tell us. I never composed anything in life. 
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Re: How do you compose?
· Posted: 28.02.2007 - 00:59 · #5
Mine's a modest MIDI system, thus the Yamaha EX7 workstation (Yamaha's last best workstation series!) works enough for me. 
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Re: How do you compose?
· Posted: 11.03.2007 - 23:41 · #6
I have a computer setup and pretty much work exclusively with soft synths. Most of the time, I start out a piece with melody or chords or mood in mind, and then just load up a bunch of sounds that seem to fit. Then I start going through the piece from the top, building up the layers section by section. My music tends to be fairly structured, rather than long-form improv. type stuff, so this works for me. Frankly, I've never tried laying down a whole track live with hardware sequencers running, multi-timbral keyboard playing, realtime effects, etc. It sounds really difficult to me to work that way! I truly have no idea how the old masters did any of their stuff. 
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Re: How do you compose?
· Posted: 12.03.2007 - 23:31 · #7
Watched the movie, The Benny Goodman Story last night on TCM. He knew how the clarinet works and just played it, to fit his style. 
Have to think the masters did the same thing.
Have to think the masters did the same thing.
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