its a lot of manual noodling on the Roland FA-08 which has the inbuilt sequencer so i can set my ideas down
I'm kind of notation-illiterate beyond what I know from choir in my youth (semi-true, i could write these note by note but it would take months...)
so I noodle by ear from memory better than i can sight read by quite a margin
and i go....several seconds at a time with my one year of piano lessons, usually trying to do a daring phrase, then hit save
sometimes i slow the tempo dial down to 60 then bring it back
the FA-08 has all the cut and paste functions a DAW has in its own sequencer area, out to something like a 600-measure song
a person could get lost in the menus in it for ten years and not exhaust it, you can save studio sets of the 16 tracks' instrument tones for each song
and mix and match, and edit the tones....
and then after that if i chose i can take things in mixcraft and modify with my 25-key AKAI that i got long after the fact after i had already been on soundcloud 15 months. Most things have been lock-step faithful to the MIDI file the FA-08 generates. I haven't really done much after-effect things
but with that MIDI file i can layer software-synth instrument tones in Mixcraft from anything Humble Bundle throws me on the cheap
(that hasn't scratched the surface really except one composition : Theory Versus Application (One Week Later Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/theory-versus-application-one-week-later-r...