Changes, evolution, turns

Scaler 3 General Discussion
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After listening a tune made recently a friend said “I dream of composing something like this.”

P.S: Sorry, the tune is no more on Dropbox because I just deleted my account: too hard to use and slow to do anything; and I also closed my SoundCloud account (a waste of money)

Well… do you see?
Sometimes a blow (change in your routine) is needed to push you to change…
in a better (and easier) way

When I replied to him “I will explain it later when I find a proper wording” I meant that after 6 years trying to express myself in music, drawing and photography, I realized that I am not a composer, not a musician, not an artist; I am a creative person maybe, but at a tech level, not musical level

Why I say I am not a composer?
Because I don’t know a damn thing about composition, that is not just putting chords or notes properly in series

Why I say I am not a musician?
Because I am unable to play any instrument (virtual or not), that is not just putting MIDIs in a track

Why I say I am not an artist?
Because in many years I was able only to create pale copies of existing music: nothing original

Now, computers & Co. give the illusion that a layperson can become a composer, a musician, an artist, but it’s a cheat

All that, coupled to a lot of technical troubles that killed any fun, drove me to a deadlock

So what doing now?

I am reasoning about, but the solution can be only:
killing this hobby as I did for drawing
making it simpler as I did for photography

I’ll let you know my decision

Claudio

P.S: if I started making music today with my current knowledge of the field, I would happily skip plugins and DAWs altogether: BIAB or Varranger could be my choice, but I remain on Bitwig and a very few plugins at the moment

P.S 2: DropBox sucks at uploading even small files; I have no doubt that it sucks when used as a 1 GB plugin repository

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Hi Claudio. If you haven’t read Rick Rubin’s “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” I’d highly recommend it as a very enlightening read. I think it speaks to all of us.

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Thanks for this tip
I never known it existed, and it is in Italian also
I’ll check it

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In any case, according to that book, I confirm what I said before, just removing “maybe”:
I am a creative person, but at a tech level, not musical level

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I can second the recommendation of Rick Rubin’s book. My whole band has read it and the insights are truly transformative

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Sure, but even if I convince myself that I am a creative, it doesn’t make me able to play an instrument or to compose, so my issue remains