Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Pewter Robot » 04 Nov 2012 15:17

I'd like to here the final product, Seven.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Lt_Andrei » 05 Nov 2012 10:51

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I like to keep my things organised ^3^.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Motivfs » 03 Aug 2013 17:42

Necro'd for Ocular, Freewave if you want you can merge his thread here. (I'm surprised I remembered making this)

EDIT: Or lock merge this one, whatever works best Mr. Freewave.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Acsii » 03 Aug 2013 23:53

proof that my songs are super simple in the number of tracks...
but I go more into detail for effects and stuff...
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Mr. Bigglesworth » 04 Aug 2013 06:12

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part 2 with all the minimized stuff. Just gonna link it to keep the post size down.

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Mesogears » 04 Aug 2013 11:59

It's been a while since I posted here. Here's a shot of my current track in progress.
There's actually more in the playlist if you scrolled it down; I just couldn't fit it all in.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Conchetupony » 04 Aug 2013 13:04

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That's an old version of ardour (v2, currently using v3 which has some previously lacking essential features such as stem export and MIDI tracks, and is a bit less ugly). Pretty straightforward, arrangement-wise.

Anyone else love to use location markers (or equivalent) to keep track of changes to do to the song, e.g. "TODO remove mud", "TODO retake guitar"? :P
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby GCKrastin » 04 Aug 2013 14:33

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Who cares about organization, anyway?
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby JSynth » 04 Aug 2013 19:15

Serious post this time.

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Ocular » 04 Aug 2013 21:19

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Yea I'm pretty proud of this one :3
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby 3ternal » 05 Aug 2013 18:15

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Fl Brony » 13 Sep 2013 21:58

This is mine.......yes I still use Fl 10 advance towards me brethren.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 14 Sep 2013 08:52

Here is my remix of Cave Story's "Last Battle". Sorry for the size, but when I scaled it down, the text was unreadable.

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Alycs » 14 Sep 2013 09:48

My most recent song (for remix war) [Hint its not called innocence I was making another song and wanted to use the instruments in it for a different song but never change the name]

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Just realized I never took the limiter and compressor off from last night when I was playing it in a car and needed it really loud... thankfully they aren't in the youtube video or original file...
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Alycs » 14 Sep 2013 10:41

I always name the mixer channels, I only name the tracks after I'm done so if I come back to the thing later I can stilll work on it.

I never name any patterns but I really should.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 14 Sep 2013 11:43

If I AM in FL and using Kontakt (for when I do synthy orchestral songs; I use cubase for pure orchestral), I never name the instances of Kontakt in the step sequencer, but I devote one instance of Kontakt to one instrument, and link it to a mixer channel, which I then name. I basically remember "Okay, Kontakt #3 is actually Violin". I just can't be bothered to rename Kontakt when I only use it so often in FL.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Alycs » 14 Sep 2013 12:44

I don't use Kontakt, but when I'm doing stuff with Edirol, I use so many midi-outs that I find it easier to just name them rather than remember, especially if I forget to save the performance file in Edirol, and have to redo all the instruments.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 14 Sep 2013 13:37

Also, in Cubase, I just keep adding instrument patches to Kontakt and those are my midi outs in whatever order I happen to add them. Then I name the tracks. Ye.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby HMage » 14 Sep 2013 18:14

Might as well post something here for posterity.

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Acsii » 14 Sep 2013 18:17

Not sure if disable media or that's just the colour of the tracks
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby FLAOFEI » 14 Sep 2013 18:52

Pics are of RMX W VII track.

I counted 30 open windows!!!
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This is how I work!!! I have tracks named stuff like "pihno" or "BRKDN hadts #6" so I can recognise it without having to define what it is.
I don't close stuff, I just bring up the next thing on top. I never colour anything. I resize the tracks in the playlist to edit automation clips, then usually forget to shrink them down again. I never name or colour mixertracks, I use the function "Assign free mixer track" and it gets named and coloured after the plugin automatically.
I have a background pic full of inspiration.

And to show you how it actually works, links to a pic of the playlist and the mixer.
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Conchetupony » 15 Sep 2013 15:15

FLAOFEI wrote:This is how I work!!! I have tracks named stuff like "pihno" or "BRKDN hadts #6" so I can recognise it without having to define what it is.
I don't close stuff, I just bring up the next thing on top. I never colour anything. I resize the tracks in the playlist to edit automation clips, then usually forget to shrink them down again. I never name or colour mixertracks, I use the function "Assign free mixer track" and it gets named and coloured after the plugin automatically.
I have a background pic full of inspiration.

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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Member1221 » 16 Sep 2013 07:14

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and i did not take time to crop it...
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Re: Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

Postby Stars In Autumn » 16 Sep 2013 18:28

Bluh, from now on, please don't page stretch. I know earlier ppl were doing it but it's hard to read.
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