holonology
Active Member
Let's be fair, we all know that hard drive has a bunch of stuff lurking on it from over the years.
But something struck me the other day as I was thinking about the trial and error aspect of making music. As the saying goes, "you don't know what you don't know" and so there's some costly experiementation at arriving at a setup that works for you, especially in the early days. Often like other pursuits, that cost comes up front. Later on, when you know what you like and what you don't, you can see the wood from the trees and you start to identify ways of working, synths, libraries and effects that are the go-tos, and the ones that didn't quite make it. Let's be honest even with the benefit of walkthroughs, demos and everything, sometimes it's only over the long haul that it becomes obvious what was worth the investment.
What I wondered, especially for those of you in the game for ages is - what do you do with the ones that started out as love at first synth, but then you moved on? You've locked down those main synths, but what to do with the few that are hanging around, that are still good but just not your absolute favourites? I feel the answer has a lot to do with how your brain is wired with this stuff.
So folks, what do/did you do when you hit your stride with the setup that works for you?
Interested to hear your take.
But something struck me the other day as I was thinking about the trial and error aspect of making music. As the saying goes, "you don't know what you don't know" and so there's some costly experiementation at arriving at a setup that works for you, especially in the early days. Often like other pursuits, that cost comes up front. Later on, when you know what you like and what you don't, you can see the wood from the trees and you start to identify ways of working, synths, libraries and effects that are the go-tos, and the ones that didn't quite make it. Let's be honest even with the benefit of walkthroughs, demos and everything, sometimes it's only over the long haul that it becomes obvious what was worth the investment.
What I wondered, especially for those of you in the game for ages is - what do you do with the ones that started out as love at first synth, but then you moved on? You've locked down those main synths, but what to do with the few that are hanging around, that are still good but just not your absolute favourites? I feel the answer has a lot to do with how your brain is wired with this stuff.
- Be brutally minimal and say; if they don't play a role you'll sell them on.
- Keep them, but hide them on your system.
- Keep them, but have a setup that focuses you in on a handful of plugins per project.
- Keep the license but delete the plugins.
- Keep them, and use them as a rotating cast of inspiration super-subs to throw into the mix when you need to switch it up.
- Keep them, the more the merries, and flit from synth to synth because you enjoy the madness of indulging in your collection.
So folks, what do/did you do when you hit your stride with the setup that works for you?
Interested to hear your take.