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Do you create music? Let's hear it! | thinkcomp: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/speakersCakewalk Express on a ten-year-old SoundBlaster Live! MP3 5.1+. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | licoresse: Logic Audiohttp://alonetone.com/licoresse |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | cdoyle85: Jazzy, funky, socially conscious hip hophttp://www.myspace.com/themetaboogie |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | ABrandt: I too have noticed a rather obvious connection between hacking and music. Perhaps it has something to do with the parts of the brain that both require (I'm no neuroscientist though).As for me, playing music was a big part of my life growing up but I simply couldn't muster the discipline to keep practicing. M... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | JakeIsAVirus: I'm a CS student, a hobby programmer/very-amateur quasi-hacker, and a musician. I'm the lead singer and guitarist of a band called Martyr Your Muses. We are really just getting started, and our myspace page is still pretty ugly, but you can listen to some of the music at http://www.myspace.com/martyryourm... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | jtnak: I use LMMS a little bit. Not much. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | dfranke: I'm a n00b at it. I'm classically trained, most of what I listen to is Renaissance or Baroque, but I try to write in relatively modern style, mostly for a solo tenor vocalist with piano accompaniment. However, I've yet to compose anything that I like enough to publish. I use Rosegarden and a Yamaha PSR-S500... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | kolya3: Last thing I put out though haven't tested on the dance floor yet: http://soundcloud.com/nickolay/nickolay-funky-zippa-ruby-sky...I use Reason 4 exclusively. Never had the time to figure out any other piece of sotware. Now that ReCord works flawlessly with Reason, I won't need to. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | patrickryan: http://www.thesixtyone.com/patrickryan/
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Patrick+Ryan+MusicHardware - Presonus Firepod, Sterling Audio ST55 condenser mic, MXL 604 small condenser mic, ART MPA Gold PreampSoftware - Logic Express (for larger projects), Garageband (Simple and Easy) |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | hotdog003: I'm tinkering with a melody myself, but it's not much yet. You can see what I have so far with this lilypond source:\header {
title="Untitled"
meter="Slow and dreamfully"
}
\relative c'' {
\clef treble
\time 4/4
\key f \major
bes,8. f'16 r8 c'8-> ~ c2
d,8. a'16 r8 e'8->( ~ e4 c4)
bes,8. f'16 ... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | axod: I mess around on the piano, started using Logic Express a bit which is awesome.Here's a song with no lyrics (I haven't quite mastered the writing lyrics bit yet)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8kEoN0tJZ0 |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | surgesg: I'm actually a composer who got interested in coding as a way to realize my music. Using Pure Data and Max/MSP, along with a bit of SuperCollider.http://www.gregsurges.com |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | bbgm: Haven't written anything meaningful in a while, but you can find some of my material on Soundcloudhttp://soundcloud.com/dnm/sets/all-music-1Recently switched to Ableton Live after many years of Cubase. Make extensive use of Reaktor, Kontakt, and the Kore2 software these days. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | 24pfilms: I'm a hack musician...played all instruments except the drums.
Garageband...Sorry about the weak lyrics...placeholder.http://www.moorefilms.com/heyman.htm |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | PhilChristensen: I go back and forth between writing electronic music and performing intensely improvisational rock music. I've got a lot of my personal music on my main site at http://www.philchristensenmusic.com -- for this kind of stuff, I use ProTools as my main interface, running Ableton Live and Reason as ReWire ... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | chazchazam: I made a little bit while I was in high school (last year) We had a music tech lab. I used garage band to start but quickly changed to Logic Pro. It's mostly loops and some of my own guitar playing.
