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Sometimes it helps to listen to other tracks and somethings, especially if the idea is strong and developed, it's better to move forward undistracted!

That's great to hear! Thanks for coming along on the journey!

Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for sticking around all this time :) 💪

That's awesome! Are there still internet radio stations? I certainly miss having a person curate my music-listening experience. It's great to have every song ever at my fingertips at all times. But trying to decide what to listen to all the time is exhausting. Sometimes I don't feel like "DJing" for myself! Recording live sets is a great way to get in the moment and have fun. Thanks for the reminder!

I usually do it too. I find it either helps me move the song along or cements it into its current state. I think if I refrained from listening except for when I'm trying to figure out how to finish that'd be good. But a lot of the pleasure I take in making music is pumping it in the car the next day!

@@BrianFunkMusic I walk the dog twice a day so it's a good time to listen and reflect. It's like an autopilot where your brain tells you where it wants the music to go. I don't think I could do it all while sitting in a session.

@@alanredversangel That's awesome. My dogs have always let me know when it's time to take a break. And you're right about walking. It gets the blood flowing and the mind working! This is an ancient interview on Create Digital Music with Gold Panda that always stuck with me regarding embracing the natural interruptions of dogs! cdm.link/2010/10/gold-panda-interview-inspiration-from-samples-loved-ones-and-distracting-dogs/

Take it with a grain of salt; I have no idea how to get out of the funk! Glad you enjoyed it!!

Thanks for checking out my work, I hope you enjoy it!

Your songs don't burn out! They age like a fine wine!

So happy you enjoyed it! Music can teach us a lot about life and vice versa!

That's true; we are really dealing with our minds. We can make better choices with more options. The problem is we get caught up in spending too much time making decisions. For me, the pull of simpler tools with less depth is that the decisions don't even need to be made. To refer to the restaurant metaphor in the video, I put much less mental energy into an order when there are 3 options. Give me 100 options and I will get closer to a meal I really want. The cost is I labor over the decision longer. In a restaurant, that's the only decision I need to make. But in music production, every little decision, of which there are thousands in every project, can't be labored over if we hope to get any work finished. So in those cases we have to rely on discipline and managing ourselves, as you said! Thanks for your thoughts!

You’re welcome!!

Same! This is a good discipline. Sometimes I make decisions about songs while listening to them in the car. But it's almost like each listen increases the chances of it never going beyond that.

Thanks Ian! This conversation was a good example of the best thing I can do as a host - let him talk and don't get in the way! Evan has so much knowledge to share!

Thanks! I love when the principles of one thing apply to the principles of other things. Making music has taught me so much about life. And life teaches me about making music! It's pretty beautiful when those connections start becoming clear.

Those guys are out of control, look out!

You're welcome. It's a good reminder to me too!

Thanks :)

I'm not really allowed to get into that at this time. I like the track Trapped in a Gameboy on your page. Great sound!

You're welcome!!! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching :) Glad you enjoy it! It's easy to say, hard to do!

It does kind of make sense to stick to something people can expect from us. And sometimes a surprise is welcome (look at Andre3000's flute album). It's a tough decision, but maybe the best thing to do is follow your heart. I'd hate to try to fit into some box to please others and have that not work out and go unnoticed too!

AI is never going to be able to take the enjoyment of the process away. And whether it's the best or worst time really doesn't matter; it's the time we've got!

Which part is horrible to hear?

I'm not sure, probably need more info... Are you talking about .als files or something else? But try going open Live and go into the browser. Find those troublesome files and see if you can drag them into the current Session. If they are .als files, they will have a triangle you can unfold and see the individual tracks. Try dragging those tracks in one by one. There might be a track that has some kind of problem with it. I hope that helps!

Thanks :) I appreciate that you watched!!

That's a great philosophy. I have those exact words written down in my notebook. And you are one of just about everyone that has ever tried to make music. Finishing is hard! It's the last thing we do in the process and therefore the one we get the least practice doing. Allow yourself to make bad music. At least then you can practice finishing!

@@BrianFunkMusic oh, I’ve made plenty of bad music 😂

@@officialWWM 🤣Haven't we all!!! It's par for the course!

