How I got Into Music Production
I started out like a great many of people before me. Church. When I was a kid, I used to sit by the pianist and watch her play. Slowly I started picking up on notes and chords. I think the first thing I played, right, was Lean on Me. My mom was impressed by me learning this on my own. One fine Christmas, she bought my first midi keyboard. I practiced and studied day and night. I soaked up anything I could learn about playing these keys. This was all before I went middle school. Now when I did get into middle school, I joined a traveling choir, Greg Drumwright and the Magnificent Voices of Praise. I used to acronym, M.V.P. I learned a little bit about music business being in this choir. We traveled all over the east singing in gospel events, being special guest singers at different churches, performing at Disney. Before I got in the choir they had already performed for Apollo and President Bill Clinton. Greg really knew how to book for quality. I sang with them for a year and then after began to branch off to focus on school. A few years later I started working at a grocery store and saved up enough money for my own laptop. I was born tech savvy. I had been pulling computers apart and disconnecting and reconnecting wires and chips since age 10. It was natural for me. Software was like video games to me. Back in those days everything was on floppy disk or cd. There were however some software’s you could download. Thats when I discovered Magix. It was the first DAW I ever worked with. Oh, I still had that Midi, and then started to produce my own music. I was fifteen years old. The more I learned about Magix the more I wanted to discover if there were any other workstations I could use. And there were. The next workstation I learned to use was Reasons. It was a little more technical than Magix but it sounded better. And recording on Reasons was a lot clearer and the quality at the time was amazing. So, I moved away from Magix and started using Reasons. Three years after I was introduced to a workstation that I would totally fall in love with, Image-Line FL Studio. Fl Studio has been my go-to DAW for the past 24 years. If you can’t already tell I love music, and I love music production. It’s like an addiction for me, or an ex I can’t get rid of. I’ve tried to put it down; said I’m going to retire and everything. But I’m drawn back to it like a moth to a flame. I don’t think I’ll ever stop making music. I don’t think music will ever let me stop. I’m MrComPleXeD a.k.a Dice Noir. Music gave me these names. Music saved me and music made me. Therefore, I am the music.
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