http://www.reverbnation.com/charliemccowan
The song "Serious Injuries May Occur" was made using loops in com... |
I seem to get colds/flus more often than most people. Suggestions? | bhousel: Get yourself tested for allergies. You might have them and not know it. If you've been tested years ago, they might have changed since then (it's normal).It might start out as a small cold / runny nose, that cascades into sinus infection, chest cold and goes from there. And it can be caused by almost anythi... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | elblanco: I grew up in the demoscene, but got too old to keep hanging in it. I'm part of a bunch of semi-retired demo sceners and put out tunes and releases every once in a grand while.http://fulcrum.antisoc.net/I did the music for this demo
http://fulcrum.antisoc.net/filemanager/active?fid=102And a few other songs...t... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | omgsean: Sort of electro-pop rock, and my love for 80s synth pop mixed together:http://tindeck.com/listen/cqcc
http://tindeck.com/listen/vqjvI'm looking for a vocalist to collaborate with, if anyone out there is interested. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | jawngee: http://soundcloud.com/chunky-g/tracksMost of the stuff is from over a decade ago.Interestingly(?) I wrote all the software I made the music with:http://www.sonicspot.com/aliendiskosystems/aliendiskosystems...http://www.sonicspot.com/xrazor/xrazor.html |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | empika: great thread and some great music!
Ive just had my first digital release on british leftfield drum and bass label Scientific Wax under the name Social Engineer :)
http://soundcloud.com/social-engineer
http://www.scientificwax.com/ |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | thunk: I got so fed up with the entire composition/synthesis/recording software genre -- for reasons I'll soon document elsewhere -- that I've written a new music authoring platform specifically for hackers. And it's Different. I've mentioned it here before, but I'll be releasing the alpha Real Soon Now (like, in days ... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | simonista: I recorded and produced an EP of original songs by my brother. They're mostly acoustic guitar and voice, although we throw in harmonies, electric guitar and bass, light percussion, and an accordian(!) as well.You can find it at www.lukewilliamsmusic.comWe used Pro Tools and 3 mics (sm57, sm58 and a condensor... |
Where have all the coders gone? | kikof: Ok. So you are a real coder looking for a real coder.
1 : Take no care to the resumes. Do not let anyone filter postulants.
2 : Recieve yourself everyone
3 : You'll know in a matter of minutes if he's a real coder or no. Well, if you're a Real Coder.=> Anoying but small invest of your time. That pays. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | rbreve: yes I create electronic music http://soundcloud.com/codekat
http://www.thesixtyone.com/codekat/ and this is my experimental ambient project http://rizomasessions.com |
I seem to get colds/flus more often than most people. Suggestions? | radu_floricica: Allergies of many kinds lower dramatically the body's first defenses (they make the respiratory tract much easier to penetrate by various bugs). Also most colds and flus, although technically airborne in practice are almost always transmitted by touch. Wash your hands more often and always before eating... |
Why haven't universities moved to textbook subscriptions | jimr: CourseSmart (http://www.coursesmart.com) seems to do what you're looking for. I think it's either run by, or is closely affiliated with a bunch of the major textbook publishers. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | Rainerbird: http://www.myspace.com/giraffeincognitoI use mainly pro tools and reason to power my drums. Most instruments other than drum samples and synth I record myself. |
Why haven't universities moved to textbook subscriptions | NathanKP: I know there are plenty of physical book rental services, such as:http://www.chegg.com/However, I really don't know of any ebook rental service. I guess it sounds like a good idea, but as a college student myself I prefer real books. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | stevejohnson: I write music for hobby video games using Garageband: http://www.steveasleep.com/music |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | sil3ntmac: My friend's band: http://www.myspace.com/pulse22
Check it out if you like Pink Floyd, psychadelic, melodic music |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | HeyLaughingBoy: Funny. As I'm reading HN, I'm also watching Ghost Rider on TV and practicing flute during the commercials.Trust me, you don't want to hear anything I'll be playing for quite a while :-) |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | jamesbritt: I've no new stuff to post but here's some old stuff:http://www.jamesbritt.com/chinese-forehead/There are some links on there to some mp3s. I keep meaning to stick more stuff up on archive.org. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | justintnt: http://hea.dphon.es
