Got a GarageBand or Logic Creation? Share it!

I have a better idea for you... join www.icompositions.com and post your work there for free. I have a bunch of friends on that site, and I find them to be far more creative and experimental than places like www.garageband.com.

Enjoy!

Oh, and here is a wonderful example of the extreme coolness that can be found on "iComp"... and another...

Exactly why I love iComp so much. If you're looking for real "alternative" music, it's the joint.

It took 25 minutes to download, BUT, it was worth the wait. I actually enjoyed it! Conjoured up visions of a motorcycle ride down a seacoast, heading perhaps into a Boston waterfront?? I got that backwards. Start at waterfront and head up the coast.

It was better than you are giving yourself credit for. I love the GB app myself. Soo easy to add original stuff underneath slideshows and home movies, whether you are a 'pro' musician or not. Now, tell use how you did it. Do you actually own/play drums, guitar, KB? Was it all cut & paste with loops?

Try this instrumental of mine. I started with one drum loop as I cannot abide the click track in GB. The rest is off my M-Audio KB.

http://www.myspace.com/rufusswan

Paz

here is a couple of songs I wrote back in about 94-95. They were recorded into the sequencer of a Yamaha SY99 which was used to control a bunch of various other synths.

I apologize for the singing in the first track, I was just trying to make a vocal melody and just used the first words that sprung to mind! hehe. Usually I just wrote music without thinking about words or vocals. This is the only track ever with me singing on it! Its bad, and I know it! but I think the music's ok. And I was only 19 at the time!

The other synths were a Korg Prophecy, Ensoniq Asr10, Korg Trinity, Yamaha AN1x, the SY99 and a Novation BassStation. There was no computer used for this, though I later bought a PowerMac 4400 for Cubase 3. I ran the whole mix through an Alesis compressor to limit it via a Mackie mixer, and a couple of Ensoniq Dp2's, and a Boss Dr660 might appear in there at times along with some various other effect units. All classic stuff!

The second track is pretty much just the Ensoniq ASR, which at the time had a nice Piano and strings sounds that came on a 1.44MB floppy drive. Thats right 1.44 Megabytes not the 2 gig Piano samples you get today.

I used to religiously avoid using 'loops' or sample CD's, though it was the fashion, because I wanted to learn how to do everything myself right down to the last nitty-gritty. so everything you hear is 100% my effort!

there probably isn't much bandwidth so they might not stay up for long, and Im sorry, but since I switched to a PC, I recorded these into it from a minidisc which they are stored on into wma. But if you can listen, go ahead!

REMOVED WMA'S SEE LATER POST

[edit] the first track sound good if you turn up the volume, and the bass, and are off your face on E's

I just tried opening them in iTunes. It works! it takes a few seconds to convert them, but you should be able to hear them, obviously this is itunes on a PC, dont know if this works on a mac?

It seems I can convert these using iTunes into Mp3's

so here they are again

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mysteries/mesinging.mp3
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mysteries/piano3.mp3

There is also this one I did a few years ago using completely software synths from www.refx.net. JunoX2 KICKED ASS but they removed it, but here it is...

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mysteries/monster2.mp3

Celemourn - if you want to host these, thanks

I'll host them for you.

thanks! madhermit

MarcUK's music can be found at:

Http://www.TheMadHermit.com/Music/mesinging.mp3
Http://www.TheMadHermit.com/Music/monster2.mp3
Http://www.TheMadHermit.com/Music/piano3.mp3

TMH

Welcome. Anyone else who needs a host, just private message me and I'll give you an email address to send the files to. I'll toss em up and post the links in here. Just reply to the post I make with the links in it to supply commentary.

TMH

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the story behind these two is that in 95 or 96 I decided to go to college to do Music Tech. It was chaos, because this was the first year that this course had been started at the college, so no-one, not even the tutors knew what was going on. After a few weeks they decided that the course would be we would learn about styles of music from the decades, 60,70,80,90, so we started at the sixties. I was quite excited at the time and wrote these two one night. The next week I left the course because it was shite.

Im not sure the first one is 60's style, i think it would be better as a theme music for some wacky slightly perverse cartoon

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mysteries/pinky.mp3
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mysteries/70s.mp3

these are pretty much the ensoniq - (piano, flute,strings, sax) yamaha sy99 and a dr660 drum machine with a bassStation for the bassline in the second track.

thanks! maybe one day i'll sort my act out and make something of myself.

MarcUK's music can be found at:

Http://www.TheMadHermit.com/Music/pinky.mp3
Http://www.TheMadHermit.com/Music/70s.mp3

TMH

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mysteries/newpiano.mp3

This is the last little piece I wrote a couple of years ago, after a long break from music, just to see if I could, it was using the default piano that shipped with Kontakt, but I didn't like the sound of it, so didn't get very far.

MarcUK's music can be found at:

Http://www.TheMadHermit.com/Music/newpiano.mp3

TMH

Celemourn's music can be found at:

Http://www.TheMadHermit.com/Music/Off-Duty.mp3

TMH

that was played on the Ensoniq, it had a beautiful action on the keyboard, into the sequencer of the SY99. If you listen closely, there are 2 main parts to the piano, theres the main tune, and a kind of counter tune all going on at the same time, there was also probably a few bass notes added by manipulating the sequencer as im not too hot on 2 handed playing. Once I had a few bars down, I usually copied them and tweaked a few notes, so its not like I played the thing all the way through without making a mistake. Then I would add things like the strings, I cant remember if I added those by playing or whether I just added notes one at a time in the step-sequencer. All the other stuff in this was played in to the sequencer rather than sequence editted.

The track monster2 was entirely created within cubase by drawing in the tunes on the screen.

Pinky, and 70's were mostly 'played' into the sequencer on the SY99, apart from the drums which I step entered, but probably at about 20bpm less than the final recording. The arpegiatted flute on pinky was step-entered entirely ad-lib and was quite a suprise to actually find it made a nice tune, no thought went into it at all, it took about a minute to enter 8 bars. Subconsciously Im a genuis

newpiano was recorded into cubase without a metronome or quantizing, its just me playing adlib on the AN1x (which is the only synth I own now), but its still a multitracked piece.

Guys! Just sign up for a free account with iCompositions.com --- they have the free hosting and they can handle the traffic. It's an excellent site.

Oh, yes! I forgot about that...

Neat samples of all kinds o stuff.

MarcUK,
Pinky is cute as hell, but 70's just frickin' rocks. Piano3 is also nice. You have a melodic 'bent'. I too thought my college music program, well, basically sucked, as they were teaching teachers and not writers/performers.

Wish more would admit to using this stuff. Since you can stuff MP3, Aiff, MIDI, files into GB and you also have ba-zillion's of loops to use, there is no shortage of input. There should be no shortage of output.

Paz

Now this looks like a lot of fun

I just posted two songs on iCompositions.

The first one is a quick punk number and the second is a rock version of the wedding march that my wife walked down the isle to. I thought that was pretty cool of her to do so.

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=59959
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=59960

Cool guys. Nice to see more people joining the iComp fold!