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offline ymenard on 2005-09-02 23:36 [#01713967]
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I was wondering, how do you guys keep track of the various
stages of your music creations?

I have the tendency of just piling my tracks one over the
other often to the point where I'm left with 2-3 tracks in
Adobe Audition. Often I'll mix in two tracks, be happy then
mix down to one, but I don't keep my previous versions if
I'm happy with the result.

I mean should I like keep *everything* from start? Or just
the final track in .wav? Where's the middle ? Heck I've
got albums that I've made myself where I have NOTHING else
than just the final result. Perhaps split the tracks into
entities like percussions/synths/guitars/anythingelse when
I'm mastering them???


 

offline KADO from The Belafonte (United Kingdom) on 2005-09-03 00:31 [#01714005]
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It's down to personal preference I guess, if this system
works for you then keep using it.

If you are unfortunate enough to lose work, then im sure you
will start backing up every part as you said.

When Im working on a track, I tend to save the initial
sketch as a file, then use seperate files if im changing
something drastic to the track, like the turning points in
the idea (do you know what Im going on about?)

Every 6 months or so I backup all my sketches onto cd, maybe
I should keep them at my girlfriends house or something,
incase of a fire or something. But my music isn't worth
that kind of paranoia :)


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2005-09-03 00:32 [#01714006]
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refuse to create music in the first place?

 

offline KADO from The Belafonte (United Kingdom) on 2005-09-03 00:33 [#01714007]
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I talk like George Bush this early in the morning. Can
hardly structure a sentence :s


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2005-09-03 01:28 [#01714033]
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flstudio has a nice feature called 'save as new file' or
something like that.. i press it a lot.. which means i have
about 300 different versions of each track i work on.


 

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