Musicians' thread.

My biggest problem is the 'horizontal' aspect to a song, I can come up with cool riffs and layers of sounds but my brain literally tries to eat itself when I try to piece things together in a coherent time-line...

What the **** do I do?

:mad:
 
Composer's block? Ugh... Know what you mean. The pieces are there but no clear way of fitting it all together.
 
Beylie said:
Composer's block? Ugh... Know what you mean. The pieces are there but no clear way of fitting it all together.
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It is so incredibly frustrating, like drawing blood from a stone.

Sometimes I can just force myself to push through, but more often than not the process becomes tiresome and I stop.
 
Just did a search for *.rns files (reason song files) on my drive and found over a hundred unique file names. :erm:
 
assagai said:
http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/products/pek/
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Wow, does it make coffee and sandwiches too? :) I've been looking at really really cheap midi keyboards, just to play around with. Problem with those nice devices are that I probably won't use 1/4 of their features. Any suggestions?

As a side note - this thread actually made me go get my guitar out of the garage (missing the bottom string). Had a good 15 minute jam session, really felt good. I always find that after not playing for a while, creativity seems to flow easier.
 
Beylie said:
Wow, does it make coffee and sandwiches too? :) I've been looking at really really cheap midi keyboards, just to play around with. Problem with those nice devices are that I probably won't use 1/4 of their features. Any suggestions?

As a side note - this thread actually made me go get my guitar out of the garage (missing the bottom string). Had a good 15 minute jam session, really felt good. I always find that after not playing for a while, creativity seems to flow easier.
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Go for a simple behringer midi keyboard.. they're cheap and surprisingly solid without all the bells and whistles.
 
that poly evolver is complete overkill, unless you are playing live and don't want to carry around tons of gear.

with most DAW's today you can buy a POS R400 midi keyboard, and with a half decent computer get it to do everything that poly evolver can with VST's and some sample banks.

It is nice to look at, but yeah, i struggle to see how it will make you more productive than any other keyboard.
 
luxe said:
that poly evolver is complete overkill, unless you are playing live and don't want to carry around tons of gear.

with most DAW's today you can buy a POS R400 midi keyboard, and with a half decent computer get it to do everything that poly evolver can with VST's and some sample banks.

It is nice to look at, but yeah, i struggle to see how it will make you more productive than any other keyboard.
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i've looked high and low, demoed every vsti out there.. and the poly evolver sounds better than any of them, in fact so does the tetra - there are some great sounding soft-synths for sure but none of them come close to certain hardware classics like the evolver, prophet 5, various moogs etc. I wish this were not the case because hardware is so damn pricey and hard to source locally.

In my case the PEK would definitely be used in the studio only… no way would i risk gigging with it! Anyway still trying to convince myself not to buy it. (maybe i'll go for the tetra instead)
 
@wellzy, unless Cloudkicker happens to me you, this is the wrong thread for this.

Check the first post for details.

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****ing awesome track though, got to say. :D
 
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