Things you wish you had known earlier...
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Don't take music so seriously, seriously, it's a fun hobby
Don't try and reinvent the wheel - sample, sample, sample
Start small, you first track will not be a huge club stormer
Work with what you got - work through your problems / limitations. New ghear will not solve your propblems
Take time to learn some basic music theory. Basic theory, goes a loooooooooong way
Don't try and reinvent the wheel - sample, sample, sample
Start small, you first track will not be a huge club stormer
Work with what you got - work through your problems / limitations. New ghear will not solve your propblems
Take time to learn some basic music theory. Basic theory, goes a loooooooooong way
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Layer everything
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Tone Deft wrote:rubs me the wrong way that this forum is so electronic music oriented. in the big picture it's only a small genre of music that's out there.UncleAge wrote:I'd say that if you are going to do electronic music, regardless of genre, you might:
apparently it's the easiest to make, any idiot can do it, most do.
(trap is set...)
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Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?
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The following points may seem mega-obvious and even faintly absurd but worth stating and something of a demon purge.
If you're working somewhere where you're constantly disturbed and distracted, leave for somewhere better.
If you do vocals yourself as well as everything else, double leave for somewhere better. (Of course many would probably say don't bother to be such a person at all, but just for the few jack-of-all's who are.)
If you've got the money to easily leave early on, leave for better, don't stay trying to modify the unsuitable place, spending more and more on gear you'll just end up selling and ways to escape the distractions and ways to kid yourself you're getting anywhere and acoustic treatment for a place that just annoys you on a basic level and so on. You could find yourself seven years later as more of a ghost than a human being locked in an endless loop of regret and anger about why you didn't just use all your advantages correctly at the beginning by just leaving.
You can be supremely talented and get nowhere. Prodigious talent in some aspects might actually become a hindrance.
I think people with some talent and something to 'say', plus huge freedom in terms of time to be dedicated and a wonderful place to work (in terms of peace and tranquility and seclusion not equipment necessarily) and few other competing concerns (I accept this will probably be very few people indeed!) will be just fine.
One needs to have a situation where the process can be unconditionally loved and as such is relatively unstymied OR a decent external incentive to drive the work that will make enduring what is interim, occasional pain and frustration of circumstance worthwhile. Must have one or the other.
If you're working somewhere where you're constantly disturbed and distracted, leave for somewhere better.
If you do vocals yourself as well as everything else, double leave for somewhere better. (Of course many would probably say don't bother to be such a person at all, but just for the few jack-of-all's who are.)
If you've got the money to easily leave early on, leave for better, don't stay trying to modify the unsuitable place, spending more and more on gear you'll just end up selling and ways to escape the distractions and ways to kid yourself you're getting anywhere and acoustic treatment for a place that just annoys you on a basic level and so on. You could find yourself seven years later as more of a ghost than a human being locked in an endless loop of regret and anger about why you didn't just use all your advantages correctly at the beginning by just leaving.
You can be supremely talented and get nowhere. Prodigious talent in some aspects might actually become a hindrance.
I think people with some talent and something to 'say', plus huge freedom in terms of time to be dedicated and a wonderful place to work (in terms of peace and tranquility and seclusion not equipment necessarily) and few other competing concerns (I accept this will probably be very few people indeed!) will be just fine.
One needs to have a situation where the process can be unconditionally loved and as such is relatively unstymied OR a decent external incentive to drive the work that will make enduring what is interim, occasional pain and frustration of circumstance worthwhile. Must have one or the other.
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drop all of the bass of the last part of the second verse, then bang it back in when the chorus starts, voila.
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finish tracks
colaborate (in person)
dont sweat over gear
dont spend too much time online
experiment
listen to your favourite music with an analytical ear
learn just two synths, very well (I vote any combo of Massive/Zebra/Operator/Sylenth)
sample... creatively
colaborate (in person)
dont sweat over gear
dont spend too much time online
experiment
listen to your favourite music with an analytical ear
learn just two synths, very well (I vote any combo of Massive/Zebra/Operator/Sylenth)
sample... creatively
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Less is more... but girls will never agree to that fact.
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Neither will guysMagik_10 wrote:Less is more... but girls will never agree to that fact.
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simpleton wrote:Neither will guysMagik_10 wrote:Less is more... but girls will never agree to that fact.
Two sweet racks... one hard choice...
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1. don't stress the quality (or quantity) of your gear- make what you can with what you have. making good music on shitty gear will only make making music on good gear that much easier. obsessing over gear can turn into a huge rabbit-hole. the one exception is good monitors.
2. electronic music production requires organization as well as creativity. if you're not feeling creative, organize/file/create new sounds. maybe that's just the virgo in me talking, but being able to quickly access files/samples/ideas when you're on a role is paramount to productiveness for me.
3. developing your ears takes years of practice, and never ends.
2. electronic music production requires organization as well as creativity. if you're not feeling creative, organize/file/create new sounds. maybe that's just the virgo in me talking, but being able to quickly access files/samples/ideas when you're on a role is paramount to productiveness for me.
3. developing your ears takes years of practice, and never ends.
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that live remote is limited to 1000 scenes, if i had known i wouldnt have spent 1000$ on suite+m4l and bought an octotrack instead, now i'm totally fcuked
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yeah...Magik_10 wrote:simpleton wrote:Neither will guysMagik_10 wrote:Less is more... but girls will never agree to that fact.
Two sweet racks... one hard choice...
a 40000$ synth ..or a 50$ whore..
really hard one !
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Muzik 4 Machines wrote:that live remote is limited to 1000 scenes, if i had known i wouldnt have spent 1000$ on suite+m4l and bought an octotrack instead, now i'm totally fcuked
more than a 1000 scenes ?! why?! what for ?
does octotrack give you a 1000 of (anything) ?