'musician' isn't the term to use, but does anyone else here produce music on their computer? If so, what kind of music and what's your set up?
Currently I'm using FL Studio (not the greatest peice of kit, but it's doing the job for now) and Ableton to build up the individual tracks into an album peice. I also have a number of midi controllers hooked up, but other than that, not actual hardware as such.
The stuff I'm producing at the moment is an Aphex Twin inspired story. Kind of like war of the worlds, but without the narration.
I've not been at it for long though so I'm still relatively low down on the huuuuuge learning curve that is digital music.
It will be interesting to hear what other OS geeks are working on as I know there's a few audiophilles on there.
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2006-02-05
I'm a guitarist, mostly fingerstyle folk and blues. I absolutely adore GarageBand, it is worth the entire price of a mac by itself to anyone who wants to play around with recording at home.
I would definately consider myself an audiophile though, there are only a few genres I have no interest in. Aphex Twin is pretty awesome, but when it comes to electronica I love down-tempo glitch stuff. Keramick and Lobo's album Digital White probably gets the most play out of the computer music I listen to.
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Not heard of those artists - i'll have a root around for their stuff next time i'm shopping.
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downtempo is REALLY not the same as whatever the hell you would classify aphex twin as, so I'm not sure if you would like it, but here is one of their songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itXn5Bhw1uM
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to be honnest, that's little different to some of my favourite Aphex Twin tracks - not significantly anyway.
Granted Richard's stuff tends to be a touch extreme at times but he's also done some mellow tracks as well.
It's all electronic jazz at the end of the day
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2006-03-17
I'm in a band, and we use Ardour as the only software to record our upcoming album..
http://www.regin.cjb.net
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I haven't started yet. I'm a drummer, but I'm finding it hard to find people to jam with, so I'm looking at building a computer to put Ubuntu Studio on.
I've played with Ubuntu Studio a little bit, and I really like Hydrogen for drum programming. I gives me the control I want. My only concern with Ubuntu Studio is support for recording equipment won't be on par with other platforms.
I've also played with Reason; while it looks powerful, I could never get the drum machine to do what I wanted it to do, shift from 16th notes to 32nd notes to simulate a double pedal on the fly.
When I play with real people I usually play punky, shoegazing, indie rock stuff, and I think some of that is going to bleed into my personal project. I want a cooler more ambient sound, but I really love distortion and fuzz. Some of the touchstones would be: Glifted (distortion and loops), Aphex Twin (ambience and beats), Boards of Canada (atmosphere), Death from Above 1979 (Fuzz and menace!), M83 (distortion and atmosphere), and more recent bedroom glitch.
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2006-02-19
Up until some months ago, I used an electric guitar with a Korg Pandora connected directly to the microphone input on my nothing-special sound card. The Pandora had amp simulators, so the sound was actually surprisingly good. Running Gentoo, I used Audacity for recording and Hydrogen for drum beats. I would just produce a rhythm track from Hydrogen and import it as another track in Audacity. I typically had 8 or more tracks of guitar on top. They were "short" recordings that were 90s rock/pop influenced.
