As I first started producing, it felt like such a challenge to figure out what I was doing in my daw. To find the right sounds, to operate all my plugins. Eventually it felt like all I was missing was one perfect plugin or sound bank that would allow me to make the music I wanted to make.
But I now realize that I am not missing any production skills to make tracks up to the standard I want to. I proved this to myself by recreating a track that I liked, from a professional artist, that had what sounded to me like a good mix and was catchy. I was blown away by the fact that I had recreated, mixed, and mastered the intro, verse, build, and first drop of the track in one day to a high level of similarity.
But I just can't write my own tracks. So I'm trying to find where the gaps are in my knowledge.
✔ - Arrangement
✔ - Basic Sound design (not like bass music crazy but good enough for the music I like)
✔ - Music theory (at least chords, scales, intervals, voicings)
✔ - Decent sample library
✔ - Plugin knowledge (sylenth1, serum, massive, compression, eq, limiting, saturation, reverb, delay, etc)
So it really feels like I have all the knowledge I need, I'm just missing the special sauce. Any advice?
Edit: and of course can obviously always improve in these areas, but if I had say, an idea on just the piano, I feel confident that I could make it into a song at a level of quality I would be very happy with.
Submitted June 30, 2017 at 01:37AM by 1337gamer47 https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6kdrz2/ive_got_the_skills_but_not_the_ideas/?utm_source=ifttt