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Remember the first days when you painted the first notes in your sequencer which sounded like trance. Proud like a god on the first little sequence you made´. The magik of layering some sounds, adding a bassdrum to a loop for the first time in your life and you just put up the volume happily. And you understand you just made your first trance track...

But you have no idea what you still have to learn probably:
You study about synths, you get to know about frequencies, eqss, compressors, VSTi, different tools, file formats, psychoacustic...


Did you feel like me too ? Do you wish sometimes production should be like when you began ? Or are you happy about all the things and limits you learned ? Did your way of production and your style change ? Did it become more narrow or more open ?


Trancevision

yep I feel the same way...its got so complicated now that most of the fun is gone. I still love to do it but sometimes I just want to pack it in. I think this site keeps me going and reminds me of all the hard work I have done to get here.

ya it was fun first now doing it for a living it gets hard because ur not only studying all the time but u find u self doing all the small things more then when u were first starting out having fun.

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I remember back in 1998, when I put my first 909 hat and clap together, and got a buzz off how proffesional it sounded!

I just wish i'd of started off using a PC, instead of the playstation

hehehe

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Alter Ego Records A&R, Producer, DJ
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I honestly love listening to my first few attempts at trance and realizing how far I have come, its a great feeling of achievement. There's such a mountain of information to climb and I'm glad its not so overwhelming as it once was.

So I feel better about producing now then I ever have, since I can fully explore my creativity to its full extent now with the mass of knowledge obtained over the years.

But its still a pain in the ass sometimes

yeah those were the good days.. alot more fun... now I am always going for the "pro" sound which can be very soul-less and a long process..

I miss my good old` Playstation.. (which I used for over 4 years)

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Originally posted by Subtle I miss my good old` Playstation.. (which I used for over 4 years)

I guess 'Music', 'Music 2000' and MTV Music Gen 2?

They are what I used for a long time.

Yeah, I remember those first days using Rebirth (the 1st one WITHOUT the 909!!). It was so SOOOO satisfying to hear the simplest off-beat bassline and thumping kick!

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Originally posted by CJConstable I guess 'Music', 'Music 2000' and MTV Music Gen 2? They are what I used for a long time.

yeah

damn what a creative effort MTV Music Generator 2 was... I miss it still...
I stopped banging on the PS 2 when Music 3000 came out... what a sucky.. ass-shit program

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Remember how basic those early tracks were, but yet so complete and exciting...


it was just the Roland drummachine, TB303, a Juno and an Atari...
but nowadays it can take you hours just to decide what plugin to use...for one sound..... for one part of the track..

I sometimes get swamped by the infinite amount of choices you can make in what to use , when to use it etc.

would not want to go back to hardware based production though...

since we are talking first tunes I'd like to share my very first tune I ever produced...it was done with only a Waldorf Qkb and some perc samples. Its pretty bad but it made it to the Waldorf User Demo's on the web site..lol. The FTP isn't that fast so dont worry iof it takes a few minutes. I was thinking of oneday remixing it!


http://waldorf.electro-music.com/q/...mos/sunrise.mp3

edit:This shlould be faster http://limit.dmusic.com/

Found my second track ever made in the archives

First track: Sunrise(just one big mess)
Second track: The Promise(a mixing and mastering desaster..oh and total disregard for EQ..lol)

Its fun listening to your old tunes

Last edited by Limit on Sep-30-2004 at 18:46