Yep! I think the lesson is don’t use Windows 
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I’m too old for that.
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…never felt any need to do so…
but in these postpandemic days, it seems, i could finally need one…
all my life, whenever i started something, ihad one basic rule…if a sketch/project does not show it’s first sonic trace 'n face within a first session, i killed it right away…
never sit on production zombies…that was the only rule…
but since 3 years by now, i have heaps of such production zombies…lost total oversight…
something must have changed…
i must change…
right now, i’m getting rid of pretty much all distracting hw…
going for a clean plate…
starting from scratch…
focus on one maintool that covers it all…and me…some words…and a mic…
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I snap out all the time, quickly clear the head, and get back to work. This goes for everything, not just music!
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I used to lean more towards tantrums in the past, usually as a result of trying to make music when not particularly inspired because I needed something to do, then getting frustrated with the results. This has mostly resolved itself by developing a broader range of hobbies, if one thing doesn’t work switch to another. If all else fails play with the dog.
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realistically my tantrums end up displaying more as feeling down on my creative output and just moping about that until i lose my music making routines and my creative output really comes to a halt. the extended release tantrum
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“Tantrum”? Am I seven years old? If something’s not going right with making music I do something else.
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I don’t know, I see it happening pretty frequently here. I don’t know how else to really describe it but tantrum is probably as appropriate a word as any, every few months someone has a meltdown, or you see a thread with the header:
“this is the first time we’ve seen ‘so and so’ in 3 years” and the post is an open-ended ultimatum to elektron, usually to fix a bug or how something is unacceptable. I know it’s not always the most productive behavior and I’m not much for stomping and pouting, but I do think it’s a natural part of the human machine to occasionally have a bottleneck of emotions. Particularly people who may otherwise be reserved and try to keep filling the bottle more and more until it overflows.
Sometimes there’s probably a lot of other things going on in a person’s life and the bottleneck just happens to appear as a product of musical output or other creativity, probably not always the case. I mean, maybe some people are just more prone to outburst, but I’m not really in a position to comment about everyone or anything like that, just what I myself feel sometimes or see happening somewhere like say, here, where people do sometimes get heated about gear they spent a lot of money on and put a lot of time and effort into.
Anyways, taking the dog for a walk, looking at some memes, listening to slayer, knitting a shawl. There are certainly more productive outlets for getting that stuff out of your system.
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Alright…
Shiiiiiiiit…
Don’t have a tantrum…
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looks like my mum
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That it explains it!
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But every answer is just another question, if you think about it.
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Forum bandwidth prohibits me from listing all the ones I have.
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Questions, or answers?
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Both. Some people just answer their own question.
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Come on, Confucius, confuse us.
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Too late!
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Shit yourself, have you?
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Hey if I could shit somebody else right now I would.
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