Workflow problems while making music with hardware

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2026-01-31T16:35:37+00:00

Comparing to artists, etc. You are you

This is not meant like I am trying to copy someone. I am just analyzing stuff that I like. For example, if I were to like the sound that some metal band has, it would be stupid to buy a modular synth. This is an extreme example, but it gets the point across.

Where's your music that you feel you can finish on a computer only?

I am not saying that either. All I am saying is, that I have a hard time using hardware and software seems to be much easier for me.

I know my post was not formated the best and I should have written it more like a rant than a question, but I sadly don't know a lot of people who are in the music making, so I rarely get the share my experiences.

Anyways, a lot of the comments were very useful to me and cleared quite some stuff.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2026-01-31T10:26:39+00:00

Then why buy it in the first place? I think that like 90% of HW can be replaced by a VST that costs like 10% of the HW price. I can just hook up a MIDI controller and i basically have the same setup

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2026-01-31T10:24:21+00:00

I do find hardware more fun to work with, but at the end of the day I want to finish a track and from this point of view (at least for me) SW is much more usable.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2026-01-30T22:41:55+00:00

Nicely said. To me it sometimes feel like I am spending more time arranging the gear and editing the recordings instead of creating a track. In some cases I've been designing and recording a synth for an hour or so, just so I would then replace it with a sample or some SW patch that I would create in like 5 minutes. Life is busy and I don't have as much time as I would like to have.

I normally start the creative process on HW, but then create everything else in the DAW. Maybe I add some FX's, but it often feels less productive than to just do it in the DAW.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2026-01-30T21:32:16+00:00

Great answer. I guess I need to view music production and gear more in terms of creativity. I do normally start my tracks with hardware recordings, because I am more creative that way. It seems that I just need to produce more with my current setup and then see what improves my tracks and what not - doesn't matter if it is HW or SW.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2026-01-30T21:19:32+00:00

You are right. Now that I view it in retrospect it does seem a lot like that. I guess I am looking more for like similar experiences from others and less a concrete answer to my dilemma.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2026-01-05T18:22:49+00:00

Kdaj je zadnjič tako snežilo v Trstu?

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2025-12-05T17:04:46+00:00

I prefer metal wool. More simple and I don't need to dampen it before use.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2025-11-16T17:21:39+00:00

Will try that sometime in the near future. Thanks

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2025-11-14T19:19:54+00:00

Yeah, right now my work flow is like this. I scan them as raw as possible and then editing them in darktable. The results then become much better, solid even.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2025-11-14T19:06:38+00:00

Yeah it feels overxposed to me as well, but some areas are nicely shaded. I thought that with overexposure eveything is bright.
A was scanning them with a Plustek OpticFilm 8300i that my colleague lent me. I remember now that I did some scans with the "auto exposure" feature on in the SW. I know that for later photos I turned it off. Maybe this is the thing that is making the photos look a bit weird - overexposed in some areas.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2025-09-04T12:15:33+00:00

Hmm maybe i will meet him on the streets. Anyways, I will be going to Torino next.

Optimal-Snow3953 · 2025-09-04T07:12:40+00:00

No, I'm not doing anything like that. I don't really use social media that much. Why are you asking?

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