I'm a musician and have been a musician for over 10 years. Only recently in the past 4 or 5 years have I really gotten into recording myself on a DAW and if I'm being honest, I've gotten to a point where I can really make some stuff I enjoy. It's not always easy, but I can get some pretty banging tracks going.

this sub-lemmy is the only music related community I've seen so far, but I'm curious how many Lemmy users are also music makers? I produce in Ableton and Bitwig, and do everything from Alternative rock to ambiance, film scores, electronic synth stuff. Not going to share any links though because I don't want this to come off as a self promotional post

Really just curious if maybe theres enough of us to warrant some sort of sub-community for music creation chat.

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[–] Pantoffel@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been playing bass again since the event, found out that I'd really missed making music and joined a band. Recently we recorded a few songs but we still have to mix them.

I would enjoy a music-maker community for people to discuss their own and other's creations, the process, advice etc.

[–] Cromutorium@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you find the band you joined? I've been looking to join one myself but have no idea where to look.

[–] Pantoffel@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The guitarist was good friends with other friends of mine, and so we met each other at parties, concerts, festivals and such. After finding out we share a taste in music we sort of decided to jam for the hell of it. That felt good, so he invited a good friend who is a drummer to join up.

Since then we've been looking around for a singer through various ways - people we know, friends of friends, random strangers in bars.

I find I've usually always come to find and do new things through friends and aquaintances. But if you don't have any musicians in your personal orbit, you could try and find places that have open mic night or free jam sessions. Sometimes people will still post musician wanted ads in local record shops as well. And of course there is theoption of searching through the internet, through subreddits for example (or maybe here if the population grows enough.)