Day: April 25, 2006

Music

Feeling the itch to compose

While I have been incredibly busy at work and busy with other projects, I find that I am missing composing. So I think that it may be time to get back to working on music.

With that in mind, I will no doubt be giving a few of my favorite online tools a workout. For things like modifying samples I use the at thewhippingpost.co.uk quite a bit. For things like finding odball sounds to work with of course I turn to . When it comes time for percussion inspiration I go to for African rhythms and ‘s Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ. I use Anvil Studio for creating bass, melody and spheres, and then pull them into TiMidity to convert them to sampled wav files. Now, if I could just find an online idea generator . . ..