Stagelight is what we call a DAW – a D A W – which stands for Digital Audio Workstation and it’s a fairly inaccurate term that’s taken to mean it has the ability to record audio, record sound, it’s a MIDI sequencer, so it can record notes from a MIDI keyboard and play them back into a synth or MIDI sound module it has virtual sounds – synths and instruments that can be played from a MIDI keyboard and it has a mixing facility to let you mix your tracks and add effects and come out the other end with a single mixed audio file of your music that you send to a record company and become a star – or more likely ends up on a website somewhere that no one ever listens to. There’s a free version that comes with everything you need to start making music.
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So to get started lets get hold of a piece of music software – pop along to and download Stagelight.
The software is your virtual studio into which you create, record and arrange your music and the hardware gives you the physical connections to plug things into it. It’s a multi-track recorder, a score writer, a midi sequencer, a sampler, a virtual sound and instrument generator, it lets you create music, put together songs, arrange and mix your tunes – and of course it can make loops and beats as well – But how do we do any of that? Well we do it with a combination of software and hardware. Note: I did most of this video off-the-cuff so the written version is incomplete but there should be some good info here, but the video gives the most complete picture and of course demonstrations!īut your Surface is just an empty vessel for your music, it’s a blank canvas, an empty page you can make whatever sort of music you like, write whatever you like, compose whatever you like, record whatever you like in whatever style you wish. Well it certainly can be but it can also be this: – notation or this – live music! So when you think about making music on a Surface, or on any computer, it’s very easy to assume that we’re talking about electronic music – about beats and loops and wotnot.