i download all my music as i'm quite particular as to who is the conductor and the year of the recording and if it is a concerto, who the soloist is. For example. anything Bernstein conducts is just awful as far as i'm concerned. It makes a huge difference who is conducting as in a way , he is the mixing engineer. Some conductors also fix mistakes in scores or do their own
"remixes" for example Stakowsky.

Classical music isn't perfect and often the conductor has to make alterations so certain instruments cut. This is why you see many editions of works as the composers themselves never really nailed it perfect the first time. Some changes can be drastic like doubling a line with a particular instrument because the original script does not project that melody enough. Lets just say conductors do alot of work that involves more than gay baton tricks.

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yeah ive found 20+ versions of tracks, its really not easy finding the "right" one. some are organ versions of stuff, some are harpsichord stuff and some are even vocal (barf). would be cool to arrange some classical synthetic stuff in logic, i see it has a full orchestra soundset option when starting up. add a little reverb and maybe it works.

not really. To get something realistic, it takes a lot of time. But for composition, sibelius is great as you don't really need a realistic sound. Just a reference as you can imagine how it would sound in real life. OF course it is alot more complicated than that as there are all kinds of conventions regarding orchestration and voice leading but ya, I would suggest a notation program over logic.

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think ill stick to monophonic edm for now

M4B! Got that book borrowed you recommended (Harmony and voice leading). Now it's just that I need to learn a heap of note-stuff, and would like an app in which I could just place notes on the staff and take a listen to it, maybe export a midi to be opened in my daw. Any good ones (free, beginner friendly, windows)?

I'm dazed of all the new information I've tried to feed myself in a couple of days. That book is daunting. TV won't help.

ya actual cognitive learning requires your full attention. I would use sibelius. Also be sure to go over all the paradigms with a piano so you really get the progressions in your head.

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Originally posted by Mad for Brad I tend to watch the daily show , the colbert report, family guy and south park....

Hey, watch your own damn country's shows! Don't you guys have "Canadian Idol, Eh", or "Dancing with the Bears, Eh", or some other lame American ripoff? If not, what about Red Green - is he still alive?

I don't have a TV in the studio, but I've been tempted to get one so I can watch football and hockey while making music - they're the only two things on TV that really get in the way of my studio time. I Tivo Stewart & Colbert so my wife and I can FF through the commercials and see both of them in about 40 minutes every night. I wouldn't want anything else occupying my attention during those two shows anyway.

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I've actually wondered quite a bit if people do this because I have a crazy habit of shutting the tv off/turning it on like 20-30 times throughout the course of sequencing w/e project I'm working on.

I usually first turn it on because I'll have down time where I'm more or less setting up something, or thinking/experimenting/clicking on random shit w/out actually playing any sounds. But it will get quiet in my room and I'll turn the tv on.
Then eventually I get everything set up the way I want and go back into loop mode, playing a loop and slowly adding/adjusting sounds. At this point the tv gets lowered. But then if I wind up playing that loop for a long time, like 20-30 mins straight I shut the tv off to save on energy lol.

I wind up finishing one part of the track, say the clap, then go back to setting up for a new sound or opening/arranging things the way I want so I can do another part. Then it gets quiet again, I turn the tv on, lower it once I start looping, then shut it off all together if the loop is taking too long.

In a way it honestly drives me crazy because I'm never fully into whatever is on tv, except when theres quiet time. Then when I'm ready to start playing again, my focus goes right back to the track. Most of the initial setting up for new parts is all done on autopilot. But I'm persistently switching my focus to the tv during boring/quiet parts of production, and turning it off once I have to loop all the new sounds together and make a new change or progression in the track.

I didn't really read most the response in this thread, just the first, but I thought it was interesting the topic of tv was brought up when in fact it can sometimes drive me out of my mind going back in forth. But I always need some sort of form of stimulation which I think is the real issue. If it goes quiet for too long I get ancy and bored as fuck. If theres too much going on I lose focus, so I'm always going back and forth.

well I have a mac so I can just browse the net and not worry about anything. Actually I have 2 macs now so one can watch TV while the other one does work. I don't actually own a TV/.

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