Greetings (also!) from Edinburgh, I’m a singer-songwriter and session musician, aspiring producer and total novice composer. Been following Crow Hill on YT since the 2nd vault dropped and have been very inspired by the ethos of the company and community. Hopefully I’ll have some music to share using these amazing tools soon too!
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Welcome Paul. I’m just a retired bloke who writes tunes purely for the fun of it. No formal musical education. However, there are many very talented people within this community and, as you say, the ethos is great. Hope you really enjoy your time here. By the way, when does ‘Untwined’ drop? Loved ‘Boomerang’.
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Welcome to the Crow Hill family Paul. All the best buddy.
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Ah thanks so much Stephen! I dropped off the whole music-release process, lost in a maze of ever-changing “best way to release your music” rabbit holes while trying to do All The Things.
I know I didn’t just want to put it on Spotify for it to gather dust - but it’s just been gathering dust on my hard drive instead…
My intention is to get physical copies made (vinyl & CD) before Christmas and then start releasing digital tracks on Substack. Just need to create that (and a content strategy) first…
Thanks for asking! Have you got anything released? Writing for fun is the most important reason to do it!
Another reason to look forward to Christmas then. My stuff couldn’t get a release, mate, it would have to escape!
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I came across this video and wondered if this is how you sampled the Attic Piano for Vaults. 
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Hi everyone,
My name is Fred Hanna and I have been composing for several years. My instrument of choice is the piano/keyboard. I recently started training in a recording studio to become a recording engineer. I would also like to start composing for other people’s creative projects (documentaries, commercials, or short/feature files) sometime in the near future.
Some of my favorite modern film composers are John Williams, Vangelis, Jerry Goldsmith, & Hans Zimmer, just to name a few. It’s great to be part of this creative community. You can check out my YouTube Channel if you like.
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Welcome Fred! Glad to have you on board.
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Hello, I’m Curtis, I originally found this place by looking to see if anyone in the Pianobook community were looking for GUI designers, and just decided to stay
I consider myself more of an electronic musician, who likes to mess with orchestral libraries, rather than a composer, because I have more a textural, sound design focused approach to writing music rather than a mere harmonic one. I’m inspired by electronic acts like Aphex Twin, Tim Hecker, Boards of Canada, OPN, though film and game scores have always been a huge inspiration for me as well, even before I got really into experimental electronic music.
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Bob here! I’m a Producer/Engineer/Composer based in Portland Oregon. I’ve reached an age where I have more years behind me than ahead of me in this industry and I’ve enjoyed most every moment of it. This business is a roller coaster! Fortunately, the highs have been consistently higher and the lows not quite as low.
My favorite music has consisted of ECMish style jazz and Americana with a twinge of alt-rock thrown in to keep things lively.
I’m looking forward to spending a bit more time in this forum and interacting as time allows. I’m grateful for all that Christian has done for creating a wonderful sense of community in the Crow Hill world. God willing, I’ll attend one of those famed solstice composer walks in the future!
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Welcome Bob. Yes, the sense of community here is truly wonderful and there are a lot of very talented contributors. I’m not one of the latter. I’m just a hobbyist with less than 1% of your experience in the music business, despite being well past the mid-point of my life (unless I break a longevity record) but I do like your taste in music. Your list of favorite music describes half my record/cassette (remember them?)/CD collection. Hope you have a lot of fun on this forum…. and post more music like the ‘Joni’ track!
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The more people added to the Crow Hill community the better. So welcome Bob. 
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Hey everyone. My name is Rane. I actually stumbled upon the Crow Network the other day looking for something. Then ventured to PianoBook. I didn’t know that the Crow Hill Network was connected to it. It is great.
Anyways, I have enjoyed making my own genre of music for the past 15 years, and recording everything I use to make ma tunes. I have recently gotten back into making tunes and have become more open to hearing about others’ adventures in sound.
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Welcome, Bob. Good to see the PacNW is now better represented than I could manage.
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Hello all, my name is Adrian, long time software developer, musician, photographer, fixer of things and life long student of interests from the South Pennine region of the UK, arrived after watching Christian’s excellent YouTube videos hope to both learn and where I can contribute to this great resource.
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Welcome Adrian, this is the place to learn and participate. Though I suspect I haven’t learned as much as I should, I am sure you will do much better.
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Hello all.
I’m Ade, from the UK, just outside of that London, I just discovered this forum from a chance happening on Christian’s video on the sampling survival kit. I have since found a world of musical treats that I never knew of the existence of.
I’m completely new to music, but have always yearned to be able to create sounds.
I have been into field recording for a few years, but mainly as just a listening and recording for my own kind of thing. From there I have made forays int the world of mic building and experimenting with circuits etc. Music just seemed to be something that I never managed to learn and after school I thought that ship had sailed,
Last week I had a bit of a creativity crisis after a few weeks of working 70+ hour weeks and splurged on an Arturia Minifreak, Ableton and a Lyra-8. I had no real idea what I was going to do with them, but I felt I needed to at least invest in the process of learning how to make ‘musical’ pieces.
I’ve since discovered Pocket Strings and honestly, the realisation that I could use sampled instruments in such a manner, being controlled from a MIDI keyboard, made me absolutely fizz with excitement. I have a hell of a lot to learn, but with every video I watch and article I read, I become more and more understanding of the process. Hearing tales of people with no formal theoretical training has only served to enbolden me in my quest to learn more.
The barriers to music which were erected by my school music ‘teacher’ have been well and truly blown off, think Barnes Wallis on the Italian Job.
Having had a read through this forum, I can see that it is a realy warm and welcoming group and I cannot wait to learn from you all.
Hopefully I will be able to assist people in other ways (I’m a design engineer and fairly technically savvy in a few areas).
So happy to be along for the ride. Apologies for the extended babbling, it is honestly a consequence of my thrill to see that music is something I can engage with.
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Welcome! (Fyi, extended babbling is encouraged here…)
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You might regret that Pat 
Have to ask, are you a product of Eire?
Just a descendant of those disposessed of Blessed Isle… one who’s roots have never felt native soil nourishing them, but who also knows a correction of that state will not likely come to pass.
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