Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Molten Music Monthly – January 2016”.
Hello, I’m Robin Benson and welcome to the first molten music monthly of 2016. You join us here in a very sort of soaked and wet and noisy today for some reason: Norfolk, countryside banging over there I got aircraft going past cars. I got ducks going over the top, so I just don’t know quite what’s gon na happen anyway. It’S all really exciting, because this is the year of self-driving cars the year of virtual reality, the year that your fridge starts to order your groceries and a load of other things that aren’t going to work properly, there’s not really much to report. In January after the Christmas break, I know that CES is on in Las Vegas and all their tech streams are falling on about 4k AK 32k screams and wrap around virtual gizmos and grocery ordering refrigerator phones.
But the world of music technology is still sort of clinging on to that concept of the rock and roll lifestyle. It’S just been the new year and if you haven’t, got a full day hangover. Well, then you have no right to work in the music industry. The new year alarm clock is always set to namm, which is the music instrument and technology trade show that happens around the end of January, beginning of februari, and so any music tech companies.
Waking up this week will be completely silent on any of their new stuff ideas or products, because they’ll be saving it up for now. So, in the absence of anything new to talk about, everyone is kind of publishing their best things of 2015 and digging up old tutorials on how to pink box or how to make weird guitar noises to the top 5 mistakes. That famous music producers make all the time because we really do know how to criticize and anything else they can find to fill the void so not to be outdone. Here’S my top 5 favorite things from 2015 5 music production tips, especially for you. Let’S go number one bit: wig studio loved it loved it best thing of the year, the most awesome piece of music making production twiddling software that’s ever to exist. I think okay! Well, it goes a little bit strong, but works brilliantly on the desktop as a loser. Production suite works brilliantly on the Microsoft Surface and introduces new ways of working memory else is going on about the rolly, the Seaboard, piano really thing, and over i mentioned in my big book studio review.
All of that functionality is within witwix to do. You can do that with the surface and the pen have access to all of those parameters. It’S just awesome and it keeps developing, they keep releasing updates and it keeps getting tweet and better and better. So I’ve really enjoyed the whole bit wig studio experience and it’s stolen. My heart from Ableton Live which I’ve used three years.
So that’s pretty cool too to Windows. 10. It’S fabulous! It’S futuristic. It feels like Microsoft, we’re actually getting somewhere.
That Windows is actually improving and coming along and given us more and allowing us to do all this stuff and then fading back into the background. Just to let you get on with your work, which is kind of what you need from an OS. Does it continue to develop? I think Microsoft has pretty much got it right. This time, number three, the Microsoft Surface, sort of evolution! Well, you know by now that I’m into the surface in a big way and the surface pro 4 looks to be just fantastic.
Evolution of what they were trying to do the surface book as well takes that to another level, so Microsoft, a kind of raising the bar and what it is to have classy pc hardware, and that’s got to be good for everybody. The microsoft party in october also introduced me to high quality bourbon, and my life will never be the same. Number 44 sonus studio, one version 3. It’S given me so many reasons to move away from Cubase.
It’S awesome, the environment, the simplicity, the workflow, the way that you can move around and make music and edit and move stuff about and do what it is. You need to do in a digital, audio workstation. It’S sublime. It’S awesome: okay, the touch note editing is just as rosy as hell but which began about that.
We use touch on the console. We use the software for making music and it’s beautiful, good job. Presonus number five board games this last year has really consolidated our love of tabletop gaming, not monopoly or scrabble, or any of that cover. I wish no we’re talking about. Seven wonders we’re talking about king of Tokyo, Smasher, carcassonne settlers game of thrones exploding. Kittens you leave the smell Wars of the battle, will do i’m out skulls fire this’ll, be the best and most fun way to have any kind of human, social interaction, but our top five music production tips, hooray number one as nike would say.
