I removed most of my plugins

[classic]

So i had a writers block for some time now and decided to uninstall a lot of shit to see if something happens, it did, less stuff more creativity, it is like magic, you use only stuff you like and you are familiar with and no more paralysis from endless options.
It is hobby for me that i love and i dont need much, i am not making very complex and wild stuff anyway, i dont want hard to make, i want easy and to have fun, and less is more for that.
Please consider doing the same to be happy

I am with you on that subject.
I have so much high qual. stuff on my hd.
Arturia stuff, UHE´s Zebra, Cubase 14, Studio One, Waveform and lots more.
And I never use it.
At the very end I always come down to my Piano vst and play just a simple and heard warming melody and record a few strings to it and may be some deep fare drums, like a heardbeat.
Not more and I never touch the other stuff.
I should also delet it even if it was expensive.
This year I make some changes in general.
Life is short and after you are dead some day, after a few years, no on thinks about you, even the people that have been joking about you and were thinking they got it all set up well in their lifes.

[eLawnMust]

maybe time to edit my hosts file and block myself from reddit, forums, etc.

You can simply disconnect from the Internet whenever you need to focus on offline work.

For saving I would KEEP burning to disc... They are EMP proof that way...

Their lifespan is limited and not designed for archival purposes.

Who the hell says?... Got CDs-DVDs from the 90s still play as new, None of my oldest burns has turned to shit... Now have had MANY HDDs go south, deep south SSD as well... This is WHY I burn...

[FranklyFlawless]

Enterprises that use magnetic tape for archival purposes due to their reliability and cost efficiency.

[zerocrossing]

Enterprises that use magnetic tape for archival purposes due to their reliability and cost efficiency.

Magnetic tape is pretty terrible for archival purposes.

[zerocrossing]

Buy never?

uninstall now

Transfer all your plugins to belong to me.

[_leras]

all i need is - TONSTURM SPCTRLEQ, Mackity, Blackhole, Loudmax, Harsh Digital Nose
you have no idea what kind of crazy shit i was hearing messing around with those plugins today

What type of crazy music do you make with these?

[_leras]

Using fewer plug ins is a great idea, but I prefer to just decide what I will focus on for a "project". Could be one track or an album and, for me, helps keeps consistent.

I may choose a main synth or 3, a main reverb and delay, primary saturation and distortion plug in, but I allow myself to drop in a few others as I feel is needed.

Oh and the real 'main' thing I'll do is build a drum kit for that project. Sometimes it's an interation of an existing one, sometimes completely new, that depends on the project.

[martiu]

all i need is - TONSTURM SPCTRLEQ, Mackity, Blackhole, Loudmax, Harsh Digital Nose
you have no idea what kind of crazy shit i was hearing messing around with those plugins today

What type of crazy music do you make with these?

not really music, sometimes i like to chain some weird combinations of plugins and sound generators to see what will happen

[FranklyFlawless]

Magnetic tape is pretty terrible for archival purposes.

It is what is used in datacentres:

• Magnetic-tape data storage - Wikipedia (on my Wikiless instance)

Viability

Tape remains viable in modern data centers because:

1. it is the lowest cost medium for storing large amounts of data;
2. as a removable medium it allows the creation of an air gap that can prevent data from being hacked, encrypted or deleted;
3. its longevity allows for extended data retention which may be required by regulatory agencies.

The lowest cost tiers of cloud storage can be supported by tape.

[starflakeprj]

Enterprises that use magnetic tape for archival purposes due to their reliability and cost efficiency.

Magnetic tape is pretty terrible for archival purposes.

Terrible? Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about. As of today, magnetic tape (LTO) is the most reliable storage medium for long-term archiving.

[BONES]

Yep, that's what we use in broadcast TV. It's not analogue recording of video and audio, it's all stored digitally as data. Some of that stuff is going on 20 years old and it transcends hardware upgrades because it's all just tape.

So i had a writers block for some time now and decided to uninstall a lot of shit to see if something happens, it did, less stuff more creativity, it is like magic, you use only stuff you like and you are familiar with and no more paralysis from endless options.

I am quite the opposite - it's rediscovering things I've kind of forgotten about that really fires my creativity. The instruments I know really well lose that spark for me over time. They remain useful for filling out an arrangement but they cease to inspire creativity.

It's been the same for 40 years. I've always been most productive with a new set-up. When I bought a new workstation or a new hardware synth, I'd write a few songs in the first few months but by the time that set-up was 18 months old, I couldn't get any more out of it so I'd go and spend a few grand on something new, to get the creative juices flowing again.

These days I tend to buy things when they are on sale and sometimes I'll forget about them for months because I am busy with other things. When I finally get around to them, though, that's when I find new sounds that create new riffs that I can turn into new songs. The first song we wrote for out next album is a good example. I'd bought WaveOSC when it came out but we were in the middle of our last album and we already had all the songs so I put it aside and forgot about it (which is easy when it starts with a "W"). A few months ago I loaded it up to see how much it was like Union. Just in the effort of trying to recreate some of our Union patches in WaveOSC, I stumbled upon a sound that I liked and in playing around with it, I came up with a riff I really liked. 24 hours later I had a viable song.

In the process, I realised that I really don't use most of those at all and really don't need most of them at all either.

But surely you used them at one time or another, so what if you want to revisit an old project? I've got around 300 plugins installed by more than half of them are for backwards-compatibility.

What I don't get with a lot of you guys is why you have to uninstall stuff to stop it being a distraction. Don't you have any self-discipline? I put things in folders, so my browser doesn't become cluttered and I'm not scrolling endlessly to find things, but the number of plugins I have installed isn't any kind of issue for me and I am 100% certain that culling them wouldn't help in the slightest.

[zerocrossing]

Enterprises that use magnetic tape for archival purposes due to their reliability and cost efficiency.

Magnetic tape is pretty terrible for archival purposes.

Terrible? Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about. As of today, magnetic tape (LTO) is the most reliable storage medium for long-term archiving.

False. I don't know what decade you stopped learning about that kind of thing, but in 2025 optical M-Discs are considered the best medium for long term archiving.

[starflakeprj]

Enterprises that use magnetic tape for archival purposes due to their reliability and cost efficiency.

Magnetic tape is pretty terrible for archival purposes.

Terrible? Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about. As of today, magnetic tape (LTO) is the most reliable storage medium for long-term archiving.

False. I don't know what decade you stopped learning about that kind of thing, but in 2025 optical M-Discs are considered the best medium for long term archiving.

Now you’re just cherry-picking, you can’t just focus on expected lifespan. You have to consider other parameters when discussing reliability. While M-Discs are indeed marketed as a highly durable medium for long-term archiving, their real-world reliability is impacted by factors like susceptibility to physical damage (e.g., scratches, cracks) and the risk of technological obsolescence, as there is no guarantee future devices will support reading them. In contrast, LTO tape is widely adopted for large-scale professional archiving due to its built-in error correction, superior physical protection within a cassette, and long-term backward compatibility across generations. These features make tape a more reliable and scalable option for enterprise-level data preservation.

Edit: But, sure, we were not really discussing out of a professional point of view here. So, for you, and me, and most poeple here, M-Discs are doing just fine.

[VariKusBrainZ]

5D optical data storage will be the next thang, shortly after 3D

[harryupbabble]

but isn't...
hey i got my apostrophe back

but "is not" removing vst plugins
hey i got my quotes back

but isn't removing vst plugins...
just like removing colors?

hey i got my question mark back

isn't removing vst plugins just like
vincent van gogh not using blue and yellow?