Thanks for all the replies everyone has posted! It was only one month ago I
picked up an AN1x, RM1x, and an A3000. I have played music since high
school (I'm 26 now) so I'm a little rusty..but it's not the writing/creating
that's hard, it's taking the time to actually learn how to use the AN1x.
The RM1x is much easier to learn because it flows like liquid. Right now
I'm using my AN1x as my control synth but I'm only using sounds in the RM1x.
Soon I'll start mixing the two, but the AN1x has 128 preset sounds and I
need to start building some of my own..but IT IS tedious and not as fun as I
thought Analog modeling would be. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate it, but
step sequencing and recording FREE EG effects is a pain! Monday - Friday I
work until 6 or 7pm so when I get home I like to sit down and like to
continue writing music, but sitting down for an hour to tweak a sound on an
AN1x is a boring process!! ARGH!!
Seriously, bands like Scooter, Eiffel 65 [Blue], and other "techno" and some
"trance" artists sound like they take standard default sounds and modify
them as opposed to starting with a bleep and inventing a whole new sound.
At least the AN1x has some pre-set bleeps that are decent.
Okay, so anyone here listen to Lords of Acid?
----- Original Message -----
From: wasted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Writing Music
> Mark--
>
> My $.02: Use bits and pieces of everything you like to create the music
you want and that (hopefully) others will listen to and enjoy. Use some
presets (of which the RM1x has a surprising amount of good ones), tweak some
presets to make them sound new and different, and create some totally new
patches/unique samples on your sampler. SCREW those people who say
everything has to be totally new user created patches. Like they've never
used a (way overused) 808 Kick Drum or 909 Snare before. Yeah, right!?!?!
If you're always spending that much time creating totally unique
samples/patches for each song you write you are too busy doing that to be
writing the songs themselves. Those people are probably just self-centered
elitists with too much time on their hands and probably not much product
(songs written) to show for all of their talk.
>
> --wasted/su700fan
