Things that annoy you most about production...

[grooki]

In FL Studio, having to turn down the volume everytime I listen to a sample in the browser because my projects are so quiet.

Read the flstudio thread. Sample preview can be assigned to a mixer channel, you can set that channels volume however you want. Also can audition samples into fx chains this way, if you so desire. Gnaw what I'm saying?

I'm getting into Edison for resampling now too, it's amazing. You know that drag and drop function where you drag whatever you have highlighted in Edison into the playlist and it appears as a wav - were are those wavs kept in the filing system?

*Sorry for turning this into "my DAW is pretty damn fine"*

[nowaysj]

YourHardDrive:\Program Files\Image-Line\FL Studio 9\Data\Patches\Sliced beats

[nowaysj]

Oh, and everything I do now goes through edison. Everything.

[Toric]

When my file names end up looking like Project (crashed)(crashed)(crashed).logic. Sucks when some plugins get finnicky

HAHAHA! Oh my! Yes. I hate this one. And I thought logic was never supposed to crash! Poo!

I think this can be fixed by having an offline studio computer with nothing else on it.

[nowaysj]

Yeah, tripple post, you can drag samples out of edison into the browser to place them in folders you want.

[grooki]

Yeah, tripple post, you can drag samples out of edison into the browser to place them in folders you want.

Well, this fixes everything innit

[nowaysj]

Straight hijacking this B!

[zerbaman]

Oh, and everything I do now goes through edison. Everything.

Why?

[Eskimo]

When i fail to produce something that sounds ok lol happens time to time

[alexvont12]

When I'm feeling inspired and get a good drum loop going... then I open my synth, fursiously twist and turn til I get depressed by all the knobs and the shit noise thats coming out of my speakers...

[Dropkick_Kid]

- when you have a great idea and can't take your setup to the toilet and you urgently need a shit...
you then feel guilty using your toilet paper because of the effort andrex put into making the pretty patterns on your toilet roll and oh no,
I've completely forgotten my idea!

p.s - yes andrex, only the best for my bum

[Ch4nt4l]

clipping, production would be much easier if you could just make everything as loud as you wanted

+1

[ascent]

spending a lot of time on a project then realising it's shit

[hifi]

thing that annoys me the most is automation

[Filthzilla]

Clocking up over 50 hours on a project and having to drop it into the 'Work in progress (never going to finish I've wasted my time again FML)' folder

That's 50 hours well spent. 50 hours learning, getting closer to the final goal. In that 50 hours you grew as a producer.

[RandoRando]

Clocking up over 50 hours on a project and having to drop it into the 'Work in progress (never going to finish I've wasted my time again FML)' folder

That's 50 hours well spent. 50 hours learning, getting closer to the final goal. In that 50 hours you grew as a producer.

good point

[jaydot]

I hate that, and also respect that, there's kids like 16 churning out bangers after bangers... not jealous, just wish I could have done the same and produced earlier

I hate also that I make a track and I can't get to that level again seemingly. Like, it was something I actually still like (Solitude in my sig) but my efforts since aren't touching that, and sometimes I think they might never

I dislike the pigeonholing, and therefore refusal to listen to, blocks of tracks in big subgenres. I use sub genres for reference purposes but to say "oh that's brostep ergo it's shit" or it's "chillstep" so too slow. I appreicate people have different tastes but y'know, you can't lump a whole load of tracks into one category and then swerve them. For the record there's some good brostep around- brostep in inverted commas.

I dislike the way the likes of Nero and Chase and Status made so much good earlier stuff then sold out the underground to become commercial and consequently see the standard of their tracks dip, to cater for a crowd that will listen to anything with a cheesy vocal and a kick... snare pattern

Discuss.

[mitchAUS]

Clocking up over 50 hours on a project and having to drop it into the 'Work in progress (never going to finish I've wasted my time again FML)' folder

That's 50 hours well spent. 50 hours learning, getting closer to the final goal. In that 50 hours you grew as a producer.

Man thats deep, did u steal that off ghandi

[wub]

I hate that, and also respect that, there's kids like 16 churning out bangers after bangers... not jealous, just wish I could have done the same and produced earlier

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If I could go back in time and give my 14yr old self a copy of FL, I would.

I hate also that I make a track and I can't get to that level again seemingly. Like, it was something I actually still like (Solitude in my sig) but my efforts since aren't touching that, and sometimes I think they might never

Practice + patience = talent.

I dislike the pigeonholing, and therefore refusal to listen to, blocks of tracks in big subgenres. I use sub genres for reference purposes but to say "oh that's brostep ergo it's shit" or it's "chillstep" so too slow. I appreicate people have different tastes but y'know, you can't lump a whole load of tracks into one category and then swerve them. For the record there's some good brostep around- brostep in inverted commas.

Pigeonholing exists for two reasons IMO;

1) So that record sellers (either online or IRL) know what to put where
2) So that producers can invent new names for things everytime their chosen genre goes stagnant, so as to appear more niche (and therefore bookable) than they really are.

I dislike the way the likes of Nero and Chase and Status made so much good earlier stuff then sold out the underground to become commercial and consequently see the standard of their tracks dip, to cater for a crowd that will listen to anything with a cheesy vocal and a kick... snare pattern

Sadly, overground exposure will inevitably water down an artists tunes as they must adapt their style to cater for a larger audience. Look at Nero's earlier output, and the identikit glossy shite they put out nowadays.

[Toric]

I dislike the way the likes of Nero and Chase and Status made so much good earlier stuff then sold out the underground to become commercial and consequently see the standard of their tracks dip, to cater for a crowd that will listen to anything with a cheesy vocal and a kick... snare pattern.

I dislike people who complain about sell outs.

Sorry man, but it's a pet peeve. It really is. Calling someone a Sell Out because you don't like their new tunes is downright unwarranted trash talk. How did Nero sell out? It couldn't be that they had a hit and they decided to follow their success could it? Did they get a contract from the devil saying "your souls, for fame. Sign here."

Calling someone a sellout is, in my mind, the perfect representation of a jealous fellow. I' not judging you, jaydot, but you did say you are jealous of 16 year olds who can pop out banger after banger. Maybe get a book on production or music theory and keep studying. Study and practice is key to improving your chops. Maybe take a course at a community college?

If you were in the situation they were in, you probably would have done the same. Anyone would have. You take your success and you follow it. We all have to eat, we all have to put food on our tables, and we all don't want to work 9-5 jobs. This is the facts of life. You would have done the SAME THING if you were in their shoes, and I know this because you're human.

If you want to tell me no, you're probably bullshitting yourself, which is sad.

Once again, not judging, I'm just giving my opinion on the GENERAL population of people who bitch about sell outs. Not everyone, but most of you.

-T