Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes accidents?

NICORISONE · Post by **NICORISONE** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:38 pm

I have noticed a lot of my better sounding tunes are always on accident or not planned.

Just wondering how it is for others?

AllNightDayDream · Post by **AllNightDayDream** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:57 pm

For patches, 100%.

Ongelegen · Post by **Ongelegen** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:28 pm

i suck at this so always by accident

honey-d · Post by **honey-d** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:32 pm

Project EX wrote:i suck at this so always by accident

djake · Post by **djake** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:02 pm

if by "accident" you mean through experimentation, then yes quite often.

i wouldnt say a tune is an accident thou, i dont accidently put everything in a tune.

paravrais · Post by **paravrais** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:22 pm

It used to be all of them back when I started but these days I normally have a pretty good to vague idea of how I want a tune to pan out before I start it.

ninjadog · Post by **ninjadog** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:37 am

I'd think youd have to be quiet a skilled synth programmer to get the exact sound in your head come out of a synth. I think most of us go for the sound in our heads and find something interesting by accident and roll with it.

grooki · Post by **grooki** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:14 am

well, I never sit down and go "I will now write my best tune ever", and then do so.

Recessive Trait · Post by **Recessive Trait** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:19 am

nothing is planned, yet nothing is an accident.

mindcontrol · Post by **mindcontrol** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:22 am

I have a rough idea of what I want, but usually just experiment and go with the flow. Not knowing what your doing sometimes can aid you stumble across some awesome sounding samples and basslines.

kaiori breathe · Post by **kaiori breathe** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:25 am

In short. Every day I wake up, and I say to myself, "you sir, are awesome", then drink copious amounts of jack daniels, because i wouldn't want to start my day without topping up on irish stereotype, smoke somewhere between 1 and 50 Marlboro reds, punch a bear in the face, fight a shark, climb a mountain, and when all that is done, I think "you've done everything else today, why not write the greatest song ever"... and I do just that.

And that sir is what happens in opposite land.

NICORISONE · Post by **NICORISONE** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:30 am

kaiori breathe wrote:In short. Every day I wake up, and I say to myself, "you sir, are awesome", then drink copious amounts of jack daniels, because i wouldn't want to start my day without topping up on irish stereotype, smoke somewhere between 1 and 50 Marlboro reds, punch a bear in the face, fight a shark, climb a mountain, and when all that is done, I think "you've done everything else today, why not write the greatest song ever"... and I do just that.

And that sir is what happens in opposite land.

Possibly going to be the best quote ever! haha

kaiori breathe · Post by **kaiori breathe** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:32 am

The drinking and smoking parts are true to be fair, I did once dream I rode a shark, and in primary school a teacher asked us to draw what we did on the weekend and I drew myself punching out a bear... So there are elements of truth...

NICORISONE · Post by **NICORISONE** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:54 am

kaiori breathe wrote:The drinking and smoking parts are true to be fair, I did once dream I rode a shark, and in primary school a teacher asked us to draw what we did on the weekend and I drew myself punching out a bear... So there are elements of truth...

nice!

I think the one thing I do find (at least lately) most of my drum patterns that i think are my best are not planned what so ever, i just go with it lol

Basic A · Post by **Basic A** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:10 am

Recessive Trait wrote:nothing is planned, yet nothing is an accident.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:08 am

I'll jump on board with the lot of you. It's not really by accident but I don't normally (ever) sit down at the computer with a finished product in my head. It takes some fucking around. Not like you fall into the keyboard and a hook is born!

amphibian · Post by **amphibian** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:42 am

ninjadog wrote:I'd think youd have to be quiet a skilled synth programmer to get the exact sound in your head come out of a synth. I think most of us go for the sound in our heads and find something interesting by accident and roll with it.

this. But I wouldn't consider it an accident, rather just being led but how we feel about the sound rather than trying to tamper with it. That said, I am finding more and more often that I'm able to get the sounds that I want, or at least very close. My main problem though, is I always aim for the dancefloor but end up with tracks quite a bit softer. I think my most recent one is my best attempt, but it's still a way off.

Siderealdb · Post by **Siderealdb** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:42 am

I think collectively we're all participating in a newer version of the infinite monkey theorem. Just replace the typewriters with DAWs, the monkeys with humans, and the finished works of Shakespeare with a great album.

Phigure · Post by **Phigure** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:52 am

Siderealdb wrote:I think collectively we're all participating in a newer version of the infinite monkey theorem. Just replace the typewriters with DAWs, the monkeys with humans, and the finished works of Shakespeare with a great album.

This, although it obviously varies depending on how creative the individual is.

chronicrecords · Post by **chronicrecords** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:34 am

quite alot actually.i think this would be the case for anyone that is somewhat new to production. example: i have overlapped my drums slightly by accident and then realize it sounds tight as hell. or ill put an effect on 1 channal thinking its for something else and then it changes something i wasnt expecting but it sounds good. that kind of shit

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