From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 15:12
From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 15:12
> What about other musicians on the list, how do you make music? I'm probably the only idiot in the world who makes my electronicky type music like this, but I use a plain old wav editor program. I record all the sounds I want onto my 4-track (going back to the total ground level, like drums are usually from me playing my actual drum set), do whatever digital changes I want to do with them through the program, & then manually arrange them. First, I record myself either mouthing or beating out the rhythm. Then I paste that rhythm wav into one channel of a blank stereo wav, & in the other channel, I mix in the sounds I want to use so that they match up with the corresponding peaks in the rhythm wav, redoing & redoing the mix level until they are how I want them. Then I just string &/or layer all the sections together. Takes forever. I just got a good soundcard with MIDI stuff on it & I think I will get a keyboard & some sampling RAM this summer as that seems it may be a better approach. But just one note on techniques: I think I've made some delicious music with my method anyway, & it's all I could do, so that just goes to show you can make wonderful music any way, even if you don't have ANY of the equipment you're supposed to have. Marc Poirier