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What are your music goals for 2024?
I think mine is to produce a 4-track EP. I had planned to do it this year but I ended up moving to another part of the country, so that took up a lot of my time. I've also decided on a minimalist approach to music creation. I'll use just my Arturia Minilab MK III, a pair of headphones, and a few apps. Maybe a guitar as well. I thought it would be a good idea to learn more about my chosen apps and not get bogged down in buying loads and forgetting about them.
The DAW will likely be NS2 or CB3 and its associated IAPs and inbuilt sounds. I think if I limit myself to that, I'll be able to produce something worthwhile, for myself at any rate.
What's your plans for next year?
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1) start releasing more music. I have a mixtape/project I’m releasing in a couple weeks but it’s my only full length solo release ever. Definitely want to change that.
2) the 404 mk2. I’m planing on buying the 404 in January and I want to set aside time to properly learn it through and through.
3) learn all my apps, especially the modular ones. I have so many great apps that I’ve only scratched the surface of so next year the plan is to buy waaay less and learn what I already have. MiRack is first.
Btw my current setup is my iPad, headphones, and Minilab3 and it’s a lot of fun! I’m sure you’ll enjoy it a lot. I just want one piece of hardware which is where the 404 comes into play.
Get more gigs is the broad answer for me. I played out more this past year than any other year and I really enjoyed it, especially now that I'm running my own light show too. It's more fun than I expected. Hopefully getting to the point where I can bring the guitar with me on stage too, and not just the groove boxes.
Play with other musicians more IRL. I have three amazing musicians/audio engineer friends in my neighborhood, and we keep talking about getting together for a jam but haven't made it happen yet.
More than anything, just looking forward to focusing on being a musician more now that I'm ramping down my mastering business. Been in the engineering role too much the last decade or so, can't wait to just worry about composing and performing my own stuff now.
I bought a Novation Circuit Rhythm, a Roland SP404 mk2, a Korg Minilogue XD and finally updated my ipad Air 2 to an Air 5.
My musical plans are the same as ever though: to just dabble in sound and have fun doing it
Probably to spend more time playing sax and trumpet. I really feel like I haven’t made progress on either in same way I have with other instruments.
Also determined to make my way through some pieces of music that I have the sheet music for but not finished learning them.
Oh, and as I say every year, finish some recorded music…
That's what... nevermind, there is a thread for that.
I got most of the apps I was wanting (Ruismaker noir and agonizer are the last of the “big” ones )so my Sonic palate is on point now. My goal then is to continue to experiment and grow as an artist… I’m currently recording the best music of my life and wanna blow some minds… I want to do stuff that’s never been done before , well, even more than previously 😂
My six months offline and lack of releasing new stuff kind of hurt us on Spotify so I need to be careful not to release anything to streaming that could hurt us algorithmically… but with Bandcamp there’s no such problem
Already there!
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So, one of my musical goals is to finish my "2005" EP. This is a "big production" type EP where I'll use a DAW, will have tuned vocals, complex arrangements, etc. I'll try to release it in March sometime before my 40th birthday. After that goal is complete, I will take a long hiatus from creating "big production" type productions. I've been producing that way for over 20 years, and quite frankly it's one reason I often got stuck in a music creation block. I'm tired of producing that way, which is why the OP-1 Field has freed my creativity once more.
Speaking of the OP-1 Field, one of my goals is to continue producing solely on it and recording my results to Logic Pro where I can use Mastering Assistant. However, another goal is to keep veering towards the Avante-Garde and Experimental. Ever since I started getting high, my music-listening tastes shifted from EDM and Ambient to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart (although my love for Vince Guaraldi's music and Jazz hasn't changed). I mean, shit, have you ever listened to "Billy the Mountain" while high? 😱 It was like experiencing the whole song for the very first time. (I had an awesome Dad. He's the one who introduced me to Zappa with that song, on vinyl!)
So yeah, I think Zappa used a 4-track tape deck, right? I think Captain Beefheart also used a 4-track? I know the Beatles did. The point I'm making is, can you imagine those cats making such music on an OP-1 Field if they were still alive today? I sure can!
And that's the goal right there. To continue having fun on the OP-1 Field rather than the drudgery of creating music in a DAW. To rely less and less on sequencers and more and more on my live playing. To embrace the imperfect mistakes and dive deep into the chaos realm! You get what I mean, right? I'm not sure I understand half of what I'm typing. I started the first paragraph off fine, and then I toked, lol. 😝
Release more than two songs
Buy more hardware
Finish more tracks
Only buy apps that I really need
Only brought about 5 apps this year
Fully master the apps that I own
i live in Ukraine, and war time is tough for all kinds of music goals.
so mine are humble:
PS. not interested in producing studio tracks with stacks of plugins and microsculpting every tiny aspect of the sound. i'm all about gigs and imperfection.
In no particular order.
-Buying new reference headphones and monitors (been using krk rp6 gen 2 for almost 20 years and a sennheisser hd mix 6 for the last few)
-improve my mixing and mastering abilities
-Finishing my ep/album and putting it online
-become more productive in writing lyrics
Two for me:
Go for it, IMO age is no impediment to learning new skills, and I would add that it's probably a good idea to keep learning new things to maintain brain plasticity.
I have to constantly learn and problem-solve for work, and I also enjoy learning new things in my spare time (music and art).
But what really surprised me was that I learned to ski aged 51, along with my two teenage boys (13 and 16 at the time). You would think that the old man would have struggled to keep up with the young guns, and that they would pick up the physical skills more quickly, but to my surprise I learned at exactly the same pace as the boys. That's not what the received wisdom is, but it turns out that you can learn new skills in middle-age.
I've also learned to sing and play piano in my forties. I really believe that you can learn difficult skills from scratch at any age, as long as you put the work in.
Buy new headphones and, since it's been a while, actually release something...
OP-1 Field (mastering the instrument and producing a full EP on it by this time next year)
43 year old, also taking piano lessons. Much better investment than any “instabuy” crap (apps or hardware). @BillS it will be hard, but don’t give up, the rewards will be immense.
As for my personal goals, I intended to launch my second album somewhere in 2024, but the real challenge and goal will be to play live, either solo with my improvised ambient project, or even better my jam band finds a way to play some gigs. Here’s hoping!
Happy new year to everyone at ABF!
learn to actually play the keyboard
release less, maybe 4 tracks in the year
maybe a new ipad pro 12.9 depending on what Apple unleash
try and find an online female vocalist to collaborate on songs, instead of using AI vocals
either sign up to an AI video generation tool, or get someone else to produce the videos
Just get the Disney plus trial.
This.^^
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Oh...
Live streaming dRambo next year if not before.
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Yeah...
It's a gooden. 😂