Benny Mackney, post: 5905 wrote: I don’t use templates. I’ve been saving some of my better effects racks and such, that’s the extent of my pre-done stuff though. I usually just load up a MIDI track with a synth of some sort, a MIDI track for drums and if I’m doing a remix, audio tracks for the stems/acapella. Then I just screw around with it all, slice the vocals etc. until I start producing clips I like, then I arrange the clips so the song sorta exists top-to-bottom is session view. After that, I start recording from session view and “play the song” (pad controllers make this fairly easy), then tweak in arrangement view.
This is Cool Benny; as ‘Often/Occasionally’ when I am doing Remixes I have the Stems also;
But the Question in this Topic was regarding Creating A Track From Scratch (from a Composers Point Of View);
However; some people like Myself; and Beginners; ‘Need’ a ‘Structure’ that ‘Feels Comforting and Enabling’; something that they can ‘Open And Begin Work Immediately’; without the Need to ‘Set Up An Arrangement’
(Ultimately Slowing Down Their Creativity); an ‘Arrangement’ that even you will ‘Need’ to Create During Your Remix my Friend; as I Know Full Well that Remixes have to be ‘Arranged’ at Some Point :);
I Also have Many Instrument Racks Saved As Templates; and it is a Fantastic way of Working;
However; as We ‘Always’ End Up in the Arrangement View (Once Recording From the Session View Begins); I Always Start in Arrangement View; as it Cuts Down On Time; and I can ‘Always See What Is Happening’;
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