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Not having picked the best drums and perc from my fairly well arranged, but over stocked library of sample packs, thus slowing me down every time I find some studio time.

Either that or having some drum machine templates ready.

I'm also getting distracted too easily in what has become limited studio time, 2 sig tracks are 2 of my best ideas for a long time and have been left unfinished for months

Echoi wrote:Not having picked the best drums and perc from my fairly well arranged, but over stocked library of sample packs, thus slowing me down every time I find some studio time.

Either that or having some drum machine templates ready.

I'm also getting distracted too easily in what has become limited studio time, 2 sig tracks are 2 of my best ideas for a long time and have been left unfinished for months

I hear ya, whenever I get time for percussion, I don't really take my time but rather rush everything, with bad results.

picking drum samples takes me FOREVER.

Sparxy wrote:

Dahneboy wrote:

epochalypso wrote:picking my nose and wiping the bogies on the underside of my chair

i was honestly going to say that

I normally flick em out the window

y not eat them its good for your immune system

Mason wrote:

Sparxy wrote:

Dahneboy wrote:

epochalypso wrote:picking my nose and wiping the bogies on the underside of my chair

i was honestly going to say that

I normally flick em out the window

y not eat them its good for your immune system

Nah man, invest in a trash can in your room so you can wipe them onto some candy wrap or something and just throw it away.
Wiping them off on the underside your chair will result in an unpleasant experience once you have to lift the chair

Eskimo wrote:

Mason wrote:

Sparxy wrote:

Dahneboy wrote:

epochalypso wrote:picking my nose and wiping the bogies on the underside of my chair

i was honestly going to say that

I normally flick em out the window

y not eat them its good for your immune system

Nah man, invest in a trash can in your room so you can wipe them onto some candy wrap or something and just throw it away.
Wiping them off on the underside your chair will result in an unpleasant experience once you have to lift the chair

Yuck :'(

Long and pointless periods of me staring at ableton, waiting for it to come to life and make tracks for me

Doing drumloops for hours, not being able to come up with a synth/bassline that can match the drums - abandon project and start a new one.
I don't know how many times I've done this, seriously.

Lately it's been not being able to make synths and leads that I like, so I normally just keep coming back to my DAW or synth to try to make something, only to save and leave the DAW empty minded several times throughout the day.

I also pick my nose when thinking out of habit and wipe it on the inside of my desk. I cannot tell you how many times that I've wiped a fresh boogie under there to pull out an old one that is about as dry as paper. Good thing I'm getting rid of this desk soon and see the look on the buyer's face when they see my monstrosity.

naming ALL my EXS24 samples as "fsgfsfgsa"

its so bad that sometimes ill type a load of random letters and itll tell me that file already exists

Sheff wrote:naming ALL my EXS24 samples as "fsgfsfgsa"

its so bad that sometimes ill type a load of random letters and itll tell me that file already exists

KNOW THAT FEEL.
All my project names are like "dsgohsg nsljrg".

The internet is my downfall. Also, just playing kits I've made on Maschine for hours. It's so much fun, maybe I should start recording it.

Also, boogers increase inspiration and creativity. Leave them in there!

Stop wiping all your inspiration under your desk and flicking it out the window.

highpassing kickdrums too high because I'm butthurt that my kicks could interfere with my sub - kicks sound weak
8 bar loops
opening synth, use the same modulation over and over again
use too many effects so that a good bass gets worse and worse

DJens wrote:highpassing kickdrums too high because I'm butthurt that my kicks could interfere with my sub - kicks sound weak
8 bar loops
opening synth, use the same modulation over and over again
use too many effects so that a good bass gets worse and worse

Nasty habbit:
After doing some sound design I start creating a melody then I feel the sounds lack this or that and then I go back and start changing the sound in order to make it right and go back to melody then after a while same thing again. This goes on almost endlessly same with mixing. Sometimes during mixing I come back to sound designing. But I think all of this makes my skills better at the end of the day. Atleast I like to think that way

This does and doesn't do me any favours in equal measures.

^that. + over eqing shit and having to back and undoin the millions of HPFs if put on shit

I never save my patches.....like EVER!

So even if I want a simple sub bass, or an easy opening mid bass, I always have to create them from scratch! I always tell myself to save them, then get distracted and the moment passes without thought!

Kronix wrote:I never save my patches.....like EVER!

So even if I want a simple sub bass, or an easy opening mid bass, I always have to create them from scratch! I always tell myself to save them, then get distracted and the moment passes without thought!

This!! My best synth's get lost in project files all the time.

I really am going to have to spend an entire weekend or so getting my shit together.

Echoi wrote:

Kronix wrote:I never save my patches.....like EVER!

So even if I want a simple sub bass, or an easy opening mid bass, I always have to create them from scratch! I always tell myself to save them, then get distracted and the moment passes without thought!

This!! My best synth's get lost in project files all the time.

I really am going to have to spend an entire weekend or so getting my shit together.

I have this problem too, I never seem to save my synths or bounce decent samples, plus not saving mixer slot FX chains in FL. I really keep meaning to save simple stuff such as my piano/strings/choir FX chains, would save a lot of time instead of re-setting up the same old eq/comp/verb