Thanks for your advices and your jokes, guys!
I’ve tried making music with a computer (started on reason 2.0 many moons ago) but the vast possibilities are too overwhelming for me and, like a lot of us, I already spend my days in front of a screen (I work as a motion designer).
My biggest problem clearly is lack of time: I can’t really get to know my more complex bits of gear, can’t really take time to experiment… each meager session I manage to have MUST be productive. As a consequence, lots of my boxes stay unused and I kinda corner myself in a blank page situation because of the need to justify all of this by finishing REAL tracks.
I would like to noodle on an instrument when I lack time but, sadly, I don’t know how to play. I used to play bass but my knowledge of it has gone since long…
Another problem I have is GAS and the need to buy new shiny boxes that seem to improve my musical needs at first… then comes the guilt from not using all my gears fully.
I thought about all of this this night and came to the conclusion that I kinda cornered myself with all these boxes, that I had to return to a point where I had a happier relationship with it… I remembered the excitement I felt when I saw the Volca Sample demo by Tats, and when my GF gifted me a Volca Bass and a Volca Sample, my two first pieces of gear. How happy I was just noodling with it on my lap. So I reached for my forgotten VSample this morning, turned it on and had some instant fun, nothing productive but good ol’ fun.
I think I’m gonna keep the little fella on my desk and see what comes out of it.