
>>trouble with step-time because they didn't grow up w/ computers). 

I grew up with computers and I have big problems with both step programming
and live recording..

>when i first started making music, i step-entered everything because i
>couldn't play keyboards. i found it fairly tedious, and very difficult to do
>anything rhythmically interesting...i.e., at least on my sequencer (which i
>realize is probably partially responsible for my dislike of step programming)
>you either have to enter straight 8th (or 16th or 32nd or whatever)
>notes...which i find rhythmically boring...or keep going back and forth
>changing the note values every couple of notes...sucks all the fun ou

I use a tracker called Octamed Sound Studio for my amiga that has tracking
editing, like FastTracker2 on PC, but also has full MIDI capability..

For me, this is the ideal way to make music on computer, you can just enter
notes.. and to change things it's as simple as scrolling back up and
changing, you don't have to edit something like 10 times, and edit complex
tick numbers, and things.

the current program is a bit limited due to the fact how it's set up, you
need to make a longer patterns and faster speeds in order to get good snare
rushes or other kinds of things.. like increasing resolution on a screen, in
fact it's what it's called, the line resolution when converted GM tracks to
Octamed format..

With some jiggery pokery ;) I reckon it can be made so that it doesn't have
any drawbacks whatsoever..

i dunno, it's just IMO.. I find live recording and/or steprecording really
annoying when it comes to making interesting music.. I too have said to
myself "I wonder how Ae and AFX do it." :)

>>put between notes. Unfuckingbelievable.  Chris started using a sequencer
>>when he was 12, so it was as natural as playing a keyboard to him.

>very odd indeed.

yeah.. I can believe it.. but I've been using a tracker since I was 13, so..
I guess it all depends what kind of background you come from.

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