Things I sort of believe about making music
&gt; At some point I became a software engineer, had more disposable income, and had discovered the concept of modular synthesisers. Obviously this is a terrible combination.<p>Good grief but this made me laugh.<p>I partially fell down that damn rabbit hole myself, although managed to avoid modular thus far. I decided to get back into making music during the 2020 lockdowns, spent a lot of time kitting out my office to double as a studio. Spent too much time watching gear reviews on YouTube, and Studio Time by Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL). Bought a Polybrute, and a bunch of second hand kit: couple of acid boxes, an old Akai sampler (actually two of them from which I built a single &quot;monster&quot; rig), a DX7 (which I can confirm <i>is</i> very hard to program, although Dexed helps), a couple of drum machines, and some other stuff. This is on top of kit I already owned.<p>I also repainted and refloored the room, added 72 sockets, routed power cables around the walls, and fitted industrial cable conduit to route signal cables over the ceiling. I fitted floor to ceiling shelving around 3 sides of the room, and added guitar hangers to the fourth wall. I then fitted a 1200W equivalent LED ceiling light cluster for working, a few other LED lamps, and added a 57 metres (really) of coloured LED strip lighting. Bear in mind we&#x27;re talking about a room that&#x27;s 2.5m x 2.5m so it&#x27;s possibly in the top 10 of the most excessively lit rooms in all of human history.<p>And how many tracks have I finished since I started all this?<p>None.<p>Point 3 is, at least for me the single take home message I absolutely needed to read from this:<p>&gt; 3: You need to find ways to force yourself to finish things. Arbitrary deadlines are actually sometimes good.<p>Number 6 is also an absolute gem:<p>&gt; 6: Making your own work is a good thing to do, even if no one else is interested in what you are making. To create is to be human<p>Great article.