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Re:You might want to try being less creative by andai on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:06PM (#50025255)
Started having way more fun (and making better music) when I released the "need" to make everything from scratch and just started dragging and dropping loops.

Now it's like I'm back in 2003 when my feature phone had a little music composer thing on it. You'd just slap together some presets.

Life is good.

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Re:You might want to try being less creative by runamuck on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:09PM (#50025992)
This worked for Rhianna's "Umbrella", Tricky Stewart used a sample from Garage Band for the high hat loop - classic banger!
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Re:You might want to try being less creative by bryantwolf on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:47PM (#50025730)
Where were you fifteen years ago! I'd love to hear more about your process if you're interested!
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Re:You might want to try being less creative by andai on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:12AM (#50032137)
Yeah, I'm just downloading sample packs a drag and dropping the into the timeline in FL Studio, for the most part. Just drag and drop.

Though at that point most of the complexity of the music software becomes unnecessary, and I wonder if there are better (modern) tools for that. I saw a video of someone doing the same thing on a PlayStation 1, apparently MTV made a "game" where you make music in the same way.

https://youtube.com/esckos3O7i4

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