So if you’re using commercial loops in music you can certainly use them as they come. Maybe you’ll do a bit of pitching up or down to get a melodic or harmonic loop in the key of the song. Obviously Read more…
Many moons ago when I bought my first audio interface it came with Sonic Foundry’s Acid Pro 2.0. It was a basic loop-based music editor and I used to love putting together tracks in it. They were of course, rather Read more…
In the first part of this little series on starting a song I shared the noodling method of songwriting. As a part of this method I also used to write a lot of songs starting with lyrics. I was especially Read more…
I heard this question the other day and it got me thinking about my own song writing process. When I was a young lad I started many songs by noodling on the guitar. Webster’s dictionary describes noodling as the act Read more…
I was working on the arrangement for a new Doxkyn track this morning. I was creating a downshifter for the mid-section of the song. I had a goofy 80s sort of sound and a white noise sample. I was shifting Read more…