Inspirational Tools For Music

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jonbenderr
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Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by jonbenderr » Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:57 pm

Thought I would start a thread about go-to devices you use when you need that spark of inspiration.

I'll start with a short list.

Nova3 by Tonecarver
Anything from glitchmachines. (They always nail their randomization functions.)
K-devices Autobeat.

Anyone else want to share some cool stuff?

If this thread is bogus, please ignore.

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by ldeboe » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:23 pm

I find switching up my hardware to be inspirational. If I'm not getting anywhere on a keyboard, I'll switch to Push. Nothing on Push? I'll move to a drum machine. No luck there? Try playing around on Ukulele. I also like to move between DAWs. Recently working a lot on the Elektron sequencer in the Analog Rytm. Man, that is very inspirational.

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by dixie237 » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:57 pm

Re-compose liquid notes

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by SLEEarts » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:04 pm

Eno's Oblique Strategies

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by re:dream » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:14 pm

sit still quietly for three minutes

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by filter_7 » Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:09 pm

Samplr on the iPad.

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by login » Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:41 am

u-he DIVA

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by ImNotDedYet » Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:45 am

Playing my Rhodes. Always seem to come away from playing it - even if it's just practicing, with something.

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by Steve Glen » Fri Mar 06, 2015 5:41 am

sit still quietly for 4 minutes.

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by xbitz » Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:16 am

this one
Image
helped for me :lol:

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by H20nly » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:20 am

I noodle on my bass over a simple drum pattern.

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by Machinesworking » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:34 am

Electric guitar if I'm in a synth rut.

Messing around on the Moog with a bass sound.

Found sounds run through granular synthesis of some kind, M4L, or Metasynth etc.

Recently picked up Push and already I can tell that it's going to replace Geist and other Drum machine plug ins for me.
Too bad it's a dud in ReWire... :x

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by oddstep » Fri Mar 06, 2015 12:13 pm

record something with a microphone. Make a loop of it - either as a clip or as a wav in sampler. Start playing it, repitching - timestretching - slicing - resampling.

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by beats me » Fri Mar 06, 2015 2:41 pm

In the spirit of “let the computer do all the damn work”.

Load up Maschine Expansion pack kits with patterns. Find a pattern I like. Disable pattern load and flip through different kits. Once I find something interesting that works bounce all the stems to audio.

Repeat a second time.

Load all the stems in a DAW set and delete the ones that don’t work.

Slap on a bunch of Fabfilter effects all over the place.

Skilled genius!

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Re: Inspirational Tools For Music

Post by Liam » Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:12 pm

+1 for Oblique Strategies

Run some old wave files back through Molekular while flipping through the presets and fiddling with them. Record and repeat.

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