reaktor / kontakt |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | movix: http://dptv.co.uk/weasleboy-tearmeup.mp3Old school tape recorder |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | gintas: Piano & pencil. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | tigerthink: http://www.youtube.com/guitarsoloserviceGarageband. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | NoBSWebDesign: We've been keeping quiet for the last few months while we brought in our new singer, but are about to start performing again... Moment of Inertia (http://www.moirocks.net)We record in a studio which uses Logic Pro. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | baddox: I use Cubase SX3 and the occasional Reason on Windows. I focus more on melodies and progressions than the actual "radio-readiness" of my productions. Nevertheless, someone might like the stuff.Here is my most recent short instrumental piece: http://www.tshaddox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/the-point... . H... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | nitrogen: Any other Acid Pro users? Here's my equipment/software list:Acid Pro
ZynAddSubFX
Loads of VST plugins
Lexicon PCM81
BSS BLU-160 (this is an installed sound processor that I cajole into doing bizarre and unintended things)
Some AKG mics
Wurlitzer epiano
Ensoniq SQ-80
MicroKORG
A couple other keyboardsHere are... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | lux: Yes! I'm actually working on transitioning in the next year to a technomad/touring lifestyle so I can focus on music more.I'm at http://thesixtyone.com/johnnybroadway or http://www.johnnybroadway.com/ |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | andyleclair: http://myspace.com/yaybuffet Weird sample manipulation / ableton live / reaktor / occasional vocoder |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | leif: all my stuff's stuck on tape for the time being |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | Khary: Check out my site twiturm.com. Its sorta like a twitpic for musicians.this is some of my music on it as well.
http://twiturm.com/profile/blackcortez |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | joshsharp: I used to spend a lot of time mucking around in FL Studio. All decidedly amateur, but if anyone's interested there are a few songs at http://drop.io/joshs_musicYou might like to try "I'll be back later", it features some, uh, catchy.. vocals from a friend. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | Pistos2: My modest, slowly-expanding collection of classical piano recordings: http://blog.purepistos.net/index.php/piano/ Obviously, being classical music, I didn't compose any of it.All recordings played on a Yamaha P-120; piped directly from piano line out to onboard line in on an old P4. Recorded with Audacity on... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | nihilocrat: I used to make music with Reason, originally purely for the music itself but later on for video games. You can listen to it here (http://nil.cjb.net/music/), some of the later tracks are actually present in video game competition entries. Occasionally I tried Ableton Live but the interface really bothered m... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | johnfn: I use FL Studio. I'm a total amateur. A lot of it is pretty bad, but it's fun to write. http://johnfn.newgrounds.com/audio/ |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | adrianwaj: Anyone with commercial success? |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | officiallyrad: www.purevolume.com/theinterfaceincident |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | computerofmeat: This is my band: http://www.themintchicks.com/We're pretty successful in my home country of New Zealand. We've won awards and had a gold record. We're now based in Portland, OR and getting a little bit happening there.We use Pro-tools mostly, with some Logic for it's bank of sounds and I made the video ... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | spencerfry: I DJ once a week at a club/lounge. Does that count? :) |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | davepeck: Here are some trax I wrote for a recent laptop battle; in under three minutes they must get you grooving and/or destroy your future ability to hear bass.http://davepeck.org/battles-of-yore/Fruity Loops. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | th0ma5: http://monorail42.googlepages.com/ made with python ;p |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | shaunxcode: http://www.purevolume.com/drugshit - straight edge/hardcore band I play drums in. Recorded in one take by our friend. Lately I've been recording more life stuff with a zoom h2 and I am really happy with that. |
