Again and again I keep running into the same issue - endlessly searching for sounds during creativity flow. Auditioning 200 snares and scrolling through presets and samples does not help the momentum. More and more this makes sense to me to have a collection of sounds prepared before producing. In recent Produce-A-Ton, Dane showed his collection of recorded sounds in Sampler menu. Now I’m eager to know whether ther’s like the best strategy for building my collection. What was your strategy? Did you organize by: Genre? Element (kicks, snares, basses, vocals)?Emotional character? Texture (warm, digital, dusty, aggressive, soft)?“Go-to” sounds that always work for you?

Hi, I’m so frustrated cause I would like to autoproduce my songs but I I’m struggling a lot on finding arrangements for them, I don’t know where to start and I’m losing myself in trying to find right instrument or sounds, but then I’m passing 1 hour to do nothing at the end. I feel I miss a right method for creating and I’m loosing the creativity. Does somebody have some advice?

I finally did an inventory of all the plugins I own… and the number is around 300 🤯 But they are useless if I don’t truly know them. So I’m starting a long-term journey of studying and testing each plugin, beginning with the most important ones. My plan: - 2 plugins per week - 3 days study per plugin - at least 1 hour each day - Sunday review of both plugins That means 8 plugins per month and so 96 plugins per year. I’m committing to some understanding how each plugins shapes tone, dynamics, color, and workflow. It’s going to take time and patience. But honestly… there’s no other way. Is there? Gotta do it!

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