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TheTemplateDude's Confession - I'm an Appoholic - Should I learn or recover?
Hi All
I'm an Appoholic. Have to honestly admit that spending more than 5000 to applications and plugins and especially in-app purchases.
Did the same with the desktop apps and plugins (lots of DAW's, plugins and audio tools). Nothing learned.
For some reason my collector's nature is forcing me to act this way.
Now I try to get those sounds coming from the set of plugins to become useful, like to become content creator, do reviews, build iPad studio systems with devices etc. And the most importantly teach my daughter, to focus more on making music and playing than collecting..
Maybe I need to create a forum to share thoughts on this, if there are enough others to join?
Let me know if you share the same symptoms, In next video I will tell what I should have done.
Stay tuned.
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Luckily for me the price of apps has increased to the level where they aren’t so cheap that I don’t even think about it before buying them, consequently my spending on apps has gone down significantly. Also subscriptions are essentially a no no for me and that helps too.
@BiancaNeve Congrats! Thanks for sharing. Hope that I would have been wiser.. but now trying to combine those I can.. to create setups that makes sense.. those with inter-app propably just stays in the closet. 😊
I know, there is an easy advice. Just buy those you are going to use long term. And spend some time to consider.. I’m just so spontanious and urgent to get new apps especially with great reviews..
That's a gorgeous setup you have there! Do they all work together??
But rather than encourage you to spend more, over the years I have learned there's no correlation between actually making anything ( ie music, post production, podcasts etc ) and the resources ( computers, hardware, software etc ) that gets thrown at it!
Sure, there's a baseline minimum requirement ( an instrument, a microphone, a recorder, some software ) but after that, if the focus is on making music, then off you go... make some music! When there's too many choices, in my experience all the cycles spent on trying to remember how everything works ( or might work if only I had xxxxxx ) simply subtract from the goal of creation. It's exactly why recording studios evolved to have an engineer to interpret the desires of the artists/performers/producers.
That's not to say you can't have a hobby built around the engineering aspect of technology ... and have a lot of fun with it! There's no rule that says anyone has to make anything at all! Building workflows, experimenting with gear ( be it hardware or software ) is awesome fun, IMO. But remember even the best pro studios in the would have a finite amount of equipment. I doubt many get near 5000 bits of hardware to manage! And if they do there's an engineering team for sure!
Fortunately your choice of obsession doesn't require the financial outlay of actually building a full scale studio ) I know people who have gone that route and it it's for there wrong reason it gets ugly). Not to say your process doesn't cost money, but as long as the outlay doesn't plunge you into unmanageable debt or stop food getting to the table then it's your choice for entertainment and engagement. Good that you didn't gravitate towards aviation or boats!!! ;-)
Me? Not that it matters, but I'm now stripped back to basics. My iOS devices have aged out of usefulness, so I'm on the desktop because I need that machine for work so it does double duty! I'm focussed on a couple of generative plug in tools, using the built in resources of a single DAW. That's it. And over the past few months I've discovered a lot I didn't know and the "journey" has been way more satisfying. How much listenable musical content have I made? None. It's absolutely about the doing. YMMV.
If you can afford it and you are feeding and putting a roof over your family head I don’t see a problem in spending 5000$.
A trick, I don’t have my credit card attached to my account, I have to go to the store to buy cards. It makes it more of a inconvenient and less impulsive.
I have a lot of apps too (Nothing like you) but they were bought over a period of 7 years. I don’t smoke or drink so that my life little pleasure.
Now that you have all these apps do like me and get addicted to songwriting. But do not get into modular synthesizer you gonna bankrupt yourself. 😆
@ltf3 and @ecou thanks so much for advices and tips from the bottom of my heart. Like mentioned my next video will be about what I should have done, now thinking afterwords. Yeah I should concentrate more on song or groove making as I now have more than enough tools.. maybe the next challenge is to big the most suitable ones 😊
Its only an addiction if you do it instead of and at the detriment of other important parts of your life.
I spend a lot on my many hobbies, but my wife, home and other aspects of my life are prioritised as and when is desirable to a well balanced life (well mostly lol).
If your goal is to enjoy making music, you can certainly enjoy that even with large collections of apps. I would advise against as the saying goes: 'putting all your eggs in one basket'. I personally would advice spreading music making money between hardware, iPad and a Mac setup, just in case
@Fruitbat1919 yeah.. agree on your proposal and got Maschine, Komplete Logic Pro on Macbook and lots plugins there as well. Need to realize to not extend anymore on apps. The strongest point on hardware is that they are keeping their value more and not having OS updates to break things 🤔
IMHOP if you stop watching YouTube videos about the latest and greatest and reading forum posts about the same it will go a long way towards helping your spending spree’s.
Also shifting the focus to watching channels dedicated to composing and composers , “some” music theory, and general song composition and beat making will help you refocus
You might get over it. I used to go over everything on sale on the beat community with a microscope thinking this is the sound that will turn my compositions into epic. Now my eyes just glaze over on anything sound wise.
Thanks to @audiomike and @audiblevideo for the ideas. Actually I'm already a bit over this and I know some of my friends buy / switch cars as a hobby and there 10K is a little, and if I divide all the costs per month it will like 200-400. So that doesn't sound so bad.
Will continue publishing Koala SoundSets and Loopy Pro Template as a cure, and share them free for now. But there will be a point that I might want to have some return like cents from prefilled livesets etc.. Have to think more..