Re: [LAU] Some thoughts on making electronic music

Ken Restivo wrote: Some good thoughts. Personally I found it a good idea to: 1) Record to vocals (maybe only cue vocals) as soon in the process as possible (obviously doesn't apply to instrumental music). 2) Try to make a full length arrangement of the song/track pretty soon in the process. No matter how nice or long a loop is, the more times I hear it, the harder is is for me to hear how it can connect to music comming before and after it. Both of these makes it easier for me to get ideas that actually supports the track and not just random bursts of "what about this sound". Another thing: I sometimes set time aside for maintaining my sample library or cooking up new presets for my synths. This for me is an important part of the creative process, but somehow it distracts from the composition if I have go too much into right brain activities like this while trying to be creative with melody and lyrics and moods and stuff... That's been touched quite a lot here recently, hasn't it? I for one will rather record audio than compile svn repos or tweak kernel configs to get that golden feature. Still I patch a kernel now and then :-) -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk http://virb.com/atte