u/vinylfelix

FL crashed on me last night. It’s ridiculous enough that I see it as “part of using the software”. It seems to happen every update they come with.

But yesterday was next level. I was not able to open the back up any longer. So beat seems to be gone.

I am considering other programs. I only make beats.

Reason seems really interesting to me. Cubase too.

I work mostly in the box. Have Arturia V collection and Korg 6 and a midi keyboard.

There are many things I love about FL but especially the piano roll is just so freakin handy.

Is it really that much better than the Cubase piano roll? Asking this hoping people that made the move can answer.

Curious how other reps think about this, because I don’t think there’s a universal rule.

Not asking for “the right number”, I know that’s subjective and depends on deal size, vertical, timing, etc. What I’m actually curious about is the feeling. At what point do YOU personally start to feel like you’re the one being weird about it, not because of some playbook rule.

Is it a specific touch number? A tone shift in your own messages? The moment you start over-explaining why you’re reaching out again? Genuinely curious how other people notice that line in themselves.

Personally: I have it rather quickly. Don’t want it? Then fuck off. But I don’t act like this because no deal would ever get done.

I genuinely love buying sample packs online. Yeah you can steal them, but I’d rather support the people making them.

The drums are easy, I flip those and make them my own no problem.

But melodic samples? I don’t really dare use them. I end up chopping one-shots or grabbing tiny fragments, because my fear is: if I loop 2 bars of a melodic sample, someone’s instantly going to clock it “oh that’s from pack X.”

When I finally dare to use a 1-2 bar loop i start overthinking it again and will fill it up completely with Arturia V because I am so scared I am unoriginal.

Is that concern justified, or am I overthinking it?

I went the YouTube way, but that is also not really for me.

It’s getting kind of frustrating.

I’ll sit down with a crystal-clear vision. I want to make something dark, gritty, and hard-hitting, think Wu-Tang’s Reunited, “Nas is Like” or whatever is an equivalent in your genre. I have a specific signature sound in my head that I genuinely want to develop.

Two hours later, I look up, and I’ve somehow accidentally made Hey Ya.

Don't get me wrong, the result sounds good. I’m happy with the quality, but I’m also annoyed because it’s completely a different vibe than what I actually want to create. It feels like my hands just do whatever they want the moment the DAW opens. Sometimes i slam it out of the park but it’s not methodical. It seems like part luck part skill.

How do you guys approach this? Do you aggressively force yourself to stick to the blueprint, or do you just ride the wave and accept that your workflow has a mind of its own?

A Quick search on makinghiphop brings me to topic from 6 years old.

This is one of those moments you realize (I realize) I am not 20 anymore haha

Did some training last Tuesday. Felt good during, but woke up in the middle of the night with an arm hurting that it hurted when using it. For example, going to the back of my head … instant sting from shoulder / triceps.

Couldn’t even wash my arm with my other hand… a bit like pulling your back, same idea.

Did I … pull my arm? And now it feels better a couple of days later, when to go back to lessons? I think skipping next week is best just to be safe.

Honestly sometimes I do and I am considering to sell it.

The sport I do is boxing and can’t really wear it and for the rest all it does is give me some notifications I could also read later.

Maybe the unlocking of my Mac is cool?

7 months in. It was a long honeymoon phase.

Nice of DAZN to make it a one time payment instead of needing a subscription. It’s 25 euro and it’s nice it isn’t at 3 o clock in the morning in Europe. I think I am going to watch it. Two of the most respectful guys in fighting, what’s nit to like?

Think our biggest risk as artists is to have a PC full of beats.

I often only use saturation on my drums. Feel like it’s pumping enough. Compression I even often leave off since saturation is compression. But maybe I am missing out on not using a clipper?

Got myself a FIIO K11. Good headphone amp bit of course not top line. I know you can 300, 400 but also thousands of euro on such a device.

For somebody doing this job part time, working from home, what would be the price point of a headphone amps where you would say: no more.

Or is that already the case with the FIIO which costed me only 139 euro.