Things that annoy you most about production...

[jaimelee]

How incredibly long it takes to get an idea from idea form into a decently listenable thing. The fact you have to work through a jungle of buttons, sliders and knobs to slowly churn your sound out instead of, say, sit with a guitar and jam something out which is much more immediately satisfying.

basically the logistics is what i hate. Everything else i love.

Why not become a studio musician instead?

[lyons238]

How incredibly long it takes to get an idea from idea form into a decently listenable thing. The fact you have to work through a jungle of buttons, sliders and knobs to slowly churn your sound out instead of, say, sit with a guitar and jam something out which is much more immediately satisfying.

basically the logistics is what i hate. Everything else i love.

well u could just as easily jam out a sound with a preset and a keyboard as with a guitar. i dont think that comparison was very equal considering the huge differences in producing vs just jamming a riff on a guitar, which as i said would be compared to jamming a riff on your keyboard with a preset...

[Turnipish_Thoughts]

yeh i didn't explain myself too well. Basically my biggest gripe with producing music is the technicality of it all. I know computer production is basically having an instrument that can make ANY sound in existence, which is amazing obviously. But i always find myself quite annoyed at how complicated things can get.

I know you can just sit down with a Vst synth and jam out on your keyboard and i do do this a lot. But you know when you have a sound in your head, like a riff or a beat e.t.c. What gets me is how tediously long-winded it is to get that idea to a point I'm happy with.

With a guitar for example, your ideas are going to be constrained to the possibilities of what a guitar can bring. In other words they're going to be relatively 'simpler' than an idea you may have in regard to EDM production, which due to the scope of possibility will by proxy be more complicated to realize within your 'instrument'.

Thats my gripe, well not a gripe as such, more an annoyed acceptance that there's always going to be a technical buffer with the creative process in making electronic music due to having to wade through so much interface. Its never as pure as picking up an instrument, closing your eyes and sinking into sound for a bit.

[nowaysj]

The company that made my pc, they're assholes... My F# buttons are all assigned to do various system tasks and i cant figure out how to un-map them, so when f5 would bring up the step and f the playlist or w.e., i havent had that luxury in a good sixth month...

my f5 opens a calculator.

Try Sharp Keys. I have a mac keyboard on a pc and had to remap some keys:

http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/

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And to hulty, read that damn moneyshot thread again if you are clipping.

[Sine69]

Right now, it's how I can't save my Razor patches. Fucking Reaktor player

[nowaysj]

Buy komplete, problem solved, and universe of possibilities opened :O

[Sine69]

Buy komplete, problem solved, and universe of possibilities opened :O

I just need to make about 150 dollars then I'm going to

[nowaysj]

Haha, awesome.

By that time, there may be a new version release?

[ComfiStile]

Forgetting what i'm doing when I'm stoned & producing.

Like I get excited about an idea, start in and get knobbing only to forget what it's all for.

[symmetricalsounds]

Forgetting what i'm doing when I'm stoned & producing.

Like I get excited about an idea, start in and get knobbing only to forget what it's all for.

get some bluetak put a lump on the corner of the screen, have idea write down on bit of paper then rip off and stick to side of the monitor. you could use postit notes if your posh.

[ComfiStile]

Forgetting what i'm doing when I'm stoned & producing.

Like I get excited about an idea, start in and get knobbing only to forget what it's all for.

get some bluetak put a lump on the corner of the screen, have idea write down on bit of paper then rip off and stick to side of the monitor. you could use postit notes if your posh.

That is an excellent idea. I just hope it won't lead to covering your walls in jibberish notes and becoming a hermit haha

[ToxicBass]

Clocking up over 50 hours on a project and having to drop it into the 'Work in progress (never going to finish I've wasted my time again FML)' folder

[symmetricalsounds]

Forgetting what i'm doing when I'm stoned & producing.

Like I get excited about an idea, start in and get knobbing only to forget what it's all for.

get some bluetak put a lump on the corner of the screen, have idea write down on bit of paper then rip off and stick to side of the monitor. you could use postit notes if your posh.

That is an excellent idea. I just hope it won't lead to covering your walls in jibberish notes and becoming a hermit haha

Clocking up over 50 hours on a project and having to drop it into the 'Work in progress (never going to finish I've wasted my time again FML)' folder

don't forget them, plenty of times i've been working on something and an element from a going nowhere track has slotted in perfectly into what i'm working on now.

[nruen]

In FL Studio, having to turn down the volume everytime I listen to a sample in the browser because my projects are so quiet.

Also I've spent about 6-7 years doing this and have very little to show for it

[zerbaman]

- In FL Studio, when you've got the pattern window open (F5) and then you decide to open the browser (F8) to have a look through. You find a sample you want, and press F5 again to open the pattern window BUT OH NOEZ because you're in the browser, F5 actually loads the sample you're listening to onto the channel that is selected, often fucking up what you already had.

You'd think I'd learn, but noooooooo I still do this at least once every other session

What version are you using? That never even happened to me in 8 xD


I hate when, you've got all the necessary parts to build a track, but then the actual structure fucks you -_-

And how in the past, I'd have too many parts to use in a single tune, and now, I rarely have enough and always require samples to get me going

[symmetricalsounds]

structure structure structure

[Toric]

The think I hate most is the end where I bounce the song and send it to people to give me feedback.

But it's also the most important part. It's a double edged sword!

-T

[ephyks]

When I have like massive open, and I go to open up a new vst, but I accidently selected replace instead of insert, and a default vst overlayed my massive sound that I forgot to save. Happens to me waaaay to often.

[anotherday]

When my file names end up looking like Project (crashed)(crashed)(crashed).logic. Sucks when some plugins get finnicky

[nowaysj]

In FL Studio, having to turn down the volume everytime I listen to a sample in the browser because my projects are so quiet.

Read the flstudio thread. Sample preview can be assigned to a mixer channel, you can set that channels volume however you want. Also can audition samples into fx chains this way, if you so desire. Gnaw what I'm saying?