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Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:08 pm

jax, that's terrible! I hope your music will help you to regain complete control of every finger. Music is a great motivator -- and entertaining too.

Best wishes,

Meffy

Whoomph · Post by **Whoomph** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:14 pm

jax wrote: 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,

Verysorry to hear that.
Keep up the good work

, I also had to teach my lefthand what to do all over again on the guitar.I started by using one finger for a chord and then 2 then 3 it took me about a year to get back to the same level as I'd been before, though my playing will never be the same as it was really , so I've used this to my advantage , my playing style is much looser than it used to be my fingers sometimes make mistakes but hey it's a little more grungier

Mental Audio Deviations · Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:48 pm

Yo Jax, power to you man! So, workflow eh?
-make coffee
-turn on all gear and computer
-roll joint
-watch blinking lights and blank arrange page
-noodle some on guitar/softsynth
-tweak parameters on synth
-quit to kvr

jones-y · Post by **jones-y** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:53 pm

I load up patches, and noodle around until a riff I play catches my attention. Record that, and build around it.

Afterwards, tweak the presets I loaded up in the first place, switch some sounds, mangle some others.

Make coffee, decide I don't like the composition, erase it and start over.

Or alternately, I might sample something, or load up a loop, build up a composition around it, then take out the sample or loop, and work from there.

soulata · Post by **soulata** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:54 pm

different each day but:

practising, coffee, teaching, creative&kvr almost each day.

depends on the current project: now arranging some shit pop stuff for a singer. blah.

will try to do my best though.

k

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:32 pm

Fire up AudioMulch.
Shut down AudioMulch 4-5 hours later. There's either a finished track there or there isn't.

If there is, I return a bit later (usually the next day) to apply some last tweaks and automation.
Render to *.wav. Maybe export stems for Sonar.
Encode to *.mp3 and upload to server. Notify K-V-R.

If there isn't, I return and think "I really should do something with this". I have about 3.000.000 (1) tracks that make me think that.

Groet, Erik

(1) or slightly less.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:53 pm

I use ORION Platinum. All my drums and vocal samples come from its DrumRack, most of my bass sounds come from WaspXT and I use Sampler for strings and stuff like that. For other synth sounds I use the latest line of little killerz. Today that means kARMAkILLER and LOVEkILLER. I prefer to use a restricted number of instruments at any one time, although the actual instruments will vary at different times, because I prefer to wring every last drop out of a synth rather than just scratch the surface by using it for the thing it is obviously suited to. Being forced to compromise makes me more creative. If I sat down in front of the kind of set-ups favoured around here, with VST folders bursting at the seams, I don't think I would get very much done, I would spend all my time previewing sounds to ensure that I had the perfect one for the job. I think that time is much better spent getting the perfect sound out of something I know intimately and can bend to my will. It feels like a more valid process to me.

mn · Post by mn » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:28 pm

jax wrote: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...

jax,

Not trying to thread hijack at all because I am a private person, but all I can say is "you are not alone". Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolisms (PE). On blood thinners for life now; I am 36. Spent this year wondering if I'd lose my life, then my leg, then would it ever feel better, then will it keep improving... it's an everyday struggle as you know.

Fortunately at this point I can still play guitar as crappy as always but it does hurt my hand more. And instead of doing stuff like, say, walking - I've been buying plugins.

Best regards to you, I hope you continue to improve. If you have no obvious trigger for a thrombosis (recent surgery or trauma) have them do a blood test for hereditary clotting disorders like FVL (Factor V Leiden, sometimes spelled Leyden) or Lupus Anticoagulant.

M'Snah · Post by **M'Snah** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:46 am

Ja.x · Post by **Ja.x** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:48 pm

Thanks for your words, guys, but I was a crappy guitarrist anyway

. The other 'problem' is that my 17 y.o. son borrowed my acoustic guitar two years ago (trying to become a heavy metal guitarrist/singer himself)

and once I get it back (real soon) I'll restart training

. And I love synths, by the way.

What is your workflow?