![]() ![]() My teacher said they had to spend weeks writing with one note. The wonders how to compose with just one note and realized everything was about rhythm and using the sounds of the orchestra to be creative. When we complained about it being too limiting our teacher talked about his teacher's teacher a famous classical composer (sorry forgot the composer's name.) He said he would making students compose with only one note (they had studied theory and orchestration already). When I went to GIT we had a composition course initial assignment we were limited to just the notes of the triad. When I was an Art major they talked about when great painters felt they had run out of creative is when they would work with just two colors. Restrictions are great for practice and for composition. I don't let it bog me down, I want to get stuff done! And I don't care if everybody else must tweak all their presets, you could spend a week twisting knobs on the 8-Voice and never come up with anything that's better than just clicking the arrow at the top and choosing somebody else's hard work. If you want to go deeper, just automate the volume and panning in the tracks for the stem and bring things in and out of the mix. Sum those to a stem, add EQ so you can fit it in the mix and move on. Drop a plugin, grab a preset that sounds good. If I do, I probably shut off some of the presets or change them.Ĭopy and paste the MIDI track to however many open tracks you want. Sometimes I keep the Triple Play and 4 synths, most of the time I don't. That creates a multi instrument MIDI track. I park 4 synths in Triple Play, choose a preset for each one of them and play a part for the recording. You're right, too many plugins is madness and some individual plugins by themselves are total insanity - the Cherry AudioĨ-Voice comes to mind, more "knobs" than anybody should ever have to deal with. I have a Fishman Triple Play for playing plugins. The tone became almost a secondary problem.įirst, I'm a guitarist and I stink on keyboards (although I have an XKey 25 and do use it sometimes). MY challenge and need for gear since doing Pop jobs were getting the gear that would allow me to do multiple combi changes in a single song during performance and require no time to go from sounds to prescribed sounds in show order. ![]() When I do write the piece of gear I use is a Baldwin grand. When I was a player my world was based around someone telling me "You play this song." Gear was something for re-creation. LOL I guess I should leave Keyboard Corner and move to Piano World ![]() I suck so bad I don't have time to worry about tones. I'm having to slow it down so much compared to how I used to play to cleanly hit the E majors chords in the opening. I sat down tried to play Grieg's Concerto. At the the end of of day I'm a pianist and a organist who had to learn synthesis and technology to make a living and raise two kids. I have lots of stuff but now only I just play what is handy. Especially if you create things that are timbre specific. But I guess that has to be your nature if you are a composer. What do you think? How do you overcome overchoice?ĭon't overthink things. But that’s just one example of intentionally seeking to limit yourself and I’m sure it can be applied to any situation of choice overload, e.g. He recently posted about how he is more creative with self imposed limitations and gives an example of trying to come up with a music idea by only using two keys at a time, no chords. I’ve been following a composer on YouTube, Jameson Nathan Jones, who is a former classical composer who is now using synths and creates modern music. I start laying down an idea in my DAW and when I begin browsing through the thousands of patches and options I feel a sudden choice paralysis, should I use this synth, or maybe that, or no, maybe that other one, no, no, no… and it instantly kills my creativity. (Well, not exactly but I’m trying to make a point). I also have multiple hardware synths and pianos. Original text at lyrnow.I’ve purchased a lot of virtual instruments, effects and apps, third-party patches. ![]()
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