Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Discuss music production with Ableton Live.
nathannn
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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by nathannn » Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:32 pm

Blendton wrote:Just a little tour to check if people here are still smart and without bad humor... I admit that the "VST ... Pro-T..." was the kind of non-sense French weird humor / just to see uf an a...hole having posted 2 or 3 poll or irrelevant stuff since he signed in ; the guy who could answer like if I was here because I love sharing errors and false statements ...

I admit this post is useless but since I didn't had the "VST not in ProT" I was sure to receive, tha?ks to you all musicians :wink:

BTW great news I'm free from the kb+mouse torture I managed an iPad 4 and despite the need ro "control" more than touch a screen, dudes, I feel like a returned from the death electronic musician.

Not as good feeling than a legacy Lemur from JazzMutant but wow, just with that and playing something REC ON without failing is at last possible.

Good evening to all, wanted to share these pain relief feelings.

Kind regards.
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Blendton
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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by Blendton » Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:47 pm

nathannn wrote:
Blendton wrote:Just a little tour to check if people here are still smart and without bad humor... I admit that the "VST ... Pro-T..." was the kind of non-sense French weird humor / just to see uf an a...hole having posted 2 or 3 poll or irrelevant stuff since he signed in ; the guy who could answer like if I was here because I love sharing errors and false statements ...

I admit this post is useless but since I didn't had the "VST not in ProT" I was sure to receive, tha?ks to you all musicians :wink:

BTW great news I'm free from the kb+mouse torture I managed an iPad 4 and despite the need ro "control" more than touch a screen, dudes, I feel like a returned from the death electronic musician.

Not as good feeling than a legacy Lemur from JazzMutant but wow, just with that and playing something REC ON without failing is at last possible.

Good evening to all, wanted to share these pain relief feelings.

Kind regards.
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Please dude, noneed to be a genious to guess cuckoos fear snakes, you put chaos into my nest just as I was going out to perform @ beach for holiday work.

Think before doing bro :lol:
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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by cpyatak » Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:23 pm

Some wonderfully bizarre turns these threads take.

Down8ch
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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by Down8ch » Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:15 pm

I'd label myself as an artist of sorts

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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by Machinesworking » Thu Aug 22, 2013 3:55 am

Composer. I'm a good composer, OK musician, mediocre producer.

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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by Mister Natural » Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:18 am

alltomorrowsparties wrote:For me the whole process of production/composition/ follows a set of tasks from 'most creative' to 'most scientific'

1-Initial writing (most creative)
2-Initial recording (scratch tracks, rough arrangement ideas)
3- Arranging (expanding on ideas in step 2)
4-Mixing (i break this down into 2 steps-step 1 is more creative playing with fx/ambience/distortion n stuff, step 2 is more scientific...using eq to ensure everything fits
5-Mastering (most scientific)

Bout midway through 4, is where the more rational side begins to take over
lovely as I'm close to this perhaps . . .

think of me-self as more composer first - then musician(laboring) - at the end producing('cause I have to get it out there)
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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by reeloy » Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:42 am

...all i ever wanted to be was...a recording and performing artist....

after twenty years of doing so, i've been not only that but all that was mentioned here, i'm afraid.....
no way around these days, i guess....

the deepest valley in my career so far was....a comercial spot for cat toilets....
and that was not before but after a complete orchestra was playin my shit....your music might have no dynamics left, your life as a musician surely has.....

been rich, been poor, been everything....

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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by david.barker » Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:26 am

Well I guess I'm a hobbyist composer really,ha,ha :D

my main job is not in music. So I make ambient music in my spare time

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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by shlomo » Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:15 am

well i do sculptures in time, where that fits?

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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by Goddard » Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:56 am

Faithful alcohol abuser and US&A lover here...
Music fills all gaps in between those activities...

"To produce music" expression describes perfectly the soullessness of modern society with it's creations...
It has it's roots in the capitalistic attitude turning all around us in to a commodity.
Because everything you do due to capitalism has it's price therefore all morons don't "create" anything" - they "produce". Put then the pricetag on your excrements suckers! And eat shit!

Music is supposed to be shared for free. It should be experienced for free as (so long...) fresh air and the daylight.
There are few which understand that and give away (share) their own creations and perform live for free - because of reigning monetarism though still accepting voluntarily paid fees (paid "as you wish")...
I hope we will someday develop as human beings (evolve) and we will get rid of that monetaristic idiocy.

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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by regretfullySaid » Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:49 pm

N/m
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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by andydes » Fri Aug 23, 2013 4:23 pm

Goddard wrote:Faithful alcohol abuser and US&A lover here...
Music fills all gaps in between those activities...

"To produce music" expression describes perfectly the soullessness of modern society with it's creations...
It has it's roots in the capitalistic attitude turning all around us in to a commodity.
Because everything you do due to capitalism has it's price therefore all morons don't "create" anything" - they "produce". Put then the pricetag on your excrements suckers! And eat shit!
Yeah, or you could say production is just making stuff.

Reclaim the word production from the capitalist pigs!

(if you care that much about it)

Blendton
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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by Blendton » Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:02 pm

Smeoe here to say ....

N point here this thread is a troll detector.

Therefore I'm a troll as now I replied


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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by Hermanus » Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:40 pm

I'm not a number I'm a human being.

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Re: Do you consider yourself a composer or producer?

Post by H20nly » Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:04 pm

since i've composed, performed, produced, engineered, argued with myself, and got wasted all without getting out of my chair i'd say i'm DAW user and leave it at that.





Goddard wrote:US&A lover here
what is US&A?
Blendton wrote:Masturbating... Kiddy Vice ...
what? 8O

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