Musicians In The House? All Fan Music Thread

[xsamitt]

Thought I see who among us venture in Music creation.I'll go first and hopefully more will follow.

Here's one complete original tune I did a little ways back.
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sg4Vnwg6Rc

[Anasumtj]

I make electronic music.

I do not have any links.

But you can trust me that it's awesome.

[Icky6]

xsammit, that's really nice! What did you use to make the backing track? You should find a vocalist to write lyrics for it. I don't have any links to my own music (it's 1:30 a.m. and I don't feel like digging them up right now), but I'm going to Berklee College of Music for engineering and production. The artist I'm working with has a pretty similar style to your song :)

[xsamitt]

xsammit, that's really nice! What did you use to make the backing track? You should find a vocalist to write lyrics for it. I don't have any links to my own music (it's 1:30 a.m. and I don't feel like digging them up right now), but I'm going to Berklee College of Music for engineering and production. The artist I'm working with has a pretty similar style to your song :)


Hi There

Actually I did the music myself on the keyboard and just burnt it off on a CD and played to it.I have Lyrics for it.It called I'm alive again.......but finding a singer who could do the song justice proved much harder than I would have preferred.But such is life.So As an instrumental,also considering the style of the tune It at least felt OK to dedicate it to SRV.Who I credit with teaching me to play.I watched the El Mocambo alot lol.

Looking forward to hearing your music as well as other.Lets Show EM were more than just gamers.Though of course we do love the stuff.

[ThePrecursor]

Well, I play guitar. I play namely fusion, shred and all kinds of metal.

[InGroove2]

Thought I see who among us venture in Music creation.I'll go first and hopefully more will follow.

Here's one complete original tune I did a little ways back.
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sg4Vnwg6Rc

nice jam! it was good to see you actually perform it... which in the example of my music, you wont...

but you'll see whole lot of provacative images... well hopefully provacative.

these are a couple pieces i composed and recorded with my band PUSH:
it's marimba, vibes, snythesizer, drums and bass:

Meditation (5min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9s9J3uDLRo"

PUSH II (7min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3axGlNFO61U">


i produce and edit the movies myself, they're used for performances at the moment (maybe a DVD later?)

[atLaNt1s]

vangelis would be proud of you guys, cheers

[xsamitt]

Ingrove......Really dig the vibe......it's your own thing,no one can take that away from you guys.This is great stuff.Reminds me of some very good bands like PF and APP.Really digging it.

[xsamitt]

Well, I play guitar. I play namely fusion, shred and all kinds of metal.

Is it possible to share it with the gang here?

[Graeme]

I dig it man. Good stuff. I'm a drummer myself.

[xsamitt]

I dig it man. Good stuff. I'm a drummer myself.


Great thread ..Seems we are coming out of the wood work.My Bother is a drummer,has a Drum kit built just for himbased on the band Rush,in Neil Peart Blue.But sadly after having to move there is no longer any room for him to play them...So now they are up for sale.As a guitar player,of sorts it small enough that I can still pick it up.Drummers have it the worst sometimes.

[Absentia]

Great stuff, guys! InGroove, your band is brilliantly unique.

Me, I make electronic music, though it sometimes comes out as a sort of rockish hybrid, as I've been making guitar-based music way longer than computery stuff. I have a UNATCO remix on my Soundcloud, along with my other tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/Simtrip

[Graeme]

Listening now man...actually quite enjoying it (glad to see you got the right thread btw)

[Absentia]

Listening now man...actually quite enjoying it (glad to see you got the right thread btw)

Thanks!
yeah, I had the wrong tab open :lol:

[xsamitt]

And of course there is the man himself.A. Brandon.The mastermind behind the Music of DX1.

http://soundcloud.com/alexbrandon

[TrickyVein]

don't forget about AB's work for Unreal classic!!! Here's one from way back before DX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xMp0fZiJaM&feature=related

It builds for a while, but it's amazing for anyone who has experienced the game and can remember when you hear it.

