For those interested, the general findings of the study I reference here says: "A second experiment demonstrated that decision reversibility undermines working memory capacity. Moreover participants experienced higher regret after having made a reversible decision, an effect that was mediated by decreased working memory capacity. The study set implies that reversible decisions yield lower working memory capacity because people continue to think about the, still relevant, choice options. In the end this might increase dissatisfaction with the decision and regret." Here's a quote from another post on the subject: "When you keep your options open, however, you can’t stop thinking about the downside - because you’re still trying to figure out if you made the right choice. The psychological immune system doesn’t kick in, and you’re left feeling less happy about whatever choice you end up making. This brings us to the other problem with reversible decisions - new research shows that they don’t just rob you of happiness, they also lead to poorer performance. Once again, it’s because thoughts related to making the right decision stay active in your mind when your options are open. This places a rather hefty burden on your working memory, and it’s distracting. When you’re still deciding what you should do, you don’t have the cognitive resources to devote yourself fully to what you’re actually doing. Your attention wanders. And as a result, your performance suffers. (For instance, in one study, people who made a reversible decision were able to recall fewer correct answers on a subsequent task then those who made a choice they had to stick with.)"
Great advice!! I've been rendering midi tracks (Cubase) into audio more recently, and it really lets you be creative and experimental. But I would recommend if possible, keeping all the original midi tracks disabled in a separate folder just in case you need to work with them in the future (also, you'll know how you've created them). I've had an instance where I needed a part to be longer and it was easier to re-render out the longer midi track than to overlap tracks and crossfade to make it seamless.
What we really need are redesigned DAWs that accommodate experimentation better. While there are a few features that do [in Cubase - like alternate tracks], they still end up being too confusing to use effectively and much. Studio One has a feature that is probably close, but is still only a fraction of what is really needed. Too much of my free time for music is already being lost through dealing with computer setup, software bugs, incompatibilities, authorization problems, and what not. Speaking of that, we also desperately need a completely new platform for music DAWs, leaving the complexities of Windows & Mac bloatware behind - too much functionality devoted to spying, running software that serves no musical purpose, and the interests of microsoft that only hinder and complicate things for end users. For those of you that remember the days of hardware synths/samplers with sequencers, with none of the bugs of modern computers - and they just WORKED with no setup, authorizations, ANYTHING but getting right down to music - we only lacked the nice big screen that showed the song timeline, and enabled better control without tedious stepping through menus.
Also, I need to add that if you’re working on client work where revisions are pretty much unavoidable (like a score or custom trailer), you might not want to do this to core components - or at least keep backup saves of the midi available so edits are in fact possible. This video is more geared towards pure creative work, sound design, and idea generation where deep revisions are unlikely.
Thanks for sharing this psychological finding, Arn! This is a really powerful technique to free up our creative resources and commit to what our intuition suggests. I use the same technique with video editing. I always commit for personal projects, but leave version history for client projects. If you're interested how this can be done, there is a video on my channel about Davinci Resolve. The same concept can be used with DAW's like Cubase or Live. Hope this helps!
For those interested, the general findings of the study I reference here says:
"A second experiment demonstrated that decision reversibility undermines working memory capacity. Moreover participants experienced higher regret after having made a reversible decision, an effect that was mediated by decreased working memory capacity. The study set implies that reversible decisions yield lower working memory capacity because people continue to think about the, still relevant, choice options. In the end this might increase dissatisfaction with the decision and regret."
Here's a quote from another post on the subject:
"When you keep your options open, however, you can’t stop thinking about the downside - because you’re still trying to figure out if you made the right choice. The psychological immune system doesn’t kick in, and you’re left feeling less happy about whatever choice you end up making.
This brings us to the other problem with reversible decisions - new research shows that they don’t just rob you of happiness, they also lead to poorer performance.
Once again, it’s because thoughts related to making the right decision stay active in your mind when your options are open. This places a rather hefty burden on your working memory, and it’s distracting. When you’re still deciding what you should do, you don’t have the cognitive resources to devote yourself fully to what you’re actually doing. Your attention wanders. And as a result, your performance suffers. (For instance, in one study, people who made a reversible decision were able to recall fewer correct answers on a subsequent task then those who made a choice they had to stick with.)"
I'm gonna start burning my bridges right now. Thank you, Arn!
Great advice!! I've been rendering midi tracks (Cubase) into audio more recently, and it really lets you be creative and experimental. But I would recommend if possible, keeping all the original midi tracks disabled in a separate folder just in case you need to work with them in the future (also, you'll know how you've created them). I've had an instance where I needed a part to be longer and it was easier to re-render out the longer midi track than to overlap tracks and crossfade to make it seamless.
Yes I recommend keeping a backup save handy in case you need to make edits to the original! But I keep that out of sight so it’s less mental clutter
@@Evenant Out of site is the key!! I keep those disabled tracks in one folder that is folded up on the bottom of my project. :)
What we really need are redesigned DAWs that accommodate experimentation better. While there are a few features that do [in Cubase - like alternate tracks], they still end up being too confusing to use effectively and much. Studio One has a feature that is probably close, but is still only a fraction of what is really needed. Too much of my free time for music is already being lost through dealing with computer setup, software bugs, incompatibilities, authorization problems, and what not.
Speaking of that, we also desperately need a completely new platform for music DAWs, leaving the complexities of Windows & Mac bloatware behind - too much functionality devoted to spying, running software that serves no musical purpose, and the interests of microsoft that only hinder and complicate things for end users.
For those of you that remember the days of hardware synths/samplers with sequencers, with none of the bugs of modern computers - and they just WORKED with no setup, authorizations, ANYTHING but getting right down to music - we only lacked the nice big screen that showed the song timeline, and enabled better control without tedious stepping through menus.
Also, I need to add that if you’re working on client work where revisions are pretty much unavoidable (like a score or custom trailer), you might not want to do this to core components - or at least keep backup saves of the midi available so edits are in fact possible.
This video is more geared towards pure creative work, sound design, and idea generation where deep revisions are unlikely.
Could your next video be on how you make cinematic pads?
@@doggbloodz9640 Planning to, from samples - from synths like Serum or both?
@@Evenant both would be great!
Thanks for sharing this psychological finding, Arn! This is a really powerful technique to free up our creative resources and commit to what our intuition suggests. I use the same technique with video editing. I always commit for personal projects, but leave version history for client projects.
If you're interested how this can be done, there is a video on my channel about Davinci Resolve. The same concept can be used with DAW's like Cubase or Live.
Hope this helps!
Awesome! Thanks so much, Arn!
Pleasure!
2:34, you could've just used the freeze and flatten in the menu to save you one more step heheh
Haha old habits! New function in the latest update I need to rewire my muscle memory
Yo thats smart af, will use it a lot man, thanks!
Such a great point!
Ahh yes the old low ram bounce turns out it’s actually faster this way
Haha good old trick, I originally used it to save ram but then realized it opens up lots of new opportunities as well
this is spiderman into spider verse kinda melody