Finding time to produce...

[Evil G]

haha. hermit insomniacs unite! :lol:

worked a job i hated (and which interfered with partying and making music way too much) for the last 3 years, but now i'm "between contracts" and making up for lost time while i've still got some money in the bank to live off of.

[robin m]

I have plenty of time, the problem is that I get easily frustraetd since I'm basicly utter pish and can't bend my tools to my will. It's very easy for me to have an idea then just leave it unable to work out how to achieve it. There are also a lot of other annoyances I'm coming across, how to get a track sounding fuller than it is, how to get a length out them without them sounding repetative and so on. Ah well I've only had a PC capable of running any sound tools for three weeks now so I'm still learning.

Amen to all that, I was starting to wonder if anyone else had ever been a beginner ;)

I'm driving myself mental trying to figure out how to turn sounds in my head into sounds in a track, and it doesn't help that my PC is slightly shitter than most people's mobile phones these days :cry: anything over 5 or 6 channels and 2 minutes long and it takes forever to do anything at all, even without any kind of fx... no point whingeing about that though I suppose, eh!

[Mirsha]

For five years I suffered with a Celeron 400 which was so shit it couldn't even run games like Quake properly as the motherboard was so genericaly shit. Now I'm sitting on an Athlon 64 running at 2gig and I've not had a single problem so far with soundy stuff. It's great!

[neilried]

Does anyone else have the same problem?

You bet, Full time job, on call in the evening, live in girlfriend, list of chores the length of a garden hose and fek all time....

carry a lil book n pen with you and scriblle yer ideas down when you get them, then when your sitting infront of the screen and your mind goes blank youve got some previous ideas to audition.

I very rarely end up working on the idea I had scribbled in the book, but it almost always serves as a bit of a trigger if you like, to get you in creative mode...

[robin m]

For five years I suffered with a Celeron 400 which was so shit it couldn't even run games like Quake properly as the motherboard was so genericaly shit. Now I'm sitting on an Athlon 64 running at 2gig and I've not had a single problem so far with soundy stuff. It's great!

I'll give you 20 quid for it then... ;)

[Dan Devious]

also, i think the more you write, the quicker you become. So u can get stuff done in lesser hours.

[FILTERZ]

sounds common eh , I work and am easily distracted when im not at work so yes its hard . If someone comes to see me unnanounced then that usually stops me in my tracks as well.
My best ideas allways come when im nowhere near my kit , like at work or on the bus , this is annoying .

[TechMouse]

Amen to all that, I was starting to wonder if anyone else had ever been a beginner ;)

I'm driving myself mental trying to figure out how to turn sounds in my head into sounds in a track, and it doesn't help that my PC is slightly shitter than most people's mobile phones these days :cry: anything over 5 or 6 channels and 2 minutes long and it takes forever to do anything at all, even without any kind of fx... no point whingeing about that though I suppose, eh!

Dude... how many times... give me a call, come round, we'll knock our heads together. It'll sound foul.

[Apex Beat]

If I spent half as much time doing university work as I did messing around with ableton or my decks I'd walk it with a first. I get loads of free time that in reality, shouldnt be free time! I'm going to get a right shock when, if ever, I need to do full-time work for more than a few months at a time. I also want to go traveling and see the world, get a Masters in sociology and be a superstar DJ and I'm left wondering where production will fit into all this. I guess I'm going to improve my skills as much as possible because I finish university in around a year or so and then its back to the real world, shit and I've got a dissertation to write.

[acidsaturation]

Hehe - I now that one, though having an essay to do is great for finding time for music... ...and cleaning sock drawer, removing spiders from under the bed etc...

Carrying a notebook is a good trick.

Another I use is to keep a stock of simple kick, hat, snare patterns, some very simple bassparts (like just fillers between the kick) as wavs on the PC. That way if I get an idea I can get straight in and sketch it out in Acid and put a simple kick and hat behind it to give some accompanyment while I play with a synth idea or stuff. Then when I've got time I can put something more interesting in later.

[Barely Human]

Ahhh, im glad im not the only one then :lol:

Cant wait to get some time back and get back into some new tracks.

*boots up fruity and cant remember how to use it*

[Metadog]

it's a right ****in pain but worth it to commit the time

i do two evenings and one afternoon/evening a week in our studio, like clockwork- never seem to have problem with inspiration, we just get in there and get on with it

also try and get another evening or afternoon a week with another mate in his studio

add full time job, girlfriend, and tai chi into the equation and i don't have time for much else - really frustrating as have got other friends i wanna work with, too

if you wanna get good you gotta put in the time, tho

:love:

[acidsaturation]

It also definately helps having an extremely understanding Girlfriend who doesn't mind reading a book for a bit when I leap out of bed on Saturday mornings with an idea that needs playing with...

...and shouts out ideas and makes the right appreciative noises.

:love: