Yeah, I’ve been getting into music making again, after a long hiatus. When I was a teenager I spent all my time playing music and messing around with guitars and 4-tracks. Then I graduated to making music with computers in the early 00s, using apps such as Cubase. Then it kinda fell out of favour with me and I stopped doing it.
At the start of the year I bought myself a little telecaster guitar to rekindle some of those memories and I just kept coming up with interesting sounds and riffs and wanted to record them. I found myself plugging the guitar pedals/amp into the computer to record the things I’d been creating. I tried a few audio programs before quickly settling on Ableton Live, which is frankly brilliant.
I’ve made a few pieces of music over the last few months and I find myself really enjoying it again. That said I find the complexity and options available on the PC a bit confusing. I keep harking back to the old days of 4-tracks and a Casio keyboard where I’d produce lots of crazy and inventive stuff with just a couple of instruments.
That has slowly led to the idea of going down the analogue midi route and creating a non-computer way to make music. Also to incorporate a live element into it eventually. I bought the Monologue first to test out the idea and now am all in and I’ve extended it with a few other instruments, such as the drum machine and bass synth. Also I needed to upgrade my little audio mixer as it didn’t have enough inputs.
So yeah, a bit of an extension of what I’ve been doing over the last six months and a bit of an ambition to actually learn this stuff. In the end I want to combine the guitar and the synths and do something interesting in a sort of semi-live way.
That’s the idea.
I’m sure it will all suck. 😅