What was the moment when you decided to switch from hobbyst producer/musician to hobbyst DAW & Plugin hoarder??
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- Banned
- Topic Starter
- 3889 posts since 3 Feb, 2010
I haven't switched yet, so was wondering if those with expierience could share their stories, so i would know when its comming
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- KVRAF
- 8828 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
The moment I subscribed to KVR...? But I am not a Hobbit...!
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- KVRAF
- 4590 posts since 7 Jun, 2012 from Warsaw
Hoarding plugins keeps me motivated to find creative uses for them and produce more. I browse KVR in search of inspiration: "What else could I try? What are the new sounds to create"?
Because I won't buy a plugin unless I see a practical use for it.
Because I won't buy a plugin unless I see a practical use for it.
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Tricky-Loops wrote: (...)someone like Armin van Buuren who claims to make a track in half an hour and all his songs sound somewhat boring(...)
Tricky-Loops wrote: (...)someone like Armin van Buuren who claims to make a track in half an hour and all his songs sound somewhat boring(...)
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- KVRist
- 461 posts since 21 Nov, 2000 from somewhere over the rainbow
I already had my revelation and I'm on my way back. I have deleted most of my "collected" plugins and now use mainly stock plugins from my DAW combined with a handpicked selection (~10) of freeware plugins, mostly dynamics and some EQ for special use cases. That's it. I realized that (besides having an impressive dropdown list in my DAW) I have never used 90% of these plugins.
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- KVRAF
- 6113 posts since 7 Jan, 2005 from Corporate States of America
When my prescribed dose of SSNRI reached about 450mg x 3 times per day, and I was being harassed at work by my sociopathic immediate supervisor...
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my music @ SoundCloud
my music @ SoundCloud
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- KVRAF
- 2744 posts since 5 Dec, 2003 from Harlan's World
That was the first day of my eternal brokeness
My Soundcloud Too many pieces of music finish far too long after the end. - Stravinsky
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- Beware the Quoth
- 33175 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Isnt a hobbyst one of them short guys from Lord of the Rings?
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- KVRist
- 262 posts since 16 Oct, 2016
LOL! As a member of Team XY, I find your insinuation offensive!
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- Banned
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
As soon as I decided native DAW plugins aren't enough (they are, really) and discovered VST marketplaces like the one in here or on Facebook 
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- KVRAF
- 2461 posts since 26 Jul, 2004
It was a moment as I have lost a reason to make music.
There was no way to go any more. Nothing to achieve with it.
I am still making music, but the drive and the power and the love behind it
is somehow darkend or cloudet with something that I can´t put my finger on
to name it.
I had the purpose to give people back theire life and dreams with my music.
There may have been more purposes involved, and all together they made me go
and create and feel greate.
Today it is like sitting and wating and watching a desert that did replace
my world full of life.
Its like having lost a dear friend and waiting that he comes back.
Thinking this over every day, but can´t find a way out.
So I hope in assembling good sounds or software, there will be a kick
somehow, that brings back this part of my life I seem to have lost.
Sorry for the sad story, but you asked for it.
There was no way to go any more. Nothing to achieve with it.
I am still making music, but the drive and the power and the love behind it
is somehow darkend or cloudet with something that I can´t put my finger on
to name it.
I had the purpose to give people back theire life and dreams with my music.
There may have been more purposes involved, and all together they made me go
and create and feel greate.
Today it is like sitting and wating and watching a desert that did replace
my world full of life.
Its like having lost a dear friend and waiting that he comes back.
Thinking this over every day, but can´t find a way out.
So I hope in assembling good sounds or software, there will be a kick
somehow, that brings back this part of my life I seem to have lost.
Sorry for the sad story, but you asked for it.
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- KVRist
- 262 posts since 16 Oct, 2016
@ classic: Sad tale indeed. One that probably many of us (who have been doing this for quite some time) can relate to some degree. As I progress further down the road of music creation, I oft feel that the magic of 'discovery' gets replaced with the boredom of 'mundane.'
The one thought I hold, that gets me through those times is this: No matter what I create (substantial or insignificant) yesterday it didn't exist, and today it does.
It's hardly revolutionary, but in the end, it gives me a bit of perspective regarding why I bother doing the whole 'creativity thing' in the first place.
The one thought I hold, that gets me through those times is this: No matter what I create (substantial or insignificant) yesterday it didn't exist, and today it does.
It's hardly revolutionary, but in the end, it gives me a bit of perspective regarding why I bother doing the whole 'creativity thing' in the first place.