[aduckworth]

I make ambient/industrial/experimental music under the alias Freeze Etch.

http://www.freezeetch.com

There are several Deus Ex references in my music: My first EP was called "Helios" (includes a track with the same name), and I also have a track called "Rebreather, pt. 1". ;)

http://soundcloud.com/freezeetch

[aduckworth]

This is a mash-up of the main theme from the 2007 film "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis) and the music from the trailer for DX:HR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENuvvXCgTKk

These two songs have been intermingling in my brain for a few days, so I tried lining them up with each other. It's far from a perfect match-up, but there are some seriously chilling similarities between the two compositions.

Sources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UtCI5O0Re0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6JTvzrpBy0

:D

[Viktoria]

I'm liking the mash-up, thank you. :thumb:

[Exian]

I'm really liking your stuff guys, xsamitt thanks for posting this thread.

Great stuff, guys! InGroove, your band is brilliantly unique.

Me, I make electronic music, though it sometimes comes out as a sort of rockish hybrid, as I've been making guitar-based music way longer than computery stuff. I have a UNATCO remix on my Soundcloud, along with my other tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/Simtrip

Absentia, I really love listening to stuff like that, may I ask what software+hardware you use?

aduckworth: Damn, good job man! That's really similar...

[InGroove2]

Great stuff, guys! InGroove, your band is brilliantly unique.

Me, I make electronic music, though it sometimes comes out as a sort of rockish hybrid, as I've been making guitar-based music way longer than computery stuff. I have a UNATCO remix on my Soundcloud, along with my other tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/Simtrip

thanks! you too! i gotta get on the sound cloud, i really like that site.

your UNATCO remake is sweet.

check out this one:

"Push III" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e03wKWtr2aM&feature=related) (that's me on sythns/vocals)

and for some self depricating humor:

from our series of 'Instructional' Videos: "El Vibrafono" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcnDGsTjkqk&feature=related)

[xsamitt]

This is fantastic .........Lots of great music here.EM should be so lucky.:thumb::whistle:

[Badmaker]

When i was a kid, i made rap beats and sold them. I bough my 1st phone (Nokia 6300) with those money, lol.

[xsamitt]

Here is a link to 3 more of my original tunes.

http://www.playcrossroads.com/mirrorimage

[Exian]

Here is a link to 3 more of my original tunes.

http://www.playcrossroads.com/mirrorimage

Sounding brilliant, although I'd love to see a change in the mood of your songs. Make a sad one! ;)

[xsamitt]

Sounding brilliant, although I'd love to see a change in the mood of your songs. Make a sad one! ;)

Thank you.The sad stuff is my passion.though I guess from those songs you'd never say it.LOL

[Exian]

Haha yeah, you should really make one dewd =)

[Zakka]

I won this community project thingie for black mesa source a little while back (half life remake)

Mine and some others were chosen out of hundreds of entries : D

http://www.blackmesasource.com/community_project12.html

[Icky6]

I'm curious, what software do you guys use for music creation? I use Pro Tools 8.

[Dead-Eye]

And of course there is the man himself.A. Brandon.The mastermind/remixed behind the Music of DX1.

http://soundcloud.com/alexbrandon

Wow, that song Incubus sounds like the Deus Ex Theme remastered with lyrics.

Edit: Also Guru sounds like a song from Deus Ex.

Edit: If I was EM I would totally go ahead and buy the rights to these two songs and just stick them somewhere in Human Revaluation.

[Absentia]

Cockos REAPER!

I don't have the money for Pro Tools, and the only thing that REAPER lacks compared to other DAW's besides Pro Tools is bundled plugins and integrated audio/sample editing. REAPER has tons of features, and it's extremely cheap. The trial period never actually runs out, but I think you are still technically breaking your policy to use it once you're past 30 days.
I had the chance to use Pro Tools at school for my music technology course, and, though a little fiddly, it does pretty much swamp everything else out there however.

[Icky6]

Cockos REAPER!

I don't have the money for Pro Tools, and the only thing that REAPER lacks compared to other DAW's besides Pro Tools is bundled plugins and integrated audio/sample editing. REAPER has tons of features, and it's extremely cheap. The trial period never actually runs out, but I think you are still technically breaking your policy to use it once you're past 30 days.
I had the chance to use Pro Tools at school for my music technology course, and, though a little fiddly, it does pretty much swamp everything else out there however.

