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I find grid based systems like Ableton great for getting short loops together but making the jump to a finished track is a lot harder. I have folders full of s
by cageface 3y ago
I find grid based systems like Ableton great for getting short loops together but making the jump to a finished track is a lot harder.
I have folders full of sketches I've built up in years of using it but very few things I'd call finished.
- siquick 3y agoWhat I do to get over this - as soon as I have an 8+ bar loop i like i paste it into Arrangement view so it fills up a 5 minute song, and then I start taking parts out. Gives me a basic “song” to start fleshing out.
- jcpst 3y agoI do something similar to this too- sometimes making 2-4 scenes and pasting some basic form in the arrangement. From there, I see it the way a sculptor might see a slab of rock, and start “carving out” the song.
- bodge5000 3y agoFunny enough I always found the opposite, I find Renoise great for making short loops but putting them together into a full track to be a pain, and then visa-versa with Ableton and software like it. The OP-1 is where I've found this to be especially the case, incredibly easy to make a loop on but never managed to make a full song on it, aside from using mutes/effects on a single loop to stretch it out into a full track
- cageface 3y agoI found the OP 1 especially difficult for this. I never got used to the tape recording workflow. It's a pity because I really liked it otherwise.