Thought of {hardware} extra enjoyable than the fact? – Different Gear

I used to be reflecting that after a number of years of multi field {hardware} setups I’ve by no means accomplished a single monitor and quite a lot of it has been fairly frustraiting.

I began off with a Circuit Tracks which bought me into digital music and I liked, however lacked the power to make a full association on account of solely 2 synth voices.

I attempted connecting up some synths, (Reface CS, SE-02) however nonetheless struggled and bought the concept of (foolishly) flipping the Circuit for an MC-707 so it was multi functional field. Never managed to finish a single monitor.

Got a Polyend Tracker and made a great deal of stuff, however solely ever standalone arranger by no means as a {hardware} setup then Bitwig on a laptop computer which I’ve made a great deal of stuff with.

Since then I’ve had at numerous occasions a Syntakt, S1, T8, Uno Pro-X, Circuit Rhythm, Model Cycles, B1, Drumbrute Impact, TR-6S, B1, Microbrute, Edge all related to a mixer with a Zoom CDR and my reflection is that I spend big quantities of time dicking round with wires, questioning why stuff isn’t working altering MIDI settings, getting confused by switching totally different sequencer paradigms, understanding why issues aren’t fairly in sync, attempting to place packing containers subsequent to one another, however the cables get in the way in which, lastly attending to play and discovering it’s all only a bit uninspiring.
BTW I’m not consistently flipping my rig I’ve typically rearranged it about as soon as each 6 months over about 4 years.

Maybe it’s simply my character. I do know in guitar world lots of people are constructing pedalboards with switchers and modding their guitars and I’m only a plugin and play individual, all of that simply will get in the way in which of constructing music. (I don’t even change strings until they break)

If I’m trustworthy the one occasions I’ve ever actually had enjoyable making music with {hardware} have been:

• Circuit Tracks – simply jamming with no plans to make tracks (would possibly get one other)
• Drum Brute Impact + Donner B1 – 2 field acid simply jamming
• Polyend Tracker – Purely as an arranger / workstation

I see all the fellows on right here with the huge rigs with 4 Elektron packing containers and 5 synths and I’m questioning how do you do it?

Are you actually making cool tracks and having enjoyable with this gear or is the enjoyable in constructing the rig and studying the gear?

Should I simply settle for I’m not a {hardware} man?