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Originally posted by Sonic_c I even needed the deadmoose post it was the thing that got me all angry and more determined to prove him, myself, and the world that hard work can pay off and reminded me of the occasions that it already has for me

That brings to mind; use EVERYTHING as motivation because that motivation usually dies extremely quickly and someone/thing new will be needed to motivate you. But trust me with the hacks that run this industry and the hacks that are inside of it; there will NEVER be a shortage of motivation.

To go deeper into that; there are three ways you can handle every single criticism you've ever came across.

1 - accept it
2 - reject it
3 - reject it; use it as motivation and come back and shove it down their throats! (Best feeling in the world)

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Originally posted by cryophonik With that said, one of the biggest problems with EDM in my opinion is the attitude of EDM producers toward each other.

You mean the "dissenting power struggle amongst the locals"? Brilliant insight btw.

Is this J Berwin Remix the track in question?

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Originally posted by EddieZilker Dude!! No. DUDE!!! You're not gonna fuckin' quit, now, after you've invested a lot into this, just because your tune got rejected/panned/whatever other negative criticism has deflated your ego. No, sir. Now's the time to get right back up on that horse and have another go at it. Leave your ego out of this equation. Listen to other people. Go and look in the Music Producer's Promotion Forum and listen to all of the fundamental failures of music, including my own, and give out some critique to them. It will get you out of your head. You're not going to give up, though, because if you were, you wouldn't be posting that you wanted to, in here. Trust me. I've been through one ego crushing experience after another with music. I got so fed up, a few years ago, I walked away from all my equipment. It wasn't until I had time to think about it that it was due to a really poisonous atmosphere, which made making music so fucking unpleasant and then really regretted that decision.

Exactly you wanna take a leaf out of Jon the Dentist's book. We could all learn something from him I think (serious too btw).

Make a genre you've never tried before. Start trying to make a synth set for a particular synth you are fond of.

Get creative in different way to making the same tunes you have for years. You'll pull through!!

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You know, William Blake said... uh, nothing is lost. Nothing is lost and I... I really believe that, we only move on...

lool


necro.

My bad.

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The only major thing you are forgetting by writing something like this is tommorow.

But I went through something very similar lately. Looking at all the time I "waste" on music and wondering if I could have potentially had a doctorate by now if I just shifted focus to something else.

I felt like I had truley lost the desire one day and it was one of the most depressing feelings in the world. Almost like I was breaking with my gf or something.

After about a month of not thinking about music, or really listening to it at all, I wound up on my youtube listening to some of the first tracks I ever made. And boy were they shitty, but boy were there soul in each and every single one of them.

And I couldn't even put my finger on what had caused the dry streak in the first place. Same way I couldn't put my finger on what caused me to open on FL again. And that day I didn't think about equalizers or phasers or cleaning up my sound. All I did was pound my mouse, pound at my keyboard, I was pretty fucking fired up I felt like I was in a band on the stage freestyling in front of thousands of people.

But yet once again it was just me and my music. And I realized that you just can't predict tommorow, so don't even worry about it. Don't worry if "this is it". Because you will never actually know. One day you might find you come home from work, and the computer turns itself on, your sequencer opens itself up, you're not really sure how it even happened, but your heart is in it once again and damn did that break feel fucking good. Just not as good as it felt to be a home again, doing what I really love.

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Main Synth Bass GTs - Pro-53, V-Station, Sytrus, Subtractor, Trilian, Blue, Sylenth & Z3ta.
Main Synth Lead/Pad GTs - Z3ta, Sytrus, Sylenth, Vangard, Albino & Nexus.
Main FXs GTs - Waves Plugins, Soundtoys, Volcano, FL Native FX.
Hardware - Truths, Echo Audiofire, Virus Snow, & Novation Xio Midi-Synth.

How did this get bumped from over a year ago?

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Originally posted by Kysora How did this get bumped from over a year ago?

cos it needed a update lol so is sonic still making the tunes i never heard anything wrong with his music tbh

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Originally posted by Kysora How did this get bumped from over a year ago?

haha didn't notice that until you said it

Good thing though, inspiring read

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Originally posted by Kysora How did this get bumped from over a year ago?

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...12&pagenumber=2

Scroll down to my post.

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