My Relationship with “The Studio” is a story about a perfectionism.
I’VE MOVED HOUSE FOUR Times in the last five years – For Various Combinations of Reasons Within and outside of My Control – and So i’ve had to read to pack light. Currently, My Music Production Area Is All of Half A desk, which i Share with my partner, which sits in the half of Our Living Room We’ve Designated for “Work Stuff.” “Work Stuff” for me is varied and irregular. WHILE I Considers Myself Lucky to Be Doing A Bunch of Different Things I Care About, It Makes Me Me Busy Person.
There is no shortage of music in me, but all of these factors have made it easy for whoming from brringing it out. I’ve Often Found mySelf Waiting Until There Less On My Plate, Until I’m More “Settled” in a New Place, Until The Desk Area is a bit Prettier, Before Committing To Opening Ubableton. Only Recently Have I Started to Realise That Deliberately Pouring Energy into My Own Pasion Projects Upartly Makes All The Other Stuff Feel Easier. Recently i’ve implemented “30 Minutes of Daily State-Mandated Ubleton Time” Rule, Just To Nudge Myelf Into Doing Submit. It always ends up Longer than 30 minute.
Money has been pretty tight for me for must of my adult life, so my setup is quite simple. Everything You Hear in My Music You have Eithher Been Made Entirely In Ubuston Or Orded Live (and The Procesed Entirely In Aableton). With the exception of serum and sube free spitfire vsts, i don’t Own Any external plugins; I USE ABLETON’S STOCK PLUGINS FOR ALL OF MY PROCESSING AND EVEN SUUND DESIGN. Interestingly, The More Experienced and Confident i’ve scholars to produce, The Less of a Real Constraint I’ve Felt This To Be.
In 2023 I Bought A Nord Electro 6D, which i use for live gigs and other work as Well As Drum and Bass Production. Given that I Don’t Have a Whole catalog of vsts, I Really Get My Money’s Worth Out of The Nord’s Vast Piano, Organ and Synth Sound Libraries. (Outsourcing Sub Sound Design to The Keyboard is a Nice Way To Save Sub Cpu, Too.) The Main Thing, Though, Is That I am A Piano Player At Heart. HAVING TOOL that ALLOWS I TO TRANSLATE MY FLUENCY ON THE KEYBOARD INTE THE DAW HAS COMPLETELY REVOLUTIONISED MY MUSIC-WRITING PROCESS. My fortchcoming debut EP, ‘Microcosm’, Will Be My First Release Featuring the Nord, and You Can Hear Me Playing It Throunge the Whole Project. Like Probabry A Lot of Dance Music Producers of My Generation, I Haven’s Ever Had That Kind of Aspirational Space, Kitted Out With Hardware and Houseplants – Perhaps I Never Will. But my advice is this: with a bit of intention and a problem-solm Without The Perfect Conditions.
