Got a strings loop thing on the go.
So now that the fun of making something new is over, it’s time to do the boring work of fixing it into a song. I just don’t frikkin want to. 
This is what I meant by “mish mash music making”. I just make a bunch of one minute loops then it’s onto the next loop. Cause it’s more fun to just keep jamming. Never actually finishing songs.
That’s totally fine. These little loops are the equivalent to a guitar player player constantly trying some chords and riffs. Most of that won’t ever get turned into a song either. It can still bring joy to that person nonetheless.
Ya. Cubase and Machine is so good for just jamming. Not getting anything done but I’m right where I want to be.
Another loop. It just keeps happening. On an acid kick now.
Only a minute long. Half the instruments missing, rough, clipping, not mixed, no effects, vocals.
Send it 
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I got some theories about this habit. My personal theory is I’ve watched so many tutorials and so many plugin demos that a minute is basically the amount of time when music is playing, then my brain goes, “ok its done now”.
Or I was listening to this video in the background while screwing around. He mentioned that finishing songs is mandatory, cause we don’t get better until we do. So he’s probably right. It’s just that not finishing songs is just the path of least resistance. Or maybe we aren’t confident enough in what we’ve made to reveal it to others, so we abandon it and try to roll the dice again out in the big ocean of possibilities.
It depends on what your goal is. If you want to be able to earn money with your music, if you want others to listen to your work, then he’s probably right.
If you just make music because you enjoy the process, then who cares what form the result is.
Oop, another one.
They just keep coming ＼（〇_ｏ）／ send help
Think I’ll finish this one. I know what I want to do with it.
Actually I’ve just been learning how to use Machine so I’ve been playing as I go. Using the expansion packs.
By “get better” I mean to end up being able to put down what’s in your mind. I think that’s mastery of making music. To have something in your head and by the end of the day having that exact thing as a .wav file. That’s mastery of the skill imo. Just as I say in martial arts if you are no longer afraid to face anyone then your training is complete.
But also, the stage is the top of the world. If there’s someone that’s not always trying to get back there, then they’ve never been on it.
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Hello again to all my friends.
Together we can play some rocknroll.
Most finished works start out as short experiments 
Nice ideas you should keep coming back to them and just let them grow.
True. After I’m all learned up I’m actually going to try the pen and paper method to start songs. Have a song ready to go, then open the daw after.
That’s what I used to do when I wrote songs when all I had was a 4 track cassette player,no cutting and pasting, i could punch/drop in if i messed up but generally i had to have the song rehearsed and in a finished state . I have attempted to write from scratch in Cubase but there are too many distractions and laziness with the cutting and pasting approach and things have just ground to a halt .I think writing in the score editor could be brilliant if I could get to that level of writing what’s in my head like Mozart lol .
Ya, the easier it gets the worse we get in general.
I’m thinking when starting a song, only have scaler 3 standalone on one half of my screen and obsidian on the other half. Play some basic piano and write up some lyrics. Make a bunch of midi patterns and end up with a rough sketch. Then open the midi up in cubase later.
I can see the advantage to that as you say, having no distractions. Not being led by the tools, but making the song I want to make, then using the tools to sculpt the song I already made.
Dunno yet, but I get distracted easily. For example I started off learning my new machine mk3 controller, with the manual and tutorials. Then I started putting patterns down with it. Then I started going through every expansion pack to favorite ones I will use. Now I want to import all my favorite kits into groove agent so I can tag them by genre and instrument etc.
So I got led astray into spending my time improving my tools but making no music, as usual. When I probably didn’t need to improve anything, to get on with making music. Dammit.
I once put a basic beat into Cubase and set up a mic plugged into Cubase, pressed record and just sung anything in to it ,I then messed around with chords that would fit with the vocal melody and it turned out good ,it was about the length of a verse and bridge. I already had a chorus group of chords I had previously done but with nothing else,I fit them both together and hey presto a song ,then all the editing tools in Cubase were brilliant for sorting and putting the sections in the correct order. that is the only time I did that approach but keep meaning to do it again cause it turned out successful and it has genuinely come straight out of you .
It’s like a freestyle rap but for random music. 