Greetings from Porto, Portugal!
I studied piano and organ when I was a little one till my teenage years and now, more than twenty years later, older and (barely) wiser, my interest for music came back when I discovered the fascinating world of software synthesizers (ZynAddSubFX, Yoshimi, amSynth, etc) in Linux.
I expect to learn a lot from your technical wizadry.
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Welcome here
It is a shock when you see how much has changed what you weren't looking isn't it?
Oh, and a tip I was once given a good few years ago by Larry Adler was that it is easy to be fooled by intense and dramatic sounds. When you compose a new tune, play it on the simplest instrument you have. if it still sounds good you're OK!
It is a shock when you see how much has changed what you weren't looking isn't it?
Oh, and a tip I was once given a good few years ago by Larry Adler was that it is easy to be fooled by intense and dramatic sounds. When you compose a new tune, play it on the simplest instrument you have. if it still sounds good you're OK!
The Yoshimi guy {apparently now an 'elderly'}
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Hi folderol
Oh, definitely. It seems it was only yesterday when I was an 8-years-old and my parents were buying me my first electronic piano, while I was ogling the much cooler looking synthesizer next to it (an Yamaha DX7, I believe). Of course, I ended up with the boring electronic piano (a Casio Tonebank, I forgot which model was). Nowadays whe have much more advanced stuff at cheaper prices, but I decided to save money and continuing to use my also ancient-but-still-reliable Yamaha PSR-SQ16. I am having trouble connecting it to my Linux box but I will talk about that in the appropriate forum.It is a shock when you see how much has changed what you weren't looking isn't it?
I completely agree. In fact, my first experiences, after figuring out how to connect my Yamaha to LMMS in QjackCtl, will be creating chiptune music. I love music from the 8bit - 16bit era. I admire how they manage to make so much with so little. Google "Axelay Soundtrack" as an example. That's masterful work. I do not expect creating something of that calibre soon. Maybe one day, after much, much , much practice. I will try to create much simpler things first.When you compose a new tune, play it on the simplest instrument you have. if it still sounds good you're OK!
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And if you are incompetent like me, and can't compose something which sounds ok, you can still be saved by those intense and dramatic sounds!folderol wrote:Oh, and a tip I was once given a good few years ago by Larry Adler was that it is easy to be fooled by intense and dramatic sounds. When you compose a new tune, play it on the simplest instrument you have. if it still sounds good you're OK!
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