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What if… the new cool was to stop buying?
What if the new cool was to stop buying new stuff and start stretching out the gear and apps we already have?
We start posting all the cool stuff we do with stuff we already got… 🤔
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I see some of my favorite artists with very little gear doing amazing things, got me really thinking 🧐
I wish I could find the old Basement Jaxx article talking about them using old gear that they trust instead of the latest and greatest…
What if the fun is more into trying new stuff than to make music? Making music is hard, trying new stuff is easy. I plead guilty of that.
I had to try 50 synths to realize that all I really need is Animoog and Model 15.
Basement Jaxx were still using an Atari in 2003.
I remember talking to him about it after I had finished a mixing session next door.
Agreed, there is a point when you must stop getting stuff and start making music.
Personally speaking, I hadn't bought new music gear or software
for over a decade before my laptops, iPad, electric guitar and various other stuff got nabbed.
So iOS apps have been quite advantageous in that regards when it came to replacing stuff.
I'm coming very close to finishing my rebuild up to production quality level
which has taken more time than usual because of the Global incident that
we can't talk about anymore but I am very happy with the results that I'm getting now.
I've got a couple more things to purchase which basically is a standalone stereo filter or
a Dual Low pass gate but the combination of what I've got I'm more than satisfied.
Now I'm getting back to making music again though I haven't really stopped. 😏
Yeah, but those were the 49th and 50th synths that you bought right? 😉
How were you to know!?!? Lol
This is actually what I’m trying to do at the moment. I bought an insane number of apps last year (and some this year), and then expensive hardware. Currently working on ways of joining everything up in one hybrid setup, and exploring what I’ve got - I’ve barely scratched the surface of most apps.
This is the lifestyle I am trying to embrace. On the music gear side, my GAS list is labeled in Notes as “Gear I Want to Need” or gear I hope to grow into. Except the 7 string guitar. I want that now, but even with that I have my eye on a used one. This year has been chaotic AF. If we can make it through the next month without me loosing it, I should have plenty of time from late fall through early spring to learn gear and apps and finish some effing tracks!
I wish every app has a fully working 1 week trial period, and then buy option as IAP like Loopy Pro.
That should be the standard.
They were probably in the first five synths I bought, but your point stands nonetheless.
I don't mind buying new apps to support the devs, even if I don't use some of them that often. If it keeps them in business long enough for them to make a new favourite of mine, then it's worth a few bucks.
I've been trying to do a couple things:
1: Get rid of apps I don't use. Give them one more look to see if I'm missing something, and then delete them. I can always download them again later, so why not? This is remarkably hard for me for some reason, especially with apps that I see other people using/enjoying. But I've deleted a bunch of effects and even a few synths.
2: Set up session templates with instruments and effects pre-loaded with favorites. Then if I just want to get down to trying musical ideas I don't have to risk getting out of the zone scrolling through AUv3s before I even play a note.
That said I still follow the big @Poppadocrock app sale thread and wind up buying tons of stuff I don't need
I like to think I'm supporting the development of the platform 
I like this, it made me chuckle. 😏
Yeahhhhhh....
Yup, for sure.
Let's make next month smooth as silk.
I wanna hear that seven string.
I've been the most productive in the last two months, when I stopped GAS-ing and focused on refining and iterating.
I suspect some of the old timers on the forum have done that. I hardly buy anything these days.
Once you have 50 synths and 25 drum machines and 10 reverbs (or whatever) you probably don't need any more.
It takes something innovative and unique for me to buy these days.
I would still buy stuff because I’m too old to care about being cool. 😎
(actually I very rarely buy music gear these days.)
I don’t think there is much of anything that will stop me from continuously pouring money into my modular
I hear this loud and clear.
Though my rig isn't strictly modular I treat it as such.
Everything is interchangeable at any one time.
The way things are going in the UK there will be no option but to be cool and stay cool ….. in more ways than one sadly.
This.
Things have gone a bit weird in the U.K I must admit.
It's quite sad to see.
Why do you hate America?
🤣
There is no universal answer to this because we're all different, though I'm sure many of us are in the same boat.
If too many apps are stressing you out mentally or financially, you should definitely cut back or stop.
If you're someone with disposable income who enjoys buying new apps, then no harm, no foul.
That said, much has been written about creating art with constraints and limitations. It's certainly worth a try if you're feeling it.
Yeah if I’m not getting actual modules specifically, I’m buying hardware for cases or electrical components to diy stuff. I’m actually about to get some arduino nanos for a few modules I wanted to make and some standalone stuff like a little 555 clock generator
Last app I bought was gamelan gender. Too cool not to have but it was three bucks. I bought the Neova Ring cause it was a hundred bucks. Yet to use it, but, since it's no more ikm glad to have it.
Actually, these days I’ve gone beyond no new apps to no new tracks. I haven’t made a new track for at least a month. What I am doing is revisiting stuff I did three years ago, and… taking out all the superfluous apps! Everyone I do is so much better (not to mention that I didn’t midi edit three yrs ago). I don’t blame myself for the synth gush I was caught in. It was all so new and cool. Now, less is really more for me.
Nobody explains why we are over 200% ‘cooler’ than everyone else.
How is it really in England!? I left in 2004 but still follow the news and keep in touch with good friends there. My friends act as if and say that nothing has really changed, but the news paints a picture of despair. Are my mates just relatively sheltered from the reality as they are all in their mid 40s in Reading with their own houses etc?
And as for apps and things. I haven’t bought one since Thermo I think, not for financial reasons, although I am broke, but more for the fact that there’s nothing interesting or that I need. You can be sure the moment there’s a shallow water pedal for aum, or a weird Strega copy by bram bos, or arteria brings out the buchla v for iPad I will be spending again…
Sunk cost fallacy
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Already on it. Spending has nearly stopped altogether, as of some time ago. Looking to use the (abundant) stuff I have, rather than adding to it for the duration.
Camping in Wales right now. In the last 7 days I checked Facebook and all other places like this forum once. I have a guitar and uke here.
While I clearly see that communities can be formed around any interest and exist in the internet realm, I somehow see infinitely more value, bond and energy as well as transmission of energy between beings in direct contact.
Staring at humans with the background of nature makes me way more content than staring at digital windows that screens are, no matter how colourful and exciting.
This also goes for music. I’ve spent years trying to integrate electronics into acoustic music and feel that there is an invisible barrier between the two. Not that it’s impossible but it definitely requires a lot prep often meaning that the spontaneity suffers.
Sorry for this seemingly random comment. It somehow triggered that nerve.
I have that feeling too. These days I mainly focus on learning to play an instrument (electric guitar) really well, instead of making all kinds of electronic audio collages that are nice for the creator, but not for a (random) listener. And I feel, in hindsight, a lot of regret I didn't learn to drum when was young. I think when you are a drummer, you can instantly lay out a whole track with an intro, a build up, a breakdown, an outro. Instead of program or assemble such a foundation for a song or track. (I watched the movie Dinner in America last week, and the main character records a whole song in a few minutes on a 4 track tape recorder, and that was a good reality check for me).
A nice album with electric guitar and electronic music is the project of Nicolas Jaar and a guitar player, Darkside - Psychic. That album I have enjoyed very much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkside_(band)