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willsanquil
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 01:13:21
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So I'm sitting here and I've refreshed all my message boards (that work will allow me to view anyways) a billion and a half times and I'm sure there are other users out there that are stuck in cubicles for multiple hours a day with free time in which they could be reading articles or doing arrangements in their heads or something.
I was wondering if it might be advantageous to have one thread repository for sites that are not usually blocked by work and actually contain knowledge that is interesting and won't put you to sleep.
Things that don't work (at least for me):
Facebook
Youtube
Ektoplazm
Myspace
Things that do work:
Sound on Sound
Isratrance
Anyone have suggestions for respositories of written articles on synthesis, music production, things of that nature?
Also would be interested in Android apps (or for the sake of the thread, iOS apps) that allow you to say...write MIDI clips with basic synth parameters that could be exported once I'm out of the office
Any suggestions at all really for things to do while at the office that could boost your production skills - anything! I'm fuckin bored here in this damn cubicle!
  If you want to make an apple pie from scratch...you must first invent the universe
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A.Rosengren
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 01:18
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Sometimes when I'm feeling creative and is not close to any sequencer I usually put down my ideas on a paper and actually draw elements around it. Yeah I realize it sounds weird but it works for me. I did it several times where the visual parts actually helped me with the techniqual barriers I had to overcome with my "sound". Check 'The Source' from our album it is basically a piece of paper to start with.
If that doesn't sound appealing and/or will kill around 3 minutes for you I personally love scanning through wikipedia for interesting articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_engineering
Here's one for instance, and while you are on it, click anything that sounds interesting in a new tab and when you finished your first page you'll notice you have many more to read.
Or just work?
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willsanquil
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 01:22
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Cool - your album is actually one of the ones on my iPod right now at work ^_^ putting on The Source!
I've read about certain artists imagining a fantasy situation or drawing out imagery to serve as a thematic basis for a track (Shpongle comes to mind) though I haven't tried it myself as most of my sequencer work is nearly blind experimentation still.
ty!
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch...you must first invent the universe
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aciduss
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 03:43
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| Sometimes when I'm feeling creative and is not close to any sequencer I usually put down my ideas on a paper and actually draw elements around it. |
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I kinda do the same thing...
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?y9kl0j99txwwpb6
I have crazier ones xD
ppl just stare at me...
I recently made a not that successful thread titled "where to go on the net..." or something like that with a similar purpose. I'm usually stuck at the office from 8:30a to 5:30a 5 days a week, it can get seriously boring when i have no work to do.
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Kryten
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 06:06
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Im actually working in night shift, and when nothing happens, I have like 30minutes of work in 8 hours.
Luckily nothing is blocked here.....
to the drawing thing:I would love to be able to note down ideas I have or even make a "plan" for a track(as I do experimenting mostly too), but I always got stuck on how to draw things in a way that I will still know what I meant later on....
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Maine Coon
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 17:10
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Cool, can you hook me up with the same job? I'll even be willing to work the remaining 7.5 hours too. 
The drawing idea is an excellent suggestion, BTW. 
Another thing you could do is sneak a laptop into your cubicle (you can get one for $300-400 nowadays) and actually work in your DAW.  |
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mk47
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 20:11
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On 2010-11-17 03:43, aciduss wrote:
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| Sometimes when I'm feeling creative and is not close to any sequencer I usually put down my ideas on a paper and actually draw elements around it. |
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I kinda do the same thing...
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ppl just stare at me...
I recently made a not that successful thread titled "where to go on the net..." or something like that with a similar purpose. I'm usually stuck at the office from 8:30a to 5:30a 5 days a week, it can get seriously boring when i have no work to do.
I hate to have soundcloud blocked among with 90% of the internet *sigh*... it is so frustrating. |
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Trevon
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 20:15
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some lite jobs arround here eheh
facebook is such a waste of time.. imho
there's places with online sequencers, like indaba, audiotool.com and others. you can have fun making sounds and remixing... some of them allow you to save the session.
there are also online step sequencers and synths.. you can record experiment samples with windows audio recorder, attach to e-mail and send it to yourself! 
be creative xD |
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willsanquil
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Posted : Nov 17, 2010 20:28
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yeah...computers here at work have no sound capability and even if they did they're so slow that I wouldn't trust them to be able to handle the online tools in tandem with my work applications. Pentium 4. Seriously.
Getting an Android phone in the next couple of weeks, surely there is a mini synth app that you can make and save MIDI clips in that I could dump into ableton later? I know of Touch OSC but I don't think that's exactly what I'm looking for.
Laptop/netbook might be a good idea, dunno what company policy is though. Probably a great job for a tablet
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Kryten
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Posted : Nov 18, 2010 00:31
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I have an android phone for a week now or so. There are indeed some nice programms for music on the marked, but most of them are too limited. At some you cant even export what you did.
Ill have to sort out which ones are actually usable and good...
Got my notebook with me here too, and as long as nobody else is here i can use it But I can only work on sounds or newer projects. When I try to play a further progressed project(from my desktop workhorse) on it, the cpu goes mad. |
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willsanquil
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Posted : Nov 18, 2010 00:39
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Kryten
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Posted : Nov 18, 2010 01:53
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Ascension
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