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TranceCrafter

TranceCrafter

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Hi everyone, just thought I'd join this board after being refferred to it by a contact. it looks like a really great community for engineers and composers.

My name is John Danowski, I'm an electronic musician for about 6 years now. My style of music has gone through many shifts over the years but I've done some dabbling in many sub genres of electronica including trance, drum n' bass, orcehstral, and dance music, though the past 2 years or so it has shifted much more into film scores in general. I like to experiment a lot in my music and try out new things by combining styles.

My main daw of choice for most of this time has been fl studio but as my projects continued to grow, I needed more channels and so eventually I reached a point where I ended up switching to cubase 7. sylenth1 is my main soft synth of choice and I use a variety of libraries from EastWest as well as kontakt for real instruments.

I'm a huge fan of "epic" sounding music such as work by hans zimmer or things from two steps from hell, and my biggest electronic inspiration is probably armin van buuren.

I currently run a youtube channel where I post a majority of my work. here is a link to one of my recent videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKm3Km-ynL0

anyway, looking forward to this

cheers :D
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Welcome to the forum . I'm a newer member here as well . I've actually seen your tutorials on You Tube (thanks for that). You'll find this forum very informative , but is geared more toward Cinematic score and composing. I have been a dj (mostly trance ) since 1995 , and have dabbled in production off and on for years but never got serious about it. I am now ramped up to start into production again , but am more passionate about it this time. I have learned so much from this forum and I'm sure you will to. Again , welcome and enjoy!
 
has been a while since I posted this thread, but I have been studying music theory, piano, vocal performance, and a lot of other stuff since I made this thread.

Life has taken me in a direction that has been rather stressful and has only hardened my resolve to learn music production to even deeper levels including how to read music and gain a better insight on how to start my own brand online.
 
Welcome to VI-C, John
I have lately become interested in the kind of music you're producing, but when I clicked on your YouTube link, I got this:
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(Maybe it's just my system) If there is a more recent upload, I look forward to checking it out.
Where in the universe do you call home? (I am on the Florida Gulf coast)
Have fun on the forum!
 
this is my largest work I have completed. it took me about 4 years to complete and possibly another year or two of work to finish things off.



I am not currently in any recording/publishing deals with any companies and am really hoping for a bigger chance to distribute even more recent work.
 
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I just spent the past 10 years working to improve my product (while I was also enduring some health complications which I have been getting through).

taught myself how to read music even though I have dyscalculia (similar to dyslexia).

also taught myself to sing/record my own vocals, as well as some programming skills involving DSP engineering.

I'm about to relaunch my brand with the original vision in mind.
 
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Welcome to VI-C, John
I have lately become interested in the kind of music you're producing, but when I clicked on your YouTube link, I got this:
1646499818618.png

(Maybe it's just my system) If there is a more recent upload, I look forward to checking it out.
Where in the universe do you call home? (I am on the Florida Gulf coast)
Have fun on the forum!
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Recently moved back home to the DC metro area after having spent some time in Florida myself.
 
That clip from 2022 is excellent. You also have a distinct approach to using field recordings/sound design, (which is why I'm about to write what I am)...

Overall your production is excellent, in some places on par with Audiomachine, Position, Ninja Tracks, etc. You should really consider reaching out to, and writing for top-tier production music or trailer libraries... If you nailed the 3/4 act structure, and tailored your writing toward the kind of thing they're after, (the use of breaks and stop downs, and commitment to a single theme per cue) you could easily write for some of them...

EDITED: Here's a few examples of the range of things (in relation to production music) that different elements of this piece reminded me of...








 
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Aurally tactile. The vision you had works. The piano early on hurts a little, but I get that it's a product of your mad mind.

I don't doubt you're going to do fine. This is a crazy sound landscape. The compaction into a car-radio sound and expansion was coming, but you had the controls. It's cool that it took some time to flower.

Calling this a "product" is like a restaurant person asking you what "protein" you want with your rice and beans.

God, I hope this isn't AI. It sounds like dystopian humanity at the edge. Those pizz? Arabic drumming bits and hypnotic killer drum-circle thrums. Then soundscapes.

I don't know how to deal with this except to tell you it made me love sound again.
 
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