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Play, learn, improvise, get to know the gear you have. Have fun but pay attention to what works and what doesn't. Identify where you hit walls. Look for specific solutions to those problems. First within your existing tool set, if there's nothing there try something new. Finish your projects. Move on to the next. Don't expect there to be releasable results immediately. You're not on anyone else's schedule.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Reverb on the entire mix?
« on: January 06, 2016, 11:49:16 pm »
Some of the things a reverb on the sum tackles can also be fixed by other means, with fewer side-effects.

If you have a very dry mix and a reverb would have raised the noise floor a little to get rid of unintended bits of complete silence (which might be quite common in sparse intros or outros), then you could use some other quiet, non-distinct sound to achieve the same thing (noise, field recording, that sort of thing) and restrict it to the places where it's needed.

If your sum reverb is used to put everything in the same room, then my question is, why wasn't it already? ;) Fix that in the mix—be very conservative with the amount of different reverbs and delays you use.

As always with music, there are multiple ways to skin a particular cat.

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I had this problem a long time too. Don't worry though. Finishing tracks will come naturally when you improve your production and song writing skills. Its all about learning as much as possible and then it will come naturally. Don't force yourself to finish stuff.

I disagree. Do force yourself to finish stuff. You will not get better at things you don't practice.

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: Is music theory really important ???
« on: January 06, 2016, 03:04:10 pm »
It will make many things so much easier for you. If you're asking, is it worth the time investment to learn: yes, it absolutely is.

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Performing Live, Playback, Sync
« on: January 06, 2016, 02:13:47 pm »
I was in a laptop jam with 8 others and we successfully synced our outboard gear and Live instances across half a dozen different computers with different versions of Live on different operating systems using ipMIDI: http://www.nerds.de/en/download.html

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