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Post by pt3r on Aug 16, 2022 9:23:29 GMT
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Aug 16, 2022 10:44:16 GMT
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Post by admin on Aug 16, 2022 10:44:16 GMT
Yupp ... I feel the gravitational pull of new synths so hard ... but I haven't caved in for a while yet because of one single synth in my studio: the Korg Wavestate.
Every time I see a new shiny synth coming up in my feed I think to myself: "Have I mastered the Wavestate yet and have I enough time to master that new synth?". Of course the answer to both questions is a huge NO.
I will probably never master the Wavestate ... it's huge, it's incredibly deep and super complex to program. But the sounds are so divine that I also don't want to give it away and so I am keeping myself in check with this one "stopping" synth.
PS: I am however seriously tempted by the Organelle ... which would open up yet another huge rabbit hole to fall into and never get out of again ...
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Aug 16, 2022 11:33:10 GMT
Post by pt3r on Aug 16, 2022 11:33:10 GMT
The organelle, is a black hole of possibilities, but it's pretty much a story of what goes in comes out. If you're not interested in building your own pure data patches then it's a royal waste of money IMHO.
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Aug 17, 2022 0:24:07 GMT
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Post by Kyaa on Aug 17, 2022 0:24:07 GMT
This was helpful. Thanks, haha.😁
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Aug 17, 2022 10:46:28 GMT
Post by pol on Aug 17, 2022 10:46:28 GMT
I agree with 99% of what he's saying, once we got to the revisions at the end, but sometimes in the heat of the moment you just buy something; I did this more in the days music shops actually had 2nd hand gear but it still happens occansionally online or thrift stores/charity shops.... Some of the purchases have been sold on but a couple have become a important part of my studio; my favourite is an old, tatty Roland D20 which I wouldn't get rid of just for one piano sound I really like on it (and use way too much,  ). I think this is where his really key point is, of how the new device will fit into your workflow....
I have a good example of this. I bought a Roland MC202 new as they were selling them off, I thought I needed a micrcomposer as the Human league, Vince Clarke and many others were using them to make great pop music. You could not play into the sequence live, it was all step programming and drove me absoluely bonkers. It went back in its box and, thankfully, I sold it a few years later for much more thna I paid for it (and worth even more now!).
He covers the biggest mistake a lot of people make I feel, (inc. me  ), in buying too much new gear at once so you don't learn it very well, or even correctly, or really integrate it into your main workflow/studio; I had a mad buying spree when I was feeling flush a few years ago, a couple of those bits of gear haven't even been turned on in 2022. The plan I'm doing on is to incorporate one piece of gear and learn it properly, then do the next one. This plan is going well except for being sidetracked by the purchase of an MPC One....  This was a planned purchase and is going great; I did the read the manual thing he suggests, but also my studio is built around an ancient MPC so knew a lot of what I was getting it for already.
The point I hadn't thought of myself was the "fog" of the person doing a great video/making it look easy as they have had lots practise etc. I certainly fell for this in my early years, but nearly every device can sound wonderful these days so that doesn't work like it used to.....
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). I think this is where his really key point is, of how the new device will fit into your workflow.... 
), in buying too much new gear at once so you don't learn it very well, or even correctly, or really integrate it into your main workflow/studio; I had a mad buying spree when I was feeling flush a few years ago, a couple of those bits of gear haven't even been turned on in 2022. The plan I'm doing on is to incorporate one piece of gear and learn it properly, then do the next one. This plan is going well except for being sidetracked by the purchase of an MPC One.... 
This was a planned purchase and is going great; I did the read the manual thing he suggests, but also my studio is built around an ancient MPC so knew a lot of what I was getting it for already.