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Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes accidents?
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:38 pm
by NICORISONE
I have noticed a lot of my better sounding tunes are always on accident or not planned.
Just wondering how it is for others?
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:57 pm
by AllNightDayDream
For patches, 100%.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:28 pm
by Ongelegen
i suck at this so always by accident
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:32 pm
by honey-d
Project EX wrote:i suck at this so always by accident
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:02 pm
by djake
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:22 pm
by paravrais
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:37 am
by ninjadog
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:14 am
by grooki
well, I never sit down and go "I will now write my best tune ever", and then do so.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:19 am
by Recessive Trait
nothing is planned, yet nothing is an accident.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:22 am
by mindcontrol
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:25 am
by kaiori breathe
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:30 am
by NICORISONE
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
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:32 am
by kaiori breathe
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...
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:54 am
by NICORISONE
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
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:10 am
by Basic A
Recessive Trait wrote:nothing is planned, yet nothing is an accident.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:08 am
by abZ
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!
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:42 am
by amphibian
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:42 am
by Siderealdb
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:52 am
by Phigure
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.
Re: Out of curiousity, how often are your best tunes acciden
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:34 am
by chronicrecords
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