Chicago keyboardists
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- mg33
My band is in one of those, how shall I say, "restructuring" modes at the moment.
We are looking for a keyboard/synth player and general soundmaker with really great ideas and influences along the lines of M83, Mogwai, The Cure, shoegazer-esque ambience, cinematic bombast and general filling in the holes, going straight past 11 and right to 15 type of stuff.
Should you happen to know anyone in Chicago that might fit this role, please have them send an email to me at .
They don't neccesarily have to have been in a band before, in fact the right person just might be someone who does their own stuff at home and always wanted to play live. Good reliable gear, infinite sound ideas, and a decent haircut.
Should you know someone, much thanks! :)
- JazX0
d*mn. If I were in Chicago, I'd be interested. hehee keyboard is all I can play. well there's the drum machine too..
- mg330
I wish! I'm hoping it won't be a hard search. The interesting part will be going over the 11 songs we have already and adding stuff in.
Then to get to new songs, that should be fun. I've been listening to M83 so much lately and the stuff just blows me away. To do music like that live is sort of what I'm after.
- todelete__20
mg33, my buddies band used to have a really good girl keyboardist. Kinda the same music. They are the Assembly. Now I think they got a guy.
Next time I talk to Gary I'll ask what she's doing now. She was really good.
- mg330
Haha, Kona, one of my friends said the key to success was getting a hot girl keyboard player, and we'd have it made!
- todelete__20
She was real cute. Def had the look.
- JazX0
I like that analog sounding stuff too mg33
- mg330
JazX,
I don't know too much about that whole electronics realm - but if I were looking to get something simple to use at home for composing stuff, is there anything you could suggest?
Keyboard? Midi controller + software?
- brooke0
I can play a mean tambourine.
- JazX0
well, it's been said before, but I would get something from M-Audio and then maybe Propellerheads' Reason 3.0 and Ableton Live! to mix it. Up to you and your budget bro.
good luck
- JazX0
I can play a mean tambourine.
brooke
(Jan 20 06, 11:46)whoaaaa that's sexy and hi Brooke. Hope you feel better. :D
- mg330
dumb question - but you essentially create sounds with software, and each key is a different pitch of those sounds?
Or...each key is whatever you assign to it?
Or both/either/or.
- brooke0
I can play spoons too. RaaAAARRrr.
*Smooch.
- JazX0
hehee
ok mg33, yeah essentially you can play a soft snyth that has many virtually instruments and many, many effect units and you can trigger those sounds via a MIDI keyboard. you can change octaves in real-time, etc. yep very versatile dude.
- JazX0
you are basically playing notes and the sequencer records them while you do it, you can slice those notes up anyway you see fit, very much like vector but for music
- mg330
Cool, thanks. Never really known how all those gadgets work, I stick to six strings and my throat.
- JazX0
you'd be good with it though if you can play guitar
- mg330
I'm hoping so. Don't have too much money to spend and just want something at home to get the general ideas out.
- JazX0
download the trial version and connect a MIDI keyboard