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KISS - Make Electronic Music - Keep it Simple Stupiid and Fun

Make Electronic Music - Keeping it Simple and Fun

If you are looking to make electronic music with your computer then you will probably need a piece of software that can make this happen for you.

Making music online or with music making software need not be a complicated or expensive endeavor by any means. If you are somewhat new to the music making scene then you really want to keep it as simple as possible in the beginning. Making your own music should be fun...remember that!

While there are endless choices for a music making software program you would be wise to ease into this (some programs can be a bit difficult to learn) unless you are a musical whiz with tons of experience...of course if this were true then you probably wouldn't be reading this article.

The main points to consider when researching your choices in music software are as follows:

Library: Your software choice should include a wide variety of beats already installed. Some programs come with only a couple of styles or genres and then charge you for additional beats...this can add up quick.

Ease of Use: The software needs to be fairly easy to use; something a beginner can navigate through with relative ease. However, you should expect at the very least, a small learning curve.

Price Tag: This one is obvious. If you are just starting out making your own beats then you really want to do this as inexpensively as possible until you are ready to "step it up". Don't think for a minute that it will costs hundreds of dollars for a quality piece of music making software.

A quality music making software program that is very inexpensive is a good thing. A high quality piece of software for making music that is inexpensive and is also easy and fun to use is a very, very good thing.

All of your ideas for your own music need to be able to flow freely from your head through your software program so you can bring them to life and be able to hear them so you can get your beats just right. The last thing you want a this point is to get bogged down with a complicated interface. Keeping this part simple allows your creativity to flow.

The biggest point to remember is this: Keep it fun! If making your own music seems too difficult, you will probably avoid it. But if the right piece of software makes it fun to create your own beats then you may just forget to eat (you know what I mean?). We like to do fun things...period.

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Don't Let Criticisms Of Music Crowdfunding Stand In Your Way

Don't Let Criticisms Of Music Crowdfunding Stand In Your Way 不要让批评的音乐Crowdfunding支架，在你途中的

By Clyde Smith
 

Though a variety of people, some of them undoubtedly well-intentioned, have criticized music crowdfunding over the last few years, their criticisms generally fall flat. Ranging from namecalling to misrepresenting financial reality, such criticisms indicate objections that are fairly limited and fail to recognize crowdfunding's emergence as a legitimate approach to funding.

 One could simply reject all criticisms of music crowdfunding as beside the point as does Bemuso below. And the bottomline is that no one's required to pledge to a campaign.   Bemuso Takes a Clear Stance But criticisms do represent claims that may pop up randomly in the course of crowdfunding and it's nice to know why they don't represent a credible threat to the legitimacy of all that hard work you're doing. It's In Bad Taste, Like Panhandling! When people attack crowdfunding with name calling, it usually reveals their misunderstanding of crowdfunding.

Calling it panhandling or handouts is an attempt to give crowdfunding an air of randomness and illegitimacy. But pledge/reward-style crowdfunding as practiced on Kickstarter, Indiegogo and PledgeMusic by musicians, is an odd hybrid of presale and patronage that is based on the voluntary participation of individual supporters who typically receive a reward for their pledge. That seems neither random nor illegitimate. How Can You Ask Your Fans to Pay For the Process? A corollary to this concern might be an objection to the self-publishing aspects of crowdfunding but that's more an issue in literary circles than in music.

However both tend to focus on the idea that only certain sources of money are appropriate as funding sources. But crowdfunding's disruption is that of unleashing the crowd, the audience, one's army of fans, and allowing them to fund what they wish to receive rather than waiting to buy what they're eventually offered.

It's a powerful concept that strongly differs from the idea that only those with plenty of money should be able to decide what's available to fans. But There Are No Guarantees With Crowdfunding! It's true that crowdfunding platforms don't offer refunds, they simply facilitate transactions, and it's true that some people will take advantage of those platforms to defraud funders.

To some degree that's simply natural. Put humans and money together and such things happen. Though it's true that bands have been funded and couldn't complete projects, most of the big failures have come from gadgets that were incredibly overfunded and yet not really ready for producton or that miscalculated the costs of production. Music ...read more