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PsyTiax
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Posted : Nov 14, 2008 16:18:15
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Hi guys,
When you start a track, do you usually mostly follow the same pattern over and over (for example, you start with the lead, then add bassline and kick, then arrange it in the sequencer, then add pads, breaks, an intro/outro), or is it different each times ?
I'm asking because I didn't found a good working technic yet.
The only thing that seems to work is starting a track RIGHT after having partyed the whole night, seems like sleep deprivation boost my inspiration, but I don't think my body likes that, so any advices is welcome 
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Vermeee
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Posted : Nov 14, 2008 16:31
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Nectarios
Martian Arts
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Posted : Nov 14, 2008 17:38
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On 2008-11-14 16:18:15, PsyTiax wrote:
The only thing that seems to work is starting a track RIGHT after having partyed the whole night, seems like sleep deprivation boost my inspiration, but I don't think my body likes that, so any advices is welcome
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Make sure you leave enough class As at home to keep you going later.
I stayed up the following 2 days after partying at "Hum" (Rennie Pilgrem's breakbeat night in The Fortress), to make a breakbeat tune that later got released on Streetwise Recordings in the UK. I called it "Humming" and it went up to #2 spot on DJMag's "Beat 'n' Breaks" charts in 2004. The ideas where just overflowing, although it was not very easy focusing on the cursor
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Chemogen
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Posted : Nov 15, 2008 13:58
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I usually start off with 64 bars of kick, bass and percussion. I use a different bassline every 8 bars so that I've written all the basslines for track right at the start.
I then start adding all my sounds to that loop, seeing how different sounds mix together with different basslines and each other.
After I've gotten all the sounds I'm going to use, I start splitting those 64 bars into a full length track.
I find it helps if you basically start writing the busiest part of your track first and then start arranging up to it.
Write - Mix - Edit - Mix - Arrange - Mix - Bounce - (Publish - hopefully  )
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naga
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Posted : Nov 15, 2008 14:24
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I would say there is not technic of composing music on it's matter. It doens't matter what part you put first and which was the last if you got the pic about whole song.
Only thing seems to matter is "PreMixing" your sounds & mix when adding new instruments. Then there is no limit for creativity.
As you can hear different sounds and voices interesting that would the base of your track. remember thats just a part of track and even it sounds luxury by itself you keep an eye on whole song.
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1.When you get inspirated of something example Lead
-pop in cubase and write it down,
-find the sound,place and field
-finish when satisfied
2.Add commercial track and listen it besides your lead
giving you an imagination of used frequence areas in produced music
3.add izotope and apEQ to mixer inserts.
-to checking fqs
-if find any conflicts cannot be hear and cut or change the octave of sound
4.Izotope
-snapshots of every single instrument and it's easy compare fqs and especially low fqs. giving instruments em space in eq and it's much more comfortable to write music.
5.I think all elements from the very beginning. Arrange, Mix, Write etc. and sooner or later it will automation to do without thinking.
6.always reading musical theory of composing, arrangment and mixing and looking out how these things are all related.
This is how i start to make my tracks.
It's easy and you get free space for instruments, they start to live around and then YOU ARE ONLY WITH COMPOSING  |
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A.Rosengren
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Posted : Nov 16, 2008 18:16
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Write - Mix - Edit - Mix - Arrange - Mix - Bounce - (Publish - hopefully :P)
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I like the method, but there is plenty of coffeedrinking and Eqing included in this mixture. But something people tend to forget is that i personally prefer doing several diffrent mixes of each track. Some people thinks its a race or something, take the time u need to finish a track, never stress about it and listen to it with fresh ears for a couple of days before you put that final touch on it.
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UnderTow
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Posted : Nov 16, 2008 20:36
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On 2008-11-15 14:24, naga wrote:
-pop in cubase and write it down,
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So that's what I have been doing wrong all these years! 
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naga
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Posted : Nov 16, 2008 22:36
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On 2008-11-15 14:24, naga wrote:
-pop in cubase and write it down,
So that's what I have been doing wrong all these years!
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so you got talent that others gotta learn
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acidkills
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Posted : Nov 17, 2008 09:28
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