Completely Stumped
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- KVRAF
- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
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- KVRAF
- 8702 posts since 9 Jan, 2004 from leroyaumeuni
have you tried rubbing it?
My other host is Bruce Forsyth
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
good morning sunshine!you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRian
- 1178 posts since 24 Jan, 2003 from the hilly bit in Lincs, UK
Leg-spin or off-spin?
Mild-mannered web designer by day - tired web designer by night.
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- KVRAF
- 2935 posts since 14 Dec, 2003 from Edinburgh
Lacking musical inspiration Cypher?
Happens to me too. I recommend the following:
Give yourself 10 mins to work on each aspect of a tune, that is, ten minutes to work out a beat, ten mins on the bass, ten mins on the melody, etc, looping back to the original subject after each cycle, so you would go back to your drums and fettle them a bit more etc after youd done the forst run on everything else.
This gives you an urgency in getting stuff down, no messing around with eq, effects and so on at first, just straight to the bones of the business. As time goes on you go back and undo anything shit/ fine tune stuff. It works.
Its especially good for 2 or more people, each person has 10 mins to do their own bit, no arguin over which preset to use, just work on what the last person has done.
Once the bare bones are down you can spend more time on incidentals, effects, you know the deal...
Or perhaps just noodle away on the keyboard, when you notice an interesting little melody, record it, and use that in a process similair to the above.
theres been so many times I've sat down with a bottle of red and a smoke in anticipation of writing 'the' tune, and jsut spent 3 hours scrolling through presets on 10 different synths; this process kind of kills that problem straight away.
Hope that helps, if that was your problem...
Jim
Happens to me too. I recommend the following:
Give yourself 10 mins to work on each aspect of a tune, that is, ten minutes to work out a beat, ten mins on the bass, ten mins on the melody, etc, looping back to the original subject after each cycle, so you would go back to your drums and fettle them a bit more etc after youd done the forst run on everything else.
This gives you an urgency in getting stuff down, no messing around with eq, effects and so on at first, just straight to the bones of the business. As time goes on you go back and undo anything shit/ fine tune stuff. It works.
Its especially good for 2 or more people, each person has 10 mins to do their own bit, no arguin over which preset to use, just work on what the last person has done.
Once the bare bones are down you can spend more time on incidentals, effects, you know the deal...
Or perhaps just noodle away on the keyboard, when you notice an interesting little melody, record it, and use that in a process similair to the above.
theres been so many times I've sat down with a bottle of red and a smoke in anticipation of writing 'the' tune, and jsut spent 3 hours scrolling through presets on 10 different synths; this process kind of kills that problem straight away.
Hope that helps, if that was your problem...
Jim
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- KVRist
- 35 posts since 10 Apr, 2003 from Miami, FL, USA
"when you come to a fork in the road, take it"-yogi berra
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- KVRAF
- 2935 posts since 14 Dec, 2003 from Edinburgh
Actually, I sometimes work with trees for the local council (when its nice and sunny, not this time of year, and I recommend to some people that instead of paying a fortune to get your stump ground, you can make a nice seat out of them with a bit of fancy chainsaw work.
Not me, by the way. My knees are much, much kanobblier...
Not me, by the way. My knees are much, much kanobblier...
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- KVRAF
- 2935 posts since 14 Dec, 2003 from Edinburgh
yep! Absolutely the same trouble here, every time I get a good preset I'm off noodling a tune, putting in some beats... not good for deadlines... but good for demo tunes. All the demo tunes I did for my cameleon progressions bank were the result of patch design, so it worked out OK in end. The karnage one was the same, started from some good presets, and ended in some tooKriminal wrote:Make presets, that always helps me, tracks just pop up from nowhere when you are sound designing
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- KVRist
- 88 posts since 16 Sep, 2003 from Austin, Texas
Do something different. A DnB track, or track with/without vocals. All sample-based, or all FM sounds, or a Beatles cover, or something composed while on strange new drugs...
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- addled muppet weed
- 111306 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
destroy it then rebuild it with different materials.
oh and eat more cabbage.
oh and eat more cabbage.