Lol Cockos. That name always cracks my inner child up. Anyway though, I've heard great things about Reaper. I do like Pro Tools' workflow alot, but I HATE that you need an audio interface hooked up to even open the freaking program. Not to mention that audio interface HAS to be one of Digidesign's. So they lock you into their ecosystem. But Reaper is supposedly a very nice program, I'm looking forward to trying it someday!

[RebelX]

Damn, I haven't been on here in forever...

I am a percussionist, I have been one since the 6th grade. I got into the tracking scene a few years ago. I learned how to do it on a homebrew app for the Nintendo DS, called Nitrotracker. I eventually transferred to Modplug tracker on my computer. I mainly make beats so that my friend and I can freestyle to them, and I also make retarded remixes of songs just for our own enjoyment. My entire library of samples is made up of samples I picked up from other .mod or .xm files. I also have numerous drum machine samples (TR-808, TR-707, SP-12, etc.) since I am a fan of old school hip hop and a percussionist.

Don't laugh, but I did make a hip hop/chiptune remix of the Power Rangers theme song. It's all samples I picked up off of other tracker files and I used TR-808 samples for the percussion. Here is a link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CLY0UxrSA

[Icky6]

Dang, at first I thought you said that you have an 808. Still cool though!

[RebelX]

Dang, at first I thought you said that you have an 808. Still cool though!

I wish lol, those things are antiques now and are actually quite valuable. I have the next best thing, which are computerized samples which is just what I need since I use tracking programs.

[Exian]

Wow, that song Incubus sounds like the Deus Ex Theme remastered with lyrics.

Edit: Also Guru sounds like a song from Deus Ex.

Edit: If I was EM I would totally go ahead and buy the rights to these two songs and just stick them somewhere in Human Revaluation.

That sounds nothing like the DX main theme :D You have been smoking something haven't you ;)?

[Dead-Eye]

That sounds nothing like the DX main theme :D You have been smoking something haven't you ;)?

It sounds like it's from Deus Ex in general.

[Absentia]

It sound's just like the Credits theme - named 'The Illuminati' on the GOTY soundtrack.

[RebelX]

Thanks for your comments on my video xsamitt I appreciate it lol

[bless]

www.myspace.com/newfoundationcrew .. over 125,000 plays on the tracks there now

[Keir]

I make my own stuff with Cubase Studio 4 and a ton of plugs. If you're into trance or progressive you can give it a listen here:

soundcloud.com/keiross (http://soundcloud.com/keiross)

[Absentia]

Wow Keir, that's some pretty awesome stuff... I really like the mix quality, very professional-sounding =)

[Keir]

Wow Keir, that's some pretty awesome stuff... I really like the mix quality, very professional-sounding =)

Thanks, I wrestle with the mix quality but it's something I focused on. I was running it through various instances of Ozone 4, etc. When it's all in there it's enough to crush a 2.6 quad core.

If there are any other music tech geeks among us, show yourselves!

[spyhopping]

Just finished listening to your second track Kier, I loved them. Both of really crisp and professional trance, lots of energy :thumb:.

I've always wanted to experiment with electronic music but I didn't know where to start without trying expensive software. Tried out Mixcraft a few months ago. It was fun as I started to get the hang of it, but it felt restricting and the only sound samples I could seem to find to use were quite low quality, so it all trailed off unfortunately.

On the subject of DX-y music, check out Mr K's iComps (http://www.icompositions.com/artists/Mr_K) page, some great tracks there.

[Absentia]

Thanks, I wrestle with the mix quality but it's something I focused on. I was running it through various instances of Ozone 4, etc. When it's all in there it's enough to crush a 2.6 quad core.

If there are any other music tech geeks among us, show yourselves!

Owch, there's me thinking my 2.8 quad would be unstoppable. Then again, it heavily depends on how efficiently your DAW can do multi-threading.
I haven't even touched mastering. I understand how vital it is to make professional music -there's just something crazy about applying EQ to an entire mix with a dozen EQ'd tracks already on it. I guess I'd be worried about undoing all my hard work, but that's no doubt a whole skill of its own.
As for 'music tech geeks' I actually should be all set to study music technology at university this year. The course concerns the electronics/programming-orientated side of the subject rather than the production side, though, so you could definitely count me as one!

