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Skill Grinding

Posted by ActualElf - July 1st, 2018


Hey NG!

 

I've recently had a little slow down in the releases of my music, this is partly caused by taking part in several Newgrounds competitions, namely AIM and NGADM. Knowing that in a few weeks if my entry is accepted I'll have to rigorously produce and have very tight deadlines to work with sort of makes getting lost in current tracks difficult, knowing I may potentially have to start three new big tracks from scratch in the space of a month or so if all goes well. I'm sort of saving my mental patience for the time intensive creation and workload.

Also I have just finished university and moved back from London to my hometown, have a spare room which will be turned into a home studio, will be building a tanky audio PC and finally investing in monitors, so hopefully I can finally begin to dive in and hone every sound I make rather than constantly cutting corners because one heavily designed serum patch makes my CPU meter hit 230% lmao.

I'm also taking some time out for some grinding, or so the joke goes, sitting every day on Ableton but not actually producing any music. Just spending hours and hours sound designing, creating wavetables and presets for the creative practice and also unintentionally creating a personal soundbank of new sounds/basses for future use. Potentially saving me time in the future when I begin to write again instead of having to make every single sound from scratch for every track, or potentially shaping a new song in a way it wouldn't have gone had I not had the soundscape at the ready.

After the LIMBO EP was a strange workflow, building the EP essentially after it was released. It has gone from a three track EP to a six-track, although it's looking to become atleast an eleven track by the time the next few months are over, once I solidify the final AIM mix "DRUGS" to release and if the NGADM tracks I potentially write are fitting and on par with the EP. Plus there is also a really nice remix yet to be released. 

It'll be a slow period for now, but I'm hoping to get my studio set up completed, use this time to tank up my production skills and come back with some tracks that I hope you guys will really enjoy.

Much love - AE <3

 

 


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glad to see that you're investing in a studio :D that makes me excited to see how you'll grow in the future. Can't wait!

Thank you! it's been a long time coming, your excitement's got me pumped and inspired <3

serum patch, man, this post is gonna make me Google. XD Congrats on the upcoming studio, finished studies and all though! That AIM entry was a blast to listen to too. Looking forward to more of those (I hope).

Ahaha I hope you do some googling and dive into making some beats! I'm excited for the possibility of you putting those sweet flows into music. Cheers for the support, it always means a lot. I hope I can put out some more stuff for you guys and start to up the quality <3

Well I googled that, at least. XD One for Xfer Serum huh. Was thinking it might be something in itself, a special type of patch, but anyway: hope so, and good luck with that too! Can never get too much good music.

Ggooodd. I envy you xD

Don't envy me sat surrounded by PC parts terrified of breaking something ahahah