Amine, Thanks for listening and glad you enjoyed the piece. I just listened to one of your songs, Some Day, the first one on the list, very nicely done and enjoy to listen to, with a nice clean mix.
 
As for what I do, because of my cancer my fingers tingle 24/7 and I can't play any of my guitars, drums or keyboards anymore, so everything I do is sequenced from nearly $15K worth of files I have purchased/collected or created with my instruments or virtual instruments over the past 25 years. I have been trying to sell of my instruments, because my type of cancer is terminal, but is very, very slow growing and who knows, maybe they will come up with a cure soon.
 
Anyway, hope you will go to my site and listen to more.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

theguitarplayer
Amine, Thanks for listening and glad you enjoyed the piece. I just listened to one of your songs, Some Day, the first one on the list, very nicely done and enjoy to listen to, with a nice clean mix.
 
As for what I do, because of my cancer my fingers tingle 24/7 and I can't play any of my guitars, drums or keyboards anymore, so everything I do is sequenced from nearly $15K worth of files I have purchased/collected or created with my instruments or virtual instruments over the past 25 years. I have been trying to sell of my instruments, because my type of cancer is terminal, but is very, very slow growing and who knows, maybe they will come up with a cure soon.
 
Anyway, hope you will go to my site and listen to more.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

I'm very sorry to hear that John. My thoughts and prayers go out to you. I'll be hoping for that cure to come along soon. All I can say is keep doing what you're doing, it's awesome. I'd love to know how you manage to work with that many files, that's crazy. Anyway, I wish you all the best.
 
Amine

Amine, Well, to tell you the truth, I, myself, don't even know how I work with all of these files. They are all stored on my computer and backed up to a 3 TB memory drive. When I start a piece of music, I go to these files and start to listen to them to see if I can find what is appealing to what is playing in my mind, based on a video in my minds eye. You may notice that one of my statements is: I try to created music that goes along with the title of the song, thus the video in my minds eye helps me come up with the title. Listening to the file I own can take days and I write them down and when I'm ready, I choose a tempo and beat I think will work for what I want to do, then I convert the music pieces to my selected tempo/ beat and then I start to arrange them on how ever many tracks it takes to create a wav. file. This can take hours or some times days to get everything into proper perspective so it ends up being an actual completed piece of music. It takes time to adjust everything in the mastering process and is very time consuming, but for me it is all worth it. Look at it this way: How mush do you think it would cost me to hire professional musicians to play all of these instruments to create these musical creations I have done? It would be in the thousands for each and every piece. My file are for as long as I live, with all rights to create musical pieces and even to sell them if I like, but I have gotten some good prices, on sale, when purchasing these file, over the years, and for the virtual instruments, as well. So, there you have it.
 
Also, thank you for your prayers, they are very much welcomed and appreciated.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Tony, I must of had a brain lapse or something and missed replying to your wonderful comments and the fact that you enjoyed this piece so much. Well, thank you so much for listening and for your kind words and thoughts. The pigeon in the hole is not U2 or Jan Hammer but my version of, What really happened to the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah, and what music might give vision to my thoughts of that experience. You have listened to my work before and know that each piece I work on is an adventure based on the title of the piece. The loops, samples, sound fonts, virtual instruments creations and other files of instruments are all looked at in the creation of each and every piece. It all may be time consuming, but for me worth the effort when I take my time and try to get it right. But, I do take all responsibility for the mistakes I do as well.
 
I thank you for listening, glad you enjoyed this piece and hope you will come back for more and visit my site.
 
Peace and Blessings, John