welcome to the musique synthetique blog

musique synthetique now has a youtube channel.

Youtube as been a great resource over the years thanks to the great how-to videos that so many people have posted/

The first video posted details one of the ways in which I work in Logic.

I can’t really make any promises as to how frequently I’ll be able to post to this blog, but there are plans to use this venue to discuss variety of topics. The most obvious thing to do is to continue with the screen casts, which will hopefully serve some viewers as tutorials on various techniques I use while working in Logic, but hopefully to also detail the creative process of composing and not just focusing on the technical aspects the software. I’ve spent a great deal of time watching videos that people have posted to youtube and have found them incredibly helpful when finding myself stuck trying to figure something out. If anyone has any suggestions for any future screen casts, please feel free to contact us and share your ideas.

This first video shows one of the processes I use for starting a piece of music, which often begins by playing ideas into a track and then taking that information and “exploding” it out into whatever instruments seem most appropriate. For various reasons, I work mostly with software synths and samplers, and while there is the guilt of not using real instruments or musicians, but it gives the flexibility to really have the most editing ability imaginable.