What programs do you use, what synths, effects, hardware, instruments, ect. ect. ?
for me I use a fender strat through a podXT into tracktion, usually sr202 for the drums, wusikstation for most synth stuff, sfz for bass and master it in ozone. camel phat is used to when things need more punch or just need to be louder. sometimes i go to acid to do beat slicing.
What is your workflow?
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- KVRist
- 242 posts since 4 Feb, 2004 from New York, New York
drink alot of coffee and go go go
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- addled muppet weed
- 111300 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
weed coffee noises and then just see what happens
if i come up with something great if i dont oh well
if i come up with something great if i dont oh well
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- KVRAF
- 3364 posts since 16 Feb, 2004 from atop a katamari
i find myself loading up Tracktion, eXT and Reaktor when i should be doing some other serious work. Then, i proceed to tinker on unrelated things in each program, and play a few notes on the midi keyboard, whilst simultaneously browsing the internet and chatting on IRC.
soon i realise my eyes are about to start bleeding, as i notice that it is nearly 3am, whereby i save the four-bar, two MIDI track project i have open on my screen, abandon my tweaked ensemble and lie in bed waiting to fall asleep til i have to get up for lectures.
soon i realise my eyes are about to start bleeding, as i notice that it is nearly 3am, whereby i save the four-bar, two MIDI track project i have open on my screen, abandon my tweaked ensemble and lie in bed waiting to fall asleep til i have to get up for lectures.
Kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
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- KVRian
- 995 posts since 4 Mar, 2004
When it gets me I can't do anything else ,
when it doesn't I just pr@ck aroud doing other things
which I try to kee to things that are related to my work , like having a larf at kvr
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when it doesn't I just pr@ck aroud doing other things
which I try to kee to things that are related to my work , like having a larf at kvr
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- KVRAF
- 1789 posts since 17 Mar, 2004 from Bretagne, the west of France
Trakction, ext, reaktor, midi keyboard,internet & chat, that's 6 simultanious tasks...haydxn wrote:i find myself loading up Tracktion, eXT and Reaktor when i should be doing some other serious work. Then, i proceed to tinker on unrelated things in each program, and play a few notes on the midi keyboard, whilst simultaneously browsing the internet and chatting on IRC.
soon i realise my eyes are about to start bleeding, as i notice that it is nearly 3am, whereby i save the four-bar, two MIDI track project i have open on my screen, abandon my tweaked ensemble and lie in bed waiting to fall asleep til i have to get up for lectures.
Man on what OS are you running, I want that
Rony
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Stupid American Pig Stupid American Pig https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4753 - KVRAF
- 7065 posts since 25 Nov, 2002 from not sure
lately my workflow is to rerecord all of my old songs after actually learning how to play them from beginning to end. I have tried to adopt a more live playing feel and less point and click precision sound. I find that old songs that sounded boring before have a new life to them once you play them live... I also have stripped down the production layers and try to just make a song in about 16 tracks or so...
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- KVRist
- 123 posts since 15 Mar, 2004 from closer than you think
I used to mainly record guitar through a line-in into cubase then add effects to it. Drums were sample driven using battery and a keyboard. Synths were often painstakingly fed into a midi editor since my keyboard skills were next to nothing.
Then I got better at the leyboard so started to 'record' pieces (via midi).
Then I got into sampling and started to really mess around with Soundforge to get creative sounds and rhythms.
More recently I bought Reason, recycle and Adobe Audition (so much easier to lay sound ideas out than Soundforge), so at the moment I'm more sample-based (rex files and the like). Although not a die-hard fan of anything in particular, I have to say that the NN-XT in Reason is so much easier to use than Kontakt (for me anyway - much less messing about).
For a while I started to get bogged down in the studio and found it harder and harder to come up with anything tangible after hours of 'work', but sample-based stuff seems to have given me a new lease of life (for the time being).
Then I got better at the leyboard so started to 'record' pieces (via midi).
Then I got into sampling and started to really mess around with Soundforge to get creative sounds and rhythms.
