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Jekblad wrote:just bought komplete 6. very happy with it.


i am realizing now that my music does not lack sounds, it lacks inspiration. And passion maybe.





PS i don't want to go to work 2mrw, or any other day for like at least 10 days.

plaing an instrument or programming own sounds from scratch helps..

all this preset culture kills music.. makes musicans poor because hobbists are enabled to flood the market... only winner..the music soft and hardwareware industry.. this will result into a berakdown at one point.. equipment will be very cheap than because ten thousends of hobby musicans will loose theire interest after having prooved to themself that everybody can do a record.. tons of equipment will hit the second hand market... owners of software will see than second hand licenses have no value at all...
especially because the new i phones commes with a better app on board allready...

all the people that have sold theier soul by doing presets will be unemployed..

people will drum on tree trunks again.. its mor craetiv anyway than using presets.and more healthy than hanging all day before the computer

kb420 wrote:Here's something truly inspiring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaKuFww3 ... feature=iv

Ugh... tell me sharks eat those dudes later on....

I don't think I even realized that there were dudes in that video. There was something else that always seem to grasp my full attention.

I feel the same since I got komplete

what makes me sad though is not the lack of inspiration but my lack of time to play with it as much as I would like

I probably used 30% of it at most, I have had a year with it. I dont know how to use many of the complex functions of the synths (absynths wave morph, filters, mod, etc..) !! (I am just now starting to reading the books)

Thanks for the Jessica Alba vid, though it makes me want to go look at porn istead of making music

Angstrom wrote: That was my (re)discovery of 2009, that music is nothing without conveying some kind of emotion or thought. It should be evocative above all else

The entire Minimal and Electro House genres would like to argue with you about that point.

I´m currently working on a song for about 2 months now, every day about 5-15 hrs. I know that if I had a clear idea in my mind as to how exactly the song should sound, I could make it in one or two days, but I´ve been incredibly busy just with the colour of the sounds, equalizing, using corpus and grain delay, compressing that bassline with 3 compressors etc. By now the bassline and the drums are really fat, and I´ve come along some great minimal rythms. I´ve never worked as much on one track, but its been rewarding so far, cant wait to get that thing done but I don´t want to rush it, since I´ve been patient for so long already.

Grappadura wrote:I´m currently working on a song for about 2 months now, every day about 5-15 hrs. I know that if I had a clear idea in my mind as to how exactly the song should sound, I could make it in one or two days, but I´ve been incredibly busy just with the colour of the sounds, equalizing, using corpus and grain delay, compressing that bassline with 3 compressors etc. By now the bassline and the drums are really fat, and I´ve come along some great minimal rythms. I´ve never worked as much on one track, but its been rewarding so far, cant wait to get that thing done but I don´t want to rush it, since I´ve been patient for so long already.

wav or it never happened.

or, rather

wav or it isn't happening.

or something.

Grappadura wrote:I´m currently working on a song for about 2 months now, every day about 5-15 hrs. I know that if I had a clear idea in my mind as to how exactly the song should sound, I could make it in one or two days, but I´ve been incredibly busy just with the colour of the sounds, equalizing, using corpus and grain delay, compressing that bassline with 3 compressors etc. By now the bassline and the drums are really fat, and I´ve come along some great minimal rythms. I´ve never worked as much on one track, but its been rewarding so far, cant wait to get that thing done but I don´t want to rush it, since I´ve been patient for so long already.

uff.

LoopStationZebra wrote:
wav or it never happened.

or, rather

wav or it isn't happening.

or something.

I´ll make some big announcement when I´m done, I don´t want to unveil it yet. but subfunk is my witness regarding the fatness of the bassline

beats me wrote:

Angstrom wrote: That was my (re)discovery of 2009, that music is nothing without conveying some kind of emotion or thought. It should be evocative above all else

The entire Minimal and Electro House genres would like to argue with you about that point.

I'm guessing your are being ironic, but anyway: I think that good tunes in those genres do/can convey a particular something. Sure they're probably not best at evoking "unreauited love" or "folksy nostalgia", but if its "I'm a chinstroking dancebot" or "future precision" you are trying to evoke it works well. There are few limits on what can be evoked
just make sure you evoke something other than "I like Massive's presets" , thats all

Angstrom wrote: Sure they're probably not best at evoking "unrequited love" or "folksy nostalgia", but if its "I want to cut my face off" or "I should kill everyone in this club and then myself because this music is shite" you are trying to evoke it works well.

fxd

emotion in = emotion out




that's why this thing we do was once called recording. as in making a record of the moment. now its so often more building a simulation of the moment.

don't get me wrong - there's room for both the "capturing the moment" styles of music as well as the "building a sculpture" styles of music, but the amount of emotion in equals the amount of emotion out.

if you take the "sculptural" approach, you have to make sure that the initial inspiration doesn't get diluted, or forgotten, or covered up with layers of subsequent mediocre shit. the sculptural approach requires stamina. trust your feelings, be instinctive - as in use your instincts not your head/mind, and above all be honest with yourself about what you like and don't like about what you're hearing back in the monitors.



really good music isn't even music. it's something else entirely. it's a direct link from one person's psyche to anothers.

Sudden strong compulsion to google image search for "sculpted shit"

here let me save you the trouble:



i like it!