"Do you want to make music or do you want to collect synths?" Man that's the second gut punch of truth I've received from your videos in just under 15 minutes. Too true.
i love this guy's perspective. this medium seems to marry his vocation with a long put-off passion (making noise!) in a really helpful and approachable way. humor and selfawareness are vastly underappreciated when it comes to people talking about any passion of theirs for a viewership
Time is a problem though, would love to spend all day with that stuff. And money - sometimes think what i could have done with the money i spent for "gear".
Wake up , open you tube and find this gem….. absolutely a must seen video, best advise I got to kick my music ass… I will set to watch this video over and over…..Danke Martin!!!!
when you started I thought you were stating the obvious but the more you talk the more charming and insightful I found the video and subscribed. I always say that the paradox of choice has paralysed us now. As a guitarist and home recordist I am bombarded by emails about new gear releases so a good idea is to block these. I got addicted to buying stomp boxes over the years but I remember I was my most creative and prolific when I had less gear. I had less gear because I had less money! Sometimes disposable income is the true enemy although with two kids it means I feel more guilty about buying myself something when I should be putting it away for them. One thing you mention is cheaper gear but an alternative way to kill gas in my view is buy more expensive gear but less of it. So rather than cluttering up with lots of cheap pieces buy the best mic you can, the best interface, the dream mixer and nothing will come close.
“Gear Saturation Paralysis” can result when you have too many “bells and whistles”. In another way of describing it - the creative “box” is too big. It can help to make the “box” smaller. See if you can make something interesting with just one or two randomly chosen tools.
Gaining fluidity and competence with my current selection of gear will serve me better than that one piece of gear I "need" next. For instance, I was looking at getting a new sequencer. I already have 4 pieces that can serve that purpose well. I need to get good at using those first before I can decide if I need something else.
I certainly made lots more music when my only means of doing so was a piano and an old Amiga tracker. In the late 90s, I switched to the MC505 groovebox and a Roland D50. I learned it and still know all functions by heart. It has become second nature. In that period, I also made lots of music. Now I have lots of stuff but I only find myself trying to keep things synchronised. I must admit that I don't know my instruments as good anymore as I used to know my MC505.
When I went modular, I had two primary rules: If I can build it, I won't buy it beyond the PCB and Panel. If It's built, I'm not paying more than 75% of its value. I never want to lose money when I want to trade out my gear! I started off buying a bunch of doepfer modules in an A-100 case. Worth roughly $2500, paid $1770. I ended up trading the case for about a dozen modules and a Pittsburgh enclosure that was worth about $1500 new all together. With everything else sold I will have ended up paying about $500 for a $3000 setup. It is possible to get to where you want to be on a budget if you are willing to sell/ trade/ watch for deals. Only buy new when a warrantee is essential!
These are good rules. Building modules myself would be too expensive ;-). Started with the A-100 setup too. Guess I should start selling modules I don't use...
It really is an addiction, amplified by the number of quality youtube demos out there. Once one allows himself to get pulled in, the process ends up with pulling out the payment card. It is a compulsive behaviour much like overeating or any substance abuse. What you said is right: new gear means new set of problems, manuals, menus etc. In other words, integrating new gear is hard work.
@@martingoldmannmusic I recently replaced my perfectly working Motif XF with the Montage. I got pulled into the sound demos and crossed 'the point of no return', before realising.
I am more of VST person and I am suffering from it. Instead of making music I was constantly searching for new, better and convient plugins instead of improving my skills. People say it is Plugin Hoarding. Thanks for the video. It will certainly help me.
This is something so many of us suffer from! Plugin companies need to make money of course, and their advertising can be brilliant and convincing, as can the endless funneling through forums/Reddit/etc. I was recently listening to projects I did ten or so years ago with much older plugins, and some of them sound arguably as good as what I'm doing now...so I saw very clearly how Plugin Hoarding is a real yet very-unnecessary-to-creating-great-music condition.
Martin, ich hab jetzt zwei Videos von dir geschaut und bin großer Fan von deiner Gelassenheit und angenehmen Ausstrahlung, des weiteren leide ich ebenfalls an einem G.A.S. und denke, dass ich mir jetzt noch sehr viel mehr von dir anschauen werde.. Danke für die coolen Videos!
Points i highly agree on 1) buying used stuff 2) using what you have thoroughly! 3) more time for actual playing 4) care about actual music-listeners. And my personal restriction tipp would be 5) restrict your gear to the size of your table (i already failed, i have two tables now) 🤣
Spot on, glad to say I've come to these conclusions naturally over the last few years as I started to take my studio and music more seriously. Fantastic to see someone put it so well, subscribed!
Great videos Martin. Another issue is all the youtube videos acting like modern tv marketing ! Everything is about this new cool device that the youtubers got for free.
Sometimes yes - saw the new Chase Bliss pedal for two days all over the place. I think, most TH-camrs don't do their reviews just for a free device. The problem with reviewing synth gear goes a bit deeper. Guess this will be another video ;-)
Yes Martin, .. you're giving some tough love, to us .. now, to convince my dark-side, about your ideas, about gear .. Indeed, it is fun watching old reviews, on my old equipment, or the ads, for them. Either, sometimes having hinting at when anyone buys (those then new) products .. that they have arrived in the promised land. If they were telling the truth, .. I've been in the promised land, these many years. .. :)
@@martingoldmannmusic yes .. I'm right there, with you. Part of my involvement with modular synths was to try to scuff up the pureness of sound, from my synth(s), .. instead of replacing my synths, with totally new ones .. and, I suppose in a way, I have had results, with my MI Beads module.
Thanks for this video! I have this badly. I can't seem to find much time to make music because of 12 hour work shifts and family time and demands - but I am constantly buying new synths or eurorack modules. Speaking of dust, I have all of the equipment in the studio covered with thin black mats supplemented with two air cleaner/ionizers which works great for keeping the dust off of everything. When I do have a bit of time to make music I usually go to VCV Rack so I don't have to uncover everything in the studio!
Maybe you are some kind of collector :) My synths are under sheets too, the OP-1 has a desksaver actually. Only my Eurorack is ready for use all the time.
@@Tennisers yep, and I also bought some - but you can use it perfectly without any paid modules. (Would recommend the Host-Module for implementing other plugins).
Quote I heard once - talent always trumps equipment. I'm also getting back into music. Thank you so much for this video. Also thanks for creativity needs constraints quote.
This is gold! Your points are well made and salient. It's no different from people who love to go shopping all of the time or buy endless things on Amazon, etc. -- it's an addiction with some pretty high costs, like any other kind of addiction. I've dealt with it at times during my music career, for sure...right now, for instance, since I got into modular about 6 months ago.
