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Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:26 pm
by ComfiStile
When fl comes out for Droid, I will be. 10 mins there and 10 back.well worth it haha
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:31 pm
by slothrop
Basically, intercity / express trains are normally pretty stush and local / commuter trains are pretty shit. But almost everything in the southeast is commuter or local routes, so almost all the trains are pretty shit.
Back on topic, I commute on a bike, I wonder if I could get anything going on there...
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:48 pm
by nnny
slothrop wrote:Basically, intercity / express trains are normally pretty stush and local / commuter trains are pretty shit. But almost everything in the southeast is commuter or local routes, so almost all the trains are pretty shit.
Back on topic, I commute on a bike, I wonder if I could get anything going on there...
Cycle with no hands and produce on an Iphone? haha. I produce anywhere I can when I can, bus's, whatever

Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:26 pm
by jrisreal
I've been on a train like once in my life and yeah I made a tune on it
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:10 pm
by nylle
yeah ive tried when i used to commute downtown and back from school
my laptop is huge so it wasnt easy
itd be nice if the trainw asnt so crowded and if i had more time
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:03 pm
by Weskr
I ride a train every morning and evening, only for 10 minutes tho. But when I've got meetings far away here in Sweden (Sweden is freakin long), I tend to make me some sounds and some sound designing. And also tons of presets

But I never produce any full tunes, too much going on...
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:36 am
by cloak and dagger
woa, thanks man!
Yeah LSDJ makes train rides fly by! Piggy tracker for PSP is even better in a lot of ways

Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:00 pm
by Fbac
ComfiStile wrote:When fl comes out for Droid, I will be. 10 mins there and 10 back.well worth it haha
For real ?? (googles)

Oh wow! This might make me want a Htc now ;] haha.. Always liked the Korg ms20 stuff for DS myself.
@ Cloak:

no worries good tunes!
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:53 am
by wormcode
Not on a train, but I've made (or started/worked on, rather) music in restaurants in the early morning hours, midnight - 2 AM or so. Also in moving vehicles driving at night. It was an odd hobby for a friend and I for a while. At first we had a drum machine+MIDI sequencer, and later used a laptop.
I'm planning on going out alone on a boat this weekend after midnight with a laptop and some headphones. I just want to go a good distance out until I can't see evidence of humanity any more and then fire up a DAW and see what kind of music I make. It has a power source so I can plug the laptop in too. I'd like to take a couple of pieces of hardware instead, but it's too expensive to lose out there, just in case... (I've never driven/been on a boat alone)
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:19 pm
by _TraX_
That would be so cool, too bad my computer is an obese sonofabitch
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:47 am
by Fbac
wow wormcode, talk about adding abit of excitment to your music making process (and danger)

sounds mental!
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:55 am
by mattdesl
traveling all around europe at the moment with a euro rail pass, and whenever there is a plug-in at my seat i take the opportunity to make some tunes with my iPod Touch and BeatMaker. Wishing I had brought a laptop with Ableton...
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:14 pm
by jaimelee
mattdesl wrote:traveling all around europe at the moment with a euro rail pass, and whenever there is a plug-in at my seat i take the opportunity to make some tunes with my iPod Touch and BeatMaker. Wishing I had brought a laptop with Ableton...
How much was the pass?
Considering the same idea soon.

( Will take laptop with Abe )
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:40 pm
by cloak and dagger
the lack of audio programs on Android is what's keeping me from taking the plunge and getting a smartphone...someone at Google really needs to fix up that code...jerks.
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:09 am
by wormcode
Fbac wrote:wow wormcode, talk about adding abit of excitment to your music making process (and danger)

sounds mental!
Hahaha, it was fun! Honestly also pretty damn creepy, I had to keep taking my headphones off so I could hear what was going on around me. Next time I'm going to take some portable bookshelf speakers so I at least don't have to have headphones on the whole time. I really want to record some sounds out there too, there was all sorts of weird noises, distant foghorns, animals etc.
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:23 am
by captaincrazy
haha yeah i've been doing this for the last couple of months as i have about an hour each way on the train every day
definitely more productive than sitting there staring out the window
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:45 am
by reverend
On the tube? Don't think I could pull that one of. But I have to travel from London to Leeds/Manchester every so often and those trains are kushty for producing.
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:23 pm
by WereWolf
cloak and dagger wrote:the lack of audio programs on Android is what's keeping me from taking the plunge and getting a smartphone...someone at Google really needs to fix up that code...jerks.
You realise Google doesn`t make the apps, people do, right?
Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:40 pm
by ems_1t
reverend wrote:On the tube? Don't think I could pull that one of. But I have to travel from London to Leeds/Manchester every so often and those trains are kushty for producing.
I have to commute up that way too. Loads of plug points all over the place

Re: Anyone Make Tunes On Trains?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:47 pm
by legend4ry
I have about 8 tracks on my Korg-DS10.
Great for long journeys!