Stop buying music stuff? Are you ready? Am I?

[pekbro]

Five grand? Pah, that's peanuts. Former german treasury secretary Schäuble forgot 100.000 DM in his desk drawer.

Ooo nice, 100,000 DM ! That’s a good job apparently. My job is not that good, but it’s pretty good. I just throw cash in my drawer as it won’t fit in my wallet, until it won’t fit in my drawer.

[tapper mike]

Yep. Wished i had 5 grand liying around somewhere, forgotten...

IA few years ago needed 4 grand for dental work....
Sold off guitars that I had laying around since the early 90's.

[pekbro]

Interestingly, I have never historically been able to pull 5 grand out of my desk drawer.
In the last couple years, my interest in purchasing audio software and plugins has
seriously abated. Normally, I would spend that on plugins and whatnot. I have so
many (primarily effects), that it has even aided in detecting a strange bug in
Reason 10 that only occurs when it has to index > 1000 vst plugins

Anyway, now I have moved on to hardware for the most part, I guess. Which I am
finding quite different. It's not like I want to buy tons of synths, I am interested
in modular and thats 'mostly' about it. Even then, it's not just a wanton lust for
all things eurorack, it's mostly just stuff I find interesting. I like the idea of
musical contraptions. While I think something like a waldorf quantum is super cool,
I don't particularly want one, even though I could buy one easily (apparently).

I do have some light interest in the Elektron stuff, though it hasn't proven enough
to act upon. Another thing I would normally buy, would be guitars (expensive ones).
That interest hasn't changed beyond taking a back seat to the eurorack thing.

Am I ready to stop buying music stuff? Seemingly, no...

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Maybe 2020 will be perfect to resurrect the challenge

[vurt]

Maybe 2020 will be perfect to resurrect the challenge

can i fail that challenge now as well?
that way all my guilt and pain of failure is done and dusted, then next year i can happily buy stuff with no remorse

[hivkorn]

Inposcar 2 , cubase 10 upgrade ,audio damage full bundle and the 3 fabfilter i don t have and i ll be done with new plugins...

[Michael L]

Maybe 2020 will be perfect to resurrect the challenge

And lots of prizes this time

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Maybe 2020 will be perfect to resurrect the challenge

can i fail that challenge now as well?
that way all my guilt and pain of failure is done and dusted, then next year i can happily buy stuff with no remorse

Of course you can

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Maybe 2020 will be perfect to resurrect the challenge

And lots of prizes this time

[CircuitTree]

Speaking of buying stuff... I was wanting to download the free version of ColorTone by TriTone but their website has been completely down Anyone know where I can get a copy?

[chk071]

I will seriously stop buying music gear now. I mean, seriously. Really.

I'll just wait for the next sale, and then i will stop. Seriously.

[tapper mike]

There's always a next sale

[cthonophonic]

I started keeping a list of all the commercial plugins I have on the back of an envelope. When I had to flip the envelope over to keep writing, I decided I didn't need to buy any more. It was SpecOps that put me over. I like that one; it's a good place to stop.

[IncarnateX]

Have been ready for this ever since I started to buy music gear. I was even ready when I invaded KVR:

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[Bombadil]

I absolutely swear, on the grave of my dear mom, that I will not buy Sampletank 4.

Not even when it goes on sale for €39.