I think the strongest argument in my case against G.A.S is that the limitations set by my current gear truly make me more creative. I have a few instruments that I limit myself to and I spend far less time fiddling with sound design or finding the "perfect" samples and effects and spend more time actually producing intuitively and coming up with more ideas on the spot.
Very good. It's nice to see a video packed with good advices. My very own most important advice would be: »Creativity needs constraints«. Exactly. Very well said. 🙂👍
What I find to be a good one is watching youtubers rave about a certain piece of gear/plugin and see if they still use it a month (or 2, 3, 6) later. In most cases they don't and you probably won't either. And also, for almost any plugin there is a free version of sorts or maybe something stock in your DAW. I appreciate and like your video and your 3/10 GF imitation was way better to watch than its original! 😂
I watched the whole video and then flipped to the next one before remembering that I'm very irritated about the bulk of synth music videos and channels are dedicated to simply advertising some company's gear, because that's what brings in the money for the "artist", the platform, and the gear sellers. I just want to learn "how" to do the things, and am settling for "inspiration for things I can do, once I learn how", which is easily converted to a purchase. The bulk of the content available is simply "Home Shopping Network", and that's really awful.
Jep hardware sells ads. However coming from a background as IT journalist back in the last century I remember those statements about us as simply advertising software and hardware. "You are just bought by Microsoft" was a sentence I heard quite often. Reviews are a very difficult topic - synths are so hard to test because they are so different. A guitar is always a guitar (with a few differences of course). But the are comparable. Each synth is a different instrument. A, well, this might be a nice video. Thank you for your thoughts :)
@@martingoldmannmusic My comment was - in some part - intended to thank and encourage you to do more "how to" content, as you seem more amenable to this than the bulk of recommendations I've been getting. I've already got... Let's say... "several" thousand dollars in gear, imported from all over the world, and I still don't know how to put whatever noises my synth modules and sequencer(s) make into A) I assume they go into the computer at some point for recording (I don't want a subscription synth/sequencer service), and B) Uhh, whatever comes next, I guess. Eventually, I'd like to make a song. I'm struggling to find videos on the basic, beginners', "how to put your noises into the computer and turn it into a song" without either it being a chopped-down sample to sell software, or hardware, or instructional courses that show how to buy the former and maybe achieve the latter after enough semesters. Anyways, thanks for listening. The electronics parts are a soothing breeze to me, as that's where I come from. The "use it for music, and also how to music" parts are the cliff that seem harder to climb outside of my youth-fullest years.
Probably the best tip video in years or even the best ever. I trying to do this, sold my Fantom G8. Now I have E-80, with mx-1, se-02 and Drumbrute with midi connection setup. The lost of my fantom don’t hurt because yeah what you saying. It’s was to much
In the motorcycle world we have a saying "All the gear and no idea". I recommend seeing what the old 70s pioneers achieved. No doubt in my mind that you are better off mixing software synth purchases with hardware. Look for the discounted offers.
@@martingoldmannmusic I release Berlin School electronic music under the name American Astro Monkey Project. I do describe on my releases how I've produced the tracks. Hardware is really starting to make no sense, except for tactile manipulation. I combine eurorack, with keyboards, with VCV Rack and the Cherry Audio soft synths.
Nice tips, even though I don't suffer from G.A.S (at least a severe one, I'm an impulsive buyer when I have the money) I was considering buying the MPC ONE and was saving money for it, but stepped down halfway and grabbed the Arturia V collection, still considering buying the MPC but I think it may be an Overkill with all the software/hardware I own
Yeah, the MPC One was kind of an impulse purchase for me. Then I realized that I could so almost all of it with Logic. Nice machine though if you like finger drumming or if you want to gi dawless. :)
I always tell myself I could stop whenever I want. (Actually just bought a bass guitar and a few plugins during 2022 ;-) Oh, and a digital piano for my daughter... )
Thanks for this very interesting lecture … honestly I will now have to digest the weekend has since 30 years I understand now that I prefer collecting gear than making music .. when reality is in your nose you don’t see it …and smashhh
I had an epiphany going deep into the guitar tone rabbit hole for 5 years and I realized 1) no one cares or can hear a difference 2) these TH-cam channels are literally just long form advertisements 3)I do not want to sound like anyone playing these pedals amps or guitars, I do not look up to these pedal channels as musicians, they produce no work that inspires me, so why do I care what they have to say? So I vehemently unsubscribed and everytime a new pedal channel shows up I make sure to click 'domt recommend channel' Thanks for being anti gas let's be artists together :) Really appreciated the last few points you made
Thank you - I still like watching those review channels just to stay informed about new gear. But they don't trigger me anymore. And I tend to watch only one video about new equipment and ignore the others. (This week there was a new pedal by Chase Bliss and I found three reviews within hours :) ).
I love to take my cheap Casio SA-75 keyboard, run it through my Zoom G1on, sample a bunch of drums and sequences and see if I can create a track with it. It's fun
Really inspiring stuff, and very well said. I just found your channel and have enjoyed your videos so far. I have a suspicion there is a modular rack behind you but I can't really make out the lights. They're being absobed into the black hole in my wallet.
These are great tips! I’m new to the synth world, and after buying the two elektron digi boxes I thought I would be complete… but I’m realizing the feeling of GAS never goes away completely. I also found out it’s easy to reignite that fire for learning and mastering my devices by watching GAS-control videos like this. I recently bought a $10 book with hundreds of drum patterns for me to punch in my Digitakt and learn rhythms of different genres. Keep up these type of videos! It’s almost like therapy.
