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  1. Oh No Another Exam! I have my PMP certification exam on Thursday.....would much rather be taking a Logic Exam...
  2. Excellently neutral answer! - I'll see if I can get a hold of it. The Living Plant blew me away - I imagine this one will too.
  3. Will it stiffle or, enhance creativity?
  4. You are aware he's 85...? If he'd sounded young there'd be something seriously wrong... Yeah, I knew he was in his 80's. First time I've heard a recently narration - he is sounding his age....
  5. Damn, I was just getting used to the circular conversation that was ongoing...
  6. " ...Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?" ~ Lily Tomlin "...and when you talk to yourself you're having the best conversation you'll have, but other's will think you're mad" ~ Andy Clark
  7. Not really, just trying to understand where you start. It appears that more often than not you are starting with main elements of a piece of music rather than intro's. You're experience/skill now facilitates complete pieces of music, but not all the time. If I'm not mistaken this supports my tip of working on a main idea rather than an intro? True, the length 16, 8, 32, whatever can be variable. I've found that 16 bars is enough to understand if an idea is going to work. If its getting boring after 16 bars and interest can't be added with fx, variation etc. then its highly unlikely that it will work for a full track. Since EDM has a certain degree of monotony in it if i make a decision that a main idea is not going to work I'm factoring in a certain amount of monotony in the decision. Does this make sense?
  8. So, although you may not agree with the 16 bar main idea, it does seem that you've started more on the main elements of a track rather than intro's/full tracks - right?
  9. I half knew that that was coming - silly me! ok, maybe putting it another way: In your career to date (including your EDM experience). Can you put these in order; intro's, riff's, chord progression, full piece of music. 1 being most common - 4 being least common?
  10. Jamming was probably the wrong word - I said I wasn't 100% sure. What I meant was the process you go through alone to create riff's, melodies etc. In my case its setting a beat and a synth sound and tinkering, monkeying, farting (whatever its called) with the keyboard to get an idea down. So, do you think they started with 2-beats, bassline etc and built it from there? I don't know btw. When you start a track do you start with an intro or, go into the main idea? - Just asking.
  11. On another note - David Attenborough sounds old these days....
  12. Wow...so much to answer.... It's included if it needs to be used. Thus far, I haven't listened to any Tech House/Electro that doesn't have drums. If I was to try and create a track w/o drums then I would not use the drum bus - quite simple. Yep - I noted that in my original post. None of the tips I mentioned would prevent doing any of this No we don't - This said, the OP produces specific genres (as do I) so my response was in relation to what the OP posted. I could have said "we can't answer your question here because if we do we are putting rigidity into how you produce and conforming will stifle your creativity" however; I didn't because I wanted to provide the OP with some tips on how to get to a creative position quickly. Incidentally the OP appeared to like them: True it is one of a million approaches however; the OP was frustrated that after 4 hours he'd only got an intro down. My response to this was to set-up a 16 bar loop and focus on a main idea. This could be (although I'm not 100%) equivalent to a musician strumming/jamming to get ideas. The advantage a DAW has is that you can add additional elements to quickly to see if the idea works. The 16 bar idea technique is something I've been taught and seen on multiple tut vids (some made by very experienced EDM producers) - hence my passing it on to the OP as a tip. If there's a better way of getting an idea down I'm all ears. Yep - that's how I use them. I'll use a drum loop initially to help with the main idea. Invariably the loop gets changed/drum sounds replaced etc. I also use the midi loops and change their sounds. I've found a lot of good ideas come from this. Andy
  13. I was once on an oil platform that got hit by a water spout, needless to say we spent the next couple of weeks clearing stinky rotting fish off it....yuck!
  14. Thanks! - we were lucky. At one point a purple area on the doppler radar passed right over us - lots of hail and high winds. At the last count I did 3 twisters had touched down not far away from us - scary stuff.... Andy
  15. When you you save the Project initially have you got the following checked: You can check this by doing a "Save As" - check any that are not checked and re-save the project. Andy
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