bedroomsessions

Hey all. Whilst I do not actually play drums I'd love to include them in my music. I have a MIDI keyboard and a program that allows you to play drums on the keyboard. However, as I said it's MIDI, and the sounds are frankly terrible and pretty limiting.

The plus point of it is that it's easy to get timings as you're "hitting" the drums in real time. I also use Acoustica Beatcraft and whilst being a great program it is very time consuming to create extended tracks.

Does anyone know of any programs that use real-time MIDI inputs but have a better sounding and extensive sample library? Thanks!

Hey everyone. Recently I've been getting into jazz music in a big way. I love how free and cool it sounds, and would love to play. Unfortunately I know little about the theory behind it and would appreciate it if someone could post some information or websites on it! Thanks!

Literally wrote this little ditty in five minutes and thought I'd record it and touch it up a little.

I'd been listening to The Bends on the way back from work, and for some reason really noticed the falsettos. Thought I'd try and combine the essence of that with a jazz-sounding piece. I may expand upon this at some later date but I just wanted to get something done in the meantime!

This was a quick instrumental piece I did with a few leftover bits of various songs. I'd been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd prior to this track and I think it shows. I'm really not sure how to expand upon this track so I reckon it would be a great intro song.

Really wanted to bring out the bass in the song but unfortunately it either distorted horribly or sounded crap. So turn that bass up!

An instrumental song I wrote for a girlfriend of mine. Dug the MIDI file for this up the other day and ran it through Melody Assistant to see what it sounded like.

I'm still pretty proud of this, despite there only being a guitar and violin present. Still, I think it's a good instrumental track.