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Starting about six months before I got my Power Mac G4, I became very interested in making music. I had always been a lover of music, but I had begun to watch YouTube videos about various synthesizers, study the various synths in depth, and so on.
A little later, I bought a Yamaha PSR-6 on eBay and began playing around with that. When I got my Power Mac G4, a whole new world was unlocked. I was able to put GarageBand on it and begin playing around with the loop library, arranging songs using only loops from there.
About a year later, I got my first real synthesizer. It was an Arturia MicroBrute. I still have it to this day and makes an appearence on many of my songs. It sounds amazing and I absolutely adore it. Since then I have bought/been given quite a bit of gear.
I also have quite a few software synthesizers I've downloaded for free as well as Analog Lab 4, which came with my Arturia KeyLab.
Find links to my SoundCloud accounts here.
My current setup is as follows:
Controllers:
Arturia KeyLab Essential 49
Synthesizers:
DAW Machines:
DAWs:
Interfaces:
Soon I'll add download links for some MIDI files I'm working on making (primarily original compositions on my SC-880, SC-880 patches, SD-20 patches, 96kbp/s mp3s of some of my songs, and the SimCity 2000 MIDI soundtrack re-voiced for the SC-880).
Synthesizers:
My Roland SC-880 (Left) and my EdiRol SD-20 (Right)
Keyboards:
My Arturia KeyLab Essential 49 (apologies for the poor photo, I'll upload a better one soon)
Audio Interfaces:
My Zoom H5
Here's some of my music. I'll probably add more eventually, but I wanted to start out with this:
This was the first song I composed entirely on my own. It was composed on the day I got my Arturia MicroBrute and was made using only my MicroBrute with effects in Ableton Live 9 Lite.
This was the first song I used the Arturia Analog Lab 4 software that came with my KeyLab on. Everything but the drums was made using the software and the drums were built-in to Ableton.
This song I made around Valentine's Day as an homage to Journey and their Frontiers album. Likewise, I pull a lot of influence from the sound of that album, especially "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)," "Send Her My Love," and "Ask the Lonely." The last one in that list only being included on the reissue of the album.
I wrote this song as an upbeat and poppy 80s dance song. I wrote this using my SC-880 and I looked at it again after writing and arranging almost the entire thing and setting it aside and decided to finish it.
This was my third attempt at metal and my first attempt at Celtic folk metal on the SC-880. I am really pleased with how it turned out and I was able to write this song in only a few hours.