Electronic Music Workflow?
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- mg33
I know we've got quite a few musicians in here not to mention threads about music and recording, but I'm curious about the workflow that some of you use to record music, primarily electronic stuff. I know there's quite a few Logic users in here as well - question isn't specific to Logic but to DAW in general.
When you've got an idea for a song, where do you start? Melody? Drums? Bass line? Do you record some rough tracks of ideas and then work from there and expand new tracks to really fine tune things?
I've been doing more with Logic lately after I finally got around to practicing with more sequenced MIDI parts and building larger segments of songs from just 1 or 2 measures that I got perfect. Previously I'd just play everything out for how long I wanted to, which would be a pain to clean up in the Piano Roll.
I've got quite a few ideas that seem to grow as I find new synth sounds, drums, etc. so I'm trying to not get lost and off-track.Anyhow, I'm sure plenty of you have done far more than I have with this sort of thing, so it'd be great if you could share some tips and methods you work by.
- bored2death0
I use Ableton, APC40, MPD32 and Maschine.
Start jamming in Maschine. Record clips as I go. Set up effects. Record performance. Edit as necessary.
- ********0
I just get the beat pumpin and start jaming on it like fuck