In article <pan.2004.08.15.09.00.19.258863@teqdruid.com>, teqDruid says...
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>Speaking of the DC area, I'm start at the University of Maryland in a few weeks... how's the D user group in that area?

D user group in DC... as far as I know there isn't one.

When you get into town, shoot me an email, maybe we can start one up.

- Pragma

>>>Oh yes!
>>>But I don't play an instrument, I compose.
>>
>>You compose without any instruments? Interesting. How do you do that?
>
>In exactly the same way that one can write a speech without any microphones.

That's not the same. If you have a text you can read it every where. But notes
are not enough if we talk about modern music. How to note the position of a
WahWah (this is an effect for a guitar)? How to note filterstates of
synthesisers?
In modern music the sound is very important. You aren't restricted to a few
instruments like strings, piano, ... . You have an unlimited number of synthetic
"instruments".

E.g. my song:

http://files.limix-games.com/returning/ErsterVersuchLangsam.mp3

Imagine this written down in pure notes. I can do it, no problem, but it won'T be the same, if somebody else plays ist according to the notes wthout any knowledge about the sounds I used. (BTW, I composed this song fo an adventure game like myst/riven).


>There are plenty of high quality music notation authoring packages out there, and you can feed the output through MIDI to a keyboard or sound module to hear the result.

Well, today we have things like VST. We normaly combine soft and hardware instead of only using hardware.


>I use standard music notation for most instruments, but I usually switch to some other view for entering the drums, if drums are required.

I olmoast never use standard notation. It's too hard to get the dynamic right. And I can't use this notation to note effect-states, etc.

>If
>you're writing a composition for a non-trivial number of instruments then being
>able to play one of them probably wouldn't help you anyway, because you really
>do need to be able to hear all of those instruments at once.

It helps you a lot if you can play piano (I'm very bad at it, but even this little bit helps me a lot). You can use keyboards to play any virtual instrument.

>(Anyway, you hear
>them in your head long before you write them down).

I never "hear" my instruments before I play them. There are people that do (well
you do it, too). But I experiment with the sound (you can see this in the song I
posted above).
And what about improvisions? Ever done something like jazz or rock? Do you
"here" whole solos before you play them? I can't imagine that.


>Although I wouldn't be able to play live on my own, my equipment is my "instrument", and it's every bit as valid as any other.

Of course it is.

>Plus, there is something
>incredibly powerful about being able to write and record an entire song, or even
>an entire album, without having to rely on anyone else.

Uh, you mean you do the mastering on your own, too?


-- Matthias Becker

Helmut Leitner wrote:
> 
> Harold Braithwaite wrote:
> 
>>How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
>>
>>I take my D frustrations out on poor, unsuspecting, guitars and keyboards
>>...
> 
> 
> I'm a mediocre guitar player and a bad singer.
> It's enough to get rid of my frustrations, but not enough to make others enjoy listening.
> 
Same with me.

"Matthias Becker" <Matthias_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cfpvpo$22f8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> E.g. my song:
>
> http://files.limix-games.com/returning/ErsterVersuchLangsam.mp3
>
> Imagine this written down in pure notes. I can do it, no problem, but it
won'T
> be the same, if somebody else plays ist according to the notes wthout any knowledge about the sounds I used. (BTW, I composed this song fo an
adventure
> game like myst/riven).

Would you be interested in doing a sound bite for Empire? (www.classicempire.com) If you hear my rendition of "Taps" on a kid's toy keyboard (for when you lose the game) you'll see it's badly in need of help <g>. I can't pay anything for it, it would be just for fun.

Walter wrote:
> "Matthias Becker" <Matthias_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
> news:cfpvpo$22f8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>E.g. my song:
>>
>>http://files.limix-games.com/returning/ErsterVersuchLangsam.mp3
>>
>>Imagine this written down in pure notes. I can do it, no problem, but it
> 
> won'T
> 
>>be the same, if somebody else plays ist according to the notes wthout any
>>knowledge about the sounds I used. (BTW, I composed this song fo an
> 
> adventure
> 
>>game like myst/riven).
> 
> 
> Would you be interested in doing a sound bite for Empire?
> (www.classicempire.com) If you hear my rendition of "Taps" on a kid's toy
> keyboard (for when you lose the game) you'll see it's badly in need of help
> <g>. I can't pay anything for it, it would be just for fun.

Here's my stab at "Taps": http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/downloads.html

I used a program called MusicTime that I bought several years ago in combination with my Casio CT-680 keyboard which I've had for an even longer time.

Enjoy!

-- 
Justin (a/k/a jcc7)
http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/

> Here's my stab at "Taps": http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/downloads.html
> 
> I used a program called MusicTime that I bought several years ago in combination with my Casio CT-680 keyboard which I've had for an even longer time.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 

I like it!

>Would you be interested in doing a sound bite for Empire? (www.classicempire.com) If you hear my rendition of "Taps" on a kid's toy keyboard (for when you lose the game) you'll see it's badly in need of help <g>. I can't pay anything for it, it would be just for fun.
>
>
I have a lot of work at the moment, but when I find some time, I'll try something.

"J C Calvarese" <jcc7@cox.net> wrote in message news:cg3olf$2p2f$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > Would you be interested in doing a sound bite for Empire? (www.classicempire.com) If you hear my rendition of "Taps" on a kid's
toy
> > keyboard (for when you lose the game) you'll see it's badly in need of
help
> > <g>. I can't pay anything for it, it would be just for fun.
>
> Here's my stab at "Taps": http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/downloads.html
>
> I used a program called MusicTime that I bought several years ago in combination with my Casio CT-680 keyboard which I've had for an even longer time.
>
> Enjoy!

That's certainly a thousand times better than mine!

http://helium.ex0.org/neueTaps.zip

Sounds a bit stupid I know, but I don't realy know what should be played. I'm not used to do such short sounds.

I think I have to do something better when I find some time.

-- Matthias Becker

Thanks!

"Matthias Becker" <Matthias_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cgg32o$15cr$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> http://helium.ex0.org/neueTaps.zip
>
> Sounds a bit stupid I know, but I don't realy know what should be played.
I'm
> not used to do such short sounds.
>
> I think I have to do something better when I find some time.
>
> -- Matthias Becker
>
>