How often do you have a tantrum and either:
Unplug everything and put it in drawers or boxes?
Sell everything and start again?
Factory reset your groove boxes and delete everything?
Other methods of destruction….?
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That’s the mood I’m in when I’m most creative. My music is my tantrum.
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You need a modular rig. Spend 20 minutes unplugging all the cables. Then sit down with a beer and you will be ready to go again. 
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Not prone to musical tantrums but on a related note, I had spent a lot of time creating loops on my RC505 and then a few months ago I was changing 505 midi settings and accidentally did a factory reset. There was a moment of “oh noooooo”, and then an almost seamless transition into Buddhist impermanence mode.
That same day I deleted every project I’d ever created on my Digitakt and have since become more adept with both units. I’ve got a handful of patterns and loops (basically songs) and I can lay them all down from scratch with a combination of live and grid mode.
I do have 2 different projects with preloaded samples (my carefully crafted kits) using a methodology that developed after deleting everything (see image). I like to place stacks of similar sounding voices next to each other to allow for speedy sample switching and also for LFO sample slot switching.
I save very little on the 505 (almost no recorded loops), other than a few phrase memories with frequently used foot switch and track settings.
The only thing I leave pre-sequenced on the DT is midi tracks, which I use to control video from an Eyesy and lighting through an Obey 40. I can do improv on lighting and video but I’ve spent many hours carefully selecting and sequencing video modes I want to go along with my songs and want to preserve the settings so I can concentrate on the beats and piano parts live.
The previous statement is a semi-lie because I do save new patterns that I’m developing until I can do them reliably from scratch. Then they get deleted.
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I’m always ditching stuff when I get frustrated or bored with it then replace it
I do a lot of itb work along with hardware and every year or two I delete everything, format my drive and start again. All projects gone, samples and plugins then start building leaving out stuff I never used
Feels great
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Never.
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Bot gonna lie. Restructuring my rack is therapeutic as fuck!!
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Once I deleted all my music from the internet after listening to it and not being satisfied. Does that count? Not sure if it’s a tantrum because I didn’t stop making music when that happened; in fact I probably made more music, because what prompted this was the “I used to suck” thought in my head
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My beginnings with my first Elektron device. Who on earth came up with play (instead of record) equals delete!!!
And even though today I just fly with my Elektrons and they are the most familiar thing to me, when I tried the Machinedrum and those buttons looked different I started to delete my stuff over and over again. How can clear be black instead of red? 
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there’s a point in life where you become too tired and jaded to tantrum.
last night i was working on an md pattern for half an hour, sounded incredible (sure, sure) and I func+ext without saving and lost everything.
21 year old me would’ve been on the floor crying.
current me: chuckled and went to bed.
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Yeah, I have those moments here and there as well. I really don’t care anymore because I know that I’ll come up with something else sooner or later. And usually I’m bored even by my best ideas in a matter of weeks.
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I don’t tantrum. I DO, however, step away from the gear feeling utterly sad.
And look at it thinking “I’ve got the tools”…wishing I knew how to produce something with it that I like.
you guys are lucky
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never had, and i’m not emo 
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Amen, brother! I am at that point. It‘s a gift and a curse.
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I’m having one right now. Windows updated itself while I was asleep last night and I lost everything which wasn’t recently saved.
There’s an answer and a lesson.
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I feel this. Serious moments wondering if it’s worth it to keep trying to make things. Usually following periods of listening through music I’ve made and only being able to hear all the problems with it.
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Did the same thing last night on my m:s, spent the better part of two hrs practicing and laying out a boom bap track then totally wiped the pattern by accident… smile and wave boys, smile and wave…
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Yeah, don’t tantrum. Might have a completely bad night by working up a terrible idea. But that only inspires me to get back into thing the next day to do something better.
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I know this feeling well.
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Don’t be so hard-on yourself. 
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