Neurodust 2025-05-31 23:46:13

My friend downloaded a music program out of boredom and so did I after seeing the potential. It's amazing how accessible this stuff is nowadays. My process is to find a cool instrument, synth, sample and create a basic melody. If after that the ideas start flowing - good. Usually they're not, so I just save those ideas for later (and usually they stay abandoned forever). I'm finding a lot of inspiration in other people's music, in attempts of recreating their style I improve my knowledge about many aspects like sound design, song structures, drum patterns. Even though it's been years since I started, I still don't know which type of music I want to make most, so I just experiment and mess around all the time. It's fun

augmenteduturn 2025-06-01 00:01:28

i started when i was just 13 with a random midi creator i found, but beforehand i had been playing piano (as a hobby, not taught or anything) for a long time and so knew roughly what i was doing when i started
eventually i switched to musescore, then reaper later on, and also with knowledge in programs like furnace tracker
making a song almost always starts with me playing piano and finding a random melody i like, and i throw it into reaper to mess around with it but a lot of times i often get distracted just playing random music with my midi keyboard. but really, the hardest part for me is developing the melody. i may have a great 4 bar melody but then i really struggle creating a b-section or anything of the sort, but one thing to solve that problem (and one thing that every composer has heard before) is just to write literally anything that comes to mind. a lot of it is gonna suck, or a lot of it may just be copied from whatever song you have stuck in your head, but some of it may be really good, and even then, some of it may be really good for the song you're currently working on!
however, actually letting yourself write whatever is really hard, but it's just such an important thing

DARKNNES985 2025-06-01 02:26:04

I felt like it, even if arguably always been interested, and downloaded LMMS, watched some videos and that's that.

As for process, it pretty much changes from piece to piece honestly, although in recent times I've followed something that goes like this, make a section that outlines the whole piece, and develop (add things mainly) it until I finish. Or start by sound designing something and then do the aforementioned. often it is with this later part mixed all throughout since I like sound design.

Art, ideas, and/or feelings I want to express.

Kiraichu 2025-06-01 08:35:03

I first discovered GarageBand (the music program I use) in 3rd grade or so. Ever since then, I’ve always been interested in messing around with stuff in the app but never actually making any music with it. In 2021, I made my first song Aether and uploaded it to Newgrounds.

My process is kinda the same as Neurodust’s. It’s usually creating a melody or chords first and praying whether or not the ideas come in at once. If they don’t, they basically just sit there unfinished forever. If it’s good, then I’ll move on to adding the beats/drums, more melodies, more instruments, and so on. I usually add sound effects to the song while I’m in the middle of creating everything but some I add at the very end.

Finally, my inspiration comes from either art or other music. The AIM (Art Inspired Music) contest on Newgrounds really helped me with producing songs that were inspired by art. It’s a way to put what I feel from the art into other means. Sometimes, they’re inspired by certain events in my life, although very rarely. When I get inspired by music, it makes me want to produce a song in the sort of style the song is. I’ve done that with some of my songs being inspired by people like Orangestar, TOMBOYY, CVllXXX, etc.