Producing concepts

On 2006-02-16 02:16, Kitnam wrote:
@orca

yes i know what you mean i think, i try to explain it with "listen inside of you". sometimes i listen to the loop or arrangement-part of the track, sit there relaxed and sometimes i can "hear" what needs to be there.
keeping the idea and try to transfer it into the production is not easy, but possible and if realised it becomes a very satisfying thing. such a way of producing needs 2 fundaments in my eyes:
- sensible focus to catch the "muse", listen to her.
- you must know your studio and know the technic to realise an idea of a sound into a real sound.

if the muse isnt there, you will get a hard time... but sometimes you must dig trough tons of frustrating crap to find the pearl which leads your production into a new spectrum of ideas and a new way the track can go. this is why "never give up" is very important too.

On 2006-01-18 12:47, Kitnam wrote:
- fast and aggressive is stress, slow and aggressive is massive // arne schaffhausen

On 2006-02-18 04:04, felon-collie wrote:
there is a very good paper on the cosmosis website...
Dealing with techniques ad creativity...
Producing music alone on a computer is quite tricky because ot is lique doing several jobs at the same time : song writer, sound engineer and ultimetely mastering engineer...
Sometimes while writing a song, i find myself listening again and again the same loop tweaking a stupid parameter for hours ... This is not good and a big handicap to creativity because any loop whatsoever even if it's great will blow your brains to yoghurt if you listen to it too many times.
Instead, one should write down and record as many ideas as fast as you can and then try to work on a structure and only when this is done ... work on the sound....
although it's really tempting to tweak all those nice looking vst's for neverending nights
Well, see the cosmosis site for more usefull tips on music creation.

On 2006-02-09 11:48, Kitnam wrote:

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On 2006-01-18 18:13, sy000321 wrote: Quote: On 2006-01-18 12:47, Kitnam wrote: - a drum never comes alone what does that mean?

this means that a natural drummer always play different velocity-sets or multiple drums. same with hihats. drums and hh sound much better played in context with additional percussion/drum elements. just adding a single open hihat in offbeat for example or just adding a snare on every second beat without any additional elements will sound dry and static. just a few artists are realy able to arrange drumloops with a single drumsound in a sweet way, lish and atmos for example are masters of minimal sound in my eyes.