clinton wrote:This is good stuff Andrew. Basically I want to be able to add stuff to my basic acoustic tracks and manipulate sound in creative ways. Bleeps and blops if you will. I love the idea of folk music with some modern electronic flourishes and I want to be able to add these elements myself at home. I'm not looking for Midi to emulate a grand piano and give me "wicked cool organ sounds". I want to distort signals and loops drums, that sort of thing. I hope this makes sense.
Mathieu Benoit wrote:clinton wrote:This is good stuff Andrew. Basically I want to be able to add stuff to my basic acoustic tracks and manipulate sound in creative ways. Bleeps and blops if you will. I love the idea of folk music with some modern electronic flourishes and I want to be able to add these elements myself at home. I'm not looking for Midi to emulate a grand piano and give me "wicked cool organ sounds". I want to distort signals and loops drums, that sort of thing. I hope this makes sense.
Just to be certain we are on the same page. You don't need MIDI for what you are talking about. MIDI is just performance information, you can also just buy a synth that you like on ebay and stay analog into your standalone recorder to get the different electronic sounds you want. The benefit to MIDI however is that you can get one controller and just buy whatever virtual instrument plugins you want and have tons of flexibility.
clinton wrote:Yep, this much I know. I was just saying that don't need an elaborate controller with 88 weighted keys and optional sunroof for what I want to do. Know what I mean jelly bean?
Mathieu Benoit wrote:clinton wrote:Yep, this much I know. I was just saying that don't need an elaborate controller with 88 weighted keys and optional sunroof for what I want to do. Know what I mean jelly bean?
10-4 good buddy. Just wanted to let you know that there are two components to the results you are talking about. MIDI is one, but ultimately there are audio solutions too.
EDIT: Andrew beat me to it.
macrae11 wrote:And actually Matt's point has merit. If you don't want to get into basically what amounts to a small college course in computer audio and just get down to making music ASAP, the self contained synth going into your Boss is going to be the most expeditious route. However if you have other plans/future uses for getting into computers, the time spent learning will be beneficial.
clinton wrote:other than not having to bother Sean Boyer everytime I want something mixed, I'd love to avoid a PC for music for the rest of my life.
clinton wrote:Hey Matt, you know that "Devil In My Hands" song that we made? That was midi right?
clinton wrote:No I don't mind learning something new. I welcome it really. How huge is the learning curve? Am I months away from making music or years?
Days... Maybe hours.clinton wrote:Am I months away from making music or years?
Mathieu Benoit wrote:clinton wrote:No I don't mind learning something new. I welcome it really. How huge is the learning curve? Am I months away from making music or years?
Days or weeks. Maybe months before it's second nature... but that all depends on you.
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