When to commit to starting over?

Opuswerk · Post by **Opuswerk** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:27 pm

thx for the good tips people

I'll indeed let it rest for a while, freshen my ears with some other music and hopefully come back to it fully loaded and inspired. Will need to find a way to force it at some point though, as there's a deadline... But heh one can force it too much right?

idlemode · Post by **idlemode** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:41 am

this makes me wanna have a listen to the track!

hydrogen · Post by **hydrogen** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:16 pm

opuswerk... you got filesystem... just start saving it as a different song name

if your on live... and start making a bunch of destructive edits... you can load that old one and then cherry pick the best parts by unfolding the song in the file browser and dragging in the tracks.

good luck. over engineering./thinking track production burns the mind sometimes.

Spurn · Post by **Spurn** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:54 pm

Opuswerk wrote: Will need to find a way to force it at some point though, as there's a deadline... But heh one can force it too much right?

yeah man, ive found that personally forcing things will just limit your creativity

omnipresence · Post by **omnipresence** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:25 pm

^ In one respect, yes, but having a deadline can sometimes yield interesting results. How often do you give up on a track just based on indecision? At least forcing yourself through makes you put something down that can be worked with later.

Android · Post by **Android** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:25 am

omnipresence wrote:^ In one respect, yes, but having a deadline can sometimes yield interesting results. How often do you give up on a track just based on indecision? At least forcing yourself through makes you put something down that can be worked with later.

absolutely important to Finish the song

it may not be perfect (what is)

but at least you will have something to show for it

if your still unhappy with it a few weeks later, go remix it

laza · Post by **laza** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:30 am

to me personally its really important to have a lot of options for one track so i usually make 4-5 out of one and decide at the end which one is worth to get finished. i got a lot of new sounds out of this worklflow and i can compare the tracks without just guessing what i might could change.

::BLM:: · Post by **::BLM::** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:11 pm

I'm terrible with my projects. I make a tune and get fed up with it, so for some reason I delete the file. I then play it to my label partner and he's like lets release that and I have deleted the file. I'm not even sure why I do it, I guess I just think if I'm not happy then I dont want it on my PC bothering me.