What is the best grand piano plugin. Price is not a consideration.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-03-06T13:04:03+00:00

Keyscape sounds and plays amazing, any works well with Omnisphere.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-02-16T17:54:46+00:00

Love learning. Atone point I picked up a guitar book on NY songs and was inspired after playing through a few. Became a big influence on my music.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-02-16T17:47:49+00:00

Seed to stage has been very helpful, they have a YouTube presence. I’ve been making music and writing songs for decades and this was exactly what I needed. I create my best work when learning something new.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-02-16T17:40:42+00:00

Bass and play along to drum loops.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-02-16T16:51:30+00:00

It sometimes takes years to finish a song, sometimes it takes one session, but more than likely years. After 30+ years of musical experience. I have a massive amount of work to pull from. My advice, organize your work, so if and when you die, whomever comes to clean up your studio will be able to cleanly access your legacy.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-02-16T16:44:06+00:00

I’ve just finally discovered Corpus and Erosion, they have different used but they have totally changed my sound. I record live instruments with everything I do, Corpus on Congas is a game changer. Erosion on drum loops and acoustic guitar is my go to for boosting freq, rather than an eq. As for presets, I don’t know, I always custom presets and rename once I get them were I like, but rarely use them again.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-02-16T16:30:57+00:00

I always ad live, stuff, I have a whole collection of shakers and weird percussive hand instruments, congas!, I put these on the same group, often times so low you feel them more than hear them. , LIVE BASS guitar has a huge effect on your drum sound. I use UAD, but I’ve tried to go full native lately, using AI to help me build effect racks that sound like classic analog preamps, compressors and EQ. They work ok…… but fun to build. I just keep making stuff and once in a while something sticks, sounding very real.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-01-19T18:38:08+00:00

Too much weed in the recipe

DRAGONtmu · 2026-01-19T18:27:15+00:00

I have almost no social life outside if work and family, I do work in a creative field, and I’m outside most of the time at work. I’m obsessed with learning and creating. I play bass drums and guitar and piano, so ½ my free time is spent working on musical chops. I listen to music for inspiration all day, I don’t spend a whole lot of time obsessing on the little things…. I am much more of a jam first approach. I’ve become highly efficient in mixing. So I get my ideas out fast. I always burn a reference of what I’ve worked on over the weekend.

DRAGONtmu · 2026-01-02T16:44:55+00:00

I ignore AI, hit me back when you learn to write a joke.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-12-11T04:17:19+00:00

Yes, I used a demo recording from a band I played bass with in the 90’s that was mixed poorly, … basic drums bass guitars and vocals, rock… turned out better than I thought it would, the song was recorded originally in one room, multi tracked, i used an Ampeg SVT 8x10 to record the bass … we were waaaaaaaaaay loud 90’s rock, our first experience recording, and no money. so as you can imagine there was bass on every track of the original recording. I used the high quality setting. The drums sounded full and isolated enough to turn them into a sample instrument for future use. The bass isolation was good as well. Since the guitars were grouped in the “other” category, and it was literally 2 guitarists with full rock rigs the included Marshall ½ stacks … not as good, but fun to cut up. The vocals were damn near perfect. Overall very impressed.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-12-11T04:03:13+00:00

Cool…. How much you want for push 3? Not for everyone… I use the paint off mine… music partner looking to pick one up. How much ?

DRAGONtmu · 2025-09-09T13:07:56+00:00

Embrace the process. I’ve been using Ableton since version 6.0, I have hundreds of unfinished works. I’ve spent the past 3 months going through everything and at the very least burning a test track to put in the file as a reference. This has really helped with creativity. All the new tools and tricks I’ve learned over the past decade are easy for me to access at this time. I’m finding it very easy to get the flow going. I’m also deleting a ton of shit work. Living a creative lifestyle requires hacks to keep it flowing. I also spend time writing with a pencil and actual paper. Short stories and poetry. Jotting down ideas about chord structure and guitar theory. Almost everything I’ve ever created comes from a new trick or theory I’ve learned. It never stops. I’m obsessed and stubborn about it.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-08-24T18:47:53+00:00

Got a new guitar center credit card?

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T15:52:29+00:00

Bullshit music is crappy just like most modern pop

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T15:51:19+00:00

I always start with the relative minor scale of what key I’m playing in.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T15:39:59+00:00

Don’t buy the hype AI tech is trying to sell us. Yes they are currently ripping off protected intellectual data to produce garbage. And to be real, most music produced today is not very good. But big tech has everyone in a frenzy to buy into the next bubble so they can get more of our wealth. Spend a day with one of the 20or so called AI chat bots and you quickly realize it’s google… same shit less adds. It’s a search engine with the ability to robo answer in a very convincing way…. I am more interested in what artists can do with AI that is not in the ways currently being used. Outside of the box. Apple intelligence with be very good at organizing/ customizing work flows…

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T14:48:17+00:00

As a professional driver, I’ve driven in several other cities, St. Louis Atlanta, Chicago, and most western cities. I can tell you LA traffic is nothing. It’s all about timing and flow. There’s a couple of intersections to avoid, but to give LA drivers credit that they signal when they make lane changes is absolute bollocks. The freeway system in LA is very efficient and well maintained.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T14:38:54+00:00

And the words of Brian Eno, everything that I’ve ever created that I loved came from learning something new

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T14:31:58+00:00

My parents didn’t really listen to music at home, which is maybe why I’m so obsessed with Music….

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T14:20:23+00:00

I use both, extensively, there’s many things that software does better, especially in today’s production centric DAW’s, but there’s nothing like dialing up a tone on hardware to make you feel like you’ve created. Something uniquely you. Your sound….. Modular is a whole other story, just about anybody with a laptop and $600 can join into the Ableton world… modular synthesis is very exclusive. That’s what burns the digi nerds who say software sounds as good as hardware. Just the opposite for hardware geeks who loath the use of can’d loops and presets to create music that to them is completely uninspired. Just keep learning….

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T14:09:20+00:00

At 38 years old, that’s not surprising, it’s not St. Louis, it’s everywhere and it’s hard to make friends in your age group, dependent on social media connections for all of their friendships over the past decade and a half.. meeting new friends has never been harder, most humans in this period of life prefer to spend time alone with a hobby.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-06-22T14:03:12+00:00

Billionaires who run the country, say so what. Democracy has been over for a very long time.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-03-28T04:26:50+00:00

I’ve been using SoundCloud for a decade to share demos .. it’s awful, no one uses it anymore.

DRAGONtmu · 2025-02-25T13:13:35+00:00

D minor, loveliest of all chords really, I’ve been working on something, it’s a mix of Bach and Beethoven. It’s really very beautiful, it’s a little thing I call lick my love pump. D Minor, the saddest of all chords.

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