Barely 48 hours left in 2025. A lot of growth, a lot of knowledge. Specifically in the last 13 years (lol how drastic the time change). One main “change” is FruityLoops. From 2012-2022 (10 years), my production was almost EXCLUSIVELY crafted in GarageBand. I would say I got EXCLUSIVE with GarageBand between 2015-2019. Any era of GarageBand, any Mac computer. I still haven’t mastered GarageBand on the iPad.
Since the beginning of 2022, I started back up using FL Studio. At first, making my own loops. Then I got comfortable with FL on Mac and started producing entire albums on it (again). “Affirmative Action” and “Cold Out My Eye” are the top 2 examples of such. I didn’t abandon GarageBand production. I just want to step away from the GarageBand SOUND in my production. Logic can be deceitful, but at least the DAW sound isn’t so overbearing.
This past birthday brought me GUITARS! A Squier Stratocaster and... a *mystery* bass. I call them Pinky (the Strat) & The Brain (the Bass). I have been using them, yes, and I plan to further implement them them into my production. Such being the case, I likely won't be making as many beats. I plan to AT LEAST make a beat a day, but they will be THOROUGH productions. ...as they already are, but most of the musicianship is spent on the sampling. As in, I'm playing the sample. Rather, "playing the *sample*".
Tricky to explain.
All I'll say is, I thank Akai.
I am thankful for Akai.
BIG shouts to The LA Beat Community. I've been watching recap videos from some recent events... I like what I hear! Keep on rockin', yeah!
BIG shouts to Halo (DJH2) for ROCKIN' New York City's underground House scene. You've come a long way, baby! (wonder if he'd catch that...)
HUGE shouts to Sha-leik, who's phone call changed this whole blog post. Wow. To God be the glory.
