The Sky Tunnel Entrance On The Hilltop
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Hi all, im new here and I had a question. My girlfriend and I are both very musicaly driven people, she plays piano and guitar and sings, and i play piano and a range of keyed instruments such as harmonium and organs and such. We are into a whole lot of music, but mostly were influenced by groups like Mum, Sigur ros, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Windy and carl, Stars of the lid, and lots and lots of others. Anyways, recently we've been really wanting to start to write all kinds of music using all our instruments, and also buy some electronics for this kind of thing. To get an idea, here is some things we want to be able to do:
-Record our live played instruments (piano, harp, guitar, harmonium, etc...)
-Record our singing
-Record sound effects from different places and edit them in whatever way we want, such as turning the sound of a tree branch breaking into a minimal filtered beat and such.
-Be able to edit everything we record and equalize everything to make it sound right.
-Produce full electronic pieces, mainly ambient stuff but we want something that can produce all kinds of bleepy blippy beepy sounds too.
I dont even know where to start with all of this, people have told me laptops, software and such but i dont know what kind I should get. I want as much hardware as possible because I have used soft synths and things of the sort and it just doesnt feel real enough to me. Also I have the question - "what does it mean when a synth is 'analog'? " I've read about analog and non analog synths, and I dont understand, also if anyone knows the process of making "homemade synths" i would really love to have some basic explination. I know this is a whole lot of crap but im busting out of my skin with idea's that I can't put into motion. Please help.
Thank you.
-Record our live played instruments (piano, harp, guitar, harmonium, etc...)
-Record our singing
-Record sound effects from different places and edit them in whatever way we want, such as turning the sound of a tree branch breaking into a minimal filtered beat and such.
-Be able to edit everything we record and equalize everything to make it sound right.
-Produce full electronic pieces, mainly ambient stuff but we want something that can produce all kinds of bleepy blippy beepy sounds too.
I dont even know where to start with all of this, people have told me laptops, software and such but i dont know what kind I should get. I want as much hardware as possible because I have used soft synths and things of the sort and it just doesnt feel real enough to me. Also I have the question - "what does it mean when a synth is 'analog'? " I've read about analog and non analog synths, and I dont understand, also if anyone knows the process of making "homemade synths" i would really love to have some basic explination. I know this is a whole lot of crap but im busting out of my skin with idea's that I can't put into motion. Please help.
Thank you.