What type of music do you create?

[LoveEnigma18]

I am curious and interested in knowing what type of music do KVR people make with all the tools we keep buying.

Most importantly, the following things:

1. Type (vocal/instrumental/mix of both)
2. Genre/style you think it fits
3. Do you officially/professionally/semi-professionally release your music (with artwork and all)?
4. Or just share your music casually with the world?

Personally, so far, I have been making instrumental music in electronic/downtempo/chillout genres.

If you want to share any comments/suggestions/experience of using any particular synths or effects for your music, that would be great!

Thank you!

[Forgotten]

Depends what instrument I pick up or what mood I’m in.

Lately:

Piano and vocal - playing a few standards
Piano - improvising some blues based jazz
Resonator and maybe vocal - some blues slide work and some country type picking
Guitar - mostly rock and metal
Laptop - experiment a lot with everything, recently using XILS Lab through various effects

[DJ Warmonger]

What are "songs"?

[harryupbabble]

i am trying to create pop songs and i keep failing. i haven't found "the" method yet.

as it is, i create really crappy disposable experimental music.

a lot of "nope that didn't work" rejects.

[vurt]

i am trying to create pop songs and i keep failing. i haven't found "the" method yet.

have you tried reaper?



(id be interested in hearing some of your experimental bits though...)

[harryupbabble]

i am trying to create pop songs and i keep failing. i haven't found "the" method yet.

have you tried reaper?



(id be interested in hearing some of your experimental bits though...)

vurt, my stuff is pop-song wannabes. this means that if I ever succeed at the intent, my results might sound like the Beatles or led zep. if you already hate those bands then my failed attempts will sound even worse?

[vurt]

i am trying to create pop songs and i keep failing. i haven't found "the" method yet.

have you tried reaper?



(id be interested in hearing some of your experimental bits though...)

vurt, my stuff is pop-song wannabes. this means that if I ever succeed at the intent, my results might sound like the Beatles or led zep. if you already hate those bands then my failed attempts will sound even worse?

where do you get the idea i hate either of those?
i actually like both, the beatles i admit, not so much their earlier stuff, but once they grew up a little they wrote and recorded some awesome music
admittedly i take the piss out of them a bit, but, being scousers, theyd get it

[harryupbabble]

well, a lot of people here at kvr seems to hate pop bands. modular folks especially?

[dark water]

Dub reggae / ambient / techno.
(Occasionally I release something a bit more funky).

Vocals: vast majority of times, a snippet used as an effect / texture in dub reggae or ambient.

Sometimes release to the world.

[vurt]

well, a lot of people here at kvr seems to hate pop bands. modular folks especially?

i dont think so?
we may get argumentative when told we are not musically skilled as certain pop acts, but its not a hatred of pop. more a hatred of being told we are unworthy

im not as big on modern pop, but as a 46(on tuesday next) year old man, im not sure its aimed at me.
but ill defend teenagers right to listen to it!
im not one of those "todays music grrr" like our own parents became.
and i do enjoy odd bits i hear, that katy perry had a few songs i enjoyed. maybe not to listen to at home, but at parties or in a pub, they were nice enough

[harryupbabble]

plus plus, the Beatles and led Zeppelin are hard acts to follow. I suspect they had talent. I suspect I don't. not those talents, at least. but I like my taste (those pop bands). I keep believing I can transfer my musical taste to songs.

[harryupbabble]

okay vurt, I'm a just gonna file you as neutral on pop music then. but for sure, you gotta admit lots a people here hates the Beatles and led Zeppelin. and could you get more pop than those two bands?

[vurt]

plus plus, the Beatles and led Zeppelin are hard acts to follow. I suspect they had talent. I suspect I don't. not those talents, at least. but I like my taste (those pop bands). I keep believing I can transfer my musical taste to songs.

well, keep trying

sometimes, we cannot achieve what we aim for. but we can find our own voice.
what are your strengths? can they be forged in to something new?

[vurt]

okay vurt, I'm a just gonna file you as neutral on pop music then. but for sure, you gotta admit lots a people here hates the Beatles and led Zeppelin. and could you get more pop than those two bands?

i admit nothing without evidence!

(had you said coldplay, then i would have agreed)

[Aloysius]

mental songs