Your Typical Track Layout

I just started making tracks again, but I've already fallen into a pattern

-weird timestretched noise, usually some classical sample

-layered with effects and other noises

-odd noises (bells, whistles, etc.)

-creepy airy vocals

-static/subtle audio samples

-add effects

-(hoping to get here) drums, etc

I press record.

Fucking weird shit happens, some of it magical.

I press stop.

Some people might like it!

some fun melody, some sounds

some semblance of drum pattern,

EQ

some more EQ

EQ to cancel out the extraneous EQ

then EQ again

some limiting

some reverb

render the track, become hopelessly unsatisfied with it

go back to work on it again, spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to balance everything out

my computer stops being able to handle the size of the track so i give up on it

Almost everything on its own track, chaining them etc. Usually 3-4 sends with different delay and reverb units.

ha I think watmm is like 80% trolls.

Some kind of melodic synth line

Maybe a weak-ass drum pattern (though right now I'm in beatless mode)

Some kind of countermelody/harmony/ pad layer

Add some effects

Another synthy layer somewhere

Maybe a sample.

Become unhappy and delete track

Most everything gets its own pattern,, I find it easier to be flexible with them that way. The only time I have more than one instrument on a single pattern is when it's drums.