Anyone want a Free promo code for my iPhone app? | lozwaldo: cool thanks for the promo code :) |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | aaronblohowiak: I play Old-Time banjo: http://aaronblohowiak.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/cold_fr... |
Idea on Crowdsourced Deal Hunting | byoung2: Maybe you could set it up so that the buyer clicks on your affiliate link for the product, and you kick back a percentage to the deal hunter? |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | rivo: German pop music. Formerly major label.http://www.rivodrei.de/The first album was recorded and mixed in Logic. The second album was recorded with Logic but the engineer who is currently mixing it switched to ProTools. The music itself is all handmade by us, the musicians.I quit a well paid job in IT to do this fu... |
Review Beatnex - An effort to make the RIAA obsolete | ABrandt: clickable: http://beatnex.com |
Idea on Crowdsourced Deal Hunting | bdmac97: Isn't Amazon (or Newegg) the cheapest place to buy pretty much anything like that online already? |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | jfornear: This was a band I was in a few years ago: http://www.myspace.com/sometimesitrainsWe recorded with Cubase. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | SwellJoe: I just posted the first chiptune I've composed in many years here (LSDJ on an original grey Gameboy): http://8bitcollective.com/music/algernon/Snuffles/And this is a rough mix of an old punk rock tune I wrote years ago but recorded for the first time earlier this year (live guitar and vocals, live tracked ele... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | DanielBMarkham: I think this is one of the best posts on HN ever. Somebody should accumulate the top ten of these and make a Hacker News album!I'm a Sonar user but I'm still trying to figure the dang software out. I bought the full Cakewalk suite, I am an amateur keyboardist, and I can improvise melodies and such, it's... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | rbxbx: I do solo (mostly)electronic music under the handle robad pills, just put out a (free) new album at http://www.sickmode.org/ called "let's get cynical"There's also 56 other releases there, maybe more hacker in spirit than technical prowess though ;) |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | TTDaVeTT: http://www.myspace.com/10jackdiamondUsing cubase, a midi keyboard and VST's. It's mainly down-tempo with electronic and hip hop. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | dangrover: I wrote this tongue-in-cheek number one night when I was frustrated and didn't feel like coding:http://files.dangrover.com/siliconvalleylament-sofar.mp4I just thought it would be funny to write a song about Silicon Valley in a cheesy broadwayish/Sondheimish style. Might finish it if I get around to it.The so... |
Review Beatnex - An effort to make the RIAA obsolete | mr_eel: Bluntly, this doesn't look particularly compelling, especially when compared to something like http://bandcamp.com/"I am a firm believer that the functions of these dinosaurs can be accurately simulated through web technologies."I'd be interested to have you expand on that. Specifically, what are the things tha... |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | xtimesninety: http://nelobanda.com i'm part of Nelo at ang Tala, a pop/rock band in the Philippines. I compose the songs and play vocals and guitars. We're planning on recording a new album all DIY using a USB condenser mic with built in mixer from Samson (GM1U). |
Review Beatnex - An effort to make the RIAA obsolete | mahmud: You probably wont beat the RIAA, but you can carve a nice niche for yourself. It has potential and there are a billion possibilities. Keep at it and keep us posted. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | adw: Little netlabel I run/ran: http://www.hiddenmusic.co.uk/. I'm Covert. (Oh, software: Reason mostly, sample editing in Audacity.) |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | maryrosecook: I make music in Ableton Live. I sing, play an electric guitar, a microKORG, a child's glockenspiel and assorted things (plastic bottles, lamps, doors, cassette tapes etc.)http://maryrosecookmusic.com |
Idea on Crowdsourced Deal Hunting | adrianwaj: check out http://bit.ly/Lw6Id
- I know who developed this site, in Israel |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | ranebo: I'm a casual musician that lately also makes music creation software for the iPhone http://www.hopefullyuseful.com/My brother (Co-Creator of Simple Songwriter) is a more serious musician that uses Cubase and Ableton Live from memory.
