Things that annoy you most about production...

[skimpi]

I think I see what you're saying, but I'm soling the compressed track as well as the track feeding to the sidechain. Even if I don't have any tracks solo'd it still does the same thing.

according to this page, it's just the way it is... http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.p ... ceff4c38e6

Howver, I take it you've been able to successfully BIP a track with a SC compressor on it? Because this is super annoying.

Also, as far as your system overload deal, reduce your amount of undo's, merge any audio tracks that have a lot of chopped up files, empty your bin of unused files, empty your trash, turn off your wifi, and use a little program called IFREEMEM. if I've been working on a song for a few hours I usually restart logic, if you look in your activity monitor, logic's activity will slowly creep up, and it won't go back down until you close and re-open it. I always keep my activity monitor up because once logic gets too high in RAM usage (doesn't matter how much your computer has) it will overload or crash.

ahh bounce in place, i dont do this, so i dont know if its any different, im talking about just plain bouncin the whole thing

and thats for the tips on overloading, ill defo do some of that shiz next time!

[Manic Harmonic]

are you freezing your tracks? freeze your tracks and bounce in place if youve got a lot of plugins and cpu hungry synths going on. just like bounce in place though, if you freeze a track any sidechaining on it doesnt work, so you would have to send it to a bus and record it onto a new track. that will save you a shitload of cpu though.

[drooka]

forgetting (being too lazy) to back up my tunes....

[wub]

I hate how I'm starting to get stuck in a song-structure rut

Ok, try this;

You know how your typical track will start off with the intro, gradually add layers, build up to the crescendo, go ape shit for a bit, then gradually strip off the layers as the track finishes?

Well, fuck that.

Start off with the crescendo, like you're blasting the listener with the full orchestra right from the start. Then strip out the elements towards the centre of the song, I mean really reduce them down. Pure silence might be taking it too far, but consider taking the track down to just the vocal/melody/sample hook whatever, let it roll all by itself for a bit then gradually increase the intensity as you reintroduce the elements, glitch the fuck out of it then BANG drop everything back in for the big finale. Don't even bother with an outro, outros exist only for DJs who lack creativity/flair in their mixing abilities.

[hudson]

loll, my tracks hardly have any big crescendos or finales, but thanks for the advice. I think I have to start making some purely ambient stuff with very loose structure too. It's more of a mindset i get into and I start writing my songs based on the structure as opposed to the feel

[Atac]

outros exist only for DJs who lack creativity/flair in their mixing abilities.

Love this!!

[wub]

Sadly true; I know more than one DJ that won't even consider tracks without the obligatory 32bar intro/outro fitted to them
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