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Easiest/feels like cheating way you've made a song.
We have a lot of innovative apps on iOS that offer some pretty interesting workflows, on their own and working together. Curious about everyone's experiences using some tool or combination thereof to a degree where you thought "wow that was too easy" and other guilty pleasure type shortcuts you've used. I think the obvious one is simply grabbing some pre made loops and cutting them up which Blocs Wave has made extremely simple and fun. I can imagine using Fugue Machine in concert with some other things might also fall into this category. As long as the music is awesome, who cares. Thoughts?
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Using the new TJ arp (apparently to be released very soon).
Just played it as an instrument and 2 minutes later had a piano piece that expressed my feelings but exceeded my typical abilities...
Awesome! Can't wait for that
Being playing music for 23 years on 30 life span I really can't think about cheating. Experience isn't a cheat nor a easy thing. All those years were spent to craft my tools, not good enough for me but still valuable. Most of the times I never though it was easy the time I managed to get something out of the entropic mess of life, because for one result I walked through literally thousands of failures. So no, there wasn't any cheating moment, just the:"Why did it took so long to make something so obvious"
Co-opting traditional/out of copywrite material with tweaked arrangements and a bit of modern polish.
Many a pension has been earned with this timeless little gem. Why do you think the folk/trad music industry is so prolific!
I put sunglasses on and lip-synced to Stevie Wonder. Everyone loved my new song "Superstition!"
https://m.soundcloud.com/brain53/sure-thing I put this little ditty together mostly with GB loops along with a little custom GB embellishment and some vocals here & there. This would be the closest I've come with an original piece.
Hit record and play. Something good comes out. I'm conditioned to not wasting studio time so even on the iPad by myself I'm in luck.
For some reason iSequence always makes me feel like I'm cheating.
Soundprism is pure cheating. ^^
Anytime you get a song out its not cheating. (Except for taping a song off the radio and saying you wrote it.)
Chordbot. I have to go to great lengths adjusting its resulting midi before it feels like my own work, almost defeating the purpose.
Fugue Machine separate playheads, Patterning midi, Thumbjam midi -> Studiomux -> PC daw running Native Instruments running Massive and FM8
Cant wait for arps in Thumbjam!
While I wouldn't call it "cheating", I've made around 3-4 songs using Gestrument, which allowed me to create something I couldn't have normally done, and in a much easier fashion.
If you take the time to set up the app in the Settings menu, by selecting the instruments used, scale/key, etc., it frees you up to perform using the app very easily. Performance can be controlled in some part live by how you move around on the grid, adjusting the parameters on the fly, etc.
I was once asked to do a bed for a commercial for a bottled water company. This was well before bottled water was what it is today. The video was a series of shots of clear sparkling streams and small waterfalls leading up to a product shot and a voice tag. I called up a piano sound on my trusty Ensoniq VFX-SD and did a series of overlapping glisses down the keyboard followed by some relatively random rumbling notes at the end. After some strategic quantizing and a few fixed notes here and there I was done. The whole thing took about 5 minutes and was very well received.
I actually got paid for it as well...
chordbot is so great for messing around, if only it was updated to be a little more customizable, maybe midi out and some way of adjusting rhythms like social not something. It's still the best at what it does. I found some dumb new app like it called Odesi chords and was immediately reminded why chordbot is better
Agree with you in almost every respect, however, Odesi (which I bought and paid for etc) has one advantage: it's new on the table and one can hold out some hope it will develop further. Oh that Chordobt might...
Woah, that does look cool.
Here's just one example. It was recorded straight through in one take, after a couple of practice runs. It's not perfect, and I'd change a few bits, but not bad for using one finger.
There is also guide track and ireal pro (but no song-o-matic)
Thanks, I'm sold.
Wow, Sean, that's fantastic! Very inspirational.
Thanks for sharing.
Is it cheating when you make beautiful music with someone else?
Still waiting for Link.
BTW Mister @Seangarland that IS stirring stuff. William Wallace searching the glens for love etc.
Not to turn this into the Sean Radio Hour, but it can be used for some more abstract stuff as well.
This one I purposely used instruments that I didn't think went well together, and made a song out of them. Again, all in Gestrument. A little more Zappa/Varése to my ears.
The song called "Fields for Miles" on my soundcloud was also Gestrument.
You had me til the barking.
Seriously, I found that disquieting and that's a good thing. We've talked before about how Garcia Marquez says that everyone has a public life, a private life and a secret life. I think I have a better insight into yours now.
“She is headed for the cheatin' side of town”
They’ve dedicated a whole side of a town, purely for cheating? Which side is that? North? East? Is the centre of town just on the border of cheating? I suppose it saves the trouble of having a separate town nearby purely for cheating.
Johnny gets up and pours himself a strong one....
Well we know there is a cafe down their and Mrs. Jones has the directions, but alas Google Maps is 'neither use nor ornament' in this regard.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. (Bruce Lee)