More recently I bought Reason, recycle and Adobe Audition (so much easier to lay sound ideas out than Soundforge), so at the moment I'm more sample-based (rex files and the like). Although not a die-hard fan of anything in particular, I have to say that the NN-XT in Reason is so much easier to use than Kontakt (for me anyway - much less messing about).
For a while I started to get bogged down in the studio and found it harder and harder to come up with anything tangible after hours of 'work', but sample-based stuff seems to have given me a new lease of life (for the time being).
Mine's a Stella. Cheers !
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- KVRian
- 903 posts since 14 May, 2003
I realize that this is not exactly what you looking for, but...
1. Wake-up: coffee and cigarettes, open studio, review previous day's work, do some inspirational and directed listening while writing in my journal, make a plan for the day.
2. Execute plan (part one): tend to do "ear" things in the AM session (sound design and mixing)
(The workflow of which you speak is entirely dependent on the project demands. I tend to be composing rather large works most of the time, so I break them down into smaller components--sometimes working on similar components of different works simulataneously, especially during the bookend phases.)
3. Go out to dinner for a little socializing as much as the food, but bring a notebook and sometimes my MP3 player.
4. Take a nap.
5. Execute plan (part two): this session is usually devoted to design, scoring, sequencing and things that do not demand a fresh "physical ear".
6. Close day's studio session with notebook and journal entries.
7. Have a light snack and watch a movie (I watch many films--into French film from the 80s and 90s right now). I do quite a bit of casual ideation during this time also.
8. Retire, usually to music/reading or off-the-wall talk radio unless I am in the heat of a project's design phase, then will try to remain focused during "dream-time" too.
I break about every ten days or so from this routine for a mental health day or two (sometime a week between projects for "emptying" as the Zen masters put it), supplies (very important to the "workflow" ambience) and appointments. I discovered about ten years ago that my appointments calendar is of my making, no others. I don't receive unannounced guests, appointments (including doctors and lawyers!) are at my convinence and I make regular public appearances daily during the dinner hours, which for me are 1-3pm during which time I am willing to talk to anyone--although I do not suffer fools lightly.
Composing is not a hobby for me as you can probably tell. I have a modest private income, so feel almost no imperative to market on a regular basis. I do not accept many commissions anymore unless the project is particularly interesting is some way--I have more than enough ideas. "Opportunity" doesn't really interest me that much and collaboration is of no interest whatsoever--been there, done that. I would rather spend any extra time I have doing research, study (there seems to be no end to what you need to know in this "computer music technology" area to which I am somewhat new--a mere 8 years since my first computer/DAW) and in contemplation.
Not a "workflow" for everyone, but it suits me fine.
Cheers
"Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell
"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid" - Goethe
“Abandon ambition, desire and expectation” – Buddhist dictum
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."– Dylan Thomas
"Do you know anything more splendid than to discover by chance a genius who has been unrecognized through the ages? But to have been such a genius oneself - can any glory equal it?" – Claude Debussy
1. Wake-up: coffee and cigarettes, open studio, review previous day's work, do some inspirational and directed listening while writing in my journal, make a plan for the day.
2. Execute plan (part one): tend to do "ear" things in the AM session (sound design and mixing)
(The workflow of which you speak is entirely dependent on the project demands. I tend to be composing rather large works most of the time, so I break them down into smaller components--sometimes working on similar components of different works simulataneously, especially during the bookend phases.)
3. Go out to dinner for a little socializing as much as the food, but bring a notebook and sometimes my MP3 player.
4. Take a nap.
5. Execute plan (part two): this session is usually devoted to design, scoring, sequencing and things that do not demand a fresh "physical ear".
6. Close day's studio session with notebook and journal entries.
7. Have a light snack and watch a movie (I watch many films--into French film from the 80s and 90s right now). I do quite a bit of casual ideation during this time also.
8. Retire, usually to music/reading or off-the-wall talk radio unless I am in the heat of a project's design phase, then will try to remain focused during "dream-time" too.
