FL STUDIO: Is it normal for...

[Onefin]

...your songs to not take up at least 30 tracks on the playlist?

I usually use somewhere around 15 tracks in my average piece. The most I've ever used is around 21, and that's still nowhere near the 30, 40, or even 50 tracks I see a lot of other people using in their average piece.

Below I attached a picture of my best-received Newgrounds track Calygon, which only used 13 tracks. Is this normal?

[Oakwood]

If your tracks are received well, who cares how complicated it was to make them? After all, your talent is determined by what you can do with your tools, not by your tools itself.

[MegaSphere]

Ah yes, let me join in on this dick wagging contest.

Project file for.

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  Emphatic Outcry [Long Version]

  by MegaSphere

  Reverse Bass

  Song

  Dance

  10,772 Views

  PLAY

But honestly, as long as it sounds good, it's fine.

[EvilRaccoon]

At 1/6/16 08:40 AM, 1f1n1ty wrote: ...your songs to not take up at least 30 tracks on the playlist?

I usually use somewhere around 15 tracks in my average piece. The most I've ever used is around 21, and that's still nowhere near the 30, 40, or even 50 tracks I see a lot of other people using in their average piece.

Below I attached a picture of my best-received Newgrounds track Calygon, which only used 13 tracks. Is this normal?

Very rarely if I'm honest. It's actually normal for me to have 100-300 of them, but I'm a very 'organised' creator that way, everything is named, color coded and split into sections for revisiting, and template creation. However, there's absolutely nothing wrong with few tracks. You could easily do a small band in a basic stereo (before Mic mixing) with like 5 or 6 patterns. Some people like using massive patterns, whereas others prefer small more manageable sections. So it's really how you want to work.

Things also get more complex when you merge sounds, so having several synths playing a single section is fairly normal. It's fairly normal for me to have 5 synths mixed together to play a single line. etc. So that'll contribute to a huge number of patterns created.

[Sequenced]

sometimes even the most simplistic arrangements of a project file make "good" tracks.

if you want an example

look at flux pavilion's studio thing for his recent track.

[Hallow]

All of my tracks so far probably haven't hit more than 10 tracks. I'm making something a bit more complex at the moment, but I still won't hit 30+ (unless I suddenly get a crapload of inspiration).

[FinaLee]

I counted two different projects, and I've got around 50 each so far. I'm a messy producer though, so I don't know if that really says anything. I have at most 10 tracks going on at once, and that's including the automation.

As an example (SHAMELESS PLUG), here is a project I'm working on that is two minutes long so far and has more going on than in any other part of the mix, complete with a list of what all is actually going on in the description. I don't think it's that crazy, really. I also don't apologize for the loudness (it peaks at -2 RMS).

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  Visions [Preview]

  by FinaLee

  Preview of "Visions" by FinaLee

  Audio Project

At 1/6/16 10:01 AM, Sequenced wrote:

sometimes even the most simplistic arrangements of a project file make "good" tracks.

if you want an example

look at flux pavilion's studio thing for his recent track.

Nice one. I saw that the other day too. Definitely something all prospective dance producers should take a gander at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLBPLyOzN_I

[BrokenDeck]

The FL Studio Thread is literally only a few lines away from this one....