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Lost the will to create?
Just realized while I have created alot of sounds in 2018 I have not actually put out any music (Other than app jam videos) since 2017. Bit of a shock to my system to get back to making some actual tunes in 2019
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I've been in a lull since getting some hardware synths. Disrupted my workflow. Still to be seen if/when I can get it together.
Yes I have lots of new tools and just need to knuckle down. Lots of ideas. Started a track 4 weeks ago and getting distracted all the time from arranging/mixing it
Snogging is so much more fun than giving birth....
The perfect analogy that pretty much sums up the enjoyment I get from making music.
I have much less knowledge of one these days and no actual knowledge of the other...
So this is your 2019 resolution or something? Personally, even though I am writing a book and I am learning digital painting, I still find some time to compose songs. It's just a question of optimizing your time I suppose. And remember: there is no such thing as the blank page syndrome
Well, @RedSkyLullaby it seems you have been very creative, but flexing different creative muscles.
Hope you get some time and inspiration in 2019 for your music!
I’ve got the will, but not the time at the moment!
Tons of sketching and concepting as usual. Maybe in this era of NS2 ease I will be more compelled to post some pinch offs...?
Personally I always have something I want to record, it’s just I fail to get it down before my mind lets it go. Must be well over 100 half songs in the last year alone and still have not finished one
Thing is I’m happy in what I do, so never have the pressure to finish anything. A million musical journeys and just content to start the next
Let the pressure go....the music in you will flow!
String them all together and you could end up with a monster prog masterpiece!
In 2019 I will finish a track, think I’ve said this the past 3 Jan/Decembers but this time I really mean it 😉
I have finished tracks. Tracks better than I ever thought I could create. I try not to let it get to me, but I think that also factors in - some self-created pressure. I've gotten over that feeling before and went on to eventually create even better tracks (well, maybe). But mostly it's a combo of seeing if I can work in some hardware synth(s), which is new for me as I've always been 100% ITB, plus work and family time. Add in some outer ear discomfort and it's been a slow few months.
But I still mess around. Just not productively.
Perhaps try new apps to change your workflow habits and get some new inspiration. Or challenge yourself with some musical genres you usually don’t use in your creations. You can also try to go full live path, making full real-time arrangements using some controllers. Or perhaps this is just that blank page mentioned, so break your rules to change your game or shift your own paradigm
As the story goes that’s how Frankenstein (Edgar Winter Group) came together.
I’ve gone through weeks long spells where the muse seemed completely dead in me, so I just had to start looking in new areas for inspiration — new apps often break me out of that block, but lately getting into hardware for the the first time has really lit the fire.
Particularly with my Deluge, which I can’t go a day without constantly being drawn to it— it just begs to be played.
It’s odd how I can occasionally be completely lost staring at a blank piano roll in a DAW, unable to get anything promising going, but with Deluge, I’m never running out of new ideas. Probably helps that it’s effortless to quickly key in unlimited variations and experiment, never feeling like there’s anything getting in the way of whatever direction my imagination wants to go. I see it as the ultimate creative conduit.
I LOVE playing with the hardware (SE-02... haven't even started diving into doing an init patch on the Ultranova yet - sounds like maybe I should). I just haven't figured out how to work it into a song yet. I have something started, but need to make that some things, instead. Like I said, I've been working ITB. It's been...about 25 years ITB, so blowing up my workflow isn't easy. That said, I went from sample-based trackers to softsynths to only my iPhone, and even a track using all 3, so i know it's only a matter of time. Hell, even if I end up selling the SE-02, I plan to keep it long enough to learn subtractive synthesis. It's so much easier with hardware knobs, and it'll make me better at softsynths as well going forward. I took my knew knowledge and made some patches I like in DRC from scratch.
But nothing is "calling" to me. Again. Yet.
My last track almost pulled itself together. That doesn't help me get started again.
Sometimes my will.... just won't. I didn't do a thing for three months. Now I have gotten a decent piano action keyboard (Kawai MP11se) I can practice scales again...really, reeeaaallly slowly. Drives my wife crazy but helps immensely to center my playing.
I never have an idea, I just sit down and watch what happens.
And I'm pretty old. That may actually help. The finish line is always in sight.
You have to focus, people. 1 complete song is always better than 100 half finished ones. So I suggest, for 2019, you all promise yourselves you will finish at least one song! Come one guys, I know you can do it!