@@afr65536 "The language of Music" by Deryck Cooke - sadly it is only available as paperback. Would prefer an Ebook. Concerning drum patterns I am afraid i can't help you :)
I think people who get into buying gear are more collecioners then artists, at the end of the day if you want to make music - you do it with whatever you can; when you are not able to do it - well you move into territory of acquiring new gear to 'improve your music'.... nowadays eyes are more important then ears, even in music:)
If collecting gear brings you joy so be it. People collect action figures and never take them out the packaging. At least most G.A.S. Folks fiddle with and try out the gear. For me it’s a process of seeing if I vibe with the gear. But I do honestly have too much gear and don’t feel guilty. I tried to choose gear that was much different from the each other. Ironically I have a Roland SP 404 MKii shipping today, and have a Digitakt and Model Samples. As for samplers and players the MS is for outside the house, the Digi for in studio electronic, and the SP 404 will be for both in and outside the studio, for trip hop down tempo style chopping/drumming. The only thing I own that doesn’t make sense is a Moog Mother 32 and Grandmother. There alike in regards to being two mono synth that sound a lot like each other. I also own a DFAM but feel it’s different from the other two Moogs. I may sell the Mother 32 and replace it with the Moog Subharmonicon as it does something different then the DFAM and Grandmother. My Polly’s are a bit different too. Deapmind 12, King Korg, Minilogue, MicroFreak, Sh-01a, JX-08, JD-08, and Digitone. I also have a Behringer TD-3, Moog Theremin, Volca FM, and Korg NTS-1. As for my computer I have Reason 10, and Arturia V collection, NI stuff, and that’s about it. Some mics, and percussion but that’s it. As for controllers, I have MPD 226, Oxygen 49, And all the Arturia Step controllers. I feel with my abstract Vinyl collection and multi tracking interface I have everything I need. There’s really no need to buy anymore gear other then a couple guitars and little odd acoustic instruments. I’ve reach a limit of what the meaning of GAS would be, but they all have different elements of what I desired to create music. Now going forward I should just finish learning all this gear I acquired in the past 3 years and start making music. I’ve made about 4 songs but plan to make an ep soon. I have a concept I want to explore and have all the tools. No need for anything else besides a few desired FX pedals, the new GAS 😂 but once again want them to be unique from the ones I have. Microcosm, and Big Sky. The Chase Bliss stuff is calling me. I love the Zoom MS-70CDR. In theory, all I would need is the Deepmind 12 and SP 404 or Digitakt. The rest is all just flavor differences. I am a prime example of some one with GAS, but like I mentioned I’m at my limit. I don’t plan to sell anything other then the Mother 32 eventually.
Thank you. If you have joy collecting that is fine from my point of view. And you seem to have a lot of joy :) (The new Chase Bliss pedal is on every synth channel now - looks interesting).
@@martingoldmannmusic yes it’s pretty groovy. I really like what the Mood pedal can do a little bit more. All the collecting is primarily for what each piece can do. If it’s similar to something else I think of it as totally unnecessary. So I’m still sizing that one up. I’d rather have a Strymon Time. Much different but I don’t have a complex delay like that. The new Chase pedal kinda does what the Microcosm I have does in some ways.
@@martingoldmannmusic No. Not at all what I was implying. You are tempting me to buy the one piece of gear that I've craved for years and have had to employ the most restraint when on the verge of purchasing it.
@@martingoldmannmusic By the way; thank you for this video. I saved it to watch later as a reminder. You spoke nothing but truth and gave some useful tips. Money doesn't grow on trees and my wallet appreciates this video so much!
@@gersonpagan however there is some kind of contradiction in what I do. Guess that is what makes it interesting. Concerning the OP-1: maybe you want to watch this th-cam.com/video/owEKm6V53S0/w-d-xo.html
“Do you want to make music, or do you want to collect synths?” Brilliant… I ask myself this question all the time! Sometimes it seems as though we miss what was our primary objective and desire to begin with… which is to create beautiful and compelling music… it is difficult though… when gear is so enticing, and shiny, and new, and fun.. and… ok- gotta run to the Music Store need a new synth bye.
I solved gas by never selling gear. Soon my house got full with Instruments and I feel good and free to have a lot of choices. I never sell anything. The point comes when New gear gets useless to buy, because your arsenal offers everything you need. But btw I do not long for the latest gear, I love this vintage stuff. So no need to Look at new stuff, but there is one exception: Behringers Synthesizers, they are usually very good and represent that vintage stuff New.
r u advertising behringer 🤣🤣🤣 i would not want to support a company who has THAT shady marketing stratrgies to defame music journalists and a narcisitic emotionally damaging boss. uli behringer. nope. stealing the layout and copying old synths with cheap parts to out compete the original is very questionable to me. but apparently here r so many youb people who take that for granted. when behringer switched from producing low budget cheap shit beginner gear to copying famous gear there was a big outcry about ethics in ge industry. long time ago. choose wisely.
Ich hatte ganz klare Vorstellungen von meinem Setup, muss aber trotzdem feststellen, dass der ein oder andere Kauf unnötig war. Lag aber auch daran, dass ich keinen Plan hatte, was ein Synth können sollte. Jetzt hab ich mein Setup zusammen und genieße es, wenn ich aus meinem ersten Synth (MicroKorg) die Töne bekomme, die ich haben möchte. Mir graust es davor, noch mal einen Synth zu kaufen, in den ich mich einarbeiten müsste, nur um dann festzustellen, dass meine anderen Synths das sowieso schon konnten. Ich schätze mal, ich bin GASresillient. :D
Ja, der Plan fehlte mir anfangs auch. Das hat zu meiner Sammlung beigetragen. Mal schauen, wie lange meine Resilienz hält. Bislang spüre ich aber keinen Drang, etwas neues anzuschaffen :)
@@martingoldmannmusic , ich drück die Daumen. Was bei mir tatsächlich anfangs viel Druck zum Kauf neuer Synths aufgebaut hat, wären die ganzen Review Videos auf YT, leider allen voran Loopop und BoBeats, die gute Reviews machen, also nix gegen die! Aber zu Abhängigen sagt man immer, "ändere dein soziales Umfeld.". Wegen Verfügbarkeit usw.. deshalb mein Tipp: Nimmer den Release jedes neuen Synths nachverfolgen, sämtliche Alerts dazu abstellen. ;)
great video! also the way you cutted your raw video files is really super !!! i actually spend several thousand euros on software synths and effects recently and it didn't really help me to get forward
I don’t mind being a gear collector. I may not become proficient with a synth myself, but my daughter will inherit a kickass collection that gives her virtually no restraints as far as sound pallet goes. She just finished her first course her school offered in DAW use, so I know she is interested in that inheritance.
This is why I have two guitars (and I absolutely suck at guitar). But daughter recently grabbed one of them. I hope she will try playing a little more often :)
Hey man, this is GREAT! SO TRUE. "Do you want to make music, or do you want to collect gear?" The same can be saud for software plugins! What music are you making with all that stuff? Are you actually making, producing, and marketing your music? Getting new fans? Or just obsessing about Getting More Stuff? Fantastic video - keep up the good work! 😀🎹🎵 I'm actually going to watch this again right now. 😜
Dust!!!!!! is terribile 😄 Also tuning your synths Now software synths are very flexible, no space needed, just hit save. Now , what we really need is a good system , pc or mac , and an affordable soundcard with good converters . And a cup of strong coffee 👍🙋♂️
That beep-beep sound? This is just a sample from my Final Cut library :) No special meaning (at least I hope it is not some kind of secret code to deactivate all synths in the world ;-) )
@@martingoldmannmusic That "beep-beep" sound is morse code sending DC :) dah-dit-dit = D dit-dah-dit-dah-dit = C ... and yes, since it's DC it tells all synths to switch from AC to DC LOL
Redirecting my GAS to sound treatment :). That is what I need, it's not what I want. And it kind of pisses me of because no time for DIY either and more expensive than regular GAS btw ;)
Obsessive people are going to obssess...its down to your personality if you are that guy. Its hardly surprising if you are an obsessive music collector that the same behaviour will apply to hardware.
