This is Mike's music page!!!
| This is a picture of the software that I am using to sequence and mix music on my computer. I use the amazing Roland DC-D70 Sound Canvas Audio and MIDI hub as an input device to my Mac (G4 450 mghz dual prosser). The DC-D70 has such a huge library of MIDI sounds that I don�ft know why I would ever need to buy any real instruments! I am also using a Roland PC-70 keyboard. That makes programming a MIDI song a lot easier because you don�ft have to punch every note and drum beat in with your mouse. The software that you see in this picture is an amazing program from Steinberg called Nuendo. I also use a program called Cubase from Steinberg to do most of the MIDI programming but I found that Nuendo is a lot better program for recording real-time guitar and vocal sounds so I use that as my main mixing unit. |
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Meteor One Mp3
2.6 Megabyte mp3 file |
Here is my first song - Metor One. It took about 90 hours to finish a 2 minute and 19 second song. I didn�ft really know how to use the software wisely when I started this song so it turned out to be a very good learning experience. The picture here is just an image of what I tend to think about when I hear the song. I got it from Visual Paradox. My friends say they picture someone traveling across a vast dessert. Someday I plan on remaking this entire song so that it doesn't sound so "Nintendo-ish". Tell me what you think! |
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Random Element mp3
4.5 Megabyte mp3 file |
Here is my second song: Random Element. This song started out with a few keyboard chords that I liked and turned into a 6 month project of hell. The main technical difference between this song and Metor One is the emergence of drum and vocal tracks. I realized that it is a lot harder than it seems to write a drum track with a mouse button and not knowing where you are planning on going with the song. Another difference is the number of tracks playing at one time. On average, there are about 6 or 7 tracks playing at any one point in the song. Again, this was very difficult to get them to sound good together because I�fm just one guy, not an entire band. However, I�fm really happy with the way Random Element turned out. The beginning and end guitar riffs may seem a bit simple but they were written to fit with the very first sound bit of the song (which I downloaded from the internet). Still, the quality of the sound (perhaps not in this mpeg file though) is much better than Metor One. I created this picture here. View this picture larger I thought a "one" in a world of "zeros" would be a good image for Random Element. Enjoy! |
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 mikebike.mp3 1.5 Megabyte mp3 file |
It's amazing what Eri can do when you give her a mic... :) |
