Genetically Modified Synthesizer

Writing music in MIDI is never really easy. It requires a lot of imagination and thought because, basically, MIDI instruments sound shit. Their purpose is simply to provide the most basic of emulations to allow composers to have an idea what a piece will sound like when it is realised. Somewhere down the line, a GM synth remained as it was, never improving. You needed a sound module for that... or maybe there's just some comfort in enjoying that absolutely awful guitar part with 4-bit triangle waves being thrown at you. Beautiful!

Well I am one of those composers that attempts to write in MIDI before going the "whole-hog" and realising its full sound. Of course you can imagine getting other people to hear what you have in your head is even harder. Right now I don't even have that option. The most simple of rock track ideas and its being phased out with my housemate playing Girls Aloud out of his laptop in the kitchen. It's sucking my creativity away and I haven't written anything for a couple of weeks now.

Excuses, excuses. Get back to work.