How do you come up with your songs?

[ehbes]

Inb4 wub quotes himself for the nth time

[karmacazee]

Set up midi controls for a synth (or loop/sample) + fx chain
Record a Jam
Build track out of edited jam

Is my current workflow

[wub]

Set up midi controls for a synth (or loop/sample) + fx chain
Record a Jam
Build track out of edited jam

Is my current workflow

Pretty much this.

[rockonin]

Create drum rack
Add sub

The rest is history

[elyhess]

drums
vocal
then synth
then sub
then sound cloud

[test_recordings]

I just piss about and see wat happens. Tap out a bpm and move it to the nearest genre range.

I don't get why dance producers need months to agonise over everything when dub on quarter inch tape can be done in a few hours though!. Swear people either don't do it right in the first place or think too much about irrelevant details

[deadly_habit]

Open DAW, fuck about, song made.

Open DAW, get out idea stuck in head, song made.

Turn on MPC, play records from crate digging, sample, chop, fuck about, song made.

Same as above with AKAI S2000 and DAW.

Spend day sampling, working on drums and hardware synth patches, make nothing song wise, week later make song out of said material when I barely have any free time.

[darkdubz]

Open DAW

make drum track

normally make a sub bass line

then start working on mid range or atmosphere

try find a hook or some thing interesting then fuck around for a while to get sound right, make half a tune

then start another and never finish any thing!!!!!!

[wub]

For everyone who says their first step is starting with drums, does this not limit your creativity? Any element you add from that point on (once the drums are laid down) will be styled towards fitting the drums, as opposed to being it's own element.

Unless you want the drums to drive the tune, then IMO this is a bit on the limiting side.

[nowaysj]

For everyone who says their first step is starting with drums, does this not limit your creativity? Any element you add from that point on (once the drums are laid down) will be styled towards fitting the drums, as opposed to being it's own element.

Unless you want the drums to drive the tune, then IMO this is a bit on the limiting side.

For a long time I started drums first, kick first, then snare than hat. Those tracks were way better produced. I've been sampling fucked up sounds and music now more, so starting with that, but trying to get drums in as early as possible. I think for a lot of types of music the drum sounds really dictate the rest of the tune in a lot of ways, so they need to be early to be worked around. I mean if you want big drums. Plus, if you want your timing pretty straight, you're gonna need a beat, and I vibe way better with drums than a metronome. Honestly mpc metronome sounds good, I don't know why I've never replaced fl's metronome sounds. Actually I did once, wtf happened?

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My process:

Check clears.

Get my bitches off me, wipe my dick off, light a blunt, throw out some vengeance drum samples, noodle around with some massive presets, render out the track, finish with the bitches. Then I try to get as many soundcloud followers as possible. Bitches love dudes with a tun of soundcloud followers.

[Dystinkt]

I usually get baked and it just kind of gets out of hand from there