Fleeting
By ViridianLoom on May 12, 2024 5:13 pm
I took some time off this week so I could just sit around at home and mentally reset. Did some house work, watched some movies and TV shows, and I've been playing the shit out of Hades 2.
› Song Notes
‹ Song Notes
Really not much to say in regard to this song. Just playing some chords that sound nice and playing around with synth sounds. As far as music productivity, I was more interested in taking care of organizing libraries and going through older Reaper projects to harvest some stray song ideas. I've always had this pretty chaotic approach in my Reaper files where I have one section where the song is at and then there's a ton of random clips behind or in front of the actual song. It's usually because I'm frequently brainstorming ideas or I come up with something else that may not fit in the song I'm currently working on, but I don't want to stop and start a new project, so I just record that idea further down the timeline so I can find it again later. Anyways, I set up a special render preset so that I can just go into these projects, highlight the section of unused music that I think sounds interesting, and then it'll render straight to a folder called "Stray song ideas" as an mp3 that I can listen to later for inspiration. Pretty quick way to just comb through music. But something that's been slowing me down is that files between 2020 and 2022 that used a previous instance of BiasFx2 vst that I needed to reinstall at some point are now crashing Reaper on startup since they can't load the original presets. There's a work around where I can open the reaper file with all Fx offline, but I have to replace all prior instances of BiasFx2 with the newer version. And the big bummer is that the original presets are gone, so it's just a stock guitar sound that I need to redesign. So yeah, I did way more of that than actual song writing this week. How many of those song ideas will actually be used? Probably like 5% of them if we're being honest, lol.