Is it me or everything works like shit??

[J-909]

No, everything does suck, pretty much. There's no hope, we die, life is short, it's mostly pretty awful. And people come at you with a fallacy of relative privation when you point it out.

Doesn't mean it has to stop you though. Some asshole once told me, when I was depressed about music-making and arbitrary social obligations, that "You'll never have optimal conditions to create your art."

He was an asshole, an arrogant prick, but his statement is correct.

Interesting!
The thing is, what happens is with very basic stuff, like interface or knobs not working, so you cannot even have a workaround..

[J-909]

If things work ok, IT business would lose a lot of jobs, don't you think?

I think you got the point

[TheCatBurglar]

No, everything does suck, pretty much. There's no hope, we die, life is short, it's mostly pretty awful. And people come at you with a fallacy of relative privation when you point it out.

Doesn't mean it has to stop you though. Some asshole once told me, when I was depressed about music-making and arbitrary social obligations, that "You'll never have optimal conditions to create your art."

He was an asshole, an arrogant prick, but his statement is correct.

Interesting!
The thing is, what happens is with very basic stuff, like interface or knobs not working, so you cannot even have a workaround..

Limitations can sometimes be a good thing. I've made some of my best work when limiting myself to a certain set of rules. When you only have a few tools to use, it really drives you to push them above and beyond their 'limit'.

[J-909]

No, everything does suck, pretty much. There's no hope, we die, life is short, it's mostly pretty awful. And people come at you with a fallacy of relative privation when you point it out.

Doesn't mean it has to stop you though. Some asshole once told me, when I was depressed about music-making and arbitrary social obligations, that "You'll never have optimal conditions to create your art."

He was an asshole, an arrogant prick, but his statement is correct.

Interesting!
The thing is, what happens is with very basic stuff, like interface or knobs not working, so you cannot even have a workaround..

Limitations can sometimes be a good thing. I've made some of my best work when limiting myself to a certain set of rules. When you only have a few tools to use, it really drives you to push them above and beyond their 'limit'.

I totally agree, but a limitation is an LFO that cannot go beyonnd 15 Hz, you have to cope with it. What I'm talking about here is not limitations but total limits or obstacles. For instance, if I cannot open Cubase however rmuch my inspiration rises I won't be making music

[TheCatBurglar]

No, everything does suck, pretty much. There's no hope, we die, life is short, it's mostly pretty awful. And people come at you with a fallacy of relative privation when you point it out.

Doesn't mean it has to stop you though. Some asshole once told me, when I was depressed about music-making and arbitrary social obligations, that "You'll never have optimal conditions to create your art."

He was an asshole, an arrogant prick, but his statement is correct.

Interesting!
The thing is, what happens is with very basic stuff, like interface or knobs not working, so you cannot even have a workaround..

Limitations can sometimes be a good thing. I've made some of my best work when limiting myself to a certain set of rules. When you only have a few tools to use, it really drives you to push them above and beyond their 'limit'.

I totally agree, but a limitation is an LFO that cannot go beyonnd 15 Hz, you have to cope with it. What I'm talking about here is not limitations but total limits or obstacles. For instance, if I cannot open Cubase however rmuch my inspiration rises I won't be making music

You raise a fair point, but if you can't get your technology working. Maybe you should look into building your own percussion out of bits of driftwood or something?

[fluffy_little_something]

Maybe it's because software gets more and more complex, which increases the likeliness of issues.
I have a lot of really old software on my computer because it just works and doesn't overwhelm me and my computer with stuff I don't need, anyway.
And I will cling to W7 for as long as possible.

[Aleatoriac]

The thing is, what happens is with very basic stuff, like interface or knobs not working, so you cannot even have a workaround..

My keyboard controller died again, and this time I can't fix it, so I've bought a new... controller (mwa haha), but in the meantime, I can't control my software in an expressive, tactile way (which I prefer).

It's frustrating. I remember when I first started I had no synths, just my face and a crappy mono cassette deck. So I'd beatbox, record that, then scream, growl, learned to throat-sing, and make weird noises over it. It sucked, it sounded like shit Like an epileptic autistic cat being raped by a rodent, probably.

I know it's frustrating, as you said your license of Cubase ain't working. And there may be no way to fix that. So you have to try something else. Reaper has unlimited demo. It isn't Cubase (this is good in some ways, bad in others) and it is unfamiliar. And yes, that sucks. It f**king sucks when you're creative, and nobody understands you have this impulse to *EXPRESS* and it is overwhelming, and the general shoddiness of everything gets in the way.

You can still do it. You just have to keep f**king with it. It may never turn out exactly the way you want it to. But if you don't do anything, nothing well ever be done.

[harryupbabble]

It sucked, it sounded like shit Like an epileptic autistic cat being raped by a rodent,

To me, this sounds like a description of some or even most of Led Zeppelin's music. Works for me. Hahaha.

[thecontrolcentre]

Hmmmm ... all my software (and hardware) works fine all the time, and I have a lot.

[chk071]

Is it me...?

Yes.

[JerGoertz]

Hmmmm ... all my software (and hardware) works fine all the time, and I have a lot.

Same here.

I'm actually amazed at how well most of my stuff works.

[chk071]

Same... especially considering that i used Ubuntu Linux for years, and sometimes you just had to look at it the wrong way to cause an error of some kind...

[fluffy_little_something]

It also depends a lot on the developers. Some are much more thorough than others. The guy who makes Mulab for instance, is very accessible. When people report issues, those will be fixed in no time. Some bigger developers don't really listen that much to their customers. Too big to care, one might say.

Another source of problems are OS updates.

[chk071]

Some bigger developers don't really listen that much to their customers. Too big to care, one might say.

I'd rather say, with the amount of users, and amount of bug reports, you have to set priorities, and, if a bug occurs only for a small group of people, or you can't reproduce it for some reason, it may not get the attention as issues with a bigger spread. It's funny, sometimes people argue as if they were the centre of the universe, and, with a snip of a finger, companies which have thousands and thousands of customers have to solve their issues, yesterday.

[fluffy_little_something]

Well, if it really is a bug, it needs to be fixed. We are not talking about feature requests