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I've had a similar approach to music except, instead of field recordings, I started with MIDI keyboards in the mid-90s instead. For me, it's been a fun hobby to keep my toes in music while I play software engineer most of the week. I can confirm all six of the tips in the article are correct. > Anyway, I eventually discovered a life changing life-hack which I have now used for years to force myself to finish and rele…
> Christmas Music One important skill I've found necessary in both music and my software career is dissociation . By that, I mean the ability to separate yourself from the work that you've created. It's natural to feel that what you have made is a reflection of yourself and your value, but it also leads to a lot of fear. In the music world, this manifests as a fear of releasing music and instead endlessly tweaking kn…
Isn’t it easier to believe people just forgot about you?
I've had a similar approach to music except, instead of field recordings, I started with MIDI keyboards in the mid-90s instead. For me, it's been a fun hobby to keep my toes in music while I play software engineer most of the week. I can confirm all six of the tips in the article are correct. > Anyway, I eventually discovered a life changing life-hack which I have now used for years to force myself to finish and rele…
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It also appears in every single HN thread about music.
It’s relevant.
I agree with other comments here that your "revolutionary" music IDE gets spammed into every discussion related to music - but the actual website you link to doesn't really give any hint as to what it really is either, just a bunch of vague sounding marketing friendly hype words.
I hope what you make truly is revolutionary & unique and I will take a look at it when it launches out of curiosity (so your relentlessness in plugging it has, it would seem, worked). But please can you explain how it is relevant to the article / discussion here?
When overdubbing you don't actually need to minimize latency: as long as your latency is constant, you can adjust for it. For example, if your end-to-end latency is 200ms you can tell your music program to adjust, shifting everything you record 200ms earlier.
> Christmas Music One important skill I've found necessary in both music and my software career is dissociation . By that, I mean the ability to separate yourself from the work that you've created. It's natural to feel that what you have made is a reflection of yourself and your value, but it also leads to a lot of fear. In the music world, this manifests as a fear of releasing music and instead endlessly tweaking kn…
> Did I release garbage and people hate me now? Isn’t it easier to believe people just forgot about you?
> Christmas Music One important skill I've found necessary in both music and my software career is dissociation . By that, I mean the ability to separate yourself from the work that you've created. It's natural to feel that what you have made is a reflection of yourself and your value, but it also leads to a lot of fear. In the music world, this manifests as a fear of releasing music and instead endlessly tweaking kn…
> In the music world, this manifests as a fear of releasing music and instead endlessly tweaking knobs and refining 4 bar loops; This is pretty common, and I’d like to add that there are more reasons besides “fear” for endlessly tweaking knobs and refining four-bar loops. Fear is a good explanation, and it’s not a wrong explanation, but it’s only a part of the explanation and as I’ve gotten older I’ve placed less wei…
On music production forums I frequently see people comment that they've been working on a track or album for years, they're just trying to get it perfect before they finally release it, so they're constantly doing tweaking to what's already there. That kind of behavior definitely indicates fear to me.
"Making your own work is a good thing to do, even if no one else is interested in what you are making. To create is to be human." Tattoo that on my forehead backwards.