But everything else sounds really nice. I still think you should switch to FL Studio, but I think this proves that your compositional skills are improving regardless of what software you're using.
These days I'm mostly attached to Audiotool because I'm just so used to the way it operates that anything else seems foreign. I think I've mentioned it before, but the window-based workflow FL used didn't jibe with me very well-- it never felt natural the way AT or even GarageBand did. I feel like I'd have to kind of force it in order to make anything substantial with it.
There is a Mac version now, though, so I guess my other excuse isn't valid anymore. :P
Garageband is more versatile than people give it credit for. Aside from the VST problem—which is soluble, if you know where to look—it's a very solid basic DAW, particularly if you're using a later version.
Logic is better, natch, but Logic is a demon bear that you must wrestle to submit to your will.
I feel like everyone always ends up checking out my interstitial stopgap releases that I make from compiled material instead of the ones I spend a ton of time obsessing over.
I have been listening to your main projects! I just tend to be more inclined to hop onto things when they drop out of the blue without fanfare. Like, maybe I'm the opposite of most people, but "building hype" tends not to work with me. I like suddenly discovering that an artist I'm following has dropped something just yesterday, or knowing a date in advance and not hearing anything in advance. I like the mystery.
I never really know who's listening and who's not. Very few people actually download my albums and people don't usually talk about them (at least not to me?) so I tend to have to make educated guesses.
A hemiola is the reverse of a triplet: Rather than three accents for two in the underlying beat, it's two or four to every three in the main beat. The guitar sample forms a hemiola with the drum machines at the beginning, I think.
It swings, is what I'm saying. It sounds natural when it all comes in, but before all the parts come in you just have the skeleton and it's this very strange polyrhythm so when it resolves it feels very natural. The second guitar part is more of a conventional triplet thing, so that changes the mood even more, what with it also having a different key feel.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(The other Jane)
Logic is better, natch, but Logic is a demon bear that you must wrestle to submit to your will.
(The other Jane)
What about the guy talking?
I should sample more stuff. Not necessarily other people's recordings but just sounds of my own devising.