The Music section on this website was a bit of a afterthought. It was not planned. But of course music is a Art. If there is one "artform" where everyone is now equal it is music. Go back a few years and it completely different. Musicians needed deals with record companies, and often "sold their soul" with terrible deals. Technology was expensive, studio time was expensive, and the technology was nothing like today. I actually started recording by bouncing tracks between two cassette recorders (look them up on Google), but you learnt some good techniques. People often took piano lessons to learn to play and the sort of home keyboard was a cheap Casio or Yamaha toy. If you ask my mother I first got into playing by drawing a keyboard on a plank of wood :)
Then cometh the Digital Age. Synthesizers like the Yamaha DX7 were basically microchips and they came with MIDI sockets, now synthesizers could link with computers. Then the Digital Audio Workstation appeared. Basic software at first and quite expensive. But the moment keyboards and computers could talk to each other changed the way music could be recorded. You could work with music almost like a painter or graphic designer, you could visualise sections and parts and move them, paste them, edit them. Graphically manipulating sound elements made the impossible possible and not just for the elite or wealthy. Recorded music was not only the property of music companies, but became the average persons as well.
Of course, digital meant prices come down the more people wanted it. As for the keyboards, I show photos of my former studios, I was a EDM producer for a few years, and we had stacks and stacks of synths. Have I got them now? Nope, I'm fully software now. All of the keyboard parts in these recordings were done on software synths. Check that technology, you will never look back.
And another massive game changer. The Internet. You have a massive audience out there and search engines prepared to advertise them for you. So have a go if you've never tried recording music. Price: ZERO. There is plenty of great freeware software, that actually would match basically everything played here.
Then cometh the Digital Age. Synthesizers like the Yamaha DX7 were basically microchips and they came with MIDI sockets, now synthesizers could link with computers. Then the Digital Audio Workstation appeared. Basic software at first and quite expensive. But the moment keyboards and computers could talk to each other changed the way music could be recorded. You could work with music almost like a painter or graphic designer, you could visualise sections and parts and move them, paste them, edit them. Graphically manipulating sound elements made the impossible possible and not just for the elite or wealthy. Recorded music was not only the property of music companies, but became the average persons as well.
Of course, digital meant prices come down the more people wanted it. As for the keyboards, I show photos of my former studios, I was a EDM producer for a few years, and we had stacks and stacks of synths. Have I got them now? Nope, I'm fully software now. All of the keyboard parts in these recordings were done on software synths. Check that technology, you will never look back.
And another massive game changer. The Internet. You have a massive audience out there and search engines prepared to advertise them for you. So have a go if you've never tried recording music. Price: ZERO. There is plenty of great freeware software, that actually would match basically everything played here.