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The Joker

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Aug 10, 2011, 11:53:46 AM8/10/11
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Im so inspirationless, some1 help me out x]. Whats nice to make?

Joel Caffey

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Aug 10, 2011, 12:00:53 PM8/10/11
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inspiration is all around you dudette, for me i hear a melody in my head, and i try to imitate it to my closest ability, which i cant most of the time, but it comes close to it....you can force urself to be inspired tho, that will only result in a very bad song lol....for now you should just experiment and learn more about audiotools, maybe if you learn something cool you'll be inspired to test it out, and you will find the inspiration to make a new melody and build up on it :D 

i hope that helped to some extent, noting that we are all different as individual musicians

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Sandburgen

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Aug 10, 2011, 12:10:27 PM8/10/11
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remix some other audiotool tracks

Joshua Kasper

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Aug 10, 2011, 12:28:45 PM8/10/11
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I make noise on the pulves and see where it leads me when I'm really out of inspiration. Typically it results in a junk draft, but after a while something comes out of it. 

rnzr

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Aug 10, 2011, 12:48:23 PM8/10/11
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my inspiration-crafting tipps:

- go out and record samples from every day objects / nature / cars /
creaking doors - and try to do something with them

- if you have a guitar or a piano, sit down and improvise something,
chords, melodies, press random keys, try to make them fit and
translate them afterwards.

- if you have a common way of starting a song (ex. with a beat)
try starting it with a melody or some chords instead

- listen to your favourite songs, try to recreate something, remix it.

- imagine a movie/picture/feeling and try to make the soundtrack for
it.

- think about a nice track name first and then make a fitting song.

- imagine you're the biggest player in your favourite genre,
your last released record is out for some while and try
to surprise everybody with the toughest tune ever!

aaand the final one:

- do something completly different, go out, have fun, take some days
of
thinking about / creating music. i bet after that, you'll just be
overdosed
by your song ideas.

good luck! :)

Joshua Kasper

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Aug 10, 2011, 2:29:52 PM8/10/11
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I like these. Plus for the most part the main idea is to get away from the software. I think that makes a difference. Get yourself into the moment of something else and let that get you going. 

Infyuthsion

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Aug 11, 2011, 7:10:26 PM8/11/11
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I -usually- don't have too much of an inspiration. I will just sit down and randomly make stuff with no plan, and 90% of the time it sucks. The other 10% of the time I wind up with an interesting pattern of some kind and that serves as the inspiration for the rest of the track. Sometimes I will focus on just trying to find out some kind of idea to use what's available in Audiotool in some kind of way I haven't tried before. Or you can also focus on trying to do stuff like make loops for yourself, or program something new into the Pulverisatuer. Sometimes it catches and sometimes it doesn't. Just gotta make the effort every couple days to do something, and eventually you'll get something you like.
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