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Tracks may feel finished....and can go through the full production process to release..then someone else picks it up and does a remix.....
I’m more into live/jamming/capturing the moment these days, don’t do a lot of DAW stuff really. I keep all my original audio files and samples though, so I can always do another version.
Oh yeah, if I was recording band work, or proper studio I’d back up every cough and scratch.
For my silly solo stuff though I prefer to capture a moment and then go off to the next one. Wouldn’t suit most genres, but for my ‘generally unlistenable’ output it works a treat.
I was given a loan of an OP1 yesterday, which fits in quite nicely with my ‘sample a silly noise then muck about with it’ ethos.
I do the same. Deleting the files when I'm happy with the track. Life is too short for either regrets or dithering.
Oh, I guess I’m just finding my feet still. What everything does. New DAW. What is mixing. Etc. Lol.
Also, the conflicting pulls of young kids, work, study, etc means it is pretty slow going. Lots of ideas coming though. I’m also chopping up lots of old sample fodder which is fun but puts me still at the prep stage.
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Fair enough, guv.
As John Lennon once sang “Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans.”
Good luck with your endeavours, please post whatever music you make when you are happy with it.
I went a long time without finishing one but let me tel you it feels great. And it’s nice to open up a playlist of your own songs. I would say maybe don’t think so much about ultimate polish but instead think about just getting the essential where it can be identified like “yes, indeed that is a song/track”. The production polish will just get better over time, but I think it’s good to complete stuff in some fashion.
I've always been a prolific creator of 4 - 16 bar loops that I think are cool, but never turn into anything. I heard about WeeklyBeats 2018 from a post on this forum in December and liked the premise. Complete one song per week. The only guidelines is it needs to be written during the week and should be at least one minute long. Something about the idea clicked and I signed up. So far I've finished three tracks, and it feels great.
Having that deadline to work to, but free of any real pressure, is making a huge difference. And what I'm finding is when I put it in the can it is truly done and my creative flow moves on. I doubt I'll ever revise those tracks.
Pretty fun so far ... but only three weeks into it. 52 weeks means a lot of songs.
Hmm 1 minute you say !?
Yes. At least one minute long, and a finished song. And not ripped off from anywhere. That's about the only guidance. I figure worst case I can always turn any one of my gazillion loops into at least one minute, though so far once I get going I've ended up with much more than that (to my surprise).
https://www.weeklybeats.com for more info if you're interested.
Yes. Songs are finished. Forum threads, on the other hand....
Omg! Thanks! I needed a good laugh.
This is me.
I think the hardest thing is coming up with parts as good as the first bit I write. That’s when I come up with a second part completely different from the first, and so treat it as a new track, and try to create a second part for that etc.
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Indeed. An album is an achievement. Doesn’t have to be the best thing ever recorded. If it pleases the makers, and stands up production wise against contemporaries - not that difficult with the likes of FF - then it’s a good job done.
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This is a great example of the approach to music making by someone with a background in real world instruments, as opposed to a sonic dabbler. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
RTM tend toward treating songs as a whole. In practice, what that means is an idea, maybe a beat or a riff or words alone, will find itself alongside something else. Sometimes by design at other times by serendipity, chipping away sculptor-like, until that whole reveals itself. This is why, while always melodic, our stuff rarely follows the standard pattern: intro, bridge, chorus, etc. There are catchy bits, lyrics to make you think or smile, etc, but the established form has gone out of the virtual window.
IMO knowing when to stop modifying or adding stuff to a creation is one of the things which differentiate an average artist and a good artist... Peace.
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Mmmm. The temptation is to add everything. The discipline is to pare that down, so what is there is what is needed.
it is finished when you decide it is finished .. i haven't problem with this .. actually i live with track during i'm working on it, but when i wrote last note, last sequence, at this moment i throw it behind and i'm looking forward to next one .. after many years of musicmaking i realized that the proces of creating something new is for me lot more important that endless polishing of details ..
I suffer the same problems as a lot of solo ‘bedroom’ musicians - lack of feedback and collaboration. If I was in a band situation I’d play my killer loop and we’d thrash out a song between us. Instead I boot up AUM and a bunch of synths and cheer myself up with a noisy jam
At one stage I was in about five different bands. Every now and then various members of disparate groups would turn up to someone’s house, and we’d put together and jam out, a brand new two hour set. We’d then trek over for a lunchtime pint at the nearest pub, and ask them if they’d let us play that night. The answer was usually yes (we were cheap), and we’d then have to come up with a name for the poster. ‘Man in a wardrobe’ was one landlords suggestion we used. We’d have a great night with our ‘new band’, and then go back to our real ones.
