Quai34 wrote:I mean, who is a musician and do it for living only on this website? I have the feeling that most of us have a "Day Job" and that our red keys are our hobby, am I right? I ask that because I think the level of some members, essentially when it comes to create new sounds very fast from scratch are "Pro Level"....
Any post that gets members to open up and share with each other, is a good one.
IMHO, talent transcends "Pro Level" status.
This forum has an abundance of extremely talented members making contributions.
I'm a part time musician (weekend warrior).
I play 20 to 30 club and festival gigs a year.
I think that sound design, patch creation, and sampling is a skill that can be developed and enhanced with practice.
Like any of our musical disciplines, practice makes perfect (or maybe it's only perfect practice that makes perfect?).
The key however, is to practice.
I remember reading an interview of a professional keyboardist. In this interview, he said that the first thing that he did upon getting a new instrument was to listen to all of the presets, then dump them all and start creating new stuff from scratch.
Of course, this was during an era where instruments had 32 patches, not thousands like today.
My point to this rambling, senior moment stageheimers afflicted diatribe is:
The more you work at patch creation, the better and more fluent you will become at it.
The true potential of your instrument is in your hands.
Thanks all for sharing!