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merges wrote:Some people might call that a style.

true.

but to the original post when i feel stuck i'll just fire up the daw and play the keyboard.
something's bound to come out that works even if it's not a project for release. either way
it gets me out of a stale mindset.

we don't take kindly to being pushed round here.

snakedogman wrote:the solution:
Buy More Gear

Give into G.A.S. Gear Aquisition Syndrom

merges wrote:Some people might call that a style.

Ha! Point taken, maybe I'm just expecting too much out of myself.

And I have really bad G.A.S. so I might just going on a little shopping spree this weekend and pick up some new toys

give equipment/plugins a second chance that you used long ago and kind of gotten over it.

try making dance music in 6/8 instead of 4/4.

use only samples from your kitchen

make only one bar groove loops for a week,

make a track a day that sounds like bavarian folk music

do not use reverb or delays at all

use the shitiest laptop speaker you can find and produce a track that sounds awesome with that. do never ever listen to it with other speakers.

make a track exclusively by editing a single track of audio. no fx, just edits

write a book about internet safety, quantum physics and the week force. come back to music three years later.

don't read or post or reply at the ableton forum.

robert

henke wrote:make a track exclusively by editing a single track of audio. no fx, just edits

This is always a good challenge tbh

henke wrote:make a track a day that sounds like bavarian folk music

So that'lll be the next thing in Munich i guess - Umm-Pah House

wascal wrote:

henke wrote:make a track exclusively by editing a single track of audio. no fx, just edits

This is always a good challenge tbh

Itt was fun enough when you were allowed to use a v-synth to mangle it - but no mangling!

Here's some ideas I wrote about in my blog:

http://tarekith.com/know-your-limitations/

Old records!

henke wrote: use the shitiest laptop speaker you can find and produce a track that sounds awesome with that. do never ever listen to it with other speakers.

That sounds like a good idea. I might try it with some shitty computer speakers.

I push myself by taking stuff out live when it's bran new. Makes me really work tools available to me for transitions and arrangement. This also gives me a great idea of how people are feeling about it.

Play some lap steel

If that doesn't work, put some reverb or delay on it.
Problem solved. It is now 2 weeks later.

I just started a series of 'quicksilver compositions' : what can I do within a 1 hour timeframe, with no presets, and just one instrument as sound source ? The two first are here :
http://snd.sc/iex2Wo
and http://snd.sc/kTByAP
I also like to use oblique strategies when I hit a wall : http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Old records!