It’s every musicians dream to be poor and alone. Musicians love to work for someone else doing a task that isn’t worth even classifying as chewing gum for the mind while we spend most of our day away from the thing we truly hate: expressing ourselves through creativity.
To make sure you continue with your failure, here are three things you want to make sure you do or you might have to move on from that job you love so much.
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In the last part of this series, we looked at logic, Apple’s flagship audio program. In this part, we will take a look at what some call “LogicLIte”, named GarageBand. It truly is Logic in a feature stripped “not so pro audio” wrapper. Let’s start by asking some of the questions we have covered in the earlier parts of this series.
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The demands for today’s musician to be professional becomes more and more obvious as the music industry evolves and there is so much out there competing for your potential fan’s attention that it becomes necessary to stand out.
One way to stand out from the rest of the YouTube channels a browser will come across is to customize your background.
If you weren’t aware you could do that, you can, and I suggest you do. Here’s why.
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Delicious.
That’s how I would describe the sound of an animated filter at just the right settings.
Wet and delicious.
One way to achieve that wonderful sound is modulating the filter frequency. This can be done in a handful of creative ways inside of Reason, but I’m going to show you how to do it using the Matrix Pattern Sequencer when applied to the Mod Wheel on a Subtractor.
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A while back I posed the question “What role does the artist play in society” and opened up the comments on a facebook thread to gather an understanding of how musicians see themselves and how they see their role as an artist in today’s society.
Here is what you had to say on the matter…
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