Piece of software to hit the creative spark

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Hi All,

beside mucking about to hit the creative spark what is your go to piece of software or alternative approach

I am halfway through a track and have hit a brick wall I need some advice!!

thank you

Jason

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Yesterday it was WOW2 on a drum loop. Been enjoying messing with Obscurium too.

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Some times I open Youtube and look for videos of preset banks for those synths I use. Once in a while I can hear a sound there that will trigger my creativity. In most cases I recreate that particular sound, or even buy the preset bank in question.

Sounds have Always been a source of inspiration for me.
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My alternate approach is rendering absolutely everything to audio and working with that, resisting the temptation to apply further channel effects once your audio is back in there. Takes the focus away from fiddling with sound design and puts it back on to arrangement and songcraft for me. That sound that you thought was say, 80% there, often turns out to be perfect in context.

A few years back (edit: bloody hell more like a decade ago!) I used to work exclusively like this. I'd use a variety of gear for sound design and getting my parts down with a WAV recorder constantly running, then chop all the bits I wanted out from the 'megawav', import them into Energy XT and use it purely as an audio sequencer (although now that would be Live.) If I wanted another sound, I'd leave eXT and go back to my other gear/software, make the required wav, and bring it back in - completely separating the process of sound design and arrangement.

It sounds slow, but trust me, once the slog of getting all the parts extracted is out of the way, you will work fast.

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I go for a walk around the city with my Zoom H2N on record for a while. When I get home I play back and see if I've got anything interesting. Usually it's just traffic crap etc, but taking a break from the studio can be just as good at recharging the batteries and freshening up my thought processes.

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Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.

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piece of software to spit the creative hark?

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http://xoxos.net/software/first.zip
stare at that for a few minutes ;)
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thank you all for your help!!!!

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jsmith wrote:
thank you!! book bought! :)
I hope it helps! I've found it to be full of inspiring suggestions myself.

I also find Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies card deck to be a fun way to help move a piece along. Here's an online version:

http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.

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Nothing wrong with grabbing a piece of paper and getting your thoughts down, either in words or music notation.

I suppose as a millennial I should be suggesting some app or some garbage like that, but sometimes you can't beat paper. Or taking a walk without your phone.

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xoxos wrote: http://xoxos.net/software/first.zip
stare at that for a few minutes ;)
that's lovely :)

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Permut8 and Turnado.

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