I break about every ten days or so from this routine for a mental health day or two (sometime a week between projects for "emptying" as the Zen masters put it), supplies (very important to the "workflow" ambience) and appointments. I discovered about ten years ago that my appointments calendar is of my making, no others. I don't receive unannounced guests, appointments (including doctors and lawyers!) are at my convinence and I make regular public appearances daily during the dinner hours, which for me are 1-3pm during which time I am willing to talk to anyone--although I do not suffer fools lightly.
Composing is not a hobby for me as you can probably tell. I have a modest private income, so feel almost no imperative to market on a regular basis. I do not accept many commissions anymore unless the project is particularly interesting is some way--I have more than enough ideas. "Opportunity" doesn't really interest me that much and collaboration is of no interest whatsoever--been there, done that. I would rather spend any extra time I have doing research, study (there seems to be no end to what you need to know in this "computer music technology" area to which I am somewhat new--a mere 8 years since my first computer/DAW) and in contemplation.
Not a "workflow" for everyone, but it suits me fine.
Cheers
"Follow your bliss" - Joseph Campbell
"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid" - Goethe
“Abandon ambition, desire and expectation” – Buddhist dictum
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."– Dylan Thomas
"Do you know anything more splendid than to discover by chance a genius who has been unrecognized through the ages? But to have been such a genius oneself - can any glory equal it?" – Claude Debussy
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
1) think of musical idea
2) fire up a sequencer, Reason, or whatever
3) load some plug-ins or build a rack
4) drop in at KvR
5) get completely side-tracked
6) forget musical idea
:-S
Meffy
we have good news and bad news
2) fire up a sequencer, Reason, or whatever
3) load some plug-ins or build a rack
4) drop in at KvR
5) get completely side-tracked
6) forget musical idea
:-S
Meffy
we have good news and bad news
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- KVRian
- 903 posts since 14 May, 2003
That my fallback plan, Meffy.Meffy wrote:1) think of musical idea
2) fire up a sequencer, Reason, or whatever
3) load some plug-ins or build a rack
4) drop in at KvR
5) get completely side-tracked
6) forget musical idea
:-S
Meffy
we have good news and bad news
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- Banned
- 6127 posts since 1 Apr, 2004 from Et in Arcadia Ego
The last two months has been Reaktor standalone -> Audition.
That's it.
That's it.
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Stupid American Pig Stupid American Pig https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4753
- KVRAF
- 7065 posts since 25 Nov, 2002 from not sure
ok I will be honest-
-Start song, think it is "my #1 anthem" work hard on it until it gets to be 50-75% complete.
-burn it to cd so I can listen in the car on the way to work and back
-get tired of my song
-start loathing my song
-call it crap and repeat.
-Start song, think it is "my #1 anthem" work hard on it until it gets to be 50-75% complete.
-burn it to cd so I can listen in the car on the way to work and back
-get tired of my song
-start loathing my song
-call it crap and repeat.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
And that is my fallback plan. Gah.S_A_P wrote:-Start song, think it is "my #1 anthem" work hard on it until it gets to be 50-75% complete.
-burn it to cd so I can listen in the car on the way to work and back
-get tired of my song
-start loathing my song
-call it crap and repeat.
Meffy
hapless, too
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- KVRAF
- 2323 posts since 4 Mar, 2004 from Portugal (Lagos)
I started to learn piano at 7, and at 15 I taught myself some guitar. Never been a virtuoso on neither. One year ago I was seriously hill (had a thrombosis, was in the hospital for 3 weeks) and was paralyzed on my left side. Slowly I recovered (almost) completely, and now I can play keyboards the way I used to 
(not much), but not guitar 
: my brain knows what to do but my left hand doesn't follow it. Have to go again through a learning stage, I think. So currently I play the midi keyboard a little, improvisations now and then, but mostly use the piano roll.
(not much), but not guitar : my brain knows what to do but my left hand doesn't follow it. Have to go again through a learning stage, I think. So currently I play the midi keyboard a little, improvisations now and then, but mostly use the piano roll.Eventually something intelligent will appear written here. Watch this space.