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Post by pt3r on Nov 16, 2023 20:38:29 GMT
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Post by maydonpoliris on Nov 16, 2023 21:51:28 GMT
it's a bit of both isn't it. He makes a few good points on got to love the process rather than doing it for anyone else. I love the "we are just shittier versions of a few things"  |
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Post by solipsistnation on Nov 16, 2023 22:36:41 GMT
Yup, what he said. One of my favorite pieces of advice:
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Post by pt3r on Nov 17, 2023 7:10:32 GMT
but what if it only gets you to be good at sucking at something?  |
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Post by namke on Nov 19, 2023 15:42:28 GMT
Thanks pt3r for posting this, I finally got around to watching, and I need to get back to this mindset! Rewind to the early 2000s when I was trying to make music for people to dance to; I wasn’t massively happy with the results and, when it came to it, people weren’t dancing either! So I decided that I should only make music that I liked, and if it turned out that other people liked it too, then that’s a bonus (this is more evident in outlets like my band ‘neuschlaufen’ where we improvise the set, changing direction when we feel the need to, not when audiences get restless 😁 Of course, this also extends to the modules I make as ‘wonkystuff’. I started out making things that I wanted to use and if other people wanted them too, then that was a bonus (and of course I am hugely grateful to all of those people who have found the modules interesting and/or useful). Unfortunately for the majority of 2023 I have become more focused on what others think, and so am disproportionally discouraged when ‘some random on the internet’ throws some criticism my way (whether intentionally or not — my self confidence can be remarkably fragile!!!). Fundamentally, what I need to get back to is not caring what other people think (or at least cherry-picking which feedback I should listen to), as long as I’m doing things that I find interesting and/or useful, and then — maybe — I will feel more like making new things…🤔 |
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Post by pt3r on Nov 19, 2023 17:26:11 GMT
It is a simple recipe that gets presented here and it is easy to put it in words but waaaaay more difficult to put in practice IMHO, cause you can produce/create/build for yourself but there is still this little part of the brain that craves feedback. Nothing is more deafening than the complete silence.
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Post by pol on Nov 21, 2023 12:49:31 GMT
Thanks pt3r for posting this, I finally got around to watching, and I need to get back to this mindset! Rewind to the early 2000s when I was trying to make music for people to dance to; I wasn’t massively happy with the results and, when it came to it, people weren’t dancing either! So I decided that I should only make music that I liked, and if it turned out that other people liked it too, then that’s a bonus (this is more evident in outlets like my band ‘neuschlaufen’ where we improvise the set, changing direction when we feel the need to, not when audiences get restless 😁 Of course, this also extends to the modules I make as ‘wonkystuff’. I started out making things that I wanted to use and if other people wanted them too, then that was a bonus (and of course I am hugely grateful to all of those people who have found the modules interesting and/or useful). Unfortunately for the majority of 2023 I have become more focused on what others think, and so am disproportionally discouraged when ‘some random on the internet’ throws some criticism my way (whether intentionally or not — my self confidence can be remarkably fragile!!!). Fundamentally, what I need to get back to is not caring what other people think (or at least cherry-picking which feedback I should listen to), as long as I’m doing things that I find interesting and/or useful, and then — maybe — I will feel more like making new things…🤔 Good reason just to use this forum, so many synth forums I've used in the past just get toxic &/or buried in spam; AE is different! |
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