I'll NEVER buy used modues anymore! Used gear SUCKS!! I HAD to buy a DISCONTINUED (unfortunately, they OFTEN do - every now and then) Doepfer module (A-147 VCLFO), because I really wanted it. But it not only stinked of smoke like hell... add I had to wash the module thoroughly. The plugs have been so abused that the cables actually make barely contact... I'll have to buy and replace all the connectors. Or I'll have to buy an A-147-2, which is actually overcomplicated and too crowded, for my taste.
@@martingoldmannmusic Shit happens. Sometimes you can have bad luck with new stuff as well (it happened to me with a Keystep which had a non working key and a Neutron that just didn't sound the way it should. And they gave me a refurbished one in change... so bad luck in the bad luck!) And my Crave was an exposition one, therefore I should pay less for it, but (no luck again!) I had to pay the full price.
@@martingoldmannmusic You see... shit happens. Now I'd rather buy a factory good that's in mint condition and that I can ask to be replaced in case of unluck.
Isn't the real problem TMM syndrome? Too much money syndrome. I've had gas but never to the point of not appreciating what I do have. Which is something i simply cannot relate to. (Thank God)
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"Do you want to make music or do you want to collect synths?"
Man that's the second gut punch of truth I've received from your videos in just under 15 minutes.
Too true.
Thank you :)
I love your logic and your sense of humour. Your videos are so helpful and even inspring. Thank you.
That is very kind. Thank you :)
i love this guy's perspective. this medium seems to marry his vocation with a long put-off passion (making noise!) in a really helpful and approachable way. humor and selfawareness are vastly underappreciated when it comes to people talking about any passion of theirs for a viewership
thank you very much :)
“Real listeners only want to listen to your music. They don’t care about the synth you used to create it.” … again so simple, true, and brilliant!
Thank you :)
Thats not theory thats true, only musicans do give thier last underpants to get New gear😂
I don't even want to make music, i want to play with gear. Went through 150 guitars in my life and still can't play very good.
@@snörre23 good to know - I can't play and have two guitars - time for me to stop ;-)
Time is a problem though, would love to spend all day with that stuff. And money - sometimes think what i could have done with the money i spent for "gear".
Wake up , open you tube and find this gem….. absolutely a must seen video, best advise I got to kick my music ass… I will set to watch this video over and over…..Danke Martin!!!!
Gracias Pablo :)
when you started I thought you were stating the obvious but the more you talk the more charming and insightful I found the video and subscribed. I always say that the paradox of choice has paralysed us now. As a guitarist and home recordist I am bombarded by emails about new gear releases so a good idea is to block these. I got addicted to buying stomp boxes over the years but I remember I was my most creative and prolific when I had less gear. I had less gear because I had less money! Sometimes disposable income is the true enemy although with two kids it means I feel more guilty about buying myself something when I should be putting it away for them. One thing you mention is cheaper gear but an alternative way to kill gas in my view is buy more expensive gear but less of it. So rather than cluttering up with lots of cheap pieces buy the best mic you can, the best interface, the dream mixer and nothing will come close.
Thank you. Good point about cheap and expensive gear.
“Gear Saturation Paralysis” can result when you have too many “bells and whistles”. In another way of describing it - the creative “box” is too big.
It can help to make the “box” smaller. See if you can make something interesting with just one or two randomly chosen tools.
Gaining fluidity and competence with my current selection of gear will serve me better than that one piece of gear I "need" next. For instance, I was looking at getting a new sequencer. I already have 4 pieces that can serve that purpose well. I need to get good at using those first before I can decide if I need something else.
Same here - still have some hardware which I really haven't learned to use. Thank you.
I certainly made lots more music when my only means of doing so was a piano and an old Amiga tracker. In the late 90s, I switched to the MC505 groovebox and a Roland D50. I learned it and still know all functions by heart. It has become second nature. In that period, I also made lots of music. Now I have lots of stuff but I only find myself trying to keep things synchronised. I must admit that I don't know my instruments as good anymore as I used to know my MC505.
Jup - I spent so much time for the setup and the placement of my gear that I almost forgot to play. Thank you for your contribution!
When I went modular, I had two primary rules: If I can build it, I won't buy it beyond the PCB and Panel. If It's built, I'm not paying more than 75% of its value. I never want to lose money when I want to trade out my gear!
I started off buying a bunch of doepfer modules in an A-100 case. Worth roughly $2500, paid $1770. I ended up trading the case for about a dozen modules and a Pittsburgh enclosure that was worth about $1500 new all together. With everything else sold I will have ended up paying about $500 for a $3000 setup. It is possible to get to where you want to be on a budget if you are willing to sell/ trade/ watch for deals. Only buy new when a warrantee is essential!
These are good rules. Building modules myself would be too expensive ;-). Started with the A-100 setup too. Guess I should start selling modules I don't use...
This is quickly becoming my favorite channel❤ amazing and entertaining video my friend🤟🏻
Thank you so much for being here and those kind words :)
It really is an addiction, amplified by the number of quality youtube demos out there. Once one allows himself to get pulled in, the process ends up with pulling out the payment card. It is a compulsive behaviour much like overeating or any substance abuse. What you said is right: new gear means new set of problems, manuals, menus etc. In other words, integrating new gear is hard work.
Yeah, I guess us TH-camrs are part of the problem :)
@@martingoldmannmusic I recently replaced my perfectly working Motif XF with the Montage. I got pulled into the sound demos and crossed 'the point of no return', before realising.
creativity needs constraints 💯
i don't make music but i watched this video from start to finish because it was entertaining. thanks
Thank you so much for watching :)
Please keep doing it, talking and hearing you has helped me realize my issues. Thanks !
I thank you for watching - will keep on :)
I am more of VST person and I am suffering from it. Instead of making music I was constantly searching for new, better and convient plugins instead of improving my skills. People say it is Plugin Hoarding. Thanks for the video. It will certainly help me.
