Recently, I have been thinking, and I want to do something other than building. I have been thinking about starting a composing career. I have some questions however.
I want to become a Roblox Composer, I just don’t know how.
Any advice? Thanks!
Working toward becoming a truly skilled composer will take years of work and there’s no real way around that time commitment. If you think it’s something you really want to try, you have to be willing to put in the time to do it. The process ultimately comes down to iteration—you will improve with every new project, and repeated work eventually results in development of your abilities.
When trying to find a way to do this without spending money, it’s important to accept that your work will never sound as good as it can be without high-quality sounds. Those sounds almost 100% of the time require money to obtain, whether it be VST’s or instrument libraries. The same goes for music production software, as all of the standard DAW’s you’ll find have some sort of price tag attached to them. The rest that don’t require payment all come with their own drawbacks in the form of various technical limitations, which further restrict your creative process.
With that being said -
How will I be able to get popular with my composing career?
Years of experience if you plan on that popularity being rooted in your overall skill level, and a lot of projects/commissons under your belt.
What programs should I use that are free?
Tracktion T7 and GarageBand are the most common and highly-reviewed free DAW’s out there but are still very limited when it comes to user freedom.
What helps motivate for composing ideas?
Working for other people is a good way to grow in this area as it forces you to interpret an idea given to you by someone else rather than working off of your own creative influences. With the added expectation of a finished result, it allows less room for procrastination or losing interest as a third party is relying on you to finish the track.
The thing about becoming popular takes time and effort. I’m not quite sure but expect a lot of work that does not help you a lot, keep training your hearing to the sound. A long time experience should do the trick.
GarageBand is not that bad, it’s free.
In my opinion, the way I can achieve finding composing ideas is after listening for a set of genres for over two years. It paid off a lot.