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offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2006-05-05 07:28 [#01893206]
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like, if you make music, how many files, projects etc do
you have? thats everything thats finished and also tiny
little audio burps you'll never ever ever go back to.. what
% of your music do you actually finish? how long has it
taken you to make that much? have you ever lost any music?
if so how much..



 

online recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-05-05 07:32 [#01893208]
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I DONT MAKE MUSIC :)
I DONT LIKE MUSIC
I DONT LIKE ANYTHING,
BUT THIS THREAD.
PEACE


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2006-05-05 07:34 [#01893212]
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I only make shit "music" so I am not qualified to respond in
this thread.


 

online recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2006-05-05 07:34 [#01893214]
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Doggy speaks the truth, his music blows.


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2006-05-05 07:35 [#01893215]
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you have more self esteem issues than monoid


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2006-05-05 07:36 [#01893216]
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dog belch and ix ten are the exact same person


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2006-05-05 07:40 [#01893224]
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what are you implying?



 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2006-05-05 07:44 [#01893229]
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you are both alike in many ways on this messageboard


 

offline Toejam from Perth (Australia) on 2006-05-05 07:57 [#01893245]
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and you are a funny little black bear.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-05-05 08:04 [#01893253]
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like, if you make music, how many files, projects etc do
you have?

About 500 unfinished tracks, each of which have several, if
not dozens of different versions (usually incremental
"history" backups of earlier versions of the track, but
sometimes alternate mixes/remixes).

thats everything thats finished and also tiny
little audio burps you'll never ever ever go back to.. what

% of your music do you actually finish?

I'd estimate around 20% make it into full length tracks. Of
these, maybe 15-20% are shared with mates and of those,
maybe 30% are put up online.

how long has it
taken you to make that much?

Almost a decade on and off (over about 12 years).

have you ever lost any music?
if so how much..

Yes, at one stage in the early days I lost everything I'd
ever done in a HD crash. This was in the days before CD-rs
were cheap or commonplace. I'd say in the subsequent 2 HD
crashes I lost about 50-100 tracks. These lost tracks are
not included in my inital 500 track estimate.


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2006-05-05 08:35 [#01893296]
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i don't know, maybe a few hundred or more since 1997 or so.

i'm sure i've finished less than one hundred, and some are,
um not so good.

lost a few parts here and there. nothing that didn't need
losing.

only made a couple tracks in the last year or so, living in
a house has made it difficult to find the time.



 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2006-05-05 10:16 [#01893333]
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how many files, projects etc do you have?

no idea... hundreds and hundreds if not in the thousand +
range.

thats everything thats finished and also tiny little
audio burps you'll never ever ever go back to.. what % of
your music do you actually finish?


probably finish about 95% of it.

how long has it taken you to make that much?

about seven years.

have you ever lost any music? if so how much..

yes... probably less than 20 songs.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2006-05-05 10:27 [#01893341]
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how many files, projects etc do you have?

probably around 50. I dont hang on to crap and Im not very
active anymore

what % of
your music do you actually finish?


usually just work through a crap start until its going
somewhere, and if im bored of it I just round it off, so I
suppose I only leave stuff unfinished because of time
restraints or machine failurez. often I play with stuff but
I never plan to make anything of it.

how long has it taken you to make that much?

5 yrs or so, very intermittent

have you ever lost any music? if so how much..

just odd tracks, never large amounts. 2 notable losses I can
think of


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2006-05-05 10:27 [#01893344]
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I collect dannn_ avatars

how many do you have?

three as of now

including dannn_ classic


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offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2006-05-05 10:31 [#01893348]
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sometimes, dannn_'s avatar likes to step into the real
world. here is when I met it at a concert


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offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2006-05-05 10:36 [#01893351]
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Oh my goodness!

Did you ever meet kwaanza_dannn_?


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offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2006-05-05 10:38 [#01893353]
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sadly not, I was out-of-town then


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2006-05-05 10:41 [#01893356]
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like, if you make music, how many files, projects etc
do
you have?


Roughly 200 unfinished tracks since 2004 and many
concepts/projects/albums finished since 2002.

thats everything thats finished and also tiny
little audio burps you'll never ever ever go back to.. what
% of your music do you actually finish?


About 60%, I like to finish what I start, most of the
unfinished tracks don't have much substance to work with, so
it ends up as a very short 1-2 minute track that eventually
get's scrapped. Not deleted, just not organized into an lp
or ep.

how long has it taken you to make that much?

Since 2002

have you ever lost any music? if so how much..

