With all the gear we buy and sell, we love and hate, lets put some metrics here.
How much time do you spend roughly on your music gear (can also be software daws!), as in monthly, in % ? No need to put hours or minutes in here. Just let us know the slice sizes of your “gear” cake.
Currently 90% Ableton 12, 10% Max/MSP, but that’s mostly because I’m writing and arranging tracks for a band at the minute and nothing comes close to Ableton for that sort of thing.
Chilling atm, so will start a day jamming on dt2, then when i find a good vibe, will switch to Live for refinement and overall boost depending on a track(composition, storytelling, compression, limiting…)
I have had a rough few years music making wise so it vary, earlier more like 95% guitar as I would only pick it up and noodle around a few times a week, while not recording or committing to writing anything
As I’ve been working on getting a few bigger projects out of the door, this has been my split for the past several months after getting everything recorded that I’ve needed to:
Cubase 90%
Falcon 10%
15% - digitone 2
20% - syntakt
25% - lofi 12xt
15% - cydrums
15% - microfreak, s-1, or elz_1 play usually as a standalone jam session where I focus on making one really good sound, then either build a track around that or sample it and use that to chop into a track on digitakt or 12xt.
digitakt is in use when I’m at home almost all of the time because I use it as a midi router for my keyboard, sometimes a sampler or sequencer (note and/or LFO/locked CC’s) and often as a master mix/compressor and audio interface to logic in my ipad. When I’m making music elsewhere and want it recorded I use the mixtape mode on 12XT and limit my sounds to what I can make on there. I have a Bento on the way and my goal is to replace digitakt 1 with Bento entirely but I might keep it around as a sequencer that just gets less regular use like my sq64 and oxi one… I’m slowly building a rack that those other sequencers are more useful for, though.
The other synths I like a lot (minibrute and T-8) and my P-6 sampler/granular synth and Donner B-1 and SR16 are kind of special occasion tools where I just get the urge to bust em out and play around, but only minibrute or T-8 have ever ended up recorded. Really I need to sell the B-1 because it just got obliterated by the T-8 for strict 303 and then all the sounds I can make between syntakt, minibrute, and digitone 2 but it also is so cheap that I’ll probably just hang onto it until I find an excuse to gift it to someone that doesn’t have the same bounty of fat nasty analog and virtual analog synthesis that I have. Likewise with the SR16 once I learned that just using its samples from a pack on my samplers is much better for the degree to which I want to manipulate all the sounds.