http://www.thetransients.net |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | zen53: http://music.seanmccolgan.com couple of mashups from back in the day. Nothing special just playing around in Ableton. |
Why Didn't Captcha Advertising Take Off? | dragonquest: One of the first problems I see is that supposing you are a webmaster of a site and 5 companies have approached you to display a fuzzed up logo in you captcha.Now since there aren't infinite string variations you are left with randomly displaying only 5 kinds of verification phrases which are easier to man... |
Why Didn't Captcha Advertising Take Off? | mahmud: Advertisers don't want to associate their brands with annoyance and inconvenience. |
Why Didn't Captcha Advertising Take Off? | mr_dbr: More importantly, why hasn't http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauth taken off?This is more practical (and cuter) than using brand-logos.. Pictures of kittens and other animals are easy to find, whereas getting a wide enough range of companies willing to let you use their logos will be far more difficult.. It would ... |
Why Didn't Captcha Advertising Take Off? | paulhart: There are patents involved, maybe the licensing costs were too high?I've been asked to work on something similar, but my lazy/distracted ass hasn't gotten around to it yet. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | patrics: Mostly given up these days tho still messing around with Logic 9 and strumming guitar - heres an old demo track (apologies for the vocals :) http://mindshaft.net/mindshaft-old/electricblue.mp3 |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | cousin_it: I'm a casual musician: when the fancy comes, I write acoustic guitar thingies and play them in the street.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBUq2QHXiyE |
Why Didn't Captcha Advertising Take Off? | jasonlbaptiste: Sometimes God hates ideas so much that he intervenes to make sure that they never ever happen. This is one of them. |
How do you recruit a few hundred closed beta testers? | RiderOfGiraffes: This isn't quite answering your question, but I think it's relevant.I recently needed some alpha testers, so I picked a community I thought would benefit from the final product and announced that I had an unattractive, bug-ridden experimental version of a product I thought they'd find useful. It was p... |
How do you recruit a few hundred closed beta testers? | ScottWhigham: Craigslist is a fairly common place to try to find people. You don't mention what your target audience is therefore it is difficult for us to offer more targeted advice. |
Do you create music? Let's hear it! | crux: I'm in a death metal band. We're actually recording a new album right now; I'm off to the studio in half an hour. But our previous album is available free here: http://music.flamingtusk.comI guess it's not a very hackery style of music to play. But when it comes to our web stuff we're very cutting edge. |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | rawson: It's so social! promote yourself as a presenter/show/dj/artist, i like it! |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | anthonyjhicks: Loving mixcloud.com - definitely one to keep an eye on! |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | guruslan: I have been testing this while it was in beta and I loved it to every bit. Nice and sleek. With so much interesting content it will definitely be the next big thing! |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | robbiehudson: Just been trying this out. Loving the music. Sometimes it's difficult to figure out which track you're listening to. |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | adrianwaj: I have been using http://play.it so far - it has mainstream streaming music. Like a jukebox, but allows you to skip a certain number of songs per hour. No radio announcers if desired. It also allows people to create their own streams out of their library. |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | LucianT: Great stuff. Good business model. |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | nathanlon: Great to listen to - looking forward to all the new music I'll discover. |
Review New Social Network - prospectvista.com | leftnode: Clickable links -http://www.prospectvista.comhttp://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/4 - My businesses profilehttp://www.prospectvista.com/profile/view/2 - A profile with a videoThanks! |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | mitko: I would like playing a recording not to pop-up in a new window. YouTube doesn't pop the video out. |
Are "Rate my Start-up" posts OK on HN? | steerpike: Don't know what the official word is, but personally I find them an appealing point of difference for HackerNews. We are, after all, meant to be a crowd more interestd in the cutting edge of technology and I quite enjoy being able to provide feedback to developers in various stages of production.Plus I've di... |
Are "Rate my Start-up" posts OK on HN? | ErrantX: In a way I believe that was part of the entire point of HN in the beginning! |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | boggles: What's your plan for dealing with potential lawsuits from the RIAA? |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | pjkoelemeijer: I love mixcloud.com, everybody should join up! |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | kjd: awesome app - keep up the good work guys |
Rate my Start-up mixcloud.com | dangrossman: First thing I wanted to do was figure out exactly what the site was. I clicked "About" but my question was not answered. Instead I had a screen with only a video on it, the first 10 seconds of which are nothing but a logo.Something as simple as "The YouTube of Radio" on that page would've answered my quest... |
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