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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Losing motivation to finish tracks
« on: July 01, 2016, 06:52:27 pm »
Quote from: alanisnotcool on July 01, 2016, 06:54:06 am
Quote from: Marrow Machines on June 29, 2016, 07:07:16 pm
Some times a song is only a minute or two.

You have to understand the context of your songs, and what they are telling you the direction they should go.

It's a part of understanding that the song is something to consider as well as what you want.

A nice level of respect towards the song should be given if you want to be satisfied with what you make.



Thanks, thats some really good advice right there! You always have great insight.  I have come to the same conclusions over the years about how songs require a nice level of respect, and it really pays off in multiple ways.

With my latest project, which is the one I was talking about in my last post, is preferred to be at least 4-5 minutes for a proper "original mix" release.  I have my 2 minutes worth, but I now need to build a proper intro/outro to fill the rest.  Or I could just release the 2 minutes and call it a complete work because its my art and I do what I want! ;D

Yea, you don't have to release stuff at all man.

The main idea should be just to keep creating.

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Ill Gates tweeted this out
« on: June 30, 2016, 06:04:36 pm »
Quote from: eidolon on June 30, 2016, 03:24:55 pm
this articles makes some good points but imo it also glaringly overlooks things like the systematic inequalities that exist within society. the author makes the assumption that everyone in society has the exact same experience as a white american/UK male growing up in a household where you can devote your teenage years solely to computer programming.

and i say that as someone who *has* come from a similarly privileged background; its not a bad thing that he's had the life has at all, but he doesnt account for how others have lived. and those things arent reasons to not try, by any means, but just straight up ignoring them helps no one. the points about how society judges value based on # of people impacted definitely rings true. he just could use a little bit of nuance, as well.


I took something a little different out of it.

I didn't know the author's back ground at all.

It seemed to get the point across to the people who might not have considered life as a competition. Due to the background and sheltering, his audience might be just exactly what he is.

And to be quite frank, the delivery was appropriate for that said audience.

If we were to consider some one outside of that particular demographic, it still helps shape a certain mindset that could potentially be helpful for their success.


The societal implications he might have ignored (if that's what you're speaking about), are almost implied and understood by the reader(such as yourself).

With out going into that topic, I feel he did a pretty decent job of setting the ground work for the article's purpose.


But i agree that his demographic might be biased.

Not sure if this information is practical for folks who don't have certain needs met and have time to think about other things...





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Sound Design / Re: Sydney blu tech-house sub bass
« on: June 30, 2016, 03:41:34 am »
it's two layers, a sub and a more audible layer. the audible layer probably has some slight saturation or distortion.

https://theproducersforum.com/index.php?topic=4333.0

sounds similar to this, but it's more dry

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Sound Design / Re: Reverbed Subbass
« on: June 30, 2016, 12:05:59 am »
i don't think that's reverb on the sub bass man.

if any thing, it's two layers at once. the most 'audible' layer has the reverb where the sub doing the same thing as the audible layer.

the reverb is slight. it'd need to be controlled with an EQ.

Look into buss effects.

this is a solid track.


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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Ill Gates tweeted this out
« on: June 29, 2016, 07:48:53 pm »
http://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-is-unfair-its-your-broken-idea-of-fairness/

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Roots and Future: A History of U.K. Dance-from NPR
« on: June 29, 2016, 07:07:48 pm »
https://soundcloud.com/afropop-worldwide/roots-and-future-a-history-of-uk-dance

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Losing motivation to finish tracks
« on: June 29, 2016, 07:07:16 pm »
Some times a song is only a minute or two.

You have to understand the context of your songs, and what they are telling you the direction they should go.

It's a part of understanding that the song is something to consider as well as what you want.

A nice level of respect towards the song should be given if you want to be satisfied with what you make.


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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Cymatics & "Tutorialized Creativity"
« on: June 28, 2016, 11:16:02 pm »
it's no different than changing guitars or changing strings on guitars.

Every one will, to some extent, play the instruments differently.

I saw getter giving shit to cymantics about this. There' might be some legal reasons behind it, but they're still using the same friggin tool (ie guitars and strings analogy)

It's not really the artists sounds of the instrumentation, but it's the sound of the mix they should be complaining about (which is hardly ever the case in this point i believe).

I don't see any thing wrong with reverse engineering if it's for learning purposes.

But if they did that with out the blessing of the artists and used it to market their own brand, then that's kind of fucked.

"wanna buy something that is second hand off the real thing? then come on down and buy a sample pack or two(that we've made)!"

another point is that, it's good to learn, but eventually you'll have to take the training wheels off.

besides, patches are shared among those producers in the industry. Yet some want to get mad/call attention when ever the circle gets bigger?

I personally think folks are placing value in the wrong perspective of creativity. focusing more on the material side of things, rather than the introspection involved with life and creating in life.

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Losing motivation to finish tracks
« on: June 28, 2016, 08:59:41 pm »
silence in between music helps.

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: Layers of a song - explanation?
« on: June 28, 2016, 08:57:55 pm »
it's just one shot sample things going off, that's really what a stab is.

it can be more musical or effect in nature.

It holds the same principle behind why drummers did solos, or the band took a break. to fill up time and space.

that's how i see it any ways

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: How do you pick your melodic synth in relation to your bassline?
« on: June 28, 2016, 08:56:53 pm »
pick an octave reference point and start making designing a sound based on that area.

if it sounds good in that range, then you're good to go.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Looking For Someone To Help Us Mix-Master-Produce Drum and Bass
« on: June 23, 2016, 03:36:33 pm »
Quote from: theRB on June 23, 2016, 07:31:48 am
Not sure why it's like that.

The link is

https://soundcloud.com/the-rock-brothers

Edit:
Just fixed profile link as well

Both work now.

It could of been that the forum already provided the soundcloud part, and all you needed was how your site was located.

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: Getting Out of the 8 Bar Loop
« on: June 23, 2016, 05:34:57 am »
https://theproducersforum.com/index.php?topic=3996.0

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Looking For Someone To Help Us Mix-Master-Produce Drum and Bass
« on: June 23, 2016, 02:09:20 am »
Quote from: theRB on June 23, 2016, 12:44:30 am
Just tried it, works from our end.

if it's in regards to the link on your forum profile, you have two instances of the hyper link part.

So you have

https://soundcloud.com/https://soundcloud.com/bandstuff


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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Im feeling sad and unmotivated
« on: June 22, 2016, 06:19:22 pm »
Quote from: ion on June 22, 2016, 09:30:09 am
Quote from: Soundtastic on June 22, 2016, 07:14:56 am
I wonder if you could have evaded the topic ( that meat causes depression and sickness in most humans ) any more by saying something else.

You can try with a response to this post if you like.

The topic isn´t meat!  The OP asked for some guidance and encouragement, he/she didn´t ask for any food advice from someone who thinks they´ve found the cure for all the world´s problems.  This is a forum mainly about music, you have made 2 posts.  None of them about music...


OP: A lot of things are changing in the way your brain is perceiving things right now.  Don´t force yourself, and you will find your passion again.

although, we can't over look diet and nutrition as a how we feeling in the long run.

but, given circumstances and information given by OP, i think this is just a natural part of life.

Just make sure you're being healthy and doing healthy things!!

life is a wave.

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