August 15, 2004 Re: OT - are you a musician? | ||||
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Posted in reply to teqDruid | In article <pan.2004.08.15.09.00.19.258863@teqdruid.com>, teqDruid says... > >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 |
August 16, 2004 Re: OT - are you a musician? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Arcane Jill | >>>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 |
August 16, 2004 Re: OT - are you a musician? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Helmut Leitner | Helmut Leitner wrote:
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> Harold Braithwaite wrote:
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>>How many of us here are musicians? And what instrument(s)?
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>>I take my D frustrations out on poor, unsuspecting, guitars and keyboards
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> 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.
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Same with me.
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August 19, 2004 Re: OT - are you a musician? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Matthias Becker | "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. |
August 20, 2004 Re: OT Taps (was are you a musician?) | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter | 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/ |
August 20, 2004 Re: OT Taps (was are you a musician?) | ||||
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Posted in reply to J C Calvarese | > Here's my stab at "Taps": http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/downloads.html
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> 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.
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I like it!
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August 20, 2004 Re: OT - are you a musician? | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter | >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.
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I have a lot of work at the moment, but when I find some time, I'll try something.
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August 23, 2004 Re: OT Taps (was are you a musician?) | ||||
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Posted in reply to J C Calvarese | "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! |
August 24, 2004 Re: OT Taps (was are you a musician?) | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter | 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 |
August 28, 2004 Re: OT Taps (was are you a musician?) | ||||
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Posted in reply to 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 > > |
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