I made a new track

[anime4christ]

Before yesterday, I made a new track, since I had a little time on my hands. My brother got the idea of playing it while they were showing the slide show of photos from my dad's life at church yesterday (even though I didn't write it for that) and my mom thought it was a good idea. So, they played it yesterday, and though I was kind of nervous about it, seems that most people liked it. Well, I decided to post a link here if anybody wanted to listen to it. I will warn you guys though that it has at two points a distorted brass section which sounds a bit similar to an electric guitar, but no beats (meaning drums) or anything. Hope you guys don't mind that. I didn't want to post it at first because of that, but a friend from OB (who hates CCM btw) liked it and told me to go ahead and post it.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInf ... ID=5128593

[rwilson]

That's Awesome!!!!!

Bob

[kevinmiller]

Sounds cool. I know I've asked before, but what do you use to make it? And do you compile and arrange pre-recorded loops?
I use Garageband to write stuff and that is how I typically do it.

[anime4christ]

Thanks. I use FL Studio (sorry, doesn't run on Mac, Kevin. I use a Virtual Machine running XP under Linux). I did all the composing and arranging (with God's help of course, I don't know music theory that well yet and I pray before composing. LOL) myself. None of it is pre-recorded, unless you count sampling (recordings of individual notes, such as 1 note on the piano).

[kevinmiller]

Sweet. Do you have a keyboard then? I find it extremely difficult to play an on-screen keyboard which is my biggest limitation.

[anime4christ]

No, I just arrange the notes on a piano roll and a step sequencer with my mouse. I could also use my computer keyboard, but I rarely do.