Hello everyone, hope you're having a great day! This isn't really an apology but more of an explanation on my I haven't been making any music recently. So, over the past few months, I've started to really lose the love of music overall. I've stopped playing instruments and music composition in general. I've actually started to grow bitter towards music. I'm not too sure, it may be real-world issues affecting my music or just a general disinterest in music. I feel that I'm not improving and that I'm not making any progress in music. So this is an official farewell to everyone who loves my music or knows me on Newgrounds. I'm going to completely get off the platform and focus on other things in my life, I feel that it's time to focus on what's truly important to me and let go of the things that aren't. Goodbye Newgrounds and music in General.
That of course is an absolute lie. I absolutely love music and I will never stop loving it. Everything I said there was false and I am actually preparing to further my music production and quality. I'm planning on experimenting with a couple more genres before I choose two or three genres that I really like making. I know that making songs of different genres all the time is no way to build a community and to keep fans. I've understood that from day one. I'm going to start taking things more seriously and hone in on music genres that I really like.
As some of you may know, I haven't been working on any songs at all this year. The song I posted this year was something I finished last year. The reason for that is that I've been in the mountains learning something new. I've been learning Fl Studio. For the past two months, I've been toying around features and learning how to do genres like Techno, EDM, Lofi Hip-Hop, and Dubstep. Late last year, some family members and friends found out that I do music (they found my Spotify). For Christmas, I got FL Studio as a gift. I've always found Sibelius to be easy to use but very limiting as a DAW. Sibelius isn't meant for making and editing music, it's meant for notation. FL Studio is such fantastic software, it's so free and there's so much to it. The quality of the soundfonts I regularly use has oddly gone up and there are so many new effects I can mess with to make the song go over more smoothly.
This does have some drawbacks, however. I am not going to have to spend a lot more time learning how to do genres I've already done like Orchestral etc. It's alright though because I love learning these sorts of things and I think it would be a fun challenge for me. If any of you know of any cool features or helpful shortcuts in Fl studio, please let me know. It would be very much appreciated.
Take care,
-Tangeroni and Cheese
50Steaks
You had me scared in the first paragraph, not gonna lie
I tried using FL a while back last year. It simply didn’t work out for me; I had the trial version that would delete anything I made, the sounds were really loud for no reason at default, and the learning curve was too much for me to handle. The recent extreme success of Nevada has pushed me even further from going back to FL, and I will stick with the much simpler mobile version that is still very powerful but makes it easier to use. I literally made Nevada in probably like 8 hours total (or less) and I see other artists using fl and spending like 40 hours on every song and it blows my mind how they stick with that. Speaking of which, I should probably go finish my next song.
Tangerine
Haha, I am glad my trick worked. Yeah, I agree that fl studio is very complicated and I have to search up tutorials for very small things all the time. Honestly, I am willing to take time to learn it though. Quality is something I've always wanted to strive for with Sibelius but it simply wasn't an option on there. It was really limiting and simple. It is honestly kind of relieving to have software that has so many options and possibilities. I might just remix some of my older songs and stick to genres I already know for a little while because I think it'll take me a while to figure out genres like Dubstep and EDM. Anyway, have fun on your next song.