Re: First timer...

[Rich <rich@nuvision.com>]

I like this e-mail list and all, but what on earth is this doing here?
Jeez, make up your own mind, and your own music.  What are we going to tell
you that you aren't going to have to try yourself anyway and see if it 
works?

Try this, do the dnb at at least 250, and the hipsters will be forced to
come up with some new obscure 'genre splitting' name for your new style!  


At 01:04 AM 1/12/00 GMT, you wrote:
>Here's my deal.
>
>I'm interested in making an unholy industrial / drum 'n' bass hybrid sort 
>of 
>music, but first I need to understand some things about each...  I am 
>using 
>Fruityloops TS404 (v 1.7.6) with Goldwave and Soundforge to sample, and 
>Simsynth, Drumsynth, and Subsynth to create cool sounds.
>
>1.  What's the "best" tempo for recording what I want to create?  I find 
>that fairly speedy Industrial clocks in at 140 bpm, and I read somewhere 
>that dnb clocks 180 or above.  Should I go for a median, or just do a dnb 
>speed like 170 and improvise on really fast industrial parts?
>
>2.  Are there any good, free, and really wicked samples out there?  I've 
>used up Analogue Samples, Kalava, and Samplenet.  How about some free 
>Synth 
>software (can't have too much)
>
>3.  Can anyone write up a couple of example melodies that would be used 
>for 
>a synth or bass line in dnb?  I guess written in standard notation would 
>be 
>nice, but if you can't, just do "Do, Ra, Me, Fa..." etc.
>
>That's about it.  Thanks a lot.
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