[Keir]

Just finished listening to your second track Kier, I loved them. Both of really crisp and professional trance, lots of energy :thumb:.

I've always wanted to experiment with electronic music but I didn't know where to start without trying expensive software. Tried out Mixcraft a few months ago. It was fun as I started to get the hang of it, but it felt restricting and the only sound samples I could seem to find to use were quite low quality, so it all trailed off unfortunately.

On the subject of DX-y music, check out Mr K's iComps (http://www.icompositions.com/artists/Mr_K) page, some great tracks there.

Thanks! The bottom track (Second Sight) has vocal samples from Troels Folmann's (the composer of the soundtracks behind Crystal's Tomb Raiders). He runs Tonehammer (http://www.tonehammer.com/)

I started messing around with music composition many years ago, and learnt via the onboard sequencer on the Korg M-1 and then my trusty Atari STF 1040 and Cubase v2 :D Then when I moved to PC I got Cubase SE which is a light version and not too expensive at all.

I've heard Mr. K's stuff before, it's very cool.

Owch, there's me thinking my 2.8 quad would be unstoppable. Then again, it heavily depends on how efficiently your DAW can do multi-threading.
I haven't even touched mastering. I understand how vital it is to make professional music -there's just something crazy about applying EQ to an entire mix with a dozen EQ'd tracks already on it. I guess I'd be worried about undoing all my hard work, but that's no doubt a whole skill of its own.
As for 'music tech geeks' I actually should be all set to study music technology at university this year. The course concerns the electronics/programming-orientated side of the subject rather than the production side, though, so you could definitely count me as one!

Well I'm an effects whore. Each track is layered in various effects so I think that's what canes my processor.

You're wise not to dive into mastering blindly. Ozone is notorious for making bad tracks even worse in the wrong hands. I'm a novice but I have found that there are some basic and subtle settings which can help pull a track together and add the top end. Mixing certainly is a science.

Your course sounds cool. Good luck with it :thumbsup:

Great stuff, guys! InGroove, your band is brilliantly unique.

Me, I make electronic music, though it sometimes comes out as a sort of rockish hybrid, as I've been making guitar-based music way longer than computery stuff. I have a UNATCO remix on my Soundcloud, along with my other tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/Simtrip

Some cool stuff here dude. Filthiest Branderz and Boss are very nice.

[InGroove2]

Thanks, I wrestle with the mix quality but it's something I focused on. I was running it through various instances of Ozone 4, etc. When it's all in there it's enough to crush a 2.6 quad core.

If there are any other music tech geeks among us, show yourselves!

hey! i spent years as an engineer for commercials and albums. have a small studio at home...

as i've posted before... my current band PUSH:
Push III (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ig6E--84ug&feature=related)

Red Giants (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scdEr0hejLM)

as well there is:
My previous band THE JOHNS (http://www.myspace.com/yesiamthatbad)

then there is my cover project where i cover POLICE songs in slower more rooty fashion:
The Fauxlice (http://www.myspace.com/thefauxlice)


at home i'm using ProTools and some basic plugs, some old synths that are old enough to not sound like everyone else but not old enough to sound "vintage" (Yamaha A4000 sampler/Proteus2k). I have a few mics, guitars etc...

most of this music is a hybrid of professional studios and my home studio... however all of it is recorded and produced by me. I've got a degree in composing and music technology and am a freelance engineer... though i'm not a gearhead... i just use what i have and make it sound as good as i can.

[pvc]

Alright I'll jump onboard.
I am a bass player who eventually started doing everything else, and now I make electronic rock or whatever kind of music under the name ShopofOlives.

I have a home studio which I use mostly for myself, but also record local bands. I'm by no means a professional, but I am pretty obsessed with the art of recording and even some of the science of it.
I use Logic and Native Instruments Battery 3.0 for drums.

Recently I've been having fun building microphone preamp kits from classicapi.com and five fish studios.

