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Fraggle · Post by **Fraggle** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:14 am

There are joke threads, threads about how to make music, threads about nearly everything , but What I want to know is “why do you use electronic musical equipment?”

Is it your job ? Are you a salaried sound engineer ? Or professional musician ? Is it a hobby , you do it for fun and nothing more ? or are you addicted to buying new shiny plugins and not really motivated 'musically' ?

I will also make this into a poll -

Personally - I was a professional jazz musician (alto / soprano saxophone) had my own jazz band - we toured a little in the 1990s but mainly gigged in London UK - then I jacked it all in to get a regular pay check and got into electronic music as a hobby in around 1998 — been a hobby/passion ever since - I must have made thousands of songs and sound effects and patches , but never sold any of it , never tried to -

Interested to hear anyone else’s reasons why they use electronic music technology —>

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:59 am

Music? wossat?

I use electronic audio technology.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:13 pm

“why do you use electronic musical equipment?” is about the driest, blandest way of describing it.

"Hobby" is a pretty inadequate word too, really.

I make music because it is the most fascinating, beautiful, satisfying thing I can do. It's one of the very few things in my life that seems like it's actually worth doing.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:18 pm

i like killing sound.

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:33 pm

i like killing with sound.

Biome_Digital · Post by **Biome_Digital** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:55 pm

Need to add: It's my job - professional sound designer.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:35 pm

Poll should allow people to choose more than one option. I would bet that many (most?) of us fit into more than one category, particularly when you include the last ("other") option.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:58 pm

to summon zuul.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:04 pm

what else would I do

fese · Post by **fese** » Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:34 pm

It’s better than not doing it.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 5:51 am

if you gotta ask...

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 5:53 am

all seriousness aside, I think 'hobby' is as honorable as any intent, as to the poll.
none of the above. It's what gets me up in the morning.
at times it's been a living, but that entails being among people as a matter of course.

I'm not addicted to spending money. I have seriously no excuse not to make whatever I think to make but I'll go years spending zero.

Nightpolymath · Post by **Nightpolymath** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:14 am

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Sat Mar 05, 2022 5:16 pm

i do it coz i got nuthin to do while waiting for a speed scrabble opponent to join my game.

also, during game, a lot of opponents are so slow that i can do stuff in reaper.

plus, it's kind of fun too.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Mar 05, 2022 5:22 pm

WTF else am I gonna do with all these guitars and synths? Take up baking?

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