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Thanks for this topic. I liked it. Actually, I remember the original but had sort of forgotten it, so i might actually spend some time on this. I see nothing wrong with long tracks, and the best bit is time gives you the space to develop ideas. Synths with slowly morphing soundscapes can sort of...

You dont exactly encourage responses, by banging on about what you dont want, but i will give you my responses based on my own experience with cubase on PCs and Macs. Your requirements are very, very modest. At home, my Cubase work switched to macs, for no real reason, to be honest, but in my...

No I'm sorry but this is chalk and cheese. He's a competent pianist, but suffers those horrible sounds from the pad. every time he goes back to the real synth, it's sound blows the pad's sounds out of the water. He clearly is very used to the playing surface, but what he produces is simply...

Musical prowess is easy to spot in any genre, even ones you have no real knowledge of. You can play music at so many levels. Sometimes, some gizmos try to sell themselves on their ability to make wonderful music from lower ability. They rarely do.

I suppose these things are just like harpejji type instruments where you play patterns left right but also up and down. So far my Youtubing of these pad type surfaces has left me a bit lacking in real playing with feeling - all a bit robotic and unmusical.

Phew! I thought it was just me. These things are great for triggering and manipulating sounds, but i dont quite see the point of them over the usual ways of playing music, which are those black and white slatted things you prod.

I totally get how some people would be at home with this kind of music making, but I can't imagine swapping a music keyboard for a pad based solution.

I watched the video, hoping he was going to actually play a melody, but I know that that is the worst ever way to play a cello sound. So many things he turns on or off, with no way to change it. The actual VSTi sounds capable, but that is a ridiculous and tedious way to make music - and none of...

I've never played an ipad as part of making music? I don't think I know anyone who does? - What software would let me experiment with it? Music keyboard and a mouse sum it up really for me?

We're diverting, but hey ho. Cellos, violas and violins can indeed have frets (when double basses have them, they're called bas guitars he he) but you can only have one - so no good for an ensemble, because a string section sounds gorgeous because every player gets pitch wrong. You place a C...

Cellos don’t have frets so to go from a B to a C quickly means a quick slide. Plus of course strong players waggle their fingers. If you enter a B going to C with a music keyboard or worse a mouse, means it doesn’t sound right. The only other thing is the open strings. They cannot ‘wobble’...

Cant stand pitchbend? Then emulating so many instruments is out. I tried.

Try this. All the strings are samples, along with the orchestral instruments, bar one track which is a real stringed instrument and two ‘fake’ ones. Huge amounts of time put in here to make the things as real as they can be.

I like this - although I can see it as background to something like sports, or other fast moving thing? I'm not sure if it's too modern for a British thriller, and not ominous enough for the Long Good Friday, or Escape. It's (to me upbeat, and the repetitive nature is not at all annoying, so I...

I'll give it a go. If you have a great sounding VSTi, you have to play it with the mind of a real player, playing the real thing. Strings are a great example. You probably have 6 or 7 common ways to make the sound. You can pluck it, you can use the bow - but if you bow, do you dig in and start...

The Monet’s piano. No sustain pedal? The arpeggiated piano has the root notes of the chord in it, which usually falls on the beat. Doesn’t have to of course, but it is a convention. The string sound, and strings always need reverb, doesn’t fall on the arpeggio’s beat, and neither does the...

A Beatles song. In my life. Love the music, and the bit of lyrics i knew made it a good choice. Then it became not a good choice. There is a clock ticking, and the hands have a bit of ticking to do, but the tick is getting louder. That sounds like lyrics? Seriously though, I caught my son, on...

Send me a link in a message and I'll take a listen. Happy to point out things you might not have noticed or pinch some good ideas to pass on to my lot!

Do you have anybody who also does this kind of practice routine? I'm thinking you should share it so any bad habits you might be falling into could be caught? I have a friend who sings very weirdly because she sort of got so used to really exaggerated mouth movements, she now cannot sing...

whoa! You posted your songs for critique, and people have actually been pretty nice - critique and criticism are not the same beast. I can't speak for the others, but I listened blind - no preconceptions, as I always do and here, we can be presented with all kinds of material. I hate rap...