I’ve always struggled with sheer potential when it comes to making electronic music. The number of instruments, patches, samples, and sounds available is overwhelming, and means I tend to get paralysed by endless possibility.
This tends to result in procrastination (browsing/tagging/organising samples & patches, updating/installing/uninstalling plugins, tweaking a sound endlessly until it takes away all my momentum and I’m not having fun anymore).
I’ve found that it helps to impose limitations on myself - things like - “I will only use one instrument”, “I only have 2 hours to make something”, “I won’t use a DAW” etc.
As @CarlMikaelBjork says, “limitation is creative liberation”.
What are some of the ways you deliberately use limitation in your workflow to help you create?
Do you have any other tips for someone who struggles with this stuff?
I’m hoping to learn from people who have stared into the abyss of potentiality and lived to tell the tale. 