How much time does it take you to write a track?

I know that you probably do not have strict time-limit for finishing your songs-tracks but how long does it take more or less to finish it?

Depends on location for me.

Uninspiring location or someplace I don't want to be: weeks and months

Inspiring location: 6 hours to 2 weeks depending on how much sound design I end up doing to project my musical image.

...write a track? Hee. "Write a track". That's funny, you're a funny guy.

I haven't written a track since my son was born.

depends on the finished product, I guess ...

Nothing that's long in length ever takes me a short amount time because I tend to through compose ... and can spend a lot of time fussing over details and trying everything before committing and moving on ...

And then as Cygnus says, sometimes it's just, "Git 'er Done!"

For work-for-hire it all depends on when my deadline is and how many minutes of music I have to deliver.

I have found, however, that my best stuff is completed mere seconds before the deadline - for whatever reason.

Maybe that last-minute pressure is just what The Muse needs.

Now, when I'm just working on compositions for my own pleasure, those seem to take forever.

Maybe because I know they don't have a deadline and I can keep "adding more clay to the sculpture" all day - not quite sure.

So, there really is no simple answer to the question because it varies so much.

The last track I actually considered finished was maybe fifteen or twenty hours. It was the final project for college "Midi recording techniques" or whatever that class was called. About an hour and a half three days a week for two or three weeks, and about an hour or two during lab hours a few times, and about four or five hours the last day.

I still never got it the way I wanted it, but got to the point where any further time thinking of ways to improve it was wasted, so I just worked on the mix levels and was done with it.

Knid of hard to measure as I'll sometimes sketch two or more out in one go, then it could be weeks before I get back to working on them properly.

Depends on mine and production partners work schedule really, whether it all just fits first time or whether its one of those 'it sux' jobs when you listen to it later etc...

sort of what khazul said... i have a whole bunch of bits of things on the go that i will come back to in a few weeks/months, even have the odd track from a few years ago i'm not happy with the result of and come back to.

pwesonally i wouldn't fret about it, i guess if you get a result you're happy with at the end of it, then whatever amount of time it took was enough