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I have to ask what style/kind/genre of music you all make.
I realize a lot of confusion evaluating other's evaluations of apps has a lot to do with this. I believe that almost any app can be used for almost any kind of music but sometimes apps are more suited to certain kinds. Like arps and EDM for instance or just electronic. Would love to know what types of music you are into.
For me, its mostly making music out of sound spaces and sound experiments and conceptual type approaches. So experimental to use a word. Maybe sound exploration music. But how it makes you feel is important. I'm not into EDM at all though I'm drawn to the apps that seem particularly suited for that music though for some reason.
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This is a good point. I pretty much always grow to dislike signatures on forums but a single link to soundcloud, bandcamp, YouTube or Vimeo (and possibly only those as to deter marketing) as a signature on this forum could lend a heap of value to opinion based posts. That's just my opinion though!
I dunno what kind of music I make but I'm syrupcore on soundcloud. Lots of even older music at http://bridgeportmusic.com.
edited for relevancy
sample based.
Jury's still out, but I'm beginning to suspect my interest or taste is a very thin layer of margarine spread over a very large slice of stale bread.
Do you mean:
Nice metaphor. I'd replace with good old butter the margarine, since, well, it tastes better.
@gkillmaster , I couldn't give you a satisfactory answer. But I suppose others could give a straightforward one. When I released my first album, "Quasimodo", through Record Union, they offered a lot of choices but the one that would more or less apply: "Instrumental Fusion". I ended up choosing "Jazz" because there were plenty of improvised solos over themes, and I love Steely Dan, but really.. it's not.
You can listen to it in Spotify, Deezer etc. and reach your own conclusions. A bit (but only a bit) easier would be to say what our music is not. Mine isn't Heavy Metal. Or Hip Hop. Or even EDM, I think: too much live instruments.
But yeah, such a disclaimer would make app reviews more useful and accurate indeed.
I mostly write downtempo and ambient, though I sometimes dabble with dub techno and tech house, even a bit of DnB now and then too.
Nothing wrong with categorising ones style(s), it helps define what u do to find others with similar tastes
Mine are
Techno
Dnb
Ambient
House
Trance
Progressive
Breaks
Minimal
Bass music
Ios music
To answer I'll use the U0421793 template ....
1, minimal, intelligent techno
2, (very) minimal electronic music
3, pretty crap TBH ...
Mostly genres that are mostly ignored around here.
American primitive
Psychedelic folk
Alt-alt and farther alt-country
Deeply weird singer/songwriter
Not fully sure what those are, but the words are interesting enough and close to music that I would listen to.
Me, I make good old-fashioned pop music. It's just that no-one else hears it that way..
I do the best techno I've ever heard, the problem is getting it out of my head , into the machines....that's why no one else can hear it yet
My problem is that almost every preset sounds good to me so I end up throwing a bunch of types of sounds together.
Neo classical Turkish love ballads. Actually, my favorite genre, and what I aspire to make, is prog rock, but what I actually make is more...Mmmm...??
https://soundcloud.com/matt-fletcher-2000 (sorry!)
Gravitating to 2 styles really:
Downtempo electronica (some people have said like Boards of Canada... I'd like to make a track sounding anywhere near Bonobo but i'm still working on that)
Jazzy/spacey (liquid?) DnB (although i've taken a rest from this to work on the above)
Early on I messed around with some 4 to the floor house/techno type stuff but it always ended up sounding like very bad trance music. It's extremely easy to make bad house music, and extremely difficult to make the good stuff. So I gave up!
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Since you talk about apps lending themselves to different styles - i'd definitely agree.
Spacey electronica: Animoog, Animoog, Animoog and also i'm liking iSem, FFTwinTwo (just set a long release and stick an LFO and delay on it), Alchemy, the granular apps and the drum synths like iElectribe, SeekBeats and ED - plus Patterning for patterns and DrumJam just because. You can also get some nice automated stuff out of Gadget. Then of course you need effects...
Liquid DnB: Z3ta is amazing for gritty bass, Thor has some lovely reece patches etc, there's a great soundpack for Sunrizer that has some great DnB bass patches that sound speaker blowing (@touchconspiracy was connected with this pack I think). Drums are really about decent drum samples. Then i feel my best tracks do something interesting and more experimental on top. I've used Orphion chopped up for a funky hook, i've used a fair bit of ethnic drums from DrumJam, i've messed with vocal sounds in Samplr and Gadget, i've made random patches in various Gadget synths that sound nice and messed up...
Classical
Blues
Rock
Ambient
Experimental
Generative
(Not a complete list of genres I work in - but representative of some of the things I've done with the iPad).
I very rarely use sampling or loops or do looping in DAWs etc.
I've done classical with Earhoof, mellow bass and ambient with Animoog & iM1, long soundscapes with Sunrizer etc. etc. One can take an app and use it across a spectrum even if its default sound suggests one thing or another.
I've actually made it a bit of an MO to try and do that - i.e. push apps in ways that they don't suggest by default
Make music? I mainly collect apps and hang out at forums.
Reggae Dub. House/ Garage Dub. Jazz U.S House. Remixes(from Classical right through to Dean Martin & beyond) but remixes are mostly Reggae Dub & House. Whether it's trippy, Acid, jazzy, & Funky. It's software that limits my ideas what I want to do in my head. Can't afford a proper studio & a sound engineer to further my ideas. Like most of us really. Lol
same here pretty much
Haha, all too true - it's difficult to get an A for participation and an A for effort
I really have no idea how to characterize what I do. I don't do any of the electronica stuff that is very popular in this forum. I write music, that I then mostly play, being a guitar player an bass player. Just starting to mess with midi and synths, but not in the way it's normally done by most folks here - it's not the basis of the piece, it's another instrument, or, I'll use it to represent a "real" instrument like drums or cello that I can't or don't feel like playing. And I'm influenced by classical, blues, rock, prog Rock, fingerstyle instrumental guitar, and a few million other things. Oh, and it's all instrumental.
We have a winner! Or two actually
This is one of the reasons I like SOTMC; two birds with one stone etc.
I challenge you to live up to that first sentence. If only the once
sigh
"There's only one girl in the world for me
she probably lives in Tahiti...."
Margarine was chosen for its horrible synthetic nature...
For the most part I am a mutt/mongrel but the best I can describe it is the stuff from the mid/late 90s to early 2000s that was more about processing samples and less about chaining synths or shaking of booty. I have an aversion to clubs and parties but enjoyed native american ceremonies (cough wink) and simple funk grooves.
Digging through my Different Drummer templates.....
@JohnnyGoodyear I think you're selling yourself short - you're much more like "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" than margarine.
RE: Song Of The Month Club - My hat is off to you and all the participants who pull it off regularly. It really can be a challenge. That's why I'm such a horrible part-timer th -
SQUIRREL!!!
It's all pop.
I intend to make purely experimental music, imagining I’m going to create something like The Residents or Zoviet*France or Cornelius Cardew.
I end up making something fairly conventional, acceptable and commercially successful. A bit like Leo Sayer or Hot Chocolate, I think.
Confronted with this amazingness other people don’t comprehend, cognitive dissonance causes responses which sound almost like they’re saying phrases like ”boring” and “not very good” and “not finished”*, but of course, this is just a psychological side-effect, safe to ignore.
* and sometimes the quaint phrase “out of tune”, which of course has no inherent meaning. Those silly people.
hrm. could be a good question. Maybe best to ask "how would you describe your music"