How-to switch from one zillion plugins to 10, or less

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… and be happy :joy:

I don’t really understand how amateurs, so professionals excluded, can have zillions of plugins, can be happy with that heap, and can survive with such a complex hobby-life… :thinking:

Far from it, I decided to simplify many things in my life, notably my hobbies, so I sold/still selling plugins, I am about ten now, and I am able to make music like before or even better: GAS defeated :sweat_smile:

BTW, the same happened for photography, where I sold a heavy and complex multi-lens mirrorless setup in favour of one high-end bridge camera that lets me shoot from macro to 600mm with just one 600grams body

BTW, checking tons of shoots made in the past, with many different combos, some cheaper and other more expensive, I saw little changes in my ability to do better shoots, and I think it applies to music as well

After all, there are musicians able to play amazing songs with a cigar box
:grinning:

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Well I am a professional so I can’t answer for the amateur crowd. But the reality for most is that I only use maybe a couple dozen or so plug ins on a regular basis. Or I would say I have maybe 10 or so go to audio plug ins, about 5 or 6 go to MIDI or composition assistant plug ins, like Scaler and then I have a larger handful of virtual instruments I use regularly (maybe another dozen or so, keeping in mind that instruments like Musio have hundreds of instrumnets and Kontakt I probably have a few hundred libraries for). But when I just installed Scaler 3 it found somewhere around 380 plug ins. Yeah I don’t use half of those on a regular basis. My most used DAW is Nuendo and that makes it easy to organize all your various plug ins and virtual instrument. So there are folders with the stuff I want to get to regularly and then there is everything else that gets used once in a blue moon, when I’m bored or experimenting or just looking for something to give me a new idea.

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Sure, this is why I included amateurs and I excluded professionals

Nevertheless, it seems to me that in the photography field (another creative field) amateurs tend to have more devices, due to false hopes to become professionals automatically, while professionals tend to save money to make the investment profitable so they buy less and keep devices more time… :thinking: