Feb 28, 2017
Once you take the fear out of the equation, the what ifs and maybes disappear and you go forth boldly from a place of love and courage
Wendy Carrillo (Forbes.com)
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Once you take the fear out of the equation, the what ifs and maybes disappear and you go forth boldly from a place of love and courage
Wendy Carrillo (Forbes.com)
Optimise your workflow and get more done with these essential techniques
I'm posting this link because I think I am going to be getting myself into Ableton Live real soon.
2017 Week of Feb 12 - 18
Last week was spent mostly working on splitting out audio files from Maschine into Logic. I've tried to mix and master in Maschine and to a certain degree I can, but I'm reaching a point where I really want to get a Promo video done and out the door and I can work faster in Logic Pro X.
I did run into trouble with the Action Strings from Native Instruments. I originally just wanted to have one software track run in LPX with an additional 15 aux tracks to do the mixing. However Logic kept stopping and popping up an error regarding sample rate. So then I decided to move all of the Maschine tracks into Logic as audio files. This turned out to be a better decision anyway because it helped to save on CPU.
I also was able to find other bass sounds through Logic since one of the beats that I made I did not really like the bass sound all that much (I still don't like the new ones that I found). Either way I am hoping to spend this week (19th through 25th) mixing all of the beats and hopefully get started on the video portion either in Pinal Cut Pro X or Motion 5.
Maschine Jam functionality comes to the other models
Looking forward to checking out the humanize and randomize features.
Really....have a great one.
Update:
So far this journey of a music producer/beat maker has not been as fruitful as I thought. A major source of the problem is making sure I set aside time to work on making beats or educating myself on the software that I am working on to make sure that I continue to grow. Granted I could point out that from August to but not including April is the most busy time of my year but that's the thing...it doesn't matter. It's a matter of what I choose to make priority.
Consistency and Persistence
In a nutshell: For now the biggest obstacle for me as a beginner in the music producing world (beat making, song arranging, mixing, etc) is consistency and persistence
Background: I was going through my Instagram and Twitter pages as well as my Soundcloud and blog sistes and I noticed the lack of consistency and persistence with my activity on these accounts and so I realized that something needs to change where I need to get better at being consistent or persistent.
In More Depth: When I put persistence in Google I get "firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition". This is difficult for me because I am learning to balance the different phases of my life (husband, father, employee, etc), learning when to make sacrifices, and trying to change certain mentalities that are ingrained in my head about how music producers work and operate and with what type of budget, equipment and time that they have.
When I put consistency in dictionary.com I get "steadfast adherence to the same principles, course, form, etc". This comes into play more for instagram and twitter and probably future social media outlets. I am very random with when I post and am not alway sure what I am posting or tweeting about, if I post and tweet at all (which is where persistance comes in). I know that there are many things that go through my head at any given time but consistency is really going to be one of the keys to help me accomplish things quicker.
Want to make a professional DJ booth without spending a fortune? This step-by-step guide teaches how to build a booth from IKEA parts!
So I'm not in the DJ world at all...yet...but I've been doing research and any time I play a gig that has a DJ I find it to be really cool because I enjoy when people have a good time when music is being played. Anyway this article I'm posting because having a setup I think will be key and the setups look really cool in this article but it's also to remind me to check the article out later