Santana

Jeff Beck

Mahavishnu Orchestra


Music can reach your heart.

Taste is subjective. The end.

Electrophobe. Electronic music can be as deep, engrossing, powerful and emotional as any other form of music, it's just that it gives talentless morons the ability to come up with uncreative tracks really, really fast and easy. Utilized properly though and electronic music is amazing. A synth is capable of generating a new sound nobody has ever heard before. That's much more exciting than straightfoward rock tracks that bore me nowdays [and there are very, very few things happening in the conventional rock genres these days that would disprove the fact that it's in a severe state of stagnancy and has been for many years]. Good electronic bands have no two tracks that sound the same. In that respect it's a much more varied and much more open ended form of music than the basic package of guitars, drums and bass.

Also, about taste being subjective, true, but some people simply have not tasted enough. Plenty of the pop acolytes will grow into different music tastes as they get older. Mark my words.

Jedward. :D

Producing an electronic track is very difficult and time consuming and requires just as much creativity and knowledge. You take a look at any DAW, and you'll understand why.

Ah yeah, I agree with that but don't want to sound like a snob, you know?

Jan Hammer on Synthes is Cool
he also is a Drummer.

Herbie Hancock on Vocorder is Cool.

Yes Stu good Electronic music is good.

But there is so much junk about.

Get in the Groove

3 Guitars
Bass
Drums
Keyboards.

Exactly. It can be incredibly tedious business. Cubase gave me nightmares for a good while. Thank god for Reason and Ableton.


Yeah that's the problem. See virtually anyone can start making electronic music on a computer on their own, and upload it online, so your getting a sea of junk.

How easy are those programs to work with Stu? Love to have a go at one of them.

I've just started on FL Studio 9. This program infuriates me at times.

The closest i've ever gotten to making music is Music 2000 for the PS1 :laugh: I'd like to give it a try though.

I think I had that. Good times. :x

I used to be a little musical demon at it :laugh2:

Tough out to master but plenty of YouTube tutorials around.
FL gets dismissed as basic quiet a lot but it depends what VST's you are using. Get the right ones and you can make some brilliant sounding stuff on it. I find FL is best for more formulaic, structured tracks like Trance.

As long as you like this i will love you

I'd have the patience for it once there's some kind of tutorials online for them and I can do it in my own time. Just saw what my cousin is doing with them over in the States and it's very impressive.

Not at all- most of my music is made up of albums from bands I've heard in clubs etc, and if I hear a song by a mainstream artist in the charts sometimes I'll see what their album is like

Leona Lewis.

what the hell

If its in my opinion is good.
EG. I happen to like loads of dance club music, and electro beats, along with RnB, Hip Hop, and a few Indie songs, so its quite varied.

Another example, I like Calvin Harris music as his music is very eletric and positive, but on the other hand some people may hate him.

Jack_ likes this :D

:D
He's probably the only artist out of a lot, that all his released songs I think are great.
"Acceptable in the 80s", "The Girls", "Merrymaking at my place", "Im Not Alone", "Ready for the weekend", "Flashback" and "You used to hold me"... all brilliant IMO, but people might laugh at me :D

There isn't really such a thing is good music taste IMO. It's like saying someone has a good taste in food, we all like different things.