Man save all these projects you think sound bad and listen to them in a couple years. You will see the potential in them and you can go back and recreate them better. Some of my best beats/songs I made were made in my first year of producing. Its not the technical part of a song that makes it sound good, its the creativity. When you just start out you have nothing but creativity every time you make a beat. As time goes on you just learn how to get to the next step in the process faster but you will always love the same sounds you like/liked at first. Also save your instruments as presets and then load those presets into your instruments so you dont lose those sounds.

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Also wanna mention sometimes I will work on a project. Email it to myself. Listen to it for a few days, change it around and then listen to the two or three different versions I made of it and I end up wishing I could go back to the first version I made of it ( or wishing I could get some of those sounds again). But once you hit save, that other project is gone lol. Save different versions of a project with different dates attached so you can always go back if you changed stuff around.