In late 2004 I had to restore my PC because of virus'. I
lost about 4 gigs of incomplete/complete music. I wasn't
cautious enough to burn my music to cds. I am now. I still
lose music sometimes, I'll delete a crucial file to a
session I was working on because I didn't think I'd need it
anymore. Makes it very difficult to return to that track,
hard to see any point in continuing.


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2006-05-05 19:18 [#01893756]
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like, if you make music, how many files, projects etc do
you have?

well in all my folders i apparantly have 595 tracks
including everything in various stages...

thats everything thats finished and also tiny
little audio burps you'll never ever ever go back to.. what


% of your music do you actually finish?

probably around less than 5% i think. i finish a fair bit
but never let anyone listen to them cos i'm too ashamed.

how long has it
taken you to make that much?

well i've been making music since 1998 but my current
collection only dates back to 2001

have you ever lost any music?
if so how much..

i lost all my early rebirth stuff. used to do a lot of acid
and stuff on it and other things besides. i've got a lot of
things now that arent lost as such, but i've lost
samples/patches that i cant be bothered/are impossible to
find/recreate so i dunno. quite a bit, but not loads.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2006-05-05 20:13 [#01893776]
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like, if you make music, how many files, projects etc do
you have?
at least 200. that count was three months ago and i seem to
be getting more and more prolific so around 250 odd now.
theres countless bits and bobs dotted around on CDs from
before my last computer went arse up.

what % of your music do you actually finish?
100% when its stuff to a brief. about 80% on personal
projects. when working on personal projects i tend to throw
shit together for a few hours, bounce it and then never go
back to it (as is evident from my BAM stuff) and i class
that as finished.

like, if you make music, how many files, projects etc do
you have?

well in all my folders i apparantly have 595 tracks
including everything in various stages...

thats everything thats finished and also tiny
little audio burps you'll never ever ever go back to.. what

% of your music do you actually finish?

probably around less than 5% i think. i finish a fair bit
but never let anyone listen to them cos i'm too ashamed.

how long has it
taken you to make that much?
2 1/2 years

have you ever lost any music? if so how much..
about 30 or 40 tracks. im quite good at backing stuff up.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2006-05-05 20:23 [#01893777]
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what the? ummmmm...
like, if you make music, how many files, projects etc do
you have?
at least 200. that count was three months ago and i seem to
be getting more and more prolific so around 250 odd now.
theres countless bits and bobs dotted around on CDs from
before my last computer went arse up.

what % of your music do you actually finish?
100% when its stuff to a brief. about 80% on personal
projects. when working on personal projects i tend to throw
shit together for a few hours, bounce it and then never go
back to it (as is evident from my BAM stuff) and i class
that as finished

how long has it
taken you to make that much?
2 1/2 years

have you ever lost any music? if so how much..
about 30 or 40 tracks. im quite good at backing stuff up.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-05-05 20:25 [#01893778]
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Over the last say... 5 years or so, i have probably
accumulated about 50-75 tracks. that doesn't sound like
much i guess after reading the other responses. But i work
slow, especially now that there is a baby in the house, and
since i started working with my band on the side.

But I finish probably 95% of what i start. maybe more. I
usually get a track started and work on nothing else untill
that track is finished. so at my fastest i can turn out
maybe 1 track every 1 to 2 months. maybe.

i'm gonna release an album real soon actually (well, I'll
try to release it. I'll spam it here anyway). it will
include tracks i've completed as far back as 3 years ago.
took a long time to get a full album of stuff i'd actually
want to fill an album with. shit, there's a couple tracks
on it i made using Sonic Foundry Acid before it was a
Sony program. It's Sony now right?


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-05-05 20:26 [#01893779]
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Oh and I don't think I've ever lost a work in progress.

I have however lost the source files of some of my finished
tracks, or they are files for programs (SF ACID) that i
don't use anymore and don't have loaded on my computer.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2006-05-05 20:30 [#01893780]
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well in all my folders i apparantly have 595 tracks
including everything in various stages...


How many of those are variations on "What the Beat?", about
90%?


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2006-05-05 20:37 [#01893784]
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how many files, projects etc do you have?

~40 drum kits saved as project files, and as i get something
going with them i save them as new project files with the
corresponding drum kit name appended to the title. and i
have at least ~50 or 60 of those so far

once i get good sounding sequences out of drum kits i save
em as loops usually. that is what happens most often

what % of your music do you actually finish?

probably 40-50%, i dont really 'finish' something unless im
really, raelly really pleased by it. to be honest i have yet
to "finish' a track

how long has it taken you to make that much?

too long

have you ever lost any music?

yes but recovered it later on by taking my laptop to the
store.. i was afraid i was gonna lose all of it.


 


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