oho interesting. I was actually doing a bit of doing the opposite, had been troubling on finishing anything, just starting the DAW and not much doing anything. So I started ,as I actually planed in the beginning but had not the appropriate gear. So now I stream at least once a week, joined a nice community. Growing my reach a bit. Have fun. Will be nice to hear what you come up with
finishaphobia. A lot of people have it! :) I have probably a thousand snips of stuff on my PC that are just an idea. I have tons of pages in MS Word of story ideas. I doubt I'll finish 3% of it all because I'm just not motivated to work on any of it because of too many other things I need to do and dabbling is like being a couch potato. Easy to throw down an idea and walk away. Very hard to work on that idea for 2 weeks and finish it w/o doing other ideas. Good luck, man!
Ha... ha.. Told my girlfriend yesterday actually... something siimilar. ..starting in feb-mars.. a track every week or two SO your timing is great... lokking forward to follow your process and picking up workflow and organizing tips. This is gonna be fun 🍀 A fun challange ⭐
Dude I absolutely love this!!!! This is a phenomenal way to tear through that "finishing tracks barrier". Many failures and even more successes ahead!!!
i can tell you from experience trying to accomplish weekly uploads takes a lot of your precious plugin development time. it also forces you to find something interesting to talk about every week and let's be honest, some weeks are just ok. they are not crazy nice, they are just fine. nothing to talk about, but alright and that's ok. but it can also push you to be more creative, because you have the goal to actually accomplish stuff not just for yourself, but as a responsibility for the world. that's motivating. so it can definitely help if you feel too unproductive now. i've talked to many devs who also say they have too less time to actually make music anymore. albums are totally out of question. but i try to fight against that as well. it's important to stay close to the music to have good plugin ideas after all.
100%, I appreciate the comment, Florian. :) I feel like it's super important to keep the habit of making music alongside developing the tools, as you can easily lose track of what plugin feature would actually be useful, rather than it just sounding like a good idea. The best way, I think, is to make the tools for your own music production needs, and the chances are other people might find them useful too. But it's super tought, as creativity and productivity don't mix very well, at least for me...
@sixthsample yes. productivity is the attempt to create a lot, but creativity needs something expressive to be created, regardless of the size. i'm currently making an album too and it helps me that i gave it a certain theme before i started. that way i have something to come back to when the creative flow gets confusing
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Happy New Year. This is a great idea. I have a few unfinished tracks. I am going to finish 52 tracks this year. That is a great goal.
Awesome, let's do this! :)
Sounds good, looking forward to it. Happy new year!
New year
oho interesting. I was actually doing a bit of doing the opposite, had been troubling on finishing anything, just starting the DAW and not much doing anything. So I started ,as I actually planed in the beginning but had not the appropriate gear. So now I stream at least once a week, joined a nice community. Growing my reach a bit. Have fun. Will be nice to hear what you come up with
Happy New Year. Hope you can Crammit in a lot this year!
finishaphobia. A lot of people have it! :) I have probably a thousand snips of stuff on my PC that are just an idea. I have tons of pages in MS Word of story ideas. I doubt I'll finish 3% of it all because I'm just not motivated to work on any of it because of too many other things I need to do and dabbling is like being a couch potato. Easy to throw down an idea and walk away. Very hard to work on that idea for 2 weeks and finish it w/o doing other ideas. Good luck, man!
Thanks! :)
Afraid of Finnish people?🤔
Ha... ha.. Told my girlfriend yesterday actually... something siimilar.
..starting in feb-mars.. a track every week or two
SO your timing is great... lokking forward to follow your process and picking up workflow and organizing tips. This is gonna be fun 🍀
A fun challange ⭐
Glad you're in!
Thank you! I have the same illness. I am all in!
Awesome!
Dude I absolutely love this!!!!
This is a phenomenal way to tear through that "finishing tracks barrier".
Many failures and even more successes ahead!!!
I truly hope so! Some tracks are probably going to be terrible but it's ok :)
i can tell you from experience trying to accomplish weekly uploads takes a lot of your precious plugin development time. it also forces you to find something interesting to talk about every week and let's be honest, some weeks are just ok. they are not crazy nice, they are just fine. nothing to talk about, but alright and that's ok. but it can also push you to be more creative, because you have the goal to actually accomplish stuff not just for yourself, but as a responsibility for the world. that's motivating. so it can definitely help if you feel too unproductive now. i've talked to many devs who also say they have too less time to actually make music anymore. albums are totally out of question. but i try to fight against that as well. it's important to stay close to the music to have good plugin ideas after all.
100%, I appreciate the comment, Florian. :) I feel like it's super important to keep the habit of making music alongside developing the tools, as you can easily lose track of what plugin feature would actually be useful, rather than it just sounding like a good idea. The best way, I think, is to make the tools for your own music production needs, and the chances are other people might find them useful too. But it's super tought, as creativity and productivity don't mix very well, at least for me...
@sixthsample yes. productivity is the attempt to create a lot, but creativity needs something expressive to be created, regardless of the size. i'm currently making an album too and it helps me that i gave it a certain theme before i started. that way i have something to come back to when the creative flow gets confusing
Wonderful idea Aapo! I don't know if I can tackle 52, but maybe I'll aim for 12. Happy New Year.
That's a great goal as well!