Does anyone know how these images are made? They seem amateurish so I imagine they'd be easy to imitate but it's outside my wheelhouse.
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Personally, I just went in with no knowledge and fiddled around in LMMS, song is my work. The hard part is knowing what the combined timbres will sound like, so I think it's best to focus on one sound, like piano or drum and bass, and gain experience until it feels intuitive, then mix in more timbres. As a beginner you'll probably find there's a narrow comfort zone where you can work, and you've just got to expand out from there; looking for an instrument for the notes, instead of notes for the instrument, is a trap I've seen others fall into. It's common that you put slight inflections and timing changes on tunes you imagine or find while jamming, and then when you convert it to another medium there's a lot of hidden changes in the complex differences in instrument and performance. You can record samples and play them at different pitches as a series of notes in LMMS, or create and export a synthesized sound and use it as a sample, but you can only have one sample per channel so you'd need to record a long hold compared to a quick strum, for example, and do the note roll on different channels -I don't know if there's a program that does it better. LMMS can also output in different bitrates of mp3, ogg, or wav; you don't want to get stuck in proprietary formats. I like SSH and Demetori but I've only found myself writing piano-like music. I kept wanting an instrument that sounded like wind to go with, and I finally found one. It'll probably be a while before I can make something like SSH but by the time I'm there it'll probably sound interesting.