Name some good gear for creativity in song writing or just jam.
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Oddly, itās my Model:Cycles.
Iāve written more tracks with that in six months than with pretty much everything else Iāve got put together.
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Octatrack, itās so easy to manage your whole setup with it. Itās a mixer, multi effect, midi controller and a sampler and I use it every time I make music
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kind of a tie between these 3 environments.
audiomulch, live/max4live, eurorack modular
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In life overall, guitar. As of late, the OT hands down.
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Push2, as a non-piano/keyboardist, the scale mode has meant I can be melodic sponteously.
YouTube
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Akai Force, I started finishing tracks.
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I wince at these kind of questions / threads. Itās not about gear!! Itās about learning and practice! Itās too easy to keep spending on equipment, believing the next thing will solve your creative problemsā¦ It almost certainly wonāt. Especially when youāre asking such a hugely open-ended question like this. The answer could be anything from āa pencilā to āa set of handbellsā to āa synth that costs more than your carā.
A lot of learning can be done for free ā weāre so lucky to have access to vast amounts of information these days!
Iād suggest you re-assess whether you need anything new at all. Or at the very least, re-frame this question having given thought to your areas of weakness and what you want to achieve. Otherwise this will just be yet ANOTHER endless and untargeted list of peopleās fave gearā¦ 
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Itās a magic box, I hope Elektron has plans to add A couple of more machines.
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Overall: Reaktor.
Recent: iPad & Akai Forceās many creative pad modes.
Guitar: 13-pin Roland/Axon.
Old: MnM, Eventide racks, Nord Modular.
Plus youth, drugs, but donāt have those anymore.
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Teenage engineering street fighter
- Octatrack.
It helped me break free of the idea of genre. Got me out of the computer and into physical instruments. Opened up a creative world I would probably not have discovered.
- Lyra 8. Fuckyeah.
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youāre missing the point of the OP - āwhat has helped you creativelyā which is sort of like whatās been most inspiring etc. learning is great and we all learn new things and practice skills and blah blahā¦ but every environment is different when making music especially electronic/computer type shit. so, some people find real time coding environments really inspiring and wish they discovered them soonerā¦ other people find trackers or an MPC or whatever to be really inspiring and creative environmentsā¦ some people sit a piano and find their museā¦
so, yeah. .practice and learning shit but sometimes learning shit and practice on some things feels like trying to pound a square peg into a round hole and sometimes itās less frustrating and more rewardingā¦ and this often depends on the thing a person is using/doing etc.
for meā¦ using audiomulch was very instant and fun and i made a ton of tracks and automated snapshots on every device in a patch to make tracksā¦ using modular and routing anything to anything including audio rate modulation, feedback divorced from a linear timeline etc was really freeing and eye opening and i saw i was able to apply a lot of those things to other environments in the computer etc. so, that was a creative eye opener for me. and yeahā¦ it came w/practice and use and trial and error but stillā¦ was directly related to those specific environments.
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Model Samples helped me with focus.
I could really just work within the confines of 6 sample tracks. 1 pattern with fills.
Iād chuck short synth loops in there too, and reanimate them with p-locks and filter LFO.
6 tracks with a filter and some simple FX.
A great set of limitations that help with creativity, and just the right amount of capability due to the fast and knobby interface. I really should dust it off and bang out some more tunes with it.
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Uhm, I guess it was delay effects in general that did it for me ā finding the groove in your echoes, you know.
edit: oh, so weāre talking about specific units. Iām using the Boss DM2w the most.
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DFAM ! And modules arrount it 
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Analog Rytm
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Rytm:)
Even though I love the OT. Or appreciate the simplicity of smaller boxes. Rytm is the perfect combination of options vs focus/simplicity to me.
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Iām not missing the point at all. The question is unbelievably unfocused.
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