Thank you - and yes, there is also PAS - Plugin Acquisition Syndrome :)
Working with a hardware version of VST can bring new appreciation to the plug in
This is something so many of us suffer from! Plugin companies need to make money of course, and their advertising can be brilliant and convincing, as can the endless funneling through forums/Reddit/etc. I was recently listening to projects I did ten or so years ago with much older plugins, and some of them sound arguably as good as what I'm doing now...so I saw very clearly how Plugin Hoarding is a real yet very-unnecessary-to-creating-great-music condition.
Martin, ich hab jetzt zwei Videos von dir geschaut und bin großer Fan von deiner Gelassenheit und angenehmen Ausstrahlung, des weiteren leide ich ebenfalls an einem G.A.S. und denke, dass ich mir jetzt noch sehr viel mehr von dir anschauen werde..
Danke für die coolen Videos!
Danke Dir Edwin - mehr Videos kommen :)
Catching up on your channel. Great music and advice here!! Looking forward to more.
Thank you, vincent. Glad you are here :)
Points i highly agree on 1) buying used stuff 2) using what you have thoroughly! 3) more time for actual playing 4) care about actual music-listeners. And my personal restriction tipp would be 5) restrict your gear to the size of your table (i already failed, i have two tables now) 🤣
hehe, just put my second table under my desk and the synth to the shelf - problem solved... for now... :) Thank you for your nice comment.
Absolutely spot on.
Thank you :)
Spot on, glad to say I've come to these conclusions naturally over the last few years as I started to take my studio and music more seriously. Fantastic to see someone put it so well, subscribed!
Thank you so much for subscribing and the nice feedback. :)
@@martingoldmannmusic my pleasure 😁
Short and Solid - Quadratisch Praktisch Gut
Thanks a lot, Danke :)
Great videos Martin. Another issue is all the youtube videos acting like modern tv marketing ! Everything is about this new cool device that the youtubers got for free.
Sometimes yes - saw the new Chase Bliss pedal for two days all over the place. I think, most TH-camrs don't do their reviews just for a free device. The problem with reviewing synth gear goes a bit deeper. Guess this will be another video ;-)
Yes Martin, .. you're giving some tough love, to us .. now, to convince my dark-side, about your ideas, about gear ..
Indeed, it is fun watching old reviews, on my old equipment, or the ads, for them. Either, sometimes having hinting at when anyone buys (those then new) products .. that they have arrived in the promised land. If they were telling the truth, .. I've been in the promised land, these many years. .. :)
and still we are all looking for the holy grail of synths :)
@@martingoldmannmusic yes .. I'm right there, with you. Part of my involvement with modular synths was to try to scuff up the pureness of sound, from my synth(s), .. instead of replacing my synths, with totally new ones .. and, I suppose in a way, I have had results, with my MI Beads module.
I agree with pretty much everything. To me GAS and creativity are mutually exclusive states of mind.
Thank you, Juan. I agree :)
Thanks for this video! I have this badly. I can't seem to find much time to make music because of 12 hour work shifts and family time and demands - but I am constantly buying new synths or eurorack modules. Speaking of dust, I have all of the equipment in the studio covered with thin black mats supplemented with two air cleaner/ionizers which works great for keeping the dust off of everything. When I do have a bit of time to make music I usually go to VCV Rack so I don't have to uncover everything in the studio!
Maybe you are some kind of collector :) My synths are under sheets too, the OP-1 has a desksaver actually. Only my Eurorack is ready for use all the time.
vcv rack has a lot of paid plugins though.
@@Tennisers yep, and I also bought some - but you can use it perfectly without any paid modules. (Would recommend the Host-Module for implementing other plugins).
Quote I heard once - talent always trumps equipment.
I'm also getting back into music. Thank you so much for this video.
Also thanks for creativity needs constraints quote.
Thank you so much for your feedback :)
Really good tips there, Martin!
Cheers and regards,
Mike
Thank you, Mike :)
This is gold! Your points are well made and salient. It's no different from people who love to go shopping all of the time or buy endless things on Amazon, etc. -- it's an addiction with some pretty high costs, like any other kind of addiction. I've dealt with it at times during my music career, for sure...right now, for instance, since I got into modular about 6 months ago.
Thank you for your thoughts - much appreciated. Modular can get quite a rabbit hole :)
words of wisdom
Loving the attitude, keep your work up! I'm spreading GAS Therapy too lol.
Thank you :)
I think the strongest argument in my case against G.A.S is that the limitations set by my current gear truly make me more creative. I have a few instruments that I limit myself to and I spend far less time fiddling with sound design or finding the "perfect" samples and effects and spend more time actually producing intuitively and coming up with more ideas on the spot.
Yeah, I actually enjoy not having too much choice. Thank you for your thoughts. :)
I have gas, and sometimes I don’t get to use what I acquire until weeks later because I work so much.
we work so much to afford gear and then we cannot use it because we work so much ;-)
Very good. It's nice to see a video packed with good advices.
My very own most important advice would be: »Creativity needs constraints«. Exactly. Very well said. 🙂👍
Danke Dir, Henrik. Like back in the days when we only had a certain amount of space to express our thoughts writing ;-)
@@martingoldmannmusic
Yes exactly... good comparison! (huba)
Hopp!
So true!
What I find to be a good one is watching youtubers rave about a certain piece of gear/plugin and see if they still use it a month (or 2, 3, 6) later. In most cases they don't and you probably won't either. And also, for almost any plugin there is a free version of sorts or maybe something stock in your DAW.
I appreciate and like your video and your 3/10 GF imitation was way better to watch than its original! 😂
Thanks - Glenn is my hero :)
@@martingoldmannmusic Well, he's good craic and makes the odd good video, true.
Yeah yeah yeah, we all know that, but we just need one more piece of gear in order to do that ;)
Yep - I have that problem with cookies too :)
1. Realize these are tools, not toys
2. Only keep gear you use regularly
3. Keep your work space uncluttered
4. 3:22 the medium is NOT the message
Great tips, Brian. Thank you. Uncluttered workspace is essential for me - on my desk and on my computer.
I watched the whole video and then flipped to the next one before remembering that I'm very irritated about the bulk of synth music videos and channels are dedicated to simply advertising some company's gear, because that's what brings in the money for the "artist", the platform, and the gear sellers.
I just want to learn "how" to do the things, and am settling for "inspiration for things I can do, once I learn how", which is easily converted to a purchase. The bulk of the content available is simply "Home Shopping Network", and that's really awful.
