Hey everyone
Just wondering do you have a process when naming your tracks.do you have a name or idea or theme pre planned before sitting down to make a tune.or do you just roll with it and at the end decide on a track name then ? I really struggle to come up with names it’s like my mind goes completely blank when I get to the saving stage.So just wondering had anyone any tips or would like to run through their process when it comes to finishing your track with a title
I come up with a silly working title before I have to save.
Most of the time it has to do with the gear I use, my mood or with something that happened at that day.
The tracks from my Elektrons are often just named after bank and pattern like DNB02P04 etc…
The disadvantage of that is, that I have no clue how these pattern sound, with the silly names I sometimes can remember the mood or whatever and thus remember what the track sounded like.
Before I finish an album and send it to master I try to replace them with less silly names. More than often I fail and use another silly name, chosen in the same way I did for the working title…
Often I just look at the dictionary for cool looking words.
Or I just keep the working title.
Long story short, I hate naming tracks.
Guess this was not very helpful😅
I do it once mastering is over, I chase the first idea that crosses my mind and start from there. Usually takes me 5mn to come up with something I like.
While the track is uploading, I try to find or create a visual that completes this idea.
When producing, i name my tracks (projects) with consecutive numbers and a shortcut for the devices.
Like 005 AR, A4, DN
When i save them i also save a version number eg 005 AR, A4, DN - 1.3.
Finding a nice name for a track is also really hard for me. So when i read or hear somewhere a nice term i write it in my notebook. Sometimes i also use names from older tracks, which are not online anymore 
So most of the time I usually write down names that I like in a list.
I also like to follow the first feeling that i have while ixing / producing a track. This often results in a word that is composed of two and did not exist before. Others are single words or ones that I think up for myself.
Lately I have been using space/science terms. Last time I googled cool space word and got Apastron: the point in the orbit of one star of a binary where it is farthest from the other. I always struggled naming stuff before I did this. How are you supposed to name a tune with no lyrics?
Cheers everyone for the input so far.I too have looked at science or space terms aswell.i do like the idea of writing names in a notebook to be used at a later date aswell .in the past I have used themes or went with a story but that is mainly when I used sound and visuals to tell a story and from their the name was generally easier to come up with
Ah, that familiar feeling of being on the Soundcloud upload screen but getting stumped at the title feeling! Sometimes I have a title idea all the way through from the beginning if the track has a strong concept to start, but often not. In those cases usually end up thinking about words to describe the track or the vibe, then use a thesaurus to see if I can come up with something a bit different.
Usually mine are a play on words related to my artist name, or an in joke with myself about the track I used for inspiration/ripped off to get started.
Or sometimes I just read about something cool and jot in down in a list of “titles for the future” . Usually I start tracks based on these names and then don’t use these names in the end - they tend to get replaced with a play on words for my own amusement only, but it’s interesting to write them down just as concepts as they sometimes prove useful for ideas.
i’ve suggested this in AR feature request, but if when naming kits/sounds/projects etc PARAMETER PAGE+YES creates random words/symbols elektron style would be far more useful (and potentially nice inspiration for a final track name) than my current ADHD “turn the knob, cycle through characters then yes” method which means i have a lot of meaninglessly and uglily named kits.
I’ll come up with a working title when saving for the first time.
It’s usually based loosely around (or wordplay around) a sample used, the hook or maybe even a preset so it’s memorable to me.
Most of the time this title sticks. The only times I can think of changing a title is when either some vocals or spoken samples have been added that then add a different narative/theme so then I’ve updated the title accordingly.
I do have a list on my phone of song/EP/album titles though. They are mostly just words or phrases I’ve heard, read or thought of and just jotted them down. Haven’t used any of them yet.
If I hit on something solid, and I just know I will turn it into something, I usually come up with a name right there based on the inspiration the song came from, the theme I am going for with this collection of songs, or the general vibe I get from the song. Those names usually stick from the get-go, but will occasionally get changed later in the process. I used to just name songs whatever weird or funny name popped in my head first, but I find that I get more spiritually connected if I give the name some meaning early on.
Of course I also just get noodling sometimes, and messing around, or experimenting with a an instrument. If I end up recording a part of it, I might just name it after the instrument I was using, like “Digitakt Noodles 7”, or what was happening that day, like “Another Rainy Saturday”. This helps to create reference point in my memory when I am reading through file names in the future.