New to Taxi and the forum...
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:50 am
Hi everyone,I must admit that I'm like a kid in a candy store at this point...new to Taxi and new to the forum. Don't know where to go and what to choose next. Hard for me to imagine the wealth of knowledge represented here. And as for the music that some members are doing, well let's say that I am severely impressed! So much so in some cases that I wonder if I belong here at all. I have a long ways to go to reach the bar in some cases.Anyway, thot I would take the time to introduce myself as I have written several posts and no one knows who this mystery writer is. I have been involved in music since I started accordion lessons at age 10. That was 45 years ago, so now you know how old I am. About 20 years ago I wrote a few tracks for a production library in Buchanan, MI. It was a fledgling then, but has since grown to be a large company. For reasons I would rather not disclose the relationship with that company sort of went out the window. I was hooked, back then but if you didn't live near a music Mecca, you had almost no chance of making a living doing this kind of work. When I started the Atari ST (with 1 meg of RAM) and Notator software was the Cadillac of the midi world. There was no such thing as actually recording audio to your computer though such things were fantasized about in a Jules Vernish sort of way. Back then you synched up your computer by way of SMPTE time code to someone's 16 track tape machine and dumped midi tracks at a whopping 4 per pass onto tape. Then you mixed. If you could find someone with a 24 track, you were living high. A 4 track cassette Portastudio was a home studio then. The idea of actually burning CDs at home was ludicrous as the equipment would have probably cost as much as your home! As for transferring files over the internet...let's just say that Federal express was a lot busier then. Anyone besides me old enough to remember those days?Anyway to make a long story short, things have changed dramatically since those early days of midi! With digital recording and the internet, it is now possible to do what I dreamed of 20 years ago right here from my home. I have been following Taxi since it's inception in the early days when those "in the know" warned of such "rip off con artists". They were often referred to as song sharks. Now I'm not so sure. After reading the success stories and the forwards, I am convinced that maybe I made a mistake by not joining Taxi long ago. What really sealed my decision was the encouragement I received from a local guy who is a frequent poster on the forum. He got forwarded and signed. I thot, if he can, maybe there's a chance for me.I am hoping that I can contribute to what some of you are doing by way of a listening ear from time to time, though I am a bit of an old fogey. I have a hard time figuring out if stuff fits into certain categories, for example Hip Hop, Trip Hop, it's all the same to me. But, I have an experienced ear and know the elements of good music are still the same: Rhythm, melody, and harmony mixed in with a dose of contrast and logical form. Top it off with a good mix and you've got a winner! Hoping to get to know you better on the forum.Best regards, David Doolin (aka Keysman)