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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:57 pm 
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Word. I always have some other awesome melody I come up with in my head. That's what sucks about sampling. It's more like improvising with a sample to making it sound good than making it sound the way you want. That's why I'm trying to save for a microkorg.


Yeah, that's exactly my problem too, but I'm beginning to get used to picking my samples with songs in mind, instead of picking samples and then trying to make a beat out of them. The latter works like 6 out of 10 times, but doing it the other way works much much better.

I must say though, I felt the same limitations with the Microkorg. I don't feel the same limitations with a guitar though. But I'm sure this has loads to do with me not being a keyboard player.

sounds like you guys need a sampler keyboard that pitches it to all the notes

even better yet, dont think about the samples you pick and somehow warp them all together by pitching/slicing/etc.

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Probably thinking of the song in my head and not being able to get it out the way it sounds in my head.


Same here :) But I'm kinda used to that now and when I work on my beats and samples I'm often surprised that I can flip something dope out of it that I haven't even thought of before. So in a way music takes me somewhere on its own where I didn't intend to go in the first place and I try to get the best out of it.


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I hate second guessing my work. or trying to improve on a beat i already made, saving it, and then wishing i had kept it the way it was. or when i think of a sample in my head that would perfectly compliment what i got already... but i don't remember where it came from and i have to blindly go through a whole crate searching every record for it... and along the way i hear something else and get sidetracked, and forget whatever it was i wanted to do in the first place. weed is a necessary evil

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:20 pm 
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for me it's all about getting hyped to make a beat and put my whole head into it. I try to make something everyday no matter how I feel.

but yeah taking my 505 to bed after I fill it with new sounds is cool but the lady does get slightly jelly.

I think a lot of the things that I may say bother me about making beats would be things that, if I really think about them, are the reasons I love to make beats. like getting lost looking through records and letting an odd choice of sample shape an entire track.

the random nature of sample based music is the core of it's uniqeness.

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
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i hate making a beat and then hearing someone use the same sample >.< (minus the forum battles)

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
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the space in time between wanting to make music, and actually getting started on it.. I always get stuck in this gap for hours and hours, sidetracked/doing other things

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pt3r wrote:
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Most people who blame equipment for their shortcomings would not be caught dead with a Roland SP.

True that! It's good though because their lame beats don't sully our beloved SP's.

Double Co-sign.


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I hate tracking the beat out because:
1)Never dunnit
2)Never wanted to do it
3)Everyone wants me to do it!!!

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I hate tracking the beat out because:
1)Never dunnit
2)Never wanted to do it
3)Everyone wants me to do it!!!


How do you upload your music then? Even if your recording your completed beat from your sp to your computer that's considered tracking out. That's a one track recording.

I hate it too though. Everything usually sounds so much better on my sp.


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How do you upload your music then? Even if your recording your completed beat from your sp to your computer that's considered tracking out. That's a one track recording.


of course I meant multitracking...

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:34 pm 
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I have a bit of all these things.
-I hate, running out of time in the lab.
-I hate, feeling like i spend too much time away from wifey.
-I hate, waking up tired from a late night session.
-I hate, having to name beats.
-I hate, not using my MV cause atm it easier to use the familiar FL
--I really hate, not doing what it takes to get the MV ready for solid use.
----I really really hate, that the MV doesn't support MP3's
-----I deathly hate, that ALL I THINK ABOUT ALL DAY IS MUSIC, and it doesnt pay my bills...LOL

I also hate that I don't spend more time on here with my peeps going thru the same issues as me. ONE LOVE...

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:53 pm 
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-I hate, not using my MV cause atm it easier to use the familiar FL


I have to tell you man, spend more time on your MV! You'll have to learn it like any other piece of gear.

It's like my current love and hate affair with my MC-808. I don't know the machine very well yet, I can barely make beats with it, so I tend to just use it as a sound source you know, but there's much more power in the box.

Only way to unleash that, is by giving it more time and effort.

FL is cool, but combined with the MV as the main sequencer, it can become even better. I'd encourage to dive into the MV now, before you're thinking about selling it in favor of a more software orientated box. (Which is a perfectly fine alternative by the way... but it would be something of a shame. )

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
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Hate is such a strong word to use for the universal language that we all love. So instead of hate, I will use the word flippy....nah maybe not. lol..

I don't like not being able to get the sound the way I hear it as I am making it, but 50% of the time it works out better that way.

I Don't like the final mixdown because that is when I start to second guess my work, which is completely unnecessary.

BUT the part I can't f*$*#(#( stand is my mind works like a magical being is inside my head right when I am falling asleep. That is when I think of the most illest shit. But as soon as I move to grab my sampler or computer (which both are right next to my bed on standbye just in case of this) POOOFFF!!!! my idea is gone, vanished, dont have a single clue on what it was. If only my 404 could read my mind at night...

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
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^^^ I'm with you on that one. Sometimes in the morning too.When I'm awake enough to push buttons, it's gone.....

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 Post subject: Re: part you hate most about beat making?
PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:37 pm 
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you gotta let that shit go or else it will torment you

i try not to think about songs until im making them and let intuition take over, its much more healthy than beating yourself up about not remembering an idea or failing to reproduce something.

after all that something would morph into something else when you get it down anyway....

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