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Sat 29 December 2007
11:51am
Distribution, For Beginners, Miscellaneous, Promotion,
This is a question I have been asking myself recently, mainly due to me releasing some of my own music independently without a label behind me and also because there seems to still be a high percentage of musicians and bands that still want to be signed even though there are some great facilities in place which effectively make record companies obsolete by providing services to independent...
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Fri 28 December 2007
03:24pm
Miscellaneous, Other Sites,
Yes you did read the title correctly! Propellerhead Software, the creators of the fabulous Reason music creation software have decided to release their educational package called Teaching Music with Reason for free download under a creative commons license.
The package includes 21 complete lessons in PDF format as well as some example songs. Unfortunately it hasn’t been upgraded to cover...
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Fri 28 December 2007
12:23pm
For Beginners, Sound Theory,
Sine, Square, Triangle and Sawtooth are the basic waveforms (a graphical representation of a sound) used in most popular synthesizers. Most oscillators (The part of a synthesizer which generates the basic waveform) can produce all four of these basic waveforms. All are very different sounding and have their own characteristics which can greatly affect the mood of the sound synthesized.
I believe...
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Wed 26 December 2007
01:52pm
Miscellaneous,
Musicians block is the musicians equivalent to writers block and most people who regularly produce their own tracks or write their own songs will suffer with musicians block at some point. So if you are sitting in front of your instrument and/or equipment and no ideas are coming through, these tips and ideas may help to entice out a piece of music instead of forcing out a piece of music.
These...
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Thu 20 December 2007
09:26pm
For Beginners, Production,
In part 1 I talked about the equipment you will be needing to start music production and in part 2 I talked about the software needed. In this section we are going to bring together both our equipment and room together to set up our working area up for good all round performance. There are two main aims here:
Get great sound quality from our equipment and work area.
Create a great working area...
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