This song is a few years old, but it's one of my favorites for how all the sounds accidentally came together.
At The Very Edge (http://shopofolives.com/At%20the%20Very%20Edge.mp3)

[Icky6]

Owch, there's me thinking my 2.8 quad would be unstoppable. Then again, it heavily depends on how efficiently your DAW can do multi-threading.
I haven't even touched mastering. I understand how vital it is to make professional music -there's just something crazy about applying EQ to an entire mix with a dozen EQ'd tracks already on it. I guess I'd be worried about undoing all my hard work, but that's no doubt a whole skill of its own.
As for 'music tech geeks' I actually should be all set to study music technology at university this year. The course concerns the electronics/programming-orientated side of the subject rather than the production side, though, so you could definitely count me as one!

Hey where are you planning on studying? It sounds like the synth major they have at berklee, where i go... Then again I'm sure there are a bunch of schools that focus on that study lol. It's always nice to see that people have a variety of interests anyhow!

[Keir]

Words

Hey man... I really like the sound of PUSH. What do you play in the band and have you got studio stuff online?

I had a Proteus 2000 rack, but I never got in with it too well. I've had some hardware that I really liked down the years though like a Korg M1 and a Kawai K4 (which I really loved, so unique sounding).


At The Very Edge (http://shopofolives.com/At%20the%20Very%20Edge.mp3)

This is really sweet sounding. Great production. I'm an effects whore so I'd do something to drums, perhaps some more obvious reverb (but that's just me).

[Absentia]

Hey where are you planning on studying? It sounds like the synth major they have at berklee, where i go... Then again I'm sure there are a bunch of schools that focus on that study lol. It's always nice to see that people have a variety of interests anyhow!

Hehe, would've been a great little coincidence, but I'm a Londoner! I'll be studying at York University in northern England =)

Alright I'll jump onboard.
This song is a few years old, but it's one of my favorites for how all the sounds accidentally came together.
At The Very Edge (http://shopofolives.com/At%20the%20Very%20Edge.mp3)

Really like this! really nice recording, I think it's similar to the kind of style that my unfinished attempts at making actual songs were going for... Sort of neo-progressive I guess? reminds me of stuff like The Pineapple Thief, Porcupine Tree, and a little Oceansize

[InGroove2]

Hey man... I really like the sound of PUSH. What do you play in the band and have you got studio stuff online?

I had a Proteus 2000 rack, but I never got in with it too well. I've had some hardware that I really liked down the years though like a Korg M1 and a Kawai K4 (which I really loved, so unique sounding).



This is really sweet sounding. Great production. I'm an effects whore so I'd do something to drums, perhaps some more obvious reverb (but that's just me).

thanks man! i compose most of the music, play synths and sing. you can download our whole album here:

http://www.archive.org/details/ANaivePushToEscapism

we have a live set of not yet recorded songs here http://www.coachhousesounds.com/2010-sessions/push (http://http://www.coachhousesounds.com/2010-sessions/push) (i'm the guy with a hat on)

please please share it with anyone. its available for purchase too on itunes.... but at this point i just hope people hear it.

yeah, the Proteus 2K is nothing special... i try to avoid using most of th patches in ways that they're not intended for... aside from the EP sounds... i spose.

I had a Kawai K11 keyboard... it was a actually quite a powerful thing for what it was... i got a ton of ultra unique stuff out of it.


i was listening to your tracks and notices this effect you use a few times... i used to use COOLEDIT and it had this convolution effect that did that same type of sound... kinda like a swirling lazer sound only much more organic.... anyway... well done!

[Khaeru]

usually i'm blasting this playing fear or max payne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc4XETqgoyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ28SypAk80
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZlzluiqOfM&feature=related

[mwkcope]

A few months back,I created a piano piece called "Shadow Of A Mystery."Iwould give it,but I haven't even recorded it yet.

Also,X-Sammit,you look a bit like Chuck Norris.:D

[LC is Me]

I'm pianist and a guitarist.
But I haven't touched a guitar in years since my little brothers broke my acoustic when they were babies and I couldn't afford to replace it.
=[

I miss it. Luckily I'm getting an electric guitar as a late birthday present.
I'd also like to try out bass, cello, and violin.

I play around a lot on my piano but I haven't recorded anything...
These days all I play are Zelda tunes and covers from songs I listen to.

[theBlackman]

As an old stick in the mud, I like music you can hum along with or sing. I have nothing against mixes or electronic/synthesized music and have some friends who do excellent work in that field.

But, just to stir the pot, here is a little antiwar tune I popped out a few months ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq6GqowLI_s