Listening to: Minilogue

[declan at degomusic.net]

Hey mohsen,
   That is sound advice and I appreciate your response.  I love using  
Ableton Live and it is my goto daw for music.  Sometimes I find the  
creative process finishes as soon as I have to sit down and arrange  
what I have written and that can frustrate me to the point where I  
abandon a project.  Not entirely though as I always re-visit old  
projects to see if I can inject something new into them.

   I recently bought a Maschine Studio controller which comes with  
Maschine 2.0 software so maybe I can spend less time with Ableton and  
more time with Maschine to see if that can add something different to  
my process.

Declan.

Quoting deeplfo <deeplfo at yahoo.com>:

> Hi Declan,
>
> I believe focusing on the tools, and to a certain extent the  
> techniques, is perhaps misplaced.  You may be "set" in your ways and  
> are in need of a fresh approach.  I would recommend a deeper look at  
> how you approach those said tools, even a complete departure from  
> them (for a little bit), might be useful. 
>
>
> In the past few months I've been revisiting my interest in classical  
> music, especially chamber music.  In that pursuit, I have been  
> reading on my favorite composers, ok I admit it's mostly Brahms :-),  
> as well as reading and listening to loads of music.  I found that  
> that minor diversion really helping my own efforts, however small,  
> in finding and firing up creative juices.  I also started bringing  
> in various pieces of music that I like into Live, and just visually  
> taking a tour of the intricacies of those pieces.  Part study, part  
> fun.
>
>
> So, my advice is to not blame the tools for what they are and aren't  
> doing, take small diversions and musical holidays, and focus on the  
> music and not the tools, or for that matter the techniques.  Just  
> make music.
>
>
> cheers,
> mohsen
>