See notes below the track link:
Being Still
https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/being-still
IIRC this one is all electronic generated solely within the computer using various VSTs (mostly included in my ancient SONAR, like Z3TA, Dimension, Rapture, etc for instruments, and the Sonitus FX suite for effects, etc).
I'd love any constructive feedback about the pieces. I don't typically have a "plan" for any piece, it grows organically as I compose and edit it, the sound itself driving further creation and editing; the original sound choice(s) usually causing the original composition itself, as I can only play (mostly keyboard, little guitar/bass, little drumpad) by ear and "feel" my way thru a piece. I've been doing it this way since the 1980s (when I used secondhand reel-to-reel tape machines for recording and effects, before I got into computers), though the stuff from back then, even if the tapes can still be played, is unlikely to be worth transferring to a computer and uploading anywhere.![;)]( "Wink")
Pardon any frequency imbalances in the ones done in the last few years, as my tinnitus has gotten enough worse it has probably affected mixing and EQ choices, since there are things I cannot hear over it anymore. If anyone can give specific frequencies, Q/bandwidths, and dB levels to correct in EQ I can try to fix those if they're a problem.
Regarding categorization, etc. as required in the directions for this subforum:
My music is hosted on Bandcamp and Soundclick, and some is up on Soundcloud (but is just a select subset of the other two); they allow streaming playback of anything I have posted there, on the song pages, but I think they just show the song page from links, not the actual file.
If this isn't an allowed way to do it, I'll delete all these posts as I don't have any direct access places to host anything, or time/money/etc to go find one and upload everything to one just to post the links here for listening.
Bitrates/formats:
I don't know what bitrates the sites i put my stuff up on create for the compressed versions of files, as I upload uncompressed and the site(s) make(s) all the other files however they chose to do it, and AFAIK I don't have any way to choose what tags they put in either, other than whatever I type into the fields for the song pages' titles, etc., as they don't have specific places to choose that stuff for the compressed files.
Categorization:
I don't really know what kind of music any of my stuff might be called by others, except that most of those very few that ever give me feedback say it sounds like "stuff that should be in the background of movies or something", so I typically use MotionPictureScenes to describe / label it.
In the very few instances I set out to try to make a particular kind of music (as opposed to the sounds simply leading me to a larger soundscape as creation progresses), I have labelled some of the pieces with that, but otherwise any labelling on any links to the songs is simply because the places I upload to either force or strongly suggest categorizing, or because a listener has said it sounds like that type. So apologies for any miscategorization in my topic titles.![:oops:]( "Embarassed")
It is almost all instrumental, but the "style" varies from song to song partly depending on what sounds were in my head or what sounds struck me as I poked thru an instrument's presets or it's controls, etc.
If anything I say or post musically seems wierd, it is probably because I am autistic so I don't think like most people, and I often enough have trouble understanding others outside of certain narrow technical discussions, so apologies in advance if I do things wrong. Let me know what the right way is and I'll try to do things that way if possible.
Being Still
https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/being-still
IIRC this one is all electronic generated solely within the computer using various VSTs (mostly included in my ancient SONAR, like Z3TA, Dimension, Rapture, etc for instruments, and the Sonitus FX suite for effects, etc).
I'd love any constructive feedback about the pieces. I don't typically have a "plan" for any piece, it grows organically as I compose and edit it, the sound itself driving further creation and editing; the original sound choice(s) usually causing the original composition itself, as I can only play (mostly keyboard, little guitar/bass, little drumpad) by ear and "feel" my way thru a piece. I've been doing it this way since the 1980s (when I used secondhand reel-to-reel tape machines for recording and effects, before I got into computers), though the stuff from back then, even if the tapes can still be played, is unlikely to be worth transferring to a computer and uploading anywhere.
Pardon any frequency imbalances in the ones done in the last few years, as my tinnitus has gotten enough worse it has probably affected mixing and EQ choices, since there are things I cannot hear over it anymore. If anyone can give specific frequencies, Q/bandwidths, and dB levels to correct in EQ I can try to fix those if they're a problem.
Regarding categorization, etc. as required in the directions for this subforum:
My music is hosted on Bandcamp and Soundclick, and some is up on Soundcloud (but is just a select subset of the other two); they allow streaming playback of anything I have posted there, on the song pages, but I think they just show the song page from links, not the actual file.
If this isn't an allowed way to do it, I'll delete all these posts as I don't have any direct access places to host anything, or time/money/etc to go find one and upload everything to one just to post the links here for listening.
Bitrates/formats:
I don't know what bitrates the sites i put my stuff up on create for the compressed versions of files, as I upload uncompressed and the site(s) make(s) all the other files however they chose to do it, and AFAIK I don't have any way to choose what tags they put in either, other than whatever I type into the fields for the song pages' titles, etc., as they don't have specific places to choose that stuff for the compressed files.
Categorization:
I don't really know what kind of music any of my stuff might be called by others, except that most of those very few that ever give me feedback say it sounds like "stuff that should be in the background of movies or something", so I typically use MotionPictureScenes to describe / label it.
In the very few instances I set out to try to make a particular kind of music (as opposed to the sounds simply leading me to a larger soundscape as creation progresses), I have labelled some of the pieces with that, but otherwise any labelling on any links to the songs is simply because the places I upload to either force or strongly suggest categorizing, or because a listener has said it sounds like that type. So apologies for any miscategorization in my topic titles.
It is almost all instrumental, but the "style" varies from song to song partly depending on what sounds were in my head or what sounds struck me as I poked thru an instrument's presets or it's controls, etc.
If anything I say or post musically seems wierd, it is probably because I am autistic so I don't think like most people, and I often enough have trouble understanding others outside of certain narrow technical discussions, so apologies in advance if I do things wrong. Let me know what the right way is and I'll try to do things that way if possible.
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