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[Nils Pipenbrinck]

I think lots of coders also play/make music, so let's start a thread about your/our own works.. :unsure:

Here's something I've played with my band a years ago or so. It's a rehearsal room take, so the quality is kinda low, but I still like it (I play the rhythm guitar btw.)



Comments welcome,
Nils Pipenbrinck

[roxtar]

Frankly I don't make music, I just listen to it all the time. The song and your guitar is pretty good. Thumbs up . Nicely done.

[TheNut]

Not bad Nils.

I play the piano/keyboard, but I haven’t done much digital work for it yet. I’m thinking about getting back into it once I get myself established with my current projects. I’ll most likely be composing for any future games I make.

[.oisyn]

I like to make electronic music, but since FastTracker II half a decade ago I haven't been able to finish any of the songs. That's mostly due to the lack of a good and decent editor; I like the concept of Buzz but it's interface is terrible. And with something like Reason you can't really tune the parameters very well.

A few years now I'm walking around with the idea to write a Buzz-like application myself, but I haven't got the time to get it on track yet

[m4x0r]

.oisyn said:

I like to make electronic music, but since FastTracker II half a decade ago I haven't been able to finish any of the songs. That's mostly due to the lack of a good and decent editor; I like the concept of Buzz but it's interface is terrible. And with something like Reason you can't really tune the parameters very well.

A few years now I'm walking around with the idea to write a Buzz-like application myself, but I haven't got the time to get it on track yet

Have you checked out FL Studio (http://www.flstudio.com/)? I haven't used to much because it doesn't work well for recording, but it seems pretty decent for tracking.

Max

[.oisyn]

Nah, as a programmer I prefer software that allows you to write your own plugins, which creates a much larger community with more interesting generators and effects.

[m4x0r]

.oisyn said:

Nah, as a programmer I prefer software that allows you to write your own plugins, which creates a much larger community with more interesting generators and effects.

FL Studio supports VST plugins which allow you to create both generators and effects. Since this is the format developed by Steinberg and used in Cubase (as well as almost every other music studio application), there are quite a few good free plugins as well as lots of great commerical ones.

Max

[Faktablad]

Here's an MIDI world-style song that I wrote:
http://midishrine.com/midi/2826.mid

[EvilSmile]

I'm still a newbie trying to learn playing classical guitar pieces...

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

Hi folks. I'm a bit ashamed to resurrect such an old thread just for some personal thing, but anyway.

To my surprise nowadays music has reached the same significance as art in coding. However, much more people can be reached by music because it does not need a die-hard coder to see the beauty in it :-)


My bandmates and I have done some new recordings during the last weeks and maybe some of you forumites dig the stuff we do and want to have a listen or two:

Band webpage:

http://planet-arc.de/?page_id=11


Obligatory Myspace thing (has this fancy web-based music player, so you can listen without messing up your download folder)

http://www.myspace.com/planetarcHH


Nils

[.oisyn]

It's funny you resurrected the thread

.oisyn said:

I like to make electronic music, but since FastTracker II half a decade ago I haven't been able to finish any of the songs. That's mostly due to the lack of a good and decent editor; I like the concept of Buzz but it's interface is terrible. And with something like Reason you can't really tune the parameters very well.

A few years now I'm walking around with the idea to write a Buzz-like application myself, but I haven't got the time to get it on track yet

I've finally decided to take up that project and it's really getting shape. A screenshot:


Most of the core code is in place. The GUI however is mostly undone. What you see here is the workbench on which you can place and connect machines. A machine basically has some input and output streams (a stream is either a stream of notes (as received from a keyboard), a parameter stream (from knobs and dials etc) or a sound stream (mono or stereo)), and a number of options (bool, int, float, string, and lists/ranges thereof) to control it's behaviour. Furthermore, a machine can override it's view component for custom drawing inside the workbench. That basic control you see there on the left that resembles Reason's "Matrix" component is an example of a custom view machine with a single note stream output, since I have not created the sequencer GUI yet and I needed something to output some notes .

[dennis]

Cool! Are you planning on writing a machine to load VST(i)'s, or do you want to code your own synths, sampler and effects?

In the past I've always preferred trackers as well, but now I'm used to Logic Audio and I don't think I could ever go back to entering notes and modulations in hex again.