Happy New Year 2026! | Starting the Year with Producing Music 🎶🎮
Hello everybody! 😊🎶
How are you doing?
✨ Happy New Year everyone ✨
I wish you all a great start into the new year!
I hope you arrived safely, had some beautiful moments already and a great time! 🖤
🎵 A New Year – A New Musical Intention
One of my intentions for this year is to create more music again – and I decided to start immediately. To break out of my old patterns, I tried something new: I bought Ableton Live 12 and started completely from scratch.
Actually it’s still quite challenging. I don’t fully understand the software yet, I’m much slower than in my usual DAW, and I don’t feel nearly as confident or fluent. But instead of giving up, I chose to keep going and explore and use this opportunity to start with something new and fresh.
🌑 A New Direction: Ambient & Cinematic
This time, I wanted to try a completely different genre for me:
ambient, cinematic, game-like, slightly dark.
My main inspiration came from the game Far Cry 4 and its soundtrack. I really love that atmosphere, so I tried to create something in that direction.
🧩 Sharing Something Unfinished
I also made a decision to upload something unfinished. This is part of working on my perfectionism and allowing myself to share work that feels far away from “perfect” yet.
What you hear here is the current state after working on it twice:
- no proper mix yet
- very few effects
- too full, too busy, a bit chaotic
My usual process is to first create all the elements I want, that´s why it sounds so full and chaotic. And then later I clean things up, create structure and give each sound more space. That step will come next – I’m just not there yet.
Still, I wanted to show you this stage. I want to practice publishing things even when they’re not perfect. And this feels like the right way to start the year. So this is a perfect first post of 2026: music in progress, aligned with my intentions, and very honest.
Also I am trying to use only instruments and plugins I don´t know yet, and that are very simple to use. I want to come out of my "over-engineering" the music and taking forever to make it.
I hope you like the direction so far.
I’m curious myself where this will end up – sometimes I really don’t know until it’s finished. Feedback is very welcome. This is a completely new genre for me, and I’m still learning a lot. We’ll see how it continues – but I can already say: this is a lot of fun, and I could absolutely imagine turning this into a full album.
And honestly creating a soundtrack for a game one day would be a dream. 🎮✨
I hope I can get there someday. But this feels like a good start to it. 😄
🖤 Thanks for taking the time to listen!
I wish you all a beautiful day and a wonderful start into the new year.
See you soon,
RAVEN 🐦
I am very thankful for everyone who supports me on my journey!!
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Chilling listening to it now!! ✌️
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Have you written anything about the software and plugins you use? I don't know much about digital audio production aside from dabbling in Audacity. Speaking of which, do you prefer commercial software or open source options?
No I never really wrote about that, because I am not sure if it´s interesting for people. :D Right now I use Ableton Live 12 with LABS, VITAL and Ableton Live Plugins. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. Normally I use alot more stuff.
Open source options where never enough for me to produce high quality music. So I always buy a professional software. The last 15 years I used Cubase.
Fair enough. I advocate FOSS, but I know commercial software is sometimes just the best solution anyway.
Yeah I understand that. But I think in this case they are mostly too limited. At least I know none that would work.
I never wondered how a song is made, but it looks interesting.
Interesting and complicated. 😂 Took me a while to get there...
Soundsss Awesomeee
and Happy new yearrr
Thank you so much! =)
Happy you like it.
Happy new year to you too! <3
If it sounds great
Well, like all the music you make, which is awesome, and I really like it.
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Wow, that’s pretty amazing and creative. Keep up the good 👍 work
Thank you so much! =) Happy you like it!
You are welcome