Who are you? Music or Tech demographic

wired2moon

@wim said:

@CracklePot said:

@zeroG said:
Musician whose creative goals are supported by technology. Played in rock bands & mucked about with 4 track recorders back in the day, although sometime between then and now (~15 years ago) I changed career path to IT. So... I do like computers but I love music

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Modern rock featuring lots of crunchy guitar and spacey synth

The impression I have is that most iOS folk are into producing ambient/dance/experimental/hip hop - not too many doing stuff with guitar, which I find curious. It’s all good of course!

There are still quite a few of us Guitar wranglers around here. I was surprised as well.

We’re a dying breed I sometimes think.

And to be honest, it’s a lot easier to noodle on the couch with a bunch of synths and drum apps than to set up and record guitar, and to actually have to play stuff right without the luxury of a piano roll editor. My guitars stare scornfully down at me from their lonely hangers on the wall so many days.

Lol surely it should be a pleasure to play, not a chore! But in fairness I hear you about the ease and convenience of synth apps. I’ve tried to make it easy to jump in with the guitar - my audio interface has iPad, cans, midi keyboard and mic all plugged permanently in and it’s easy for me to then plug the guitar or bass into the remaining free XLR; jack in, cans on, launch Cubasis w/ToneStack and raawk out. I’m trying to buckle down and get a few songs built out to completion at the moment - with a fair degree of success I have to say - but many’s a time I’ve ended up getting lost down a synth rabbit hole. You’re not alone

CracklePot

@zeroG said:

@wim said:

@CracklePot said:

@zeroG said:
Musician whose creative goals are supported by technology. Played in rock bands & mucked about with 4 track recorders back in the day, although sometime between then and now (~15 years ago) I changed career path to IT. So... I do like computers but I love music

43

Modern rock featuring lots of crunchy guitar and spacey synth

The impression I have is that most iOS folk are into producing ambient/dance/experimental/hip hop - not too many doing stuff with guitar, which I find curious. It’s all good of course!

There are still quite a few of us Guitar wranglers around here. I was surprised as well.

We’re a dying breed I sometimes think.

And to be honest, it’s a lot easier to noodle on the couch with a bunch of synths and drum apps than to set up and record guitar, and to actually have to play stuff right without the luxury of a piano roll editor. My guitars stare scornfully down at me from their lonely hangers on the wall so many days.

Lol surely it should be a pleasure to play, not a chore! But in fairness I hear you about the ease and convenience of synth apps. I’ve tried to make it easy to jump in with the guitar - my audio interface has my ipad, cans, midi keyboard and mic all plugged permanently into it and it’s easy for me to then plug the guitar or bass into the remaining free XLR; jack in, cans on, launch Cubasis w/ToneStack and raawk out. I’m trying to be buckle down and get a few songs built out to completion at the moment - with a fair degree of success I have to say - but many’s a time I’ve ended up getting lost down a synth rabbit hole. You’re not alone

I think I didn’t touch my guitar for about a year, until recently. A fully loaded ToneStack and unlocked MidiGuitar 2 have me playing pretty much daily now.
Oh yeah I forgot I got an iTrack Pocket recently. That makes it very easy to get going. My previous setup was less than optimal.

hlprmnky

I’m definitely a computer person who had some exposure to the pleasure of making music in my youth, and am now returning to it as a hobby and creative outlet.
I’m 41, and believe you me, nobody is as horrified and surprised by that number as I am.
I am really just starting to take music seriously as something that I might be able to approach with adult attention span and dedication, teaching myself the fundamentals of synthesis and music theory. I have likened the first couple tracks I carried all the way through to producing a .wav file to an infant just beginning to articulate sounds: Ba! Ga! and so forth. My musical listening interest ranges from Mozart to Com Truise to Fela Kuti to Red Fang, so it’s really difficult to say what sort of words those Ba! and Ga! sounds are gonna be part of once I get there.