Just do it. The internet is full of talentless idiots that are streaming and uploading their crappy music to soundcloud to youtube to all these different places, they’re streaming themselves on twitchtv out there doing it and the one of the biggest problems that perhaps you have. I have. We have collectively as musicians as people with just a little bit of talent. At the very least, is that we’d get so tired up? We don’t actually get anything out there, release it, get it out there. It’S done, stop tweaking it.
It’S done, get it up, get it out, get it out there in the world to the rest of welken. Discover your awesome. Brilliance number two stop waiting for the record deal. It’S not going to happen.
No one ever gets a record deal the people who do they? Don’T really exist, they’re kind of imaginary they’re kind of virtual bots that has been made up of and stuck on, telly to make us think that there’s still a music industry out there, but there never has been. It’S all been a big conspiracy. No ever gets a record deal; no one ever has no one ever will so stop waiting for it start doing it yourself, get yourself out there publish yourself finish a tune and upload it somewhere. No one is ever going to give you money for this. Once you understand that, and you can give your music away and start to come up with new and innovative ways of making a living out of making music, how do you do that? I faintest idea, but waiting for somebody else to sign you up and give you money is not going to achieve anything these days. You have loads of alternatives that you can actually control and invent yourself. Three perform get out there sing and perform two people, there’s nothing like standing in front of a crowd of people who are completely disinterested in your music to realize why you need to up your game in the writing and producing that you do if you can’t get Gigs or that’s not your thing, there’s a bit unpractical then start streaming live stream on periscope or on twitchtv. Get it out there cuz that’s rubbish on there at the moment and we need quality stuff to start watching quality stuff to start listening, and that should be.
You could be you, but it will anything you if you do it so do it just hook up a webcam. Stick it in your little studio space in your room under the stair glee. You make music turn it on sign up and start making music and just see what number 4 presets are cool. Yes, yes, they are.
I said it. Presets are cool. I say it one more time cool they are presets, don’t feel that you have to create an entirely new, sound palette in order to make your music sound original. Your music is original.
If it comes from you, it doesn’t really matter. I mean a piano, for instance, has one preset there may be a couple of variations like soft and sustain, but ultimately it’s the same sound time and time again, so don’t go down the rabbit hole of trying to find an individual sound when actually that preset, moog Bass is awesome. Those pads are awesome, use those now since sound yeah that works use it back. General MIDI, pan flute never did enigma any harm.
Personality of your music is not defined by having a sound that no one else is used before it’s defined by the presence and creativity they genius of you and don’t get stuck in that preset. Auditioning loop just choose the sound and go with it. Number: five don’t splurge out on new gear in a hope of it, making you more creative, be content with what you have and learn how to use it yeah, but we’re all gear, heads and we’d like to buy new stuff, which is fine but then buy. One thing choose one thing by one thing and then learn the out of it.
Learn everything about it. Get under the surface. Read the manual spend time with it and pull out as much creativity and interest and sonic excitement as you possibly can. Don’T just go.
Oh sod, it I’ll just buy another plug-in, spend time with your gear, so yeah there you go. I believe this is going to be a really exciting year for technology. I think that in Windows 10 and in the intel desktop technology, we have an awesome amount of power available to our little fingers and we can do things now that we would never have dreamt possible even a few years ago. Some revel in it Marvel in it and make music and, if you’re, just getting into music making or if they think it’s time for a new computer and pop along to Malta, musicology co uk check out our range of awesome, audio pcs, including our brand new entry-level Basic as you like, home studio setup from 599 for a dual-core awesome, compatible stable and quiet home, studio pc, but we have a whole range of silent systems. Massive multi-core professional systems just come and check us out next month’s music monthly be all about the namm show. So stay tuned for that we’ve also got a review on the editors keys, persona studio, one shortcut keyboard thing. Also: the Remo finger coming up. Windows 10 tweets are coming up, so this is the place to stay. Subscribe follow us on youtube and today and of course, with our kickstarter on the surface pro 4 becoming successful. We’Ve got all that coming along as well.
It’S not here yet the money hasn’t quite come through, which is an icon, but i understand that the surface book is now available for pre-order, so until next time can’t make some tunes .