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iterating quickly without fussing with plugins/voices?

Reddit r/musicproduction·u/erintheunready·about 1 month ago
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Hi guys, I'm still new to making music (using Ableton) but I do have a background in performance, I suck at piano but I've been playing it on and off since I was little and I played cello semiprofessionally through college and after. I think my biggest roadblock so far has been just trying to quickly get what's in my head into the DAW. I get really tripped up over just trying to select a voice/instrument/plugin like what's in my head when I feel like if I had my old electronic keyboard I would just jam out a few melodies and harmonies in some default voices and then I could go back and refine. The defaults in Ableton don't seem very up my alley and even then I get frustrated just going through things to try to find something basic that it completely halts me just trying to put an idea down. What do people usually do in this scenario? Would I be crazy to get a cheap keyboard literally just to record ideas before trying to replicate them in the DAW?

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