Jep hardware sells ads. However coming from a background as IT journalist back in the last century I remember those statements about us as simply advertising software and hardware. "You are just bought by Microsoft" was a sentence I heard quite often.
Reviews are a very difficult topic - synths are so hard to test because they are so different. A guitar is always a guitar (with a few differences of course). But the are comparable. Each synth is a different instrument. A, well, this might be a nice video. Thank you for your thoughts :)
@@martingoldmannmusic My comment was - in some part - intended to thank and encourage you to do more "how to" content, as you seem more amenable to this than the bulk of recommendations I've been getting.
I've already got... Let's say... "several" thousand dollars in gear, imported from all over the world, and I still don't know how to put whatever noises my synth modules and sequencer(s) make into A) I assume they go into the computer at some point for recording (I don't want a subscription synth/sequencer service), and B) Uhh, whatever comes next, I guess.
Eventually, I'd like to make a song. I'm struggling to find videos on the basic, beginners', "how to put your noises into the computer and turn it into a song" without either it being a chopped-down sample to sell software, or hardware, or instructional courses that show how to buy the former and maybe achieve the latter after enough semesters.
Anyways, thanks for listening. The electronics parts are a soothing breeze to me, as that's where I come from. The "use it for music, and also how to music" parts are the cliff that seem harder to climb outside of my youth-fullest years.
@@buckstarchaser2376 Ah, sorry Buck. I misunderstood. Yeah, there might be some more tutorials :)
Probably the best tip video in years or even the best ever. I trying to do this, sold my Fantom G8. Now I have E-80, with mx-1, se-02 and Drumbrute with midi connection setup. The lost of my fantom don’t hurt because yeah what you saying. It’s was to much
Thanks David :)
Btw plus 2 srx cards Subdance and world srx of Roland but anyway. You also thnx I subscribed
Wie immer tolles Video
Danke Dir :)
Awesome channel, instantly subbed.
Thank you and welcome to the channel :)
Same.
@@lunipan Thank you :)
Nice and succint!
Thank you, buddy :)
Absolutely right. I also suffer from GAS and PAS. I have no idea, if this can be cured 😂🤪
I don't know :)
In the motorcycle world we have a saying "All the gear and no idea". I recommend seeing what the old 70s pioneers achieved. No doubt in my mind that you are better off mixing software synth purchases with hardware. Look for the discounted offers.
Thank you for your thoughts. I guess a hybrid setup with softsynths and hardware is quite fine.
@@martingoldmannmusic I release Berlin School electronic music under the name American Astro Monkey Project. I do describe on my releases how I've produced the tracks. Hardware is really starting to make no sense, except for tactile manipulation. I combine eurorack, with keyboards, with VCV Rack and the Cherry Audio soft synths.
Really good advice!
Thank you, Iustin :)
Extremely insightful! Everything spot on 😁
Thank you (a lot of this is inspired by nice comments like yours :) )
Nice tips, even though I don't suffer from G.A.S (at least a severe one, I'm an impulsive buyer when I have the money) I was considering buying the MPC ONE and was saving money for it, but stepped down halfway and grabbed the Arturia V collection, still considering buying the MPC but I think it may be an Overkill with all the software/hardware I own
Yeah, the MPC One was kind of an impulse purchase for me. Then I realized that I could so almost all of it with Logic. Nice machine though if you like finger drumming or if you want to gi dawless. :)
Exploring new synths is great but... yeah, there is always something "better".
Yep, and you will see the "better" one about two weeks after purchasing the last one ;-)
Hah!! You’re awesome. Great video!! Instant Sub
Thank you very much :)
Great advice! One moment please, the UPS driver just dropped off 2 new packages from Sweetwater - I am back, what were we talking about?
I always tell myself I could stop whenever I want. (Actually just bought a bass guitar and a few plugins during 2022 ;-) Oh, and a digital piano for my daughter... )
@@martingoldmannmusic buying gear for the kids (or the wife!!) doesn’t count towards your GAS-acquired collection 🤪
Thanks for this very interesting lecture … honestly I will now have to digest the weekend has since 30 years I understand now that I prefer collecting gear than making music .. when reality is in your nose you don’t see it …and smashhh
nothing wrong with collecting ;-) Thanks for your comment.
I had an epiphany going deep into the guitar tone rabbit hole for 5 years and I realized
1) no one cares or can hear a difference
2) these TH-cam channels are literally just long form advertisements
3)I do not want to sound like anyone playing these pedals amps or guitars, I do not look up to these pedal channels as musicians, they produce no work that inspires me, so why do I care what they have to say?
So I vehemently unsubscribed and everytime a new pedal channel shows up I make sure to click 'domt recommend channel'
Thanks for being anti gas let's be artists together :)
Really appreciated the last few points you made
Thank you - I still like watching those review channels just to stay informed about new gear. But they don't trigger me anymore. And I tend to watch only one video about new equipment and ignore the others. (This week there was a new pedal by Chase Bliss and I found three reviews within hours :) ).
I love to take my cheap Casio SA-75 keyboard, run it through my Zoom G1on, sample a bunch of drums and sequences and see if I can create a track with it. It's fun
I'm sure it is :)
Really inspiring stuff, and very well said. I just found your channel and have enjoyed your videos so far. I have a suspicion there is a modular rack behind you but I can't really make out the lights. They're being absobed into the black hole in my wallet.
Yes, that is my Eurorack. I've got another one on my shelf with only Doepfer modules in it. Modular is so much fun but it is a rabbit hole :)
This Video applies to pretty much every instrument.
...and to cameras and IT devices... :)
...forgot to mention microphones...
Really well done video, i am out of gas sinces my child was born and i had to redimension my spaces;) , so is all past. Good job!
Thank - well I started buying synths after my daughter was born. Thus i started with less space ;-)
@@martingoldmannmusic aha, i just subscribed your channel, which german city you are living in?
@@gianluigidautilia6417 I live in Fürth.
good🙃💙advise
These are great tips! I’m new to the synth world, and after buying the two elektron digi boxes I thought I would be complete… but I’m realizing the feeling of GAS never goes away completely. I also found out it’s easy to reignite that fire for learning and mastering my devices by watching GAS-control videos like this. I recently bought a $10 book with hundreds of drum patterns for me to punch in my Digitakt and learn rhythms of different genres. Keep up these type of videos! It’s almost like therapy.
Thank you for those kind words. There is a book about Music Theory in my Amazon cart - maybe i should pull the trigger... :)
Which book? I'm also interested in drum patterns.
