The hole song process can take up to 1 month to 4 months for the one song, I start off thinking about the type of song I want to produce sad, happy, up lifting energy and so on, at the same time I get into character to get into the right mod because I'am wating for a spontaneous melody to pop it to my head from this. this can happen in many ways, Dreaming, Listening to other peoples music, or when I get strong emotions or some other type of trigger.
To get these spontaneous melodies I keep a small tape recorder with me and beside me when I sleep. This hole process can take 2 weeks to 2 months and I never force it.
Next is putting these melodies together on a small program ether Fruityloops or Music 2000 which realy good for this because its really easy to use.
This is were is see what works together and put things together I usually spend about 2 weeks on this than I will move to paper drawing the tracks out on papper as if they were like real tracks on a music program.
I do this really get the little things that all add up when you make music.
Next Time to get the sounds together with a number of softsynths that I have but mostly I use my MicroWave XT, a Hardsynth. I will go about editing the sound I want for around 1 week.
The next thing I do is start building the tracks in Cubase in MIDI than record to audio. I build them up one by one until the hole song is there than I add the FXs EQ filterseeps stereo panning and the other things I want to do.
After I have the hole track its time to mix it, this takes about a day to get it right then I will leave it for a couple of days and not listen to it . And I also try and not listen to any other music at all because I want to rest my ears and I want them to be fresh when I go back to hear my mix again to see if its right. Than I turn it into one track to be exported to a wave editor.
I like to use wavelabe for this, this is were the finished track is mastered were I add EQ, compression, Reverb and stuff like that Burn it to a wave file and go and test it out to see if it sounds right, If not I will do the process again.
The hardest part for me is the Drum tracks, I think its because I am so melody minded and I never get drum Tracks popping in my head like I do with melodies.
So what's your process, I would like to hear it?.
To get these spontaneous melodies I keep a small tape recorder with me and beside me when I sleep. This hole process can take 2 weeks to 2 months and I never force it.
Next is putting these melodies together on a small program ether Fruityloops or Music 2000 which realy good for this because its really easy to use.
This is were is see what works together and put things together I usually spend about 2 weeks on this than I will move to paper drawing the tracks out on papper as if they were like real tracks on a music program.
I do this really get the little things that all add up when you make music.
Next Time to get the sounds together with a number of softsynths that I have but mostly I use my MicroWave XT, a Hardsynth. I will go about editing the sound I want for around 1 week.
The next thing I do is start building the tracks in Cubase in MIDI than record to audio. I build them up one by one until the hole song is there than I add the FXs EQ filterseeps stereo panning and the other things I want to do.
After I have the hole track its time to mix it, this takes about a day to get it right then I will leave it for a couple of days and not listen to it . And I also try and not listen to any other music at all because I want to rest my ears and I want them to be fresh when I go back to hear my mix again to see if its right. Than I turn it into one track to be exported to a wave editor.
I like to use wavelabe for this, this is were the finished track is mastered were I add EQ, compression, Reverb and stuff like that Burn it to a wave file and go and test it out to see if it sounds right, If not I will do the process again.
The hardest part for me is the Drum tracks, I think its because I am so melody minded and I never get drum Tracks popping in my head like I do with melodies.
So what's your process, I would like to hear it?.