What steps did help you most in order to improve your production skills, for example switching to another programm, buying a hardware synth, monitors or intensive listening to certain tunes?

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having some good reads about proper sound mixing

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"The world is not beautiful. And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty."

--=My Music=--

I think it was when I first started to use vst instruments for my FL sequencer. I discovered an immensely big world of different and new sounds (which also gave new inspiration etc)

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In chronological order:

- Switch from FastTracker to FL Studio.
- Discovery of VST's.
- Joining a Trance community and reading about producing.
- Buying clean monitors.
- My next, hopefully big improvement will be my step to Cubase and buying a keyboard.

And whenever I need inspiration I go to a big party with some good DJs, the records they play always turn my musical mind on.

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- Yarune-Music.com - Click to visit website -
Productions:
Airballoon [Intuition] | The Book Of The Water | Sands Of Time | Terraphonic - Ad Hoc Havoc | Muse - Uprising (Yarune Remix)
Also visit my soundcloud and Twitter

Hooking up with Mart.

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Latest releases:
Endless Cycles [Capital Heaven]
The Charlatan [Morphosis]

A new cpu

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Well, first step was getting a new computer (my old one REALLY limited me). Then lots and lots of practice and getting used to using all functions instinctively. Then finally, learning about mixing and EQ-ing, and putting it all into practice. It's really mostly a question of time and practice. Took me years to get there.

learning to play piano....

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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes"

training !

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Fahad.

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