@@afr65536 "The language of Music" by Deryck Cooke - sadly it is only available as paperback. Would prefer an Ebook. Concerning drum patterns I am afraid i can't help you :)
I think people who get into buying gear are more collecioners then artists, at the end of the day if you want to make music - you do it with whatever you can; when you are not able to do it - well you move into territory of acquiring new gear to 'improve your music'.... nowadays eyes are more important then ears, even in music:)
i love shiny gear - seriously. But you are right :)
If collecting gear brings you joy so be it. People collect action figures and never take them out the packaging. At least most G.A.S. Folks fiddle with and try out the gear. For me it’s a process of seeing if I vibe with the gear. But I do honestly have too much gear and don’t feel guilty. I tried to choose gear that was much different from the each other. Ironically I have a Roland SP 404 MKii shipping today, and have a Digitakt and Model Samples. As for samplers and players the MS is for outside the house, the Digi for in studio electronic, and the SP 404 will be for both in and outside the studio, for trip hop down tempo style chopping/drumming. The only thing I own that doesn’t make sense is a Moog Mother 32 and Grandmother. There alike in regards to being two mono synth that sound a lot like each other. I also own a DFAM but feel it’s different from the other two Moogs. I may sell the Mother 32 and replace it with the Moog Subharmonicon as it does something different then the DFAM and Grandmother. My Polly’s are a bit different too. Deapmind 12, King Korg, Minilogue, MicroFreak, Sh-01a, JX-08, JD-08, and Digitone. I also have a Behringer TD-3, Moog Theremin, Volca FM, and Korg NTS-1. As for my computer I have Reason 10, and Arturia V collection, NI stuff, and that’s about it. Some mics, and percussion but that’s it. As for controllers, I have MPD 226, Oxygen 49, And all the Arturia Step controllers. I feel with my abstract Vinyl collection and multi tracking interface I have everything I need. There’s really no need to buy anymore gear other then a couple guitars and little odd acoustic instruments. I’ve reach a limit of what the meaning of GAS would be, but they all have different elements of what I desired to create music. Now going forward I should just finish learning all this gear I acquired in the past 3 years and start making music. I’ve made about 4 songs but plan to make an ep soon. I have a concept I want to explore and have all the tools. No need for anything else besides a few desired FX pedals, the new GAS 😂 but once again want them to be unique from the ones I have. Microcosm, and Big Sky. The Chase Bliss stuff is calling me. I love the Zoom MS-70CDR. In theory, all I would need is the Deepmind 12 and SP 404 or Digitakt. The rest is all just flavor differences. I am a prime example of some one with GAS, but like I mentioned I’m at my limit. I don’t plan to sell anything other then the Mother 32 eventually.
Thank you. If you have joy collecting that is fine from my point of view. And you seem to have a lot of joy :) (The new Chase Bliss pedal is on every synth channel now - looks interesting).
@@martingoldmannmusic yes it’s pretty groovy. I really like what the Mood pedal can do a little bit more. All the collecting is primarily for what each piece can do. If it’s similar to something else I think of it as totally unnecessary. So I’m still sizing that one up. I’d rather have a Strymon Time. Much different but I don’t have a complex delay like that. The new Chase pedal kinda does what the Microcosm I have does in some ways.
the absolute medicine
Thank you :)
Martin: *wants me to spend less money on gear*
Also Martin: *keeps showing me the OP-1*
Yes, I'm a walking contradiction. ;-)
@@martingoldmannmusic No. Not at all what I was implying. You are tempting me to buy the one piece of gear that I've craved for years and have had to employ the most restraint when on the verge of purchasing it.
@@martingoldmannmusic By the way; thank you for this video. I saved it to watch later as a reminder. You spoke nothing but truth and gave some useful tips. Money doesn't grow on trees and my wallet appreciates this video so much!
@@gersonpagan however there is some kind of contradiction in what I do. Guess that is what makes it interesting. Concerning the OP-1: maybe you want to watch this th-cam.com/video/owEKm6V53S0/w-d-xo.html
@@gersonpagan Thank you :)
“Do you want to make music, or do you want to collect synths?” Brilliant… I ask myself this question all the time! Sometimes it seems as though we miss what was our primary objective and desire to begin with… which is to create beautiful and compelling music… it is difficult though… when gear is so enticing, and shiny, and new, and fun.. and… ok- gotta run to the Music Store need a new synth bye.
Yeah, they are so shiny. Nothing wrong with collection if you chose so (there are still some HP in my second Eurorack not filled with modules...)
nice tutorial, i see myself getting g.a.s slowly but surely.. and glad to hear you hate dust aswell.. oh my god i hate dust so hard
yep - and I have dogs too. So add a few short hairs to the dust :)
Really appreciate this content, this is great advice.
Thank you for those kind words. Appreciate it :)
Also you can try writing out your artistic philosophy/vision.
Or making videos about it :)
I like your channel!
Well, thank you :)
I solved gas by never selling gear. Soon my house got full with Instruments and I feel good and free to have a lot of choices. I never sell anything. The point comes when New gear gets useless to buy, because your arsenal offers everything you need. But btw I do not long for the latest gear, I love this vintage stuff. So no need to Look at new stuff, but there is one exception: Behringers Synthesizers, they are usually very good and represent that vintage stuff New.
I guess if I had more space I would pile up a few more synths. So I guess my small home office is good for my budget ;-)
Trying to justify your problem?
r u advertising behringer 🤣🤣🤣 i would not want to support a company who has THAT shady marketing stratrgies to defame music journalists and a narcisitic emotionally damaging boss. uli behringer. nope. stealing the layout and copying old synths with cheap parts to out compete the original is very questionable to me. but apparently here r so many youb people who take that for granted. when behringer switched from producing low budget cheap shit beginner gear to copying famous gear there was a big outcry about ethics in ge industry. long time ago. choose wisely.
@@marcochaiwallah811 Hi Marco, I buy the Behringer stuff and you get the originals. Every one is happy.
