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What are the driving forces / influences behind your current workflow?
As those of you who have been listening to my recent tracks can see, I'm going down a very deep / progressive house / techno road.
It's because of two reasons :
1- I am feeling the deeper, more emotive and atmospheric side of music these days, it matches my current mood and ability.
2- I'm listening to and appreciating the depth and quality of sounds like this:
So, this is directly affecting my gadget workflow..I'm trying really hard to create atmospheres, progressive builds and all that stuff. A lot of emotion goes into it, obviously influenced by my GF who is an incredible and very deep woman.
I also find it far easier and satisfying to make than the "harder stuff" and it feels more "me" as far as "who I am right now ".
Let us know what are the driving forces behind your current output! Give us an insight into the depths of your creative minds 
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The major driving force for my current workflow is simplicity to produce the highest quality acoustic recordings with as little "fuss" and costs as possible over iOS anywhere. And to use that exact same setup for teaching.
I've always been recording acoustically and it can be a nightmare (in price and logistics) to get good sounds out of everything... But now that I've discovered Korg Module, I'm pushing my live setup and recording process to the most streamlined possible with the technologies available to us without audio compromises
) It is amazing what we can do now compared to 10 years ago!
Cool!
I agree that simplicity is the key..
Driving force: SOTMC - August
Influence: Impaktor. I am clearing out this house in Maine, shipping a lot of stuff back to Austin and in my library (how grand
there's a shelf with thirty or so little percussive instruments/toys/things that I bought at flea markets and the like over the years when the kid was smaller than he is now. It'll be a good challenge to see if I can jiggle this stuff into a song I like. I think turning away for a few weeks from the full on technology might be a good ruse to help focus more on the (as yet unwritten) song itself.
I'd also like to thank Jesus, George Best and Hattie Jacques.
stream of consciousness, long improvisational jams, as organic and flowy as I can make them. uplifting yet dark. sad yet positive, hopeful yet somber, clean and distorted, machine like and flawed. i just turned 40 and feel free in that i will never 'make it', nor do i care to as that world has too much baggage. music for me and my friends to huddle around the fire with until this clock ticks out and we are sucked into the void. whatever it was for, who knows... it just was.
As for more technical process, i have been babbeling about it under a jam thread. Tenori on into cubasis running many synth apps, recordi about 6 or 7 tracks at once and then playing overdubs by hand.
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I like to actually play my parts. I'm writing different kinds of things, coming from my acoustic guitar background, both fingerstyle and classical. But I'm also an old bass player, and I'm working my electric. Refuse so far to program drums, trying to play, not terribly well, (I was much better once,) and getting there slowly. Picked up an irig keys keyboard, and am slowing working my way around that.
I appreciate programmed music. I love to write in Notion on the iPad, away from the instrument. But I have a need to play stuff. Doesn't mean I can't use midi, but it needs to be driven by me physically playing. Acoustic guitar, I record with a mic - I have yet to hear a sampled acoustic guitar sound that made me think any differently about that.
Yes, I think the best way to do guitar on iOS is to record a real one into the device..
I just started using the triggering clip method for building songs. After you have your structure you go back and edit on a linear timeline.
DrumJam, right now
Once I started doing it this way I find it hard to go back to linear writing first. Right now my workflow usually starts with a challenge to myself: finish a song, use a certain couple of apps that I bought and just sat there, use a piece of hardware, etc.
Driving forces in rigs using iThingies and other hardware?
Low latency and good sync to internal and external MIDI Clock. "All Notes Off" (Panic button). If I've got those, the driving force is music.
Clip-launch methods got my attention too, lately: I've got a 2 app method that's been productive, involving Electrify NXT, in which I can develop clips and loops (with NXTs WAV import and warp, sampler sequencer loops, drum kit loops, in-app synth sequencer loops) then experiment in the Electrify NXT launch grid with sequence, length and timing, then export each loop as WAV to MTS...this works as a two-way street, as MTS editors can trim and stretch audio for play as NXT clips before landing back in MTS
Another 2 step method has me in Beathawk for a development stage, as it too exports separate audio stems, and has its own non-piano-roll-based approach, in this case layering up live performance tracks (crucially without recourse to piano roll, which seems to help me move forward), rather than clip making and launching. There's a ton of options and fun in Beathawks libraries and interface, ideas can pop and get recorded and shipped out lickety-split.
A third app I've used to help develop multitrack projects in MTS is Stroke Machine, which is a rich synth (and synthesize-able-sample) play ground for developing ideas. I really connect with the synth-percussion sounds possible inside SM, and separate track export is pretty painless.
I'm getting into Zillidrone with this same approach, make trouble inside this app (as with Stroke Machine) then export stems, like SM by soloing each track and exporting as separate WAV.
Fooling around in a groove box (and whatever you would call NXT - half of Ableton?) then using those files for full fleshing out in a DAW has been really fun and furthering, finishing tracks!
A finished album.
I've currently got 20 tracks on the go in Gadget for an upcoming album release. They've been reworked about 20 times each (in rotation), but are still well ropey in parts, so it's ongoing (currently).
That's a great idea to have a challenge. We have a million instruments and tools at our disposal it's good to narrow things down. The number of choices can be overwhelming.
Agree on this, particularly Beathawk. Weird how a seeming regression (timeline lack) feels liberating in this case, albeit it having many other features. Still one of my most creative apps.
I'm currently putting a collection of B-side material together to release as an EP. The driving force behind this is that my Magnum Opal is my Sci-Fi concept album, and I don't want my baby suffering from my first final mix, my first mastering, and my first go around as a commercial vocalist. So I'm putting together a collection of "practice" songs with the goal of whipping them into good enough shape to justify an EP's price tag while nailing down my current vocal boundaries and spots both sweet and less so. I've been singing for years, but singing and playing original material, you tend to lose more money than you make, so I don't yet consider myself a commercial vocalist. Then there was the big voice change I experienced around 30 that I still have to get used to. The days when I could sing along with Ian Gillan on "Child in Time" or Rob Halford on "Dreamer Deceiver" are long gone, sadly.
Would also be nice to sell a few copies to put coin toward my iOS app habit.
@eustressor I'll be first in line to buy your EP.
I would like AAC or MP3 files so I can upload them and incorporate them into my iTunes song library. How are you going to sell your EP?
THIS!!
Incredibly kind of you to say. Thank you! Currently, I'm looking into distribution options, label vs. no label vs. my label, and the smoky mirror world of self-publishing. But I have every intention to sell via iTunes/Apple Music and Amazon, among others, so that should cover your format needs
Distribution - could be via Feiry, Distrokid, or a handful of other options. Still weighing pros and cons.
Label - go it alone or partner up? This is the next phase of research. I have a 3rd grade understanding of what major labels provide, but no idea what accessible indie labels can do for me that I can't do for myself.
Publishing - hurts my head, but it's part of the royalty-paying equation, and I think it can help open doors for getting music in front of Music Supervisors via Getty, etc.. Maybe I can hit the big time and score a Viagra commercial
Guess at the end of the day, a lot comes down to how many DBA bank accounts can I manage? My wife won't even let me near the checkbook ... For good reason!