Yeah, no kidding. 8-9 hours i could say.Moldavsky wrote:8 hours! no kidding?! For a such professionally well-done composition?! Wow. That's some level, my friend. Please, share some secrets of your workflow.IrionDaRonin wrote: · Track made in 8 hours
Sure, i will share some tricks:
-I always start for the main idea in my head, this is the main part of the song, which is usually placed in the middle of the track. And then, i make a whole structured track from that. This is the basis, and i have bazillion of ideas and proyects in my old DVDs, and actual hard disc. The bad of it is that if you get bored of the main basis, you won't finish and develop that main idea. So as me, you will get many unfinished ideas.
I don't know of others start the track from beginning and continue from that. I basically start the track from the middle.
-Select the sounds that are inspiring to you in the preset browser.
Sometimes is faster to get an already made sound than making one from scratch, nothing bad in that. If a sound is useful to you and fits nicely with your track or proyect, use it.
Then you can tweak that preset, or start a new one when you need more of them. Which was no the case in this track, all sound were made from scratch, except the kick, i can't make miracles with this little freebie.
-Always save your effect presets. For example, as i usually use the same plugins, i have tons of presets made by me for the effects.
Mostly in EQ, Delays, Reverbs and so on. Music is like a memory, a mirror of yourself, so if you like a preset that was made by you long time ago, for sure you will like to use it again.
This is another way to go faster. For example i always use the same freaking preset for the MG Tempo Delay, because it is very pleasant to my ears, i saved it long time ago.
For the EQ i have some basic ones, for bass purposes, for cutting highs or low freqs, for general mastering purposes, etc. I just have to tweak them a bit, is up to the sound used.
Every sound in each channels, of course.
-About automations, if you are going to make a constant up and down curves, just use a LFO instead.
And you can always save your automations too.
-Get inspired by what you are doing, it is faster and easy to make a whole track when you are digging into it. As soon as you have the main idea in your head, the track will be made in no time if you feel motivated of it.
-In any case, take a proper rest too, your ears need to rest time to time. But at same time, as it is in my case, don't leave the proyect too many days off, or you will lose your interest.
This means that i didn't the whole track just today (but almost lol).
-Another reason that i'm fast, is when i started with FL Studio, which have been always my main program to go, i was using the damn demo. This means that i had to be faster, make a whole track in one day (because you couldn't load proyects) So i made tracks in the same day, rendering them in the same day, etc.
Of course, my style, workflow, and bad programing in that epoque were a disaster and way different to what i can do nowadays, so my tracks lacked of quality, and i was even faster than today. (Of course this doesn't mean that i'm so pro now, because i have much more to learn yet)
-Forget about instruction manuals, the best teacher is the practice in real time, this is how i learned everything about what i know nowadays in music.
However, read a manual when you are completely lost with a synth.
Your main daw is just another instrument, it is like a piano or a guitar, you have to "touch" it and make mistakes, feel comfortable with it and understand it.
You will get faster with practice. Practise is the only way to be faster (Kung Fu master said
)-The last trick that i can think about is that use what you have, you don't need more programs, to learn them will take time, in my case i always used FL, so i have a lot of shortcuts to make this and that. Save your shortcuts too. To make just music, you don't need too many things.
In any case, maybe this track was made really in about 8-9 hours. When i saw the proyect last time was saying 10 hours, but this is due i'm always leaving open FL for a while when i'm rendering the track, looking for a nice portrait for the song, even the titles (which i have a huge list in a txt made by me) or more freebies to put into the folders.
So i can easily waste one hour or two just doing nothing, with the proyect in the background counting minutes and minutes.
I hope it works for you and everyone else.
Have a nice day, buddies
