Hypography Music

[skuzie]

Just wondering if there is any software music composers out there?

Any good new sequencers/trackers out there?

 

Its been my hobby for the last 8 years or so making music, i started with tracking (Impulse Tracker) and advanced towards sequencing using Propellerhead Reason. You can check out my latest loops and full songs at:

 

http://www.thebinarytree.com/music/tomsmusic.htm

 

I would be happy to create a Hypography theme song/loop if there is a need for one.

 

Cheers,

Tom

[Tormod]

Hey Tom,

 

I make a lot of music on my PC. I use Ableton Live (currently Live 6) and used Reason for a while but sold it since it was just sitting there. I've also used FL Studio a bit but I never really liked it.

 

I have posted some of my music around Hypography. Here is a track for a contest I participated in last year over at KVRaudio.com:

 

http://hypography.com/forums/tracks/0511_kovacs___myse.mp3

 

I am a guitarist by education but use a lot of VSTi's like NI Komplete (just got K4!).

 

Would be great to talk music. :cup:

[skuzie]

Would be great to talk music. :)

 

Sounds pretty good, I'm not too familiar with VST's, are those some sort of plugins for music software?

 

Is there a special method that you use to create music from scratch? I'm pretty much self taught, I took a music course in university as an elective but didn't like approach since it was all practice practice practice and then you can play an instrument from given notes, since i was into the creation i never bothered to learn and 'practice' as mainstream instrument teaching goes. I wanted to create a totally new approach of playing an instrument, the keyboard in my case. Over the years I tuned and refined my approach to compose music, more from an algorithmic point of view .. hey I'm a mathie :cup:

 

I'm a big fan of chords, i rearrange them over and over then slice them and do other funky things to them to get a pleasing sound. I start using the piano sound in the sequencer since it is rich with chords .. guitar also does the trick .. then after i have something pleasing i might change the instrument to something else, like a synth. Then work with the base/strings/drums to fit the rest of the song. Do you have a special approach when you create your own music?

[Tormod]

Which sequencer do you use if you've never heard of VST's? Do you have a keyboard workstation? Or do you do everything in Reason?

 

VST = Virtual Studio Technology, ie plugins like synths etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology

 

I own tons of those (even my guitar is run through a couple). I plug my guitar into a Presonus BlueTube DP2 (a two-channel tube preamp) and then route it straight through a small Behringer mixer to get it into my soundcard. Theoretically I don't need the mixer but my Audiophile 2496 soundcard only has one pair of stereo inputs... :cup:

 

I am a guitarist by education so I guess that means most of my music has a guitar aspect to it. But the way I write is not very structured. I'll come up with some idea and then try to work it into phrases or maybe a chord progression. Often I'll use my keyboard instead of the guitar to lay down chords etc, but I find that I don't play chords as much as random arpeggios of sorts...

 

I like to experiment so most of my music has it's own sound.