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"More free music!"

Yup, there's not some more new tracks for you to sink you're teeth into at


www.this-side-up.biz or just [URL]http://www.this-side-up.biz[/URL]

As usual, all feedback gratefully received.

Cheers!

Cheers for the tip monkey, but I'm not really interested in getting that serious with it. It's just like a hobby I suppose - one that I'm not going to spend lots of money on...

I've got a mate who writes and produces dance music and recently charted. It's not my bag, but he actually puts lots of effort into his work which makes it stand out from the rest of the duffers about at the moment. You might want to invest/"discover" some decent software, and maybe some recording equipment for live stuff - it all helps.

Well doen you :-)

And I'm totally a better person for not bringing in colour.

Discrimination.

:¬P

Haha, you're red and I'm gold.

Ner ner :-)

Hey Your Honour, i finally got on this thing, i`m the owner of the This-Side-Up.biz website. Also author of the First Approach track! I`m planning on doing a few more chilled tracks so i hope you don`t realise those are playing when you are listening to them either!

I aint actually listened to your tracks yet, but I just thought I'd recommend [URL]http://music.depthcore.com/?p=music[/URL] this as something to check out. Most of the early packs wont have any music in (they are primarily 3d abstract artists) but the later ones have some nice songs in. I'm 99.9% sure Crunch uses fruity loops for his tracks and I personally like them quite a lot.

Fruity Loops is great, it's got LOADS of fun things to play about with and it'll happily run most virtual instruments. What it lacks is a decent copy & paste feature and timestretching software, if it had those it'd be the best thing around. As it is I have two programs for timestreching so all I have to do is match the BPM of the other programs to my fruityloops tune and it stretches fine.

I'm using fruityloops 3, there's been quite a few updates along with fruityloops studio. I'm betting that the studio version has a copy & paste function which'd speed up creation a lot.

It's easier than using Reason although I haven't given Reason much of a chance since I got it - it's very fiddly and trying to get things exact with the mouse can be quite a chore.

If you're making mainly sample based tunes I'd recommend Making Waves or Acid as they both use timestretching software.

If you have a midi keyboard then Fruity Loops and Reason can make use of that.

Fair.

What's fruity loops like? I've heard of it, but never used it....

Your Honour wrote:
> How come?

Mass market samples and a lack of serious music making tools. I always enjoy using Ejay to make some kickass stuff, I'll put some up at some point.

I also have Reason, Fruity Loops, Making Waves etc etc.

When I sent in some tracks I'd made using Ejay they basically said 'These are blatant Ehay samples but you have good ideas and are rerady to move up the production scale".

So like I say, they seem to frown on the ol' Ejay.