The Never Ending Song

One of the little pleasures (and sometimes nightmares) that I have found over the past couple of years working with hardware over software is that my songs never come to an end. I will always at some point in time come back to a song to tweak and sound here, noodle at a pattern there.

I think this is because with software I found that when I "completed" a song I would hit render in the software window and then close that project file never coming back to it again. I think this mainly occurred simply because there was no reason or process that forced me to try to re-visit the track. With hardware production however I am always scrolling through my patterns. The necessity to actually record my tracks over simply rendering them I believe also leads to this phenomenon.

Do any of you software only producers out there find that you don't revisit tracks after you have hit that "render" button?

Tags: