How do YOU produce music?

[Dystinkt]

1- smoke something herbal, a lot.
2- i usually dont remember what happens afterwards, but i wake up the next day and theres a full track in my DAW

[hasezwei]

either:

play around making bass and drum sounds -> end up with fucking huge beat and twisty bassline -> make a generic drop and some loop variations -> show it to all my friends who tell me its totally sick -> never actually finish it

or:

pick a key -> write a couple melodies -> go a bit more crazy with the articulation, velocity, inversions, arpeggio sections -> pick another key thats nice -> EVEN MORE MELODIES -> make some synth patches (mostly bass, lead and pad cause i'm boring like that) -> add drums -> end up with what i think is a beautiful and emotionally moving piece of music only to have everyone tell me that it's gay and boring.

i hate my friends.

[mthrfnk]

pick a key -> write a couple melodies -> go a bit more crazy with the articulation, velocity, inversions, arpeggio sections -> pick another key thats nice -> EVEN MORE MELODIES -> make some synth patches (mostly bass, lead and pad cause i'm boring like that) -> add drums -> end up with what i think is a beautiful and emotionally moving piece of music only to have everyone tell me that it's gay and boring.

hahahahah.

[hasezwei]

or: listen to one of my favorite producers way too much for a few days -> open DAW -> make a carbon copy of their style -> delete it and cry myself to sleep worrying i will never do something original

or, what i'm most happy with at the moment:
fire up my cheesy 90's groovebox -> play around with the presets -> dance around stupidly -> ??? -> I'M A ROCKSTAR FUCK YOUR LAPTOP

[antipode]

is anyone actually reading all this shit?

[dickman69]

1 buy jazz/funk/disco records from old guy at flea market
2 (optional) get drunk
3 listen
4 find sample rip into audacity
5 put sample into ableton
6 cut cut cut cut chop chop chop chop
7 take sample
8 audacity -> low pass -> equalize (cut over 150-200 hz) -> amplify
9 put bass track into audacity
10 make more cuts
11 find drum samples (this takes a lot of steps 1,2&3 over and over already ahead of time)
12 make drums
13 FUCKING USE A MIDI CONTROLLER B/C QUANTISIZED DRUMS SOUND LIKE DICK
14 fix da levelz
15 get this sort of deal

Soundcloud

thats pretty much what i do every time, u kno the secrets

[antipode]

1 buy jazz/funk/disco records from old guy at flea market
2 (optional) get drunk
3 listen
4 find sample rip into audacity
5 put sample into ableton
6 cut cut cut cut chop chop chop chop
7 take sample
8 audacity -> low pass -> equalize (cut over 150-200 hz) -> amplify
9 put bass track into audacity
10 make more cuts
11 find drum samples (this takes a lot of steps 1,2&3 over and over already ahead of time)
12 make drums
13 FUCKING USE A MIDI CONTROLLER B/C QUANTISIZED DRUMS SOUND LIKE DICK
14 fix da levelz
15 get this sort of deal

Soundcloud

thats pretty much what i do every time, u kno the secrets

I've always been meaning to use more funky sampled basslines at 140 but I'm too much of a pussy.

ps dope track

[idontreallygiveashit]

think of track in head
struggle to make track as intended
lay down stretched asian samples w/ tons of reverb
+ bit crushed drums
+ same asian samples, only 2 times faster
+ amen break
+ more amen break
+ tramen break w/ distortion
+ sub bass
+ random shitty stretched and granulated field recordings
fuck about on alchemy presets by loading said shitty field recordings in place of stock samples
be dissapointed at what i've created
stop making tunes for weeks
repeat.

[NinjaEdit]

1. First, I go online and start a thread about the music production process.
2. Then I get trolled.

[rockacello]

1. First, I go online and start a thread about the music production process.
2. Then I get trolled.

[Attila]

Slowly, much too slowly...

[lightshapers]

drums first

usually write as you would hear it, intro-breakdown-drop etc

tend to write and not worry too much about engineering until the bulk of the tune is down

[Kilo Graham]

is anyone actually reading all this shit?

I've read most of them but there isn't much to respond to

[Ficticious]

1.Wake up with a tune in the morning, write it down.
2.Tune sucks - rewrite
3.Get feed back - Rewrite-
4. Hammer away at a tune during summer/free time for 16 hours of the day, eat, get ideas, take a shit. get back to work.
5. Sleep - relisten in the morning
6. learn more crap
7. go out have fun/hang with bros/family do w/e.
8. repeat more stuff
9.hammer away some more, hope you're getting somewhere without sounding like crap
10. re-release over and over till I get the sound I like after getting others opinions. realize that most of my friends say they like it and everyone else says it sucks. Hope for more feedback.

Sleep..

repeat from 1. if pass step 10...
11. Learn more, Broaden ideas.
12. Feel satisfied with a tune. release and have everyone say they like it, or a good amount of people which will happen one day...eventually.Then go back to the start.

[nameless133]

0. start daw
1. find good drum samples
2. load them into drum rack (ableton)
3. make drum loops using midi controller's drum pads
find more good samples and load them into samplers and:
4. make (sub) bass loops
5. arrange loops
6. make pads under the loops
5. more sounds
6 chillin'
7. mixin'
8. masterin'
9. renderin'
10. upload to interwebz.