ssj2

Congrats to you sheograth. Well deserved position you earned there.

Dirty_Vinylpusher

So how did it feel locking your first thread?
Did you stroke your imaginary beard and go "MuhahahaHAAAAA!!!!!" ?

sheograth

Nah, it's just Foxy who does the imaginary beard stroking.

Foxy

It's true I'm a master beard stroker. You'd be surprised how difficult it can be to gloat and beard-stroke at the same time.

Dirty_Vinylpusher

I used to have a quite impressive egyptian beard there for a while.
I had to shave it off though as I found myself stroking it all the time.



(That sounded so much better in my head by the way.)



This is the only picture I can find of it at the moment.
You get the idea though.

Foxy

DVP, you spin vinyl so I was wondering if like me... You play around much with FL Studio?

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Yeah.
Remember I sent you the link to my MySpace music page with some of my tunes?
All made in FL studio.

Also most of my YouTube vids feature snippets of either completed tunes or works in progress.


Am using FL studio 8XXL at the moment.
Awesome program once you dig a bit deeper in to it and start using it to its full capacity.

Foxy

Yeh, I'm learning it at the moment, but its pretty heavy going. I have a musical background, so I'm not lost but I am finding it difficult, it's just not very intuitive. I used to play piano (badly) and drums (very well), so I'm hoping I might be able to make a passable tune soon.

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Mistake no.1 that everyone (me included) makes when starting out using a computer music making program.

Never ever ever put pressure on yourself in the slightest bit to create "a tune".
Have fun, set up a couple of bars with beats, loop it, create a nice simple melody, try out all the different sounds, tweak the knobs, add effects, go crazy with distortion, reverb and what-have-you.
Spend hours achieveing absolutely nothing but getting to know the program.

That "passable tune" won't come until you're NOT trying to make it.

Foxy

Yeh, I know what you mean, and that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm not even keeping riffs that I make. I'll spend 4 straight hours making a 16 bar section, then close without saving and start again from scratch next time. As you say, there's no point trying to actually accomplish anything til you know WHAT you want to accomplish and HOW you plan to accomplish it. Don't worry mate, I have a good approach to learning, even if I'm not the most patient person in the world, I'm trying to be.

Foxy

Sheo, sorry for taking your congratulations thread wildly off topic. My apologies.

DVP, start an FL studio thread, lets see if anyone else is playing around.

Back to topic!

ElectricGuy007

Congrates, you definitly have enough knowledge to be one that's for sure, every post you
have made in the last year or two has been very helpful to me and many others.
Can I say your 5th scale projects are the coolest things ever!

Dirty_Vinylpusher

Cool cool.
Keep it up, and if there's anything you wanna know about the program and can't be bothered reading the help section, PM me and I'll see if I can help.


TIP:
Once you start using the SLICER things will change forever.
Loading a drum loop in to it will enable you to create breakbeats a lot easier as all the kick, hat and snare drums are all in the one window.

It's also essential when chopping up vocal samples.



Will start FL thread.

Back on topic.

calvino

So thats why you never talked to me on AIM last night Hey hope all goes well I will still dump my complaints on foxy

Anomie

Great plan! Thanks for helping the rest of us

calvino

New target Hey Sheo, if you need to dump your daily "junk" load on me when your done i am free Better stay on your good side.... [&:]