I know musicians who have hundreds of commercial, shareware and freeware effects and soft synths in their VST plug‑ins folder, yet rarely complete any songs. Sometimes you'll find it more productive to slim down your options and perfect a smaller set of tools. Instead, it might be better to look to your working methods.
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Even worse, if your music isn't going the way you hoped, it's tempting to blame it on the computer, its applications, or accessories instead of yourself, leading to a constant desire to have a faster machine, or more or better plug‑ins and software synths.
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On the other hand, when your first PC can run dozens or even hundreds of such real‑time plug‑ins, it's perhaps understandable that you take it for granted. Being able to add further functions to an existing program was certainly a most attractive proposition, but even more magical when you could stream the audio and hear a preview of the effect in real time! Perhaps that's the price of progress, but I can still remember the wonder I felt when I tried my first 'plug‑in' in 1996. If I'd seen one of today's PCs at the time, I suspect that it would have seemed close to magic, yet many newcomers to the world of music‑making now seem almost dismissive of what their machines can do, and are constantly frustrated at not being able to squeeze more out of them. When I first started working with computers in the early 1970s, you had to type in a set of instructions that were transferred to a handful of punched cards, and then inserted into the card reader in sequence, before the computer programme was finally run. Clarke formulated his third 'law' of prediction in 1961, that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”. Super‑powerful PCs such as this Scan Power DAW PC that can run many, many plug‑ins and virtual instruments are highly desirable, of course, but don't let the technology get in the way of what you really want to do: make great music.
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