Is K-v-R ‘BAD’ For Your Music Production? (Poll)

[androidlove]

i wouldn't be at the skill level i am without kvr. i get helpful criticism. i'm inspired and challenged by artists. i learn of the existence of plugs. i learn about which plugs to use where.

[Col.G]

The KvR contest gang has helped me improve a lot.
Thanks guys.

[emdot_ambient]

KVR's made me more inspired and productive but it's kind of odd how. I've dabbled in PC music since 1999 and have been composing off the PC since 1978, so I have a long history over which I can compare my work habits. I've always been an obsessive/diversionist when it comes to music or any other creative process: I alternate between fits of extreme productivity and total avoidance. During the obsessive periods I stay up until 2:00 in the morning working, hardly noticing if I don't eat and barely able to carry on a conversation while working. In my diversionist phase I try to find something new to escape into (PC games, movies, reading books, looking at porn on the internet--oops!)

KVR feeds my obsessive side, and I've found that the competitions really help teach me a lot about composing and the technical side of computer music. I've only really been totally capable of doing what I want on the PC since last November, and new gear always has tended to put me in obsessive mode. So I've found that while in obsessive mode, I tend to browse KVR more often.

However, sometimes it's easy to get wrapped up in the competition and spend more time interacting there than composing. That happened to me in April, barely did anything else that month. In June, though, I did a huge amount of work AND was online all the time.

Then July came . . . didn't enter the competition, didn't browse KVR much, did no practical music. Diversionist syndrome hit me pretty hard. (Read a lot, though.)

This month is looking up . . . maybe enter the competition again? Hope so!

[Ildon]

I come here because of the people. Everyone is so incredibly nice, probably because most people here seem to be over 40. It doesn't effect my music making, though. I'd say, if anything, it makes me proud to call myself a musician.

Yay for KVR.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

At first, when I initially got into PC-based music production, KVR was insanely educational - I learned more about setting up a PC DAW then I would have anywhere else, got more news on cool instruments and techniques, than anywhere else.

Now that I'd more or less an old hand, I find myself aimlessly surfing the place out of a kind of inertia when I should be recording.. I have to pull myself away to get anything done!

I turn the computer off in the morning now and just turn my Fantom X6 on when I get home at night.. I try to leave the PC off as long as possible. I'm getting more music done now!

[herodotus]

KVR's made me more inspired and productive but it's kind of odd how. I've dabbled in PC music since 1999 and have been composing off the PC since 1978, so I have a long history over which I can compare my work habits. I've always been an obsessive/diversionist when it comes to music or any other creative process: I alternate between fits of extreme productivity and total avoidance. During the obsessive periods I stay up until 2:00 in the morning working, hardly noticing if I don't eat and barely able to carry on a conversation while working.

Sounds like me.

Well, my lovely young wife has changed this a bit (I am getting soft, I am afraid), but it is still either hard work or none at all.

Hope to see you in the contest.

I am entering a pop song this month, just to be contrary.

[metamorphosis]

It's about having a sense of community- in this case, musicians with too much gear and no cents

[mindless]

Taki Theodoracopulos (Greek: Τάκης Θεοδωρακόπουλος; born August 11, 1937), originally named Petros (Peter) Theodoracopulos but better known as Taki, is a Greek-born journalist and writer living in New York City, London and Switzerland. His column "High Life" has appeared in The Spectator for the past twenty-five years, and he has also written for National Review, the London Sunday Times, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the New York Press, and Quest Magazine, among others. In 2002 Taki founded The American Conservative magazine with Pat Buchanan and Scott McConnell. He was also publisher of the British magazine Right Now!. He currently edits and writes for Taki's Top Drawer, an online magazine of "politics and culture", which features contributions from such paleoconservatives and libertarians as Justin Raimondo, Paul Gottfried and Paul Weyrich.

[Sicklecell666]

I wouldn't be making the 'music' I am today if it weren't for KvR, which of course, says nothing in & of itself..