So I tried to learn FL Studio...

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this one that's the point howardy Duty Buckaroo Rooney's if I've learned anything in my years of freelancing it's that there's a special kind of regret that comes from accepting a project you are not at all prepared for after a certain point in your career it just doesn't make sense to keep grinding away doing every gig that comes your way after a while the hundred dollar gigs stop making sense when there is a thousand dollar gig on the table and after a while doing the thousand dollar gigs not every thousand dollar gig is really worth your time sometimes things just aren't a good fit and for me this was one of those projects so that's exactly why I decided to take it on on paper this project was pretty simple I need to create some kind of demo for a new product bundle from one of my favorite audio companies I get to do whatever I want with it it doesn't have to be any sort of exhaustive presentation I edit it down they post it and we both walk away happy but there was one sort of Big Catch here I needed to use a program to make the demo that I haven't used in nearly a decade on paper this project is a hard no if I was to take on this project the thing here is that not only do I need to create a professional quality result in a program I've essentially never properly used but writing on the line here is not one but two relationships with major major companies in my industry so the pressure is pretty real the power of developing an ability as a freelancer to offer up a clear and firm no is really an art in and of itself and it's something I absolutely recommend you practice now and again because it's a muscle that badly needs training if you want to survive in an independent creative career but every once in a while learning to say yes to a no project is one of the best things you can do for yourself your comfort zone is the silent killer I think most of us would agree that taking on a project with this level of associated risk is not necessarily something any sane person would too it's not really really a good idea to work out of your own depth most of the time because you run the risk of looking like a total jackass I can do some basic woodworking but I'm probably not going to be building an award-winning Swanson chair anytime soon but the thing with that mindset is that I'm talking myself out of ever doing it there's a phrase I heard once that says a knight whose metal shines means their metal has never been tested this is one of those times where I need to see what my own metal is made of and I need to build that theoretical chair as any creative will tell you the initial time you invest with your medium of choice will inevitably be this sort of love hate relationship there's a huge learning curve to creativity and there's just a fair amount of trial and error involved and there's a lot of frustration that needs to take place to give you the experience that you need to really start working in this case due to my own work schedule with sound design work and client projects and YouTube and other stuff I really only had a few days to pull this whole thing off and as it turns out learning a Daw in only a few days is actually pretty hard because I primarily work in sound design and post-production compositiony stuff my natural inclination with this project was to Simply score a short film trailer or something like that using this bundle inside of FL Studio and it turns out that that's a lot easier on paper than in practice I cut together a trailer using some stock footage I found online I threw on some color grading fired up FL Studio and got to work I haven't used FL Studio in nearly a decade and coming from a background of Daws and workflows that are almost entirely the opposite it was one of the most frustrating experiences I've ever had I felt like a chimp trying to build a space station and frankly it was just embarrassing there were so many times that I was about to give up on this project and simply bow out of it due to my own lack of understanding and just general ineptitude after many angry outbursts and being on the verge of tears at a few points if I'm being honest and several more failed attempts I was really just hitting my creative limit here for every five steps forward I would get confused and frustrated and end up a mile back and ready to quit the metal was being tested I tried everything several more failed attempts later I decided to give it one last shot I called up my friend Ben Jordan and had him walk me through some of my own pain points to get the groundwork in order luckily due to his nearly endless expertise here I was able to finally get my own project back on track the metal now had a confidence welding it together this is the real benefit of saying yes to what would normally be a no through that delusional provocation of perseverance you find a new sense of appreciation for the thing you felt was so insurmountable or just incompatible before what once were seen as flaws become the way of work what once felt impossible becomes second nature what once was a challenge becomes the experience or as Ben so eloquently put it sometimes the most powerful stuff has a learning curve but that's how you get into the good there's a video from Van nystat where he says if you want to tell a story you need to have a surprise and the better your surprise the better your story and this is the point in this story where we've reached that surprise I woke up came up here sat down and told myself that this is it I have one more shot to make this session work or I need to back out of this project do or do not there is no try I guess this is one of those times where it's important to remember that if you have 20 things that are 98 finished you have zero finished things at this point there's now a hard deadline at play and sometimes that's exactly what you need to push yourself to get something done without overthinking all the along the way sometimes it's better to keep things simple sometimes you just need to shut up dump the project on your desk and get to work sometimes you can't prepare things in advance for the sake of a YouTube video you just have to jump in and do it live step one gotta lay a foundation Gotta Give the thing existence step two details Gotta Give the thing life step three gonna add the defining elements I'm gonna give the thing a face step four refine Gotta Give the whole thing purpose step five subtract [Music] Gotta Give the thing only the right things [Music] step six assess Gotta Give the thing one last look and do not look back okay the world is dying to know did it turn out good uh I don't know I tried so I guess there's really nothing left to do at this point other than just ship it off and hope for the best to quote my dad in his infinite wisdom if you feel like the smartest person in the room you're in the wrong room it's not really possible to use an ax without making it dull nor is it possible to sharpen it without putting it to the stone and chipping away at it it's really hard to admit to yourself when you're just not good at something but it's in the willingness to not be good at it anyway I think that you really start to grow as a person or as a creator so if you feel like your metal is shining I guess your homework assignment until next time is to go out and make it rust well hey there welcome back another day and one good pep talk from my wife later and here we are this is that's it that's the end everyone get the out go home uh very big thank you to my patrons for supporting the channel and making videos like this possible if you want to become a patron and get access to a one and a half hour course on building your own decent sampler instruments as well as exclusive samples and presets and all that stuff you could sign up with the link down below and get a special feeling of being a better person than everybody else a very big thank you to uvi and imageline for involving me in this whole project I hope it turned out good or God that's going to be embarrassing if you want more videos like this you can subscribe it's free I've been told you should ask people to do that and I post videos on here and I'll be in them I'll be there right there with you the whole time and we'll get through this together thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed it I hope you learned something and of course as always I hope this inspires you to get out there and make something awesome [Music]

Channel: Venus Theory

Views: 105,595

Keywords: Venus Theory, sound design, bitwig, bitwig studio, fl studio, logic pro x, ableton, cubase

Id: 2VRwVKKoG0w

Length: 12min 38sec (758 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 09 2023