Really? I no longer do that since my ideas are iratic and I'm easily influenced by the surroundings. I guess that's why I'm very good with improvising and jamming.
I always save my songs as an Autoload file for Logic. That way if I power up my Mac and boot Logic I'll be forced to work on what I was doing before. Otherwise it will get lost somewhere on my hard drive....
ONce what I'm working on becomes something worth working on I give it it's own name and treat it as an independant piece of music with it's own name, progression, properties, plan etc.
I am a big believer in brain storming and jamming. ALthough I've never just moved into creative process of writing a tune while jamming. It's as if there's a certain lag time between me playing and my brain putting it all into some kind of a structure. My best work was done after jamming for days and then getting up in the middle of the night to start incorporating new ideas and discoveries into my work.
Rarely I will actually have a clear plan of what I want to do. I find it annoying. YOu start a great trance piece and while messing with all of the sounds you get all those ideas for something totally different. I even tried saving alternate ideas while working on somehthing specific but it always proven to be useless, since I end up not going back to them after. Even if I do they just don't make sense.
So my creative process is a blend of confusion and ambiguity. WOrks though!

-ED-

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