I know I can make everything I need with my DT2 and samples… but I still hyperfocus over synths that I can’t afford… or trying to find samples of them after watching demos on YouTube.
I hyperfocus to the point where I’ve had my DT2 since it was launched a few months ago… and I’ve never even turned it on yet! (Criminal I know!). Even though I have track ideas already planned out and I know exactly what I want to make.
Anyone else do this, or is it just my ADHD?
Edited for clarity.
It’s such a big problem that there are 100 other threads about it! I feel you!
I found this on Etsy, has the alligator clip form factor like the turret pulsar and has a weird triple resonator design. For like $300 USD looks like fun to play with for a minute.
Twin Tropiques Music Instruments
Also, slightly more expensive, but I think both beau beats and hainbach compared this one’s tonal palette to a “budget pulsar”, like $600 USD from herbs and stones.
i am literally saving for a tb303 - no reason just am…
It may be good to try to divert your excitement for gear over to excitement about something else. I can think of a perfect thing: a musical project, like a 4 song EP! Get excited planning one out, from having an idea of track length and length of the EP as a whole, musical moods, themes, incorporating some techniques you may have learned previously that you could finally put to good musical use, come up with artwork ideas to match the vibe of the project, etc. etc. Write it all down, make it task list, brainstorm, then get excited about checking shit off the list. Give yourself a time goal.
One thing that feeds GAS is aimless jamming, which puts focus on playing and toying around with more knobs and sliders to make playing more fun. I believe that shifting focus to actually composing with purpose can curb GAS and retrain the brain on what it needs to be creative. A person will have tons of sexy times with multiple people for carnal pleasures and adventures, and once they decide to settle, they will turn their focus on building relationships with significant others.
That said, there’s nothing wrong with being a collector who just wants to toy around with more gear. One just has to know what they want, and do what it takes to make it happen.
because an instrument is way more fun to play with than it is to scroll endlessly through sample libraries of the instrument.
gas never dies, it just changes form. that’s science.
Big if true
Who cares about lossless? You can already sample anything off the internet. It won’t make any difference if lossless or not. Actually it would add to the legend : “he sampled compressed audio and it rocks”
Forget lossless, embrace lofi and see what you can get from your favorite vids audio!
Thanks, I have projects planned out, but I never seem to get started on and instead focus on searching on specific sounds I want.
Thanks, but SFM don’t really have any interesting synths. They’re more bread and butter.
Yes, but put them in an interesting sampler and that should solve it… hello DT2!
Just buy VST synths and sample them in the DT2. It’s much cheaper and the result is the same : you won’t be satisfied.
Real solution : stop watching youtube video about synths.
Whats funny is your asking people who have the same problem.
Save up and treat yourself to one juicy synth to go alongside DT2.
I think my favorite I’ve got recently is Hydrasynth Explorer or the Bastl Softpop 2, the later being a lovely analogue jambox.
Or do as others said and sample software. Vital synth is a beast and free.
I found it took time to get a flow with synths and an Elektron and for the first few years I never recorded anything.
When I’m OCD over something, I’m obsessing because I want to understand it and will stay obsessed until I do. Frankly, samplers don’t scratch that itch for me — it’s not a recording of the sound I want, it’s understanding the sound that I want.
And really, once I learned the principals behind sound generation, I realized everything is doing pretty much the same thing. And that works wonders to kill gas.
Learning doesn’t have to be an expensive proposition, either. Max (or max for live) and Bitwig’s grid are more modular than modular and work as great “breadboards” for experiments in recreation. Something like the Arturia V collection gives you a ton of classic synths to use as targets for dissection (and can be pretty cheap on Black Fridays).
This to me sounds fundamentally irrational. If it sounds good when you’re listening to it, it will sound good if you sample it. And chances are a lot of the video makers do have samples for sale for the synths they’re demonstrating, or you probably don’t need to look very hard to find them.
But even if you sample the synths it’s not the same as having them. It’s just that one sound.
Basically, you could be sampling the synths already and making music, so why aren’t you?
I suggest setting yourself some challenges along these lines.
Try tying the wanting to doing and you will hopefully feel better about it all.
I’ve said this before but in my experience, GAS is basically an addiction to shopping. It’s fueled by YouTube and reverb and Craigslist and instagram and a lot of elektronauts and all these places on the internet that are built to separate you from your money.
I’d highly recommend taking a long YouTube break and remove any alerts you have in your email from reverb or eBay.
If you need inspiration, listen to music, read interviews with artists, go sample hunting on a Spotify playlist. Geartube is great in a lot of ways but after a certain point, it’s just endless content to help you…. Shop for things you don’t need or want
Or get everything from Sample From Mars for $39 on one of their frequent sales!
My GAS turns into solids that arrive at my door via UPS all of the time.
Though my budget isn’t nearly as liquid as would be ideal for these kind of reactions.
E: Time to start donating plasma.