Emma Partnow, post: 1782 wrote: I have Ableton 8 and Reason 5; and I ‘Know’ that feeling of sitting looking at a Blank Page Very Well :);
I don’t know if this will help you; but what I have done recently is to Build Templates for Both Ableton and Reason; which in Ableton contains a Kick Drum Track; Snare; Hi-Hats; and Percussion (which I have already Composed from Loops); 3 Empty Bass Tracks; and then a further 8 Empty Tracks; All these Tracks have their Own EQ Eight on them; and it just means that I have ‘Something’ rather than an ‘Empty Page’ to work with when I begin;
In Reason I have again made a Template which contains the Instruments I ‘Know’ I will be using as a Skeleton (Favourites such as the M-Class Mastering Suite; followed by the 14 Channel Mixer; then Kong – with a Favourite Drum Loop that is being Sequenced by a Redrum – ; then a Subtractor followed by a Matrix (which will run the Substracto); then a Thor followed by an RPG-8 (which will run the Thor); then a Malstrom; followed by a Dr OctoRex; then an NN-19 Sampler and an NN-XT Sampler; finishing off with a Scream 4; this gives me an Opportunity to begin Composing straight away;
But for me; when I feel I am stuck in a ‘Writers Block’; I take ‘Time Out’ by just listening to Tracks for a few days 🙂
thats a good idea, I started doing that in reason just because I got sick of the default song always loading. Never thought to do that in ableton though. :doh:
I still don’t really know what I’m doing with reason haha, I know very basically how to work the thor, malstrom, redrum, and the kong, but I like it better than ableton for making something from scratch.
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