I am not so sure about that claim. Since I am not some industrious genius I prefer to strive for one really good track rather than ten crappy ones.outside wrote:If you focus on quantity, quality will prevail. Don't try to make masterpieces from start, if you train yourself to finish each track faster, it will become your second nature.
Facing similar issues, I get the feeling that it's different for songs vs instrumental music. With a song, I feel the need to communicate some message, and for that I have to create a vehicle, which on its own doesn't have to impress that much (I often listen to famous songs stripped of their vocals on YT, the result is often quite mediocre). With instrumental music (probably the vast majority of the music made by KVR members) the approach seems different, it's more about fancy synth patches and trying to find a place for them in an arbitrary melody one has yet to find. I suppose with real composers and musicians the melodies originate in people's heads and then they transfer them into real life, whereas typical computer musicians often just play around, hoping they will stumble upon a nice melody by chance.
Getting a rompler has helped me somewhat. Often I just load the Rhodes piano and play chord sequences, instead of programming sounds. Still, sometimes I don't even feel like opening my DAW anymore because I am unhappy with that whole music stuff and I feel like maybe I am wasting my time.
Not least when one is all alone in that, nobody teaching you how to do things, motivating you...
If you feel stuck, you can always come back to the "basics".
