May 2012 - Composer's Toolbox

Tool #34: Tips for fitting music to a specified time limit

DanLisMusic Posted on May 24, 2012

I have been working on two projects that demand that I fit my music into a specified time length. While one is a film trailer that requires precise timing, the other is an audiobook that requires less precise timing. With the help of Logic I can manipulate beats and tempo for fitting music precisely for […]

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What’s wrong with having a day job?

DanLisMusic Posted on May 17, 2012

Ideally, everyone could make a living doing what they love. This would mean that musicians could make a living doing solely music, for 100% of the time they would spend if they had a job in an office, on a construction site, or in a laboratory. But, the worldwide economy is in the doldrums, and […]

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Tool #33: Know Your Audience

DanLisMusic Posted on May 10, 2012

It’s inevitable: we all will write different music for different audiences. Whether we’d prefer all our music to be heard only by professors, or people in bars, or moviegoers, it is unavoidable that our music will be heard by different people, and particularly, different groups of people. So, one key issue in the inception of […]

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Tool #32: Use Plugins Wisely

DanLisMusic Posted on May 2, 2012

Lately I have been using Logic more because I have been doing a bit of incidental and film trailer work. Logic, like all other major DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), offers a breadth of tools to maximize possibilities and enable the user to create precisely fine-tuned sounds. However, all of this possibility can lead to overuse. One essential […]