Are you destined to become a failed wannabe music producer?

[bishopkris40]

Yeah nvisibl, I start putting my gear in the loft last night, it brought a tear to my eye, but my TI and supernova with monitors and PC are now setup in a tight little cornoer, all piled up on the blank section of the ti, Can't play too hard or PC screen falls But actually a very good basic setup, I worry about keeping the TI as I may not get to use it much and it'll loose money, but since I've never sold gear I suppose I can cope.

As for others commenting on music, because my close mates have been around since the start they don't listen, but folk who I have met within the last few years all do, and I think there is nothing better than being up fishing a loch in Scotland and someone is whistling along to one of my tunes in the pitch dark because it's on the MP3 player. Also the other week I was at a party and a cd was put in, Personally I'm cringing thinking I should have changed this and that, but they liked it.

It's only fun for me and sure I'll get annoyed in future years When I finally get back to playing after changing nappies

[nvisibl]

you sound pure jammin mate.... happy days ahead.

Today I said to my wee one... okay what do you want to do, walk in the park or go on a bus. She chose bus.... so i'm getting us ready for the big bus outing.. packed lunch n stuff...we don't get to go on public transport much because we're toffs. *cough... aye right ye are lol

[bishopkris40]

Ah the joys of getting your bones rattled. I'm looking forward to those sort of days

[D4F]

Interesting topic.
For me music is more like a break from real world. I unfortunately don't have a job I like. I'm not complaining $$ wise but still that isn't something that I enjoy doing so when I get home, play with my kid (very often my 3 year old daughter brings her Korgmicro X to me and asks for a mic so she can sing to the patches and that's quality time ), help my wife, do whatever I have to do and then after all day just put my headphones on and build some sounds on the TI or just listen to old vinyls looking for samples and etc. Few hours per week if I'm lucky but they are mine. I don't give a crap if I'll ever release any of the stuff I do it but I will surely keep doing it. Not for others but for that quality time I have doing it.
In my opinion anybody that starts to work under pressure will in most cases fail in the long run or music will become 'another job/hobby' cause of the stress related to it and not enough entertainement.

As for gear... In Future Music (not sure which issue) one guy stated something like this. '...the more gear I had the more time I was spending setting/tweaking it all up just to realise that in the end I was making less music than before when I had just one synth...'

It's so true.
I only have a Virus B and Virus TI, Gigastudio for natural sounds and MPC for beats and cuts and honestly I'm not looking into expanding my setup anytime soon. There is simply no need to. creativity is what makes the difference. just my .02

PS hope you all understand what I just wrote lol as my English isn't very good.

[Khazul]

Originally Posted by D4F

As for gear... In Future Music (not sure which issue) one guy stated something like this. '...the more gear I had the more time I was spending setting/tweaking it all up just to realise that in the end I was making less music than before when I had just one synth...'

Yeh there is alot of truth in that, but you can also burn alot of time trying to coax sounds out of gear that just cant do the job. Its fine balance between a broad sound palette that you can still usefully work with and a simply too much stuff to get anything done.

Im very much coming round to the view that the ideal core setup is a decent rompler, drum machine, very good and flexible VA (ie virus ti at the moment) and a real analog synth. Not sure that the drom is quite characterful enough to be that real analog - maybe sunsyn, code8 or voyager. Anything on top of that is the occasional and/or simple to use stuff or a synth that does something really unqiue - v-synth for eg.


BTW - what do you keep your virus B for?

[D4F]

Originally Posted by Khazul

BTW - what do you keep your virus B for?

I got used to it
I am actually thinking to sell it and get something else but honestly nothing catches my eye.

[The girl next door]

Originally Posted by D4F

PS hope you all understand what I just wrote lol as my English isn't very good.

You takin the Mick ???

[D4F]

Originally Posted by The girl next door

You takin the Mick ???

What means 'taking the Mick'??

[Infinity+1]

It means you must be joking because your english is great!

[Igglethorpe]

This is a great thread and honestly, kinda brought tears to my eyes. In an attempt not to be too sentimental, I can so relate on so much of what has been said.

I keep pressuring myself to do this stuff and of course, it never gets done. I also hate my job and play way too many video games to release myself from it. Well, not as much as I used to I guess. I know I want to do music, but damn, it sure isn't the easiest thing to do. I suppose I've had way too many instant gratification things thrown at me over the years.

It is such a major effort to get me into my little studio. Once I'm there, time can pass by and I do accomplish things. It's the matter of just planting myself on the bench, turning on my synths and getting to it.

Hmm, I don't know what I'm trying to add to this discussion. Perhaps another angle. People with low motivation?