Great fun, particularly if it was a new genre we’d just made up. ‘Punk Russian marching music’ was a favourite.
Only downside was the look on the punters faces, when they turned up and discovered it was us lot again.
The method I had last year was to create between 10 and 20 loops or short non-looping passages like this without any regard for them fitting together. Then to bring them all into one song and force them into one piece. I guess that could be described as collage.
This way I get surprising mixtures without tying myself into too much structure too early.
Cor, can’t tell you how many years I have lusted after one of those.
That's my plan for some forthcoming Launchpad/Blocs tracks - creating and collecting a bunch of loops and clips I've been working on, and then seeing if I can jam out a song or two from them. Previously I'd record five minute jams in AUM, but I'm being more fussy now and creating shorter, more usable clips for less meandering finished tracks.
My occasional Horse Gas musical collaborator bought two for some reason, and has given/long-term loaned one to me...which is a bit weird as I've never expressed an interest. Took a bit of learning, but I'm nearly there now.
They're very weird things. The sound quality can be a bit underwhelming compared to a lot of iPad synths, but the sampler's good, and rhythm/arp's/drums etc. are great to use.
When I'm not using it I think to myself 'what a waste of money', 'why don't you just use an iPad it's easier, sounds better' etc. etc. But then I start playing with it and get lost in an hour of fun and noises. I'm guessing once the muscle memory kicks in and I can work the controls without thinking what I'm doing it'll be a proper performance thing. I'm not getting too attached though, just in case he asks for it back.
Is it worth nearly £800? I wouldn't (couldn't) pay that, if I had that money I'd get a faster iPad. But maybe I'll change my mind after a week of using it. I sampled Synthscaper into it last night, and it sounded lovely.
I've already recorded some silly loops with it, so I'll put the results up once I've bent them into shape via Launchpad/Blocs.
Again, this is a fine example of the ‘real world instrument’ old school approach, which can get great results and be even more fun.
God alone knows what genre RTM should be, as there are elements of lots of stuff in there, sometimes within the same song! As there is no intention of ever trying to play it live, the sonic world is our lobster. To borrow half a line from Arthur Daley.
I came here to write this !
That was the thing that surprised when playing the Korg Arp Odyssey in a shop. It was really nice to have a dedicated knob for everything, a really tactile instrument. I can set up mappings for knobs on a midi controller with iPad apps but it's not really the same thing. I have to choose beforehand what I want to map and that takes a bit of the random performance notion out of it.
I've posted a link to that one to my mate, with a bit of luck he'll buy two.
Yeah, I grew up with an MS20, guitars and tape echoes so I prefer the hands-on approcah. Same with digital art - I prefer using real paints. Thing is I can't afford to fill my house with hardware synths so the iPad fills that job.
Actually the OP1 has made me appreciate the iPad much more - the amount of stuff I can do on an iPad is crazy, and even having an OP1 here, I'm still using the iPad for arranging OP1 stuff, or sampling the iPad into that.
I really miss being in bands, playing live particularly. Thought it was going to happen last year but they turned out to be a bunch of noodlers and I'd be long dead by the time they were gig ready.
Shame some of the members on here aren't local, I reckon we could have a few decent sessions between us.
This is where we need @brambos to create BramJam the realtime collaborative app
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Got a feeling that in the not too distant, it may be possible to jam on the Interweb, reliably. The combos we’d get here would be unusual, to say the least.
Amen to this, I much prefer the hands on, no need for pre planned and mapping approach. I have over the last year got a few hardware synths for that reason and am playing much more freely as a result. I am at the moment considering getting a digital multi-tracker to give me that same thing when recording/mixing...BUT, am conflicted as to whether the editing will be too much of a pain.
My choices so far are Zoom R24 or new iPad 2017 128GB (to upgrade from my current 16GB Mini 2)......still very much undecided.
Actually for recording I found that I preferred using the iPad. Had a BR-800 and sold it because it was collecting dust. But the idea of a synth that is properly playable with real time knobs and such is very tempting. Then again there is the Roli Seaboard but I would be back to mapping, decisions, decisions..