Quote from: gd4223 on January 15, 2016, 12:54:21 am

Question for the Point System: What about guys like me?

I have not been to school for music, so I dont know all the technical terms to the T. There may be times where I want to leave feedback but dont have confidence in the feedback Im giving since I have limited knowledge in production. But if I want to get feedback on what Im making, then Im going to have to leave feedback. I feel like my feedback may come across as generic or not very good in general. So I would fear that the moderator would remove my feedback and therefore I never get to post anything for review because my feedback score is low.

Just wanted to throw that out there. Not sure if you all have covered it yet or not.

Yeah this came up already, here's what I replied:

Quote from: sleepy on January 13, 2016, 04:17:02 am

In the last track I posted I asked the forum to get feedback on my sound design and arrangement, as well as how the track made them feel. If you don't have whole lot of experience with music, then at the very least you're a human with emotions. Emotional feedback is probably just as important as any technical feedback. As long as you're sincere and openly show that you're trying to give quality feedback, I don't think there should be a problem.

Does that make sense?

Thank you Sleepy! Makes perfect sense. I can definitely do that.

Question for the Point System: What about guys like me?

I have not been to school for music, so I dont know all the technical terms to the T. There may be times where I want to leave feedback but dont have confidence in the feedback Im giving since I have limited knowledge in production. But if I want to get feedback on what Im making, then Im going to have to leave feedback. I feel like my feedback may come across as generic or not very good in general. So I would fear that the moderator would remove my feedback and therefore I never get to post anything for review because my feedback score is low.

Just wanted to throw that out there. Not sure if you all have covered it yet or not.

Thank you! I will be busy tonight!

Buy a MIDI pack with melodies of the genre you like to make. Then use them to learn the progressions and all that.

I recently paid for the program Odesi by Mixed In Key. For a beginner, it could be a good tool to help make melodies over certain chord progressions.

I recently got Spire as well and I'm loving it! Massive has been put on the back burner. lol

Ive been using the Tascam US4x4 for about a year now. No issues so far. I kinda took a chance on it and have been happy so far.

P.S. I switched from the NI Komplete Audio 6. It was giving me issues.

I think the video was just showing us something basic and popular. To me it seems like there are a ton of possibilities, but im also a beginner in this category. I agree this wont be something I will use further down the road, but for now I think it will help me. Appreciate the review. Thanks

I start blank, I feel like having a set template kind of limits my creativity. Also, since I'm still pretty new to this, there are still a lot of different ways I can approach things. My goal is not to pump out tracks every day/week, so having a template doesn't really do much for me.

I used to be like that and after a while I got tired of adding the same things over and over. So I made a template based on the fact that it is easier to delete something than it is to find and add it. And the flip side of your "limits to creativity", is that you could lose your creativity if you have to add certain things to your project to get to that certain creativity point. Just my 2 cents.