Chicago.Deep.All Day.Everyday.24-7.365 by jennyrave

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2025-03-06 22:13

thepedal

2025-03-06 22:13

Everything you could ask for in a Chicago House tune. Really don't know how you have the time to keep kicking out these big big tunes!
2025-03-06 22:43

jennyrave

2025-03-06 22:43

It doesn’t take much time for me to create a tune— I don’t just make tunes, I build systems. For example, I already know the structure of the song before I start. I use basic music theory, and I’m quick to determine whether a tune is worth developing or if I should scrap it and start over. I have about 12 terabytes of one-shot drum samples, all meticulously organized. I’m not trying to reinvent the genre— I just make the genre. I’m also not looking for any machines or VSTs/VSTi — I already know what works. So, I just do what works. Like I said, it’s a system. the systems changes from year to year, So I am open for change as long as its better.
2025-03-06 23:17

jennyrave

2025-03-06 23:17

That being said, I do experiment—but not when I’m making a song.
2025-03-06 23:39

jennyrave

2025-03-06 23:39

come to think about it you can make your systems modular, like breakbeat systems or house drums system, mastering system, system within systems, dub systems, rock systems. vocals chains is a system. can interchange, and vice versa. everything is just a system.
2025-03-07 00:38

thepedal

2025-03-07 00:38

Definitely agree about systems, I'm a systems administrator in non-Buzz, need-to-make-money life, for 20 odd years and doing that all week completely changed my outlook on using Buzz. The damned thing is so open-ended, I remember back in the early days having so much fun with it but spending hours and hours just fecking about with how everything could be rigged together in a million different ways. When I had a break for a few years and came back to it I realised having a solid repeatable system is the only way to really take back your productivity for actually making music.
2025-03-07 00:47

thepedal

2025-03-07 00:47

I admire people who can use MaxMSP or PD or now all this modular synth stuff but for me to be able to produce music I like at any sort of rate it's really important to not be spending hours and hours just fiddling around with complex arrangements of effects and instruments. I always feel like you have 2 or maybe just about 3 shots at really coming up with a decent bit of music that has legs. If the first time you put some melody/rhythm/harmony that you like together you miss the golden window because you're too obsessed with how a particular sound should exactly be, or any other detail then you've probably missed the best opportunity you'll have to let the basic elements of the tune emerge as fully as they can. It's just not the same when you go back to something half-done that you like for the 4th, 5th, 6th time. You've lost the novelty of that magical first experience where two notes and a bass tone or some drum arrangement have felt really new and exciting to you.
2025-03-07 00:51

thepedal

2025-03-07 00:51

Obviously this stuff is different for different people and I'm not composing film scores or symphonies
2025-03-07 00:53

Custodian

2025-03-07 00:53

I'm just trying to wrap my brain around 12 terabytes of one shot drum samples.
2025-03-07 00:54

thepedal

2025-03-07 00:54

I imagine this is why the pre-computers hardware music scene was so productive in the 80's/90's. All those early classic Roland boxes were really pretty limited but easy to learn and you could quickly connect a few things up and then not be spending too much time on process, just creativity.
2025-03-07 00:57

thepedal

2025-03-07 00:57

12 terror-bytes! I've had the packs from https://samples.kb6.de/ for years which is like 5GB or something and even then I only use about 2% of it all.
2025-03-07 02:43

jennyrave

2025-03-07 02:43

think about this. if you make a drum pattern, and change the drum samples it will change the whole vibe, and its the same pattern, so the more drum samples you have the more you can make. and that's not even changing the pattern, so if you make some basic patterns templates and you have a lot of drums shots. you will never get thur all the drum combinations in a lifetime. think how much faster you can work. you can make template for breakbeats house/techno drum (don't reinvent the wheel for every song) spend a day makeing simple drum template once and use them over and over. my 1st houseish drum templates was made by shytan. i think now i have about 20 or so drum pattern templates for house/techno i just change out the one shot drum sample, i been doing for years no one ever called me out for it
2025-03-07 03:04

thepedal

2025-03-07 03:04

Whatever works, you're making a load of distinctive, really decent tunes and I don't see what else matters ultimately. This Buzz world is so niche it's just really interesting to hear how others do stuff when there's an infinity of approaches.
2025-03-07 03:05

jennyrave

2025-03-07 03:05

i all so limit myself, i have 1 or 2 workhorse synth, but i make a crazy amount of presets (24,000 or more every thing is organized) making preset for synth is not done when am making the song. my mastering chain is a template. why redo it every time. don't do thing when making a song. don't spend too much time tweaking, know what you are going to tweak before you make the tune, like your going to probley make a automation for the cutoff, maybe some reverb atomation lowpass filter. i spend about 5 mins or less.
2025-03-07 03:12

jennyrave

2025-03-07 03:12

just don't start making templates or presets or testing out new machines/vst/vsti when making a tune or experiment that should be done ahead of time.