Ich hatte ganz klare Vorstellungen von meinem Setup, muss aber trotzdem feststellen, dass der ein oder andere Kauf unnötig war. Lag aber auch daran, dass ich keinen Plan hatte, was ein Synth können sollte. Jetzt hab ich mein Setup zusammen und genieße es, wenn ich aus meinem ersten Synth (MicroKorg) die Töne bekomme, die ich haben möchte. Mir graust es davor, noch mal einen Synth zu kaufen, in den ich mich einarbeiten müsste, nur um dann festzustellen, dass meine anderen Synths das sowieso schon konnten. Ich schätze mal, ich bin GASresillient. :D
Ja, der Plan fehlte mir anfangs auch. Das hat zu meiner Sammlung beigetragen. Mal schauen, wie lange meine Resilienz hält. Bislang spüre ich aber keinen Drang, etwas neues anzuschaffen :)
@@martingoldmannmusic , ich drück die Daumen. Was bei mir tatsächlich anfangs viel Druck zum Kauf neuer Synths aufgebaut hat, wären die ganzen Review Videos auf YT, leider allen voran Loopop und BoBeats, die gute Reviews machen, also nix gegen die! Aber zu Abhängigen sagt man immer, "ändere dein soziales Umfeld.". Wegen Verfügbarkeit usw.. deshalb mein Tipp: Nimmer den Release jedes neuen Synths nachverfolgen, sämtliche Alerts dazu abstellen. ;)
great video! also the way you cutted your raw video files is really super !!!
i actually spend several thousand euros on software synths and effects recently and it didn't really help me to get forward
Thank you mike - yeah editing is kind of my day job and I enjoy going a bit wild in my own videos (can't do that with my customers' projects ;-) ).
Hey, is this 2011/2012 HSH Mexican Fender Stratocaster in the background?
This is a Harley Benton kinda Strat. Harley Benton is a Thomann brand.
I don’t mind being a gear collector. I may not become proficient with a synth myself, but my daughter will inherit a kickass collection that gives her virtually no restraints as far as sound pallet goes. She just finished her first course her school offered in DAW use, so I know she is interested in that inheritance.
This is why I have two guitars (and I absolutely suck at guitar). But daughter recently grabbed one of them. I hope she will try playing a little more often :)
Haha, awesome, same here! We have loads of different instruments and don't play them all myself. The kids go nuts on them.
That’s awesome, I wish my children had an interest in making music. My son really likes the vocoder options and melodic arpeggios, so there is hope.
@@thedeepblueskys my daughter grabs a guitar every now and then and she likes VCV rack. But a children's attention span is short :)
Hey man, this is GREAT! SO TRUE. "Do you want to make music, or do you want to collect gear?" The same can be saud for software plugins! What music are you making with all that stuff? Are you actually making, producing, and marketing your music? Getting new fans? Or just obsessing about Getting More Stuff? Fantastic video - keep up the good work! 😀🎹🎵 I'm actually going to watch this again right now. 😜
Correct - you definitely can have too much software and too much choice. Thank you for contributing. :)
Software takes no space. So Gas is nö Problem 😬
@@texacomann it takes space on your hard drive or SSD though :)
tip n.1 is ... be broke like me and you won't have that problem anymore
I hope your financial situation will get better soon. All the best!
"Buy books"; any advice?
Dust!!!!!! is terribile 😄
Also tuning your synths
Now software synths are very flexible,
no space needed, just hit save.
Now , what we really need is a good system , pc or mac , and an affordable soundcard with good converters .
And a cup of strong coffee 👍🙋♂️
Yep, Coffee is quite important :)
Great advise, but I have to ask what the DC stands for you keep sending with each bullet point?
That beep-beep sound? This is just a sample from my Final Cut library :) No special meaning (at least I hope it is not some kind of secret code to deactivate all synths in the world ;-) )
@@martingoldmannmusic That "beep-beep" sound is morse code sending DC :) dah-dit-dit = D dit-dah-dit-dah-dit = C ... and yes, since it's DC it tells all synths to switch from AC to DC LOL
@@vaxdatex8540 :)))
Ik ga morgen naar de winkel
happy purchasing - nothing wrong with that :)
Redirecting my GAS to sound treatment :). That is what I need, it's not what I want. And it kind of pisses me of because no time for DIY either and more expensive than regular GAS btw ;)
I have treated my room with a messy shelf that diffuses every sound in all directions (or something like that ;-) )
@@martingoldmannmusic I guess that story also never ends..
@@Lordxfx thanks for putting Limahl in my head... 😂
@@martingoldmannmusic : ))))
All i learned is that i need an OP-1
oops - that was not intended :)
Less is more. I only collect synths that rise in value as means of investment. And repair broken ones.
exactly
Obsessive people are going to obssess...its down to your personality if you are that guy. Its hardly surprising if you are an obsessive music collector that the same behaviour will apply to hardware.
Good point, Harry. Thank you.
@@martingoldmannmusic im a psychologist so personality to me the most important factor.
I'll NEVER buy used modues anymore! Used gear SUCKS!!
I HAD to buy a DISCONTINUED (unfortunately, they OFTEN do - every now and then) Doepfer module (A-147 VCLFO), because I really wanted it.
But it not only stinked of smoke like hell... add I had to wash the module thoroughly.
The plugs have been so abused that the cables actually make barely contact... I'll have to buy and replace all the connectors.
Or I'll have to buy an A-147-2, which is actually overcomplicated and too crowded, for my taste.
Sorry to hear you had bad luck with used gear :(
@@martingoldmannmusic Shit happens. Sometimes you can have bad luck with new stuff as well (it happened to me with a Keystep which had a non working key and a Neutron that just didn't sound the way it should. And they gave me a refurbished one in change... so bad luck in the bad luck!)
And my Crave was an exposition one, therefore I should pay less for it, but (no luck again!) I had to pay the full price.
Oh man. That is tough. I had the keyboard on my OP-1 to be changed within the warranty. But since it was a wear part I had to pay myself.
@@martingoldmannmusic You see... shit happens.
Now I'd rather buy a factory good that's in mint condition and that I can ask to be replaced in case of unluck.
😂👍🏼❤️✌🏼
:-)
Isn't the real problem TMM syndrome? Too much money syndrome. I've had gas but never to the point of not appreciating what I do have. Which is something i simply cannot relate to. (Thank God)
Thank you - maybe it is kind of "spending too much money". :)
Innere Einstellungen= mindset 😅
Ich dachte, Mindset sei ein deutschsprachiges Wort - bin auf Linkedin unterwegs, da braucht es jeder zweite in jedem Post (oder andersrum) ;-)
i was cured from gas recently
I m collecting dust.
That is why I play ambient music - kind of collecting dust with sound :)
Good video, simplicity:)((
Thank you - yep simplicity is key.
youre a funny guy.
well, thank you :)
@@martingoldmannmusic hey I like that keep it up
@@alien_brain I will :)
@@martingoldmannmusic you could even get rid of the subtlety and be outrageously funny.
Usually I write completely serious scripts and mess them up while editing :)
Avoid watching TH-cam Videos of synths, make music instead
Simethicone ist dein freund.
hahaha :) I tried to emphasize those dots. (for all other readers: I googled that - it is medication against gas...)
stop talking start playing
Good point :)
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