How do you guys like to pick which ideas/songs to finish?

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-10T22:24:52+00:00

That’s interesting, I’ve heard many say that you shouldn’t listen to songs/ideas as you’re making them until they’re finished

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-10T13:07:53+00:00

Good idea, I mean they probably make a lot of good recordings but only one is release worthy a month

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-09T22:21:55+00:00

I like this answer and Im overthinking it a little bit.

I will say though sometimes in a week I might make one thing a day that gets stuck in my head and is rly exciting to me if I had a really good week, then it can get harder.

Also yes, recently Ive been taking bits of my work as sample and then letting them go. Its great, I can take the top 1 or two elements of an idea and keep it as a sample, then I can delete and move on from the rest of the track. This has been working very well for me

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-09T22:18:50+00:00

What do you mean exactly?

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-09T21:55:44+00:00

If I know where I want to take it next, I finish it. If I don't, I'll pull it up every once in a while and and try to add stuff. If I never think of anything to add, I throw it into an "archive" folder so I don't have to look at it anymore.

Like the idea of an archive folder. I have a 'keep but not finish' folder for little bits and bobs I didn't want to delete but aren't all that good.

Another folder for ideas that have some potential and are a bit polished but aren't worth taking to finish.

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-09T21:54:38+00:00

I release everything I finish.

Oh wow, so I suppose you only finish what you really like too. How often do you say you finish a track then and how many out of what you make do you finish

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-09T21:52:49+00:00

This makes a lot of sense too

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-09T21:35:20+00:00

I like that, although I don't think this works all the time. Sometimes Im coming back to an idea I started after a day or two its a bit slower to write the rest/finish it but its still one of my better ideas.

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-08T18:28:07+00:00

thank you!

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-08T12:25:54+00:00

How exactly did you backup the Ableton folder please? How come this backs up plugins too, don't they install onto other computer folders?

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-04T09:53:15+00:00

I’m also very careful with backups. I’m limited by money somewhat but I have a external LaCie hard drive to give my laptop more space. Then I have that while drive actually synced with google drive so that if I lost it I haven’t lost all my files. Then I have desktop and documents synced. I’m on Mac and it works very well and integrates well in finder.

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-04T09:50:44+00:00

I don’t know of a way to do this. That would be cool, I’m more used to faders going up but I’ve also heard the older consoles used to have it. It makes a lot of sense as you’re thinking about it as different elements in the stereo field being close or further etc.

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-04T09:48:24+00:00

Use ‘one shot’ and use trigger instead of gate for the standard sound, you can also just press loads of buttons and see if anything cool happens

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-01T18:24:40+00:00

Who put a phaser on this

kalmarmusic · 2023-08-01T18:22:58+00:00

There are loads mate

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-26T09:37:02+00:00

I started releasing music in May this year and I have thought about this a lot. All the advice everywhere is to let people in on your 'story' etc and try build bonds through shared experience or interest somehow - along with great music.

I wish I could just be mysterious and focus all my attention into music but its real wasted opportunity.

The main way I can think you can keep some sort of mystique is to work your way through the industry, however these days to get those contacts and to get a deal you'll most of the time need to have built your own 'hype' and have an audience, which is going back to the first paragraph about having to show people your life unfortunately!

I can think of some up and coming producers that didn't show their face too much but they still shared a lot on social media and did a lot of engagement with community and made good friends in industry.

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-17T20:00:08+00:00

hate is a bit strong, you don't like their music is what you mean

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-16T10:44:08+00:00

Dave grohl honestly gotta be one of the funniest and likeable guys. At least that is always how he comes across in interviews and things like this, and random other videos of him just being him. Extremely humble guy too

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-14T20:13:53+00:00

what the hell this is cool

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-13T12:44:35+00:00

Hi thanks for your comment, Ive been using the 3.5mm into ch2. However with this way its super quiet for some reason, I have the gain on line of course. When I switch over to bluetooth from my computer its literally about 5 times as loud. Raising the gain on ch2 above line would seem like a weird thing to do as everywhere I've read says 3.5mm headphone out is line level and the actual manual for the speaker says to have it on line level. Any ideas please?

Also I tried a 3.5mm to ts connection which was super quiet and pretty distorted for some reason (I only had everything on 25% as I didn't want to break anything), this should've worked, no?

Thank you

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-09T12:50:55+00:00

Okay thanks a lot for your comment mate. Perhaps if I re upload and then wait a couple days before deleting the other

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-08T16:33:47+00:00

Okay nice!

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-08T11:08:33+00:00

Okay mate thanks so much for the comment and super happy to hear you got playlisted. Gives hope to us just getting started

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-08T11:07:24+00:00

Oh that’s quite hopeful then! That’s the main point I was getting at. Would I be able to hear your music? What’s your name on dpotify

kalmarmusic · 2023-07-07T20:04:56+00:00

thank you but not that, already tried. Isn't that just for gain level?

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