KVR Audio

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:48 pm

emerald tablet wrote:
Armadillo wrote:Considering that most music outside KVR actually is called songs, I just find it strange so few people work with vocals around here. And if they do, it's usually their own or their spouse's (eg. Bucodi).
you haven`t listened to many tracks.
many use with voice
and many people at kvr are good singers

hence the "And if they do, it's usually their own or their spouse's " comment. And yes, there's vocal tracks on kvr, just not in the same proportion as the rest of the music scene.

Now, somebody's gonna quote this and say "what do you expect, it's a VSTi forum".

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:50 pm

luCiPHer wrote:
Armadillo wrote:Considering that most music outside KVR actually is called songs, I just find it strange so few people work with vocals around here. And if they do, it's usually their own or their spouse's (eg. Bucodi).
have you ever tried to find a singer?
quite a task...

Spent over 1 year so far and I've even tried to start 3 different project in totally different styles. Nope, it sure ain't easy

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:53 pm

I tend to work alone just because it goes faster - it's easier to get something from concept to finished product without all those compromises. But I do collaborate a lot, live, in studio, and via internet, when I come across people on the same wavelength. Bands are more or less finished though - too many personalities to manage and too much time commitment.

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:55 pm

Armadillo wrote: Now, somebody's gonna quote this and say "what do you expect, it's a VSTi forum".

what do you expect, it's a VSTi forum..

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:00 pm

Sicklecell666 wrote:
Armadillo wrote: Now, somebody's gonna quote this and say "what do you expect, it's a VSTi forum".
what do you expect, it's a VSTi forum..

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:21 pm

"I Work Alone"
by Mef Furrygood, the Croatan Creator

o/~
I work alone, yeah...
With nobody else.
Y'know when I work alone,
I prefer ta be by myself.

Eve'ry morning, just before breakfast
Don't want no accompanist.
Just me an' my good buddy Sonar --
When I play bad, he never gets pist.

'Cause I work alone...
With nobody else.
Yeah, ya know when I work alone
I prefer t' be by myself.

Th' other night I was playin'
And I laid down an awful track.
So I brought up my ol' Moog Modular
And spent hours fiddlin' with the attack.

Yeah, I work alone,
With nobody else.
Y'know, when I work alone....
I prefer t' be by myself.

Got invited to a jam session.
When time came for me ta play,
I cranked out a big ol' solo --
Everyone up an' ran away!

That's why I play alone...
With nobody else.
Y'know, when I play alone,
I prefer t' be by myself.

My old friends all gave up on me,
'Cause my music turns 'em green.
They'd rather I leave my keyboard,
And they hide the tambourine!

They say "Mef, play alone!
With nobody else...
After hearing how you play, yeah,
We prefer you work by yourself."
o/~

*bow* Thank ya.

Meffy

garzmil · Post by **garzmil** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:33 pm

I work with a dude who is a great singer and helps me finish songs. I don't think I ever finish anything by myself, I just come up with 3 or 4 minute moods or parts. We used to play in a rock band together, so we know each other pretty well and get along great. This is our first trip into a more electronic kind of project, so everything is always new and exciting still.

VicDiesel · Post by **VicDiesel** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:34 pm

I regularly play classical music with other people in the same room. Anything from duets to 20 or so people. I have no clue how to do that with electronic music. Even duets. Do you take turns editing a track? Or do you get a "real" musician to come and play something and then you tell them "now please go home while I spend a few days getting the effects levels on your track right"?

V.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:35 pm

one of my favourite artifacts of the american song-poem industry.. too bad they took the mp3s down

i live all alone, you see
way out in wild country
beneath a tree

here stand my old shack
in the outback
turmoil i lack

far from all your worldly strife
no tongue cuts like a knife
i mean a wife

here i live just like a king
not missing anything
not any thing

when the evening shadows fall
i have myself a ball
best time of all

pick up my banjo
wo-ho-ho
and play it so

all my friends from far and near
the coyote and the dear
come close to hear

stand outside my cabin door
and all their voices soar
begging for more

origami · Post by **origami** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:37 pm

I do everything on my own as Origami, but I'm beginning a project with a friend in which I'll only sing, called Seppuku.

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:39 pm

I work alone for the following reasons:

1) I agree with me
2) I dont work fast enough to collaborate
3) I dont like to work out parts infront of others(see #2)
4) I agree with me
5) Only 2 of my friends also do music, and 1 is a pushy, combative, overbearing arse when it comes to music. The other thinks he needs to spend the entire time RAWKING and not learning how to work out the parts.
6) I agree with me
7) havent found anyone online to collab with.
8 ) My bro and I cant find common musical ground for some reason.(see #'s 1,4, and 6)
9) The one online collaboration I did work on(I did the music, she did the lyrics, came out ok, but she was shady and self serving, plus she screwed up the mix- see link for example)
10) I agree with me.
I have just recovered all of my MP3.com songs to garageband, and they are Pending- if you are interested they should be up in a few days. The one collab I did was called Nobody(featuring louise)

oh yeah thats here

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:43 pm

TennesseeVic wrote:Do you take turns editing a track?

take turns rolling blunts :p

ahja · Post by **ahja** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:49 pm

For the most part I work alone... Though I have worked with other folks in person a number of times. DnB, hip hop, acoustic, industrial are genres I can think of off hand. I'm not quite sure if I like it to much since music is a very personal thing to me. I probably wouldn't be 100% happy with a song unless I was 100% created by me.

Mixing and tracking is a completely different story...

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:51 pm

S_A_P are you up for a collaboration?

Beardedone · Post by **Beardedone** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:53 pm

I like to do both. I must say that the collaborations I have been involved with are amoung the highlights of making music this way. It was a thrill hearing Emerald Tablet sing his lyrics to my backing track "Flying to the End of Time". I felt real pride also to get to play guitar lines for Tristeza Orange, Multree and Bluedad.

I hope I can get to do more complex collaborations like I did with Normal called After_Silence where we had a superb give and take process arranging and orchestrating his composition in which I got to play extended guitar solos over. I took the drum track and programmed it a bit adding fills etc. with Normal adding suggestions a long the way and writing in epiano and sax solos. The tune ended up being over 11 minutes long and sounds lot like a live jam.

Does everyone around here work alone?