My track 'Gasleak' will be the Experimental Electronica track of the day on Monday, October 30th on garageband.com
My track 'Toad' was the classical track of the day on garageband.com on Tuesday the 17th of October.
I write music by inserting it directly into a piano roll. Piano rolls on computers mimic the original Piano Rolls that were used in player pianos. Piano Rolls were originally rolls of paper with holes cut in them that a player piano would read in order to play music. In electronic music, a piano roll is graphical and you insert bars that coincide with notes. With this, you can control the pitch, the start time, and the velocity (or how hard the note is hit). In some programs you can control other things like the mod wheel, the pitch wheel, and breath control through the piano roll editor.
I started writing music with a soundblaster pro soundcard in 1990 or '91. My parents were annoyed by the constant low quality beeping coming from my room. In 1993 I went to college majoring in computer science and aquisitioned my very first synthezer, the Boss Doc Synth. In 1994-5 I majored in Music at the University of Montana and I didn't "play" any instrument. I was still strictly composing using Voyetra and the Doc Synth. In 1995 I changed my major to communications and learned how to play the bass and bought my Emu Morpheus. In 1997, I was one of the founding members of the Folk/Rock band "Mr. Schwoo Presents:" I picked up a couple of poetry awards in 2000 and graduated college with a degree in English Literature from the University of Montana. Since college I have bounced around and have jammed with a number of musicians, but have yet to form a serious band.
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