No-MIDI November Challenge

[mumpcake]

Here's the challenge: make a song, but you can't use MIDI. No virtual instruments. Loops or audio you record yourself.

[vurt]

you mean use real instruments to record music?
as if anyone has ever done that!

[donkey tugger]

Some people will probably cheat and use some of that electricity stuff.

[jancivil]

Loops rather than MIDI. Yeah, sounds fascinating. Kind of kills the elitism of the whole notion, doesn't it.

[harryupbabble]

Yikes! 27 days to do it? I don't have the cash to hire people to execute my song. Okay execute is the wrong word. Play my song is what I mean. Where am I going to find session players in 27 days and with a budget of 80 bucks?

[jancivil]

you mean use real instruments to record music?
as if anyone has ever done that!

I haven't for over 20 yrs. It's all there was at one time, so... This as a 'challenge', meh... here's one: create music which sounds like real music in a room using _only_ MIDI and NO LOOPS. Do your own drum track with no quantization and no snap.

[funky lime]

No-Forum November would be a much harder challenge.

Oops, I just lost.

[vurt]

i would join in movember but i haven't shaved since around 2014/mebbe15s movember.

[donkey tugger]

you mean use real instruments to record music?
as if anyone has ever done that!

I haven't for over 20 yrs. It's all there was at one time, so... This as a 'challenge', meh... here's one: create music which sounds like real music in a room using _only_ MIDI and NO LOOPS. Do your own drum track with no quantization and no snap.

I did used to play the drums to a fair standard many years ago when we used to have a kit set up in a mate's house. A couple of years ago, I bought one of those cheapy midi drum pad and pedals things and messed about with it for a bit. I thought, 'hmm, that's actually not too bad after not playing for about 10 years'. I played something I'd recorded to a friend who asked, "Did you throw it down the stairs or something".

[vurt]

i only realised last month kontakt had all kinds of drums with fills n stuff, rather than me programming robo fills
im not big on that whole "percussion" thing.
i like the sound of it, its just not for me.

[jancivil]

you mean use real instruments to record music?
as if anyone has ever done that!

I haven't for over 20 yrs. It's all there was at one time, so... This as a 'challenge', meh... here's one: create music which sounds like real music in a room using _only_ MIDI and NO LOOPS. Do your own drum track with no quantization and no snap.

I did used to play the drums to a fair standard many years ago when we used to have a kit set up in a mate's house. A couple of years ago, I bought one of those cheapy midi drum pad and pedals things and messed about with it for a bit. I thought, 'hmm, that's actually not too bad after not playing for about 10 years'. I played something I'd recorded to a friend who asked, "Did you throw it down the stairs or something".

Hence MIDI editing.

I once was called on to provided drums for this one song in a show where the fecking drummer in this shite group didn't have an inkling of what to do in the 6/8. I hadn't actually _played_ a drum kit in nearly 20 yrs. Oddly there was no problem but I wan't called upon to do very much.