Cheers!

Thanks and I'm glad you like the podcast!!! I am not sure about new MIDI Pitch Bend?? Is it maybe the way it resets on clips or something?

@@BrianFunkMusic I was able to figure it out, the location of the midi control features has changed. The only issue I'm having now is it seems like the "note expression" feature, the ability to pitch bend up to a specific note on the piano roll, seems to be missing or at least I can't find it :/

@@aurachild2188 Still there but It got moved! It's located on the tabs right above the piano roll. Check out the image above my head in the very beginning of this video. ruclips.net/video/e_ONBHtNAgU/видео.htmlsi=NmTYSrNzmTxmgkAU You'll see 3 tabs: Notes, Envelops, and MPE. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before you start wondering where the Envelops are too!

Well I guess we all come up using different gear and that certainly leaves an impression on us. I started with a 4-track cassette recorder and made songs with a mic and guitar and anything else I could find to fill the last two tracks. No samples at all. I don't particularly enjoy making songs by dragging samples together, but I still think there is room for creativity in that. It's just different. I think you're right, a lot of creativity comes from overcoming limitations. BTW that graphic novel on your channel looks pretty awesome!

Dude…at least with playing a guitar you’re just doing one to two tracks! After my Ensoniq died I had a 4 track and a Casio. I had to record a metronome track with a drum sound off the Casio, then kick and snare tracks, make sure those were mixed well, then record those to the fourth track and do additive composing like that till I was finished. Sampling is more than dragging them together. There’s chopping, and multing. Multing is essentially recording the sample (back then) or the chopped up samples as they were then sequenced on an MPC etc and recording that sequence onto two inch reel as many times as there are instruments from the sample. Then, it’s basically creating stems for each of the instruments in the sample. Except there’s no app/AI at the time so you eq out the other instruments from each track until you get the hihat “by itself”, for example. Thank you for taking the time to look through my channel and your compliment on my book.

@@DarkGloComics Ha! I know what you mean about building tracks that way. I used to try to do that but I couldn't actually play the keyboard drums well enough! I think those were creative times, but they also got in the way of bringing my ideas to life. I don't exactly miss that stuff! But sometimes incorporating some of those limitations (like track counts) can be a lot of fun and lead to interesting results. Yea the comics look awesome! Glad I took a look!

@@BrianFunkMusic Word. I even had to do multitracking with a double cassette deck, Playstation: Music Generator. Lol. I appreciate the look. Thanks.

Great to hear! I made this so it could be the video I sent people when this issue comes up!

It's good to know even the greats were challenged with this stuff! Thanks for sharing!

Cheers! 🍻

Cheers! Thanks :)

You can do it!!

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!!

You’re welcome, good luck!!

Glad you enjoyed it!!

Your comment had me playing with SUNO for a little while. It's impressive, but I wouldn't want to listen to the music it makes and I didn't feel any pride in "creating" it. But it is certainly amusing. One can only imagine it will get better and better, and probably faster than we ever imagine!

@@BrianFunkMusic Yep... For now it's just "impressive" right? What it will be 2..3 years from now nobody knows. It looks like Universal already signed with a music generation AI startup to create AI voice models of all its artists. Hard to believe but apparently it's real

@@DarkCebolix Yikes! I could imagine where that's part of the record deal. I still like to believe that people will still appreciate human work. Cars go super fast, but we still watch people run races against each other. Maybe we will return to an appreciation of talent and emotional expression. 🤞 One thing it can't replicate is the enjoyment of actually making music out of nothing!

@@BrianFunkMusic Yep, it's a good perspective, music is about feeling right? Not only conveying feelings but to apply feelings and energy into it too. It makes sense!

@@DarkCebolix So true!! Thanks!

Nah that happens to me all the time! The longer I work on a track the more I scrutinize every little detail. But when I work fast, I am more accepting of whatever I happened to choose. The problem is there are no right answers. There are infinite possible paths you can take on just about every decision. The more I think about all those paths, the more likely I am to want to tweak it to see if the next move is better. It's always a battle!

@@BrianFunkMusic Cheers mate