Rift
New member
Hey guys. I'm new, and this is my first music production forum. Figured it was about time I tried one of these out.
My name's Rachel, or Rift, although I'm still not sure about the moniker. I'm a 23 year old new producer out of Evansville in southwest Indiana. I enjoy a plethora of genres, especially things heavily influenced by jazz, but lately seem to naturally gravitate towards downtempo music. I'm down for a lot of stuff, though, and if it's instrumental, I'll probably find something to like about it.
After drumming through school during which I had a few friends who were aspiring rappers, I developed a love for creating beats on FL Studio, mostly because I wanted to participate but didn't rap. Melodically the beats were terrible, but I had a lot of fun with it and learned a good bit during my occasional sessions before I unfortunately lost my computer in a move. I subsequently forgot about music for a couple of years. Later in 2015, I decided to revisit my old pastime, but in Ableton, and an amazing new world opened up.
I've had ups and downs in productivity, especially over this past year which has been intensely eventful in my non-music life. After another recent move, I'm now back in a little home studio space and in my element. I'm ready to start churning out music again, but I feel like I'm on a plateau, which is in large part why I've joined the forum. I'm at a point where I know I've only scratched the surface of my program's potential, but I'm not really sure what's next now that I'm starting to feel comfortable with a lot of the basic features. On top of that, musician friends have been constantly reminding me that I haven't played a show yet, and I'm just like 'but how do I even do that?' So, time to quit screwing around blindly doing the same stuff over and over and actually do some productive digging and brain-picking.
I'm looking forward to pulling what knowledge I can from the collective experience on this forum. I'm also really stoked to hear some sick beats. Feel free to introduce yourself and maybe drop some advice for a new producer, any helpful reads that might not already be clearly listed here for me, or just share your music.
My name's Rachel, or Rift, although I'm still not sure about the moniker. I'm a 23 year old new producer out of Evansville in southwest Indiana. I enjoy a plethora of genres, especially things heavily influenced by jazz, but lately seem to naturally gravitate towards downtempo music. I'm down for a lot of stuff, though, and if it's instrumental, I'll probably find something to like about it.
After drumming through school during which I had a few friends who were aspiring rappers, I developed a love for creating beats on FL Studio, mostly because I wanted to participate but didn't rap. Melodically the beats were terrible, but I had a lot of fun with it and learned a good bit during my occasional sessions before I unfortunately lost my computer in a move. I subsequently forgot about music for a couple of years. Later in 2015, I decided to revisit my old pastime, but in Ableton, and an amazing new world opened up.
I've had ups and downs in productivity, especially over this past year which has been intensely eventful in my non-music life. After another recent move, I'm now back in a little home studio space and in my element. I'm ready to start churning out music again, but I feel like I'm on a plateau, which is in large part why I've joined the forum. I'm at a point where I know I've only scratched the surface of my program's potential, but I'm not really sure what's next now that I'm starting to feel comfortable with a lot of the basic features. On top of that, musician friends have been constantly reminding me that I haven't played a show yet, and I'm just like 'but how do I even do that?' So, time to quit screwing around blindly doing the same stuff over and over and actually do some productive digging and brain-picking.
I'm looking forward to pulling what knowledge I can from the collective experience on this forum. I'm also really stoked to hear some sick beats. Feel free to introduce yourself and maybe drop some advice for a new producer, any helpful reads that might not already be clearly listed here for me, or just share your music.
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