I’ve veen struggling with that for years now! Even the simple stuff on the keyboard is now impossible due to a total lack of constructive and meaningful practice. I have more tools now with the iOS platform and the amazing improvements in Cubase on the pc than I could have ever have wished for when I was younger. I’m determined to knuckle down this next and learn to play and write more of the stuff that gets in my head! 🤞
“The demise of fingering” as Mickey Flanagan so eloquently put it, “ the youth of today will not delay gratification.”
2018 was my most productive year yet for music, by A LOT!
16 completed and mastered songs uploaded to my old and new Soundclouds.
15 new videos uploaded YouTube.
5 song EP posted to Bandcamp (still need to organize another with songs I’ve posted to SC already)
Started a new Instagram for short experimental videos w/ music, few dozen of those posted and a pile ready to go. (Great outlet for those 30s jams that never go farther)
Made about 8 finished songs using BlocsWave loops but didn’t post because it seems like cheating...still deciding about those.
Wrapped it all up with a song entry for the BM3 Xmas battle.
Non-coincidentally this was my first full calendar year not drinking. Ironically it was the booze I used to go to for inspiration. Still smoking hella weed tho 😁
Do you have a regular day job that requires 40+ hours a week? And what about a family?
If I come across as snarky, then yes that is how i wish to be perceived. But my behavior is a product of self-loathing and envy of your effecient use of limited time. So, take it as a compliment. ☺
LOL!😂 I like your sense of humor. And your chops.
I stopped creating when I tried to take this music thing seriously. When I started to get into the gear and the effects and the whole process. It just became a never ending cycle of buying new sounds, DAWs, hardware, learning these somewhat and creating snippets and 4 bar/8 bar loops. I always keep thinking okay what do I don’t have, what do I need now, what sound or synth type. Like I am more into the process of building a music studio up then actually using all the gear haha.
When I first started making music and learning on a old PC and a copy of Nuendo a producer friend gave me I would sit there all day creating one single beat. Days, weeks even. Tweaking drums and layering.
Now I just buy some gear/software and then think I need the other gear I didn’t buy. I’m always searching for a better workflow that I can’t seem to find or something
I’ve spent about $1000 this year on desktop softwares and maybe made 2 beats lol
It can be a struggle sometimes
Thanks @Blipsford_Baubie, glad to see you around these parts. About to post an Xmas song on the Christmas thread in about half an hour. Please listen. Something different. You'll be surprised!
Happy holidays.
Will do @LinearLineman.
I've been around these parts a while actually. I mostly lurk and try to listen to more music. I try limiting my input. Don't want readers to have to sift through more clutter than there already is in order to find the useful knowledge left behind by others. Unless of course if I feel i have something clever or funny to say. In which case I post, re-read my own post, then laugh at my own post. Other times I just like to hear myself talk. I've even found myself writing lengthy posts that I never publish. When i reread said posts I conclude that nobody will learn anything from them except me. I think wow, I just learned learned something about why I do or don't do the things I do. The closest thing to therapy!
Ok. No more outbursts from me. Thanks for listening and have a great Holiday everyone. Here's to a more productive year, starting now!!
Nowadays the trick for me to get a song done is record my best performance/midi-idea and the mix and master partially decently without any attempt at perfection. Getting the idea done has to prioritize over “what about this/what about that” or else I’ll never get done.
Maybe it’s because you’re working hard in a field you love? Try doing something non-related to music for a week and I bet the songs start flowing.
I play cornet in a local community brass band and do around an hour a day practising to keep my chops in shape. I’m writing backing tracks for a jazz covers project I want to do live. iOS music making is fairly new to me and I’m in the early stages experimenting (and learning synthesis) to see how I can use it to add another dimension to my playing. I run my own business from home so can spread this over the day. I’m committed to getting six tracks written and recorded in 2019!
Btw - I never watch TV etc and, like @LinearLineman, I’m older so the ultimate deadline is always on the horizon!! Good luck with whatever music you do in 2019 - its all good!
I never watch tv either... just catch up News on YouTube. Not American news, you’ve lost perspective 😆 😈
Hey, I’m in the no TV club as well. I would rather be making music.
So 2018 was my first year for producing music. I got a handful of tracks completed. I’m really excited about 2019.
I’m trying to live by the mantra - Be useful. Be creative.
@RedSkyLullaby - you are a creative soul. Good luck in 2019!