PokéMew

Pokémon Fuchsia

Male
Refresh
Seen October 5th, 2022
Posted April 8th, 2017
484 posts
9.7 Years
I pretty much know when I wont be creating anything good for the day. I'll sit down at the piano in the morning, mess around and try to think of something clever, and if I dont have anything, thats the way it is the entire day. On any given day though I might be listening to this kickass song, and I'll simply get up and sit down at the piano, the boom - I've got something good. I think it just requires patience when creating new material.

Lucario

Hardly active since 2017!

Male
Somewhere
Seen March 4th, 2018
Posted December 23rd, 2017
809 posts
7.2 Years
Inspiration, for me, seems to come out of just playing with things. Like, I'm just playing with a new synth I downloaded, and I'm like, "Hey, this'd make a cool bassline for a song!", so I try and write a song (and fail :))

Wicked3DS

Until the very end.

Age 31
Male
New Jersey
Seen February 24th, 2022
Posted October 5th, 2021
4,592 posts
9.7 Years
I find that getting away from my everyday life for a bit helps me to get my inspiration back. I think sometimes your brain gets bogged down in the everyday routine and it takes stepping back and letting your mind rest to find some new inspiration.

timaeus222

Music Composer, Mixing/Mastering Engineer

Male
Washington
Seen September 24th, 2019
Posted February 17th, 2017
56 posts
12.8 Years
For me, inspiration comes either randomly, or whenever I'm improvising something on my MIDI keyboard. I highly recommend you make sure you're near a MIDI input tool when you're feeling inspired.

If you're having a dry spell...
  • Try changing up your daily routine. Doing the same thing every day might drain you of your creativity.
  • It also helps to listen to new music every now and then. I often find inspiration simply from listening to interesting music and using it as an influence. I find a lot of new stuff on soundcloud. The audio demos on Impact Soundworks' website are pretty inspiring, and so is this artist, IMO. For example, I listened to this and found the inspiration to write this in a week.
  • Start to learn sound design? I often begin a song by finding an inspiring sound, or by designing a new sound from scratch on u-he Zebra2. I wrote this when I was simply experimenting with a new soundbank.