I missed two weeks and now I'm wondering if I should pick it up again.. It got difficult because I'm working on releases for labels and also compilation submissions, so I have been beating weekly, just not posting about it

Weekly Beats has served its purpose though—it's got me deep into nanoloop sound design, and indirectly helped me get some label interest, so it's been a great challenge!

I may pick it up again in a couple of weeks since I'm hoping to build my thrash metal guitar chops up to the level they were when I was 15/16 (so I can actually record some of the guitar parts for my new prog album).. so be prepared for some shitty thrash tracks

Doing lyrics each week is the hardest part.  Seem to get there in the end with varying degrees of quality control.

I'm impressed and heartened that the numbers have steadied. What a fun little crew we have mmm hmm..

This week the number of entries went up for the first time this year!

I can feel myself potentially forgetting this year for some reason.  Just popped into my head today (Sunday) that 'oh shit, i've got to sort my wb!'  Fortunately I create regularly so I had a piece ready to go.  Still requires prepping but I'm glad I had something already!

Of increasing grey hair?

^ Probably a good sign. 

I missed a week for the first time in three years. I just forgot about it entirely. There you go.

Got my studio set up over the weekend, but lost all motivation due to just being so exhausted from moving house.. so I just played some random guitar crap into Music Memos and let the app do the work.. haha

Beat my 2012 record so I'm happy in that respect, but yea it's been a bit rough. I've completely neglected to upload to Youtube as I usually do the past few weeks.

Sometimes I don't enjoy opening up my DAW to finish a WB track, but once I find that groove, whether it be that time or the next time, I'm always having fun. It's a bit of a mixed bag.

This week i'm struggling.. life/work/planning... ugh.. such a bummer.. Must keep working...

Weeklybeats and all these web challenges are incredibly insightful.

Speedcomps (A 30 minute challenge where samples are released and then you get 30 minutes timelimit (within your own time) has also been a good one... you never know where you end up sometimes...

http://milkcrate.com.au/ by Little-scale's worth checking out too, Write music within the rules...

... EDIT!** I mean, Weeklybeats 'is a a lot' for one week sure.. .. when you find new ways to do it, as proven in these 30 minutes/24hour challenges.

That's one of the reasons I really dig doing the 2 hour ICOM challenges, there isn't enough time to fret about the quality. Using random samples tends to promote interesting sound qualities that probably wouldn't appear in a 2 hour synth track.
I found that after a while I developed a timeline where I knew I had to have certain things ready to get a song done in time, and I formalized a lot of things such as techniques, reusable processing chains, and even color coding to help streamline the whole process.
In a way it's kind of liberating because if you write something bad, you can't be to hard on yourself since it's only a 2 hour challenge after all. And if you do write something good, well, that's even more impressive due to the constraints! Conversely I find the week long challenges very stressful due to the amount of time to complete it; my expectations are higher when in reality I rarely spend more than a day on a track. On the rare occasions I start early in the week, I tend to write a bunch of garbage that I end up throwing out anyway.

this is the way to go

Yo cTrix, I wonder if you have shadow copies enabled .. your track may still be recoverable.
Otherwise fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff