On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:46:52 +0100 tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2006 21:19, Folderol was like: > > It is a real struggle for me to achieve anything at all with this. I > > seem to have a complete musical deaf spot when it comes to percussion > > and have to do a lot of work for many hours to get anything even > > remotely presentable. The result is it always tends to sound rather > > laboured. > > Use drum loops, or even better do stuff without drums, release it on a free > license and encourage people to do some remixes, you'll probably find plenty > of enthusiasm for that sort of thing here. But play around with Hydrogen too. > Drums are my weak point also, but I find Hydrogen very forgiving of my lack > of talent in this area. Drum loops are probably good for trying ideas out, but wouldn't work for much of my stuff. I usually play live with NO metronome so there are nearly always some speed variations which (in my opinion) gives a better feel but can be a nightmare to synchronise with anything else. Once again, thanks everyone for your comments. I think I will stick to drum-less compositions (which most of my stuff is anyway). Also, everything on my website is already covered by a Creative Commons 2.5 (attribution, non-commercial) license so you are free to play with my music anyway. If anyone is interested in adding drums (or anything else for that matter). I'm quite happy to send a Rosegarden or plain Midi file along with the ZynAddSubFX parameter file so that you can re-create from source. Thorsten is already having a look at Awakening The Avenger and I look forward to hearing what he can add to it. I will, of course, acknowledge any additions to the material I put on my website. -- F
