It’s pretty easy

1) Play a melody at home or in a studio, with the midi keyboard or sometimes with the touchscreen tablet keyboard or even with the PC keyboard.

2) The main rule: do not compose a single loop! Compose a song. Start Ableton Live, compose a variations and play on LaunchPad. If you want to create a good tracks, you definitely need a one. I have few LaunchPads in a studio and one at home. So play, play and play. One LaunchPad usually gives you about 8 variations for every instrument, so try composing at least 3-4. A “vertical composing” in a sequencers is evil, remember this once and forever.

3) When the composing is finished, I export MIDI to Cubase.

4) Then replace majority VSTs with a hardware synths, try to keep the original idea! Otherwise I may need go to 2) again and again.

5) When about the half of the mix is done, I launch the mastering hardware and do a final mastering.

6) I do the rest of the mix and apply the final mastering steps. Don’t forget about the 6db rule!

7) Record, listen WAV. Clicks-pops -> tune the hardware, goto 7)

8) Load Audition, softly remove everything below 50-60Hz, add fade in/out, do a hard limiting if the level is still not enough. Listen again and again.

9) Publish on soundcloud, youtube, give a link to the friends.

10) Give your ears a rest (a few hours, or sometimes even a few days). Then listen a track again and again, listen it at home, in a car, on the mobile phone (I definitely recommend listening with some cheap $5 headphones, if it sounds well in them, it would sound well everywhere).

10) Find a serious mistakes, do the steps 6)-10) again and republish the track.

11) Find a small mistakes, note somewhere to correct them in the future.

12) Finally, that’s it. Easy? I think so. And funny :)