Friday, December 5, 2008

#26: Making Music Together


The web is filled with music. From people making their own music to people splicing together music with their favorite anime or tv show.

There are different ways for you to make your own music. One of my favorite programs is called Fruity Loops. It's a program alot of music producers use to make beats and sound. One perfect example of people who use this program to its full advantage is Timberland or Pharrell. They exclusive use this program to create loops and beats and somehow come up with very catchy tunes.

The basic program can cost from $49 all the way up to $400 for the most expensive and full featured version.

But there are free options on the internet you can use to make your own music. One of these websites is called Jam Studio:

http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm

You can use this website to use a simplistic but very intuitive display for making your own music. It has different instruments and beats and a music page to make your music. I found it rather easy to make a very simple catchy beat that loops. After I started adding more instruments that's where I found myself spending too much time trying to tweak the song to get everything right. As you can see it will suck you in once you start and it's fun to boot.

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