What making music at 16 years old looks like

[@NPCInc]

My tip to you is, keep doing what you wanna do, currently what you wanna do is working for you 👍

[@frankiebernard4728]

my first tip i would give if ur doing the same kinds of things is to try other genres, experiment, have fun try crazy things it doesnt have to sound great right away just focus of finishing u can always polish things up more later. and the more instruments and vsts the more possibilities and inspiration youll get

[@fran5377]

Keep posting cause this is fire

[@IAMCHEERLEADER]

The biggest piece of advice I can give you is to honestly just read the Ableton Reference Manual. It's well-structured and approachable. You're going skim through the parts you already know, but most importantly, have some "what the fuck? you can do that?" moments. In term of workflow, since you are recording a lot of synths, I think you'd benefit from looking into the comping functionality. You also pretty much only use the playlist view; the session view is amazing for recording live instruments (hence, Ableton Live) and playing around with different sections, sounds, etc. to map tracks out in your head before arranging. Use automation. A lot of it. Seriously. It's what gives tracks dynamics and develops the sounds while keeping the whole track focused. Move around some filters, maybe make the ambience move in and out, etc. Just try to see what works. Also, whenever you're going to work on a larger-scale track, don't end up the intermediate producer trap of adding a metric fuckton of vastly different samples / instruments / synth sounds to keep it interesting throughout. Usually some automation is all you need to keep it fresh. Also a bit of mixing advice. Make sure you high pass anything that you record with a mic - it tends to have a lot of low-end, which just ends up muddying everything. Use more bus channel (group) processing - saturating, compression, so on. It's what makes mixes sound full and exciting. I recommend binging some Dan Worrall / In The Mix videos to better understand all this stuff, because learning to mix as you go is imo one of the best skills you can have as a producer.

[@elivdv]

Wow, thank you so much this is really really helpful I appreciate the comment!