re: Musicians of the MB, what are you currently working on?

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This is my biggest mental roadblock from progressing further right now. I've always played and recorded in live bands with real instruments. I made that song before I realized synthwave artists were all just beating out their music on a piano roll. It's just so hard for me to create that way instead of playing all the instruments live.

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Synthwave artists are typically playing the parts and quantizing them after. You’re right, no one gets inspired clicking notes on a grid. I’d quit music if that’s how it worked.

Do you know how the quantize feature works by chance? It’s really just as simple as you taking what you already played, highlighting the notes and clicking quantize. It will take you 5 seconds once you know how to do it. Worth it. This track does need it on the record. Now, live? Mute whatever the hell you want and play it live, replace them with live instruments, etc. The work you’ve already done is by far the hardest part, albeit the most rewarding part.