YuleTunes minichallenge - let's get carolling!

[kittyeden]

Hi there! Are you the sort of Yuletide-r that enjoys ballads, songs, ditties, tunes, and/or filks of any type? That's where this challenge comes in. This is for you. This is a Yuletide minichallenge for people who want to write and receive music-y related content of any sort.

This could be filk, pastiches of already-existing songs, lyrics set to instrumental tunes from the source canon (or otherwise), a score or visual representation of a composition, completely original songs (whether that ends up being just lyrics written on their own, or an audio recording of an original song), or any sort of original composition. The sky’s the limit, just as long as it’s music-related.

 

To get involved, just leave a comment below with the following –

 

AO3 Name:

 

Letter Link:

 

Fandoms you’re interested in receiving YuleTunes for:

 

Prompts!: (and if there’s any specific sort of YuleTunes gift that you don’t want, mention it here)

 

 

 ...And add ‘YuleTunes’ to the tags if/when you post, so we can all find it. Happy filking.

EDIT: yhlee in the comments has compiled an excellent list of composition resources for people who may be new to it!

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[yhlee]

- You need a DAW with VST plugin support on your computer to take advantage of this , but Spitfire Audio has a bunch of free instruments - the LABS are more experimental stuff, while BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover will get you started if you have a hankering for traditional orchestra. These run in Spitfire's free proprietary host (so you don't, for instance, have to shell out for something like the paid version of Native Instruments' Kontakt as a host). This is a rundown of some free DAWs - if you're running Windows I might suggest looking into Cakewalk in particular, which I've used before; they seem to regard Waveform Free pretty highly but I have not used it. (I use Cubase Pro, so...)

In general, if you have a DAW with VST support, Googling something like "free synth VST" or "free [insert instrument here] VST" will usually find you stuff. There are some very capable free synths out there if you like to do electronica!

Okay, shutting up now. :)

ETA: MIDI computer music (what I do) has a LOT of weird terminology and technical stuff. If you're making music for someone who is not me, please feel free to ping me (deuceofgearsart at gmail dot com) and I will be happy to help troubleshoot or walk you through some of this stuff, schedule permitting. :) Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with straight-up audio (the kind of stuff you would do with an audio interface and mics and recording live sound) so I can't help there.