When I started getting into/learning about production a few months ago I would start trying to make a track by raw synthesis and didn’t want to do what I felt was cheating (using premade plugins). I thought I would sound generic someday if I did this. However I have realized that I spent so much time focused on having my sound perfect that I would spend hours tweaking a single instrument, only to get frustrated and start again another day.
I was lacking the musicality (if that is a word), or a sense of rhythm, because I was shooting to make my tracks technically perfect (ala sound design). I have come to realize that sometimes it is smarter to use plugins to quickly get the general sound that you want and then go back and redo/tweak the track to make it sound more professional.
This came to me after a friend who produces soul influenced hip hop and is a computational media major told me that he was taught to make 15 rough sketches for a design and then select the best one. This method seems to work much better for me, so if you have this problem I hope it helps.
Yeah, as someone whos is just starting to get into digital music production (although abelton is being stupid at the moment), I am finding that I suffer from the same problem.
I have no trouble at all composing/performing fairly well developed songs on acoustic guitar or piano, but when I enter the ableton program, I find myself tweaking knobs for hours (mostly because I’m trying to learn the in’s and out’s of sound design from the ground up though). I’ve yet to produce a full track… but I do have some cool synths now!
Same story here, Ive spent the last year and a half learning ableton and the ins n outs of true audio engineering. Jumped into it thinking itd be like a fancy serato but…negative ghost rider, pattern is full.
Ive spent so much time fiddling and learning and researching that ive actually made jack shizznit. Finally feel like I know enough right now to get going, so thats what im trying.
